044 National events
"Dingling, Dinglingling..." "Hello, this is the 'Brazil Globe'..."
"Dingling, Dinglingling..." "Good afternoon... Sorry, the editor-in-chief is in a meeting now and there is no time to answer the phone..."
"Dingling, Dinglingling..." "Sorry, Martin Artur is not in the position now. Please call again later, okay?"
The entire office of the "Brazil Globe" is occupied by noisy phone ringtones. The ringtones of landlines and mobile phones are intertwined, like a third-rate symphony, which makes people feel more and more irritable and want to get angry at all times. However, before the anger has been released, the ringtone rings again and interrupts directly. The affliction almost makes people have a fire blocked in their chest and may explode at any time.
Since the Brazilian Globe reported the incident in the City of God with a thrilling front page yesterday, the entire editorial room has been in full swing. The phone calls have started at around 3:00 yesterday afternoon, and it has been increasing one after another. After work today, the phone ringing has almost never stopped.
After watching the newspaper, almost everyone in Rio de Janeiro's residents were in danger. Although they had always had a clear understanding of the security of the area of the City of God, now even the American crew has been threatened by their lives. The urgent crisis and fear have caused many people to be in chaos, so that a small number of foreign tourists have started booking air tickets and prepared to leave Rio de Janeiro - not on a large scale, and more people still do not pay too much attention and are still enjoying the beauty and comfort of the bright coastline of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro is far from reaching a turbulent level, but it has begun to ferment slowly, and a sense of anxiety and uneasiness permeates the city residents.
Slums, including the City of God, have always been infamous. Bad public order, chaotic order, sudden shootings, dirty poisons, unsolved murders... All of this has long become a heart-wrenching problem for the Rio de Janeiro city government, but in misfortune, it is thankful that this uneasiness is still limited to the slums and has not spread significantly. Rio de Janeiro seems to be divided into two worlds, one is a sunny and sunny vacation destination, and the other is a dark and turbulent bottom hell.
But now, this turmoil has been separated from the control of the area of the City of God and has begun to detonate. No one can predict what the uncertainty will lead to next.
Since the "September 11 Incident" in the United States last year, there have been panic around the world. Western countries are wary of the next terrorist attack. Although relatively backward countries such as South America and Africa do not have enough troops, the turmoil and bumps in the country are very obvious. Criminals are ready to move, and a little bit of trouble will make the civilians turmoil.
When people realize that the gangsters in the City of God wander around them with heavy weapons, even threatening the lives and safety of a crew, and this is from the American crew. The possibility of the insecurity invading and turning into a terrorist attack or an international incident makes things even more difficult.
Therefore, residents of Rio de Janeiro began to call the "Brazil Globe" hotline frantically. Some people were asking about the seriousness of the situation, while others were reporting suspicious incidents near them. The continuous calls almost turned the editorial room of the "Brazil Globe" into an emergency response center.
Not only residents of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Globe is currently the top five newspapers in Brazil with an average sales of 3 million, covering major cities in Brazil. At this time, residents of other cities also called the editorial room of the Brazilian Globe to inquire about the relevant situation.
What's more serious is that the incident has alarmed the Rio de Janeiro city government, police station, etc. They received the news immediately. They were shocked and started to take action to grasp more situations before the US embassy held accountable. But obviously, the incident was far beyond imagination. Yesterday's issue of the "Brazil Globe" sold 5.9 million copies in just one day, which was the highest sales since the 21st century - this also means that the US embassy knew the news immediately.
"How did things develop to this point!" In the editor-in-chief's office, the editor-in-chief's roar stirred up a wave, which made all the staff turn their heads in shock and cast their eyes off. They lit three waxes for Martin Artur, who was suffering from all the anger in the editor-in-chief's office. For a moment, only the phone ringtones were echoing one after another.
Calvin Johnson was also shocked by the same problem, "How did things develop to this point?"
The day before yesterday, everything was developing according to the predetermined trajectory. Although it was unexpected to reporters, the reporters only arrived for a while and then left quickly. Not long after that, the crew of "City of God" ended directly, and the filming of the first day was only halfway through.
