Chapter 602: That's Fine Too

Things are always like this; even if countless people before have crashed and burned because of their personas, those who follow still insist on creating personas, because this is the best way to become famous.

Of course, it might also be because of the internet era; nowadays, whether it's celebrities, internet influencers, or Self-Media, personas collapse quite quickly.

This is not to say that those celebrities from the past, those so-called "acting powerhouses" or "veteran artists," didn't have personas or were all moral paragons.

It is just that because the internet wasn't as developed back then, what people saw was what they got, so they assumed those people were exactly like that.

However, to be honest, none of the Netizens watching the livestream expected someone like Guo Qifeng to have their persona collapse like this!

Livestreaming to announce retirement from the internet—this point actually earned everyone's approval.

Because A Yi has always been this way regarding these internet influencers; if they retire from the internet permanently, he won't pursue the matter further.

But, who could have possibly imagined that this damn livestreamed retirement would actually turn into a livestreamed arrest?

If you dare to say this was scripted, then people really wouldn't know what to say; were they so bored that they had to go inside to learn a trade or what!

"Damn, that's incredible. Xiao Guo got arrested, right? False Advertising Crime—I understand this. Who said Xiao Guo doesn't take advertisements?"

"Same as above. That person who was everywhere saying Xiao Guo is a rich second-generation heir and wouldn't care about this little bit of money, why don't you come out and say something now? Looking down on advertising money on one hand, while greedily taking dirty money on the other, right?"

"@Chen Xutong, where are you? Where are you? Why aren't you saying anything? It's so lively, come out and say a few words if you're free!"

And Chen Xutong, who was tagged by many, watched the livestream and, for once, truly didn't know what to say.

Xiao Guo is not only about to be arrested, but his persona is also gone. All that talk about being a rich second-generation heir and a wealthy person who doesn't care for advertisements—it was all fake.

This created a sense of disillusionment in Chen Xutong's heart.

In fact, many people feel that the personas of some celebrities and internet influencers can be seen through at a glance, but why do people always believe them?

This is impossible to explain, just like how we all know that pies don't fall from the sky, and even if they did, they wouldn't land on your head.

Yet, people still fall for various Telecommunications Fraud schemes; this is inexplicable, and one can only say that these people were blinded by greed at the time.

Guo Qifeng originally wanted to desperately explain himself, but he quieted down in the face of the Silver Bracelets.

However, his manager and the others in his team were not quiet at this moment, or rather, some felt this matter had nothing to do with them!

"Comrades, comrades, what are you doing? I'm just working for him here; this has nothing to do with me!" a staff member in the team said.

He was frightened by the scene; he had lived this long and had never seen such a situation before.

The police officer in front did not speak, because there was indeed no need to explain.

What needs to be done now is to take them back—the entire team must be taken back—and then distinguish between these people.

Whether they are suspected of committing a crime can all be investigated clearly.

Seeing that everyone was being arrested, Lao Wu planned to turn off the livestream and take the people back, but just at this moment, a figure suddenly rushed over and said: "Comrade, I... I really don't know anything about this. This doesn't have anything to do with me, right?"

"I just asked them to livestream here, I didn't do anything else..."

The person who rushed up to speak was none other than the boss, Yang Jie. By now, he had reacted and just wanted to bang his head against a wall!

How the hell could it be such a coincidence that they were arrested while livestreaming in his own shop?

How is he supposed to keep his shop open after this!

Of course, his biggest worry was definitely the issue of going to jail. Yang Jie felt he had to clarify things quickly.

As his voice fell, Yang Jie saw the police officer in front blink and say: "You are..."

"Oh, I'm the owner of this shop. My name is Yang Jie. I just invited them to help do some advertising or something; I don't know about anything else..."

Lao Wu nodded and said: "You're the owner here, right? Fine, then you come back with us too and answer a few questions."

Yang Jie: "???"

I shouldn't have come up to open my big mouth, damn it. Now look at this, what am I supposed to do!

The audience watching the livestream couldn't stop laughing. This boss is quite interesting; some are already thinking about whether they should come to this shop to check in.

After all, since such a thing happened, it might just become a viral shop.

The livestream was turned off, and Guo Qifeng's entire team was taken away, along with Yang Jie. Of course, Yang Jie was just being taken to answer a few questions and give a statement.

The matter seemed to have ended, but after the livestream was turned off, the news on the internet began to spread in an explosive manner.

Or rather, not many people had expected this outcome at all!

