Chapter 795: Night of Confession

After opening the second gate, Luo Quan decided to give herself a few days off to rest.

That's right, her laziness had struck again.

However, she had indeed been forgetting to eat and sleep for the sake of cultivation these past few days, and dark circles had even started appearing under her eyes—a situation that rarely happened before.

But she hadn't stayed up this late before either.

"Have you been suffering from insomnia these past few days? Why do you have panda eyes?" Su Yu asked in the living room, seeing her boss's complexion wasn't very good and asking with concern.

"Small problem, I'll recover in two or three days." Luo Quan rubbed her eyes and smiled, not wanting Su Yu to worry.

Her physical fitness was very good; these dark circles were nothing and would disappear before long.

With the end of the year approaching, the employees were basically all preparing to pack their things and go home to reunite with their families.

Su Yu and Lan Xuan were no exception; they were just waiting for their tickets in the next two days.

As for Wen Xia and Luo Quan, they had returned to Yuzhou in the middle of the year, so they didn't plan to go back this time and would stay in Shanghai for the New Year.

It was mainly because the New Year atmosphere was getting thinner and thinner; celebrating the New Year felt just like an ordinary holiday.

Eat a good meal, watch the Spring Festival Gala for a while, scold the director, grab a red envelope, stay up late for a bit, and then it's over.

Not being able to set off firecrackers and fireworks really lacked a bit of meaning.

However, although the atmosphere wasn't as intense as before, it was still the most important traditional festival of the year, so most people had smiles on their faces, and the New Year goods in the supermarkets were still selling like hotcakes.

But now, many young people popularize buying New Year goods online, or rather, online shopping.

And it wasn't searching on Taobao or anything; it was only after watching the recommendations of those live-streaming hosts that they would buy.

Actually, it was very similar to the TV shopping of the past, except that no one watched TV anymore, so the battlefield shifted to the internet.

And TV shopping hosts earned a dead salary, but live-streaming hosts had commissions; the more they sold, the more they earned.

The key was that there wasn't a high threshold for this line of work; as long as you had enough fans, you could come and stream, and you earned a ton.

Every time she saw the annual income of those top live-streaming hosts, which was often in the billions, to be honest, she was a bit tempted.

With her influence, if she announced she was doing live-streaming sales, she estimated many brands would be willing to give her a low price.

Then, by attracting fans through low prices, selling out wouldn't be a problem.

But every time she saw the news of those live-streaming hosts selling fake goods and crashing, she shied away from this industry.

She had a good reputation now; there was really no need to do this for money.

It wasn't that she had any discrimination against this profession; it was mainly because in this environment, netizens generally had a bad impression of this profession.

Just like many female streamers, it was easy to make people think of laid-off female workers from some southern small city re-entering the workforce.

Maybe it was also because it was too simple to make money by streaming now, which led to many people liking to stream.

After all, studying required ten years of hard work, while streaming only required a mobile phone.

Including herself, she actually liked streaming too.

But it wasn't to make money; it was mainly because it was convenient.

Turn on the camera, sit there, and it's a program effect; talking with fans in the live room was also quite comfortable.

But all the money she made from streaming was donated; her income basically still came from song copyrights and movie box office.

Now that the Nikola company had grown, stock dividends were also a huge amount of income. The year-end dividend this year was hundreds of millions of dollars.

Although this was just a fraction of what she invested, as the company grew larger, the dividends would only increase.

This was a long-term return, and looking at the trend of Nikola's stock, she was afraid it would be completely paid off in a few years.

In the evening, after eating, Luo Quan turned on the live stream as usual.

Today's news hot topic discussion was still about Notre-Dame de Paris.

With the efforts of the investigation team organized spontaneously by the public, they found some clues through hacker technology.

Now, the whole city was covered in cameras, and the content of the recordings would be transmitted through the internet; even if it had been cleaned up afterward, it was absolutely impossible to do it perfectly clean. As long as you wanted to investigate, you could always find some clues.

