Chapter 946: Chapter 946: System Crash and Black Screen
Liang Guangming looked at the intern.
"Heh, you’re new to this industry and don’t understand yet. If Li Feng does nothing and says nothing, then naturally there’d be no news. But he acted and got ashamed and angry, what does that say?"
"What does it say?"
"Guilty conscience."
Liang Guangming sneered coldly, "If he were not guilty, why would he be ashamed and angry? If he were straightforward, why wouldn’t he dare answer my questions?"
"He used the stupidest way to solve the problem, but for us, that’s a news point."
"Even if I don’t embellish the facts and just report today’s situation as it is, what do you think people would think? If I end up in the hospital because of it, how do you think Li Feng would explain today’s events?"
Liang Guangming was quite the old hand, deeply understanding the tricks of the trade; don’t forget, after all, they play with pens.
The same incident can be written in different ways, with meanings diametrically opposed.
Moreover, today’s event didn’t just slap him in the face; others were also thrown out of the hotel. It was the first time he’d encountered someone so headstrong, really thinking those who wield pens are easy to bully.
Li Feng seems to have gotten a bit overly inflated.
"And don’t forget that Li Feng himself is already highly controversial, having hit the hot searches several times over the past six months."
"This person is himself a focal point of public opinion. Now, just one spark can roast him over the fire. If it were just one or two issues, he might manage a crisis PR to suppress it. But don’t forget, today he drove out all the journalists."
"His arrogance makes me want to laugh; a loser is just a loser; his vision is only so high, not even considering the consequences of his actions."
"Just wait and see, you won’t have to wait until tomorrow, not even until noon."
After listening to Liang Guangming, the intern instantly understood the situation; Li Feng is doomed.
And just like Liang Guangming said, preserving face is crucial, and Li Feng’s actions undoubtedly slapped everyone.
Moreover, Li Feng didn’t offend just one or two reporters, but a group, at least twenty media journalists.
You might have enough money to silence one or two people, but do you think you can silence everyone at once? Is that possible?
Especially now when social media is so powerful; good news travels slowly, but controversies spread nationwide in minutes.
The office of Dongyang Finance.
Upon receiving the manuscript sent by Liang Guangming, the editor-in-chief merely glanced at it and could see the venom in the article. This Liang Guangming truly deserved to be called an old-timer with the pen; while the article seems to be reporting facts, anyone who reads it would inevitably be drawn in.
A scoundrel living off women, unscrupulous, and utterly arrogant jumps off the page.
After finishing the article, the editor-in-chief didn’t feel there was anything that needed changing and directly called someone over.
"Distribute this article through all our channels."
"Yes, editor-in-chief."
At the same time, in more than a dozen newspaper offices and portal media companies, articles were emerging fresh off the presses. These journalists were racing against the clock; after all, whoever publishes first gains more attention and heat.
The reporter responsible for editing started inputting the manuscript, then setting the layout. After checking everything, they directly hit the publish button.
But as soon as the article was published, almost simultaneously, the editor’s computer seemed to be attacked and instantly went black.
The editor looked shocked at the black screen, wondering what was going on, reaching to shake the mouse, but there was no response on the screen.
Immediately, they pressed restart, but even after restarting, the screen remained black.
"What’s going on?"
"My computer went black."
"Hmm, yours went black too?"
People in the office turned around upon hearing the commotion, "What’s happening, did you hit something?"
"I didn’t touch anything, Ming, can I borrow your computer to check if the article was sent? This is a direct order from the editor-in-chief."
"Hmm."
The editor behind had no objections and directly opened their Dongyang Finance website homepage, "Looks like it wasn’t sent out."
"I’ll check the backend; I had saved it before."
"Do it yourself."
The editing reporter sat at the other person’s desk, logged into the account, and entered the password. The result was an error message upon login.
"Hmm?"
"What’s going on? I didn’t enter the wrong password."
The editor next to them glanced over, "Try entering it again."
They tried twice more without success, "What’s going on, my account password won’t log in, it was fine before."
"What’s happening?"
The same issue was occurring not just on one media website but indeed all of them.
"Xiao Zhao, come and check what’s going on."
A network maintenance worker was brought in, fiddled around for a bit, "It looks like it’s been hacked!"
"Hacked?"
"Hmm, I’ll check for viruses and run a scan."
"Then hurry, I’m in a rush to publish the article."
"Okay, I’ll do my best."
Riding towards the hospital, Liang Guangming didn’t waste a moment. In just ten minutes, two fresh articles emerged, and he promptly sent them to the newspaper office.
"If I don’t make you kneel down and call me grandpa, I don’t deserve to be considered a senior reporter."
Liang Guangming’s mouth curled into a sinister smile.
Half an hour had passed since the press conference.
Jiang Linda and Su Yuqing, holding their laptops, continuously refreshed the online news feeds — headlines, finance pages, anywhere likely — they were carefully watching.
"What’s going on? It’s been over half an hour, why isn’t there any news yet?"
Jiang Linda seemed puzzled; with media advancement today, it is unlike before when printing and newspaper distribution was needed to deliver news. Now the media can, at its fastest, reduce the time from interview to publication to within fifteen minutes.
So much so that things could happen and just moments later start spreading online.
Wang Jin’er had a similarly puzzled expression.
"Yes, none of the several sites I checked seem to have it."
"Could it be published and just hasn’t caught attention yet? Let me search and have a look." Jiang Linda quickly typed keywords such as Li Feng, beating, New Century Group, etc., into the search box.
Then pressed enter.
With that search, the next moment, the laptop directly black-screened.
Jiang Linda froze.
"What happened?"
"Seems like it crashed and black-screened." Jiang Linda looked at the laptop in disbelief; it hadn’t even been a month since purchasing it, and it was a brand new Apple.
"Try mine and search." Su Yuqing said, mimicking Jiang Linda, entering the keywords, then directly searching. The steps were all correct, but as soon as enter was pressed.
Bang.
Su Yuqing’s laptop also didn’t escape, directly black-screened.
"Uh!"