As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 72 Public Opinion War

Throughout the recorded history of Blue Planet, unrest has been the norm.

It is rare that most parts of the blue planet have been in a state of relative peace for such a long time from the end of World War II to the present. This is a low-probability event.

People born in peacetime may think that peace is the norm, but when you extend the time dimension, you will find that peace is accidental.

After gaining a deeper understanding of Blue Star's history, Zheng Li realized that even if he wanted to teach the Blue Star people magic, he had to impose restrictions.

If everyone can teleport objects, then there will be no limit on nuclear bombs. Humans will be able to send nuclear bombs to any designated location, and the sword of Damocles will hang over everyone's head.

So he distributed standard magic brains, and the honeycomb magic brain he used himself could restrict all standard magic brains, or even directly control them.

He will only teach some basic spells, spells that are beneficial to scientific research, and will restrict some casting paths.

Zheng Li had anticipated being tracked and even having his technology stolen and leaked, but he did not expect someone like Musk to promote the technology on social media and claim that they had developed it themselves.

Three days later, the ambassador from Singapore found Zheng Li and sent him the information of the two people who entered his laboratory.

Zheng Li actually knew the identities of these two people. He had already checked them clearly, but he still felt helpless and amused.

The secret identities of the Asian and Indian are both FBI special agents, but their public identities are: the Indian is a developer at Microsoft in Singapore, while the Asian's public identity is very subtle: he is an employee of Tesla and a small supervisor at that.

This is actually not difficult to understand, as most of the CIA's special agents abroad are ostensibly employees of multinational companies.

The task was assigned to the CIA in Singapore. It was impossible for them to know in advance that after the information was sent back, the big guys would give the data to Musk.

It is even more unexpected that Musk would directly make the technology public.

After all the information was prepared, Zheng Lixian spoke to Cheng Gang and asked him to arrange for the Internet trolls to push this topic to the top of the Weibo hot search list.

"Have you read the information I sent you?"

Cheng Gang said solemnly on the other end of the video conference: "I've seen it. I never thought Musk and Microsoft would be so crazy!"

"They actually sent their employees to sneak into our R&D center and steal R&D materials!"

"This behavior is naked plunder!"

Cheng Gang was also quite eye-opening. In fact, many of America's outrageous operations have been exposed in recent years, and everyone has already had very low expectations of their bottom line.

But I didn’t expect that their company would be so shameless and just rob people openly.

“This is definitely their corporate behavior,” Zheng Li said.

"These two people may not just be employees."

"But these have nothing to do with us. What you need to do now is to contact the media and Weibo."

"I will open a Weibo account tomorrow and post the whole story on Weibo. Please make sure to contact the media and Weibo to make it the number one trending topic."

"Make this topic hot. I want this topic to be the number one trending search on Weibo tomorrow."

Public opinion attacks can sometimes cause fatal damage to a company.

After the Samsung explosion incident, Samsung's market share in China fell sharply. The key to the Samsung mobile phone explosion incident was not that the mobile phone exploded, but that when Samsung recalled mobile phones worldwide, China was not included.

The Chinese market at that time had had enough of the discriminatory treatment from these foreign companies, so there was an uproar in the public opinion field.

Even the recall at that time only recalled the problematic mobile phones.

Later, Samsung’s official website apologized again.

Samsung is the best example of a situation where public opinion has had a fatal impact on the entire regional market.

Zheng Li only provided the video, and the specific crackdown will be carried out by the media.

The next day, Zheng Li opened his Weibo account and posted his first Weibo post:
"Hello everyone, I am Zheng Li, the founder of Kechuang Biotechnology."

Lei Jun led his entrepreneur partners and rice executives to forward it.

Relying on Mi fans, some of Mi’s senior executives are quite popular on Weibo.

"Welcome Zheng Li, he is not only my junior at Jiangcheng University, but also an outstanding scientist and entrepreneur!" Lei Jun

Zheng Li posted three Weibo posts in succession, the second of which was:
"I recently saw the video that Musk tweeted. I'm glad that there are newcomers in the field of brain-computer connection, but can anyone explain this video?"

Zheng Li posted a video on Weibo showing the 17th floor of Ke Chuang Biotechnology being invaded by outsiders. The video was artificially sped up to only five minutes.

In the front, Zheng Li is wearing a white coat and sitting in front of the computer with an expressionless face. Then Zheng Li turns off the computer and leaves the desk, turning off all the incandescent lights.

Then two wretched figures emerged, wearing shirts and vests of unclear colors.

After the two turned on the computer, the light from the computer screen turned on and it was clearly visible that the two men were wearing white shirts and black vests.

At this time, the camera zooms in to give a close-up of the vests on the two people, with the word security written on them.

The two then took their masks off to their chins, and it was obvious that one was Asian and the other was Indian.

The two security guards took out a mobile hard drive from their pockets and connected it to Zheng Li's computer. Such obvious operations made it clear at a glance what they were doing.

After this video was released, it immediately became a hot search on Weibo:

"Science and Technology Biological Research and Development Data Was Stolen"

After the incident fermented for a while, seeing that Tesla China and Musk had no response, Zheng Li posted a third Weibo:
"It is a coincidence that the Asian who came to steal the R&D data in the video is a Tesla employee in Singapore, and the Indian is a Microsoft employee. We found this out from their publicly released news."

The accompanying picture is a photo of the open day theme event of Microsoft’s Lion City R&D Center, among which there are obvious Indian figures.

The other photo shows Tesla Singapore’s one-year anniversary celebration, and the Asian man in the video can also be seen.

Zheng Li finally posted a long Weibo post to describe the incident:

“I don’t know why Tesla and Microsoft staff became security guards at our R&D center, nor do I know where the stolen technical data went, and I don’t know what the technology in Musk’s video has to do with this theft.

But judging from the evidence, it is hard to convince the public to say that there is no connection. Besides, I just hope that the brain-computer connection technology developed by Musk's Neuralink is not a China-only technology."

Thanks to index and Dust in the Fireworks for the reward
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