The next day.
News of the fire at the old cosmetics factory last night had already hit the trending list by midnight.
However, the heat was not very high, only five to six hundred thousand.
It wasn't until ten o'clock in the morning that, with reports from major media accounts, the trending topic broke through a million heat, attracting the attention of many netizens.
The news ranking also climbed from forty on the hot search list to twenty-third.
Because Wang Desheng mentioned in an interview last night that the case was still under investigation and pursuit, he asked the media to conceal the scene information, not to report the real location and personnel, and to try to report it discreetly.
He knew very well that involving Gao Fei, the online heat would definitely break tens of millions, and the pressure on the police would be immense.
During the interview, he made many repeated requests before getting the reporters to agree.
The reporters also complied with the police's wishes, and the news published on their accounts did not specify the exact location of the fire or the personnel involved.
Therefore, the trending topic remained between the thirtieth and twentieth positions.
If the media had exposed that the fire occurred at Gao Fei's cosmetics factory, the trending topic would have definitely ranked in the top ten and reached the summit.
During the period when the trending topic appeared, some media outlets also wanted to expose the truth to attract traffic and gain popularity for their accounts.
However, after the incident, the Kyoto Police Department had already notified the three major social platforms that Gao Fei was involved in this fire.
They asked them to control the trending topics as much as possible, and under no circumstances should real place names and real event personnel appear.
The media accounts that wanted to gain popularity and traffic from the trending topics were quickly censored by the platform as soon as they posted.
But even though the Kyoto Police Department had made thorough preparations.
Some meticulous netizens in the comments section of the trending topic still detected other clues from the fire incident.
"Wait, although the photos of the fire scene are pixelated, I feel like they look a bit familiar. Can any expert take a look and tell us where those unpixelated parts are?"
"Based on my observations, the greenery, paving tiles, streetlights, etc., in the photos seem to only exist in Kyoto. The fire location can be confirmed to be in Kyoto."
"I am a local from Kyoto. Judging from the photos taken at the scene, most of the nearby houses were built in the last century, and the fire location should be in the old city area."
At this moment, the netizens in the comment section had transformed into logically meticulous detectives.
Referring to the photos released by various media, they successively pinpointed the location of the fire, and even narrowed it down to the old city area of Kyoto.
Just as many netizens were constantly speculating which old district in Kyoto it was, an account named "Kyoto Citizen" suddenly posted a comment.
"Has everyone noticed that the platform and media are suppressing the fire incident, and the official departments have not yet spoken out.
Is there a possibility that this fire incident is related to Gao Fei?
Don't forget, the cosmetics factory that Gao Fei bought earlier was also in the old city area of Kyoto."
As soon as the comment was posted, it caused a great stir in the comment section.
After the netizens' various imaginings and the layered analysis of the unpixelated parts of the photos.
Everyone unanimously confirmed that the fire location was the old cosmetics factory that Gao Fei had bought.
With tens of thousands of netizens "solving the case" based on the photos and exposing the truth, the comments in the comment section instantly increased by tens of thousands.
The trending topic of the fire continued to soar, breaking into the top ten on the hot search list and heading straight for the top spot.
The platform officials originally wanted to censor the comments in the comment section to suppress the trending topic.
However, with tens of thousands of new comments every minute, the officials could not manage it. They would have to enable restricted words and bans if they wanted to censor everything immediately.
Now that Gao Fei's fans had heard the news, even if the trending topic was manually ranked thirtieth, it quickly climbed into the top ten.
In the end, the social platform had to urgently contact the Kyoto Police Department and briefly describe the process of netizens "solving the case" themselves.
The special task force, upon receiving the news, was stunned.
Wang Desheng and the others never expected that netizens, with only a few clues from the photos, would unearth the location of the fire.
It was truly beyond belief, almost ridiculously so!
Despite being surprised, Wang Desheng quickly ordered the release of a notice, asking them to try not to escalate the heat of the incident and to suppress it as much as possible.
Soon, the official account of the Kyoto Police Department immediately posted an announcement on the platform.
The content was very simple, just informing the vast number of netizens that the fire location was indeed the cosmetics factory bought by Gao Fei.
However, it did not clearly reveal how the fire started.
Instead, it assured the netizens that the police would announce the results as soon as the case was solved, and asked the netizens to wait patiently for the results.
It also reminded netizens who were following the trending topic not to be misled by the public opinion information released by online marketing accounts, leading to cyberbullying.
All facts should be based on the police's announcement.
The announcement was a subtle way to appease Gao Fei's fans, to prevent them from being manipulated by false information online and attacking the official accounts of some companies.
With the Kyoto Police Department stepping in, the official account of Yuanfei Work also went online, operated by Gao Fei himself.
He did not reveal too much information, only asking his fans to pay attention to the real-time announcements from the police.
He also asked his fans not to be misled by false online information to attack the official accounts of other companies, and not to cause negative impacts.
Everything should be based on the information released by the police.
When the studio posted, the fans expressed their support and, following Gao Fei's wishes, did not attack companies with whom he had grievances.
Just because the fans didn't make a move didn't mean no one did.
Gao Fei's anti-fans directly impersonated fans, changed their names, and sprayed all the company accounts with whom he had grievances.
If you clicked on any account, you could see the anti-fans in the comment section being disgusting and cursing.
Everyone knew it was Gao Fei's anti-fans at work, so they simply closed the comment sections, thus silencing the anti-fans.
Although the company accounts could not be commented on, the comment section of the trending topic was still bustling.
Everyone was discussing and speculating whether the fire at Gao Fei's factory was man-made or caused by other factors.
It wasn't until a netizen mentioned the previous dispute between Gao Fei and Poli Cosmetics Factory that all fans, anti-fans, and passers-by turned their attention to Poli Cosmetics Factory.
Suddenly, Poli Cosmetics' account was not only attacked by anti-fans.
At the same time, it was questioned by passers-by and Gao Fei's fans, asking if they were secretly behind the fire.
The account operator was very tough and directly published the list of factory leaders, stating that Feng Kunlin had already resigned from his position as factory director and would no longer have any relationship with Poli Cosmetics.
Immediately after, the account also closed its comment function.
Seeing the list, although everyone stopped questioning, they still maintained a high degree of suspicion.
New Poli Cosmetics Factory.m..oΓg
The online discussions did not cause much turmoil in reality.
Feng Kunlin did not pay much attention to the speculative remarks online, but continued to chair a meeting.
Discussing preferential policies for new products to be launched tomorrow.