Capítulo 1542: Chapter 1542: Call Brother Hu
The very afternoon the old man received the phone call, his son was released.
But this doesn’t mean that the system succumbed to some influence—though the truth is likely just that, the operators were still quite careful about following proper procedures.
So, even though the son was released, his legal representative wife was still detained, and the reason for his release was to cooperate with relevant departments in rectifying the platform’s order.
If the rectification goes well, then his wife might be released, after all, the words “legal representative” are quite serious, it’s definitely not wrong to give them more attention.
As for some people seeing this as “hostage-taking,” that’s basically overthinking it—does the Official Government need a hostage to deal with you? At most, they’re just afraid you’ll flee the country.
The one who was released returned to the company, whose seal hadn’t been entirely lifted. He could only begin the arduous internal rectification process under supervision—correct, it’s just an internal resource reorganization, some investigations.
As for the live-stream platform? Of course, it’s still shut down, the authoritative news is: the shutdown and rectification period is one month.
The actual person in charge went all out, uncovering a bunch of issues, including content and financial ones, and most terrifying of all… even ideological ones.
He felt quite wronged, although he allowed the exploitation of small streamers, he was still very sensitive about ideological content, couldn’t manage to stop people from recklessly inching close to the line.
Due to interest entanglements, some employees also turned a blind eye to these contents, so… tragedy struck.
The entire company was on deck, working around the clock for twelve days, finally getting some semblance of order.
The boss had already spent over twenty million, besides buying some “leniency,” significant money was also spent towards Beauty Lin and Lin Heihu’s direction.
He was quite speechless about some behaviors of his own father: when people say they don’t want money, you just won’t give it?
Savings, of course, are good, but you have to be alive to spend it, don’t you?
The nature of Beauty Lin’s work forbids her from accepting goods, but she once sold high-priced information to the old boss, which means she doesn’t reject earning some extra money—just make sure it’s unrelated to her job.
Lin Heihu disregards money, but… you can give him live-streaming equipment, right?
Fine, even live-streaming equipment wouldn’t cost much, even with fully automated cranes, slides, switching Yuntai, etc., it’s just two or three million, but… shouldn’t the streaming room be set up a bit? The live-streaming background could be made more high-end.
No matter which field, reaching the top doesn’t come cheap.
Because the Dou Niu live-streaming platform had constantly been shut down, Lin Heihu hadn’t yet tasted the incense brought by being a “special supervisor,” but White Whale’s online fan count continued to increase slowly.
After three homepage banner pushes, this episode’s patients were almost entirely treated, and the number of fans online in the stream room exceeded fifty thousand.
Lin Heihu was quite satisfied with such efficiency because his ID name was “Cancer isn’t as fierce as a tiger,” and now many streamers from other sites came to pay their respects, all talking about “Brother Hu” this and that.
Among these streamers, many have far more fans than him, but nobody is stupid, Brother Hu is just a Baldy sign, able to mix half a day’s homepage top banner push on White Whale every week—what does this mean?
It means Brother Hu is a great talent; even White Whale has to hold him in high regard, and naturally, the streamers flock to him.
There’s even a rumor that Brother Hu is a second-generation imperial capital official, doing charity to accumulate Yin virtue for his family elders, thus playing a bit with live-streaming, promoting cancer care.
A lot of people really believe this rumor if Lin Heihu were a beauty, flaunting himself, people certainly wouldn’t believe he was a second-generation official, but…this guy not only is a man, but also wears a big mask and sunglasses during live streams.
Clearly, it’s to avoid being recognized, definitely a second-generation official, no doubt about it.
So Brother Hu’s legend has begun to spread on external sites, even websites like are coming to draw in people.
After three more days, Dou Niu live-streaming reopened eighteen days after closing.
The reopening was slightly earlier, but Dou Niu really couldn’t withstand it anymore, every extra day closed held incalculable losses, the boss had smoothed out relationships up and down, and even made a special call to Lin Heihu to plead for mercy.
Lin Heihu said he didn’t want money, but the other party forced a lot of things onto him. The key part being, after trying it out, it worked quite nicely, so he didn’t bother to argue any more and said, “I don’t mean to make things hard for you, mainly want to rectify these irregularities. Remember your promise to me.”
As soon as Dou Niu went online, Lin Heihu noticed several intriguing changes, besides the “industrial rectification governance” propaganda on the banner, there was actually a button called “Summon Brother Hu” on the secondary page “Streamer Home” for complaints and reports.
