"...In fact, I don't think Mr. Ultramarine will encounter any accidents. Compared to Mr. Ultramarine, I think it is more important to pay attention to Bing Shui-senpai who is investigating this matter. After all, she was kidnapped before..."
Miss Dailan was extremely pale, and her unconfident words became intermittent under pressure and guilt.
She sat in the guest seat opposite the emperor, accepting the emperor's verbal torture. She sadly felt like she was in jail - no, even jail would be better than this situation.
"That is to say——"
The "Emperor" took advantage of every opportunity and was keenly aware of the loopholes in her words: "Do you think there is something wrong with Bing Shui?"
His body leaned back, and his expression suddenly became surprised: "Miss Dailan, why do you have such terrible thoughts?
"She just spoke online yesterday, and everyone should know about it. Now that the matter has reached this point, I believe that the viewers should all know about it. In other words, they all came to watch with these doubts.
An emperor's talk show. After all, the guest in this episode is you - we all know that there are many knowledgeable people on the Internet. And the chief reporter of Tian'en Daily always knows better than all the knowledgeable people."
Dailan nodded feebly: "What you are saying is..."
"Or," the emperor paused, "you have new information and you know that Bing Shui is in danger?"
"...No, I don't know anything. I just want to say that this possibility cannot be ruled out. If everyone else disappears, then Miss Bing Shui may not be immune..."
"In other words, do you think the others have indeed disappeared?"
"No, no, no, I don't have such an idea... Didn't Ms. Delphinium's mother already say that they went to Sogo Island to get married. She didn't think anything would happen to Ultramarine and Delphinium, and her attitude was very firm. No one can compare to her parents.
She knows her children better... In other words, if Mr. Ultramarine and the others really disappeared and lost contact, then as their mother, she would definitely not have such a calm attitude... So I think
, they at least still have contact with their families.”
"Ah, what a coincidence. I seem to be Bing Shui's father."
The emperor said quietly: "My opinion is the same as that lady's. So I don't think anything will happen to her."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was canned laughter from the audience.
But Dailan didn't think this was funny - she even felt a vague sense of fear.
"...So, do you have contact with Senior Bing Shui?" She showed an innocent smile, which was the kind of smile Dai Lan relied on to make her debut.
"She just went out yesterday?"
The emperor looked surprised and was silent for a long time: "Do you call your father every day now?"
"I, I can't."
Amid the sea of canned laughter, Dailan responded awkwardly.
"So she wouldn't--it scared me to death. I thought you were still underage. Does the TV station count as employing child labor? Who--the director, go check Miss Dailan's authentication code. She is really
You’re an adult, right?”
The emperor leaned his body and looked down. There was a vague response from the audience, "She is indeed an adult." The emperor immediately made a thoughtful and enlightened expression, and looked at him with an expression that he hesitated to speak.
Dailan.
The audience suddenly heard louder laughter.
"Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Good tutoring. Well...that's it."
The emperor stretched out his hands to the audience and pressed down, showing a fake serious smile and explaining for Dailan: "You have a good relationship with your family - you, yes, that's you, don't laugh! Be careful that your daughter will not call you after hearing this.
Call! Every old father’s pain!"
Amidst the endless laughter, Dai Lan forced a smile. She really didn't find it funny, or in other words, she vaguely sensed a kind of aggression. The emperor seemed to be making a show with himself, but he didn't even give himself a support.
Eyes - Unless necessary, his eyes never focused on him.
The emperor is not such an impolite person. He is a very smart and calm middle-aged man.
Man...every word he says and every action he makes can be said to be weightless. There is a depth that can be pondered in his words and actions, and they are by no means meaningless random actions.
In other words, he deliberately adopted this attitude in front of the camera.
Just realizing that the emperor had some mild hostility towards her made Dai Lan stutter a little and made her palms become moist.
Dailan adjusted her sitting position uneasily, straightening her back and sitting up straight in the chair like a well-behaved student. Instead of leaning the weight of her upper body back on the back of the chair like just now.
Under the emperor's serious face, which could always make people laugh, there seemed to be a pair of ferocious fangs hidden.
She only felt a kind of pressure forcing herself.
...What is this?
