Chapter 157: Public Opinion War
After the end of the Battle of Nandu and the Battle of Shangjing, there was a wave of enthusiasm in China that rose above the sky and did not know when it would subside, but compared to before and after the Yuanjiang crisis, the government's response seemed to be bland.
The first sentence explains that there was an attack on Beijing and Nandu at a certain time today, but fortunately there were no major casualties, and the relevant departments are continuing to follow up, and the details will be discussed in another program at half past nine in the evening. The second sentence states that the state leader, headed by Wen Weiguo, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, will arrive in Nandu tomorrow.
Of course, in this era of ubiquitous Internet, the ratings of news broadcasts are far worse than before, and most people still perceive the government's "indifference" from other aspects.
After the Battle of Yuanjiang, from the news broadcast to satellite TV in various places, the hosts all conveyed the bad news of the people of Yuanjiang to the audience with a solemn and deep expression and a choked tone. On the same day, all games were suspended, all entertainment variety shows were suspended, all website pages were replaced with heavy gray, and even hundreds of wedding banquets were temporarily postponed, which can be described as a national mourning.
And now, except for a few well-known satellite TV programs that have made some adjustments, there are no other abnormalities, the game server is running normally, and the TV station's brain-dead drama soap opera is broadcast correctly, everything is the same as usual, as if today is the same as yesterday and the day before yesterday, just a dull and ordinary day.
However, everyone knew what had happened on that day, and the recording of the live broadcast of the Nandu battlefield spread like a computer virus of the century on the Internet, and the number of hits increased exponentially like microorganisms multiplying under optimal unrestricted conditions. The last time online games were suspended, many people were looking forward to returning to normal as soon as possible, but this time they directly left games and entertainment programs behind, and everyone is trying their best to search, inquire, and spread everything that happened today.
Most people don't notice that the videos that spread to each other through forums, post bars, mailboxes, etc., have been carefully edited. These video clips with excellent visual and sound effects often depict an awakened person with superpowers or a well-equipped and well-trained squad crushing and slaughtering those deformed and terrifying monsters, and the scenes of innocent residents unfortunately dying have never appeared, and there are very few scenes of soldiers dying tragically at the hands of monsters.
Anyone who posts a question about the authenticity of the fight or posts a video they took on their phone will be banned immediately. In addition to ordinary netizens who are soft-spoken, there is also a fairly influential public figure who noticed that this was another great topic to attract fans, so some Weibo influencers and well-known bloggers with millions of fans rolled up their sleeves and joined the battlefield.
Since it is a well-known figure, of course, you can't just talk about it, after the operation of the professional team, a large number of dry goods and unprocessed rough videos were pasted, and then a large number of water armies poured into the battlefield of public opinion, and the artillery fire on both sides was fierce, from the justified argument of the dry goods, to the wanton abuse of the rhythm of unreasonable trouble, and then to the three indiscriminate tricks of picking up people's black history and even falsifying the black history of others, the means were used to the extreme, and the sky was dark, so that the heat continued to escalate, and it became a national topic in just half a day.
The people of the whole country, whether they are concerned about the war or not, have learned more or less about the relevant information in the bombing information indoctrination, from the seventy to the old and eighty, down to the three-year-old, when asked about these things, they can say one one, two, three. If anyone doesn't know the words "Awakened", "Otherworldly Monster", "Gray Crack", "258 Brigade", "Demon Dragon" and "Far Salvation Society", he is embarrassed to greet people when he goes out, because everyone is discussing these topics, if you don't understand, you can't integrate into the conversation at all, fortunately in the Internet era, contact information is always so convenient, just turn on the phone, with a click of your finger, there are countless videos and posts presented.
On the surface, the war of public opinion on the Internet is vigorous, but behind the scenes, the game of various forces is also turbulent, and a succession of foreign forces that have taken root in the country and are waiting for an opportunity to incite and create incidents have been uprooted, and agents of the secret front are busy in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Washington, New York, and other cities, transmitting all the useful information they can obtain to the country.
The war of public opinion is raging not only in China, but also in the United States, especially in New York and Los Angeles.
After the end of the Los Angeles battlefield, many escaped and frightened citizens told shocking stories when facing the cameras, and it turned out that it was not the National Guard that saved them, but those "special humans" with superhuman abilities, that is, "mutants" in the official mouth.
The audience told the news reporter of the TV station that the "mutants" they saw were indeed as terrifying as described by the government after entering the fighting state, but those "mutants" did not eat people, not even the corpses lying on the side of the road, and the only thing they did was to fight bloodily to protect the safety of Los Angeles residents!
This is a shocking news that raises the ratings, and all the TV stations immediately took action, from the decision-making level to the executive level, all the personnel are under pressure to do a good job of this big news that God gave them, even if the White House press director is furious, even if the TV station may face the risk of shutting down the next day, they must make first-hand features ahead of their peers.
As long as one station acts, all the other stations will no longer wait quietly, and soon the temporary insertion of each station will attract the attention of viewers across the United States.
Almost at the same time, the White House spokesman and many visionaries immediately reacted, slamming the despicable behavior of television stations for the sake of ratings, and calling on the public to think carefully about the nature of the mutants, and the state media began to report on the other side of the story.
Then, the war of public opinion began, and the bloody video of the mutant eating people directly appeared on the screen, without any image processing, causing an uproar.
Then, the video of the Statue of Liberty in New York spread to every corner of the United States through various social networking sites, and then continued to spread to other countries.
In New York, the yellow-skinned refugees spontaneously took to the streets, holding aloft handwritten cards and marching en masse, sincerely pouring out and expressing the help of the "Holy Family".
"My wife and daughter and I went to Europe first, and we didn't have enough money to buy airfares, so we had to get on a cargo ship and smuggle ashore in New York Harbor, where my wife stayed forever and never set foot on the land." Facing the camera and the eyes of thousands of viewers, the refugee representative burst into tears, "I remember coming late at night, looking from the direction of the shore, Manhattan is like a beautiful jewel, reflecting the brilliant light in the night, what an intoxicating beauty, but it does not belong to us, I have no ability to break through the ceiling that blocks the sky layer after layer in this society, I can only watch in despair as my daughter becomes seriously ill, from a cute little angel slowly turning into a immobile corpse......"
"It's a holy family!" The refugee representatives raised their arms and shouted hysterically, "It was the Holy Family who helped us!" They rescued my daughter and turned my daughter into an angel, they provided us with free shelter, food and clothing for those of us who could not survive, they not only provided us with everything we needed for life, they also hired senior workers and tutors to teach us language and work skills, sought new jobs for us, and it was the Holy Family that brought us a new life! Those who have no jobs, no livelihoods, those who are displaced, those who are hungry and cold! Come and find your new life! The door to evolution is always open for you! We don't have to evolve into the Holy Race, we can evolve into a better version of ourselves and a better human being with the help of the Holy Family! ”