Chapter 255 Who Killed Spider-Man?! (1/2)

"Congratulations on winning, Kent..."

New York, Frontline Newspaper.

Ben Yurich held a small celebration to congratulate Colin for winning the latest Pulitzer Prize for exclusive reporting on the attack on the New York mayor reported by Frontline.

"Thank you."

Obviously, Ben Yurich and others wanted to make this celebration a surprise.

However, for Colin now, surprise is already a very distant concept, but on the surface, he still made a surprised expression to cooperate with Ben Yurich and others' celebration.

"I thought the results would come out later."

The event did not last long. After completing the celebration of Colin's award, many people returned to their jobs, and Colin also expressed his surprise to Ben Yurich.

As mentioned before, Colin did not take the nomination for the Pulitzer Prize too seriously, so he did not pay too much attention to the news of winning the award.

"Normally, the award needs to be announced later, but who calls us reporters?"

In response, Ben Yurich explained with a smile.

As a benchmark award in the journalism industry, the Pulitzer Prize may not be the most fair, but it is definitely the most influential news award.

For most winners, the Pulitzer Prize can effectively increase their popularity.

"I have arranged a time for your interview. It will be the afternoon after you receive the award certificate and prize money from the Pulitzer Prize."

Yes, there is a prize for winning the Pulitzer Prize.

Although the cash prize of $7,500 is not high among the same type of news awards, most winners do not come for this cash. On the contrary, once they can win the Pulitzer Prize, the benefits behind it are far beyond the comparison of a few dollars.

Considering that Colin needs to go to the Rock Library of Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prize banquet is held, to receive the award certificate and prize money tomorrow, Ban Yulich did not arrange too much tedious news work for him.

On that day, he only needed to write the news he had sorted out before.

"Who killed Spider-Man?!"

In the office, Ben Yulich looked at the news headline Colin had chosen and subconsciously raised his eyebrows.

"Are you sure you want to focus on this topic?"

As we all know, Jameson behind "Frontline" doesn't like Spider-Man. Not long ago, he publicly criticized all this on his online news program.

And Colin's report is somewhat in conflict with Jameson's opinion.

"Isn't the press free?"

Although Colin didn't believe this statement in his heart, it didn't prevent him from using it to convince others.

In the office, facing the reasons given by Colin, Ben Yulich was silent for a long time before nodding and saying.

"You're right, Kent, there should be different voices in the report on Spider-Man."

Since the news of the mayor's attack was exposed, Colin had a vague tendency to develop into a big reporter in "Frontline", and this point became clearer with his winning of the "Pulitzer Prize".

With the Pulitzer Prize winner as an endorsement, even if he doesn't have the identity of a reporter for the Frontline, he can still report the news with his own influence.

It is precisely because of this that Ban Yulich had to make concessions.

After all, the Frontline is not Jameson's Daily Bugle. Even if the establishment of the newspaper is indeed sponsored by Jameson, it still belongs to Ban Yulich's newspaper.

As far as Ban Yulich knows, after receiving compensation from Harry Osborn, Jameson has planned to buy back the ownership of the name of the Daily Bugle and establish a new Daily Bugle.

If this is the case, then Ban Yulich must reconsider the relationship between himself and Jameson.

After all, the vast majority of employees in the Frontline are former Daily Bugle people. Once Jameson's new Daily Bugle is established, Ban Yulich does not rule out that a large number of them will return to work under the Daily Bugle, which is obviously not good news for the current Frontline.

Unless Ban Yulich is willing to give up his "Frontline" and return to Jameson.

But this is obviously not what Ban Yulich expected, especially under the current smooth development of "Frontline", so new employees like Colin, who entered the newspaper after the establishment of "Frontline" and had no relationship with Jameson's previous "Clarion Daily", became Ban Yulich.

In particular, Colin, a new employee, has a bright future.

Vaguely, no, he has become the ace reporter of "Frontline" today.

As a veteran reporter who has worked in "Clarion Daily" for many years, Ban Yulich naturally knows the importance of an ace reporter to a news newspaper.

It is even blunt to say that more than half of the credit for the current success of "Frontline" is attributed to the news reported by Colin.

It is precisely because of his influence on "Frontline" that Ban Yulich has the ambition to develop independently.

If it were not for the success of "Frontline", Ban Yulich might have become one of those who returned to the "Clarion Daily" founded by Jameson in the future.

…

“Who killed Spider-Man?!”

On that day, the official website of Frontline News published the latest report on Spider-Man written by Colin.

Recently, due to the exposure of his true identity, Spider-Man has become a traffic code for major New York newspapers.

Various newspapers hope to publish some content related to Spider-Man on them, and some newspapers even went directly to May Parker's home, or simply went to the high school where Peter graduated to interview their opinions.

The overwhelming news directly reported all the experiences of May Parker's family, even the death of Ben Parker and the death of Peter's parents.

Such an approach naturally attracted the dissatisfaction of some New York citizens.

And the report published by Colin in "Frontline" just fits the ideas of this group of people.

In the news, Colin briefly described the chaos of major media reports on Spider-Man during this period of time, and then expressed criticism in sharp words, believing that these people were the murderers who "killed" Spider-Man, and their actions were strangling this superhero who has been working hard to protect New York.

