I asked you to write a light novel, but you wrote about living?

As "The Little Prince" continues to gain traction on StarNet, the tide of this public opinion battle has begun to turn subtly.

In the afternoon, Yu Wen logged into the backend of Weiguang Literature and personally pinned a short post to the top of the already chaotic book review section for "To Live":

Tonight at 8 PM, I will give everyone a direct response to the various opinions expressed recently during my live broadcast.

As soon as this post was made, the Weiguang platform immediately demonstrated its decisiveness.

Despite pressure from the board of directors, Chang Liren directly mobilized the highest-level publicity and distribution resources across the entire platform.

In less than ten minutes, Weiguang Literature's splash screen, homepage banner, and even all of Xingwang's major traffic channels were replaced with extremely eye-catching giant posters.

Although the entire internet knows this is a life-or-death struggle to clarify the "plagiarism scandal," the official wording is extremely dignified and subtle:

[Holographic Meet-and-Greet for the Final Chapter of "To Live"]

"A great work deserves a most sincere farewell. Tonight at 8 PM, Weiguang has specially invited author Yu Huashi to host a holographic live stream. We welcome you to answer questions about the stories in the book and any doubts you may have about the book. Feel free to speak your mind."

This news was like a bombshell, instantly causing a huge uproar on the Federal Star Network. The hashtag "Yu Huashi will be live streaming in holography tonight" suddenly appeared at the top of the trending search list!

The location was still set on the "Douyang" platform, the live stream room where millions of people watched him type out the final chapter of "To Live".

This time, however, the live streaming mode has been upgraded from a crude 2D fixed camera to a 360-degree "holographic immersive live streaming".

The number of reservations on Douyin's backend began to skyrocket at an alarming rate.

During the finale of the series, the peak number of viewers in the live stream was over 1.6 million.

This time, the explosive popularity of "To Live" after its conclusion, followed by the scandal of "shocking plagiarism", coupled with the healing craze just started by "The Little Prince"... all the heat, controversy, anger and curiosity were completely ignited at this moment.

With several hours to go before the live stream started, the number of pre-registrations for the live stream had already surpassed two million and was still climbing!

At this moment, across the entire StarNet, "Living" is enjoying unparalleled popularity.

……

On the other side, in the central district, at the headquarters building of Yuntu Literature.

Zhao Hongbo sat behind his large desk, looking at the article "The Little Prince" published in "Midtown Observer" on the holographic screen, his face originally somewhat gloomy.

State media intervened, and fairy tales provided healing.

He had to admit that Wei Guang and Yu Wen's counterattack, which used the opponent's strength against them, was extremely brilliant and did indeed stabilize the situation for a long time.

The head of the public relations department was standing opposite him, sweating profusely, discussing how to continue to smear this fairy tale from a different angle. Suddenly, on Zhao Hongbo's retinal projection, the extremely high-profile poster of the "Holographic Meet and Greet" from the Weiguang platform popped up.

After reading the poster, Zhao Hongbo was stunned for a moment, then leaned back in his chair and let out an undisguised sneer.

"That's incredibly stupid."

Zhao Hongbo shook his head, his tone full of mockery, as if he were an expert looking down on a layman:

"In this era where the difference between creating and destroying a god is just a thought away, how dare they hold a holographic live stream to clarify the situation in the face of a public relations crisis that spans the entire internet? It's one thing for Yu Wen from the Lower City District not to understand the implications, but Chang Liren is also a brainless idiot."

He waved for the PR manager to leave and then directly dialed Pei Zhixing's encrypted video call.

As the screen unfolded, Pei Zhixing had clearly seen the message as well, a sinister smile playing on his lips.

"Mr. Zhao, did you see that? Weiguang is courting death."

Pei Zhixing pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, his eyes gleaming with calculating shrewdness.

"Yes, they are too confident."

Zhao Hongbo sneered:

"Holographic connection, real-time dialogue, millions of people watching every micro-expression on his face. If he shows even the slightest bit of guilt, stale words, or loss of control, this clarification meeting will immediately turn into his public execution ground."

The two quickly got down to business and began discussing their "sniping" strategy for tonight's live stream.

"Mr. Zhao, I have carefully analyzed the 120,000 words of 'To Live' and today's 'The Little Prince'."

Pei Zhixing pulled up a word frequency analysis report, which clearly and logically dissected Yu Wen's "weaknesses":

"We have to admit that this person has a strong descriptive style, but he has a very obvious characteristic in his choice of words: his vocabulary is actually very simple, with almost no fancy words or complicated compound sentences. This minimalist narrative style can indeed strike a chord with people when used to tell stories or write novels, but..."

Pei Zhixing paused, his tone becoming extremely firm:

"No one has the patience to listen to a long-winded story at a face-to-face holographic press conference! Live interactive broadcasts require strong logical reasoning skills, extensive knowledge, and eloquent speaking skills."

Zhao Hongbo instantly understood Pei Zhixing's meaning, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Moreover, the subject matter of the book 'To Live' is too broad."

Pei Zhixing continued to add fuel to the fire:

"It contains profound explorations of fate, suffering, and the meaning of life and death, which far transcends the scope of ordinary literature and rises to the level of philosophy! It's one thing for a twenty-year-old disabled person to write novels, but what does he know about philosophy?"

"I remember now."

Zhao Hongbo also noticed another detail and laughed:

"When the public relations department was collecting his live stream recordings, when he had just started broadcasting and only a few people were watching, someone asked him about the inspiration for this book. Guess what he said? He actually said that he 'dreamed about it'! This pale and weak response is a true reflection of his critical thinking ability."

"That's right."

Pei Zhixing reached a conclusion:

"This person may be a good 'text copyer,' but he can never be a thinker or philosopher... He will definitely be at a loss when faced with highly condensed philosophical questions."

The two hit it off immediately and quickly determined their ultimate counterattack strategy for the night:

Abandon the physical evidence that is entangled in copyright and literature disputes, and launch a dimensional reduction attack directly from the "spiritual core"!

They planned to arrange for their top-level online trolls and influential figures to pose the most pointed and significant questions to Yu Wen during the holographic live stream, in front of two million people.

"Those ultimate questions about life, destiny, and life and death have no standard answers. No matter how Yu Wen answers them, it is impossible to achieve perfection."

"Moreover, there are no formulas to apply to such metaphysical philosophical questions. Even the Federation's top AI models can only offer flowery but empty rhetoric when faced with such questions, and can never provide a perfect answer that touches the soul."

Zhao Hongbo understood instantly and nodded in satisfaction:

"You mean, even if Chang Liren transfers the supercomputing center of the Weiguang platform to Yu Wen as a back-end think tank, it won't make a difference."

"Useless."

Pei Zhixing smiled and said:

"Supercomputers can only perform mathematical logic calculations, but they cannot calculate the weight of suffering and the depth of the soul. Under the holographic gaze of millions of people, the huge gap between the 'creator' and the 'work' will be exposed if his answer is even slightly vague or formulaic."

At that time, without Yuntu (a cloud mapping platform) needing to smear the issue anymore, the entire internet audience will draw their own conclusions:

How could an author who can't even explain life and death clearly and whose answers are as stiff as an AI possibly write a great masterpiece like "To Live," full of flesh and blood and compassion?

He definitely plagiarized!

"As a fellow writer, you're good at this, so go and arrange it."

Zhao Hongbo picked up his coffee and took a leisurely sip:

"Tonight, we'll make that cripple lose face in front of the entire Federation."

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