Chapter 441 The People's Toy Maker's Dream Continues!

In this modern internet era where information changes at the speed of light, it is difficult for any viral topic to sustain its heat for long.

As the days went by...

The aftershocks brought about by Li Jiajun's yet another requisition incident slowly subsided.

The top headlines on the internet were gradually replaced by celebrity gossip from the entertainment industry and other hot events from international sporting competitions.

Everyone's lives seemed to return to a step-by-step, ordinary routine.

Until noon this day.

Something inextricably linked to that young factory director...

Detonated public opinion on the internet once again like a depth charge, without any warning.

It was during the leisure period when most workers had just ordered takeout and students were flocking to the cafeteria for lunch.

At almost the exact same second.

All across the Eastern Country.

Countless smartphones in people's hands simultaneously emitted a news notification.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and lit up their screens in confusion.

What met their eyes...

Were pinned notifications from various major mainstream news apps.

It was a bolded headline in an eye-catching color, possessing immense visual impact on the lock screens.

[Breaking News! All Scam Parks in the Sanbianpo region have issued a joint statement: effective immediately, they will unconditionally release all Eastern Country personnel they have defrauded!]

...

When they saw this news notification...

The citizens of the Eastern Country, who were originally in a relaxed state, were all dumbfounded.

Countless people held their phones, standing frozen in place, their brains experiencing a brief shutdown.

One must know.

The Scam Parks over in Sanbianpo had always been a thorn in the hearts of countless people from the Eastern Country.

Previously, those parks had been extremely arrogant.

Facing the Eastern Country's official solemn representations through various channels demanding the release of the defrauded citizens...

Those people not only turned a deaf ear but even opened their mouths wide like lions, treating human lives as bargaining chips to demand astronomical ransoms.

They behaved entirely like outlaws who had nothing to fear.

How long had it been since then?

Even by the most generous count, it had only been a few days.

The other side actually released all our people unconditionally!

There wasn't even a transitional period for bargaining.

This massive contrast—from being arrogant before to being humble, or even one could say subservient now—

Made everyone who saw the news feel as if they were dreaming.

After the brief stupor.

Then, the entire internet began to discuss frantically what exactly was going on.

A massive amount of traffic flooded into major social platforms instantly.

The servers of mainstream social media like Social Media Platform and TikTok experienced slight lag due to the sudden surge in traffic.

The operations and maintenance engineers at the back-end data centers scrambled to perform emergency capacity expansion.

In the comment sections.

Countless Netizens tapped their keyboards to ask: "No, what happened these past few days that we don't know about?"

"Exactly, I saw the news two days ago, and those park leaders were still talking tough and demanding money."

Passersby chimed in: "How did those Scam Parks just release our people directly?"

"They didn't even mention a symbolic ransom; they're just sending people to the border crossings in buses."

In front of their screens, countless people stroked their chins in thought, brows furrowed, all expressing: "I just can't figure it out!"

In the simple perception of the public.

To deal with that kind of long-entrenched dark and evil force, unless they encountered some kind of devastating dimensional strike...

Otherwise, those villains would absolutely never proactively spit out the fat meat they had swallowed into their stomachs.

...

However.

Among these confused ordinary Netizens, there was no lack of well-informed individuals.

Especially some people who did business in Sanbianpo.

Old Jin, a merchant who had spent years traveling the border lines engaged in jade and timber trade, was one of them.

They, however, understood some inside information that ordinary people could not access.

Two days ago, Old Jin happened to be drinking in a small town tavern not far from Sanbianpo.

After three rounds of drinks.

From the mouths of a few local armed lackeys who usually acted high and mighty but were now shivering in fear, he heard a piece of news that made his heart go numb.

After all, the largest and most heavily guarded Scam Park in Sanbianpo...

Had been flattened by someone in a single day.

From the patrolling mercenaries with hounds on the perimeter to the armed thugs in the core area.

Every single staff member, from top to bottom, had been taken out.

This matter was simply too, too big.

When the owners of other parks sent people over to check the situation, they were all scared out of their wits by that scene of a one-sided slaughterhouse.

This was the fundamental reason why the entire Sanbianpo power structure surrendered overnight and scrambled to release people.

Old Jin looked at those posts full of doubt on the domestic internet.

He really couldn't resist the urge to share a piece of shocking information.

And these people also organized the relevant news into a paragraph of text and posted it on a high-profile whistleblowing forum on the internet.

