Chapter 96: 96 Chapter: A Crime Fact in Every Video
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Zizhou.
Inside a high-end residential complex.
At eleven o’clock at night, Qing Lan entered her home’s live-broadcasting room.
She sat down in front of the camera and started the live stream.
"Guys, I’ve found an incredibly fun game! No more ’Pesticide’ today. If you’re a real one, come try and take me down in this game!"
She greeted her viewers.
She logged into a game she had never played before. As a streamer, her income typically came not only from fan donations but, more significantly, from advertising deals.
This game was one an advertiser had paid her to promote.
However, after she had been streaming the game for half an hour, she realized that her stream was unusually quiet today.
The interaction with her viewers was also much less than usual.
The familiar IDs usually active in her chat were nowhere to be seen.
"What’s going on today?" she couldn’t help but mutter. "Did the trolls scare them all into silence?"
A couple of days ago, because of the incident with Qin Mu, she had led her viewers in a fierce battle against the trolls.
They were utterly defeated.
It took her a couple of days to recover from the onslaught of trolling.
Some viewers even talked about quitting the internet.
As she was puzzling over this, a bullet comment flew across her screen.
"Sister Lan, with everything that’s going on, you’re still in the mood to be here making money off this sponsored game? Little Station is in an uproar!"
Looking at this comment, she couldn’t help feeling confused and furrowed her brows.
After a few minutes, for some reason, more and more bullet comments began to appear in her stream.
"Holy moly! I just saw the UP’s new video—he sued his entire comment section!"
"I thought he hadn’t seen the delivery guy’s video. Turns out he was all smiles publicly but pulled off something huge behind the scenes!"
"I heard the other UP got sent to jail! And they’re in the same business!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, do you think it’s risky for streamers to keep broadcasting on this platform?"
"Maybe we should just delete our fan badges. With Sister Lan’s temper, who knows when she might get herself sent in too..."
"..."
From a smattering of comments to a deluge, all of them were discussing that UP.
Seeing this, Qing Lan instantly understood; all her viewers had gone to watch Qin Mu’s video!
And the bullet comments from these viewers were absolutely ridiculous.
"What video did he upload now?"
Filled with doubt and curiosity, she opened Qin Mu’s homepage on stream.
Just as she was about to play it, she saw bullet comments popping up continuously, issuing friendly warnings.
"Sister Lan, we can talk and joke around, but don’t mess with freedom. Don’t disrespect the UP; one of our peers is already locked up!"
"I’m ready to delete my fan badge. Whatever the streamer does has nothing to do with me!"
"Warning! Flame all you want, I won’t fight back; I’ll just see you in court!"
"If you ask me, everyone’s overreacting. This UP is just a regular guy. I’m cursing him out in my head right now; it’s not like he can easily get me ten years in prison for that!"
"..."
Watching these various jokes from the viewers, Qing Lan’s curiosity grew even stronger.
She played his latest video.
At the beginning of the video, Qin Mu thanked his fans for their private messages alerting him.
He then explained the background and the sequence of events.
He also showed the late order from takeout Xiao Liang, including how long it was delayed.
And these details... not a single one was mentioned in the video released by the UP "takeout Xiao Liang."
At the time, everyone thought the delivery was just a little late.
But the truth was... takeout Xiao Liang was nearly a hundred minutes late!
And these viewers, oblivious to the full story, only saw the clip of takeout Xiao Liang breaking down in tears.
Their sympathy overflowed, and they all started attacking Qin Mu, the one who left the negative review.
As the video continued, she even saw a scene where takeout Xiao Liang "added something extra" to the chicken dish he delivered the next day.
"Spitting in someone’s food and then delivering it? That’s disgusting!" Qing Lan suppressed her nausea and couldn’t help but criticize.
If this ever happened to me... I’d definitely demand compensation from takeout Xiao Liang.
However, in the video, Qin Mu had reacted by calling the police and reporting takeout Xiao Liang for poisoning!
"That... works?" she exclaimed, her eyes widening. "Sputum with an infectious disease counts as poisoning?"
This interpretation of criminal law was completely beyond her understanding.
In her mind, only dispersing actual plagues, viruses, or poisons constituted the crime of poisoning.
"The crime of poisoning includes explosive, radioactive, and infectious substances," Qin Mu explained in the video. "Takeout Xiao Liang’s sputum has been tested and confirmed to be capable of causing an epidemic, which also falls under poisoning. He has been detained by the police and is awaiting public prosecution and trial."
Qin Mu explained the scope of the poisoning law and what actions could constitute such a crime, once again broadening her horizons.
Then, Qin Mu displayed sixty lawsuits, suing everyone who had slandered and attacked him in the comment section.
He also showed case filing notices and court summonses.
The very comments that had nearly driven her and her viewers to a meltdown were all being sued!
And the court had accepted the cases! The trial would begin in seven days!
"I’ll update in the next video, after the verdict."
The video ended abruptly at this point.
But her heart was in turmoil. It was an indescribable feeling.
In the video, a full sixty commenters were sued collectively!
This meant... those who had almost bullied her into silence hadn’t escaped—not a single one!
"Why is the streamer just sitting there silently? If you don’t like the video, are you trying to get us all sent to jail?!"
"Everyone, hurry and delete your fan badges! Something’s off about this streamer!"
Suddenly, the barrage of messages flooded in, continuously popping up.
Watching these ridiculous bullet comments, Qing Lan’s mouth twitched.
Although it was a joke, Qin Mu’s move—using the poisoning charge and suing an entire comment section—had indeed shocked many people.
Up to this point, it seemed that everyone who had offended Qin Mu... had ended up in jail on various charges.
Moreover, with each video, she learned a new legal fact, a reminder to herself never to break the law.
「Meanwhile.」
As soon as Qin Mu’s video was released, its viewership surged wildly.
Beyond his two million followers, an ever-increasing number of people were watching his video.
This included "takeout Xiao Liang’s" fans, who were part of the group that had triggered the cyberbullying in the previous video.
Han Suiyue was one of them.
He was an ordinary wage earner whose main hobby was scrolling through videos and offering his opinions online in his spare time.
A few days ago, he saw a video posted by "takeout Xiao Liang," the uploader he followed, and was incensed by the customer’s (Qin Mu’s) callousness as portrayed in that video.
So he’d left a few comments, which, to his surprise, received a ton of likes and replies from other netizens.
After watching Qin Mu’s video, he couldn’t help but swallow hard. The UP has already been arrested?