A bright red button, exceptionally conspicuous.
To test the live-stream effect, Lin Heihu also registered several small accounts, so he logged in with one and clicked “Summon Brother Hu,” then a prompt appeared on the page, “Please follow the normal process for complaints and reports, confirm all processes are ineffective, and then click Continue.”
Lin Heihu clicked “Continue,” then another warning popped up, “Brother Hu is omnipotent, please confirm the authenticity of the information provided, if the information is false, you will bear corresponding legal responsibility, do you wish to continue?”
Lin Heihu clicked continue again, and then there was an “Important Notice,” with dense text, below were two options, Accept and Decline, defaulting to “Decline,” clearly trying not to mislead—consider carefully.
Lin Heihu chose Accept—he was quite familiar with these processes already, if you click “Decline,” you’d surely be exited.
Upon clicking Accept and Confirm, the page directly switched to a chat mode, where the chat robot sent a formal greeting, finally adding, “…What can I assist you with, in finding Brother Hu?”
Lin Heihu pondered, then typed a line, “I want to expose industry scandals.”
The chat robot hesitated ten-odd seconds before reacting, “May we chat a bit first?”
Then the robot initiated an audio request, clearly having switched to a human operator already.
Lin Heihu unhesitatingly accepted the request and impatiently spoke, “I just want to contact Brother Hu, how come there’s so many steps… don’t small streamers have rights?”
A sweet voice answered from the other side, “Hello, esteemed streamer, that’s not the case, what difficulties have you encountered? You can directly speak with me, if I can’t help, I’ll get in touch with Brother Hu for you.”
After thinking for a while, Lin Heihu replied, “I clicked the call Brother Hu button, it must be something you can’t handle.”
The sweet voice continued asking, “Have you gone through all the complaint processes before this?”
“No,” Lin Heihu honestly answered, “You were shut down for so long, only just now online, how could I complete so many processes? I just want Brother Hu to back me up… this button is ‘Call Brother Hu,’ not call customer service, right?”
The sweet voice maintained a good attitude, “I recommend completing the relevant processes, if they are ineffective then look for Brother Hu, he is our streamers’ last support; for minor issues to trouble him frequently, it harms the streamers’ interests.”
That seemed a sensible response, but Lin Heihu originally came looking for loopholes, “So you’re saying…I can never directly contact Brother Hu, but need your approval?”
Following that, a male voice came through, sighing helplessly, “Brother Hu… there’s no need to test, your IP has already exposed you, all we’re doing is trying to reduce your workload, not to conceal anything, do you wish to receive thousands upon thousands of complaints every day?”
Logically, someone born over two thousand years ago couldn’t understand the implication of such words, couldn’t grasp the information explosion.
But Lin Heihu actually understood fully, more so than most modern people—to know, he was an Earth Deity in his days.
In those times, the Earth Deity received all kinds of prayers, not as many as now, but no less complex, epitomizing human nature—like the eldest daughter-in-law in a family praying for the mother-in-law to die early so she could marry off her sister-in-law, what the hell is that?
So Lin Heihu really knew, if he wanted to address industry chaos, the relevant requests must be filtered—if everyone brought everything to him, he’d never have the energy for real matters.
Many people think their issue is the most important, which ultimately is just a trivial matter, a trifle blown up due to discontent which escalated—initially, it was just a clash of tempers.
But it must be acknowledged, there’re too many people who can’t distinguish that, and Lin Heihu was quite certain of that point—in his time, the ratio of foolish folks was even higher.
So, pondering over it, he actually felt that this mechanism implemented by Dou Niu… made a lot of sense.
Therefore, he didn’t test further, deciding to let it go, “If the major issues don’t reach my ears, then I’ll ignore them.” — to put it otherwise, “people of privilege are short-sighted.”
Yet before he could say anything, Beauty Lin called him, “Hey, I’ve been thinking, Dou Niu’s industrial rectification efforts might not be very genuine, should I help you oversee it?”
“Surely you’re dreaming,” Lin Heihu unhesitatingly hung up the call, “Do you even know what you’re asking?”
Lin Beauty called again, saying, “Relative, I think the industry’s rectification efforts on the Dou Niu side may not be very genuine, should I assist you in overseeing it?”
“Dream on,” Lin Heihu’hung up without hesitation, “Do you even know what you’re asking for?”
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