In the quiet of the afternoon, the whole of New York looked a little dreary, the layers of dark clouds gathered over Manhattan, and the sparse sunlight struggled to break through the blockade of the clouds, but it seemed weak to penetrate the thickness of the steel forest, and thus dissipated into a large area of gray.

The heat and irritability of midsummer bubbled and tumbled over the busy and crowded streets, and one couldn't help but unbutton one's shirt and try to feel more fresh air, but then found that it was useless, and the thick dullness was overwhelming.

Fifty-seventh Street is a little quieter, middle-class people enjoying afternoon tea under the umbrellas of open-air coffee houses, scalpers hiding in the shadows at the entrance of Carnegie Hall, college students sketching students around the corner of the street...... The heat still lingered, but there was less noise and commotion.

At this moment, the crowd on the street began to get excited without warning, as if you could clearly feel the air beginning to bubble.

People who don't know why are looking back and forth, trying to find the root cause, but here's the problem: nothing is out of the ordinary. There were no luxury sports cars, no parades, no special events, not even surging crowds, and a handful of figures in sight were seen running in the same direction in a daze.

The Juilliard School building faces the exit of the street.

In the next second, the anomaly became apparent.

Not just the five or six figures that had just been activated, but the whole street seemed to be surging: the young man reading the newspaper in the coffee house, the middle-aged man chatting in front of the bookstore, the small suit parked in the roadside parking space waiting for his female companion, the young artist reading the show information in front of Carnegie Hall, all of them rushed in the same direction.

What is it?

What's going on?

It's all inexplicable, it looks like a spy movie like "Mission Impossible", as if all the agents are hiding in the block, just to ambush traitors or spies, and when the target appears, everyone rushes up and subdues the target regardless of it.

Could it be that a movie is being filmed here?

But there are no notices on either side of the street.

The clerks working nearby and the few ordinary people who were enjoying the afternoon were all dumbfounded and inexplicable, completely unaware of what was going on.

Following the direction of the physical displacement, all eyes are projected, and then an ordinary young man is seen, who looks like a student at Juilliard, with a simple white T-shirt and jeans, nothing special, countless in the streets of Manhattan.

In the midst of doubt, he vaguely caught a trace of strangeness, and then the scene became chaotic, and the group of people who flocked from all directions began to accelerate their sprint, and someone shouted in shock, "Wait, Lan Li, wait!"

Blue Gift?

Which Blue Gift?

That Blue Gift?

Almost at the same time, all the surprised eyes were quickly projected towards the figure, excitement and excitement, curiosity and surprise, all emotions were blowout.

What's even more exaggerated is that the crowd hidden in those corners has all sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, just five or six, then eleven and twelve, and now it has become twenty-five and twenty-six in one go, and an endless stream of people came out from all corners and erupted in geometric multiples, and the scene was spectacular.

The scene looks like a magnificent scene on the African savannah, a group of wild wolves are encircling a poor sika deer, the sika deer are running wildly to dodge with all their might, but the wild wolves are persevering and tirelessly forming an encirclement, leaving the sika deer with no way to escape.

"Lan Li, there have been rumors in the industry recently that you are preparing to return to the 'Fast & Thrill' series, is this true?"

"I heard that your personal conflict with Vin Diesel has become irreconcilable, what is the specific situation?"

"Is there anything you'd like to respond to rumours that you've sparked with rookie actor Melissa Benoiste and ruined her relationship with Blake Jenner?"

"Universal Pictures has at least two projects linked to you, does that mean your relationship with Universal Pictures has broken the ice?"

"Are you really going back to the Fast & Thrill series, and what role did Paul Walker play in this?"

"During the filming of 'Burst Drummer' this time, did you still have a good time working with Melissa?"

"The 'Fast & Furious' sequel is being rebooted, and Dwayne Johnson has said he's looking forward to working with you, does that mean you're really coming back to the series?"

"Disney insider, you're preparing to star in 'Guardians of the Galaxy', is this true? The movie is now filming, so when are you going to converge?"

