Chapter 116 - 116: Internet Celebrity

Under the drive of some netizens with Holmes's wisdom, the masses of kind netizens had realized that the news of Sophia rejecting Glinton was a plot of Colin High School.

They even made up a hard-working girl who studied hard day and night for the Mathematical Olympiad, finally won first place, and got the Glinton early admission quota. At this time, however, the ferocious school leaders stopped her like demons and shouted, "No! You can't go!"

The girl was confused, "Why?"

"Because there's a crisis at school, and only if you don't go can you start a conversation and cover it up."

"But it's my dream."

"Your dreams, compared to the interests of the school, is nothing!"

Netizens commented on it.

"Justice for Sophia!"

"Colin is shameless."

"Defend the right of Sophia to attend Glinton!"

"Don't be afraid, Sophia. We are here for you!"

***

Seeing the blog, Director Bull was shocked and more upset.

They forbade her to go to college!? He persuaded her for so long. It was her who didn't want to go, did she?

It was a very simple thing. Why was it so difficult to explain?

He logged into Sophia's blog account and tweeted to clarify.

"It is my personal decision to give up going to Glinton University, which has nothing to do with my school. Thank you for your concern." Said Sophia Green of Colin High School.

After the comment was sent out, the online discussion showed no sign of weakening at all, on the contrary… more intense.

"This is definitely not from Sophia. This tone is too official, just like the official blog. They are definitely written by one person!"

"Is she controlled?"

"Have no personal freedom?"

"It's horrible!"

"Should we save her?"

***

Director was stumped.

What should he say?

When Director Bull called Sophia in the evening, he almost cried. He hoped that Sophia could find a way to explain that he never forced her to refuse Glinton.

Sophia hadn't got online this day and didn't know what was going on. She got a shock when she logged on to the blog.

What? What was that?

The imagination of netizens was incredible. She just refused Glinton's invitation. Why did she become a poor girl persecuted and imprisoned?

Director Bull had already explained, but it didn't work. Netizens didn't believe him.

Sophia thought about it and said to Director Bull, "Well, tell them the truth. Tell them I turned down the Department of Mathematics because I liked chemistry, not the whole Glinton University."

Director Bull sucked his nose, "Well, can I post your application form for the Chemical Olympiad? Don't worry. I'll cover up your personal information."

"Yes." Sophia nodded.

Director Bull took a photo of Sophia's application form, mosaicked her personal information, and posted it online.

"Sophia gave up math because he liked chemistry and has signed up for the Chemical Olympiad." Said Colin High School Official Blog.

However,

"I have a classmate from Colin High School. I heard that Sophia Green is in the liberal arts class."

"OMG! Does a liberal arts student take the chemistry Olympics? Do the liberal arts class have this course?"

"Shameless! It's too fake, isn't it?"

***

Director Bull really had no words to say.

Couldn't people tell the truth?

He remembered the principle words, "A clean hand wants no washing."

Suddenly, he felt that this sentence made good sense.

The principle was wise, indeed.

He simply turned off the computer and ignored comments on the internet. Since people didn't believe his explanation, he simply stopped explaining.

Although Director Bull gave Sophia the password of the "Sophia Green of Colin High School" account, she never logged in. She still used the "Knowing A Person" account, which was her own account.

The number of fans on the account had been growing fast, and it was a popular account with 3.38 million fans. Sophia didn't pay much attention to the number of followers. She just read the news on her blog sometimes, and the web page automatically logs in.

There were a lot of private messages and @her tweets. Sophia could not read them all, but sometimes she read a few at will.

She refreshed her blog and saw the latest comment.

"I don't know how to solve this question. If you see it, could you explain it to me? I asked my teacher, but she said it had nothing to do with study and was unwilling to tell me." Said A Running Fish.

Sophia saw that it was a sudoku puzzle. She had played it before. It was a very interesting mathematical game.

This netizen sent high-level standard sudoku, and there was indeed a certain difficulty. Sophia thought about it for a while, and then sent a series of figures to that netizen.

She added a line of encouragement, "Sudoku is good for improving logical thinking. It's good to practice after class. Come on!"

It was only after sending it out that Sophia realized that she should have sent a private message. The direct reply would be displayed on the blog.

