criminal mentality

Chapter 248 The So-Called News

On midsummer night, there is always a faint heat in the air. Even when the night falls, the bustling city B can hardly settle down to a little quiet. Groups of red men and women wander around the city, giving this city that never sleeps Added an unknown amount of hustle and bustle.

Sitting on the low wall of the balcony of the apartment, Qi Ran's legs are all on the outside. Looking down from the height of the seventeenth floor, most people would feel dizzy, but Qi Ran likes to sit here and quietly whenever he has something on his mind. Most of the time when he has something on his mind is at night, otherwise, whether it is the neighbors or the passers-by below, if they see him like this, they will call the police immediately to prevent him from committing suicide.

At this time, Qi Ran was holding a bottle of beer, drinking it one after another, his eyes turned to the road not far in front of the apartment building.Even though it was late at night, the bustling streets were still brightly lit. Cars next to each other dutifully exhausted their exhaust. Under the illumination of the street lamps, a layer of white hot air evaporated from the road surface, making the Qi Ran felt annoyed for no reason.He drank the remaining beer in the bottle in a few sips, leaned on the wall with his left hand, made a beautiful turn and landed firmly on the balcony floor, and accurately threw the empty bottle in his hand into the trash can two meters away. He put on his wallet went out.

Without the sense of distance caused by more than a dozen floors, Qi Ran still seemed out of tune with the crowds that flowed around him.Looking up, there are people everywhere, and the noise is endless.It has been more than ten years since he lived in this megacity where there will be traffic jams at get off work and after work, and the traffic will be immediately paralyzed during holidays, but Qi Ran has never been able to fully adapt to the life here. He yearns for the slow-paced and leisurely life in his hometown. He made the choice to stay in City B back then. His parents in his hometown are taken care of by his elder brother and his family. When he first entered city B in a small county, he was also fascinated by the world of flowers and flowers. After all, he couldn't resist the temptation of materialistic desires in big cities, and joined the army of Beidiao in the year of graduation.

Ten years of hard work, how can a sentence be so bitter?The so-called life is to be alive first. When survival is faced with challenges, everything else should not be empty talk.Qi Ran majored in journalism when he was in college. This was his childhood dream. He hoped to be a great reporter like Robert Capa. A little shade side.

Unfortunately, the ideal and the reality are like the sky and the earth. You can stand on the ground and look up at the sky, but the sky is never something you can touch.After graduating, Qi Ran happily applied to a newspaper as a rookie reporter. After suffering a lot, she realized how difficult it is to be a reporter in Country Z.

Sensitive topics cannot be reported, too much criticism of the current situation cannot be reported, the shortcomings of leading cadres cannot be reported without definite evidence, and nothing can be reported.Want to do research and dig news?Unless it is lace news related to celebrities, other things have to go through layers of approval, and nothing out of the ordinary can be allowed.

Qi Ran has also been angry, complained, and resisted. He even thought about resigning and becoming a freelance Weibo writer for the Internet media. The wind is alive.At that time, he had no possessions, lived in the basement, and ate a five-yuan vegetarian lunch box.Live in groups like ants with many young people who have graduated and stayed in City B, but they are also optimistic and believe that they will succeed.

Just like the pebbles in the river, ten years is enough for Qi Ran to shed all the edges and corners and become sleek and sophisticated. Fortunately, his hard work finally paid off. From a little-known little reporter back then to today's editor-in-chief He can only relive his original ambitions in the newcomer of the newspaper office.

With more power comes greater responsibility.Qi Ran couldn't remember that this was the first time he went downstairs after eleven o'clock in the evening and walked aimlessly.Staying up late has become a habit, and sleeping has become a luxury, Qi Ran smiled wryly, thinking of the youthful years that were gone forever.

There are a lot of troubles lately. The competition in the newspaper industry has been destined to be a joke since the sudden emergence of online media. May I ask which young people still read newspapers?As soon as the mobile phone is pulled out and the computer is turned on, the information floods in like a flood. Didn't their newspaper offices also extend their hands to the Internet?Pursuing progress is a good thing, but it is useless if you have the heart to pursue progress without the ability.

No eye-catching news, only a few clicks on the website, no reputation, how can we talk about income?As the editor-in-chief, Qi Ran couldn't sleep because of the lack of food, so he sent all his subordinates out to find news clues, but the results were out of proportion to the effort.

Qi Ran felt bored and randomly found a food stall and sat down. Today, he barely touched his teeth, and Wu Zang Temple protested for a long time, so let's fill his stomach first.

He ordered a bowl of noodles with fried sauce, and when the noodles came, Qi Ran casually played with his phone.

