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Xirong, who had been detained in the police station for nearly ten hours, was released due to the pressure from public opinion on the police station.
"Girl, the newspaper has already reported these matters, so what's our next step?" Shen Wanshan asked.
"Old Master Shen, are you aware of the internet?" Xiao Yao asked seriously.
The current development of the internet was not as rapid as it would be ten years later when information over the internet could indeed spread quickly. As soon as there was any incident anywhere, it would become widely known. Right now, mobile phones were not yet widespread, thus even fewer people used computers to access the internet. However, few did not mean none. Furthermore, computers were typically owned by individuals with social status or wealthy families, so if this information was disseminated through the internet, the situation would certainly develop very quickly.