Sure enough, many comments appeared.

"You are so good, sis. I thought you could only play chess."

"Nonsense. She could raise dogs."

"Ha-ha. My goddess sends a tweet."

"I admire the lucky kid."

"What's that? Am I the only one who can't read it? I am not even as smart as a child…"

***

Now that the tweet had been seen by netizens, Sophia would keep it. Anyway, she just answered a child's question, and there should be no bad impact.

In the evening, Sophia's phone rang. It appeared to be Benjamin.

She was a little surprised. As soon as she answered the phone, a scream came, which almost scared her to drop her phone.

"Oh, sis. Are you all right?" Benjamin shouted, "I heard about your kidnapping. Why don't you tell me? I am a great detective. How about you?"

Sophia took the phone away from her ear and frowned, "Keep your voice down, please. Aren't you afraid to disturb others so late? Watch out for complaints! By the way, it was not me, but one of my classmates, who was kidnapped."

Benjamin's voice was a little lower, and he began to sniff, "It was such a big deal, why don't you tell me? If I hadn't seen the report, I wouldn't have known about it. I'm… I'm so sad. If you had told me, I would have… I would have solved the case in five minutes."

It was weird to believe him, Sophia thought.

To keep Benjamin from complaining, she shifted the subject, "Forget about it. Aren't you investigating Professor Green's case? Any progress?"

Benjamin stopped sobbing. "I've got a new direction. I think there's a suspicious guy. But... I have no proof yet."

"Who?" Sophia asked at once. She didn't think Benjamin was reliable, but he was a detective, and he might have found something she didn't know.

"It's Professor Normand from the Chemistry Department of Glinton," Benjamin reported the case, and he appeared energetic. "I think it was a self-igniting device made from flammable and explosive chemicals that started the fire. As a chemistry professor, it's very easy to do these things."

"Professor Normand? Why did he kill Professor Green?" Sophia was confused. She knew this man, but she had never had any interaction with him. They just worked in the same building. Had she ever offended him?

"I just found out that Professor Normand once invented a new gasoline additive, which can double the use efficiency of gasoline and greatly save gasoline. The invention was later evaluated by Professor Green, who gave it a "no", resulting in the invention worth millions of dollars being useless," Benjamin said.

Sophia remembered the invention but didn't know who invented it. She just accepted an invitation from the authorities to test whether the invention could be put on the market.

After a series of experiments, Sophia concluded that the gasoline additive could cause serious pollution after being used, more than 50 times more pollution than normal gasoline use. She wrote the report truthfully, and then the invention was rejected and not allowed to go into production.

If Professor Normand hated her and wanted to kill her because of this, he did have the ability and motivation.

***

The next day, Sophia went to school as usual. At the school gate, she saw the listless Director Bull.

"Good morning, sir." She greeted him and entered the campus.

As soon as she entered the school, she saw a lot of people around the bulletin board and talked about something.

"Is Director Bull crazy? He gave class seventeen one hundred points in one go. How can we catch up with them?"

"Yes, it's so unfair. How can he do that? Adding points like playing games?"

"Let's go to Director Bull."

"Yeah… You go."

"You go."

"He seems to be in a bad mood. Going to him now is looking for a scolding. Besides, it says clearly that the score was added because Sophia of their class won the first prize in the Mathematical Olympiad."

"It's just a first place in the Mathematical Olympiad. What's the big deal?"

"Looks like… it's really something."

She felt that she had aroused a great deal of hatred. She had to walk around the bulletin board to avoid being seen by her angry classmates.

Of course, she needn't be afraid of being seen by them. Anyway, she scored fair and square.

As soon as she entered class, she was surrounded by the students.

"One hundred points, boss. That's so good."

"Ha-ha, no one can overtake our class all school year, right?"

"That's not necessarily. The top class can earn many points in each exam. They may catch up with us next semester."

"Yeah. If we can get another one hundred points, we will never be surpassed."

"You wish!"

***

At the end of the second class, Molly ran over to Sophia with an angry face and handed over her phone.

"Look at it, Sophia. I'm pissed!"

There was news on the phone.

"Internet celebrity Knowing A Person shows off her talent but shows flaws instead.. Netizens are embarrassed. Could she please have a little common sense?"