The next morning, as soon as the winter sun had just risen from the sky, Britney Yawned up from bed, cut a few slices of bread and ate them carelessly, picked up the necessary papers, and drove towards the company's location.

The Los Angeles Times, the second largest folio in the United States after the New York Times and the Washington Post, has an unrivalled position in the West Coast press community. But since 2008, the Los Angeles Times has been laying off more than 1,200 employees in 2001 to just over 600 today.

Competition is everywhere in the newspaper, and Britney, as a reporter who has just turned into a regular reporter, is under great pressure, and her biggest hope every day is to find good news materials, so that she can have news to write.

Yes, even the New York Times, in addition to some international news that needs to be reported, there are also a lot of local news that need to be adopted, and these local news need reporters to dig deeper.

Just as she walked into the office, Britney's boss, a fifty-five-year-old woman in a brown coat, called her into the office.

"Smack."

The old woman, Cassie, threw Wen Jiàn on the desk, and a hint of anger appeared on her face: "This is the news you collected for a week?" ”

As soon as Britney looked at the old woman's face, she knew that she had somehow touched her moldy head.

"Yes, what's wrong with these?"

"Questions? It's all about the problem! ”

"The Los Angeles Times isn't a street tabloid, and you want to have these inconsequential stories published and thus ridiculed by the citizens," Cassie said. ”

"But ......"

Britney argued: "There's really nothing to do in the city worth reporting." ”

"No, the news happens all the time, it's just that you don't find it."

Cassie took out a document from the paper folder on the side of the table and threw it on the table. Motioned for Britney to pick it up and take a look.

Britney was full of doubts, grabbed the text on the table, and only flipped through it a few times, and her brows furrowed. Of course, she could see that this information had been collected by another reporter from the newspaper, although she did not want to admit it. In her heart, she actually thought that the news in this material was indeed much better than what she was looking for.

Seeing that Britney was silent after reading the information, apparently acquiescing, Cassie waved her hand and let her out: "Next time you find some news like this, I think you should know how to do it." ”

Britney walked out of the office in frustration, and her colleagues around her looked up at her, then lowered their heads again, and the meaning of distancing herself from her could not be more obvious. In the Los Angeles Times office, she doesn't seem to have any friends. So much so that sometimes the pressure is so great that I want to quit my job.

Buried in her own work, and did not pay attention to the whispered gossip of the people next to her, it was almost eleven o'clock when Britney patted her head and remembered an important matter.

The newspaper reporter is still relatively free, and if he goes out to gather news, he can leave directly, and Britney hurried to the underground parking lot. Grab your car, open the map and head towards the Frås Group logistics warehouse on the outskirts.

While driving. She pulled out her phone in her left hand and tried to call Rio's phone again, but the situation was exactly the same as last night, and there was no answer.

Fifty minutes later, Britney's car slowly stopped on the exterior wall of the warehouse, looking up at the huge warehouse building. Britney pulled the key and looked around to find someone to ask.

"Wait...... Mr. ”

Stopped by Britney's voice, the stranger turned around and glared at her fiercely, making Britney just about to say something. Immediately swallowed again.

This is a fat man, or a fat man who is extremely eye-catching even among obese people. Because of his overweight body, he even wore a bloated coat, and he was holding a half-bitten hamburger in his hand, glaring at Britney Spears who stopped him very unkindly.

Am I doing something wrong?

Britney was baffled.

"Sir, may I ask you, are you an employee here?"

"Yes, of course I am."

The fat man scanned Britney up and down with his small eyes, flashing with an unknown light.

"What's the matter with you?"

There was a feeling in the fat man's eyes that made Britney feel very uneasy, and she resisted the urge to back down and asked, "I want to ask my friend, he works here." ”

"Your friend?"

"Yes, he's my friend, called Rio. Cal. ”

“……”

"Let's go, there's no one here with that name."

After a moment's hesitation, the fat man took a bite of the burger and said vaguely.

"Don't have that name?"

Britney was stunned, how could she not have this name? Could it be that the neighbors in Rio are misremembering?

But......

"Wait, I'm talking about Rio. Carl, just working in this logistics warehouse, please think again. ”

Before the fat man could turn away, Britney anxiously grabbed his arm.