It's not like I made Miss Bingshui disappear... Moreover, why did the higher-ups ask me to say "to make Miss Bingshui's disappearance reasonable"? She has just left the public eye for a day, so it is reasonable that there is no news!
If the board of directors wanted to hide the facts, wouldn't this expose the truth instead? After she said such strange things here, people will definitely realize that after Icewater-senpai claimed to investigate "the truth behind Ms. Malt Liquor's disappearance",
He disappeared after only one day - you should know that in this kind of investigation work, it is normal for a week or two to not yield any results. In other words, there is nothing to do here, and people will naturally forget about it.
Human memory on the Internet does not support them paying attention to the truth for more than half a month. Tianen Group can easily send out various other public opinion events to attract people's attention...let alone half a month, maybe a week later if
If no one mentions it, it will be forgotten. Even if Bing Shui is really missing, I am afraid that no one will notice it for several months, and even if they notice it, they may not bother to forward it.
However, "Dai Lan" mentioned this matter on the "Emperor's Talk Show", so someone will continue to pay attention to this matter - because only one day later, as the chief reporter, he poured ice water directly into the
Among the "missing" group, this is obviously unnatural. If Miss Bingshui really disappears, people will immediately realize that something is wrong.
Really, why me
My ability is so poor that I can't speak well in front of Mr. Emperor, and I can't handle Mr. Emperor's questioning at all.
Why does it have to be me...
Dailan's eyes were slightly red - because she had realized her future.
Now that everyone is suspecting that "Ultramarine and the Barber were assassinated by the head office," as the "chief reporter" of Tianen Group, she stands up and says, "I don't think so." This will undoubtedly be angered by her fans.
Being angry is regarded as an act of betrayal - and if she cannot gain people's recognition, she will lose her position as "chief".
From Xiao Liuli to Bai Xue, and then Bing Shui... the chief reporters she knew well had all used the title of "chief" to say things that others did not dare to say, and tripped up many great people - fallen
The hero, the murderous director, the elf who turned into a demon...
Those are all big figures who are out of reach for ordinary people. But the chief reporter can easily expose their black news and directly give undeniable and irrefutable solid evidence. That is always the last and sharpest
of a knife.
When Dailan was a child, although she learned to sing and dance... she once regarded this position as the highest honor.
Xiao Liuli can go from idol to chief reporter - then if she is famous enough, maybe she can too!
After she became a reporter, she began to try to make news for the poor, reporting on the problems they encountered, hoping to attract people's attention. Although the news she made was not watched by many people, and it had no effect...but that was because she
The level is too poor.
Later, Bingshui helped her publish an issue - it was also news that called attention to the poor, and she also used her own account, but the news became popular. It even directly promoted the average salary increase of 20% in the apperception district.
decided to help countless employees increase their income. And the apperception area is now her base... many people in it have become
For her fans and supporters.
It was only after that that Dailan finally realized...
What helps others is not the title of "chief" or the traffic exposure, but one's own real abilities.
It was only after that that she finally realized that what was powerful might not be the power given to them by the position of "Chief", but the talents and abilities of Xiao Liuli and Bingshui themselves.
But it wasn't until she actually took over Bing Shui's position and became the chief reporter, and came into contact with those secrets, that she truly realized that this position was not clean and even more difficult than that of an ordinary reporter.
It’s not that after becoming the chief reporter, she can say whatever she wants. She does not have as great power as she imagined. She can expose all kinds of fallacies, correct all kinds of bad social phenomena, and even reverse them. She does many things.
She began to become unable to speak. Because her weight increased - she must be responsible for her own words.
What her predecessors mastered was a "secret way of balance."
Because if a person knows too much, it is easy to die suddenly. But if he knows a little more, it may not be so easy to die. Restrictions and deterrents have been formed between secrets.
Among people who are enemies of each other, they should make some dirty promises to make friends with each other, so that they can have enough deterrence to reveal other truths.
In other words, they are not warriors who initiate the charge. They are just executioners who deliver the final blow.
Which person needs to be eliminated and which company needs to close down are all determined by the Big Seven. It is the board of directors who decides everything in the world, not Tian'en Daily, let alone a little reporter like her.
And even just to be qualified to cut off this knife, they need to bear more sins and spread more lies, just to gain "qualification".
