Huayu Shen Gongbao

Chapter 18: Public sentiment is inflamed!

Upon seeing this, Li Xue quickly clicked to download.

However, the mobile network card's speed was very slow, and it took more than ten minutes to download everything.

Li Xue clicked on the first recording and played it out loud. Everyone crowded around to listen intently.

The sound at the scene was very noisy, and the sound recording quality was extremely poor.

I could vaguely hear Shen Gongbao's voice:

"I'll say it again, I've never filmed action scenes before... Don't blame me if something goes wrong!"

"Hahaha, I've said everything I needed to say. Don't worry, we have experience."

"Professor Zou, please be gentle with your leg later, don't scare our top students from Zhejiang University!"

"Filming is not child's play; I definitely have to put in the effort for the sake of the filming effect."

This is a scene from May 3rd, when the Jackie Chan Stunt Team reprimanded Shen Gongbao. It does sound like mockery and bullying.

Li Xue turned on the second segment, which had even worse sound quality. It was intermittent and unclear in the middle, but one could vaguely hear Shen Gongbao saying, "Hong Kong actors have teamed up to bully people, and the Little White Dragon incident has been repeated."

The third segment, also about twenty seconds long, is a dialogue where "Li Lianjie asked Shen Gongbao to be his stunt double, but Shen Gongbao refused." There are a few sentences in the middle that are not clear.

Judging from the post, this netizen named "Slightly Upturned Lips" may be a minor extra.

He stayed on set for two or three days, but he couldn't get into the center; he could only hear conversations from the periphery.

The film crew wouldn't let him take photos, so he recorded audio to keep as a souvenir, which inadvertently led him to some inside information.

If this kind of information were in the hands of paparazzi or reporters, they might contact Jackie Chan or others first to sell it for a good price.

However, in the hands of enthusiastic netizens, it truly embodies the simple spirit of the internet, leading them to directly expose and share information.

These three audio recordings are solid evidence of the post's content!

If you don't know the truth and only look at the posts and listen to the recordings, it seems that the Kung Fu King crew first bullied Shen Gongbao, a top student from Zhejiang University, and then forced him to stay on set to bully him repeatedly in order to cover his mouth. It also involves Hong Kong entertainment circles.

This has blown up badly and is going to be really hard to handle!

After listening to the recording, both Jackie Chan and Jet Li looked extremely grim.

Taking the opportunity, Huang Xiaoming questioned Shen Gongbao: "Did you leak this information?"

Seeing everyone staring at him, Shen Gongbao sneered and said, "These past few days I've been on set during the day and with Li Xue at night, I haven't had time for any of this."

Besides, if I were to expose something, I wouldn't post it online; I would go straight back to the school and contact the organization.

I was right next to you when this netizen updated their post on the forum, and you still threw dirty water at me? Are you brain-damaged?

"Do I have the ability to create clones?"

Huang Xiaoming retorted defiantly, "Who knows if you have accomplices?"

"How could a student like me have accomplices? I don't have the ability to predict that Zheng Zhihao would bully me, so I could bring recording equipment to the film set in advance to keep evidence?"

If I were recording, the sound wouldn't be so bad from that distance.

Use your shrunken little brain to think properly, you idiot!

Shen Gongbao's words made a lot of sense and quickly dispelled everyone's doubts.

Moreover, from Jackie Chan and Jet Li's perspective, Shen Gongbao had no motive to expose these things—he left after only a month as a stuntman and had no intention of developing a career in the entertainment industry. Otherwise, he could have directly joined Jackie Chan's stunt team and landed the role of Jade Warrior.

Only Li Xue knew that Shen Gongbao had changed his mind and wanted to compete for the role of the Jade Warrior God.

Therefore, Li Xue's expression was very complicated at this moment.

She felt that this revelation was likely orchestrated by Shen Gongbao, but she couldn't understand why Shen Gongbao could foresee being bullied and deliberately bring recording equipment.

This is actually an error in information.

Everyone is viewing Shen's report with the logic of a normal person.

From a normal person's perspective, there is no benefit to causing trouble.

But Shen Gongbao had a Taoist book, so he came to the film crew to cause trouble. He had made all sorts of preparations from the moment he joined the crew.

His voice recorder was secretly kept in Xiao Lixue's handbag, without Xiao Lixue's knowledge.

