American Celestial Master

Chapter 270, Play

However, those who watched all night actually saw nothing on the TV video. There was nothing in the park except for the fog, which was not particularly thick. But the microphones detected a lot of sounds, including footsteps walking back and forth, various groans, painful, joyful, and terrifying, as well as some strange chewing and swallowing sounds.

These normal scenes, coupled with those strange sounds coming from nowhere, did have a special effect - many viewers said they were so scared that they didn't dare to sleep all night. In addition, some people at the TV station lamented that after so many years, the downward trend of TV ratings has finally been temporarily reversed. If there is such a show every week... How great would that be!
Although nothing was seen, the experts invited by the TV station were still able to talk freely in front of the camera. They constantly cited various examples and even rumors, and made a lot of analyses. If you say that many people were scared to sleep all night watching TV, in fact, many people were scared by the experts' alarmist analyses.

However, nothing actually happened that night, and even the crime rate was much lower than usual - because most people went out to watch TV.

The next afternoon, the state government held a press conference. At the press conference, the state government officially announced that the monsters entrenched in the Central Park area violated the provisions of the US law that prohibits demons and other ghosts from trespassing on private homes and public territory. (In reality, one of the laws during the founding of the United States has never been repealed.) In order to maintain the dignity of the law, the state government decided to launch a round of law enforcement actions to let those demons and ghosts know the consequences of breaking the law.

The state government announced that the National Guard was in place and ready to launch a new law enforcement operation. In response to a reporter's question, during the last operation to clear the restricted area, the National Guard finally used various high-powered weapons, including tactical nuclear bombs, to solve the problem. Since Central Park is in the center of the city, the National Guard will inevitably be restricted in the use of weapons. Will this affect the success rate of the operation? The state government said that although the restrictions on the use of high-powered weapons will indeed have a certain impact on the operation, the National Guard is confident that the problem can be solved quickly.

The day after the press conference, the National Guard launched its first round of exploratory attacks on Central Park. The attack started quickly and ended quickly. At about 10 a.m., the National Guard commandos entered the restricted area. Soon everyone heard gunshots and explosions coming from the restricted area. Then, less than 20 minutes later, the commandos withdrew from the restricted area.

Although at the press conference that followed, the National Guard spokesperson insisted that the operation was just a fire reconnaissance and was only used to confirm some speculations, the operation confirmed some previous analyses and obtained more key information. The operation itself was very successful.

However, various rumors still emerged, from the National Guard entering the restricted area and being repelled within 20 minutes, which was not a proper statement, but strictly speaking it was not a distortion of the facts, to the outright rumor that the National Guard was defeated and several trucks of bodies were dragged out. Although the state government refuted the rumors, many rumors were spread by the people if you did not refute them. As a result, some guys started to stir up trouble in the black market before the New York Stock Exchange reopened.

The day after this fire reconnaissance, the restricted area was expanded again, so that the blockade line had to be withdrawn more than 100 meters. Therefore, some members of the Elephant Party began to question the governor in the state assembly, accusing the state government of inadequate response.

After that, the restricted area was quiet for a few days. During these days, the New York Stock Exchange found a companion city to reopen. The result was naturally a Black Monday as soon as it opened. The speed of the decline of various stocks and bonds was comparable to that of meteorites.

In order to stabilize the situation, it is said that a large number of brokers are lobbying everywhere, asking the National Guard to take action immediately, even if it means using high-powered weapons, to clear the restricted area as soon as possible. However, Ms. Casey insisted that things were not out of control. On the contrary, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner according to plan, and even a small disturbance should not disrupt the rhythm. She firmly opposed the wanton interference with military command due to short-term political and economic needs.

As a result, the National Guard prepared for more than a week, and during this week, the New York Stock Exchange had four circuit breakers. Many people have gone through the psychological process from pain to despair, and then from despair to numbness, and then the National Guard began to act.

The National Guard's actions were carried out under the uninterrupted coverage of special electromagnetic pulse bombs. In order to avoid accidental damage to various machines and facilities, New York City simply cut off the power supply throughout the city and notified all mobile phone users to turn off their phones and remove the batteries (although there were not many mobile phones that could remove the batteries). However, even so, in some areas near Central Park, some people's unplugged electrical appliances were later burned out.

Under the cover of the continuous electromagnetic pulse bombs, multiple commandos entered the restricted area and began to destroy the nodes. Before sunset, most of the node targets were destroyed. That night, the fog covering the park completely dissipated.

In the following two days, the National Guard conducted a detailed dragnet cleanup of the park and eventually cleaned out a lot of dirt, the most important of which were various needles and syringes with special contamination.

In this regard, the X school explained: "We know that in ancient times, some wizards would use some special psychotropic drugs, including alcohol, to achieve the purpose of 'spiritual communication'. In other words, this type of drug does make it easy for people's minds to break away from the protection of the body and be affected by external factors. These influences may come from gods, but more often, or to be more specific, most of the time, they can only come from various demons. In order to avoid this problem, all kinds of orthodox religions in the world are almost opposed to alcoholism. The situation in Central Park may be that the homeless people here were contaminated by some demons at night due to the influence of drugs. We can't say that Central Park is definitely safe now. Although the control data shows that this restricted area has dissipated, there have been restricted areas here after all, and the probability of haunting here in the future will still be slightly higher."

(End of this chapter)