The entire vast office area was silent.
The slightly old internal phone was leaking sound badly.
In the extremely quiet environment, police officers not too far from Zhang Xiqin could clearly hear the voice of Major General Zhang Weimin on the phone, suppressing his anger.
"Second Lieutenant Zhang Xiqin, I'll emphasize again, in public official settings, you are not to refer to each other as family members..."
"You're saying that Meng Hao didn't go live because he was detained by the police station..."
"Okay, I understand the whole situation. Continue to cooperate with the local police comrades, and I will report the specific details upwards..."
Zhang Weimin was truly suppressing his anger, forcefully restraining himself, so as not to hand the phone to the person in charge at the police station and roar, venting his dissatisfaction.
*Clack.*
He hung up the phone.
Zhang Weimin gulped down several mouthfuls of tea, forcefully suppressing his rage.
Ha!
What a joke.
Because of a traffic star nicknamed Brother Chicken, Meng Hao's livestream was delayed... The most crucial point is that if the detention continued, it would completely delay Meng Hao's lithography machine research and manufacturing progress.
Not to mention that Meng Hao acted out of a sense of justice, which scared Brother Chicken into kowtowing everywhere.
Even less so, Meng Hao acted in legitimate defense when he beat the eight security guards to the ground.
Even if Meng Hao simply found Brother Chicken displeasing and wanted to beat him to vent his frustration, Brother Chicken would have to endure it.
A mere actor.
Dare to challenge a national hero.
This society is truly very sick.
However.
The police comrades in Modu did nothing wrong.
When such civil disputes arise, they should indeed not favor any party before a letter of understanding is reached between both sides.
It's just that.
Meng Hao is not an ordinary person.
Zhang Weimin knew this.
At this very moment.
Including Elder Ouyang, the high-level officials from Daxia's military, heavy industry, and semiconductor departments were privately waiting for Meng Hao's livestream.
Waiting for Meng Hao to give a definitive answer.
Whether he directly purchased the lithography machine, obtained the manufacturing technology for the lithography machine, or reached a consensus with certain core lithography machine companies and pre-ordered the lithography machine.
No matter which it was.
It would have a transformative impact on Daxia's mobile phones, automobiles, base stations, and even military and civilian heavy industry sectors that rely on high-precision chips, such as satellites.
Damn it.
At such a critical juncture.
It was actually delayed by an actor.
Zhang Weimin took a deep breath, picked up the red desk phone, and made a call.
"Hello, please connect me to Elder Ouyang's residence..."
...
Li Kan and Zhao Chen returned to the office.
They immediately compiled the specific situation into written material and reported it to the Modu Police Headquarters.
The matter was of great importance.
According to Zhao Chen's report.
Meng Hao was a divine figure who claimed to be able to develop Daxia's indigenous lithography machine.
Unlike Brother Chicken and Kun Kun, although Li Kan was not very familiar with the field of electronic engineering, his many years of life experience and understanding of national and international affairs made him realize that lithography machines were definitely part of the superstructure.
The economic foundation and national industry determined the superstructure of the economic and scientific research fields.
The importance of lithography machines in the electronic semiconductor field was the same as the importance of the Two Bombs and One Satellite in the national defense field.
Both represented the culmination of achievement, the highest accomplishment in their respective fields.
Li Kan definitely had to thank himself for his swift and decisive actions this time.
After compiling the specific situation into written material and submitting it to the Modu Police Headquarters via electronic fax and internal email, the two sat in front of the computer, browsing major public opinion and social media platforms.
This incident had caused such a big commotion.
They suspected that the fan circles would explode.
After all.
Traffic stars like Brother Chicken and Kun Kun had quite a few idiotic fans!
It was very strange.
Except for the initial half hour after the incident, when a large number of paid trolls distorted the facts and spread them, causing a large number of suspected middle and elementary school fans to lash out furiously.
After half an hour.
The entire internet suddenly went quiet.
According to the methods of fan circles, the celebrity's agency would first hire paid trolls, buy fans, and buy trending topics.
Then, they would incite the immature middle and elementary school fans to go all out in their attacks.
Thus, creating public opinion across the entire internet.
However.
This time it was very strange.
The entire internet was quiet.
Except for a few paid trending topics that were still hanging there... there were very few replies under the posts that had bought trending topics... almost no activity.
So?
What happened?
The two looked at each other with suspicion.
Where was the promised public opinion storm?
Where was the promised large-scale online exposé targeting Meng Hao?
Where were Kun Kun's supposedly tens of millions of fervent fans?
Why were they all gone?
The two kept tapping their keyboards.
It wasn't until they returned to Meng Hao's empty black screen livestream room that they discovered the problem.
The bullet comments in the livestream room were flying.
Most of them supported Meng Hao.
These young people in their twenties and thirties, and seasoned patriotic military fans in their thirties and forties, were the pillars of Daxia.
In any country.
Young and middle-aged men between twenty and forty were the pillars of families, society, and enterprises.
They were not good at so-called ranking, full-internet blackening, or online exposure.
However!
They had another identity—
They were the elder brothers, uncles, and fathers of the fans of traffic artists like Brother Chicken and Kun Kun!
In other words.
Those so-called fervent fans who were still studying in middle school and elementary school.
Were the younger siblings, nieces and nephews, sons and daughters of these patriotic military fans, young and middle-aged people.
"Damn it, my cousin is mentally unstable and actually supports Brother Chicken and Kun Kun. I just suggested her parents cut off her allowance..."
"Sorry everyone, my sister is actually the leader of Brother Chicken and Kun Kun's support group. I just beat her up, broke her arm, and she's crying now. She probably won't be able to use her computer or phone for half a month..."
"It's truly embarrassing. I discovered that all of my daughter's social media accounts were following Brother Chicken. Damn it, if she hadn't been yelling earlier about helping Brother Chicken kill Meng Hao, I wouldn't have realized how brainless she was... I just unplugged the home WiFi, and she's not going to use the internet for a while..."
"My child actually wanted to spend money to buy trending topics, so her allowance has been stopped..."
"My foolish sister actually wanted to stand for Brother Chicken. I just suggested to my parents that they take her for a paternity test. Her brain is so bad, maybe the baby was switched at birth..."
"I'm contacting the hospital to see if the infant was lost when my niece was born that year, and they raised the placenta instead..."
Li Kan and Zhao Chen were dumbfounded.
No wonder there was no activity on the internet.
It turned out that Brother Chicken had angered the public this time.
He did have tens of millions of fans.
The key was that the parents, uncles, and elder siblings of these fans were all die-hard fans of Meng Hao, patriotic youths.