CH 136

Cheng Yi couldn’t help but sigh, "Just before dinner, I saw several posts on the virtual net deliberately blackening you. But don’t worry, the direction of these posts didn’t develop as those sunspots expected. Everyone could see their sinister intentions, and I’ve already asked someone to start an investigation."

"So that’s why you’re upset," An Yan also sighed, but it was a contented sigh, "Cheng Yi, how can you be so good to me?"

He had helped and protected him time and again, but never mentioned it because he didn’t want him to worry. Such silent devotion was instead the most fatal.

How much does a person have to like another person? How much does he or she care about another person to be able to do this?

An Yan felt very lucky and happy to be treated so dearly by another person, but he also could not help but feel distressed for Cheng Yi, who had given so much. Compared to Cheng Yi’s efforts, he was really an unqualified lover.

He blamed himself because he had done too little. He was also disappointed because he obviously liked Cheng Yi very much, but why did he do so little?

He must work hard to treat Cheng Yi better in the future!

For awhile, a thousand complicated feelings rushed through An Yan’s heart. They were so warm that he almost cried.

Cheng Yi smiled lightly: "It’s good that Yan Yan doesn’t blame me."

His mind was completely put at ease when he saw the little one’s reaction. It seemed that this matter would not affect the little one, and he was indeed overly worried before.

After confessing what should be confessed, the relationship between the two became even closer. They spent some more time on the video call before hanging up.

After hanging up, Cheng Yi immediately withdrew the extreme tenderness that he only showed the little one and looked down to open an email that he had received about five minutes ago.

In this email, a standardized list of people was sent. It clearly marked their posts and detailed personal information.

The characters, male and female, old and young, lived on different planets, and did not appear to be very relevant, but if one focused on their identity information and experiences, one could still find clear common ground.

For example, they all had a common identity as pharmacists.

Another example was that they had both produced high quality potions, although they had both done so only once.

Cheng Yi quickly had a conclusion after seeing this overlapping information. These people had probably made such blackening posts attacking An Yan on the virtual net because of the new concept of body portions he had proposed. 

They were full of expectations because they had once produced a high quality potion that sold for a sky-high price, even if they had never achieved such a feat a second time.

They would be able to make more money and gain more fame if they could produce another high quality potion.

But because of the new concept of body potions, their hopes have been dashed. Although they could now produce more high quality potions, they were now completely worthless!

It’s like someone who wants to make a fortune from buying lottery tickets but suddenly finds out that they are no longer being sold. They will inevitably feel lost and even resentful.

It’s perfectly understandable if you’re just frustrated or depressed, but to deliberately attack the lottery seller because of this is completely untenable.

The situation before him seemed clear and unambiguous, but Cheng Yi knew that the conclusion he had drawn was only a starting point. Things could not be as simple and intuitive as they appeared.

After reading the email, Cheng Yi replied with his next command: [Contact these people and ask who told them to do this. If they refuse to cooperate, you can threaten appropriately.]

They were people who had produced high quality potions, so they more or less had some status in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, they seem to be very concerned about their status if they can act in such an overly aggressive and rude manner because their dreams have been dashed.

Such people are the easiest to hold.

Sure enough, Cheng Yi received a reply by email the next morning.

Among the thirteen people, nine of them had already explained what had happened.

At the beginning, they joined a large group of pharmacists to discuss some pharmaceutical issues, and everything was harmonious.

After the new concept on body potions came out, most 

of the people in the group participated in the discussion of this topic. Most expressed their support for it. After all, this concept could really change the whole body potion industry.

However, there were also some people who objected to it. These people were often stakeholders who felt dissatisfied that the new idea had damaged their interests.

This was normal, and people just expressed their views in the group.  Even those who objected and complained only said a little and then gradually forgot about it.

But a few days later, someone suddenly pulled them into a small group.

The admin of the small group was someone they hadn’t met before. At first, they only said that the small group was for discussing some sensitive topics so that they could avoid being criticized by others when speaking in the larger group, or being exposed directly.

