Chapter 2768: Are you threatening me?

With the titan's recognition, this portrait of Meng Changsheng immediately caused quite a sensation in the Calligraphy and Painting Association.

Xiao Changkun finally regained some face, and his back straightened quite a bit.

President Pei arrived upon hearing the news and also discovered that this painting was indeed extraordinary, so he hurriedly greeted his secretary, asking them to film a video, capture the details of the painting, and post it to the Calligraphy and Painting Association's official account on the short-video platform to increase the influence of the calligraphy and painting exhibition.

Soon, Ye Chen saw the introduction of this painting on the official short-video account of the Calligraphy and Painting Association.

In the video, the cameraman used a mobile phone to film many details of the painting one by one, especially the vivid portrait of Meng Changsheng. In addition, there was the line of inscription Ye Chen had written himself.

As soon as this video was posted, it triggered a great shock among the fans of the Calligraphy and Painting Association's account.

Everyone had seen many Tang Dynasty paintings in various materials, but they had never seen a work in this style, so a group of calligraphy and painting enthusiasts immediately began to comment and constantly shared the video with more people in the circle.

Soon, this video had gained considerable attention and traffic in the local calligraphy and painting circle, causing a sensation on a small scale.

Ye Chen immediately requested the person in charge of the short-video platform to make certain adjustments to the internal algorithm, tilting more traffic to this video and pushing it to many local Jin Ling users to help this video break out of the circle.

This kind of "breaking out of the circle" behavior is very common in the algorithm logic of short-video platforms.

Sometimes, blindly pushing things the user is interested in based on their preferences will have good results in the short term, but over time, the user is effectively subtracting from their interests.

For example, out of ten thousand tags of different content in the content library, the user gradually eliminates them through their own behavior, and finally, only a dozen or even a few tags they are interested in remain.

Information corresponding to other tags is then formed into an isolation wall by the algorithm, making it increasingly difficult for users to receive information about new things.

Therefore, as short-video platforms gradually adjust their algorithms, they will not blindly cater to user preferences and will occasionally find some popular content from other tags to try to push to users who do not have that tag.

Once a user accepts a new tag, it will have a very good effect on improving user stickiness and retention.

And some videos with particularly good conversion data often become the sharp tools for breaking out of the circle, suddenly becoming popular.

The legal profession itself is a very niche major that most ordinary people don't pay attention to, but since the appearance of "Lawless Fanatic Zhang San" on the Chinese internet, many people who rarely deal with the law have also come to like videos related to the lawless fanatic. This is a typical example of breaking out of the circle.

Ye Chen didn't intend to let Meng Changsheng's portrait truly break out of the circle nationwide, but it was necessary to let it break out of the circle in Jin Ling.

Thus, with the tilt of the algorithm and the support of internal traffic, this video soon had hundreds of thousands of views and even climbed onto the local hot list.

When this video started to gain momentum, Ye Chen began to pay attention to flight information for planes departing from Argentina and heading toward the Northern Hemisphere on aviation software.

He guessed that the Routhless Society definitely wouldn't let the three great elders take civilian passenger planes, so he ignored all ordinary flights and only focused on private jets and cargo planes.

Therefore, he first paid attention to all private jets and cargo planes flying to the Northern Hemisphere, keeping an eye on their routes. Once this video became popular, if a certain plane turned around over the ocean and flew back to Argentina, that plane must be the vehicle of the three great elders.

At this very moment, on the edge of Antarctica.

Wu Feiyan was also closely monitoring every move in Jin Ling.

A cargo plane dispatched by the Central Military Governor's Office this morning had flown over Jin Ling an hour ago. The plane's destination was Lu Zhou near Jin Ling. Just as it passed over Jin Ling, it lowered its flight altitude according to air traffic control requirements, which also happened to allow it to photograph the terrain of Jin Ling clearly.

The photos taken by the plane were quickly transmitted back to the headquarters of the Routhless Society, and Wu Feiyan immediately discovered a circular blank area with a radius of several hundred meters in the valley near Wanliu Villa.

She could almost immediately determine that Count Changsheng had detonated the formation she had left in his Niwan Palace.

Count Changsheng had been reduced to ashes, and the chance of Count Dingyuan surviving was also very slim. Wu Feiyan began to worry in her heart, worrying that the person who forced Count Changsheng to detonate himself had not died, and that his strength might even be stronger than her own.

Of course, Wu Feiyan also knew that whether that person was dead or not was something she couldn't figure out. The best way was to wait for the three great elders to arrive in Jin Ling and then find the An family and take action against them.

Twice she had wanted to wipe out the An family, and both times someone had suddenly appeared at a critical moment to save the An family from fire and water. This proved that the other party had indeed been secretly protecting the An family.

And if that person hadn't died, he would definitely continue to stay in Jin Ling to protect the An family.

