Akihabara Pioneer Road Chapter 306: 【The destination is the Imperial Hotel! ]
"Are the nearest stations 'Uchiyukicho Station', 'Yurakucho Station' and 'Hibiya Station'?"
The young man with a bulging bag on his back looked at the Tokyo railway map sweating profusely, muttering to himself.
Since the destination Imperial Hotel is next to Hibiya Park, I'd better transfer to "Hibiya Station"!
He stroked a red line with his fingers and continued to say to himself:
"...So that's the case...The Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line passes through 'Kasumigaseki Station' from west to east, then heads north and joins with the Toei Mita Line at 'Hibiya Station'."
Well, that's it.
Masaki Miyane put the railway map in his backpack and stared at the billboard outside the car window.
From the remote Shimane prefecture all the way to the east, he graduated from a famous liberal arts college in Kansai. His original ambition was to be a TV reporter. Perhaps because of his not so eye-catching appearance, he finally submitted a TV station application resume. He failed to pass a book selection test, so he had to switch to other media according to the situation, and finally got a job as an entertainment reporter in the entertainment editorial department of the publishing giant Juxian Club.
It stands to reason that it is time to enter the happy paparazzi life next. Who knows that the nature of work in this industry is comparable to that of private detectives, the intensity of work is not inferior to that of criminal police, the degree of danger is higher than that of undercover gangsters, and the hard work index is close to...
The oversized backpack on his back contained a "one-shot" camera, hand-held camcorder, recording equipment, flash, spare batteries, interview notebooks and a whole bunch of miscellaneous interview equipment, which was like a full set of luggage for a heavy march. . In such a hot summer like a steamer, the unit did not have a car, and the pressure he was under was naturally miserable.
He sometimes wonders why he has embarked on such a rocky career path.
What about celebrity interviews? What about the champagne red carpet? How about a good laugh?
Is it the wrong way to open it?
Suspicious of the gaps in his life, he couldn't help but pull out the rough interview card in his pocket, with the name of the magazine he worked for printed on it—!
Actually, he can endure these physical pains. After all, he is still young, and he will survive it if he gritted his teeth.
What made him even more troubled and exhausted was that, in addition to this regular press conference interview assignment, not long ago his boss gave him a not-so-righteous "secret assignment" in private.
Yes, it was the deputy editor-in-chief of the entertainment editorial department named Imamura Ryuichiro, who actually let me...
"Arrived at Hibiya Station, the door on the left is about to open. You can transfer to the Toei Mita Line..."
Miyane's thoughts were interrupted by the station announcement in the car, and he squeezed off the subway with other passengers.
Going up the stairs at Exit 2, a quiet city garden comes into view.
Don't ask, it must be "Hibiya Park" gone.
So, isn't that leaden-grey building in the opposite direction the Imperial Hotel?
Miyagen swallowed a mouthful of spit and walked towards the green signal light across the sidewalk...
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The fourth floor of the Imperial Hotel.
In the "Galactic Hall", the crowd is crowded.
Entertainment reporters from major media, representatives of movie theaters, celebrities in the entertainment industry, broadcasters from TV stations, agents in the advertising industry, and organizations that have received invitations from all over the world, to name a few.
A waiter with shiny combed hair carried a variety of drinks and shuttled through the costumed crowd; near the corner of the stage curtain, two young comedians were performing a warm-up show - a kind of comedy similar to cross talk form. The funny "A'Dai" pretended to be stupid, and the excited "Find the Difference" quickly complained. From time to time, he patted the opponent's forehead with his hands to show his indignation, which caused bursts of relaxed laughter from the audience from time to time.
The video reporters in charge of photography set up long guns and short cannons in the designated area, confirmed the angle of view in the viewfinder, and adjusted the level and focus in order to obtain the best shooting position.
Masaki Miyagen was also tasked with taking pictures during this trip. Naturally, he was not to be outdone. The tripod was well supported and the cameras were placed in place. The luck was not bad, but there were no random people in the field of vision... /
Clap!
The viewfinder suddenly went dark.
No, the lens cap was just put in his trouser pocket.
What's going on here?
While Miyagen was puzzled, the professional instinct he had trained in the past few months made him subconsciously press the camera button.
Sure enough, just when other photographers were busy, a two-dimensional cartoon short film has already kicked off!
The two comedians just now didn't know where they were, and the originally noisy scene immediately became quiet.
A desert island surrounded by turbulent waves appeared in the center of the projection screen. With a sharp bird call, the angle of view and a seabird advanced to the desert island side by side, leading everyone's attention to the island. The scenery...
Some attentive viewers have recognized that this painting style and composition idea are completely correct, but for some reason, what the superimposed picture describes is precisely the live-action version!
Is it a brand new one again?
Steep cliffs, white lighthouses, quiet dwellings, silent warehouses, abandoned schools... The ordinary scenery without any strangeness changes one by one, and it is full of strangeness and gloom.
Just as people's nerves were gradually pulled to the limit by the terrifying montage of animation, various figures of female middle school students lying motionless on the ground appeared in people's field of vision!
"Ah-"
Some timid attendees even screamed, causing a commotion in the venue.
The camera continues to zoom in and out, past the immobile corpse, and has been focusing on the scattered objects next to the corpse - submachine guns, pistols, crossbows, sharp knives, medicine bottles... In addition to these conventional weapons that are known at first sight ~ IndoMTL. com~ There are other daily necessities that can be seen everywhere in life - paper cutters, baseball bats, wire saws, kitchen knives, skipping ropes...
But here, they all have a common name, that is - "the murder weapon"!
In an instant, the screen suddenly flashed back to a huge warehouse resembling a hypermarket, where people in camouflage uniforms were methodically searching for items on the storage shelves according to the lists in their hands.
Then various items were put on a conveyor belt of an assembly line and moved mightily to another large workshop. There, other mysterious people in camouflage put the items on the conveyor belt into large schoolbags with a uniform appearance.
The zippered schoolbags began to be loaded into container trucks, and under the cover of a group of military armored vehicles, they drove to a place that looked like a freight terminal.
When the container was opened again, a large number of school bags were pulled to a place like a school. At this time, in a certain classroom of this school, a group of female middle school students are waking up from coma one after another...
So far, the short film has not had a single line or commentary, but the amount of information contained in the frame-by-frame narration is not too large!
The photojournalists have entered the tense and exciting shooting mode. Many of them began to complain about the abrupt development of the organizer, and annoyed for their failure to press the video button in time. Staring at the entire curtain in the camera.
His heart was also surging and ups and downs at this time, just like the rough sea at the beginning of the film. He himself knew deeply that the "mission" he had been assigned to before also started at this unusual roadshow press conference venue! .
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