Chapter 38 Main Package: Is this what you call a work of art?

Although the Eastern Country officials, adhering to the principle of making big issues small, handled this diplomatic disturbance with a cold approach domestically and did not allow mainstream media to report on it extensively.

But they clearly underestimated the investigative ability and the passion for gossip of Netizens in the new era.

That video of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference, where gunpowder and humor flew together, after being trimmed and set to various impassioned or funny background music, still managed to wash over all major Social Media Platforms in the Eastern Country in a viral manner through cross-posting from foreign networks to domestic ones.

Overnight, the trending lists on the Social Media Platform, Douyin, and Bilibili were all dominated by this mysterious "Li Family Toy Factory."

"#Spokesperson asks you the difference between toys and weapons#"

"#Ugly Country sanctions our Eastern Country toy factory#"

"#The gold content of a tube of laundry detergent#"

...

Countless entries were pushed to the trending list, followed by a bright red "Explosive" character.

The comment section completely turned into a national online carnival.

"I'm dying of laughter. This Ugly Country is hopeless. Their intelligence work has reached this point, and they can't even handle one of our toy factories?"

"family, who understands? I woke up and discovered that our great Eastern Country has secretly become stronger behind our backs, and it started from the toy industry!"

"I declare, Li Family Toy Factory is the strongest military enterprise of 2025 in my heart. No rebuttals accepted!"

"This is definitely a front for some military factory!"

Immediately after, a massive, performance-art-filled campaign of "Searching for Li Family Toy Factory across the entire internet" officially kicked off.

Countless bored Netizens transformed into "civilian Sherlocks" and began searching the internet for clues about this mysterious factory. Various analysis posts and speculation posts emerged one after another, each sounding so convincing, as if they were Chaoyang residents lurking in military industrial units.

Soon, Netizens spontaneously divided into several camps.

"I guess it's a front for Eastern Ship Heavy Industry; they are best at making these big guys. Maybe they converted the vertical launching system on the 055 destroyer into a drone catapult. After all, everything can be vertically launched!"

"The person above has a small perspective. To be able to play with drones like this, it must be the masterpiece of Eastern Aviation Industry. Maybe it's a side project the J-20 design team did when they were bored!"

"You are all wrong! My uncle sweeps toilets at the Ordnance Group, and he secretly told me yesterday that this is a secret project of their group! Specifically to confuse the Ugly Country people!"

What's even more interesting is that this group of Netizens, who are having a blast on the domestic internet, once they cross the firewall to foreign sites and face those foreigners who accuse the Eastern Country of "exporting war" and being "inhumane," their style instantly changes.

Under a post published by an Ugly Country Netizen stating "The Eastern Country must be responsible for the massacre in Middle East," Eastern Country Netizens shed their playful domestic demeanor and transformed into logical, sharp-tongued warriors.

"What Li Family Toy Factory? Never heard of it. Our Eastern Country is a peaceful nation; we only have pandas and delicious food. Please provide evidence recognized by the United Nations, not just one-sided words from your media."

"Evidence? Does laundry detergent count as evidence? We don't believe a single punctuation mark of the pictures provided by your Ugly Country daddy! The whole world still remembers the excuse you used to attack Iraq back then."

"Don't maliciously smear us. Our biggest toy factory is called Auldey, and their slogan is 'My Partner.' Did you confuse this with Audi cars? I suggest you learn Chinese well before discussing this."

They each kept their mouths shut as if welded shut, refusing to admit such a factory existed. After finishing their debate with the foreigners, they would contentedly switch back to the domestic Social Media Platform and post under the trending topic: "Brothers, I went crazy on the foreign internet just now! I broke the defenses of a few white leftists again! Li Family Toy Factory is awesome (voice crack)! We won again!"

This split-personality style of double standards made this online carnival full of humor and pride.

...

Just when the whole internet was boiling over this fictional "military front," in a small Penguin group with only a few hundred people called "Factory Director Li Global Support Group," the atmosphere was somewhat subtle.

The members in the group were hardcore fans who had followed Li Jiajun since his very first stream. They witnessed the entire process of the factory director from his initial down-and-out state, to his "epiphany" about the Swarm Drone, to the magical modification of the production line, and finally the staging of the "swarm."

They were all happily eating the gossip about the Li Family Toy Factory, but no one connected this matter to the Streamer they watched every day. After all, one was a mysterious military giant that stirred up huge waves internationally, and the other was a silly Streamer who bragged, chatted, talked nonsense, and read narrations in the live stream every day.

The styles of these two were just too far apart.

Until a fan with the ID "Main Streamer's Simp" weakly sent a message in the group.

Main Streamer's Simp: "Brothers... I think I discovered something incredible... Do you guys feel that the name of that 'Li Family Toy Factory' on the news sounds a bit familiar?"

This sentence was like a small pebble thrown into a calm lake.

The group was quiet for a few seconds.

Another fan immediately replied: "Holy crap! Now that you mention it! I was just thinking about this too! I keep feeling like I've heard it somewhere!"

"Familiar? It is a bit..."

"Wait! I remember now! Isn't this Factory Director Li's factory?!"

"Impossible, right? The Main Streamer... with his silly appearance, could he create something this awesome? Doesn't he call us loser Netizens every day when he streams?"

"Exactly, isn't our Streamer always doing special effects?"

Just when the group was discussing it and most people still found it unbelievable, another old fan silently posted a screenshot in the group.

It was a screenshot from an early broadcast of Li Jiajun. In the picture, on the dilapidated injection molding machine behind him, a mottled sign was hanging, and the five characters "Li Family Toy Factory" on it, although slightly chipped, were still clearly recognizable.

The group fell into a dead silence again.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! The name is exactly the same!"

"And! Do you guys remember the 'Swarm Drone special effect' that the Main Streamer showed last time? What did he say that art installation was called? 《The Hive》! Right?!"

"Also, didn't the Main Streamer say before that his batch of 'artworks' was sold to an overseas artist brother? The time... also seems to match up!"

"Not just that! Do you remember when he was packing for shipment, the Main Streamer specifically stuck a huge factory logo on the container? We even roasted him at the time for being afraid that others wouldn't know it was made by him!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's that logo with the cartoon bear, it was ugly-cute!"

One detail after another was recalled, and the pieces of the puzzle were being put together one by one.

The atmosphere in the group gradually shifted from initial suspicion to shock.

"So... the special effects we've always thought... could it be that they are actually real?!"

"So... when the Main Streamer talked about Nash Equilibrium and Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm before, he wasn't making up settings, he was telling the truth?!"

This shocking conclusion, like a bolt of lightning, struck the crown of every old fan's head in the group.

They stared blankly at the chat history, their minds blank, with nothing left but the rising and falling "Holy crap" that represented the collapse of their worldviews.

The silly special-effects Streamer they had been fans of for so long, the foul-mouthed factory director who roasted them for being poor every day, the king of humble-bragging who seriously taught "high school physics," seemed... to really be the culprit behind this international storm?