socalfunplaces Chapter 106 The zookeeper wants ice cream?
Chapter 106 The zookeeper wants ice cream?
"Su Peixue's promotion of toxic honey caused my poisoning," "Internet celebrity's promotional campaign backfires, who will guarantee food safety?" "Donation persona collapses, it turns out it was just paving the way for making money."
The accompanying video showed a woman lying in a hospital bed having her stomach pumped, with a very melancholic and rhythmic background music playing. The filter was set to a pale white tone, and her face was never shown from beginning to end.
The top comments from online trolls were unanimously: "Su Peixue's donation was just a way to make more money!" "Endorsing toxic honey is heartless!" "Is this what our food safety is like? I can't help but start reflecting!" "Look at foreign food standards, and then look at ours, the gap is too big!" "Is there no justice or law left?!"
Lin Ran scrolled through a few comments before closing the app. Every single one of them carried a familiar, unsettling odor. Electronic life forms, perfectly synchronized. This indicated that it wasn't just one person's revenge, but an organized and planned smear campaign.
However, before this smear campaign could gain traction, the police report was released. Because the director of the Economic Development Office personally filed a report, the county bureau took it very seriously, coordinating investigations across multiple locations and tracing the group owner's account information and IP address.
The group admin who was caught confessed that their job was to stir up trouble, spread rumors, and then backtrack.
He was introduced to this business by a high school classmate who was studying abroad. Performance was calculated based on the data generated by the group, and he earned kickbacks and pocketed the difference in funding by developing his own downline group chats.
Lin Ran looked at the age of the group owner in the police report: 25 years old, unemployed, living in a rented room in an urban village in a third-tier city.
He never even considered that he could actually catch someone based on chat logs. What a brainless idiot, making dirty money without even bothering to keep himself discreet.
The police report clearly states: the account that posted the video of the poisonous honey used an overseas virtual IP address. After verifying each order for the 533 kilograms of honey sold, none of the consumers showed any symptoms of poisoning. The suspect, [name omitted], has been criminally detained according to law for spreading false information.
Before public opinion could even develop, the situation reversed. The comments under Yuan Xi and Yuan Wang's "Honey Osmanthus Cake" video were pushed to the top by netizens.
Yuan hope wrote a long story about Su Peixue seeing her grandfather's plight during a team-building activity in Guishu Village. She took the initiative to film a video to help sell honey, without earning a single penny herself, and gave all the income to her grandfather.
The official media of Guishu County also released a press release about Su Peixue serving as a cultural tourism ambassador, accompanied by a screenshot from a video of Su Peixue holding a honey osmanthus cake under an osmanthus tree.
The comments section shifted dramatically: "She's still the kind-hearted Xuexue! I knew I wouldn't have misjudged her after she donated 630,000!" "Even the Guishu County government invited Su Peixue to collaborate, which proves Xuexue's impeccable character!" "I didn't join the bandwagon to criticize her this time; I learned my lesson after being proven wrong last time!" "More people will definitely be envious of Xuexue in the future. Let's let things play out and trust the blogger's character!" "I love this amazing blogger! I never paid attention to the messy things in the live streaming world before, but this incident introduced me to this streamer!" "That lame grandpa in the video was so heartbreaking; Xuexue was genuinely helping him." "Hilarious! The haters prepared material all day, and the police cracked it in half a day." "I screenshotted the evidence of the reported comments; anyone spreading rumors will be shown this."
This smear campaign not only failed to cause any real damage, but also brought Su Peixue a surge of positive publicity. Her Bilibili followers jumped from 400,000 to over 500,000 and are still growing.
Lin Ran put her phone back in her pocket, glanced at Su Peixue who was still lying on the bed spraying pesticides, humming a tune she couldn't quite place, her toes dangling in the air. The storm had just swept over her head, and she hadn't even been moved a leaf.
Lin Ran grabbed the girl's plump little feet.
Su Peixue was lying on the bed playing games when she turned her head and glanced at him. "Does the zookeeper want some ice cream?" She stretched her little legs back and presented her snow-white feet to his face.
"Get lost." Lin Ran pressed her feet back onto the bed. Her ankles were round and delicate, with a small red bump above the ankle bone, from a mosquito bite. There was a cross-shaped mark on the bump, a home remedy she had made herself by pressing it with her fingernails to stop the itch. He picked up the floral water from the bedside table, poured a few drops into his palm, and applied it to her ankle.
Su Peixue smiled slightly at him, "The zookeeper is very observant. Were you staring at Xuexue's feet the whole time?"
"It's you who's been waving your feet in front of me."
Just then, a mosquito buzzed by. Lin Ran locked onto it and swatted it dead with a single blow. A small black clump of remnant remained on his palm, which he wiped clean with a tissue. Daring to bite Su Peixue's foot, it deserved to die. I've never even bitten her—huh? Who planted this thought in his head? He threw the tissue in the trash can, shook his head, and thought, "This is terrifying."
Lin Ran sat down at the computer and opened the editing software. A new project file had already been created on the desktop, and the media library contained several months' worth of live stream replays from five top female streamers under Shengxing Entertainment, each with frame-by-frame annotations.
Areas where there is a time difference between keyboard hand gestures and screen operations are marked with red boxes. During team battles, when switching screens, the left hand remains on the QWER keys and does not move to the F area, which is slowed down. When typing, the text appearing on the public screen is inconsistent with the hand movements, and before-and-after comparison images are made.
He dragged the footage into the timeline, added a short intro, exported it, and published it.
Whether it's Xiao Zhe or Lin Ran who are smearing Su Peixue, it doesn't matter, since they're all connected to him anyway, so let's just expose all these female anchors.
Shortly after the video was released, the data of several queens under Shengxing began to climb.
The comments section changed from "front row" to "Holy crap" to "Confirmed cheating" to reporting links tagging official accounts on various platforms.
After A Yi's downfall, the remaining five top-ranked female streamers on Shengxing gradually divided up the traffic and accumulated a group of fans, but now they have all been wiped out. On that day, the live stream chat of the five female streamers was full of comments like "substitute player," "refund," and "unfollow," and some people even pushed Lin Ran's video link to the top of the site's rankings.
In the office of the boss of Shengxing Entertainment, Zhou Ruian smashed a cup on the floor. Shards of porcelain splashed around the sofa leg, and tea seeped into the cracks in the floor.
He picked up his phone and dialed Lin Ran's number. As soon as the call connected, he yelled, "What do you mean? We agreed to leave it at that last time, and now you're attacking one of my anchors!"
"Just ask Xiao Zhe yourself." Lin Ran said, then hung up the phone and added Zhou Ruian's number to her blacklist.
He didn't need evidence to prove whether Xiao Zheqian was involved; it was none of his business, and he couldn't be bothered to solve the case. Whoever slandered Su Peixue, he would only target Sheng Xing.