Chapter 526: The People Are All Gone! What Damn Marriage Alliance!

As an artificial intelligence, Eva's computing power was nothing short of terrifying.

In less than just a few minutes, one article after another with sensationalist headlines appeared across the internet.

"Wang Mang! A wastrel born into a family of ninth-tier ability users!"

"Exposé! Wang Mang's bloody methods, and why Xu Jingming had to step in!"

"Xu Jingming's strike was purely ridding the people of a menace."

"......"

As a wastrel, Wang Mang had far too much dirt on him.

Wanton killings, deliberate revenge, abusing women — the list went on and on.

Although the Wang family always took care of the fallout and scrubbed any traces from the internet.

But with Eva's abilities, digging it all up and writing it into articles was child's play.

At the same time, the articles also explained why Xu Jingming and Wei He had stepped in.

After this round of maneuvering, Xu Jingming's reputation online flipped on its head overnight.

"Holy crap! So that's the whole story — I almost got duped!"

"The Great Xia law strictly forbids targeting an ability user's family. Wang Mang failed to get his revenge, so he had it coming!"

"A scion steeped in evil deeds — Xu Jingming's strike can only be called ridding the people of a menace."

"I knew it — Lei Di wouldn't kill people for no reason!"

"......"

On one side, a wastrel scion who threw his weight around thanks to his family's power, committing all manner of illegal acts on a regular basis.

On the other, a heaven-blessed prodigy who, since his rise, had defeated every elite challenger in his path.

And this time, it had been a defensive counterattack.

The public weren't fools — they naturally knew who deserved their support.

"Councilman Wang, bad news — public opinion online has flipped!"

At the same time, in Qingjing City.

A man in a suit, clutching a laptop bag, hurried into Wang Zhen's villa.

Once the laptop was opened, a holographic projection coalesced in midair.

Beneath the articles displayed above, nearly every comment was in support of Xu Jingming!

"Dammit! Didn't you say we controlled the narrative? What the hell is going on?"

Wang Zhen's face instantly turned the color of liver, and he demanded furiously.

"I don't know what's going on either. By all rights, their topics shouldn't have been able to reach this level of traction."

Under the oppressive pressure of Wang Zhen's aura, the suited man broke out in a cold sweat all over.

His company specialized in making a living off the internet — they were well-versed in hyping topics and manipulating public opinion.

For this public opinion explosion, they had planned for at least four or five days.

According to the original plan, even if the truth came out, it would only be after the National Council meeting.

But somehow, in just over two hours, everything had flipped.

Their methods of controlling topic traction had absolutely no effect on these articles.

"I don't care what method you use — wipe every piece of negative information about my son off the internet!"

Wang Zhen roared, his voice seeming to make the entire villa tremble.

"Yes!"

The suited man nodded hurriedly, picked up the laptop and began working, while simultaneously contacting his company to scrub the relevant content together.

But their opponent was the artificial intelligence Eva — it was a foregone conclusion that deleting posts could never keep up with new ones being published......

"How have our assets been looking over the past half month?"

Sichuan Province, the Song family.

Song Feng and the other real-power figures of the Song family had once again gathered together.

As clan head, Song Feng sat in the topmost seat and asked in a low voice.

"Reporting to the clan head: to date, our Song family's industrial scale has shrunk by roughly 40%.

Among them, Huiyang Equipment, Huiyang Technology Company......"

A suited man who had prepared in advance stood up and reported.

Under his briefing, the entire conference hall quickly fell into a heavy silence.

The shrinkage of their assets was simply too great! Every single one of them had seen their core interests seriously affected!

Although this outcome had long been anticipated, as clan head, Song Feng still couldn't help but furrow his brow tightly upon hearing these reports.

"But thankfully, the worst of the asset shrinkage is already behind us.

At this rate, once industrial scale drops another 10% or so, things should stabilize."

Song Feng said silently to himself.

That counted as one of only two pieces of good news in recent days.

As for the other piece of good news — it was that Xu Jingming had been steamrolling through the Global Genius Exchange Tournament, performing ferociously.

Buzz buzz—

At that moment, the smartband on his wrist suddenly vibrated, and a message was pushed in.

During meetings, unless something especially important came up, no messages would be sent to his smartband.

So Song Feng instinctively glanced over — and with just one look, his pupils contracted.

And the message displayed on it was, in no uncertain terms, the news of Xu Jingming killing Wang Mang!

"Wang Mang... was actually killed by Xu Jingming?" A storm surged through Song Feng's heart.

He had never imagined that Xu Jingming would be so decisive, choosing to kill outright.

More critically, as a ninth-rank Wu Sheng, Wang Zhen had absolutely no way to deal with Xu Jingming at all.

He could only await the National Council's final ruling, and even had to use public opinion to build momentum for himself.

"Second Brother, I told you long ago that doing it this way wouldn't work."

After finishing his report, Song Zhan, who was bent on splitting the family, spoke again:

"If you agree to the marriage alliance and borrow the Wang family's power,

our assets won't shrink — they might even grow further. It's not impossible.

But it's not too late now either. As long as you agree, I'll contact the Wang family right away."

At these words,

quite a few people in the conference hall began to stir restlessly.

During this period, the Song family's assets had shrunk, and the resources they could obtain had decreased accordingly.

If they could restore their previous treatment, that would naturally be best.

"Marriage alliance? Alliance my ass!"

Song Feng snorted coldly. "Wang Mang is already dead — the man himself is gone. How could the Wang family possibly continue with the marriage alliance?"

"Wang Mang is dead?"

Song Zhan's expression froze, and he instinctively retorted:

"How is that possible? He's the son of ninth-rank powerhouse Wang Zhen — who would dare kill him?"

"See for yourself."

Song Feng activated his smart wristband, and immediately a series of articles were projected out.

Clicking into any one of them at random showed the full account of Xu Jingming killing Wang Mang.

"Wang Mang... is actually really dead?!"

Song Zhan's face was full of disbelief.

This was the son of a ninth-rank Wu Sheng!

He carried multiple life-preserving measures on him; even an eighth-rank Grand Master ability user like himself might not necessarily be able to kill him.

And the crucial point — this person was actually only Xu Jingming, a mere fifth-rank upper-tier!

PS: This review took all night to process, wiping out my record of over a hundred consecutive days of updates. It hurts...