Alternately, another set of faithful believers began to draw an analogy with the Japanese manga/anime/movie <Death Notebook>. In that classical story, a vigilante nicknamed “Killer” was killing off criminals by writing their names into the magical “death notebook.” Eventually the police arrested him and held him under maximum security detention. Everybody assumed that all the killing would stopped. But suddenly, another “Killer” surfaced and continued the murder spree using a second “death notebook.” So if the original “Killer” of this case has now been apprehended by the Hong Kong police, will the second “Killer” emerge to continue the cause?

Then beginning midnight, compressed archived files containing photographs were suddenly being routed around in email as well as peer-to-peer sharing services such as Foxy. These alternate methods were used because the Hong Kong discussion forums will no longer post information about those photographs due to legal concerns. After a while, unknown persons posted the photographs at overseas pornographic websites and published the links at overseas Chinese-language forums. These overseas websites are beyond the reach of the Hong Kong police. During the process, the keyword ‘251’ became part of folklore as the shorthand term for the number of photographs in the current collection (as in, “Do you have 251?” “Desperately seeking 251″).

What was in this latest batch? More photographs of Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan and Cecilia Cheung. The quantity and quality of the photographs were incredibly damaging. It is hard to imagine what how Gillian Chung could face the public again, or Bobo Chan’s planned marriage next place would take place, or Nicholas Tse would remain married to Cecilia Cheung. There are also photographs of three more entertainers (Candice Chan, Rachel Ngan, Cathy Leung (?)) who were hardly known to the general public before this but are now household names. Their names are probably now among the top ten search engine terms. In the evening, the word came out that there is now a 600+ collection of photographs plus a 13-minute video out there.

For the tenth day in a row, the Edison Chen photographs were featured on the front page of the major Hong Kong newspapers: