Chapter 3353: Influence Beyond Ordinary

Ye Chen returned to the hotel when he received a friend request from Tawana on WeChat.

After he verified it, Tawana told him that Mitsui Yoshitaka's brother Mitsui Yoshiyasu had been brought under control by Hattori Hanzo leading the Iga ninjas, and she and Trevor had also followed Mitsui Kokomi back to the Mitsui family's estate.

Besides reporting the situation, she again expressed her gratitude to Ye Chen. Having heard enough thanks, Ye Chen told her: "After going through so much, rest well tonight."

Tawana originally wanted to use this opportunity to chat a bit more with Ye Chen on WeChat, but seeing Ye Chen seemed uninterested, she also very sensibly said: "Okay, Mr. Ye, you also rest well. You've really worked hard today."

When Ye Chen returned to the hotel, Dong Ruolin and Xiao Churan were in the room scrolling through social media. Tonight so many police helicopters flew to the area, but although outsiders didn't know what happened, they also guessed it must be somewhat abnormal, otherwise it wouldn't be possible for so many police to come over.

Seeing Ye Chen return, Xiao Churan hurriedly asked: "Husband, did something happen at the dome? Social media says many helicopters went there, and there are related videos, with many planes flying over in a dense flock, which is quite scary."

Dong Ruolin, beside her, scrolled her phone while muttering: "Someone gossiped that it seemed like an assassination had happened, they said it seemed like someone wanted to assassinate Tawana."

Ye Chen laughed: "How could that be? Nothing happened. I was at the scene, how would I not know if there was an assassination?"

Dong Ruolin said: "Then why did so many police come over? You were at the scene, you must have seen it, right?"

"Drill." Ye Chen, to avoid worrying them and to prevent this matter from spreading, could only lie: "The police seem to be conducting some kind of anti-terrorism drill. I'm not too clear on the specifics, because I was communicating with Mr. Mitsui about feng shui, and after talking roughly I came back."

Saying this, he deliberately muttered: "Is what's said online really that outrageous? Let me go take a look."

Ye Chen casually scrolled a few platforms, and unexpectedly found that social media had indeed already started trending.

Although the gunfire at the scene hadn't leaked out, so many police arriving by helicopter was indeed hard to conceal, and moreover some people had filmed special police helicopters rappelling from buildings nearby.

Ye Chen felt that even if there was no clear evidence of Tawana's assassination leaking out, he couldn't let netizens keep guessing like this on social media. Underground network matters, although most people don't know about them, those related to it still understand the situation. If some well-meaning person anonymously publishes this, given the current internet热度, it will definitely spark huge discussion.

No matter whether a clear result can eventually be discussed, for Tawana it definitely isn't a good thing.

So he notified Fei Keyin on WeChat, asking Fei Keyin to relay to Mitsui Yoshitaka, to have Mitsui Yoshitaka jointly issue a statement with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, saying that tonight the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department jointly with the Mitsui family conducted an anti-terrorism drill at the dome.

After all, the Tokyo Dome is Tokyo's largest performance venue, where all top stars coming to Tokyo for concerts almost always choose this place. The possibility of a terrorist attack here isn't zero, so conducting an anti-terrorism drill here is naturally justified.

Soon, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced the drill news via television and internet media.

The Tokyo TV station, which was originally broadcasting a variety show, immediately popped up an emergency bulletin: "Now inserting a news flash: at 22:35 tonight, Tokyo anti-terror police conducted a rapid response assault drill at the dome. This anti-terrorism drill mainly targeted the scenario of the dome being seized or sabotaged by terrorists during a large performance, with no prior notice to any relevant personnel, not even the participating special police knew this was actually a drill, so the drill truly demonstrated the rapid response capability of Tokyo's special police in dealing with sudden events. Currently the drill has concluded successfully, the related special police have begun orderly withdrawal from the drill site, and the Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department gave this drill a very high positive evaluation, also hoping that citizens won't be overly nervous!"

This video was broadcast in multiple languages for about 10 minutes. After it aired, Dong Ruolin gave up on continuing to gossip and scroll, put her phone aside, and complained: "What the heck, I thought there was some big gossip to eat, but it turned out to be just a drill."

Xiao Churan laughed: "Tokyo's public security looks pretty good, the chance of a big incident should be small. Besides, you can't always hope for others to have trouble."

"That's not quite right." Dong Ruolin laughed: "I'm not hoping for trouble, I just have a stronger gossip heart!"

Saying this, she added: "By the way, Ye Chen, your video criticizing Tawana today went viral online! Moreover, what you said was reasonable and convincing, making people believe it. Even those Tawana fans and supporters felt you made sense. Online now they call you 'the man who educated Tawana,' and many are curious about your real identity. If you show your face and do a live stream now, you'll blow up! After gaining a few million fans, you might even go into live-stream shopping!"

Ye Chen laughed: "I don't want to do that kind of thing where I have to show my face. It's better to stay low-key. Besides, many so-called human rights organizations actually act quite extremely in practice, and I don't want to have any contact with them in real life."

"That's also true." Dong Ruolin nodded: "I think European environmental organizations are scary. They block all cars on major roads, not letting them pass, not even ambulances. I don't know if these people themselves or their families get sick, would they call an ambulance?"

"They definitely would, no need to even think." Ye Chen laughed: "The vast majority of extreme environmentalists aren't really environmentalists at all, but just make a living from this. Behind them are capital operations—for example, European capital wanting to develop nuclear power will let those environmentalists attack thermal power plants; wanting to develop new energy, they'll let environmentalists attack traditional energy; if they later want to promote lab-grown meat, rest assured, these environmentalists will definitely go protest traditional livestock farming."

Dong Ruolin agreed: "Makes sense, most are just a bunch of hypocrites."

At this moment, the news looping on TV immediately made many people who had been randomly guessing stop gossiping.

Compared to telling them that tonight here there was a bloodbath with one or two hundred dead, they find this drill explanation much more acceptable.

Since the official side has already clarified the situation, there aren't too many gossip doubts online anymore, and not long after this matter was suppressed.

Next, Tawana's team also began posting large numbers of official photos and videos of her performances online.

Tawana herself is the king of traffic. After her performance videos and beautiful photos were released, fans quickly pushed her performance to the top headlines of major platforms. As a result, public attention to special police was even more blown away like smoke.

Ye Chen couldn't help but marvel: Tawana's influence is indeed extraordinary. Just a few performance photos and videos released, and the attention of the vast majority of people will be shifted. Such a star, once collaborating with Changying Automobile for a concert in Huaxia, the boost to Changying Automobile's brand power would likely be unprecedented!