"A few days ago, our reporter was invited to participate in the launching ceremony of Umbrella's new engineering ship. Our reporter will also take the engineering ship to Umbrella's mining base on the moon. At that time, our reporter will
Everyone broadcasts the view from the moon...
(TV channel is switched)
Oh! Man! This is a deep dark fantasy...
(The channel is switched again)
Cornell University and Umbrella will reach a cooperation, it is expected...
Click~!" With a sound, the TV screen fell into darkness.
It seems that the person holding the remote control saw that there was no program or channel that he liked, so he simply pressed the power button and gave up searching.
The picture is away from the TV screen.
You can see this 55-inch ultra-thin TV hanging on the left wall of an office for people in the office to relax in their spare time.
At this time.
The man standing in the center of the office, holding the remote control in his right hand and facing the TV, was wearing a black police uniform and a police badge on his right chest with the words "Oxnard Police Department" engraved on it.
Oxnard.
It is a seaport city located not far west of Los Angeles, with a population of approximately 180,000.
And here is the third-floor office of the Oxnard Police Department.
The current office is air-conditioned and warm, with red and green artificial flowers and lanterns hanging on the walls. A small Christmas tree is erected next to the exit. Outside the window on the right side of the office, there is heavy snowfall, a scene late at night in the cold winter.<
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Today is the most important holiday in the United States, Christmas on December 25th.
Therefore, in this spacious office, there are only a few police officers on duty. After all, these police officers have relatively weak points and are forced to stay here until the early morning of the 26th.
Especially since there is no good program today, the police officers are feeling bored.
The police officer holding the remote control shrugged helplessly at his colleagues, and had no choice but to turn around and return to his desk, turn on his computer and write a long-standing report to pass the time.
The right corner of the office.
A middle-aged police officer sitting behind the desk by the window is also typing on the keyboard and writing a report.
The middle-aged police officer has a beard and a slovenly appearance that looks a bit weathered, but he gives people the impression of a very reliable uncle.
The silver metal badge on the left chest of the uniform is engraved with "Joel Miller, Sergeant, OxCA379".
Soon, a middle-aged police officer named Joel stopped typing on the keyboard, controlled the mouse to click the save button in the upper left corner of the document, and then clicked the X in the upper right corner to close the document.
The closing process is very smooth.
After revealing the computer desktop, you can see the start button on the left side of the taskbar, which is also Umbrella's red and white umbrella logo.
Obviously, the computer's operating system also comes from Umbrella.
Joel did not pay attention to these details, but stared at the background image of the computer desktop for a while. Unknowingly, a faint smile gradually appeared on his face.
The background picture is a group photo of Joel's family of three, with his wife and daughter both smiling from the bottom of their hearts.
After recovering, Joel no longer stared at the group photo in a daze, and glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the table.
20:47,2006/12/25.
Seeing that it was not too late, Joel took out his ultra-thin mobile phone and seemed to be preparing to call his family.
"Sergeant!" Before Joel could unlock the screen, a handsome young blond police officer came to the desk, scratching the back of his head with his right hand, and said embarrassedly:
"It's my day off tomorrow, can I invite Sarah to..."
"No." Joel refused without thinking.
"Hey...Okay, sergeant." The young blond police officer looked frustrated.
"Hey..." Suddenly, there was a busy tone from all the police officers' walkie-talkies.
The police officers who heard such noise stopped what they were doing and focused on their walkie-talkies.
"All attention." At this time, the female operator's voice came from the walkie-talkie:
"The small town of Ojai suddenly suffered a large-scale power outage, which was also accompanied by a large number of malicious arson incidents. The local police and fire fighters were unable to deal with it alone, so they requested our support."
Hearing this, the police officers' expressions instantly became solemn, and they all looked at Joel, who also had a serious face.
After all, the highest-ranking police officer present was Joel.
Seeing this, Joel picked up the walkie-talkie on the table and responded: "This is Sergeant Miller. I will arrange for police support."
"Understood." the female operator replied.
End communication.
Joel stood up, looked around at the police officers present, and ordered in a deep voice: "Mueller, George, and Const, the three of you stay here, and the rest of you and I will go to support Ojai."
"Yes, Sergeant!"
After receiving the order, the police officers immediately checked their guns and equipment, and finally put on their cold-weather clothes and quickly left the office and headed to the parking lot on the basement floor of the police station.
In the already empty office, only three police officers were left behind.
It won’t take long.
The north exit outside the police station.
The gate of the underground garage rises.
The first one to drive out of the garage was a police pickup truck with a yellow snowplow on the front, followed closely by four four-seater police cars and a police SUV.
Come to the street.
The police pickup truck put down the snow shovel and was responsible for clearing the way. Five police cars followed the pickup truck and walked through the streets piled with snow.
Afterwards, the convoy first drove west along Highway 101, then turned onto Highway 33 due north, heading straight to the small town of Ojai in the north.
During this period, the convoy also encountered a police convoy from Ventura, and the two convoys merged together to provide support.
In the snowy weather and extremely low visibility, it seemed like they were the only ones in the world still running around outside.
However, God seems to be very kind to these police officers. When they were only two kilometers away from the small town of Ojai, the blizzard gradually subsided.
The small town of Ojai has gradually come into the sight of the police officers.
The flames soared into the sky.
But the police officers in the car did not show too much surprise.
Because this is near Los Angeles.
Riots have occurred from time to time since 1960, especially the Compton Riots that broke out on April 29, 1994. Ten thousand people were arrested within four days, which was one thousand more than the total population of Ojai. Inside the pickup truck.
Joel, who was sitting in the passenger seat, glanced at the blond police officer sitting in the back seat with his peripheral vision. Seeing the man operating a high-end mobile phone with a solemn expression, he couldn't help but talk:
"Tell your family that you are safe?"
"Yes, Sergeant..." The blond police officer put away his phone and looked up at Joel, expressing his worries in a tone that sounded like he was gone forever:
"I told my family... I might go home late, and I don't have to do my share of lunch and dinner tomorrow."
"It's not as serious as you said, new guy!" Hearing what the blond police officer said made the police officer in charge of driving the pickup laugh. He comforted the blond police officer through the rearview mirror:
"At most, they are just a bunch of guys who took advantage of the power outage to deliberately set fire to loot shops and shopping malls. To be honest, those bastards will scare us away when they see us arrive. Don't worry! You are guaranteed to have a meal cooked by my mother tomorrow.
!"
"I hope so, but...can you concentrate on driving?" The blond police officer seemed more worried.