Just as the UA Department of Justice formally submitted an application to the court to sue Future Technology's UA subsidiary, Future Group sent a team of lawyers to the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea to respond to Blue Seagull's lawsuit.
At the same time, Future Group hired a team of lawyers to file a lawsuit against Blue Seagull's UA headquarters, claiming that the information published on their official website was false and had a "significant impact" on Future Group's international image. They demanded 1.7 million USD in compensation and ordered them to immediately stop defaming Future Group.
With the support of B City Consortium, Blue Seagull obviously wouldn't let this go. They expressed the absurdity of Future Group suing a non-profit organization and declared on their official website that they would never compromise with the capitalists! At the same time, they announced to the public that Future Group detained their members for "peaceful protest" and demanded Jiang Chen to immediately release them.
The people from the UA Embassy also contacted Celestial Trade, but something unexpected happened.
When the UA Ambassador to Xin, March Beacas, found Celestial Trade's CEO Ivan, he unexpectedly discovered that the truth wasn't as the Blue Seagull members claimed. Not only did Barney and Tina not receive unfair treatment, but they were instead … welcomed by Jiang Chen?
Barney appeared in front of the media as a free man and accepted an interview.
"The rumor that I received inhumane treatment from Future Group is false. After learning of Tina and my intentions, Jiang Chen personally met with us and expressed high praise for our noble act of protecting the ocean …"
At this point, Barney's mouth twitched, and he hesitated.
But when he thought about how he was already standing on the opposite side of B City Consortium and the fact that he couldn't afford the penalty, he took a deep breath and said to the camera.
"With his assistance, I completed the documentary … and the name of the documentary is called Lies."
The crowd below the stage began to stir. The reporters who felt like there was going to be big news all became alert as all kinds of questions bombarded Barney.
To the reporters' questions, Barney was indifferent.
Just like what he agreed with Jiang Chen, he used an expression of being lied to as he angrily accused Blue Seagull of accepting bribes and slandering Future Group without any evidence under the instruction of Matrix. And it was under this circumstance that he was unknowingly involved in this dirty transaction.
As soon as he said this, the crowd below the stage was in an uproar.
"Mr. Barney, is what you said true? Do you have evidence to prove your accusation? "
"What about the specific details of the transaction? Speak out boldly! All the environmentalists in the world will be on your side! "
"Mr. Barney, what I want to ask is, were you threatened when you said those words?"
Faced with the flood of questions from the media, Barney raised his hand and extended three fingers.
"I swear on my honor that what I've said is absolutely true! No one is threatening me. As you can see, I am safe. As for the evidence, it's all in the documentary. I've already uploaded it to YouTube! "
In the documentary named "Lie", the first 30 minutes recorded Future Group's Penglai City, offshore mining platform, and the ecological landscape under the desalination platform. The last 30 minutes exposed the deal between Blue Seagull and Matrix, and the target was the Saudi water purification project.
The cinematographer's train of thought went from doubt to reflection to revelation, and all of this was announced to the public.
With Future Group's promotion, Barney's documentary created a massive wave on the internet.
The president of Blue Seagull, Brent Lansey, resigned because he couldn't withstand the pressure of public opinion for accepting bribes of two million USD. Matrix immediately stood up to clarify, but faced with the public opinion that had already formed, the so-called clarification would not hurt Blue Seagull at all.
It was foreseeable that once this statement was released, it would cause a heavy blow to Blue Seagull's reputation. Once a non-profit organization lost its credibility, it completely lost its vitality. Unless they were in a special country, they could force donations.
Blue Seagull and Matrix were just pawns. Jiang Chen knew very well that Future Group's real opponent was B City Consortium.
After taking care of the two pawns, it was time to move on the real thing!
Just as the media condemned Matrix, Xie Lei in Europe used the help of the quantum computer on Coro Island to successfully hack into the server of First B City Bank.
Here, I have to praise them. In terms of network information security, they have done a good job. But in front of the combination of hackers and quantum computers, nothing was an absolute secret in this information age.
Tens of millions of depositors' information was copied. Under Jiang Chen's order, Xie Lei used the identity of a "mysterious person" to post the information on a social media site in Iceland.
Once this move was made, it created a magnitude 6 earthquake in the UA financial world.
First B City Bank's market value plunged by 8% that day and only managed to stop the downward trend with the help of B City Consortium. The disclosure of depositor information was a huge scandal for the bank. The UA citizens whose privacy was violated jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
Depositors flocked to ATMs, desperately withdrawing money from their accounts. Once a bank run occurred, even the wealthiest bank couldn't handle it.
Jiang Chen originally wanted to play it big by hacking into the bank's server and turning every depositor's deposit to zero. But unfortunately, Xie Lei helplessly told him that it wasn't something a hacker could do.
The only one who can do that is God.
The hacker attack directly took the life of the B City Consortium. Even if it was the oldest consortium in UA, when their core interests were severely damaged, it was inevitable that they would be hurt.
Afterwards, based on the analysis of Wall Street, the direct loss of the depositor information to B City Consortium was as high as 3.7 billion USD, and the indirect loss was as high as 11.7 billion USD! A good brand needed a hundred years to operate, but it only took a few days to ruin the brand.
The leak even alerted the FBA. After they discovered the attack came from outside the country, the CIB also began to investigate.
This didn't scare Xie Lei.
Although he received a few months of military training in Africa, he would still be tortured if he encountered a professional agent.
However, he wasn't too worried about whether the CIB would really find out that he was the mastermind.
With the help of the quantum computer, he wiped his ass clean. All the IPs pointed to Morocco, an internet cafe on the edge of the Sahara desert. He didn't have to worry since he was far away in Ber.
Although B City Consortium guessed that the leak was related to Jiang Chen since Future Technology was in the internet business, they didn't expect the leak to be related to him. But without evidence, they couldn't do anything.
Just as B City Consortium was busy trying to save the bank, Future Technology published a piece of news on their official website.
In order to cooperate with the UA Department of Justice's anti-trust investigation, Future Technology will suspend virtual reality services to 110 million users in the UA region starting tomorrow. Future Technology has repeatedly stated that they will actively cooperate with the UA Department of Justice's investigation and hope the UA Department of Justice can complete the investigation as soon as possible so that Future Technology's subsidiary in the UA can resume business.
On the day of the announcement, UA CEO Kermit gave the company's employees a paid vacation and even took the company's top executives on a paid vacation to Hawaii.
The UA netizens who saw the news were all dumbfounded.
Anti-trust investigation? Suspended service?
WTF！？
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