Chapter 914: Explosion (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket! Please Subscribe! Please Collect! Please Recommend!) First Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket

The next day, Kai and George's family came to the gymnasium of Midtown High School. Read

Midtown High School is a top-level and efficient school with better supporting facilities than ordinary universities. For example, their gymnasium can accommodate more than 10,000 people, which can be compared with a commercial gymnasium, and the most amazing thing is that it is not rented out. You know, the maintenance of such a large gymnasium alone is a terrible expense.

From this, we can see how awesome Midtown High School is.

The venue was made very exaggerated, and there were many people coming. Among those first-class universities, NAQT is still quite powerful. Unlike those schools that worship happy education, schools that implement elite teaching will spend a lot of money to collect students with excellent academic performance everywhere.

For example, Wenger, her parents did not graduate from Midtown High School. George graduated from an ordinary high school, and George's wife, Gwen's mother, Helen, graduated from Carterbore High School. This is also a very good high school. But Gwen's academic gene was revealed in junior high school. Carterbury High School originally wanted to take Gwen in, and even found a schoolmate named Helen. Helen also had the same plan at the time. Everyone wanted their children to study at their former alma mater. Carterbury offered good conditions, free tuition.

At the same time, Midtown High School also took a fancy to Gwen, but Midtown High School was more generous and directly offered a 3S-level scholarship. This level of scholarship not only waived tuition, but also gave extra money. So George's family decisively chose Midtown High School.

It's so realistic.

In fact, George's family did not make a wrong choice. Gwen is only a sophomore in high school (that is, 10th grade), and she has become a student assistant. This year, she should join the student union and become the president of the student union. This is a very rare honor. After all, when many American universities give scholarships, they don't just look at the past. Social practice experience and various honors are also indispensable. Gwen has no problem entering the university, but if you want to get a full scholarship from a top university, similar honors are indispensable.

Even this kind of honor will benefit Gwen even if she enters society.

Many people say that there are no aristocrats in the United States, which is both right and wrong. The United States does not have aristocrats in name, but it does have aristocrats in fact.

As early as when the United States was founded, it established a system of elites. Their political system has never been a democracy, but an elite representative system. A closer look at their electoral system will make it clear. This kind of elite is actually another form of aristocracy.

There should be no king in the United States, so there is no title of nobility.

So how to distinguish between elites and civilians?

So the elites came up with a way, through education!

That's right, education!

Those good universities are the simplest symbol of identity.

Some universities sound high-end, for example, if you graduate from Yale University, then other Americans will immediately respect you when they hear it. After all, Yale University is not something that ordinary people can enter, and even if you have good academic performance, you may not be able to enter such a university.

The admission standards of universities like Yale University have always been mysterious to the outside world. They don't have any fixed standards. You can't enter just by getting a certain number of points on the exam. It's very troublesome. There is a set of data that can intuitively show the class divisions in the United States.

Among the students admitted to famous American universities, 75% of them come from high-income families, while only 25% of them come from low-income families! Among these 25%, many people have to give up Yale because they can't afford the tuition.

Let's take Yale as an example. Yale University charges about 80,000 US dollars a year, including tuition of 50,000 to 50,000 US dollars a year, room and board of 50,000 to 30,000 US dollars a year. What's more amazing is that there are also textbook fees. The textbooks of the top universities in the United States are different. This alone costs more than 2,000 US dollars.

With such a rough calculation, it is almost 80,000, but students may have daily expenses.

With this calculation, it will cost 100,000 a year. And 60% of American families don't even have a thousand dollars in savings... How many students can you expect to be able to afford it?

The American dream is often just a dream. It's not something you can succeed by working hard.

With this resume, Gwen can complete the class transition! Become a noble graduate of a prestigious school! It won't be like George, who can't even talk about his alma mater in front of others.

To be honest, Kai was expecting a fierce battle.

It was as intense as an NBA game. The audience applauded and cheered. The competition on the stage was intense, everyone was sweating, veins popped, as if they were going to eat their opponents alive.

