Chapter 712

"At 3:42 this afternoon, in front of the Hollywood China Grand Theater on the avenue of fame in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, unknown shooters with assault rifles shot wildly in front of the theater door, killing and injuring many people, including many fans who were going to the cinema to watch movies, creating one of the most serious shooting cases in the history of Los Angeles."

"It is reported that the shooter appeared at a time when Murphy Stanton's" city of darkness "was about to be shown in the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood. The dramatic increase in the flow of people at the entrance of the theater provided great convenience for the shooter's murder."

"The shooter rode a motorcycle and used an old AR-15 assault rifle. He fired a total of 30 bullets. In only half a minute, he drove away on the motorcycle."

"According to the description of witnesses at the scene, the shooter was wearing a black helmet and was wrapped up in a black riding suit. He was about six feet tall and bulky. He should be a man..."

In the rest room of the villa, Murphy sat in front of the TV with no expression on his face. He just looked at the report of the TV station foolishly. The TV station then broadcast the photos and videos taken by some quick reaction people at the scene, including the figure of the shooter.

Obviously, it was a planned and premeditated shooting. Murphy is not difficult to make such a judgment, the shooter from shooting to leave, only took half a minute.

However, he also found in a video broadcast by the TV station that the shooter had been waiting for a few minutes in front of the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood before shooting. He didn't shoot after he arrived. What was he waiting for?

Without waiting for Murphy to continue to think, the news broadcast on TV began to report.

"After four people died and seven were injured, the shooter left the scene of the crime calmly on his motorcycle and disappeared in the streets of Los Angeles. The speed of the action made it too late for the police to make any response. At present, the police have no valuable clues except the colorful ball left by the shooter at the scene."

There's a close-up of a colorful ball full of words on the TV screen.

Seeing the magic ball, Murphy's brows immediately wrinkled, and Gail gado, who was sitting beside him, unconsciously grasped his hand!

Two people are very familiar with the magic ball, which is clearly the peripheral product of the patented "dark city" - the magic ball left by the magician every time he gives an ultimatum to create panic!

Murphy had a bad guess.

Sure enough, the TV station later released some news.

This is the shooting in the afternoon. It's evening now. The TV station has enough time to get some information.

"The magic ball left by the shooter at the scene made the police exclude the incident as a terrorist incident for the first time, and initially identified it as a crime of imitation. Although there is no more evidence to support the Los Angeles police side information, according to the police, the words on the magic ball dropped by the shooter when he left are one sentence - I am the agent of chaos

"Those who have seen the big hit movie" dark city "will be very familiar with this sentence. This is the word left by the magician before every time he creates chaos! I don't know if this shooting case has an unknown connection with the city of darkness This information has cast a layer of fog on this tragedy.... "

Watching the news on TV, Murphy didn't say a word.

Gail gado couldn't help it. The shock on his face had not dissipated. "No? Will someone really imitate a magician? "

"It seems possible." Murphy stood up in disbelief. "Have you forgotten John Hinkley? He assassinated Ronald Reagan by imitating taxi driver

"We..." Gail gado's first concern is his own interests in this regard, "whether our films will be affected."

Murphy nodded. "If it's true, it's going to be affected."

He walked slowly to the window and looked out of the window, which was just the direction of Hollywood avenue of stars. From here, he could see nothing except the stars in the night sky.

If he remembers correctly, it seems that there was a similar shooting case, but it was at the premiere of the rise of the dark knight. It seems that a crazy clown fan killed people at the premiere of a certain city, causing heavy casualties, which directly led Warner Brothers to cancel the premiere of the rise of the dark knight in many countries and regions The film had a general reputation. After being made such a fuss, the final box office didn't meet Warner Brothers' expectation.

It is impossible to have a negative impact on the film when such an event occurs.

Is that man really imitating a magician? Murphy frowned. Even if he was not imitating, the magic ball thrown by the shooter at the scene and the words "I am the agent of chaos" written on the magic ball would be hyped by the media as a magician in the imitation movie.

"Gado." Murphy asked back, "did 20th Century Fox and CAA know?"

