'What's going on?'
Julien narrowed his eyes and immediately called the PR department.
"Mr. Flint," the PR manager answered.
Julien questioned, "Zach told you to have the comments smearing Sydney deleted, didn't he? Did you follow his instructions?"
The manager froze. But soon, he snapped to his senses and replied, "Mr. Flint, Zach did give me instructions, and I did it immediately. It's about you and Ms. Raines. We didn't waste any time."
"Tell me: what's going on online now!" Julien was not happy with the manager's answer.
"Is there anything wrong?" The manager frowned and showed a confused look.
Apparently, he was not aware of what was going on at that moment..
"Excuse me, Mr. Flint. Let me check it. Just a moment." The manager then held the phone between his shoulder and ear and started searching the Internet.
Two minutes later, after learning about the situation, the manager exclaimed, "How is this possible?"
"What's going on?" Julien asked.
The manager was dumbfounded. "Mr. Flint, I'm sure we had all the badmouthing comments deleted, but somehow, it looks like they're still there. That's impossible.
After the comments were deleted, I specifically checked online and made sure they were all cleared. I'm not lying." The manager's tone was earnest.
Julien believed the manager was not lying.
But the comments discrediting Sydney were still there...
"Mr. Flint!" the manager spoke in a very serious tone, "There is a possibility..."
"What?" Julien demanded.
The manager hastened to explain, "We did delete the comments, but someone may have reinstated them later. It's very easy for IT companies or hackers to do that."
‘IT company…’
Julien thought of Mr. McDaniel.
Mr. McDaniel's company specialized in IT business.
And Mr. McDaniel didn't like Sydney...
'No!' Julien shook his head. 'That's not possible! Although Mr. McDaniel doesn't like Sydney, he wouldn't do something like that.'
Julien believed his teacher wouldn't do such a nasty thing even if he disliked a person.
'There’s no way that Mr. McDaniel did it. He had no reason to do it.'
"Can you find out which IT company or which hacker did it?" Julien asked in a grim tone.
The manager answered after a few seconds of thought, "If it's a hacker, it's hard to track him down. They usually hide themselves by hacking into other people's servers. But if it's an IT company, we might be able to find it out. IT companies are not so easy to hide, because they have a lot of servers. But I think it is better to involve the IT team. They are professional. Our team is not good at IT."
Julien knew that, too.
"Tell the IT team to investigate it immediately," Julien instructed.
"Yes, Mr. Flint," the manager responded.
After hanging up the phone, Julien pinched the bridge of his nose and was about to call Sydney to reassure her that he would take care of it.
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