sbdcsierra Chapter 29 You've Gone Too Far
Chapter 29 You've Gone Too Far
After Clarissa said that sentence to Edward.
He hung up the phone immediately.
But unexpectedly...
As soon as I hung up, my phone rang again.
Clarissa thought it was Edward calling again.
After looking at the screen, I realized it was an unfamiliar number.
The call connected with a puzzled look, and immediately came an annoying voice from the other end: "Oh, Clarissa, you must be feeling pretty smug right now, aren't you?"
"Conrad?" Clarissa frowned immediately.
Upon hearing the name, Meng Ran immediately turned around and walked straight to Clarissa's side.
Clarissa, as if on cue, turned on speakerphone.
All that could be heard from the loudspeaker was Conrad's voice: "This online media storm is quite something."
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Clarissa's expression was rather unpleasant.
"What am I trying to say? Hahaha..." Conrad laughed.
They laughed like that for quite a while.
He continued in a teasing tone, "Tell me, if I went online right now and told everyone that Theron is actually your client, what would the netizens' reaction be?"
Before a reply could be received, he added, "I think those netizens who support Theron and Daryl will immediately turn their criticism around, right?"
Clarissa panicked.
Just as he was about to say something, he saw Meng Ran take the phone away from him: "This is ridiculous."
"Ridiculous?" Conrad immediately recognized Meng Ran by his voice. "Stop being stubborn, kid. You must be panicking right now, aren't you?"
"Aren't you overestimating your influence? Who do you think you are? You think people will listen just because you say something online? What, are you some kind of environmental celebrity?"
Meng Ran's barrage of sarcastic questions left Conrad speechless.
"How could you have thought of using something like this to threaten Clarissa?" Meng Ran asked again.
"Ha!" Conrad scoffed. "I just want to tell everyone the truth. The public has the right to know the truth."
"What truth? You want to tell everyone that because Theron donated money to our association, she has become our puppet and will do whatever we say?"
"..." Conrad choked again.
Donating money and being obedient are not necessarily related.
This is not enough to prove that Theron and Dahl's feud was staged.
"And Mr. Bullfrog, how can you be so naive? Do you think that if Little Dahl's voice can gain attention online, your voice can achieve the same effect?"
Can't you use your brain and think about why every post we make gets so much attention? Is it because netizens really care about environmental protection?
It's because I have promotional resources you don't. If I wanted, I could push your stupid act of pretending to be a bullfrog jumping around to the top of Digg's homepage just as high as it does!
"FKU Bane!" Conrad, who originally intended to break Clarissa's defense, had his defense broken again by Meng Ran.
"Don't rush to curse. If you insist on telling everyone what you call the truth, I'll give you a suggestion: first contact Jimmy from our association."
Let him steal the original contract that Martin and I signed, and take some photos of it. Otherwise, how can you prove that Theron is a client of our association?
After you've sorted out this, fabricate some so-called truth. Send it to the email addresses of reporters in the three major newspapers and the Mississippi Local News; maybe someone will report it for you.
"Huh?" Conrad was dumbfounded; he didn't understand what Meng Ran meant.
After Meng Ran finished speaking, he immediately burst into laughter: "Conrad, do you think I'm afraid of everyone finding out that we orchestrated this?"
then.
Meng Ran's laughter stopped abruptly.
"I'm telling you, I was just about to tell everyone myself. Otherwise, how would the world know that our Director O'Connell possesses such a formidable ability to manipulate issues?"
These words were spoken.
Clarissa's eyes widened suddenly.
Thea and Dahl, who were sitting at their workstations, both looked towards Meng Ran by the window.
Meng Ran was obviously just fooling Conrad.
He wasn't foolish enough to ruin the foundation he had just built.
Otherwise, Cyron will explode.
However, he wasn't entirely talking nonsense. In the American media environment, there are practically no moral requirements for public figures.
Putting everything else aside, just take the US presidential election as an example. The two candidates talked nonsense without any restraint, and their promises were as worthless as farts.
Given this climate, what's the big deal if Clarissa manipulates public opinion?
Netizens' memories of this kind of thing don't even last more than two weeks.
Of course, there are many people who criticize them for manipulating public opinion; but there are also many who think they are amazing.
In particular, organizations and individuals who need to manipulate issues, as well as the upper class who consider themselves to control society, will definitely view Meng Ran's team in a positive light.
After all, fooling the masses is something they consider perfectly acceptable.
And this is exactly what Meng Ran wanted to achieve, because their team made money off these people.
He continued speaking into the phone, "I'm giving you 24 hours. If you want to vent your anger, expose it within this time. After that, I'll expose it myself."
"..." Conrad was furious.
He took a deep breath for a while before sneering, "Bane, do you think saying things like that will make me give up on exposing the truth?"
"Hurry up! You'd better contact Jimmy. If you can lure him into stealing the original contract, I'll really have to thank you for giving me a chance to kick him out of the project team."
After saying that, Meng Ran hung up the phone.
Conrad, who was on the other end of the phone, stood there stunned, as if petrified.
seriously.
He was starting to regret making that call.
As expected, using this incident to threaten Clarissa into begging for forgiveness failed, and instead left her feeling very angry!
I calmed myself down after a long while.
Conrad put down the phone he had been holding to his ear.
then……
He exploded again.
Because Meng Ran really did send him Jimmy's number via text message.
A wave of intense humiliation washed over him, and Conrad felt a dull ache in his heart.
If he speaks Chinese.
Now he would definitely say to Meng Ran, "You scoundrel, you've gone too far!"
By the window of the association.
Clarissa took the phone that Meng Ran handed her.
Hesitantly biting her lip, she couldn't help but ask, "Are you really going to expose this? Won't this cause a collapse in the support of Theron and Daryl?"
Hearing this, Little Dar looked at Meng Ran with concern.
He really didn't want to be insulted by these same people right after enjoying a lot of support.
Upon hearing Clarissa's question, Meng Ran stretched and said, "Of course it needs to be exposed; there's no way to hide it. But there are techniques to exposing it."
"How so?"
"Out of 10 sentences, 9 are true and 1 is false, that's enough."
"I didn't understand." Little Dahl stared at Meng Ran with wide, bewildered eyes.
"You'll understand soon enough, Thea. You continue to control the verbal battle between Cyron and Daryl. I'm getting ready; it'll be exposed in the next two hours." Meng Ran said, quickly walking to the computer.
"Didn't you say we'd release it after 24 hours?"
"That was used to deceive Conrad. There are two different things: exposing something yourself and having someone else expose it." Meng Ran sat down and started typing on the keyboard.
Time passed second by second.
Two hours later...
A news article appeared online.
[With the mediation of female youth environmental leader Clarissa, Tree Spirit Bride Theron will end her online debate with Dahl and move towards a more rational discussion.]