The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 451 Textbook-style protection of the calf (asking for monthly tickets)

The next day.

Local newspapers in New Delhi and Kolkata each reported an incident of large-scale bloody clashes.

Thousands of people surrounded and attacked a company that was hacked.

Hundreds of people were injured, more than 6 people were killed and 18 people were missing.

In the past, conflicts of this scale would have been enough to appear on national television and even attract the attention of the global media.

After all, India is also a powerful Eastern country!

But this time the situation is quite different -

Overseas media are indeed paying close attention.

But in India, these two serious violent clashes in New Delhi and Kolkata only appeared in local tabloids.

Sanjay searched all the major national newspapers, but only found a tofu-sized bulletin in The Times of India that mentioned the incident.

They also characterized it as "a fraud gang causing accidental casualties due to business conflicts and gang fights" and passed it off in one stroke.

As for TV news...

This conflict never made it to television.

As for the incident personally led by Xu Meng, the [Digital Meteor] destroyed all office equipment of 128 companies in New Delhi and Kolkata, and looted all their property...

This is something that everyone in the world knows about, and even tens of millions of people have witnessed it.

It's like it never happened at all.

There was no coverage in either newspapers or television stations.

If India was not also part of the global social networking system, Sanjay would have been able to see European and American netizens talking a lot about this matter, and he would have suspected that he had drunk too much Ganges water yesterday and had hallucinations.

Otherwise, how could there be no news about such a major event that has shocked the world in China?

……

Netizens in three Southeast Asian countries: Siam, Bagan and Lancang, also have similar feelings to Sanjay.

——The news in their country didn’t even mention what happened yesterday.

What Xu Meng, what Liu Xing, what large-scale transnational computer information crime...

It's all bullshit!

Nothing at all!
……

On the contrary, the media in other countries outside these four countries were extremely excited and reported this incident extensively!
Things like “The Digital Emperor shows his power again and upholds justice”, “Digital Robin Hood recovers the money that hundreds of thousands of people have been defrauded of”, “The most terrifying virus of this century: [Meteor]”, “Nuclear weapons in the digital field”…

What Xu Meng did was exaggerated in itself, and the visual effects and scope of influence were extremely astonishing.

In addition, in order to attract people's attention, the media use extremely exaggerated headlines.

This allowed Xu Meng's story of using [Digital Meteor] to destroy more than 200 telecommunications fraud dens in a very short period of time to spread quickly to more people.

——Social networks are indeed fast and convenient, but traditional media still has its advantages.

At least, after being hyped again by these relatively authoritative media, the nickname "Digital Emperor", which was once given for the purpose of hype and attracting attention, now has some meaning of being well-deserved.

People who are relatively conservative and not very keen on social networks are also beginning to realize:

This title is not the same as the boastful titles such as "algorithm genius", "programmer god", and "code immortal".

The nickname [Digital Emperor] is really beginning to be associated with the "emperor's authority"!
Especially in some European and Asian countries where royal families still exist.

Its influence and deterrence have grown by leaps and bounds!

There is even a saying that "the digital emperor is the real emperor."

However, faced with such "usurpation" accusations, the royal families of various countries did not respond at all, as if they had not heard it.

Just like the officials of India, Siam, Bagan and Lancang.

Even when asked by reporters, he never mentioned Xu Meng.

The answer is "The specific situation is not clear yet and is still under investigation."

Overseas reporters got angry and insisted on mentioning Xu Meng.

The spokesperson will also correct it immediately: "It's not Xu Meng, but an anonymous hacker."

If the reporter wanted to say more, the spokesperson would stop him with one sentence:
"If you think it was Xu Meng, please provide credible evidence."

Of course the reporter couldn’t produce it.

Just shut up.

……

In fact, officials from these four countries also felt very aggrieved.

Don’t they want to speak out publicly and accuse Xu Meng of the crime of destroying computer information?

Don’t they want to hold people accountable across borders and get everything investigated thoroughly?
They want it so much!
But after contacting the Xia government, the response I received was:

"It's not Xu Meng, but an anonymous hacker." "If you think it's Xu Meng, please provide credible evidence."
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That’s right, that’s what they told the reporters.

The Xia country officials have been unusually tough on this topic!
There is absolutely no intention of giving in.

Don't talk about door-to-door investigation...

They were not even allowed to call Xu Meng.

They even warned them: Don't interfere with Xu Meng's normal life, otherwise the diplomats will expel you from the country!
Indian Ambassador to Xia Country Vikram felt his dignity was insulted and argued fiercely, saying that he must meet Xu Meng!
As a result, his visa was cancelled that evening.

And was notified:

[Leave Xia Country within 12 hours.]
After receiving this notice, Vikram was stunned and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

After a fierce psychological struggle, he called the officials of the Xia country and said that he could give up pursuing responsibility, but hoped to restore his visa and withdraw the deportation order.

But it's a pity.

It's too late to change your attitude now.

……

After this incident, the Indian government softened its attitude towards the matter and took the initiative to suppress domestic hype about related news.

As for Siam, Bagan and Lancang, they didn't say a word during the whole trip.

On the contrary, the next day, when Vikram boarded the plane and left Xia Country, Wu Shuang sent a message to Xu Meng:
Officials are planning a large-scale multinational joint law enforcement operation.

The goal of the action is simple and crude——

All 82 fraud dens in Siam, Bagan and Lancang that he had "lit up" on the map were wiped out in one fell swoop!
Xu Meng was stunned when he heard the news.

"Is it so cruel?"

Wu Shuang was very serious: "This is a necessary measure!"

"These people are desperadoes."

"Now that you have caused them serious losses, they must be resentful of you."

"Just in case, we must eradicate them completely!"

“Only by eradicating hidden dangers can we prevent them before they happen.”

Xu Meng still lacks awareness of his own importance.

Especially now that brain-computer interfaces have achieved great success and photonic topology server arrays have made significant progress.

Xu Meng gave all the information about the fraud group that he and Xiao Meng had collected to Wu Shuang, and then he was completely free of trouble.

Just wait for the action to start and watch the excitement from a distance.

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The impact of this incident will certainly not be resolved so easily.

But it no longer affects Xu Meng.

——All the negative influences were eliminated from his sight by a pair of “invisible big hands”.

And his original goal - alleviating the problem of forced labor - has also made great progress.

The negative trend of forced overtime work has been greatly curbed.

The overwhelming meteorites that came as punishment from heaven never appeared again.

Instead, it often takes a long time for one to appear.

So much so that every time one appears, the players in the Spreading City are as happy as if they had seen a shooting star.

Even if the boss still wants his employees to work overtime in their dreams, he dare not force them.

Instead, give enough overtime pay and let employees make their own choices.

This is to prevent any employees from becoming dissatisfied and reporting to Xu Meng, causing unpredictable consequences.

——Among those who provoked Xu Meng before, in addition to fraud gangs and internet trolls, there were also several domestic internet celebrities who received money.

Without exception, these people had their water meters checked at their homes.

They were taken to the National Security Bureau and kept there for a whole week on charges of "assisting foreign forces in espionage."

Not to mention fines and criticism and education, their accounts on all platforms were permanently banned, and they were not even allowed to re-register.

Years of hard work, all gone in one night.

With the precedent set by these people, who would dare to mess with Xu Meng?
This also caused an unexpected impact:

The "gold price" in the game suddenly grew against the trend!

(End of this chapter)