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Chapter 218 Howard: Overseas Cyber ​​Army? Who gave you permission to smear Chu Zhu?

"Oh, right," Chu Zhu added, "I should be going to Bald Eagle in the next couple of days..."

He just spoke with Coach Yuan and agreed to go to the Bald Eagles to participate in the Grand Slam.

"God." Howard gasped, his face lighting up with elation. "Then I understand! Don't worry, Stone Rolling Music will put on a promotional campaign... Great... If that's the case, it'll be twice as effective!"

Chu Zhu raised an eyebrow. Did he say he would cooperate with the promotion? And didn't he say that he would try his best to maintain his freedom in the future contract? What are you so excited about now?

However, Howard was clearly in a state where he couldn't hear anyone else at all. Even when Chu Zhu emphasized it, he seemed to understand perfectly, although it was unclear what he understood, as he was speaking incoherently.

"Don't worry, I'll get your visa sorted out right now! By the way, are you interested in becoming a Bald Eagle? As for citizenship... we can handle that too..."

"No interest!" Chu Zhu said succinctly.

“Alright.” Howard wasn’t disappointed. He took out his phone and quickly went outside. “Don’t worry, I swear, the visa will be processed today.”

Howard confidently declared, "You can go anytime! And as for nationality... if you change your mind in the future, I'll be there to welcome you!"

After he left, he thoughtfully closed the door behind him.

……

A brief silence fell over the scene.

“…A-Zhu! This.” Lin Xia’s face scrunched up as he looked at Chu Zhu. He opened his mouth several times, wanting to ask many questions, but he was worried that his questions might touch on taboos.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!" Chu Zhu patted Lin Xia on the shoulder, then turned to Zhao Shao and said earnestly, "You should also prepare for international expansion!"

"If nothing unexpected happens, even if Z is revealed to the public little by little... it should soon achieve DS-level popularity worldwide!"

"...?" Zhao Shao was shocked. "Although, I feel your confidence is a bit outrageous... Hmm? Is it related to what you talked about with that man before? Are you really that confident in becoming a world-class superstar... And even if you become a world-class superstar, it's not guaranteed that you'll make Z a star, is it?"

"Besides, even putting that aside... just speaking plainly, your singing is really amazing! And that foreigner over there really looks like your fan, but I still think he's more likely trying to scam you." Zhao Shao rambled on, he couldn't help it, he'd seen far too many cases like that.

He glanced at Chu Zhu, who remained unmoved, then rubbed his temples. "But since you've made up your mind, let's go ahead and do it! It doesn't really matter anyway. To put it bluntly, as long as there are no problems with the shares, even if we get ripped off on the songs, we can just stop singing them... Z!"

Zhao Shao paused for a moment. Because of Chu Zhu's emphasis when she woke them up, they hadn't used Z when facing Howard. This was also the key reason why Lin Xia was determined to consider Howard the enemy.

He continued, "Did you hear what your father said? Make a plan!"

“Yes, Mother!” Z’s voice was as calm as ever.

……

On the way back to school.

After thinking for a moment, Li Quanyuan signed the DVD, took a picture, and then sent it to a friend.

Just three breaths later, WeChat called.

"Old Li! This...this! Who wrote this?"

“…one of my students,” Li Quanyuan said modestly.

However, the next sentence from the other party made him lose his composure: "Are you trying to act like an elephant with a green onion stuck in your nose? What a joke... With your lousy skills! You can teach students like this? Are you a disciple of those two, the Southern Tang and Northern Confucius? No... If you said they personally took charge, I would believe you! In fact, this level... they have improved again? But how do you know... I should have known earlier than you!"

The more you repeat it, the less the other person understands.

“I’m not joking,” Li Quanyuan slowly took a deep breath, and after a while, he calmed himself down and said expressionlessly, “He is indeed one of my students… but I never taught him calligraphy!”