When Spider-Man's identity was exposed, no one cared about the safety of this superhero. Instead, everyone was madly chasing May Parker, exposing everything about her to the media, and even her family was not spared.

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This is New York, the city that Spider-Man has always protected, and this is the people of New York, the people that Spider-Man has always protected...

"Who killed Spider-Man? (Who killed Spider-Man?)

I, said the New York, (It's me, New York said)

with my bow and arrow... (With my bow and arrow...)

..."

At the end of the news, Colin specially adapted the nursery rhyme "Who Killed the Mockingbird", which is also the title of the news.

Not surprisingly, the release of Colin's "Who Killed Spider-Man?!" news immediately triggered a heated debate in New York City.

Thanks to the development of the anti-world online media, all major media sections quoted this report that afternoon.

Although a small number of people still believe that Spider-Man's practice of hiding his identity as a superhero is not reasonable.

But more people still stand on Colin's side, believing that the media's recent practices have exceeded the limit. Most of them are people who have been directly or indirectly saved by Spider-Man, and belong to the silent majority.

Under the pressure of the change in public opinion, many newspapers that previously reported Spider-Man news had to come forward to clarify and admit that their previous reports lacked the fairness and privacy of the news.

Even major newspapers such as the New York Times have specially acknowledged the previous reporting errors in the form of columns.

However, the public obviously will not let them go because of this. The message "Who killed Spider-Man?!" has been appearing on the newspaper's website, expressing the support of New York citizens for Spider-Man.

Perhaps, many New York citizens have already known in their hearts that after such an incident, Spider-Man may not appear in New York again.

Their actions are just to vent their inner dissatisfaction and express their nostalgia for this former superhero.

...

"I admit that the report by reporter Clark Kent may have some truth..."

"But, Spider-Man, since you are a superhero, although I don't think what you did can be called a superhero, no superhero will hide his head and show his tail. Only criminals will do this. All superheroes in the Thunderbolts Team have made their identities public. If you think you are a superhero, Spider-Man, why don't you join the Thunderbolts Team?"

"Or do you have some secrets that make you afraid to join the Thunderbolts Team?"

Although the public opinion outside generally stands on the side of sympathy for Spider-Man, Jameson still expresses his clear position without changing his original intention.

[Contact the distorted time node and collect a small amount of time fragments x3]

...

Above New York City.

Colin looked at the prompts on the text in front of him, and a clear expression appeared on his face.

The method of obtaining [Time Fragments] through reporting was discovered as early as when he was targeting Kingpin.

This is obviously also a form of intersection, which is one of the reasons why Colin has not given up his identity as a reporter until now.

Taking his eyes off the text, Colin turned his attention back to the sun above his head.

Under the sun, there seemed to be an endless flow of power in his body.

However, facing this situation, Colin frowned instead.

"Has it reached its limit?"

Stretch out your palm and feel the sunlight shining in your palm. Since unlocking [Energy Absorption], Colin has been absorbing and storing energy from the sun through the anti-world. These powers are also increasing Colin's ability little by little. Although this growth rate is not as rapid as unlocking or upgrading the mark, it is more stable.

And now, it is obvious that this growth has reached its limit.

Or it should be said that [Energy Absorption] at the [Black Iron] level has reached the limit of its ability to absorb solar energy.

Although Colin's body still does not feel filled with solar energy, [Energy Absorption] bathed in the sun still cannot absorb even a trace of sunlight and store it in Colin's body.

This difference in feeling is obviously the effect of the two levels of ability [Bronze] and [Black Iron].

Colin's body's defense has long been upgraded to the [Bronze] level, and [Energy Absorption], which has just been unlocked, is still at [Black Iron]. The gap between the two has caused his body to be able to store more solar energy, but [Energy Absorption] cannot absorb more.

"It seems that we can only improve this ability through the comic series in the positive world."

Retracting his palm, Colin thought with regret.

Unlike most ability unlocking, the unlocking and even upgrading of the ability [Energy Absorption] is very difficult. In order to unlock this ability, Colin spent a lot of time and created content. Through comics, the first anniversary commemorative issue and the radio drama of "Superman Adventures", he completed the unlocking of the ability.

Nowadays, although the plot about Superman absorbing solar energy has been published through the "Superman" comics in the positive world, the improvement of [Energy Absorption] has not happened yet.

This made Colin wonder, or the difficulty of unlocking and upgrading is closely related to the ability [Energy Absorption] itself.

As the core of all Superman's abilities, [Energy Absorption] can only be upgraded through continuous serialization and accumulation.

Taking a deep breath, Colin retracted his thoughts from the issue of [Energy Absorption] upgrade, and raised his head to look at the satellite barrier above his head.

With the upgrade of [Super Vision], Colin can now clearly see this special barrier surrounding the earth even if he is standing in New York City.

These satellites floating densely in the outer space of the earth are like a huge barrier covering the entire earth. Looking out, apart from the sun floating high there and the moon in the corner, there are few traces of other planets.

Colin is not surprised by this situation.

In fact, he had noticed this phenomenon as early as when [Super Vision] reached the [Bronze] level.

The stars in the anti-world sky seem to be thinner than he knew.

Not only that, even the related research astronomy seems to be very unpopular. There is not even a school specializing in related astronomical phenomena in the whole of New York.

No one cares about the situation in the universe above their heads. The governments of the world seem to let the people ignore this intentionally or unintentionally.

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