Investigative journalists are very similar to detectives, except that detectives are trying to solve the truth of a case in order to get paid or solve the perpetrators.As for the reporter, after investigating the truth, he will make it public, so that the public can see this side and indirectly gain fame or benefits.The young Laurie is an investigative journalist who doesn't even have the backing of a permanent television station, and this daring woman used to run around with a cell phone in her hand, record what she finds, and sell it to the highest bidder or television station as a scoop.Speaking of which, it's quite a freelance profession, even a bit like a mercenary in the press.It's just that in a place like Kansas, it is impossible to have big news every day, so she can only afford to rent a small house in the city and live a very simple life.On weekends, she would go back to town and go to her boyfriend's house, even in the years when Clark was missing, she had been taking care of the old couple.She thinks that's what her family should do, and she hasn't broken up with Clark after the other party has been out of touch for a few years, and now she just doesn't know how to face him.Because of the things he did in the parallel universe, it was too cruel, and he could easily blow up the combat power of the planet, making the girl feel as if her boyfriend was far away from her.It's not a difference in social status or wealth, it's a difference in life form, and the other party is like a god.But instead of thinking about that, she was driving to a crime scene, and about half an hour ago, two madmen had come out of nowhere, and they had attacked the city administration building, massacred security guards and staff, and robbed some classified documents.The scene was so bloody that even the most seasoned medical examiner vomited a large puddle of sight in some of the rooms, which was said to be not something a human should do.As for Laurie, she came here to investigate, just to dig deep into what was behind this matter.Unlike many reporters and anchors who follow hot spots and catch up with first-hand news, investigative reporters don't particularly value timeliness, they need to dig deep into one thing and expose the truth.For example, why would someone attack the town hall?
What is the motivation of the other party?
Is it terrorist manipulation?
Or do you want to steal confidential documents for profit?
Is everything as simple as it seems?
Could there be some bipartisan struggle behind it, or is it a dark political struggle?
These were all things she wanted to look up.So when she arrived, the crowd of onlookers was almost finished, because the situation in the city was very bad now, everyone was in danger, and the people who watched the excitement had gone home.The recent terrorist attack on the police station caused the police officers who were originally guarding the scene to go there as well, so that beyond the bloody, cave-like wreckage of the town hall, there was only a simple yellow and white plastic belt as a blockade.Laurie turned on the camera function of her phone, raised her legs and walked into the scene, she took a deep breath, but was quickly choked and coughed, and began to explain the record with difficulty: "I came to the town hall after the attack, God, this place really looks like a battlefield, although I didn't see the body, but now the soles of my shoes are flooded with blood, making it difficult for me to walk." ”"I was going to go into the ruins to look for the traces of the criminals before, so as to find out their motives for the attack, and today the city is in a mess, and I vaguely feel that there is a connection behind this series of attacks.""
I don't know what this connection is yet, but it's our journalists' responsibility to investigate the truth, and as long as they do, they will inevitably leave traces, and I just need a little luck," she said to herself, muttering to herself on her phone, as if it had been attacked with a rocket, where part of the building had collapsed and the beautiful and heavy gate was gone.Some of the rubble piles were still smoking, I don't know what was smoldering, compared to most women of the same age, Laurie was not ordinarily bold, and her tone did not tremble in the face of such a terrifying scene.Walking up the blood-stained steps, she entered the building, a sense of eerie that swept through her nerves the moment the sunlight disappeared overhead.Cold, this is the first reaction, she felt an abnormal cold, and even found that when she spoke, there was a sigh in front of her.For a moment, she thought of the haunting, but as a materialist, she quickly threw the thought out of her mind."
Click."
The sound of something falling could be heard in the deep and broken hallway, and she immediately shone it there with the flashlight of her mobile phone, but she saw no living creatures, only some corpses that had not yet been removed.To be exact, there are more bodies inside the building than outside, and there are so many people dying today, and there is no shortage of people at the forensic center, plus there are not enough police.For law enforcement officers in the United States, their profession is a simple job, when a series of terrorist attacks in the city one after another, they are also afraid, many people prefer to return to their small homes to ensure the safety of their families first.In particular, many of today's vicious cases are specifically targeted at government employees and law enforcement, and the DHS and FBI investigations have not found anything.Laurie settled down, walked to an office that looked intact, pushed open the door and looked inside, but immediately threw up.She had never seen such a crime scene, and the slaughterhouse would not have killed pigs like this, it would not have been so bloody."
Click."
Just as she was vomiting, there seemed to be another noise in the distance behind her, and she struggled to her guard, wiping her mouth and looking there through the ruins of the dark hallway.Or nothing.Nervousness makes people want to vomit, and she understands that, and after trying to calm herself down as much as she can, she doesn't want to waste any more time, so she immediately walks upstairs to the mayor's office.But as soon as she walked like this, she felt that someone was following behind her, it was a simple reporter's intuition, what was there in the dark."
Hello!
Is it a survivor?
”She asked."
Yes, help, they didn't go, they didn't go!"
Someone responded to her question, and crawled out of the darkness, but only half a person, the beheaded man who didn't know why he was still alive, dragging his intestines as hard as he could, with a mixture of pain and fear on his face, and constantly looking back behind him.The female reporter's heart chuckled, she heard the other party's shouts clearly, it turned out that the prisoner did not leave here, and when the police came to investigate here before, the murderers may have been hiding aside!
And it was this second of astonishment and pause that allowed her to escape without getting close to half of the people, only to see a door in the corridor suddenly open, and a wire with a huge hook shot out of it, and quickly swept the half of the people crawling on the ground into the dark room, "Ah!!
”After a scream, everything was quiet again, and Laurie turned around and ran, trying to escape from the town hall.
(End of chapter)