It's worth mentioning that the hacker who participated in the investigation this time wasn't a local Frenchman, but the hacker "Karlov" who had become world-famous two years ago.

Just saying the name, few people knew, but if you talked about his deeds, it could be said to be thunderous.

About two years ago, female celebrities around the world who used Apple phones were attacked by Karlov, and all the information in their phones was stolen by him.

Then Karlov organized this information into compressed files named after the female celebrities and put them on the dark web for public sale, with Bitcoin as the trading currency.

As everyone knows, Western countries are open, so many people like to use their phones to take private photos and videos, the kind that only they and their lovers can see.

As a result, after the information was stolen, these videos, comparable to P-site content, were directly made public. Nearly one-third of the well-known female stars in Europe and America suffered, letting world netizens see their side different from the bright and beautiful one on the big screen.

But fortunately, foreign countries are relatively open, and these female stars were also victims, so public opinion still protected them quite a bit.

After all, people took these for the sake of fun between couples; who knew Apple's security system would be cracked on a large scale?

So after netizens teased for a while, they didn't continue to kick this matter.

Luo Quan was very unfortunate; her Apple phone was also cracked, and all photos and videos were put on the dark web, and it was the one with the highest price.

At the same time, she was very lucky because she never took large-scale photos at the time, so after fans spent a high price to buy the compressed file, they shouted they were cheated.

Because after decompressing, they found that inside were just some daily selfies and photos of friends, or some beautiful web pictures, suitable for use as screen savers.

This content was as ordinary as an ordinary person's phone gallery.

The key was that many of these photos Luo Quan herself would share with fans in her updates.

It was equivalent to everyone spending a lot of money to buy something free, belonging to a pure big fool.

And Karlov, who caused such a big stir, was naturally targeted by the US National Security Agency for the first time, and soon his IP address was found, and the FBI was arranged to check the water meter.

As a result, after breaking in, they found only a server in the room, but no one.

As a top hacker who could crack the Apple system, how could Karlov be so easily found at his address?

And after this operation failed, he even hacked into the scene of the police press conference and provoked the US police.

The key was that he still hadn't been caught until now.

Apple and those female stars could be said to hate this person to the bone; one lost tens of billions of dollars because of him, and the other suffered a huge blow to her acting career.

Unexpectedly, Karlov appeared in the public eye again, actually being hired to investigate the Notre-Dame de Paris theft case.

Karlov's fees were very expensive, costing tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin for one trip.

Although I don't know why a hacker of his level would be short of money, as long as it's a problem that can be solved with money, it's not a problem.

Soon, the French people raised the money and successfully hired Karlov on the dark web.

And this famous hacker was indeed capable, only spending two days to turn out all the surveillance footage that had been deleted.

When the Notre-Dame de Paris collection was stolen, the surveillance was turned off.

But transferring the collection couldn't be done by teleportation; it needed to be transported by cars.

And the surveillance cameras around just happened to capture these unlicensed black cars parked outside Notre-Dame de Paris.

The final location where these cars appeared was a waste treatment plant in the suburbs, and the place where the goods were unloaded was also there; no one knew where they went during the period.

But the people driving didn't wear masks, so their identities were soon found.

It turned out to be an employee of the Bonaparte family.

The Bonaparte family is one of the most influential noble families in France, and even all of Europe.

As direct descendants of Napoleon, they still consider themselves the French royal family.

However, as an old revolutionary area, France's feudal remnants have been carried out quite thoroughly from top to bottom, so the official doesn't recognize it.

But at least the Bonaparte family's ancestors were glorious, once the supreme leader and idol of all France, and also possessed the ruling power of most of Europe.

If it weren't for the failure of the Battle of Waterloo, maybe France wouldn't have just this much territory now.

It was precisely because this ancestor was too fierce that his descendants could also live very comfortably by relying on his shade.

However, when this matter was exposed, the Bonaparte family was immediately pushed to the forefront.

The public directly scolded online:

"Napoleon is awesome, what does it have to do with you descendants?

Being a noble who eats and waits for death, no one cares about you, but you actually dare to hit the idea of Notre-Dame de Paris, and even set fire to burn it!

It's simply daring, too numerous to record, not sending them to the guillotine is not enough to calm public anger!"

Someone took the lead in scolding, and the emotions of all French civilians on the internet were completely excited, starting to denounce the Bonaparte family.

They were also looking for an explanation from the government.

Everyone felt that the government absolutely knew about this, but for the sake of some interest exchange, it had been helping to cover it up.

Even the fire that caused Notre-Dame de Paris to catch fire might have had the government's share.

Such a statement was very terrifying; to put it broadly, it was a trust crisis between officials and the public, and the consequences were extremely serious.

However, soon, the Bonaparte family stood up and spoke, saying they didn't know what happened at all, and this so-called family employee was actually just a temporary worker who had only been here for a few days.

Sure enough, no matter where, temporary workers are the best profession to throw the pot.

And the French government changed its usual state, saying it would do its best to investigate the truth and urged the Bonaparte family to self-examine to see if this situation occurred because they recruited some workers with unknown identities.

The Bonaparte family also said they would cooperate with the police investigation to return the truth to the masses.

This singing and harmony cooperation made people want to laugh out loud.

And interestingly, on the third morning after the matter was exposed, all the stolen antiques appeared in a landfill in the suburbs, just placed on the ground, as if they had just changed an exhibition location.

And those temporary workers involved in the case had all left France by plane two days ago, and their whereabouts were unknown.

And customs didn't even have any obstruction to this.

This made a group of people very angry.

Seeing that the case was about to be solved, they actually let all the people go; this couldn't even be described as inaction.

But in any case, the antiques of Notre-Dame de Paris were all recovered.

After expert appraisal, they were all genuine, and there were no traces of damage.

In addition, the mastermind behind the scenes was basically calling out, which was the Bonaparte family.

Although the Bonaparte family refused to admit it, the eyes of the masses were bright, and they didn't listen to the Bonaparte family's sophistry at all, strongly demanding that these feudal remnants be sent to the guillotine.

Of course, modern European society has long abolished the death penalty, and these people couldn't be sentenced to death even if they committed a monstrous disaster.

Think back to a gunman in Norway who killed dozens of children of politicians who supported the abolition of the death penalty, just to let these white leftists sentence him to death.

As a result, he didn't get his wish in the end, only sentenced to more than twenty years of imprisonment.

And he is still living well in a prison as luxurious as a villa, and recently complained that the game console configuration was too low, wrote a letter to complain about prison abuse, and then changed to a new game console.

It was such a heinous criminal who still couldn't die.

It was even more impossible for these people in the Bonaparte family to die.

And the government also issued a statement after the investigation, saying that there was a lack of evidence and it couldn't be proven that the Bonaparte family had a direct relationship with the series of cases in Notre-Dame de Paris.

If they could find those drivers, there would definitely be a breakthrough.

But those drivers had already run away, and it was not known where they were.

So the case fell into a stalemate here.

But what the truth was didn't matter anymore, because the public would only see what they wanted to see.

And what they saw was infinitely close to the correct answer.

Unfortunately, although the Bonaparte family returned the antiques, Notre-Dame de Paris had been burned down, and the loss inside could not be made up no matter how it was repaired.

It was very difficult for the public to find someone to pay the price for this matter.

Clearly, they found the murderer, but they couldn't bring them to justice, which was indeed annoying.

However, under anger, perhaps some people would do extreme behaviors.

In short, the future Bonaparte family wouldn't be too peaceful.

After this case lasted for several months, it finally had a result.

Luo Quan and the fans watched the ins and outs of the case together, and their hearts were also incomparably sighing.

The Bonaparte family wanted the antiques, probably just to use them to collect spiritual energy.

They had been using it for a while now, and had gained a lot.

After the matter was exposed and then handed over, there was almost no big loss, which could be called a business without capital.

The news discussion ended there, and the next step was the interaction session between fans and Luo Quan that they liked most. ===== CHAPTER 796 =====