Chapter St
Chapter 84
In Yulilo’s view, Elana’s laugh was mocking her. She glared at Eliana and fumed with hatred.
Things had become too confusing now. The Outreach Provost took the microphone back and said, “There will be an investigation after this. Yulila. Willow, it doesn’t matter who is responsible as we will bunch a thorough investigation.
Vudila left the stage without another word
Eliana gave a wry smile as she turned to Willow still standing below the stage. There was a tinge of teasing in her eyes.
Willow met her gaze squarely and a dark glint flashed across her eyes.
The two of them locked eyes in this manner from afar. The atmosphere felt strangely creepy. It was as if they were archenemies who knew each other the best
Vulila’s confession caused a big upheaval. She had been in the dance club for two years. No one expected her to be the perpetrator. After she left the stare, every dance club member swarmed to her
Though Eliana did not manage to finish off Willow this time, she did not feel too much regret. In the first place, Eliana k never have made such a huge slip–up, so she was not holding out too much hope.
Everyone present assumed the matter had finally come to a close.
To everyone is surprise, the tennis clubs senior in charge of the school belle competition walked on
knew that Willow would
this
moment
onto the stage with a microphone at
eto an end, there’s one more thing I need Willow
““Ladies and gentlemen, please wait a moment. Now that the props sabotage incident has come to Gama of the dance club to clarify in public”
Members of the audience perked up again in anticipation of more explosive revelations and rushed back to their seats. If this were a ticketed event, they would have gotten more than their money’s worth now. There were so many scandalous exposés!
The senior gave Eliana a look of reassurance. Then, she turned to Willow and asked. “Willow, you’re currently in first place for the second round of the school belle competition. The voting for the second round will end tomorrow, so I have to ask you today?
Willow clenched her fists slightly but still smiled. Please go ahead”
The senior began explaining. “Three weeks ago, we checked the votes you received and found some discrepancies. We found that most of the
poounts that voted for you did not originate from IP addresses within the campus but from the south district of the city. Are you aware of this?”
Willow a vour nigging had been discovered! After the initial panic, she quickly calmed down.
Previously, the guy who helped her with the vote rigging had promised her that the student organizers of the school belle competition were not Had IT–savvy s it was impossible for them to discover the fraudulen votes. Even if they discovered signs of vote–rigging, they wouldn’t be able to
Therefour, as long as she didn’t admit it, the university wouldn’t be able to do anything to her without evidence.
Wallow replied with a baffled expression. “I don’t know Could there be a mistake? What south district? I don’t know anything about that
The armor nodded. “Alright, since you say you don’t know, let me elaborate. The number of votes you received increased drastically last week. Compared to the votes Elana ironived, you have an almost unassailable lead.
ve ar not that conly ones who noticed the almormality. The other competition participants alio complained that they suspected you were cheating
arcrising the complaint, we investigated and found that most of the accounts that voted for you were new accounts that had just been contiver the last farce days. Moreover, their real IP addresses were found to have originated from outside the school campus. Are you also
Tin tot acare” Wallow had been so indent on overtaking bliana that she did not take sufficient pr
precautions to cover
she was too pagrilsive back then. If she had known, she would have executed her plan slowly.
She could only stand firm
file smor already suspected that Willow would not come clean. Therefore, Eliana had a backup plan
pappeared on the big screen behind her. Every small red dot on the map was
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pointing to a location accurate to within a five–yard radius.
Willow was completely dumbfounded when she saw this map.
The senior smiled faintly and said. “The red dots indicate the actual locations of the IP addresses that I found with the assistance of a few other
“Judging from these locations, more than one–third of your votes originate from the same computer. Willow, what else do you have to say now!”
For the third time, an uproar broke out in the audience.
“More than a third of the votes came from the same computer at the same IP address? If this isn’t vote rigging, what is it?”
To think that earlier, I had thought that this person called Willow Garcia was kind–hearted. But now it seems that she is capable of such underhanded tricks.”
“Isn’t she playing us for a fool I knew it. Everyone in my dormitory block voted for Eliana Davis. My friends also voted for Eliana Davis. So why is Willow Garcia still in first place? Who within the campus voted for Willow Garcia! It turned out that her votes were rigged!”
“Maybe her extended family helped her? Who knows! I even registered my parents‘ cell phone numbers to cast votes for Eliana Davis.
“I’m speechless. Willow Garcia still refuses to admit it. What’s the difference between this and cheating?”
And the condemnation poured forth endlessly.
Willow never thought that the organizer was able to track down the real IP addresses. She had been given the assurance that no one could trace the IP addresses, unless…
Jaerod Geert must have helped them.
Jarrod was a genius in the School of Computer Science. Other than him, no one else would be able to find out.
Willow truly hated Eliana now. Originally, she intended to enlist Jarrod’s help but that guy took Eliana’s side. Now, these people had even found where the extra votes onginated from. It seemed that she could no longer feign ignorance this time.
In the next instant, an idea popped into her mind and she quickly changed tack.
She lowered her head. When she raised it again, her eyes were almost teary and pitiful. She said, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I really don’t know what’s going on… Could it be that someone maliciously rigged these votes in my favor and wants me to be disqualified?
“Everyone, please believe me. I’m not the kind of person who does such things. Eliana, I want to reconcile with you all along. I will never do such things behind your back Surely you know that I’m not the kind of person who does such things, don’t you? Please speak up for me…”
So the wanted Eliana do
a to speak up for herr Then Eliana would fulfill her wish.
ip for her. “Willow, someone must be
When Yulila and the other dance club members saw Willow crying so piteously, they quickly tried to speak up playing tricks on you behind your back! We all believe you!”
“Everyone in our dance club voted for Willow. She has plenty of supporters. Why does she need to rig votes?”
“There must be a misunderstanding another member claimed.
It had to be said that the dance club members were quite united.
What was supposedly a denouncement of Willow rigging her votes had now been manipulated to become a conspiracy about other people maliciously framing the innocent Willow for vote rigging to get her disqualified from the competition
That was a masterstroke in terms of putting a positive spin on this incident.
However, what Elana said next in an indifferent tone pierced Willow’s heart right through. “Willow, it seems like you have enemies. It’s probably not cheap to pay for vote rigging. The number of votes involved is tens of thousands.
quite
a number of
“To think dut someone was p
prepared to spend a
so much money to screw you. You are quite a hated character, aren’t your