“I knew it,” the other person said, suddenly realizing. Li Quanyuan forced himself to ignore what the other person said and said, “Besides that, this kid… recently got in touch with the military! He started a company… producing things that might be helpful to the military…”

"?" There was silence on the other end. After a moment, someone spoke: "Found it... Interesting! So, Old Li, you're... cunning! Are you trying to pave the way for your student?"

“No.” Li Quanyuan shook his head, a hint of worry in his eyes: “I just saw that the child is exceptionally talented… I’m not sure how many more surprises he will bring me in the future! But I’m worried that he might encounter some bad things in the future… Now, a foreigner has already made contact with him! He’s the ambassador’s assistant at the U.S. Embassy.”

He paused briefly, then said, "In case..."

After a long silence, the person on the other end finally said, "I understand! I will pay close attention to this."

"Don't worry! Our country will not bury truly talented people."

……

in the afternoon.

Xinjiekou.

Howard, who had already eaten eight bowls of hot dry noodles, rubbed his stomach and let out a soft burp. Then he scrolled through his phone, looking at the latest intelligence gathered by Skynet on the screen: "AI...video?"

After a moment's thought, Howard clicked on the website address. And just as he looked, he snapped back to reality and realized... it was almost dark!
"...My God!"

Howard was pondering a very serious question: Was this really a video created by AI?
The physical model, the character's movements and postures... are all ridiculously similar to real people! It didn't even replicate the uncanny valley effect.

Most importantly, it actually looks somewhat interesting.

Howard swiped a couple more times, then looked at the skyrocketing popularity and the speed at which videos were being produced... even faster than he could see them, and choked for a moment.

Okay... this efficiency, it must be AI!
After all, based on what he had seen before, Chu Zhu's advocacy of freedom and his laziness in dealing with all sorts of operations... he really found it hard to imagine that the other party would be willing to spend a lot of time shooting videos!

Meanwhile, Howard discovered that on all the websites he was looking at, from Weibo to Douyin, Kuaishou, and other platforms, the popularity of Chu Zhu's AI videos was skyrocketing.

However, as he watched, Howard's expression suddenly froze, because he saw a group of extremely absurd people participating in the discussion. Things like, "Chu Zhu looks like a fake person, maybe she's transgender, or maybe she's..."

All I can say is that this group's speaking style was so obvious that Howard could instantly figure out what they were up to with just one glance.

After holding it in for a while, Howard finally couldn't contain himself and angrily made a phone call.

"Fuck you, who gave you permission to smear Chu Zhu online?"

"...Huh?" The head of the online army on the other end was stunned for a moment, then thought for a while before understanding what the other side was talking about. He cautiously said, "However, according to our detection, this young man has the potential to become a new cultural phenomenon in China... According to past practice, we should suppress him and then see if we can recruit him to our side..."

"Now, immediately, take down all those articles that smear him!" Howard interrupted, his brow furrowing deeper as he spoke each word with deliberation: "Present the facts, reason with him. He really is amazing! Just praise him. Don't deliberately smear him! If I see any more of this bad stuff online... Humph!"

Howard hung up the phone immediately.

If something has the potential to become a cultural phenomenon, why suppress it and try to control it?

That's a good idea, but the problem is that the other side seems to have control of a super-high-performance AI. What if they manage to get it to their side...? The plans and contracts we made before might all be null and void!
Still expecting to treat them like dogs? Judging from their previous behavior, they didn't care about any of this! It's more likely that if you push them too far, they won't be willing to invest further in this area…

In response, the person in charge of the online trolls said: "..."

He glanced at his phone in disbelief, repeatedly confirming that the call had indeed ended. Damn! These big shots, why do they all have such conflicting opinions?
The person in charge was on the verge of tears. The reason he was corrupt was because someone had given him the order.

The problem is that although this was his first time communicating with Howard, he had a record of the phone call.

According to the information previously transmitted, if the owner of this phone number calls him, he must unconditionally obey all the other party's instructions!
But... why are the instructions contradictory?!

(End of this chapter)