Although Lan Li is in full swing filming "Burst Drummer", the crew itself seems to be calm, but in the past two days, heavy news about Lan Li has emerged one after another, one is more exciting, one is more exaggerated, and one is more exciting than the other-

It's "Speed and Excitement" and "Guardians of the Galaxy", it's rumors and scandals, it's industry changes and personal matters...... The boiling news broke out one after another, and everything was really too exciting, so that the summer files in full swing seemed dwarfed.

In order to be able to grasp the news as soon as possible, countless paparazzi all flocked to the Big Apple and set up an ambush outside the filming location of the "Burst Drummer", looking forward to quickly completing the ambush, forcing Lan Li into a corner, and completing the interview task with lightning speed.

After waiting and waiting, after waiting for almost a day, they finally waited for Lan Li's figure.

Because the Juilliard School is an open campus, Lan Li may leave from any place, so the paparazzi are all scattered and hidden in different corners, and the paparazzi gathered on 57th Street immediately get excited, rejoicing in their luck.

At the same time, the paparazzi stationed at the other exits were half a beat slower, and they also got the news one after another, and they didn't have time to complain, they sprinted over with a scolding, and could only pray silently in their hearts that things would not end too quickly, and they would be able to arrive in time.

So, the scene in front of me appeared.

A wave. Another wave. Another wave.

Paparazzi continue to flock from all directions, layer by layer, and the crowd of people at the scene becomes more and more lively and turbulent, and the streets that were still deserted just now are already overcrowded in a blink of an eye.

In fact, it is not as exaggerated as "overcrowded", there are only about thirty paparazzi - and the number continues to increase, but their madness and excitement make the air stir fiercely, creating an illusion of three hundred people.

No one wants to miss out.

……

Lan Li's first reaction was to turn around and take a step.

At this moment, the last thing he needs is the focus of the spotlight and the encirclement of the paparazzi. He knows that this is their job, as if living in the spotlight is his job, so all along, he has always been calm in front of the paparazzi and reporters, fulfilling the "agreement" between the artist and the media......; Not today.

As soon as he took a step, the shouts exploded like thunder on the ground, and the silence of the entire street completely disappeared, which made Lan Li's footsteps pause slightly.

For a moment, Lan Li's thoughts made a judgment: if you can hide from the first day of the new year, you can't hide from the fifteenth, in this case, it is better to face the paparazzi calmly, quickly deal with the mess, and then you can devote yourself wholeheartedly to the shooting, anyway, it is not difficult to deal with the reporter.

In the next moment, Andrew's mind made another judgment: Run, run away, these people are here to humiliate you, you can't even play the most basic "whipping" well, and you still dream of becoming Buddy Ricky's successor?

Two thoughts and two worlds were constantly tugging, and the whole skull began to ache faintly, and then he realized: it was too late.

There are paparazzi in the front, back and on the sides to quickly form an encirclement, cutting off all Lan Li's escape routes, and now it is time to catch turtles in the urn.

Lan Li stopped, turned around, and faced the paparazzi, but the headache and struggle still did not disappear, sometimes ashamed and calm, sometimes bitter and sometimes indifferent, sometimes painful and sometimes calm, the trance feeling of floating on the water like a rootless wee invaded again.

His sight, his hearing, his sense of smell, and his sense of touch were all disordered, the figures in front of him began to overlap, the sound in his ears began to buzz, the distance between him and the paparazzi also made a mistake in judgment, even the surging air was hot and cold, and the whole time and space seemed to have lost control.

The muscles of his body were tensed to the extreme, as if he was being forced into a corner step by step, the helplessness and despair of the trapped beast quickly invaded, and in an instant, the heart beat out of rhythm, like a giant hand grasping the heart tightly, tightening, tightening, almost unable to breathe.

"Blue Ceremony", "Scandal", "Contradiction", "Speed", "Paul", "Happening", "Situation", "Response", "Negative", "Scene", "Lang", "Why", "True", "Official", "Problem", "Conspiracy", "Provocation", ......

The countless words are like a thousand broken pieces of a puzzle, all of them are sprinkled one by one, and then they are all messed up indiscriminately, and there is no accurate vein to be found in those fragmented syllables, only a large murmur of voices is surging, sharp and powerful stinging of the eardrum, and the sharp pain comes in waves after waves, like a stormy wave, leaving no breathing space at all, and before responding in time, the whole person is completely drowned.

Suffocate. Dark.