198 Times Square
Matt Irving left the Wall Street Stock Exchange with a briefcase and walked towards the intersection of Broadway. From a distance, he could see the busy figure of the newspaper booth owner Tim Taylor. Matt smiled and said hello, "It's another Monday, is everything okay?"
A light joy appeared on Tim's face, "The summer season has arrived early, and life has become busy again, which is naturally the best. Dingdian Novel, x" Every year's summer season is also a happy event for newspapers and magazines. There are endless box office battles, and the noisy publicity confrontation between the front pages of newspapers and magazines always has no shortage of explosive points, and people's enthusiasm for reading has gradually risen with the warming of summer.
Matt couldn't help but be stunned, "Isn't there a month left in the summer season?" Today is May 3rd. Matt looked down at his watch and confirmed his thoughts.
"This year is starting this week." Tim held up a New York Times, "Didn't you read this issue of the newspaper yet?"
"I have something to do today, so I haven't had time yet," Matt replied casually, "Give me one." After taking the "New York Times", Matt looked at his watch again, "I have business now, I'll talk again." After saying goodbye to Tim, Matt quickly walked to Broadway Avenue, took a taxi, and spoke loudly about "Rockefeller Square", and then he had time to start reading the "New York Times".
The summer vacation is one month ahead of schedule, which is obviously a big deal. The New York Times spent a whole page to tell the story of the causes and consequences, and the impact of such a decision on Hollywood. At the end of the special report, the New York Times listed the films that will be premiered in May this year, with unprecedented lively scenes and even more sensational than in June in previous years.
"The Day Afternoon" Matt saw the name of the movie that will premiere in Los Angeles this Thursday and chewed it carefully. Of course, he knew that after the Super Bowl midfield show, the news about this work never disappeared from his sight, even though Matt didn't care much about the greenhouse effect. But he couldn't help but become interested in the apocalypse told in "The Day Afternoon".
The speed of the taxi began to slow down gradually. Matt couldn't help but raise his head, and then he noticed the long queue of cars ahead. Although the poor traffic in Manhattan has become the norm, it is now past ten o'clock in the morning and the peak hours of work have gradually eased. Why is it still so crowded?
Matt couldn't help but mumbled a few times. The taxi driver seemed to hear Matt's complaint and turned around and explained, "It started at 7:00 this morning. There were parades in Times Square and Rockefeller Square. More and more, and the entire Midtown area was in a mess this morning."
"March" Matt put away the newspaper. He naturally knew that if a large parade appeared, the paralysis of traffic would be impossible for a while. "It's because of Iraq again." Recently, anti-war voices accompanied the advancement of the election, and their heads were rising more and more courageous.
"No, because of the greenhouse effect." The driver said helplessly. Compared to the greenhouse effect, he was obviously more concerned about his livelihood. "The Rockefeller Square has been occupied by environmentalists. I heard the latest news from my companions before. At least six thousand people gathered in the square. They have been preparing for this parade for a long time, and it seems that today will last for the whole day."
Matt frowned. He had business at Rockefeller Square today, and he couldn't afford to waste time now. "I'll get out of the car here. Just walk over." There are only a few streets left anyway. Instead of blocking it here, it's better to walk over with your own feet.
After getting off the car, Matt looked at the vehicles on the street. He was standing on Seventh Avenue now. If he crossed West Forty-third Street, Sixth Avenue would definitely be very blocked at this time. It would be better to walk along Seventh Avenue and turn to West Forty-nine Street. The speed would be much faster because it would pass through Times Square in the middle, where only walking is allowed, and vehicles are prohibited from passing. So Matt quickly crossed the road and quickly walked along the street towards the front.
The streets and alleys of New York are like chess boards, with neat planning, with clearer east, south, west and north. The straight roads can often be seen at a glance. After walking half a street, Matt saw from a distance that the world-famous billboard in the center of Times Square. The billboard location is the most conspicuous, expensive and effective in the entire Times Square. Today, an unusual advertising light sign appears on the billboard.