"It's time to get the news." Gail gado, looking at his cell phone, replied, "I just got a message. Carla Firth and bill rosis are on their way. They should be here in ten minutes."Murphy turned and walked toward the door. "Let's wait for them in the living room."

After waiting in the living room for less than ten minutes, Carla Firth and bill rosis arrived one after another. They came to see Murphy so late, of course, because of the shooting at the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood in the afternoon.

"It can be expected that the media will hype tomorrow. Magic ball and that line belong to the news that has been announced by the police."

Carla Firth took the glass in front of her and drank a lot of water, which made her feel fresh. She said, "according to my experience, in any case, some media will press this matter on the dark city and the magician..."

She looked at Murphy. "Even you're going to get dragged down."

Carla Firth used to be a professional journalist, who knew enough about the mentality and style of her peers.

Murphy shook his head. "That pressure doesn't matter to me."

Knowing that Murphy was not afraid of this, Gail gado asked, "what about city of darkness?"

The global box office of this film has exceeded the $2 billion mark, and it is approaching Titanic. It even has the hope of hitting the highest global box office record of avatar. Now that this has happened, it is hard to say what the box office discovery trend will be in the future.

"It is inevitable to be affected." Carla Firth also frowned, "the box office may plummet. Before I came here, I already called the people in the publicity department and Public Relations Department of the company. I'll go to have a meeting with them at ten o'clock to launch crisis public relations as soon as possible and reduce our losses."

In this regard, the 20th Century Fox people are more professional, Murphy did not say much.

"You have to be ready, too." Bill rossis reminds Murphy, "tomorrow morning, there will be a lot of reporters around you."

Murphy nodded. "I won't speak for a while."

"Let's not go out for a while." Gail gado always felt a little uneasy, "hiding in the manor, those reporters can't help us."

"Well." Murphy agreed, "yes. We will not face the media until the situation is uncertain. "

"There's a little to do." Carla Firth said, "you can send a statement condemning the murderer."

"That's right." Bill rosis laughed. "It's no mistake to blame the murderer and sympathize with the victim."

Since the incident involved the magician and "dark city", Murphy knew that he could not be completely unaffected, "at the right time, I will make a relevant public statement."

As the current grasp of information is not enough, a few people can not come up with specific coping strategies, can only generally discuss the relevant matters needing attention.

It was getting late, and Carla Firth had a meeting to attend, and soon left.

Bill - rosis continued to remind Murphy some precautions, "once this kind of thing is not handled properly, the consequences are likely to be very serious."

"Don't worry." Murphy took a sip from her glass and said, "I know what to say and what not to say."

He is not stupid enough to jump out and say that all the people killed by the shooters deserve to die. They deserve to be the experimental objects of the magician's chaos theory in the real society.

"No news from the police?" Murphy asked. Robert has been in some contact with the police.

"I already said hello to Robert." Bill rosis shook his head. "Not yet. He'll let me know as soon as there's any news."

As soon as he said that, Bill Rossi's mobile phone rang. He took a look and went to the side to answer. After a few words, Murphy saw that his face became very serious.

In a few minutes, bill rossis put the phone away and came back.

"It's definitely a planned and premeditated action, and it's probably really from the admirers of magicians." Bill - rosis appears to be extremely serious, "may even be your fans."

"Ah?" Gail gado couldn't seem to believe, "what?"

Murphy, still calm, asked, "have you heard from the police?"

"Well! Robert just got some Bill rosis said directly, "the police took many surveillance videos near the crime and found that the shooter had been tracking a man in a red baseball cap who had been killed, and the shooter was aiming at the same place where he was."

he took a little steady breath and continued, "the police have found out the information about the red baseball cap, He has been spreading and attacking you on the Internet and insulting Catholicism... "

Hearing this, Murphy looked up. "Is that him?"

Bill rosis nodded and said, "the police think that there is a possibility that it is he who attacks you crazily on the Internet and causes the dissatisfaction of your fans..."

Gail gado couldn't believe it. "How could that be?"

Murphy also raised a sense of absurdity, or calmly asked, "do the police have any other evidence?"Bill rosis shook his head. "I don't think so."