"There's no such person here!"

The fat man angrily shook off Britney's hand, "You're in the wrong place. ”

But the fat man's desire to cover up made Britney's heart even more confused, and she couldn't help but step forward to stop him, and said sternly: "I'm sorry, my friend must be working here, and he has been out of touch for twelve hours, if you don't tell me, I think I have the right to call the police." ”

"Call the police!"

Perhaps Britney's words were very deterrent, and the fat man's face changed slightly, and he didn't notice that the burger in his hand fell to the ground.

"Okay...... Maybe I'm mistaken, you wait, I'll go in and ask. ”

The fat man admits his mistake and tells Britney to wait here, while he turns and walks towards the warehouse.

Britney was not a well-behaved woman, and when she saw the fat man walk through the door, she only waited in place for a while, and then followed her to the door.

As soon as she stood at the door, Britney suddenly saw the fat man standing in the distance, saying something to the two guards, and her gaze met at this moment.

Without hesitation, without hesitation, Britney turned and ran in the direction of the car. Sure enough, her sixth sense was correct, and as soon as she ran, the two guards behind her grabbed the electric baton and chased after Britney.

What do they want to do?

The moment this thought came to mind, Britney was left behind, and the most important thing now was to get out of here, no matter what the fat man wanted to do, she didn't want to try what the consequences would be if she was caught.

"Smack."

Pulling the car door and jumping on it in an instant, Britney nervously pulled out the car keys and wanted to start the car. However, because she was nervous, not only did she not insert the car key in the first time, but almost dropped the key under the car seat.

"Bang ......"

Two guards chased after him and banged the window violently, causing Britney to get out of the car immediately.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The car's engine started suddenly, and Britney, without looking at the two guards by the window, stepped on the accelerator hard, sprinted out at a high speed, and slammed into the avenue outside.

At this time, Britney was relieved, and when she looked back, the two guards had only chased for about ten steps, and then gave up the plan to catch up, and wanted to catch up with the starting car with their footsteps, which was obviously a delusional idea.

Britney still didn't dare to relax, it was already sparsely populated, and she was afraid that the few people would catch up with her by car, until she drove into the city with a lot of traffic, and then she put her mind at ease and thought about what happened before and after.

Seriously, this matter is very strange, she is obviously just asking about Rio, why did it cause the hostility and vigilance of the fat man? And in the end, guards were sent to arrest her.

Oh my God, this is in Los Angeles, how can a company do something like a criminal to arrest someone?

The more she thought about it, the more Britney felt that this matter was not simple, and she had been unable to contact Rio, so she had a bad guess in her mind.

Could it be that Rio found out something terrible and was detained by that company?

As a journalist, she has seen many companies do illegal things, including drug trafficking by some kind of empty company, and corporate power infiltrated by other countries to steal the secrets of cutting-edge technology in the United States.

If that's the case, it's a big story that can cause a stir in the United States.

The fear of the previous was swept away, and Britney's blue eyes flashed with excitement, if this was big news, then she would no longer have to endure the nagging and criticism of her boss, and maybe she could take advantage of this to leap up and win a position that she had never thought of before.

With her excitement, she couldn't help but push harder, slammed down the accelerator, and returned to her house in just half an hour at the maximum speed stipulated by the traffic law.

Without even taking off her shoes, Britney rushed into the study, opened her laptop and connected to the Internet, typed in the keyword of the Frost Group, and slammed the enter key, and the blank search interface immediately showed a large number of search results.

"How can this be?"

After carefully reading the profile of the Frost Group, the excitement in Britney's heart also calmed down.

Although the reputation of this Frost group is not well-known, ordinary people probably have not heard of it, but this group company is also a world-class multinational company, involving a wide range of industries, and various figures in the political circles are implicated. Frost is a powerful figure on Wall Street and is respected by many successful people on Wall Street.

It is absolutely impossible for such a huge group company to be involved in drug smuggling, and no person with intelligence will ever engage in drug smuggling under the condition of having such a net worth.

And the second possibility of stealing cutting-edge technology secrets was also ruled out almost instantly, this is a large enterprise in the United States, where is it her turn to suspect this kind of problem, it has long been seized by the FBI. (To be continued......)