At that time, the group members had not realised that everyone in the small group had spoken out against the new concept of body potions in the larger group, so they did not see anything wrong with it.

In addition, although they had never met the group leader, he must also be in the large group and perhaps some powerful pharmacist, so everyone stayed.

The atmosphere in the small group was quite harmonious, with people occasionally discussing some minor issues and really getting something out of it.

But soon, some people in the group started to bring up the matter of the new concept of body potions from time to time, and each time, the leader of the group spoke with great vehemence, blaming all sorts of problems on the new concept and the various side effects it brought.

The people in the small group were already unhappy with the new concept, and when someone else took the lead, they all spoke out, and it even turned into an uncivilized battle of words.

The dissatisfaction, which was originally not much, was consolidated and deepened through the curses, and eventually accumulated to this action.

Cheng Yi easily came to the conclusion that these pharmacists were obviously being used by others after listening to these circumstances.

Although this kind of behavior was indeed stupid and abhorrent, it was more important to uncover the person behind it, or those people.

But it was regrettable that even after all the time they had been communicating, these people didn’t know the identity of the group leader, nor did they know the identities of those who had provoked the war and deepened the resentment in their hearts each time.

After being threatened, some of them run to the larger group to check, only to find that the original group leader of the smaller group was not in the larger group at all, or at least this account was not in it.

The same goes for those who stirred up things.

It was then that some of them finally realized that they had been taken advantage of from the start!

Perhaps out of anger at being deceived and used, or because they really realized the stupidity and error of their actions, they took the initiative to provide the account information of the leaders of the small group, as well as those who instigated things, which in turn gave Cheng Yi the direction for his next step of investigation.

If he could uncover the real master behind the anonymous accounts, he could naturally uncover the person behind them through the traces left by these accounts.

But before that, these people who had been used could not be left unattended. They should be punished.

So an hour later, posts began to appear one after another on the virtual net.

[I’m guilty, I repent. I shouldn’t have deliberately attacked people behind their backs]

[Although I know I was used, I still need to admit my mistake]

[It’s only now that I’m acutely aware of how stupid and wrong my actions have been.]

[I’m sorry, An Yan.]

……

In these posts, the sunspots first put up their previous posts and then made a very profound self-examination and apology for their previous actions. The sincerity was simply stunning.

For a while, the netizens were stunned.

1L: Damn! What’s going on here? Could the sunspots have misidentified themselves en masse? This is too supernatural!

5L: Come on, An Yan, those sunspots who attacked you have decided to explode their horses!

10L: I’ve read their statements carefully. So they came to the live stream and virtual net to deliberately hack An Yan because they were being used by others?

15L: I think that’s right. I don’t know why they came forward to admit their mistakes, but it’s really frightening when I think about it. So who’s behind this horrible plot?

20L: I also want to know who is so vicious. These sunspots don’t know who is behind this, so it’s even more impossible for us to know, right?

25L: No matter what, I hope we can find out who’s behind this. Otherwise, who knows what nasty tricks he’ll come up with to deal with An Yan next time?

30L: It’s so sad that boss An Yan has to be attacked by these sunspots  for proposing a concept that will be beneficial to the entire body potion industry and even to the whole of humanity.

35L: I’m going to start by speculating without responsibility. Although the account of the mastermind behind this doesn’t appear in a large group, he must have been lurking in the group since he was able to pull in these people with precision.

40L: That’s for sure. But there are so many people in a big group like this, there’s no telling how many divers there are. It’s too difficult to sift through all those people to find the mastermind.

45L: I think the mastermind behind this may not be one person, but a group. After all, besides the group leader, there were other people who played an inciting role. How many accounts does this person have if it’s just him?

50L: I also think that this must be a force. Although non-real name accounts can be created in a special way on the virtual net, these accounts have always been checked very strictly. It is impossible for one person to have so many accounts.