Calvin thought that the stealer Man/Nuer had successfully stopped the shooting of "City of God", and at least for this period of time, Lance would not have come up with a solution.
But in just twenty-four hours, why has things been so upset and out of control?
Yesterday, a total of 18 media outlets released reports on the same news incident: ** forces used violent means to interrupt the shooting of "City of God". This was expected. When they saw the reporter at the shooting site, Calvin had already foresaw such a situation, but what caught Calvin off guard was that the news all mentioned that the lives of the crew members were threatened, and the ** forces also showed their power to the media and directly threatened the media with force!
This immediately escalated the entire incident, from the small incident of collecting protection fees from the members of the ** or expelling outsiders from their territory, and escalating them into lawlessness of the ** forces, not only threatening the crew members, but also blatantly confronting the media. Any slight mistake may lead to a national-level incident or even an international incident.
So, in just under 48 hours, the whole of Brazil was already in a turmoil, and news from major Brazilian TV stations reported on this incident one after another. Fortunately, there were no casualties at the moment, which made the incident not escalate further, otherwise it would not be lively in Brazil now.
Even so, Calvin still clearly realized that things have completely broken away from control. This is not something that can be controlled by Stealing Jiman/Nu/R, nor is it that Lance can control, nor is it that he can control. If he is not careful, he will still drag himself into it, and maybe he will not see tomorrow's rising sun.
So, was the task assigned by Ryan succeeded or failed? Calvin's head was muddy and could not think at all. His only idea now was: leave Rio de Janeiro!
"How did things develop to this point?" Mann/Nuer was also asking the same question, but the "think tanks" standing in front of him were speechless and had no idea how to answer.
Mann/Nu/R saw his own photos appear on the front pages of major news media. Because he was illiterate, he could only learn the facts through pictures. His first reaction was to be proud, because people finally knew that he was the biggest force in the entire slum, and several other forces had to unite to compete with him. Now, he also hoped that others would know - not to mention that this was the first time he had appeared in the newspaper in his life. That sense of glory and pride made him excited.
This mood continued until the evening. The news reports on the TV station's prime time made Mann/Nuer realize that this was not something to be happy about. They were considered terrorists, their guns were considered provocative, their existence was considered a cancer of society, and everyone in the whole city is now in danger, and uneasiness is spreading.
Man/Nu/L was almost furious and wanted to pick up the machine gun and go out to shoot, but he couldn't find a partner to vent his anger, so he could only get angry with his subordinates. He obviously went out to show kindness to the media reporters as Lance asked, but why did things turn out like this?
Yes, Lance!
A flash of inspiration in Mann/Nuer's mind, and he suddenly realized that Lance was right, "City of God" must be filmed because others are biased against them and are not willing to know them at all, so they need the work "City of God", a work that truly displays their benefits and disadvantages, advantages and disadvantages.
Thinking of this, Mannor stood up with a rush. He needed to see Lance, he needed to support Lance! But... A figure flashed through Mannor's mind, "Where is Calvin? What about Calvin from the United States? It's all because of him. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have had a quarrel with Mr. Strello, and we wouldn't have attracted those hateful media, just the shameless bitch! What about others? Catch him!"
"How did things get to this point?"
Martin raised his head and looked at the furious editor in front of him. The red blood vessels were about to burst at any time. The raging anger surged, almost swallowing him. Martin couldn't help but complain: How did I know? When I submitted the manuscript the night before yesterday, it was originally your review, and you nodded the front page headlines. Now that things are getting bigger, you can use me to do it!
However, after thinking about it, Martin did not complain, but said seriously, "This means that our goal has been achieved. Everything we report is true. We are uncovering the scars that the Rio Municipal Government is least willing to face up to. Now, everyone is paying attention to our every move. We represent the entire city and the people's strength of the entire country. We have the responsibility and obligation to further deepen."
After saying this, Martin saw that the editor-in-chief's eyes were about to fall out. He quickly added, "We can go directly to interview the crew and then contact those Americans. Believe me, they will be very willing to cooperate. We can follow their cameras and go deep into the City of God for more interviews!"
Chapter completed!