Chapter 64 Public Opinion Storm

Zhou Chen felt somewhat puzzled. How did his family know he had been arrested?

He turned his head to look at the police station chief, inquiring with his gaze.

Noticing the displeasure in Zhou Chen’s eyes, the chief hurriedly waved his hands, vehemently denying that he had leaked the matter.

With the phone still pressed against his ear, Zhou Chen spoke in a relaxed tone: "It’s nothing, just a minor issue. I can leave at any time."

On the other end of the line, Zhou Xiang let out a sigh of relief: "Getting arrested for practicing medicine without a license—as long as it didn't cause any severe harm to the patient, it's just a matter of paying a fine."

Zhou Xiang was also a doctor, so he was quite familiar with the penalties for unlicensed practice.

"Dad, how did you know I was arrested for practicing without a license? Who told you?" Zhou Chen asked, perplexed.

"Why would I need someone else to tell me? Right now, short video platforms are flooded with news about you, claiming you're swindling people out of money under the guise of curing cancer. It's almost trending nationwide. Is it true?"

Cai Yameng timely pulled out her phone, which was playing footage of Zhou Chen walking into a police car, accompanied by the caption:

"A Peking University student falsely claims he can cure cancer, currently arrested by the police!"

Zhou Chen could not help whether to laugh or cry.

That pot-bellied vice president moved really fast. He got into the police car a little past two in the afternoon, and by five in the afternoon, he was already trending across the internet.

No doubt millions had been poured into pushing traffic for those videos.

However, Zhou Chen did not take it to heart. The internet had no memory.

Moreover, as long as he could prove that this news was true, he could leverage the internet to spread the news of his ability to cure cancer nationwide and even globally.

Once that happened, the truly top-tier tycoons would come knocking on his door, begging for cures for their terminal illnesses.

Yet, this matter could not be rushed; at least he had to wait until after the National Day holiday.

Because once his reputation soared, it would severely infringe upon the interests of certain capitalists.

Driven by profit, those people would inevitably try to eliminate him.

He himself was not afraid, but he couldn't stop them from resorting to underhanded tactics against his family.

Therefore, during this period, he needed to forge defensive magical artifacts and hand them over to his family when he returned home for National Day. Only then could he rest easy without a single worry.

"It's true, and my ability to cure cancer is also true. Someone behind the scenes is trying to target me, but it's not a big problem. I can handle it myself," Zhou Chen said with a relaxed tone.

Hearing that Zhou Chen could cure cancer, Zhou Xiang was thoroughly shocked.

"Did you learn this from your grandfather?" Zhou Xiang asked doubtfully.

Although Zhou Xiang was Zhou Guangxi's only biological son, he had not fully inherited Zhou Guangxi's medical skills, achieving notable success only in the field of orthopedics.

Yet Zhou Xiang knew very well that even the old man himself was utterly incapable of curing cancer.

To set his family's mind at ease, Zhou Chen said with absolute confidence: "The blue comes from the indigo and excels it. When it comes to treating terminal illnesses, I have already surpassed grandfather. If you don't believe me, you can go ask him."

Zhou Xiang gave a few more instructions before finally hanging up the phone.

Hearing Zhou Chen's words, Zhang Mingxu, standing nearby, visibly let out a sigh of relief.

At first, he thought Zhou Chen came from a family of reclusive traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and that his father and grandfather were likely medical immortals.

Now it seemed Zhou Chen was just an exception.

And it made sense: if each generation truly surpassed the previous, and the grandson was already this formidable, wouldn't the grandfather be capable of raising the dead back to life!

Yang Hao also took out his phone to check, discovering that the matter of Zhou Chen's unlicensed practice had climbed to the top of the short video trending searches.

Most of the videos were smearing Zhou Chen, because smearing Zhou Chen meant gaining traffic.

"Cure cancer, my foot! He looks like he's barely an adult."

"I can't even... family, who gets this? Even a scumbag like this claims he can cure cancer!"

"Cancer is a global terminal illness, and even Western medicine is completely helpless against it. What makes you think Traditional Chinese Medicine can do anything?"

"I heard it even cost someone's life. He must be severely punished!"

"I support investigating this all the way to the end!"

"Strictly investigate Huaxin Hospital!"

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Comments of this nature already numbered in the millions.

Backed by massive traffic, some uninformed people also joined the bandwagon of bashing Zhou Chen.

This made Yang Hao feel a bit tricky.

If this matter hadn't been uploaded to the media, Zhou Chen could have left the police station at any time.

But with short video media blowing it up, it would inevitably draw strict investigations from the authorities above.

Therefore, they still needed to go through the proper standard procedures.

Especially since it involved the sensitive topic of "practicing someone to death," a formal court trial would be necessary.

Thus, Zhou Chen definitely could not just walk away freely over the next couple of days.

Still, it was merely troublesome.

After all, it was a fact that Zhou Chen could cure terminal illnesses, and a straight tree does not fear a crooked shadow.

What needed to be done now was to clear Zhou Chen's name.

Evening arrived swiftly.

The outside of the police station was swarming with a crowd of reporters.

They all wanted the first-hand scoop on the story.

This represented massive traffic; whoever got it first would reap a huge influx of viewers.

As the protagonist of the incident, Zhou Chen showed no panic at all.

He was still in the breakroom, examining the police officers one by one.

Since he had time to spare, he was in no hurry whatsoever.

The ones who should be anxious were those high-ranking officials and nobles who wanted him to cure their cancers.

Behind them stood formidable capital and official power.

Since the vice president's faction could throw millions into this, those dignitaries could throw tens of millions or even hundreds of millions to clear his name.

Furthermore, Zhou Chen was confident that these people would pull out all the stops just to impress him.

All he had to do was nothing at all.

Cai Yameng had not left, staying right by Zhou Chen's side.

Suddenly, a WeChat notification came in.

Upon seeing the WeChat message, Cai Yameng stood up and walked out of the police station.

The entrance of the police station was blocked watertight by reporters.

Since this was the capital city of Yanhuang, Beijing, many of the reporters came from top-tier Yanhuang media companies.

The outer perimeter was also packed with onlookers, each holding street food and watching the spectacle with great relish.

Most of them were Peking University students. Hearing that the person arrested was Zhou Chen, they rushed to the police station to plead his case, with students from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine making up the majority.

After all, Zhou Chen was the miraculous doctor who had saved that major traffic accident from the brink of disaster; his medical ethics spoke for themselves, needing no further elaboration.

As for the claim that he could cure cancer, they did not believe it either.

They suspected someone was framing him and intentionally trying to ruin him, which was why such a lie was fabricated.

Once the reporters gathered the details, they immediately transmitted the information back to their media companies.

Soon, new trending searches appeared on the phones of citizens all across Yanhuang:

"Shocking! The mastermind behind this unlicensed medical fraud turns out to be..."

"The identity of the fraudster has been verified—it's that young miraculous doctor who was all the rage recently! Does he truly possess the means to cure cancer, or is this once again a hype driven by capital? Welcome to the new semester's grand documentary—'True and False Miraculous Doctors'!"