Above the light sign, the three children sat helplessly and blankly in front of a fireplace. On the right were Jack Gyllenhaal and Jessica Alba. The two sat back to back on the ground, wrapping the two of them in a sofa cover, but their bodies were still trembling. Kevin Hart sat on the left wall, sitting on a thick stack of books, looking at the flames in front of him in a daze, and lost in a daze. The surrounding walls were covered with a layer of frost, and the frost, which looked like huge snowflakes, bloomed on the retro wallpaper, turning the whole room into a snow castle. Even if you just look at it, you can feel the cold on the shop, making the teeth tremble, making people ignore that it is already early summer in May.
In front of the entire screen, write in capital letters, "Take them home"
The conspicuous font came to the face, bringing the urgent earnestness to the extreme, making people start to worry: Are these three children forgotten in the corner of the world? When the end of the world is coming, will they be lonely and helpless in a corner of the city in the devastating cold, how long can they last?
Matt's first reaction was whether the three children were separated in Alaska. But after thinking about it, he knew that this was impossible. If there was such an incident, the correct answer would be to pay attention to the TV news. It would be impossible for parents to buy advertising spaces in Times Square. Then Matt thought of a possibility that if he remembered correctly, these three people had appeared in the Super Bowl trailer of the "day after tomorrow".
Thinking of this, Matt was a little excited and he immediately linked the parade in Rockefeller Square with the billboards in Times Square. Obviously, this complemented each other. This made Matt a little curious about what kind of publicity the crew would carry out, which made him start to speed up involuntarily.
With Matt's pace, the grand occasion of Times Square spread out in sight bit by bit.
At this time, a blue ocean was standing neatly on the entire square. Everyone was wearing light blue T-shirts and stood bustling together, forming a vast ocean. In fact, if you look closely, there were not many people on the scene, and at most less than one thousand people, but the unified clothing magnified the advantage of the number of people to the limit. In a trance, it seemed that there were ten thousand people standing in the square, completely submerging Times Square.
After entering, you can find that each T-shirt in front of you is different. It is divided into three styles, with the avatars of Jack, Jessica and Kevin printed, and then wrote the book "Take him and her home". They also held various signs in their hands, expressing their longing in different tones, languages and ways, and calling on the government to "take them home".
Everything is creating a reality: these three children really need to be saved and everyone needs to unite and save them home together. Just like Ryan in "Save Soldier Ryan". Even if the war is raging, even if there is little hope, even if you are looking for a needle in a haystack, you are still determined to take the road to saving Ryan. This humanistic care and this sincere family affection are really touching.
Even though Matt has realized that this is a movie promotion, he has to admit that at this moment, he was moved and he has begun to wonder what happened to these three children, how should they save the despair and shock in the apocalypse of the three children, which is truly displayed through the "parents" in front of him.
After entering Times Square, the crowds who came from all directions completely surrounded the entire Times Square. The not-so-wide square was filled with at least 3,000 people, occupying every inch of the open space in the square tightly, blocking it so much that it was blocked, leaving only the main passage opposite Broadway Avenue.
Matt walked closer and found that the onlookers were not just talking, but many people were looking at their regretful expressions. He hesitated for about half a second, looked at his watch again, but he couldn't bear the curiosity after all, stopped and asked a short, fat middle-aged black woman beside him, "What happened here?"
The middle-aged woman looked full of care, "The three children were lost, lost in the snow and snow, and are now trapped in a corner that no one knows. God, I heard that the temperature there has reached minus thirty degrees below 30 degrees Celsius, even worse than Siberia. Who knows how long those three children can last?" As she said, the middle-aged woman sighed while sighing. Matt stood beside her and heard it stunned. The middle-aged woman actually described the matter as a real event.
"Look, that woman is the mother of the black guy. She has cried twice. The young man's father died early, leaving only a child to accompany this poor woman. He is her only support. But now she can't find it. She just feels that the whole world is collapsed. If this is put on me, I am afraid I don't want to live at all."
Following the black woman's guidance, Matt looked over and saw a black woman leaning weakly on her companion, her face pale, her eyes were covered with tears that were not dry, as if she had cried to the point of no more tears, and even her soul disappeared from her eyes. The feeling of grief made all the onlookers feel the same.
Is all this not a movie advertisement, it is all to be continued.
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Chapter completed!