After watching it, I realized... No wonder no one watched the TV broadcast of NAQT.

The audience watched the two teams on the stage quietly throughout the whole process to compete in the knowledge contest, and only when they got the answer right, there was applause. Everything was calm... There was no passion at all.

In short, there was an unusual lack of participation.

And... This is a high school competition, right?

Why are those questions so difficult?

Anyway, Kai was confused. Kai could understand the words in those questions, but he was at a loss when they were connected.

No, no, he might not even understand the words.

For example, a word appeared in the middle of the game.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Do you think it's a bunch of garbled characters?

No, it's a word.

In Chinese, it's silicosis! Or it's called pneumoconiosis.

Anyway, Kai was completely confused. What is this?

It was not until Gwen's mother took out her phone and searched for this word that Kai and George figured out what this thing is.

My goodness, my goodness, 45 letters in one word. Isn't this going to kill people?

And this is a high school knowledge quiz, right? Why are there such professional medical words?

In short, it's very exaggerated.

It would be strange if someone would watch this kind of game on TV!

But fortunately, Kai can read the scoreboard.

Well, fortunately, there was no embarrassing situation where we didn't know which team won in the end.

Zhongcheng High School won!

Then the whole audience applauded.

Seeing George's excitement, Kai was really afraid that he would go crazy like Fan Jinzhong.

Fortunately, this didn't happen.

Just when everyone was preparing to celebrate, the school radio suddenly broadcast a message asking all teachers and students to evacuate quickly.

Kai and George looked at each other and felt bad.

Evacuate students?

Is there a fire?

Fortunately, because of the finals, the New York City Police Department has specially dispatched additional police officers nearby. Mass incidents are a very serious problem in any country, not to mention that students are involved.

If an accident happened in a school like Midtown High School, the police chief would be ready to bow and leave.

Just as the two were helping Midtown High School evacuate, their phones rang.

Then their faces changed.

The General Assembly venue was attacked by a bomb!

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The United Nations Headquarters Building is located on the east side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Its western border is First Avenue, its south is East 42nd Street, its north is East 48th Street, and its east side overlooks the East River.

It is not under the jurisdiction of the New York Police Department, and strictly speaking, it is not even US territory. The United Nations Headquarters belongs to the United Nations, and it is an international territory. Unless with the consent of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, no officer or official of the federal government, state government or local government of the United States, whether administrative officer, judicial officer, officer or police officer, may enter the United Nations headquarters.

Inside the headquarters, the United Nations has its own firefighting force and security force.

That said, the problem is that the New York police can't really turn a blind eye to it.

For example, at this conference, many demonstrators went over to support the King of Wakanda. This also caused this session of the General Assembly to attract a lot of attention, so in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, the New York police deliberately sent a large number of police officers to the surrounding area to prevent accidents.

As a result, the accident still happened.

The meeting was held on the 13th floor of the United Nations Secretariat Building south of the United Nations Headquarters Building, which was considered a warm-up for the formal conference.

As a result, something went wrong.

A bomb exploded under the building. The side of the building facing the road was severely damaged.

More than 80 demonstrators died on the spot, and more than a dozen passers-by who drove by were affected and killed, and hundreds of people were injured. Inside the building, there were also heavy losses. Thirty-seven staff members of the United Nations Headquarters died directly and dozens of staff members were injured. During the conference, the King of Wakanda was killed, 12 representatives were killed, and dozens of representatives were injured...

It can be said that this is the largest terrorist attack since the tragedy in September 2001.

The key is that the impact is extremely bad!

Internationally, almost immediately, countries expressed their views on this terrorist attack, condemning the murderer while also putting pressure on the United States.

This happened on American soil. If not the United States, who else can they blame?

The White House is also crying without tears.

Nima...what is this? Benjamin originally planned to go to the United Nations headquarters tomorrow morning.

This...is a blessing in disguise?

However, Benjamin doesn't think so.