Even though A Yi had always sent internet influencers inside before, no one was optimistic about him this time; after all, no matter how you looked at it, Xiao Guo was just a shop-reviewing Anchor and there shouldn't have been any problems.

Can't one review shops these days? Can't one say the food is bad?

If you go to eat normally, even if you film a video, it's fine. If the food is bad, you have to say it; there is no problem with that.

However, as long as it involves financial transactions, you have to be careful.

If it tastes terrible and you say it's delicious, that hasn't reached the level of a crime yet; after all, whether something tastes good or bad is very subjective.

But, when you clearly use duck liver and you tell people it's imported goose liver, and because the ingredients are high-end, you sell it for a high price.

Then that is not right.

Still the same saying: the methods for making money are all written in the Criminal Law.

Netizens on the internet began to have all sorts of heated discussions. The core question was how many more crazy moves this dog of a guy, A Yi, would have.

This time, one could even say that A Yi stripped away the underwear of many internet influencers.

Claiming they were victims of Internet Violence, only for it to turn out that the people hurling abuse were an Internet Water Army, and one they had hired themselves.

Claiming to be a rich second-generation heir who doesn't care about money and doesn't take advertisements, only wanting to review shops for the "family" properly, only to be secretly taking all kinds of advertisements, making all kinds of money, and engaging in False Advertising Crime.

And so, livestreaming to retire turned into livestreaming to get arrested.

Inside the Tengda office, Zhou Yi looked at the news on his phone and sighed. Between False Advertising Crime and Extortion, it looks like this Xiao Guo will be eating prison food for quite a while.

This case had many twists and turns, but it finally had a good result.

From the restaurant owner to the internet influencers filming the videos, they all went in one by one.

However, this is not the end, because there are many internet influencers who film videos, so they still need to be vetted.

Looking at the System Panel again, the current mission progress has reached 95 percent; it should be settled after the other internet influencers go in.

But Zhou Yi doesn't plan to make another video about this; he feels it's unnecessary.

Now, he, Zhou Mouren, has gained another nickname online; what is it called? Internet Celebrity Killer!

What a joke, he, Zhou Yi, is truly a good person; it is just that some internet celebrities always have their eyes blinded by profit and cannot see the situation clearly.

Sigh, if he had known, he would not have exposed his true identity. Anyway, Internet Celebrity Killer and District Bully and such are all A Yi; what does that have to do with him, Zhou Mouren?

However, before Zhou Yi could finish his lament, his phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was someone familiar—it was Lao Yang again.

"Hello, Brother Yang, you need publicity again, right? I have no problem here. Anyway, lice don't itch when there are many, and one doesn't worry about debt when there is a lot of it; it doesn't matter..."

Perhaps because of the previous incident, many Netizens had scolded Jingzhou, so this time, the Propaganda Department of Jingzhou wants to clarify the matter properly.

Therefore, Lao Yang specifically called to ask him, Zhou Yi, to help with the publicity.

Well, since that is the case, let's just churn out another video.

And just as Zhou Yi was planning to start making the video, at the Guangming Road Police Station, Manager Deng was there looking at Chen Li and saying something incessantly.

"Comrade, I can be considered to have performed a meritorious service, right? Everything I said is the truth; there is absolutely not a half-sentence of lies. So, we are going to the Detention House, right? Calculating the time, it's about right."

Chen Li glanced at him and said, "You're quite familiar with this, aren't you? Then I don't need to say anything."

No one expected that this Manager Deng, Deng Yuejin, would be the most cooperative one among them!

There was no need for them to ask at all; he told them everything himself and tried his best to guarantee that everything he said was true.

Conversely, the shop manager of that luggage store and the manager surnamed Liu below were not as cooperative; who knows what kind of dreams they are having.

Later, after checking, they found out that this Manager Deng has not been in here for the first time; the man is very experienced.

Look at that, he can even calculate the time to know it's about time to go to the Detention House.

They brought the three of them out, preparing to go to the Detention House, and then they bumped into the group of people Lao Wu was leading outside...

Manager Deng and the other two looked at the group led by Guo Qifeng opposite them, and they stared at each other; the scene suddenly became a bit silent.

Guo Qifeng was still wondering before why the police were so certain that he had committed a crime; these things could not possibly have been leaked.

They all felt that it must have been those people from Shaoxi Restaurant who reported them, and some even thought that if they could get out, they would definitely go to Shaoxi Restaurant and settle the score with them!

