Chapter 236 Voting War

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Ma Jingshi could hear the whistling wind and roars of anger.

He had just received the news a few minutes ago.

"mean!!"

“Shameless!!”

"Is this how the Overwatch Eyes work?!"

"Blood debt must be paid with blood!!"

"We will never forgive your despicable behavior!!"

Ma Jingshi walked out of the door. In front of him stood dozens of intruders with unfriendly faces. They were both men and women, wearing the casual clothes that Laura often saw. They looked like ordinary local human citizens. But Ma Jingshi knew that through the disguise of optical filters, there were several aliens who were very different from Homo sapiens. They came from the Security Committee, an organization that the Eye of Supervision always despised. In terms of maintaining the order of the galaxy and cleaning up criminals, they inevitably overlapped with the Eye of Supervision, and conflicts and fights were commonplace.

"You are so despicable!!" the leader shouted, "How dare you use such a dirty method!"

Several agents from the Overseer's Eye were standing at the door to stop the group. The heated words and impulsive physical confrontations soon turned into small conflicts. The agents directly fought with the young men from the Security Committee, and curses and roars were heard everywhere. A young man from the Overseer's Eye was thrown directly against the wall, and a concave crack suddenly appeared on the wall.

"They're taking action!" someone shouted. Ma Jingshi saw someone trying to draw a gun.

Then, Ma Jingshi walked up. They saw that Ma Jingshi just lightly slid across the man's elbow. Then the man burst into a shrill scream. None of them could see Ma Jingshi's movements clearly. The gun was already in Ma Jingshi's hand. Then he raised the gun above his head .

Bang!

A loud noise tore through the air.

The Security Committee agent whose gun was taken away fell to his knees, holding his arms and howling.

The scene was dead silent, white smoke was coming out of the gun in Ma Jingshi's hand, and he glanced at the people around him. No one dared to speak.

At that moment, everyone realized that this middle-aged office worker who looked listless and ordinary on the surface was actually a cold-blooded agent of the Supervisory Eye who was willing to take risks.

"That's enough." Ma Jingshi said, "It's all over now."

No one spoke. The air fell into a suffocating silence. The intruder kneeling on the ground stared at Ma Jingshi unconvinced, but timidly turned his gaze away the moment his eyes met Ma Jingshi's.

After a moment of silence, another rude scream broke the silence. "Eye of the Overseer, you must give us an explanation!"

Ma Jingshi said in a flat tone: "This is the office of the Eye of Supervision. If you have any questions, please provide relevant evidence and submit a complaint in the form of documents. I will only give you 2 minutes. After 2 minutes, I will regard it as an invasion by hostile forces. At that time, we will not show any mercy." He made a gesture, and the fully armed agents behind him prepared to open fire.

The rioting crowd suddenly separated silently. A young man walked out of the crowd. He had a stern face and a soldier's spirit. Ma Jingshi recognized him. He was Cao Yu, an elite agent of the local branch of the Security Committee.

Cao Yu said: "Is this how you, the Eye of Supervision, operate?"

"First, I don't know about this." Ma Jingshi said, "Second, do you have any evidence?"

"Who else would it be besides you?"

"So the Gui'an Committee came to our house to question us without any evidence." Ma Jingshi said coldly and with a hint of sarcasm, "Is this how the Gui'an Committee does things?"

The young men on the Safety Committee immediately booed in dissatisfaction. Cao Yu glared at him.

"One more minute." Ma Jingshi reminded him mercilessly.

Cao Yu turned around and glared at the crowd behind him, "Who asked you to come? Go back now!!"

There were slight complaints among the troublemakers on the Security Committee. Cao Yu whispered to Ma Jingshi, "Remember, we are not afraid of you."

"You have no evidence. Thirty seconds left."

"You will pay the price for this despicable behavior sooner or later. The Security Committee will not forget it." Cao Yu said this and left with everyone.

When the last troublemaker disappeared from Ma Jingshi's sight, he smiled bitterly. Although the Eye of Supervision and the Security Committee have always been hostile organizations, since arriving on this peaceful remote planet, the struggle between the camps seems to have become milder and more leisurely. Now he feels the omnipresent sense of urgency and crisis again. There is no doubt that the struggle between the local Eye of Supervision and the Security Committee will add a new account.