As soon as the post was sent, it immediately attracted the eyes of a large group of onlookers.

But.

For this kind of event, the relevant information control responded extremely quickly.

Thus, this news only stayed on the internet for a short while before being directly deleted by the system.

Old Jin's temporary account also subsequently became deactivated.

Although the page soon displayed a 404 error code...

Even during this brief survival period, it was still screenshotted by some quick-handed and sharp-scented interested parties.

...

These pixelated, incomplete screenshots were like the keys to opening Pandora's box.

They could not survive on public platforms.

Then, more news could only circulate in various small circles deep within the internet in the form of private files.

In a two-thousand-person QQ group named "Li Family Toy Factory Hardcore Support Club"...

The group leader was a veteran tech geek.

He sat in front of his computer.

He saved those few whistleblowing screenshots rescued from the forum onto his desktop.

Looking at the keywords described in the screenshots like "silent," "no traces of heavy artillery bombardment," and "all members precisely eliminated"...

The group leader's eyes narrowed slightly.

The mouse moved quickly.

He opened another folder.

There were stored high-definition recording clips of Li Jiajun's livestream from a few days ago.

Then, he combined the timing of the large-scale operation where the Young Factory Director Li's Firefighting Parent-Child Pistol was urgently requisitioned by the officials.

And...

The timing when the largest park in Sanbianpo encountered an illogical massacre by a mysterious force, causing the other parks to be scared out of their wits and collectively release the Eastern Country victims.

When these seemingly independent events were placed on the same timeline for comparison...

The answer seemed to be ready to come out.

The group leader took a deep breath, feeling his heart beating violently in his chest.

He sent the organized timeline deduction map directly into the group.

Once this smooth chain of evidence was thrown out...

The more than two thousand fans in the group, looking at this logically rigorous analysis, all fell into a long period of shock.

Only then did everyone realize.

No wonder the officials were willing to pay a high price to buy back even those toy guns that had been bought home and not yet unpacked.

No wonder those copycat factory directors who followed the trend were invited to tea.

This was no water gun for children to play with.

...

However.

Netizens of the Eastern Country also possessed the great wisdom belonging to them.

People grown on this land usually liked to bicker with each other online and enjoy the spectacle.

But in the face of such major matters of right and wrong involving the international situation...

That deep-seated sense of identification with national interests instantly took the upper hand.

Although they had roughly guessed through piecing together clues why those local snakes had collectively surrendered...

They all had a tacit understanding not to post this answer on the internet.

Not a single person went to Social Media Platform to create a related trending topic, and no one went to short video platforms to broadcast it widely.

Everyone maintained silence with great rapport.

They only chatted about this matter in various QQ groups and WeChat groups.

Messages in the dialog boxes kept jumping.

"Do you guys think this matter could be related to the toys invented by Young Factory Director Li?"

Someone in the group sent a tentative emoji of someone pushing up their glasses, throwing out this topic.

Immediately below, a row of uniform replies followed.

"Nine times out of ten, that's it."

"Besides that bit of high-tech leaked from our General's hands, I can't think of anything else that could clear the field physically in such a short time."

Immediately, a veteran group member stood up and issued an 'at-all' warning.

"Let's just talk about this privately; don't post this kind of speculation on the web."

Everyone sent emojis of nodding in agreement.

A user tapped their keyboard, their tone revealing a clear-headed wisdom.

"You think I'm stupid? Wiping out a Scam Park, and the largest one at that—the commotion is too big."

"Even if everyone knows it in their hearts like a bright mirror, we can absolutely never admit it was done by our side."

"Otherwise, we'd be in a passive position internationally."

"Right, right, right. If those shameless politicians from Country A catch wind of it, who knows how they'll spread the 'Eastern Country Threat' theory at international conferences."

"This matter was just the local gangs in Sanbianpo fighting among themselves for territory; it has nothing to do with us!"

"Exactly. The weather was bad; maybe they were struck by lightning."

Just like that.

The facts about that shocking reversal abroad...

Circulated only in the form of hearsay among various closed group chats.

Even when chatting about this in the groups...

These highly disciplined Netizens only spoke of it vaguely.

Everyone only used "that toy" or "that heavy rain" as code names.

The sound of keyboard tapping echoed in countless rooms.

The chat interfaces were filled with a mysterious atmosphere of 'seeing through it but not saying it.'

And at this time, Li Jiajun had also recovered his state of mind. After all, life must go on, and his dream of being a People's Toymaker had not ended.