On the contrary, he has a splitting headache.

The impact is too bad. It even shakes the international status of the United States!

Yes, it's true.

Many representatives of countries have begun to prepare to evacuate. If the United Nations headquarters is not safe...why do other countries send representatives here? Are they sending themselves to die?

Even the two major powers in the east proposed to move the United Nations headquarters away.

In the past, this proposal was only made by the Russians, and most people just listened to it for fun. This time, another mysterious Eastern country with a wide influence proposed it, which made people think deeply. Many countries really think that this matter... can be discussed.

After all, the recent situation in the United States... is indeed not very good.

If this really happens, then the United States will be embarrassed to open the door, and it will be embarrassed to the end!

Benjamin naturally couldn't let this happen.

So as soon as this happened, Benjamin overruled all opinions and immediately set off for New York.

Even if it was a battlefield, he would go there!

If he didn't go, the United Nations headquarters might really move!

Sure enough, Benjamin's statement immediately won the favor of many people. At least this shows the determination of the Americans!

But in this way, the New York Police Department was at a loss.

After all, it was the New York Police Department that was responsible for the outer security at that time!

Now the first commissioner of the New York Police is in the headquarters with the deputy commissioner and the police chief. Although they also know that they can't help, in this situation, do they let them go to play golf?

Believe it or not, if it gets exposed, you will be socially dead in a matter of minutes?

"Aren't Kay and George here yet?"

The first commissioner yelled.

He now wants the strongest ace of the New York police to come to him and tell him that the criminal will be caught soon.

Although he knew this was impossible.

But now that Kai is here, I feel a little safer.

"I'm sorry, Commissioner. Chief Wayne and Chief Stacey are participating in NAQT at Midtown High School. Due to the previous terrorist attack, the high school is being evacuated. So they won't be able to come for a while." The secretary on the side had already called 800 All over the phone.

As a result, Kai exploded and threatened to arrest the kid and put him in a detention cell if he called again.

Damn it, how could anyone call like that? It’s almost non-stop. Are you sick? All said and done feel ASAP! Is it necessary to keep beating?

Kai couldn't even answer other people's calls.

"Then...then let them take their time..."

If there were another problem at Zhongcheng High School, they would be a widow with a dead son, and there would be no hope at all.

However, Kai and George were reliable, and they arrived at the headquarters half an hour later.

Originally, this kind of thing had nothing to do with their 15th Precinct.

But for such a big matter, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the New York Police absolutely must jointly handle the case. It was reasonable for the New York police to send Kai there.

Although the New York Police also has a counter-terrorism department.

But a police department’s anti-terrorism unit…is certainly not reassuring.

"This is a video of that time."

There was not much pleasantries at this meeting. When everyone arrived, we went straight to the topic.

There's not much to see in the video, just the explosion scene.

"It's quite powerful. If it's really a terrorist, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be able to get such a terrible bomb."

Most of the attacks caused by terrorists in the United States are homemade bombs. The materials can be sold everywhere, but their power is definitely not as powerful as those used by the military. What's more, an explosion of this magnitude, even for ordinary military bombs, requires a huge amount.

If there really was such a large amount of explosives, there was no reason why the police at the scene couldn't discover it.

There were not only police officers, but also police dogs and various detectors at the scene to prevent this from happening.

So the question is, what kind of explosive was used?

The rarer and more high-tech a bomb is, the easier it is to trace its source.

"The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has sent personnel to the scene. According to preliminary results on the scene, it should be a polymer liquid bomb."

"Polymer liquid bomb?" Kai had heard of this thing.

This thing is a laboratory product. Kai doesn't know the exact composition. He only knows that it is a newly developed explosive that turns into a blue viscous liquid. This thing has a shortcoming, that is, it is too stable. Detonating a detonator requires a special trait.

It was precisely because of these characteristics that it was abandoned by the military.

Come on, who can make a bomb so complicated?

Complex means expensive. Are soldiers worth using such expensive bombs?