I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

"So, our new mission is to take down this guild?" Lin Yan asked Chen Feng.

"Yes." Chen Feng stood up.

"But the provincial task force can hardly get directly involved in this mission."

"Why?" Lin Yan asked, somewhat puzzled.

Does the bureau have to be humanitarian when dealing with this kind of organization?

Su Qinghan, who was standing to the side, seemed to have anticipated Lin Yan's question and explained:

"Because of the audio from those live streams."

"Our advance team tried to trace the IP source, but they would instantly fall into a state of auditory hallucination as soon as they saw the relevant data from those live streams."

"Even if you wear protective equipment in advance, you can't avoid this situation."

Chen Feng patted Lin Yan on the shoulder and said in a deep voice:

"Lin Yan, you stayed in the heavy machinery factory for nearly half an hour, and later you faced the pressure of the other party's séance in the air-raid shelter."

"Your resistance to pollution is currently the highest and most unique in the entire Jiangcheng branch."

"Among the provincial bureau's officers, you are among the most outstanding."

"You are the most suitable, and the only, candidate for this mission."

"Understood, sir." Lin Yan stood up, patted his chest, and spoke with righteous indignation.

"I, Lin Yan, am utterly opposed to this bizarre phenomenon that poisons netizens! No matter how deep it's hidden, I will dig it out for you!"

I was already short of money and points, so this task was like a godsend.

After leaving the task force office, Lin Yan drove straight to his apartment.

Although he firmly believed that Chu Chu was reliable, the records in the case file made him think twice.

Just to be on the safe side, he needed to hurry back and check the progress of the mermaid account with Chu Chu.

As soon as Lin Yan entered, A-Jiu was already waiting at the door. Lin Yan patted her head, then turned and called out to the living room:

"Chuchu, come out quickly, I need to talk to you."

The television turned on, and Chu Chu appeared in response, but for some reason, her smile seemed a little stiff today.

"Brother's back... Did you have a hard day at work? How about I get you a milk tea?"

Chu Chu clung to the edge of the screen, seemingly ready to run away at any moment, not daring to even look Lin Yan in the eye.

It seems that Chu Chu already knows what happened at the bureau. Seeing her guilty look, Lin Yan already knew the answer.

He slammed the case file on the coffee table and glared at it, asking:

"Don't try to get on my good side. I'm asking you, what's the name of that virtual singer account you registered for the mermaid?"

"Did you slack off and not set up a dedicated anti-tracking line for her, instead running it on another platform?"

Chu Chu's face fell instantly, and she looked at Lin Yan with teary eyes.

"Brother! You can't blame me entirely..." Chu Chu said pitifully, fiddling with her fingertips.

"The mermaid sister thought that the traffic of my private channel built on the dark web was too slow. She said she wanted the kind of live stream where millions of people could listen in one night."

"And then?" Lin Yan watched Chu Chu's performance quietly.

"Then... I happened to receive a private message from the Star Path Guild, which claims to be the number one incubation team on the entire internet."

"They said that as long as you sign an exclusive agency contract with them and authorize them with the copyright of those few ethereal a cappella songs, they can guarantee to generate millions of views and traffic tonight."

"So you signed her account with this shell company?!" Lin Yan felt a wave of dizziness and almost lost her balance.

"Don't you ever bother to check someone's background before signing a contract? Are these people's online personas really that flawless?"

Hearing Lin Yan's reprimand, Chu Chu felt even more aggrieved, and tears streamed down her face like a fountain:

"Brother, you've wronged me! Chu Chu investigated!"

"This company, Xingtu Interactive Entertainment, not only has all the necessary permits and licenses, but its tax records are also impeccable, and moreover..."

Chu Chu secretly glanced at Lin Yan and, seeing that he remained unmoved, continued crying as she spoke.

"Their traffic acquisition algorithms and promotion channels all use advanced anti-tracking logic."

"At the time, I was worried about how to avoid the cybersecurity's comprehensive search."

"As long as you are connected to their super traffic pool as a node, even the network team of the Folklore Bureau will not be able to find the real source IP of the mermaid sister without meticulous investigation for more than half a month."

"Chu Chu thought this was just a gray-market company with strong technical capabilities, hoping to get their firewall and traffic pool for free..."

"Who knew these people were actually accomplices of those guys who wanted to create gods?"

Lin Yan covered his face. All the clues had come together, and he couldn't believe it was actually true.

That MCN guild was indeed an outpost used by the bizarre organization to harvest faith, and they were indeed mass-producing toxic audio to kill people.

But when they were recruiting people online, they accidentally signed the mermaid!

Chu Chu had previously stated that, in order to attract fans, the mermaid's online singing was very restrained.

Although it contains the aura of deep-sea rules, it is absolutely not aggressive.

however!

Those ignorant cultists had no idea what kind of entity they had signed with.

They only felt that the voice of the Deep Sea Sirens was ethereal and had the potential to bewitch people.

With Chu Chu's "help," these guys got their hands on the original audio of the mermaid and somehow added something to it.

Then, they distributed the audio to dozens of their small broadcasters, who played it on a large scale across the internet to brainwash netizens.

Once they gain notoriety, they will begin to take lives and create fear.

Ironically, to the average person, the singing voice sounds exactly the same as the one posted on the mermaid's own account.

This MCN guild not only profited from Mermaid's singing for free, but also pinned the blame for the deaths of dozens of people squarely on her head.

"These fools are courting death." Lin Yan felt a chill run down his spine at the thought of having to explain this to the mermaid.

Lin Yan could easily imagine the mermaid's reaction when she learned that a group of mortals had arbitrarily added their own touches to her singing, ruining her hard-earned reputation for advancement...

Lin Yan doesn't even need to cause trouble for those guys.

If they fell into the hands of mermaids, being flushed into a cesspool would be the most humane way to die.

"neat."

Upon hearing this, Chu Chu looked at Lin Yan with teary eyes.

"We need to tell the mermaid about this."

Chu Chu made a face and whimpered unhappily.

"Your main body should leave first, but leave a part behind to maintain contact at all times."

Chu Chu immediately beamed with joy, and her tears vanished instantly.

"Yes, ma'am! My brother is the best!"

"Help me hack into that MCN guild and find out their security level."

"Then pull the mermaid sister into a private channel."

Chu Chu pouted, unwilling to deal with this old mudfish, but still immediately began to carry out Lin Yan's orders.