Chapter 190: Internet Search
Lin Bai started the car and was about to go back when he received two new text messages.
He opened them and saw that they were all sent by Luo Yang.
There was a video on top and a text at the bottom.
“Boss, the person in the video is you, right?”
Lin Bai was a little curious. He opened the video and saw that it was actually a surveillance video.
Looking at the surrounding environment, it was surprisingly the entrance of the car dealership store.
In the video, Lin Bai got out of the car, turned around, and said a few words to the driver before walking into the car dealership store.
The video was very short and it ended there.
Moreover, due to the angle, Lin Bai’s face was not captured in the entire process. There was only a side profile that was not very clear.
However, Lin Bai’s height and figure, as well as his clothes at that time, could be seen clearly.
It might be difficult for a stranger to recognize the person in the video with just a blurry side profile.
However, as Lin Bai’s roommate, Luo Yang had spent so much time with him that he could almost recognize him at a glance.
These two text messages of his were more to confirm than to ask.
It was to confirm that he was not mistaken.
Lin Bai thought about it and felt that lying was really meaningless and unnecessary.
So he told the truth.
“Yes, it’s me.”
Lin Bai quickly replied. At the same time, he had already guessed why this video appeared on the Internet.
As he expected, Luo Yang replied with a long exclamation mark almost instantly.
“Boss! Didn’t you know that the lottery ticket you gave out won the grand prize?”
“A grand prize of five million yuan!”
“That driver is looking for you all over the internet right now! He wants to split the prize money with you!”
Perhaps Luo Yang felt that typing was not enough, or perhaps words could not express his excitement at this moment.
He simply made a voice call directly.
“Boss, you’re really too awesome!!”
“This is the first time I’ve seen a person in my social circle win a big prize! But why did you give away the lottery ticket? Five million!! It flew away just like that!”
“What happened back then? Quickly tell me about it. I’m dying of curiosity!”
Luo Yang kept blabbering non-stop. His excitement was almost bursting out of the microphone.
Lin Bai laughed and said, “It’s only five million. You have ten times the amount in your bank account. Do you have to be so excited?”
Luo Yang shouted on the other end of the phone, “How can it be the same? This is the lottery! Do you know how hard it is to win it?”
“I’ve never heard of anyone around me winning the lottery!”
“And this prize should have belonged to you, boss. Don’t you feel bad now that it has flown away?”
Lin Bai smiled and asked, “Should I feel bad?”
“…”
Luo Yang ran out of battery. In the end, he could only say, “Well, maybe my realm is too low to understand.”
Then, he changed the topic and asked, “Then, boss, do you not plan to share the money with him?”
“Of course.”
When Lin Bai gave the lottery ticket out, he had already made it very clear that no matter how much money he won, he would not take a single cent.
Actually, at that time, he had already felt that the lottery ticket should be able to win the first prize.
Otherwise, how could it be worthy of his Max-level Luck value?
Five million yuan was a staggering sum of money that ordinary people might not be able to earn in their lifetime.
But to the current Lin Bai, it was not even a drop in the ocean.
He would not go back on his word for such a small amount of money.
This time, Luo Yang did not find it strange. He only said, “A lot of marketing accounts are spreading this news. I reckon that the popularity of this matter will not drop in the near future, and it is very likely that it will continue to grow.”
“When the time comes, more people may recognize that the person in the video is you. Even if you don’t want to admit it, this matter can not be hidden.”
“Boss, have you thought about how to deal with this?”
This reminded Lin Bai.
Since Luo Yang could recognize him, the other two roommates, Zhu Kai and Sun Xiaogang, as well as Yu Jinmo, who was Lin Bai’s girlfriend, were probably able to recognize him as well.
There were also Lin Bai’s parents. It was impossible for them not to recognize their son.
As for how to deal with this, they really had to think about it carefully.
“Luo Yang, thank you for telling me this news. I’ll think about it myself,” said Lin Bai.
Luo Yang said, “Okay, Boss, you take your time to think about it. Anyway, as long as you don’t say anything, I’ll never spread the news! Don’t worry, I’ll keep my mouth shut!”
Lin Bai smiled and said, “Yeah, of course I believe that. Let’s leave it at that for now.”
Luo Yang hung up the phone. Lin Bai opened du Niang and searched for relevant news. As expected, he found a lot of reposts.
A certain blog, a certain voice, a certain hand, as well as the local tieba and vxin public accounts, there were reposts everywhere.
Some people ridiculed Lin Bai for being stupid and giving away the lottery ticket casually. Now that he had won the lottery, he almost didn’t get the money.
There was also a marketing account that praised the driver, saying that he was a rare good person in modern society. In the face of a huge amount of wealth falling from the sky, he was still able to hold on to his moral principles and take the initiative to find Lin Bai to give the lottery ticket to him.
There were even more people who thought that this was all hype, and that it was completely fake news.
They raised all kinds of so-called doubts to prove their point.
There were also a lot of posts that were taking advantage of the popularity, and spread rumours that there was going to be so-called plot twists, revelation of the truth, and all sorts of other things.
Of course, the driver had obviously been paying attention to what was happening on the Internet. He even made a statement specifically in response to the doubts raised by those marketing accounts, and repeatedly emphasized that he was not lying and putting on a show.
However, his statement was drowned in a huge amount of information and didn’t attract much attention.
Not long after, Luo Yang sent another screenshot.
It was a certain video-sharing app’s trending list.
The news of the middle-aged driver searching for Lin Bai on the internet had already rushed to the thirtieth place on the trending list.
Luo Yang sent a message:
“Before I called you, this matter hadn’t even made it to the trending list. In such a short period of time, it has already rushed to the thirtieth place.”
“Now that more and more people know about this matter, the popularity is getting higher and higher. I reckon that it might even make it into the top ten. Boss, you have to quickly think of a strategy to deal with it.”
Lin Bai had a headache.
To be honest, he really did not want this matter to continue rising in heat.
All this while, Lin Bai had been trying his best to keep a low profile and try his best not to attract too much attention.
As for his parents and Yu Jinmo, he had also tried his best to hide it from them in order not to let them know that he had become so rich.
But now, the driver was searching the entire Internet, and it was even trending on all the major platforms.
If this continued to develop, it was only a matter of time before his identity was discovered.
It might even be discovered along with all his previous investments.
That would be hard to explain..