Chapter 9: The Aftermath of the Ashes
Several reporters from "Everybody's Statement" rushed to the scene, Zixuan didn't come, and the host squeezed in with a camera when he heard this. Wen Yan and Chu Qing are partners, in their fifties, like the New Year, with a beaming face, and their bald heads are always steaming.
Lao Tian of the daily newspaper and Ning Meng of the evening newspaper and reporters from other provincial media stations rushed to the station, and everyone rushed to occupy a favorable position to take pictures everywhere, and the flash fixed the lives of each one in panic and sadness.
The high-pressure water hose controlled some of the fires, Wen Yan and Lu Jiaqi discussed going into the hotel to shoot the scene, everyone put the camera back in the interview car, and Lu Jiaqi and Wen Yan only clamped a satchel candid camera.
The three of us came to a side gate on the west side, where several armed police and traffic patrol police were on duty, and the traffic police were led by Li Jun, and their police force came to reinforce from across the district.
I handed Li Jun a cigarette and pulled him into the corner and said that he wanted to go in and have a look, Li Jun looked around in a hurry, probably weighing whether he should get closer to me for this reason.
In the end, the desire to "cling to the powerful" finally overcame his duty, and Li Jun blindly commanded several traffic policemen to support them, and he chatted with the armed police as if nothing had happened.
A long time later, I asked Li Jun if he would still let me in if I wasn't the nephew of the first deputy director of the Public Security Bureau.
Li Jun's eyes were red and he said, "If you weren't Wang's nephew, I would let you get out!" ”
I covered my fast-beating heart, followed Lu Jiaqi and Wen Yan and trotted into the hotel.
There are armed police shouting loudly behind him, and the heat wave in front of his face is smoky, and he can only grope his way forward in the dark. Wen Yan had a few meetings at the Dongzheng Hotel, familiar with the terrain, and took us to climb up with seven bends and eight turns, the heat was billowing everywhere, and the smoke after burning was choking.
Lu Jiaqi took out a small lamp from his pocket to shoot with Wen Yan, there were black walls and broken wooden boards everywhere, and the collapsed bar seemed to have just experienced a war filled with gunpowder.
I pulled a few towels out of the cleaning car, soaked them in water, and distributed them to everyone around their faces. From time to time, firefighters passed by, and the smoke and dust dyed the cheeks of some firefighters who were not wearing gas masks black, and they carried the dying wounded on their backs, and helped each other down. During this time, a squad leader took off his gas mask and coughed loudly and asked us what we were doing, and when we heard this, we responded that it was from the Propaganda Department of the Public Security Bureau. When I got to the twelfth floor, I felt that my shoes were about to melt and burn on my feet, and my eyes were choked with smoke and dust.
In a high-end ensuite bathroom, a victim was found, a middle-aged man, naked, wearing a pair of glasses, the frames were burned, and the glasses were attached to his gray and black face, he bent over, lying on the bathroom floor, one hand stretched forward, his body did not have any burn marks, he was suffocated to death after being smoked. It can be seen that he tried to close the bathroom door when the room caught fire in order to save his life.
The middle-aged man lying in the ashes looked particularly terrifying, and it was the first time I had faced a corpse up close, and my stomach twitched. The breath of death swirled around the room, and his legs stiffened and refused to obey.
Under the large bed, which is still relatively intact, there is a picture of only two-thirds left, on which a little girl of seven or eight years old puts her arms around the neck of this man, and next to her stands a Japanese woman in a kimono with a bright and happy smile on her face, this dead man is Japanese.
This death scene has been filmed many times from different angles.
Above the twelfth floor, we found some deceased, most of them dressed in full clothes, some lying in the corridor, some on the bed in the bedroom, some lying at the window, their bodies were black and white, dust and clothes were twisted together, and there was green smoke and a pungent stench emitting from their bodies, which filled the whole building with a terrifying atmosphere.
The smoke was so thick that I couldn't open my eyes, my body stinged like a fire, and there were coughs everywhere, and the smoke and dust from these burns were enough to kill.
Wen Yan and Lu Jiaqi changed into new towels and continued filming, I can't remember how long it was, and we began to evacuate.
At that time, the rescue was nearing the end, and the secretary of the municipal party committee was surrounded by people standing in a hall beating his chest and feet, as if he was sighing that he might be burned by fire.
Our clothes were full of bells and whistles, and our faces were covered with oil smoke, like a group of scheming fire raiders. Vice Mayor Qin first came back to his senses and asked loudly which unit we belonged to, and when he heard this, he replied half-covering his pipa and half-covering his face that he was a hotel guest. Vice Mayor Qin shouted and gave an order incoherently. Several armed police soldiers came over, and we covered our faces and ran away from the wreckage.
There are more and more onlookers outside, and people in the city who need to post on Moments are rushing over. The streetlights were bleakly reflected on people's faces, and the three of us walked out of the building in full view, dozens of reporters blocked by the police and gathered outside the door, cameras flashing.