"Your noodles!" The waitress stretched the noodles, put them on the table, and walked away.Qi Ran smiled wryly, fortunately the owner of this small stall is good at craftsmanship, the noodles are made chewy, the quantity is full, and the price is very cheap, which corresponds to the saying that the quality is cheap, even though it is summer, there are fewer people eating noodles than in winter It’s a long way out, but you can see how popular this food stall is when you look at the customers who are still sitting around. Otherwise, who would bother to come to this poor place to see the faces of the waiters?
Usually being angry by the boss, being angry by the customer, and being angry by the waiter when it is his turn to spend money, no one feels balanced, right?I don't know what's wrong with the waiter in this small shop. When seeing her, she always looks like someone owes her money.

Alas, forget it, for the sake of face, bear with it.Qi Ran took a pair of fast chopsticks from the chopstick holder and started eating!
"Editor Qi?" Qi Ran hadn't eaten two bites of noodles when suddenly a strange voice stopped him.

Swallowing the noodles in his mouth, he raised his head, and saw a strange man sitting across from Qi Ran's table.The man in front of me was actually wearing long sleeves and a mask on a midsummer night. It was extremely weird. Wouldn’t it be hot if he wore so much?
"I am, who are you...?" Qi Ran searched in his mind, and made sure that the man's eyebrows and eyes were not familiar to him, and he must not know him.

"Is 'Emperor Capital Zatan' sponsored by your newspaper? I like to read it very much. This time I came here to provide a news clue for Zatan." After the man finished speaking, his gloved hand took a piece of information wrapped in a newspaper Put it next to Qi Ran's noodle bowl.

"Editor Qi eats slowly, and I won't bother you." Before Qi Ran could say anything, the man had already walked away, leaving Qi Ran at a loss.

But after thinking about it, Didu Zatan also had fans, and he felt a little better, regardless of the fact that his face was still hot, he filled his stomach with three mouthfuls, took the paper bag left by the man, and headed home.

After arriving home, Qi Ran opened the paper bag and read the contents inside, Qi Ran couldn't help but gasp...

In the early hours of the night, Emperor Capital Zatan published such a news on Today's Focus:
Three days ago, an accident occurred on the highway from the imperial capital to N City. A Toyota Camry hit the isolation belt due to brake failure while avoiding the vehicle in front, resulting in three deaths and one serious injury.In the car accident, the driver and the co-pilot couple died on the spot. The five-year-old girl Lele, who was sitting in the middle of the back seat, flew out of the car and landed in the lane on the other side. She was caught by a truck that had no time to react. Sitting right behind the driver, Lele's grandma is still in a coma in the hospital.

Don't mention the whole country, it is city B. There are countless car accidents, large and small, that happen every day. Although three deaths and one serious injury are a bit tragic, it is not unusual. Why does one car accident take up the most eye-catching space on the Internet? What about the news?

The traffic police who investigated the accident quickly came to a conclusion that the speed of the car at the time of the accident was as high as 140 km/h, which is considered speeding even on high speed. It can be seen from the monitoring screen that the driver was 200 kilometers away from the car in front when the accident happened. It started to decelerate, but the Toyota body only decelerated for a moment, and then kept rushing forward at a speed of about 120. The driver of the Toyota car obviously did not expect that the brakes would suddenly fail. In order to avoid hitting the car in front, he slammed to the left in a panic. In the downward direction, the Toyota car was driving very fast at this time, and it was very close to the isolation zone next to it. This shaking caused the car to lose control and finally hit the isolation zone, and the three lives disappeared in an instant.

Below is the exposure point of the news.

A car repairman in a 4S shop was related to the family of three who died. The vehicle involved in the accident had just been serviced in his 4S shop half a month ago. Logically speaking, it is impossible for the brake pads to have problems in such a short period of time. So the car repairman strongly asked to have a look at the accident vehicle.Looking at it this way, it really made him see the problem: the color of the brake fluid of the Toyota car involved in the accident was wrong!
This tragic car accident was caused by the fact that the mechanic mixed alcohol into the brake fluid when the car was being maintained. Alcohol is volatile and disappears after a while. It is difficult to know that the brake fluid has been done without tasting it with your own mouth. Hands and feet, and which normal person would taste the taste of brake fluid?

Because the car repairman reported the inside story of the repair industry to the police, the owner of the 4S shop and the repairman responsible for repairing the accident vehicle were taken away by the police to assist in the investigation.

At the end of the article, a paragraph written by the editorial department was added: Unscrupulous bosses and repairmen like this should be allowed to sit in a car that has been tampered with and mourn for the poor child.

As soon as the news was reported, it was reposted by many websites. For a while, the hit rate of Imperial Capital Zatan soared. Qi Ran was very happy, and fired the first shot. With the high popularity, Imperial Capital Zatan was revived!

In the next few days, Qi Ran would always go to that food stall, hoping to meet the man who provided him with news and say thank you in person.

(End of this chapter)