Now, the An family's plane was still parked in Jin Ling, and she hadn't received news of the An family leaving Jin Ling. As long as the three great elders arrived in Jin Ling and took action against the An family, that person would definitely jump out to protect them. By then, the three great elders could join forces to kill him, and then conveniently wipe out the An family completely.

If there was no expert to stop the three great elders when they slaughtered the An family, that would prove that the mysterious opponent had died in Count Changsheng's self-detonation. The three great elders would only need to completely eradicate the An family, and she could sleep soundly.

Just when she felt that this time the three great elders going to Jin Ling would be foolproof, a mobile phone in front of her suddenly received a push notification from a short-video platform.

For this mobile phone, Wu Feiyan had changed the IP address and location information, changing her location to Jin Ling, so that she could know the slightest movement in Jin Ling at the first opportunity.

Now, Ye Chen had the short-video platform break Meng Changsheng's portrait out of the circle in Jin Ling, and the target audience for the push was users whose location information was in Jin Ling.

Therefore, this naturally included Wu Feiyan.

The moment Wu Feiyan saw this push, she instantly widened her eyes, and her whole body felt as if everything went black before her eyes. It seemed as if all the blood rushed to her crown in an instant!

She thought she had seen it wrong and subconsciously rubbed her eyes. After her vision recovered slightly, she brought the phone back in front of her.

With lingering fear, she stared at it. The front of this push had a "Local" prefix, and the title content was: "Searching for Meng Changsheng: A Chinese painting inheritance spanning a thousand years!"

When Wu Feiyan confirmed every word of this title, she was already struck by lightning!

Immediately after, her legs went soft, and she fell to the ground!

Wu Feiyan couldn't believe that after living for four hundred years, she could see the three words "Meng Changsheng" again!

That was her Master who had passed away over three hundred years ago!

She hurriedly picked up the phone again and, with trembling hands, clicked on the push.

The phone immediately jumped to the short-video software and played the video from the Calligraphy and Painting Association directly!

In the picture, Meng Changsheng stood on the edge of a cliff, his long hair, white beard, and Taoist robe fluttering in the wind. His whole demeanor was extraordinary, making people feel awe.

Wu Feiyan subconsciously covered her mouth, her eyes filled with panic.

She was incomparably flustered in her heart and muttered to herself, "How could the Master's portrait appear in Jin Ling... But the Master passed away over three hundred years ago. Who on earth painted this?!"

Immediately after, her heart felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, and she secretly thought in panic, "In that case, this painting was painted at least before the Master passed away..."

At this time, the narrator's voice came from the video: "According to the appraisal by experts from the Jin Ling Calligraphy and Painting Association, the silk material and painting pigments used in this portrait of Meng Changsheng are consistent with the characteristics of Tang Dynasty paintings. It's just that the painter's level of realism is far higher than other Tang Dynasty painters. This style of Tang Dynasty painting is still a blank space in the domestic calligraphy and painting field."

Hearing this, Wu Feiyan was even more terrified!

She muttered to herself in extreme nervousness, "This painting is actually a Tang Dynasty work?! Could it be... could it be painted by a disciple the Master took in during his first five hundred years?! Then why would this painting appear in Jin Ling?! And why would this painting suddenly be revealed today?! Count Changsheng just blew himself up yesterday, and Count Dingyuan also went missing yesterday. Today, the Master's painting suddenly appears in Jin Ling..."

Speaking of this, Wu Feiyan suddenly exclaimed in panic, "Oh no! That person knows my identity! He must have known my true identity and known everything about me, which is why he deliberately brought out the Master's portrait to warn me..."

At this thought, Wu Feiyan suddenly lost control of her emotions and roared loudly, "Who on earth are you!! If you are a disciple the Master took in during his first five hundred years, then aren't you already nearly a thousand years old?! Could it be... could it be that you have already eaten the Hundred-Turn Thousand-Return Pill?!"

"If that is really the case, I have no grievances with you, and we are even from the same school. Why do you target me everywhere?! Could it be that you have some relationship with the An family?!"

"If you have a relationship with the An family, you could have told me clearly. At worst, I won't touch the An family anymore and won't look for the secret of longevity anymore. But why do you insist on hiding in the dark and targeting me?!"

By the time she finished speaking, Wu Feiyan had already somewhat collapsed!

For so many years, she had kept her identity extremely secret, fearing that the outside world would know she had lived for three or four hundred years.

However, now that she suddenly saw the Master's portrait appear in Jin Ling, it felt to her as if someone had torn off her fig leaf, making all her disguises disappear without a trace!

She was as flustered as a headless fly, shouting hysterically, "And! How on earth did you know my identity?! Did you know everything about me from a long time ago, or did you learn all the information from Count Changsheng and Count Dingyuan?! I want to know how strong your strength is that you could withstand Count Changsheng's self-detonation?!"

"And! Now that you've released the Master's portrait, are you threatening me?!" ===== CHAPTER 2769 =====