Maoshan Taoist priests practice falsehood and become reality

Chapter 52 Public Opinion Storm
  Professor Lin Jiahui’s office at the School of Journalism and Communication at Xiguang University in District 9 was temporarily transformed into a studio.

The sound of keyboards and mice continued as six people, including the professor, worked hard to edit different versions of short news videos.

It has only one purpose, to use the fastest speed and the most intuitive way to let everyone clearly understand what is happening in the outer city of District 9.

"Professor, someone has posted a video on the Internet about the evil spirits committing crimes in Ronghua Town. It has been initially edited and uploaded to the material library. Please take a look."

The speaker was none other than Xia Xiaoling.

Lin Jiahui could only use the word "perfect" to describe this student.

After all, everyone is able to sit here and complete the graduation project in a practical way, all relying on the first-hand high-definition video of Baihua Village provided by Xia Xiaoling three days ago.

Three days ago, Lin Jiahui was still checking the students' final projects. Most of the themes were relatively common, such as "The Current Life of Folk Artists" and "Documentary of Small Town Water Resource Management".

On that day, people kept posting on the Internet with pictures, exposing that the evil spirits incident in the outer city was escalating, and hundreds of people had been harmed by the evil spirits.

As people continued to post questions and add evidence, a storm of public opinion quickly brewed.

Almost all media are silently paying attention to the subsequent developments.

At this juncture, Xia Xiaoling took the initiative to provide a very precious news material video, which recorded the true impact of Baihua Village being attacked by evil spirits on May 5.

After watching the video, Lin Jiahui and the principal discussed and decided to create a Xiguang News Media account in the name of Xiguang University School of Journalism.

The first post posted on the account was the edited and mosaic-processed "Real Image Record of Baihua Village After the Passage of Evil Spirits".

As soon as the video was released, it quickly became a hot search within just half an hour. More than 10 million people have viewed the video content, and the number of comments and likes has exceeded one million.

Lin Jiahui is more concerned about the attitude of the authorities than the data. Three hours later, Lin Jiahui, who had not waited for the removal notice, confirmed the key signal.

Other media outlets responded one after another and followed up with reports. As time went by, more and more news related to evil spirits rushed to be on the hot search.

Urban residents gradually learned about the current situation in the outer city, and a large number of people from the outer city flocked to the inner city to take refuge.

Two days later, major mainstream media were invited to the front line to report on the entire process of the Ghost Society's fight against evil spirits.

"Let more people see the truth."

Lin Jiahui looked at Xia Xiaoling's serious work and felt that a new star in the journalism world was rising.

She remembered that this protégé had not been in any relationship during the four years of college and was very measured in his dealings with others.

Lin Jiahui once deliberately brought Xia Xiaoling and her son together, but later she decisively gave up her secular and superficial ideas.

During the contact, she felt that there was a lion sleeping in Xia Xiaoling's heart that no man could control.

Such strong women, without exception, will only marry their ideals and pursuits.

"She was able to become the type of person I once admired so much."

Suddenly, Xia Xiaoling's cell phone rang.

Lin Jiahui noticed that the moment the screen turned on, Xia Xiaoling's face showed joy and nervousness that she had never seen before.

But the next second, she returned to her original state, quickly silenced her phone, and raised her hand to signal: "Professor, I need to go out and take a call right away."

"Okay, go and come back quickly."

As soon as Xia Xiaoling left the house, she couldn't wait to answer the phone and complained in a low voice: "You still know how to call me, but where have you been these past few days? Such a big thing happened in Binhai, and you didn't even reply to a message at the critical moment."

"Didn't I contact you as soon as I turned on my phone?"

When Su Heng wanted to surf the Internet, she found that her phone had automatically shut down due to low battery. After charging the battery, I was bombarded with messages from Xia Xiaoling when I turned it on.

He ignored it at first, but chose to go online first until he saw "After the Evil Spirit Passed by, Real Video Recording of Baihua Village".

Su Heng's face and back did not appear in the video, but he could still tell at a glance that the picture came from Xia Xiaoling's handheld DV.

He immediately flipped through the chat history and finally found a message from three days ago among the resentment that filled the screen.

"If it's urgent, call me."

I guess it is inconvenient to leave a written record of the content.

So Su Heng called Xia Xiaoling's phone number and wanted to ask her why she posted the video online.

"Three nights ago, Zhouzhuang came to the school to look for me. He learned through internal information that our visit to Baihua Village had been exposed. After all, there was such a large car door left at the scene, so it was only a matter of time before it was exposed."

Xia Xiaoling explained that Zhouzhuang was willing to provide help to protect them from the investigation and interference of the séance.

For this reason, he hoped that Xia Xiaoling could use the videos and resources in her hands to set off a storm of public opinion on the Internet and help them put pressure on the séance in Binhai City.

"You know that the draft initiated by Wei Zongling some time ago was rejected. In the normal process, the second review will take several months. If the pressure of public opinion can be used, it will speed up the process of entering the second review. Originally, this matter should be discussed , but I can’t contact you. In desperation, I can only make the decision alone, I’m sorry.”

"It was the right decision."

Su Heng told the truth that after discussing with him, he would choose to cooperate with Zhouzhuang.

Not only that, he also wanted to thank Xia Xiaoling for her decision, otherwise he might have been unnecessarily disturbed by the seance during his retreat.

"Hey, in short, the public opinion campaign is a great success! The public's calls for seances to expand their staff and cut down non-essential commercial activities of seancers are getting louder and louder. What's the point of 'seancers should be full-time solving evil spirits, so what's the point of being a star?'" The comments easily got over 10,000 likes.”

"Well, what about the reaction to the séance?"

"They have no time to deal with public opinion at all. The task of removing ghosts from the outer city takes up almost all the energy of the seance. Since yesterday, media have been invited to the outer city to report related news. When the process reaches this point, it usually means that the crisis will be resolved soon. ”

"Is there any news about evil spirits above Class B?"

"No, the highest level of evil spirits reported is C level. Why do you ask that? Wait, you have been to Tingyun Town, where the damage was very serious. Could it be..."

"Xiao Ling, are you okay? The professor urges you to go back quickly. There is new news!" A classmate came out and urged.

"Okay, I'll be right there."

"I'm very busy now, so let's not talk about it for now. You can talk about it in detail tonight, or you can drive directly to the school to see me."

After saying goodbye to Su Heng, Xia Xiaoling ran into the office in a hurry: "What's the explosive news?"

A female classmate pointed to the screen, which was playing a video from the old city.

The content is about a man wearing casual pajamas, who quickly defeated three evil spirits and successfully saved a mother and son in front of everyone.

""Civilian Heroes, the Absolute Fight Against Spirits from the Bottom", how about this title?"

“I think ‘Heroes, Regardless of Origin’ would be better.”

"No, it's too vague. "Evil spirits invade the city, and the unknown hero saves the mother and child at a shocking speed." Xiaoling, what do you think?"

"what?"

Xia Xiaoling's head was empty. Even though the shooting pixels were blurry, she still recognized the rescue hero on the screen at a glance. Wasn't it Su Heng who just had a phone call with her? !
  (End of this chapter)