Chapter 36 Testing!

Long Hao naturally understood this logic as well.

He immediately turned his gaze back to the whiteboard.

Before they arrived, Xiao Zhang had posted several photos on it.

And as for the appearances of the people in the photos, anyone who grew up in Muhe would basically be familiar with them.

They were all entrepreneurs who frequently appeared on local television.

There were three photos in total: Li Sen from the air conditioning industry, Wang Mian from the food industry, and Sun Weibin from the processing industry.

In their respective industries, they had all reached the top, and they all had their own private medical teams. They also had another title: the richest people in Muhe.

"This is the information on the three of them."

Long Hao picked up one copy himself and handed another to Chen Mo.

The information Chen Mo received was that of the 'Air Conditioning King,' Li Sen.

Due to his status as a philanthropic entrepreneur, Xiao Zhang could not conduct the investigation too openly.

Therefore, the information mostly remained on the surface; in other words, it was all information Li Sen wanted the public to see, and what he didn't want the public to see, Xiao Zhang couldn't investigate.

He also looked at Wang Mian from the food industry. This person's information was relatively comprehensive because he frequently appeared on television, often inspected factories, and there were many interviews and self-discussions in newspapers and online.

"Any discoveries regarding Sun Weibin?"

Chen Mo put down the documents and looked at Long Hao, but even if he hadn't asked, he could have known the answer just from his expression.

"There is quite a lot of information, but nothing that can be linked to this case."

"Is that so? Let me see."

As he spoke, he took Sun Weibin's file from Long Hao's hands.

This person's information was indeed quite extensive. Although he didn't often appear in public, he didn't deliberately hide from the public or delete posts discussing him.

He had an attitude of, 'Discuss whatever you want,' and didn't care at all.

Comparing the three of them, it was actually this Li Sen who had a major problem.

While he had the 'philanthropic entrepreneur' protective amulet, which hindered Xiao Zhang's investigation somewhat.

But it was only a hindrance; it shouldn't mean that absolutely no information could be uncovered.

Li Sen had no negative news, no discussions; other than the information he revealed himself in interviews, there was absolutely no other information about him.

This couldn't help but make him think of a mysterious organization from the future: paid online shills controlling public opinion.

They intensely monitored information regarding their employers, and once there was negative news, thousands of accounts would start whitewashing it.

It was very similar.

Extremely similar.

Was this person protecting his reputation?

Or was he afraid that some bad things would be exposed?

"The information on this Li Sen is way too scarce!"

Long Hao complained about Xiao Zhang's work ability; investigating a public figure and ending up with so little information.

Apart from the household registration data, there was only what the person himself said in interviews.

There was nothing useful at all.

"Don't blame Xiao Zhang; this person has some issues."

Chen Mo didn't know how to explain the 'paid shill' industry to Long Hao.

After pondering for a while, he explained, "All negative news regarding this person must have been manually deleted."

"What I mean is, he must have his own PR team."

A PR team?

Long Hao naturally knew what that was for.

For celebrities and companies, when negative news occurred, this department played a huge role, minimizing the impact.

"Many people have PR teams, right?"

Long Hao didn't quite understand; a PR team just deletes all bad news about their employer.

Based on this point alone, it was hard to say that Li Sen had any problems.

Had Chen Mo discovered something else?

Just as he was thinking this, he saw Chen Mo walk over to a computer in the conference room.

After turning it on, he searched for the two characters 'Li Sen'.

Pressing enter, information about this person's recent activities popped up.

He casually opened one: 'Air Conditioning King Li Sen Donates Five Million Yuan to Mountain Areas!'

There were many comments below; some were praising him, while others used past events to attack him, saying this was just him trying to whitewash his reputation, and so on.

The ratio of insults to praise was 30/70.

"I don't know if you are clear on the work content of PR. When an employer gets this kind of negative comment, it's either a bunch of people explaining and attacking below, or reporting and deleting, or ignoring it and spamming comments to push it down."

"But these comments are still there, and no one is refuting them. Do you know what this indicates?"

Chen Mo looked interested and turned his head to ask Long Hao.

"Indicates what? That they are slacking off and not working seriously?"

"No, no, no. What you said is just the surface appearance."

"It indicates that the content monitored by Li Sen's PR team is not this at all, but something else!"

Something else?

Long Hao seemed to understand something; the fog that had been blocking his view suddenly cleared.

"Are you saying that if Li Sen is the murderer in this case, these PR teams are monitoring news related to murder?"

Chen Mo nodded. This was very possible.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why, when the employer received negative comments, the PR team took no action.

He spoke up: "Of course, this is still just speculation. Whether it's true or not needs to be verified."

As he spoke, he opened a forum called 'Tieba'.

In his memories from his past life, this platform didn't appear until 2003, but in this life, due to the rapid development of blogs, the appearance of Tieba was brought forward by a year.

At this moment, the number of users was already very high, and it would grow rapidly in the following years. From the perspective of 2024, it was now called the 'Tieba Era'.

"What are you planning to do?"

Long Hao couldn't quite keep up with Chen Mo's train of thought; he didn't know how he planned to verify the scope of content monitored by Li Sen's PR team.

"Tieba has a huge number of users, and the volume of discussion cannot be underestimated. As a professional PR team, they would not ignore this place."

"I plan to post a thread and test it out."

This was the method he had thought of beforehand.

To verify if Li Sen had any suspicion, one just had to see if his subordinates would delete the post.

He opened the Muhe Tieba; every city would have a Tieba with a city prefix.

"I need to give them some keywords: graveyard, coffin, female corpse, liposuction!"

While saying this, he published such a post from the perspective of an onlooker at the scene.

Then he took his hands off the keyboard and waited quietly.

He also reviewed the current situation of the case in his mind.

From discovering the corpse, to determining that it was done by five different doctors, and then investigating that Li Sen owned a private medical team, everything was fine.

But it was all just speculation; it only proved that Li Sen had the ability to commit the crime.

Now, if the post were deleted, it would confirm Li Sen's suspicion.

Because only he had the ability to commit the crime while also employing a PR team.

"Chen Mo, someone sent you a private message!"

Long Hao had been paying attention to the changes in the post; he didn't wait for changes in the post, but instead saw a red number 1 pop up on the private message box.

Click.

Chen Mo moved the mouse and clicked to open the private message.

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