After walking into the crowd, Lao Tian recognized me, and he and Ning Meng walked over to inquire about the situation inside.
Suddenly breathing fresh air, a little caught off guard, my throat was itchy, and I began to cough violently, Ning Meng handed over a bottle of mineral water, I took two sips, and answered her a few questions absentmindedly, still thinking about the shout of Vice Mayor Qin just now.
A tall, thin middle-aged man with a camera on his chest handed over a business card and said, "Hello, I'm Jiang Wanlin from "Half Moon Reference" in Lucheng, I'm late, what's going on inside?" ”
Without waiting for me to speak, another short and fat man with a camera around his neck also handed over a business card and said, "I'm Bai Wanlin from China Business Wire in Lucheng, tell me about it." ”
"What's the matter with you, this is a fire, not a business conference!" Jiang Wanlin grabbed him and dragged him back.
"Press freedom, pay attention to press freedom, Lao Jiang, you do yours, I asked me, I don't want to talk to you more today."
"You ask someone else, don't want to get naked, I'll take it first."
"We'll be in touch later." Bai Wanlin approached me and said.
"Brother, listen to my brother's advice, don't pay attention to him, everyone knows his badness." Jiang Wanlin squeezed Bai Wanlin aside.
Several police officers came up to us, and when they heard that they were worried about the material, they asked everyone to disperse.
"Phone, call me." Jiang Wanlin pointed to his phone.
I panicked and walked to the KFC next to me, the siren sounded behind me, and the spy movie told me to go into the bathroom at this time, occupy the toilet, make another call, and pretend to chat with my girlfriend, the more obscene the better.
KFC was overcrowded, and someone was calling: "Fireworks? It's a fire! If you don't come again, the corpses are all gone. ”
I stood by the urinal, my eyes looking out, whistling, shaking for a long time but not a drop of water.
A young man in line stared at me and asked, "Hey, are you peeing or not peeing?" ”
At this time, the toilet door opened, I shuddered, and when I looked up, I saw that it was a beautiful girl, and she asked me through the crack of the door, "Is this the women's toilet?" ”
I whistled and responded to her, "What do you say? ”
She looked me up and down, suddenly noticed something, turned and ran.
Out of KFC, the people who watched the excitement outside were divided into different groups and dangled around the street, a child was crying in the crowd looking for his grandfather, but no one cared about him and his grandfather, and everyone was in a hurry to see the death.
The firefighters carried out several corpses, the corpses were strangely shaped, the eyes of the dead were open, and the eyelashes were covered with ashes.
Onlookers watched greedily, and for each time a dead person was brought out, one would make a "ahh
When we walked to the interview car, everyone arrived early.
"Urgency, went to the bathroom." I said in horror.
"It's human nature to pee when you're nervous." As he spoke, he wiped his head with a tissue, his bald head smeared in the dark, and the steam curled like a demonic mist.
I finally figured out that Vice Mayor Qin's shout was the word "roll". Once I remembered it, the voice lingered in my ears, and I followed the interview car, chasing all the way to the TV station. I told Lu Jiaqi about Vice Mayor Qin's "get out", but I didn't expect him to say that he had already known that Vice Mayor Qin was saying "get out".
Lu Jiaqi began to complain that he did not pretend to be a police officer at the time: "How can a hotel guest fleeing the fire be as fully dressed as us, at least he has to show his butt or shoulders." ”
"Do you think this is a ladyboy show, didn't you see that the scene was all leaders of the Public Security Bureau?" Wen Yan said a little tiredly, "We are not wearing uniforms, in this case, pretending to be the police will definitely be exposed, the police came up and interrogated, and found that we are actually paparazzi, and tonight we are latent and dead, and the efforts to break into the fire are all in vain. ”
When I went to the office, Wen Liang asked me to write a manuscript, Lu Jiaqi edited the shots, and he went to Director Wang's office to report. I made a cup of coffee and sat down, and as soon as I turned on the computer, the hotline rang, it was Jiang Wanlin from "Half Moon Reference", who called and said that he wanted to know about the internal situation of the hotel.
I hesitated and said, "I don't know, I haven't been in." ”
Jiang Wanlin chuckled: "Brother, don't tease my brother, I asked the people at the newspaper office and said that the three of you are hotline reporters of the TV station." Besides, if we can avoid the police and sneak into the scene, I'm afraid only we reporters have this ability. ”
I was muttering that it must be Lao Tian and Ning Meng who were traitors, when Lu Jiaqi walked into the office and asked who called.
"Jiang Wanlin of "Half Moon Reference"." I said with my microphone covered.
"Can't say! Nothing can be said. Lu Jiaqi pressed the phone as he spoke, "Remember, for such a sensitive news, don't disclose any information that outsiders don't know to your peers." As soon as they appeared in the newspaper, they would say that according to the TV reporter who entered the scene, our whereabouts of stealing chickens and dogs would be exposed, and once something happened, the responsibility would be all on us. ”