A cleaner came in from outside. He was an ordinary local human. He looked at the Security Committee rioters walking away curiously and asked, "What happened? What are those people here for?"

"For a hamster." Ma Jingshi replied.

"Gilgamesh is dead——"

Xiao Zhen was busy with his winter vacation homework. He had already finished 80% of it, and there were still a few essays left. As long as he worked harder, he would be able to finish them all. But the bizarre development of this online pet competition directly pulled him out of the state of struggling with his homework.

"Gilgamesh is dead?" Xiao Zhen looked up and asked.

"Yes, the rat is dead." Captain Ban said.

Xiao Zhen turned her head to look at the cat on the other side of the room. This noble feline from the Eye of Supervision was walking up to the windowsill in an elegant posture.

Noticing the disrespectful looks from Xiaozhen and Captain Madara, Mr. Cat sat down in a dignified posture and said, "Intelligent creatures are creatures that need faith. When creatures develop civilization, they often stop in confusion in front of the ever-changing world. At this time, in order to pursue spiritual satisfaction, they will choose a thing to worship it. This is inevitable for intelligent life..."

"So the rat was killed by someone sent by the Eye of Supervision?"

"I have traveled across billions of galaxies and witnessed the rise and fall of tens of millions of civilizations. In the countless years of time, idolatry is nothing more than a necessary part of the development of intelligent life..."

"So the rat was killed by someone sent by the Eye of Supervision?"

"Is it a sin to become an idol god? No, it is just because they bear the desires of those intelligent creatures, and these desires are the most important part of civilization. The idols' rejection of this desire may be a betrayal in a sense..."

"So the rat was killed by the Eye of Supervision?!"

"When intelligent creatures evolve to a higher level, when they understand everything in the universe and glimpse the universe formed by the cause and effect line, will they get rid of this meaningless idolatry? I don't think so. Worship itself is not a sin. It is just a kind of release of the heart, a humble pursuit of knowledge of a higher level..."

Xiao Zhen turned to Captain Madara and said, "It seems that the Eye of Supervision killed this rat."

Captain Madara nodded, "How despicable!"

Mr. Cat said frankly: "It is very common for intelligent life in the galaxy to regard opponents as heretics and exclude and suppress them in order to prove that the idol they follow is their destiny."

“How despicable!”

"No one has taken action against the Overwatch Eye." Mr. Cat turned and walked out of the window sill, "I won't be ashamed of this either."

Mr. Cat's tail disappeared through the window.

At this time, An Yuan pushed open the door and shouted, "Mr. Cat has 15,000 votes!!"

Xiao Zhen looked up and said, "So Mr. Cat is going to win?"

An Yuan clapped her hands and said, "There is absolutely no hope!"

"ah??"

"Is that lizard so strong?"

"No." An Yuan said in a tragic and sad voice, "Now this voting contest has been invaded by celebrity fans." She raised the tablet, "This strange-looking dog turned out to be Xie Ran's dog."

Xiao Zhen thought the name Xie Ran sounded familiar, and after searching the database, he found the information of this person. This was the cold-faced singer he met when he took Yan Zhu and Cheng Jiaying to watch a performance in the past.

Unexpectedly, a few months later, he became famous.

Xiaozhen opened the voting page. The votes for the evil leader Jean Valjean, who was once far behind the three champion candidates, now have 110,000 votes, far ahead, and the votes are still increasing rapidly. The comments below are all -

【Jean Valjean, charge! 】

【Come on, Xie Ran’s dog! 】

[Woo woo woo, my husband’s dog can’t lose! ]

[Thanks for the invitation, this is my husband A Ran and I’s son, come on…]

He flipped through five pages in a row and saw nothing but comments like this.

"..." Xiao Zhen nodded, "Well, it seems that the original top three are finished."

"Tsk tsk, we are really not good enough in front of the local fan girls." Captain Madara shouted, "Go! Come on, Lolans! Let those aliens see the fighting power of the united Lolans!"

"You mean fan girls?"

"Tsk, is there any difference between the concepts of idol worship and faction struggle?"

"Why do I sound like a chicken with only 8 votes spitting acid?"

"Shut up!"

…

By the time Ma Jingshi and Inspector Sheying realized that something was wrong, hundreds of thousands of Xie Ran's fans had already flocked to the game.

