The headlines were still burning. Spectron's connection to media bot networks had ignited national conversations, spawning livestream debates and influencer breakdowns across platforms. Public sentiment shifted like a tide crashing against a dam. Overnight, support for Lin Feng surged—tempered, skeptical, but no longer dismissive. He had exposed something real, and the public couldn't unsee it.
But beneath that surface shift, something colder was settling in.
Zixuan hadn't responded publicly, but he didn't need to. Three media outlets that had run pro-Lin pieces now published walk-back editorials. Anonymous posts began circulating, accusing Lin of fabricating data, of forging the Spectron links, of manipulating the system himself.
It wasn't random. It was coordinated.
