Xu Zhengyang looked at them with a meaningful smile and then drove away.
Many onlookers asked Xu Zhengyang questions, but he ignored them all.
The court summons was set for the day after tomorrow in the afternoon.
But Xu Zhengyang was not at all anxious.
His counterattack had just begun.
In the afternoon, as the buzz around this incident reached its peak, a hot search titled "Internet Celebrity Food Poisoning Case Platform Pursues to the End! Lawsuit Filed Against Shiyi Shou Restaurant!" topped the local news rankings at number one and the national hot search rankings at number thirteen.
Several videos quietly went viral on Dougua, a platform rivaling Kuaidou.
The videos quickly exploded in popularity without any special promotion from Dougua.
That night, the videos had already spread beyond the platform and went viral across the internet.
The first video was explosive.
It was surveillance footage from outside a flower shop next to Shiyi Shou Restaurant.
The footage included both visual and audio, and both were very clear.
It showed YOYO's dog biting someone, then assaulting a pregnant woman, and finally driving away.
Xu Zhengyang was indeed shown, but the segments of him hitting people and throwing dogs were perfectly edited out.
What was clearly presented were the threatening actions of Yangyang and YOYO, as well as the arrival of Cheng Baola.
Most importantly, the faces of the people in these videos were not blurred.
The second video appeared to be taken by a passerby, with a somewhat blurry audio, but it was still barely understandable.
The footage featured Yangyang and YOYO.
They were in a car, YOYO sitting up from the back seat, both laughing heartily, with a somewhat unclear conversation.
"Ha ha ha, you acted so well just now! I almost thought you were really poisoned!"
"Of course, my acting skills are top-notch!"
"Now we've definitely pinned this mess on Shiyi Shou Restaurant! Let's see how they deal with this!!"
"Hmph, that female boss is really a fool! She didn't even send anyone to follow us, but that saves me from having to continue pretending in the hospital."
"But we should still create some fake evidence and spread it on the platform to make it look more real!"
"Okay, your uncle is the head of the digestive department here!"
"Mm! Let's go!"
Then YOYO and Yangyang headed straight to the Third People's Hospital.
The third video was even more shocking.
This video came from the hospital, clearly from the monitoring system in the doctor's office.
The footage showed YOYO and Yangyang entering the office of the chief physician, Cheng Qianhai, exchanging pleasantries, and then Yangyang asking his uncle to write a medical record.
The result of the diagnosis was food poisoning.
Cheng Qianhai, the chief physician, casually asked what they needed the fake record for while smoking a cigarette.
Yangyang then revealed that Shiyi Shou's boss had offended them, and they planned to frame the restaurant.
Cheng Qianhai laughed and complimented their scheme, then actually provided the fake medical record.
As the head of the digestive department, he never thought anyone could get hold of the office's surveillance footage backup.
To him, it was just a trivial matter, and he didn't take it seriously.
The fourth video was even more explosive.
This video showed the meeting between Kuaidou's regional director and YOYO and Yangyang.
The source was the hallway surveillance of the office building.
The regional director's remarks were especially notable.
One statement was, "This is a great opportunity for hype. We'll fabricate something out of nothing. The platform will fund the lawsuit against him. The compensation isn't important; what matters is the platform's attitude and the heat it generates. You'll gain a lot of followers."
Another was, "Haha, don't worry. Once the information is online, those foolish netizens won't be able to distinguish truth from falsehood. They'll just blindly attack Shiyi Shou Restaurant! The trial outcome doesn't matter at all!"
The regional director spoke with confidence and nonchalance.
When these four videos began to spread online, Chen Chusheng looked at Xu Zhengyang with concern and asked:
"All their faces aren't blurred. What if they sue us for infringement?"
Xu Zhengyang sneered.
"Infringement? How much can they claim? One dollar, five dollars, or a hundred dollars? Can't I afford their rights?
I want to expose them completely without any cover."
After these four videos spread, the internet exploded.
Not to mention the first video, which was a universal outrage.
Countless netizens wanted to tear YOYO and Yangyang apart!
A dog biting a girl and YOYO ruthlessly kicking a pregnant woman triggered intense social reactions.
The fourth video directly pointed to the netizens, and the man in it was quickly identified as Kuaidou's regional director.
Kuaidou Short Video was very famous nationwide.
Almost overnight.
The links to the first and fourth videos had risen to the third and fifth positions on the national hot search list!
Most critically.
The original versions of these videos were not on Kuaidou.
They were all leaked from Dougua.
And the Dougua account that posted them was Shiyi Shou Restaurant's.
In an instant, anyone wanting to see the original videos on the hot search had to download the Dougua app.
Chen Chusheng was stunned!
Dougua's user numbers surged 17-fold overnight!
Fortunately, Xu Zhengyang had foreseen this and had Chen Chusheng upgrade the backend servers in advance; otherwise, they would have crashed today.
And the numbers were still rising rapidly.
At the same time, the view counts of these two videos had soared to 35 million by the next morning.
The Shiyi Shou Dougua account had gained 6 million followers instantly.
This was what they called an overnight sensation!
And this was despite a large number of people only seeing clips from other platforms, not the originals.
Overnight, the situation reversed!
Professionals immediately began analyzing.
They claimed this was a meticulously planned perfect commercial operation!
The likely mastermind behind it was Dougua!
The four videos clearly seemed to have been pre-recorded, from the angles and sources, suggesting a setup waiting for YOYO and Yangyang to fall into.
Shiyi Shou Restaurant had also not yet responded to clarify.
It wasn't until the incident continued to ferment, and YOYO and Yangyang planned to frame Shiyi Shou Restaurant with fake evidence and a lawsuit, that Shiyi Shou finally released these videos in response.
This moment turned the tables, striking a severe blow to Kuaidou and thoroughly marring the two internet celebrities, who would be lucky to survive this, let alone continue their lives.
Moreover, Shiyi Shou Restaurant and Dougua had risen to prominence, gaining countless followers with the hot searches.
This was truly a multi-faceted achievement!
A perfect commercial maneuver, worthy of being written into textbooks as an ultimate plan.
Little did they know, the mastermind behind all this, Xu Zhengyang, was at the headquarters of the Eagle Reconnaissance Team, drinking yogurt and watching Chen Chusheng's team buying fake followers, with the keyboards clicking away.
Success wasn't casual; this entire scheme was orchestrated by Xu Zhengyang, with massive investments in hot searches and traffic expansion.