As it turned out, they bumped into each other here. Looking at the Silver Bracelets on the wrists of the three brothers opposite, Guo Qifeng could not say a word; he felt extremely aggrieved...

This damn thing, he wants to find someone to settle the score, but he can't even find them.

Manager Deng and the other two were sent to the Detention House to "enjoy themselves," while Guo Qifeng and his team began to be interrogated.

Facts have proven that as long as they are brought in, basically very few people will refuse to admit it.

Guo Qifeng still wanted to hold on for a bit; he had already decided that as long as he was fine this time, he would definitely not do any internet celebrity stuff again.

But it was useless; his team and his agent confessed even faster than he did.

A professional team would certainly be able to see the difference in those ingredients, but after seeing it, what they chose was to want more money...

As the core of the team, Guo Qifeng did not actually participate, but he knew about this matter and chose to acquiesce because he could earn more money, and he could pretend he didn't know about this matter.

This is where the problem lies; he took the money. You can say you didn't know, but you took the money, and as an adult, this can prove that he knew.

Consequently, Guo Qifeng had no other way and could only choose to confess.

Days passed one by one, and the news of Xiao Guo being arrested could no longer be considered a hot search.

However, many places issued police reports that such-and-such internet celebrity was arrested for the False Advertising Crime; these internet celebrities had all visited Shaoxi Restaurant before.

A certain Netizen with the surname Fang, whose name is unknown, commented that this society needs more A Yi; it is precisely because of A Yi that the bottom line of so many internet celebrities could be exposed this time.

Before the incident, they were all good people, but the things they did behind the scenes were disgusting!

With Lao Yang's materials and the overtime work of Tengda Studio, a new video was released.

This video, titled "The Matter Was Done by A Yi, It Has Nothing to Do with Me, Zhou Mouren," was released and once again hit the hot lists of major platforms.

However, for the big guys online, this video from A Yi was no surprise at all.

"Look, I told you A Yi is an Internet Celebrity Killer; he has already sent so many internet celebrities inside. Oh, a prior statement: it has nothing to do with Zhou Mouren!"

"So the root cause is actually just a case of food poisoning. You say, if Shaoxi Restaurant had directly admitted there was a problem and rectified it properly, would there have been any follow-up..."

"To the person above, impossible. There is no such 'if' in this world. In the face of profit, even if we do it ten thousand times over, it will still be this choice."

Regarding this kind of matter, everyone has discussed it.

It is not that they do not know A Yi's reputation, but that this involves profit!

Therefore, no matter how many times it is repeated, they will do it this way. Profit is eternal; earn the money first, and A Yi's threat has to stand aside.

The internet was discussing it fiercely, while in the office, Zhou Yi looked at the System Panel with anticipation; the task progress bar there had finally turned to one hundred percent.

"System, claim the task reward!"

"Task reward, one hundred million in the Serious Investigation Special Fund has been issued!"

Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard this; he was mainly a bit dizzy from being hit by that "small goal" mentioned earlier.

Although these days, because of a certain tycoon's remark, one hundred million has become a "small goal," it seems like it is not a big number when mentioned.

After all, some companies have debts of tens of trillions, so one hundred million is not considered much money anymore.

However, for ordinary people, one hundred million is not a goal, because normally, you rarely have the opportunity to possess one hundred million...

It is just that Zhou Yi quickly sobered up; there is a restriction added to this "small goal": Serious Investigation Special Fund.

This is the same as the funds in the Virtual Account during every task; it can only be used for serious investigation.

However, compared to the tasks, the money in here can be used at will, which means he can use this "small goal" to help others investigate seriously?

He quickly received an affirmative answer from the system, but Zhou Yi was not too excited.

He has been investigating seriously for more than two years, and it is indeed as many people have said: his behavior has a great influence on the social atmosphere.

So much so that now some ordinary people have the law on their lips; this seemed impossible in the past.

Because in the past, if you, an ordinary person, talked about the law in front of others, all you would get was ridicule.

However, although many people have started to investigate seriously because of his videos, it is still too few compared to the whole society.

Because of the costs—the costs of time, money, and so on.

Therefore, being able to help some people investigate seriously in the future also feels quite good.

At the very least, those guys who write a Small Essay at the drop of a hat really need to be sanctioned...

After keeping a regular schedule for a few days, my body has improved, but I have decided to finish the book as soon as possible; the cases I originally prepared are actually repetitive when you look at them, so I probably won't write them... I'll see how things go.