Shen Gongbao had incriminating information, but he didn't release it before, mainly because he wanted to continue causing trouble at the time, and the timing wasn't right.

The situation is different now. Jackie Chan and Jet Li are injured, so it's unlikely that Shen Gongbao can cause trouble again as a stuntman. He needs fame and roles now, so releasing scandalous information is the most appropriate thing to do.

Don't think that just because Shen Gongbao broke the bones of Jackie Chan and Jet Li as a stuntman, he will gain attention and become famous overnight.

That's a fairy tale.

After all, in order to protect their respective images, Jackie Chan and Jet Li would certainly not admit to being injured by stunt doubles. They would only say to the public that they were injured because they were too hard-working during filming, without saying anything about the specific circumstances. They would even guide public opinion to make the idea that "Jackie Chan and Jet Li fought each other and both were injured" the mainstream view.

In this incident, the stunt double, Shen Gongbao, completely disappeared.

If Shen Gongbao doesn't resort to some underhanded tactics, he definitely won't get any of the attention, and Huang Xiaoming will snatch the role of Jade Warrior God of War.

In the competitive entertainment industry, you naturally need to integrate; grabbing roles and generating buzz all require using various tactics.

Shen Gongbao's move was a triple win: it stirred up trouble, made him famous, and gave him a chance to get the role of the God of War of Jade Frontier.

On the surface, however, Shen Gongbao still wanted to clear himself of suspicion.

Huang Xiaoming was rendered speechless by Shen Gongbao's rebuttal, and Jackie Chan waved his hand impatiently: "Stop talking about this! The most important thing right now is to contact Tianya Forum immediately to delete the post! Don't let public opinion spread!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a staff member said, "Well... besides Tianya Forum, people are also posting on more than a dozen other major forums such as Baidu Li Yi Bar and Li Yuchun Bar, and the content is similar."

In addition, there were posts on forums such as Mop and Deepin, and major portal websites began to reprint the news.

Upon hearing this, Jackie Chan and Jet Li exchanged a glance, realizing that public opinion was spiraling out of control.

That's indeed the case. The whistleblower seems to be a team that posted a lot of messages in a short period of time, and the online public opinion spread very quickly.

Even Xinlang, which collaborates with Huayi Brothers, featured a headline on its homepage: "The Reason for Jackie Chan and Jet Li's Fractures Revealed! The Kung Fu King Crew Bullied Zhejiang University Students!"

Other portal websites have more direct, and sometimes even misleading, headlines.

"Recordings from the film crew leaked! Jackie Chan and Jet Li bullied a top student from Zhejiang University, causing him to suffer a fracture!"

"The 'Little White Dragon Incident' Repeats Itself: Jackie Chan's Stunt Team Bullies Top-Scoring College Entrance Exam Student!"

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Various news stories instantly went viral across the internet.

Netizens flocked to watch, and after hearing the three recordings, they were even more agitated!

In China, the college entrance examination is the fairest opportunity for ordinary people to change their destiny. Regardless of how people view academic qualifications and top students in private, in public, everyone gives top students and top scorers enough respect.

The news that the crew of the film "Kung Fu King" bullied a top student from Zhejiang University and even gave him the title of the top scorer in the college entrance examination has caused an uproar, combining hot topics in the entertainment industry and social issues.

In other words, Weibo wasn't around at that time, otherwise at least ten or more trending topics would have been guaranteed.

After this incident, the Kung Fu King crew suspended filming, and some people quickly issued a statement to refute the rumors and began targeted public relations efforts to try to quell public opinion.

Another group of people were trying to find out the identity of the person with the "slightly upturned lips" and break through his defenses.

However, the effects were not significant.

Nobody believed the announcement from the Forbidden Kingdom film crew. They couldn't even find out who posted it, and the IP address of the post was linked to the United States.

In addition, many posts were published online at the same time, leading Wang Zhonglei to conclude: "We must have been set up by our competitors!"

Such a massive media offensive, with VPNs used to obfuscate URLs and thousands of accounts posting in a short period, could only be accomplished by a team of at least several dozen people.

Hearing this, Li Xue was even more confused. He didn't know how Shen Gongbao could post so many posts at the same time while he was on set!

Does Shen Gongbao really have a behind-the-scenes team?