However, Dai Lan's ability was obviously not as good as Xiao Liuli and Bing Shui's ability to handle such rules, but both she and Bai Xue were powerless. So Bai Xue was already dead.
It can be said that when they become chief, the countdown to death has already begun.
Dailan's personal security guards have guns loaded with live ammunition in their hands, and they are always pointed at the "Chief" himself. Rather than protecting her safety, it is more important to prevent them from suddenly saying something they shouldn't say in front of the camera.
According to the secret that Dai Lan knows now... When Bing Shui was kidnapped half a year ago, the first countermeasure launched by Tian'en Newspaper was not to send people to rescue, but to send people to assassinate Miss Bing Shui to ensure that she
He will not be tortured to reveal important information that could harm the Tianen Group.
Dailan was very convinced that at such a critical moment, there must be more than one gun pointed at her head.
If she doesn't do this, she will disappear like Bing Shui; but if she does, she will be abandoned as an abandoned child... If she loses the blessing of the halo of "Chief", if she disappears
Sheng Xiu disappeared, and no one would care about her. People would only rejoice in the disappearance of a betrayer.
But if she rebels at this time, the bullet will immediately penetrate her head. Her most miserable and unattractive death will appear on TV without reservation and immediately appear in front of her parents.
They must all be watching TV and watching the Emperor's talk show now. Because they all know that the guest in this episode is Dai Lan herself - she is a real child who grew up watching this program.
When she was a child, she also imagined what she should say when she was invited one day.
Is it her childhood? Her happy family? Her journey of hating going to school? Her first love full of twists and turns? The career she wanted to do when she was a child? The interesting story when she sang for the first time? What happened to her as an idol trainee?
The pain of training? Or her clumsy wish that no one would believe?
...Now, she knows.
What she should tell is a lie to deceive the people.
Dai Lan was silent and opened her mouth slightly, like a fish about to die of thirst in the air.
"I know him. He is a good person. He is also a trustworthy person." "He told me
He promised that he would give priority to hiring people from poor families and immigrants. He is someone who has come from such hard times. He can understand their difficulties and know what they need most."
"Xiao Liuli believes that being a reporter cannot save Happy Island."
"She will no longer be people's idol, but he will become the people's pioneer." Dailan's voice when she interviewed Russell sounded softly in her ears like an auditory hallucination.
The barber's voice followed immediately: "All those who really need the help of the Relief Society will not believe the rhetoric of those orators.
"I didn't understand this truth before. It tells the poorest and most difficult people about a future that they will never see in their lifetime."
Immediately afterwards, there was Xiao Liuli’s favorite song when she was a child:
"The darker the reality, the more bright dreams are needed——"
At that moment, Dailan's extremely aggrieved tears finally burst out uncontrollably.
She lowered her head and wiped her tears, and the talk show ended because of this. People pointed at her and talked about her. But from the few words she heard, they were not good things.
Because she is a betrayer.
Because at the most critical moment, she did not stand with Fuji Society, but crawled at the feet of the head office like a dog.
Yes, they actually all understand the pressure they will face, and they also know that they can't tell the truth. They are just venting their anger, repeating some facts that they already know in their hearts... Therefore, their reprimands are also
It will only last a few days, a short period of time. They will soon attack the next target, and you will be forgotten by them, but...
...But, I'm tired of the so-called "chief" reporter, an empty chess piece, a puppet who can't help himself.
What Xiao Liuli said is indeed true - reporters cannot save Happy Island.
——I'm sorry, dad, mom.
But I think...
Even if you are as clumsy as me, maybe you can have my own value.
If I could only say one sentence, I would be torn apart...
"——Those things I just said," Dailan choked, but in the light of her own life
The clearest voice in the audience said, "They are all lies that the company asked me to tell!" The next second, the sound of many glass shattering sounded in the studio at the same time.
Dailan was so frightened that she immediately closed her eyes tightly, waiting for her own death. But the next scene was not a tragedy—it was a miracle.
Those bullets that could easily tear Dailan into pieces were easily blocked by the old emperor, and he turned back the way he came.
His old pupils were burning with an unfamiliar gray-white faint light that no one had ever seen before.
For the first time, the emperor looked seriously at Dailan.
"Good boy."
The emperor said gently and calmly: "Don't be afraid.
