Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 364 Let’s get straight to the point

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Section 9 Headquarters.

"Agent Aiba, we have completed the investigation of the list you sent us. Eleven of them have the characteristics of 'cultists'. The local police station is on the way to 'home visits'."

"As for these few research articles about consultant Xia Fan, we have arranged for the official accounts of relevant institutions to help repost them. We have arranged for "Zhongxia" to pay more attention to public opinion reactions, hoping to lead to more "online suspects." "

"Okay, thank you for your hard work. This is the latest 'suspect list' from the 'second screening'. Please investigate them separately."

"receive."

Yui Aiba and the agents from the information team sat at their workstations, busy with their work with focused expressions.

"Everyone, the 'fishing operation' at the hospital has successfully arrested dozens of cultists who wanted to save the taboo child and assassinate the victim."

"Great!"

The agents in the office were all cheered up when they heard the operation report on the communication system.

"It seems that there are indeed many cultists hiding in the shadows..."

"The offline crackdown went so smoothly, we can't lose face here, we have to work harder."

The people in the information group also quickened their actions to show their unwillingness to admit defeat.

"Sure enough, not long after the show was aired, the negative information about Lord Xia Fan couldn't wait to come out..."

"No matter how you try to smear us in a roundabout way, or in an all-round way, you can't escape the eyes of "Midsummer"!"

Sitting in a small cubicle, Aiba Yui's glasses reflected a waterfall of data, allowing her to take in all the comments about Xia Fan that the "Midsummer" AI had filtered and classified from various online platforms, social media, and even video comments.

With the help of AI, Lesson 9 can screen possible "cultists" on the Internet without taking up much of her time.

"We bribed marketing accounts to create negative topics, asked the company's artists and partner organizations to speak out to support the topic, used 'talking templates' to guide the rhythm, mobilized the Internet troll army to spread the content on a large scale, and the vote manipulation was also concentrated on a trainee behind Xia Fan..."

"The method is very professional, and the weight of the popularity of the hot search list is also calculated very thoroughly. This should be the 'professional organization' hired by J Company, right?"

Aiba Yui spent more of her energy on leading the fans of "Midsummer Shrine" into the "public opinion war" about Xia Fan.

Xia Fan's performance on the final performance stage of the "Idol Birth Festival" received a lot of positive reviews, and even many netizens and former trainees praised him for being "very brave" and came to vote for him.

Those who criticized Xia Fan were basically fans of other trainees who were offended by his "real rap", or the behind-the-scenes staff of the idol industry and upstream and downstream profit-making institutions whose interests were affected.

Therefore, when the program first aired, there was no need for "summer syndrome" to fuel the trend. All positive topics about Xia Fan directly dominated the hot search list on social media.

But after those few hours, various tricky and highly targeted "black hot searches" emerged like mushrooms after rain...

With the reposting and discussion of many "irrelevant people", marketing accounts and "individual users", it began to counterattack the hot search list, bringing down Xia Fan's popularity.

Even the popularity votes have been declining in the rankings as other trainees are catching up.

"In this first wave of attacks, our "Midsummer Shrine" under the leadership of Lord Xia Fan has already launched a counterattack. How are you going to respond?"

Aiba Yui took her hands off the keyboard and took a sip of coffee. As she personally supervised the production of the last episode, she had anticipated this situation and released her prepared "counterattack plan".

Those "research articles" with detailed data and in-depth research were prepared in advance, and the photo editing certification was issued expeditedly by the cooperative organization of Lesson 9.

The verbal support from Kato, Kitamura Hanamichi, and the former eliminated trainees was a stroke of genius brought about by Xia Fan's personal charm.

This series of tit-for-tat public opinion topics were forwarded by relevant organizations through the official channels of Lesson 9. Coupled with the spread of the increasingly large group of "summer disease", most of the negative information was quickly suppressed.

Of course, the agents of Section 9 not only had no objection to Aiba Yui's use of her work convenience to help Xia Fan clean up his name in disguise, but they also took the initiative to offer advice.

Not to mention that they were just "restoring the facts", just because Xia Fan saved the lives of many agents in Section 9, the agents would just turn a blind eye even if it was "confusing right and wrong".

"Shameless guy, do you really think we can't see this undisguised pattern of vote increase?"

Clicking on the popularity list and seeing that Xia Fan had fallen to fourth place, Aiba Yui's eyes twitched slightly.

Starting from a few hours ago, the votes of the trainee ranked after Xia Fan will definitely increase sharply...

As a result, Xia Fan's ranking seemed to be held by an invisible hand and kept falling.

"The guys who rigged the votes should be the same group of people who took the lead in smearing Lord Xia Fan, right?"

The final round of performances for the "Idol Birth Festival" has already been aired, and there is only a nine-day voting window left before the official debut position is decided.

Without on-site voting, the trainees' online voting during this period will directly influence the final voting results.

Aiba Yui, who had temporarily freed herself from the war of public opinion, went directly to the backend of the "Idol Birth Festival" voting server and retrieved the user information of the most recent vote...

That’s right, the offense and defense are now in a different position. Before the debut results are announced, the Metropolitan Police Department is the real “program team”, and the largest organizer, J-Company, has become the “away team”.

"Well, the real-name authentication information of these 'zombie accounts' used for voting is complex and the number is huge. The consumption channels for the support votes are almost from every sponsor, and there are no abnormalities in the VAT registration. It seems that they have been carefully packaged."

"There are also many servers used as springboards when logging in. Even if there is background data, it will take a lot of time to track down the guys behind these voting users..."

Just when Yui Aiba was having trouble investigating the "ticket-swiping channel", a prompt message of "abnormal access to the quantum computer" popped up.

"oh?!"

"An unauthorized user followed the account controlled by "Midsummer" all the way, cracked my encrypted data, and found it on Fuji No. 4?"

Reading the tip carefully, her eyes sparkled...

"Is this what we call great minds think alike? The other party actually came to us first..."

"Since we have visited Fuji, it is impossible to erase our footprints in such a short time..."

"It's impolite not to reciprocate... Then, let's get straight to the point."

Typing on the keyboard, Yui Aiba sent a data packet to another agent.

"Tracing back the illegal access data, the other party is likely to be an organized cult group related to 'Amabie' that has mastered hacking technology."

(End of this chapter)