Chapter 45: Fear Spreads
In the Longcheng New District, in the past 16 days, the residents of the Longcheng New Area have been evacuated and resettled in an orderly manner with the help of the authorities.
Unfortunately, not everyone is so obedient, and some people are not only disobedient but also like to die.
The first few days were nothing more than those outdoor anchors who died in short videos.
The mass evacuation of the inhabitants of an urban area, let alone in recent years, has been rare in the modern history of mankind.
There are constant domestic and foreign news, as well as powder snow incidents and my husky beating incidents, etc., which have also brought huge traffic to Longcheng New Area, so there are many outdoor anchors and short video makers who want to go shopping in Longcheng New Area after the evacuation.
At first, the authorities did not take any tough measures, but with the influx of more and more outsiders, the officials began to arrest these guys who did not know whether they were alive or dead, and arrested one or two people in a row as typical cases in the news.
There are finally fewer of these guys who die for the sake of traffic and heat.
But there are always one or two that slip through the net.
Joanna and her assistant are the ones who slipped through the net, she is not the anchor of a live broadcast website, but a news reporter, a foreign news reporter.
Originally, she was sent to Longcheng New District to report on the incident of powder snow in Longcheng New District.
It's a pity that Joanna rushed to Longcheng New District overnight and didn't get any news, and she planned to treat this dispatch as a vacation.
All the way to... Sixteen days ago, she drank a can of Coke on a park bench in Longcheng New District when she had nothing to do, and saw something that shook her life.
Dragon! Golden Dragon!
"Boss, it's really time for us to go, the edge of this city is getting stricter and stricter, and I saw a tank across the bridge the day before yesterday!"
Joanna's photographer's assistant, Hank, held the camera in his hand and scanned the empty streets of the Dragon City New District with an uneasy expression.
"What's there to be afraid of? Aren't you used to shooting gunfights? Joanna took the binoculars and looked at Dragon City Park on the other side of the street.
There are so many surveillance cameras on the street that she and her assistant have limited range of movement, but Joanna's hotel is just across from Dragon City Park.
She used some special means to avoid the first stage of clearance.
"It's different, the thugs in Brink, New York, are armed with pistols at best, but here are tanks and a bunch of heavily armed soldiers!" The more Hank said, the more scared he became: "If we get caught... That's it! ”
That's how I was right! What do you think they gathered here for? Is it just because of an early warning of volcanic activity? It's because there's a dragon living in the lake in that park across the street! Or something like that! ”
Joanna grabbed Hank by the collar with her hand and pushed the sunglasses she was wearing to her forehead.
"That's what we eat! Hank! Think about it with your brain, if we take a picture of that golden dragon, all we need is a small video recording, a few photos, can you think of how much it can be sold for? It's a hundred, a thousand times more than you and I filmed those thug murders in New York before! We may also be able to make a name for this! ”
Joanna wasn't a professional TV reporter, she was a 'news hunter', a job that was not uncommon in the Eagle Nation in the early years, a bunch of ghouls, night watchmen and so on.
The job is to rush to the scene as soon as homicide and various disasters occur, and to arrive at the scene far faster than the police and inspectors, and to shoot the deceased and other recorded images and sell them to the TV station.
Joanna has been in this business for many years, and she clearly understands what the golden dragon that emerged from the Hidden Dragon Lake represents.
"I've paid you five times as much as my salary! If you want to leave, return the money to me first! Joanna said as she loosened Hank's collar.
Hank wanted to refuse to throw the camera in Joanna's hands and walk away, but Joanna gave him too much money.
He straightened his collar and stood up, checking the status of the camera in his hand, and just after checking it he heard the sound of something shattering.
Joanna and Hank looked back at the same time into the darkness at the end of the alley.
Out of the darkness stepped a humanoid figure obscured by pitch-black robes.
"Run!" Hank thought someone had come to get them, and the instinct of his profession made him turn around and want to slip away.
"Stop, it's not the guy who grabbed us, it seems to be our peers."
Joanna stopped Hank with a voice, the guy who came out of the darkness was slender and long, and Joanna didn't see what the other party looked like for a while because of the hood.
But if it's so tightly wrapped, it may be her peer.
"We're tourists here, just staying here temporarily, what's the matter with you? Hey, Hank translate for me. Joanna patted Hank on the back.
The biggest reason why she brought this assistant here is that Hank is a popular national expert and a fan of kung fu movies... When I saw the reprint of the kung fu husky on social networking sites before, I excitedly called this a stupid thing like real kung fu.
So he also spoke Chinese very well, Hank helped Joanna translate what she said, and the other party really responded, but the language spoken by the other party was not Chinese.
It was an extremely obscure language, and Joanna was very uncomfortable to listen to, and she had the feeling of a heartbeat in her ears when she was sunk to the bottom of the sea.
"What did he say?" Joanna hurriedly asked, after all, there are so many dialects in the Red Country, what if the other party speaks Wenzhou dialect?
"I... I don't know, he's not talking about Chinese......"
Hank's tone gradually became a little distracted, and the strange figure walked towards Hank, Joanna subconsciously thought that Hank would retreat, but his whole person stood there as if frozen, not moving at all.
"Hank, what's wrong with you?!"
Joanna realized something was wrong, but was still a step too late, and the figure suddenly reached out her hand and grabbed Hank's neck, slamming it against the wall on one side.
"You bastard! Hank! What happened to you? Answer me! Joanna took out a slinger stick she bought in Xunjiang City from her pocket, and threatened the other party in a loud voice: "Let him go!" Otherwise, I'm going to do it! ”
But as if they hadn't heard Joanna's threat, they continued to choke Hank's neck.
Joanna didn't politely wave the stick in her hand and hit it on the arm, but it didn't work... The guy didn't even react at all as if he didn't feel any pain.
Hank is in a very bad state right now, and he has begun to foam at the mouth and his body is convulsing!
In desperation, Joanna struck the guy on the forehead with a slingstick.
The throwing stick hit the other party's head firmly, Joanna is also a good hand at throwing the stick, she doesn't know what weapons to defend herself in this line of work, and she really can't get mixed up.
But the feel of this stick swing is different from the touch that Joanna used to hit the street thugs, and more accurately the touch of hitting a human head.
The sticky touch was like hitting a soft sponge, and the sticky touch quickly spread uneasiness in Joanna's heart.
The stick hit, and the opponent's hood slowly slipped off its head.
The moment Joanna saw the creature's true appearance, a somewhat suffocating fear welled up in her heart.
The head of the figure that grabbed Hank was not a human head, but the head of an octopus or a squid or something.
The tentacles that stretched out at its chin moved restlessly, and when it turned its gaze to Joanna, the tentacles also reached out to Joanna...
The words that poured out of the creature's mouth once again made Joanna feel like she was being dragged to the bottom of the ocean by something, the drowning suffocation that consumed all her senses in her body.