Early in the morning, Zhang Zian was once again awakened by the sound of firecrackers in the distance. Today was Chinese New Year's Eve, and there was only about a week left before the Spring Festival. The sound of firecrackers in the suburbs was more intense than usual.
Even humans with dull hearing could hear it, so of course, the elfins in the shop were also awakened. Xinghai turned over, jumped out of the crib, and silently waved its front paw at Zhang Zian to say good morning. Then it opened the bedroom door and went downstairs to play with the kittens. Pi woke up with a yawn, stretched, and sat in the basket hammock chair in a daze for a while. When it was slightly awake, it jumped into the swivel chair and turned on the computer.
Although the other elfins were also awake, they wanted to go back to sleep for various reasons. After all, it was too early, and there was nothing to do.
Zhang Zian got out of bed, walked to the window, opened the curtains a little, and looked out at the weather. It had snowed last night, and the streets were covered in silver. The snow reflected the light, making the sky brighter than usual.
He saw an electric tricycle approaching from afar, and it stopped in front of Li's Supreme Snack Bar.
The driver was Uncle Li. He had gone to the farmer's market in the suburbs to buy vegetables and meat before dawn, and had just returned. He was wearing a thick cotton coat, and knee pads to keep his knees warm. It must be very cold to ride an electric tricycle in this weather. His eyebrows were covered with frost, but his eyes were full of smiles.
There was a quilt on the back of the tricycle. Uncle Li lifted the quilt, picked up bundles of fresh vegetables, and moved them into the snack bar. Due to lack of preparation, the leftover ingredients that were usually sold out at noon, and the couple had to close the shop early. Therefore, Uncle Li bought more ingredients than before, both in terms of quantity and variety.
Pi lightly clicked the mouse, and logged into the author platform of Qidian. This was the first thing it did after waking up every day, to see how much its favorites had grown, and to see what comments the readers had. These would become its daily motivation for typing.
"Eeek!"
It didn't know what it saw, but it suddenly screamed.
Fina, Snowy Lionet, Old Time Tea, and Famous all looked up at the same time, thinking that something had happened. Richard was still sleeping soundly.
"What's wrong, Pi?" Zhang Zian quickly asked.
Pi was usually the first or second one to get up in the pet shop every morning, but it always tried to keep quiet. Even when it was typing, it would only lightly tap on the keyboard to not disturb the sleep of the other elfins. But today, it was screaming, which was rare. Something unusual must have happened.
After it logged into QQ, several book friends in the book group sent it private messages. Judging from the time, the messages were sent in the middle of the night.
"Po Po, hurry up and take a look at your book review section. A lot of people are posting that you hacked accounts and manipulated votes!"
"Po Po, hurry up and delete the post. New readers will believe it when they see it!"
There were also people who were skeptical and asked, "May I ask the author, did you really hack the account and buy votes?"
Pi looked at the chat boxes that popped up and didn't know what to do. What made it even more uncomfortable was the distrust from its book friends.
"What?"
Zhang Zian was also stunned. No one knew better than him that it was impossible for Pi to hack accounts and buy votes. It even told its book friends not to send red packets for recommendation tickets, thinking that it was a waste of their money.
He first turned around and waved to the other elfins, indicating that there was nothing wrong. Then he put his hand on Pi's shoulder and said in a deep voice, "Pi, don't be anxious. Let's see what's going on first. There is no difficulty that can't be solved. You've even survived the most difficult period, so don't be sad about some groundless slander. "
He could feel Pi's body trembling, but he didn't know if it was trembling because of anger or sadness, or maybe both.
Maybe it was infected by his calmness. Pi tightly pursed its lips and opened the book review section.
Just as the book friends said, the book review section was flooded with posts full of vicious language overnight.
"Can't you be more shameless? How could you do something like stealing votes? "
"So, even if you hack accounts and buy votes, no matter how high the votes are, it's still useless if you are a bad reader!"
"Oh, oh, oh, check it out! Or did you hack accounts and buy votes?"
"Even if you buy votes, no one will read your book!"
Looking at these groundless rumors, Pi was both sad and sad. It raised its head and looked at Zhang Zian, its eyes red. It pointed to its chest and shook its head, as if to explain that it did not do that kind of thing.
"I know, Pi, I know you didn't do it," he comforted it.
He frowned at the posts, took the mouse from Pi's hand, and said to it, "Pi, go wash your face and stretch your body. I'll take a look."
Some of the comments were very nasty, and some even cursed Pi's relatives to die a horrible death. Although Pi had no relatives, he still didn't want Pi to see these, just like a normal person wouldn't want to step on dog poop.
Pi nodded, jumped off the chair, and walked into the bathroom.
Zhang Zian clicked on the posts one by one. He told himself to treat them with a calm and objective attitude, but after reading the obscenities line by line, he couldn't help but feel angry. He wanted to delete all these posts immediately. As one of his readers had reminded him, once these posts were seen by new readers who didn't know the truth, they would easily believe them, and Pi would lose potential readers.
As the saying goes, "The mouth of the masses can melt gold, and the accumulation of destruction can wear away the bones."
Most of his readers believed in Pi, but when they clicked on the book review section and saw all these rubbish posts, they couldn't help but feel discouraged. Previously, the book review section was mainly about the existing elfins, elfins that might appear in the future, and discussions about the plot. Now, these normal posts were all pushed to the third or fourth page, and his readers couldn't find them even if they wanted to. They might even think that these normal posts had been deleted by Pi.
Although the situation was urgent, Zhang Zian had to figure out the situation before deciding what to do, or he would only be treating the symptoms and not the root cause.
Some readers spontaneously followed the thread, asking the poster to provide evidence that the account had been hacked and votes manipulated. However, the poster never replied, only constantly opening new threads. The first few pages of the book review section were completely filled with similar threads, and the number was still increasing.
Soon, he found a pattern: these posters were all new level 1 accounts that had just registered as Qidian readers.
Qidian accounts had different levels. He remembered that Shi Shi was a distinguished senior VIP member, and could become an ordinary member with one yuan.
These people who accused Pi of hacking accounts had never even topped up one yuan. What was the value of a hacked account? Instead of wasting effort to steal their accounts, it was better to register a new account!
Obviously, this was a premeditated and organized action against Pi, and the purpose was to smear Pi's name.
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