Xie Ran had just become a hot topic because of a show. He currently had no business to attend to, and originally these idle fans were just making a fuss about it. But then a netizen pointed out that the evil leader Jean Valjean was suspected to be Xie Ran's dog, and posted his conjecture logic chain, and also attached a screenshot of the evil leader Jean Valjean being crushed by Mr. Cat, the hamster Gilgamesh, and the lizard Poker.

It can be said that one stone can cause a thousand ripples.

Xie Ran has been in the limelight for several years since his debut. Many of his fans just got to know him through the show, and when they were feeling sad after learning about his past experiences, this screenshot immediately tormented the fans.

[How can our Ran Ran dog lose! ! ]

[Our Ran Ran participated in the talent show without any backstage and was bullied, how come even his dog encountered shady dealings when participating in the pet competition? This is intolerable! ]

[Fuck, these top three must have been voted for by someone! This is too shady, come on, vote for Ran Ran's dog! ! ]

【Go! ! Vote for Gougou! 】

【Dog Gou can’t lose!!!】

【Jean Valjean, go for it!!】

After only one day, the votes for Guilty Jean Valjean exceeded 100,000, and fans were still calling on their friends to come and vote. Ma Jingshi and Inspector Sheying soon realized that the situation was being reversed by the local young female group.

In order to restrict each other, both organizations have added rules prohibiting the use of various means to manipulate and influence local humans. Now they can only watch the continuous influx of local humans.

But after just a few minutes, Ma Jingshi and Sheying Inspector made a decision. Since the first place didn't win, the second place still had to fight! As long as they won, it would be a victory for this camp.

Ma Jingshi cheered up and continued to launch a new round of canvassing for aliens with the Eye of Supervision. For the Shadow Detective, although Gilgamesh was dead, his photo was still there, and the meaning it represented was still there. So on the voting website, there were comments from Xie Ran's fans, such as "【For the Last Gilgamesh】" and "【Life is gone, honor remains】" with very different styles.

By the evening of that day, the votes for the evil leader Jean Valjean were approaching 200,000, and Mr. Cat, the hamster Gilgamesh (dead), and the lizard Poker were also approaching 20,000 votes, as they fought for the second place.

This seems to be the final outcome.

The next day, things took a new turn.

Ren Anzhi, the most popular traffic star at the moment, posted a Weibo with a screenshot below. It showed some candidate pets for the pet competition, among which a chicken was circled in red. His post read: [Why is there a chicken here? ]

In just a few minutes, his Weibo post was flooded with hundreds of identical messages from his fans: [Hahahaha why is there a chicken here? ]

Then, one of the fans left a message: [So funny, I can't help but vote for this chicken.] Then her message was also lined up by fans, and fans responded one after another:

[Okay! I'm going to vote too! ! ]

[The sister upstairs is waiting for me, I'm going too! ]

[Where is the link? Let me vote for this chicken! ]

…

Two hours later, the chicken named "Captain Spotted II" quickly exceeded 50,000 votes.

Then another person with a good will posted on Weibo: [Why are there so many fans of yours everywhere? I didn't expect to see locusts in this kind of competition. Ugh.]

This Weibo post was screenshot and circulated among Ren Anzhi's fan group, causing an uproar.

[What's wrong? What's wrong with us throwing a chicken? ]

[We just want to vote, to piss you off to death. ]

[Sisters, come on! Vote for me! ]

So a large group of Ren Anzhi's fans immediately rushed to the voting platform, almost crashing the platform. Ren Anzhi's fans have long been well-trained and uniform data workers, and their experience in this area directly crushes Xie Ran's fans, who are mostly scattered fans. The fan leader called on Weibo and various QQ groups, and the fans responded quickly. Not only did they vote for themselves, but they also voted for their parents, brothers and sisters.

Within half an hour, all the comments under the voting platform turned into a unified slogan:

【Here we go! 】

【We are here! 】

[Vote for the second generation of Pick...]

[Boss Ren likes this chicken, so let’s go for it…]

By the next day, Captain Madara II had received 568,327 votes, and the number was still rising.

…

Xiao Zhen finally finished writing the last word of his winter vacation homework. He opened the competition webpage and rubbed his eyes.

That's right.

You read that right.

Overnight, the situation changed again.

He turned around and asked Captain Madara, who was squatting on the bookshelf in a daze: "You became the champion, how do you feel?"