American fame and fortune

The door of the commercial vehicle opened, and White came back first, and said: "I found out about a situation that was not reported by the media. Martin Davis had a shootout with someone in the community."

"Shooting?" Alex became interested.

White didn't stop talking: "Several black traffickers broke into Carter's house at night and were shot away by Martin. The leader of them was also beaten by Martin. He is currently serving his sentence in the state prison and will not be released until more than ten years later. .”

Alex's interest faded, it wasn't the news he wanted.

White added: "And Martin's father, who kidnapped his ex-girlfriend's mother, that guy is a complete scumbag, maybe we can use it."

Alex asked, "Do you know where he is?"

White was helpless: "It is said that he ran to Australia or New Zealand."

Someone knocked on the car window from outside, and Albert came back.

He said that the relevant situation he learned from several people was actually similar to White.

Alex frowned more and more as he listened, and couldn't help saying: "Martin Davis is simply a typical example of crawling out of a muddy quagmire, a realistic version of the American dream."

What the neighbors said was not much different from what was publicly reported in the newspapers.

The only thing that wasn't reported carefully was the gun dealer and that bastard father.

But when these are published, Martin Davis' resume is even more legendary, and he will be more glorious.

White said: "Can we start with Martin's father?"

Alex asked back: "Are you going to Australia or New Zealand to find someone?"

White fell silent.

Albert said at this time: "Boss, if it really doesn't work, shall we post these news?"

"Send these useless things?" Alex shook his head and raised his voice: "Do you have any career pursuits? We are reporters, and we have the obligation to expose the facts hidden behind the scenes. This is the power given to us by the public!"

Gao Dashang finished speaking on the spiritual level, and then he said the real thing: "You all know very well that once such news breaks out, the newspaper society will reward us!"

White and Albert pretended not to hear the previous ones.

What happened next moved their hearts. The newspaper is not generally generous in news rewards, and it doesn't care or secretly encourages its subordinates to obtain news by any means.

Alex said again: "Martin Davis' ex-girlfriend's family is the key, find them." He glanced at the date on the newspaper: "Two days later, if there is no new discovery, go back to Washington and use our unique skills."

White is good at this, and said: "This time all the recipients stayed at the DC Hilton Hotel. We have done it several times in that place, and there are many news informants."

They've been everywhere since 9/11, Alex said softly, "There's no news that the News of the World can't get."

…………

Washington DC, National Airport.

Martin and Bruce walked out of the exit, saw the people who came to pick up the plane, and boarded the car they drove.

The car crossed the Potomac River and soon turned onto Pennsylvania Avenue.

Through the car window, Martin saw the obelisk-shaped Washington Monument and the dome-like Capitol Hill.

The Secret Service staff who came to the White House said: "Mr. Davis, your itinerary is arranged as follows. When you arrive at the hotel, there will be a media interview, and then you are free to move around. I will pick you up at nine o'clock in the morning on Independence Day. Going to the White House, attending the Independence Day celebrations, the honors are part of the celebrations."

"Thank you." Martin nodded slightly: "May I know your name and contact information?"

The secret service agent handed over a card: "Jonathan."

Martin was quite polite and sent his business card: "You can call me when you arrive in Los Angeles someday."

Jonathan took it: "Thank you."

When they came to the Hilton Hotel, the car passed by an aisle, and Bruce pointed to a place: "That's where Reagan was assassinated."

Martin murmured, "It's scary how the fans go crazy."

What's the guy from the Beatles called? He can't remember clearly, it seems that he was killed by his fans?

After entering the hotel, Kate, a female reporter from the official Washington News, was already waiting in the lobby rest area.

The interviews were nothing special, Kate asked formulaic questions, and Martin was in charge of the business bragging, LAPD and Los Angeles, then the authorities and all that stuff.

Jonathan stayed by until the interview was over.

Kate was about to say goodbye, before leaving, she said: "Can we exchange contact information?"

"No problem." Martin is also willing to have more contact with the media and have multiple voice channels.

The two exchanged contact information, and Kate made a special call to Martin.

The suite was already ready at the hotel, and Martin and Bruce went upstairs together.

Bruce looked around the room and said, "The conditions are not bad."

Martin asked, "Are Duke and Murphy here?"

Bruce glanced at the phone: "They've arrived, we'll check in after confirming our room."

He observed it before entering the door, and sent out the room number and the rooms suitable for the two people: "This is Washington, and generally the Russians don't make trouble."

Martin joked casually: "I'm afraid they've been drinking."

Soon, Duke and Murphy went upstairs and checked into the room diagonally opposite not far away.

The duo are good at watching and spotting stalkers.

Martin was more pleased with them, and it was they who found Pratt following in Atlanta.

When Duke went to open the door with his room card, Murphy, who was behind, raised his mobile phone and took a photo of the heads of several hotel employees in charge of this floor on the bulletin board.

Like this kind of hotel, each floor is in charge of fixed staff.

In the room, Martin had just packed his luggage and came to the balcony of the master bedroom.

You can see the White House from here.

Bruce came over and said, "They're OK."

…………

Atlanta, Northville.

Lily, who had just transferred to another school, walked out of the private middle school alone and walked along the sidewalk. The clown pendant on her backpack was swinging back and forth as her long legs moved.

The weather was hot, so she went into a cold drink shop and ordered skim ice cream.

Lily sat at an empty table with an ice cream.

Before eating, a handsome man in his twenties sat across from him, with a kind face.

Albert tentatively said, "Hi, I'm Martin's friend."

Lily took a bite of the ice cream and said habitually, "That idiot and bastard would have a friend like you?"

Hearing that the little girl scolded Martin as soon as she opened her mouth, Albert felt that she had found the right person. The little girl treated Martin very badly.

He added: "Martin is a star, and I work in the media industry."

Lily understood that this was a reporter, her thoughts changed, but her face became more innocent and cute.

Albert added: "I came here this time mainly to understand some basic information about Martin and to write a comprehensive news report. Martin will soon be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom."

Lily thought of the video she had seen. Martin foolishly went to save those irrelevant people, and said, "That idiot, what else can he do besides doing stupid things?"

Albert asked: "You have a bad relationship with him? Has he done anything excessive to you?"

Lily didn't answer. She blinked innocently and asked, "Which newspaper are you a reporter? You can't be a bad person, right?"

Albert glanced at the beautiful female middle school student who was harmless to humans and animals, and took out his work card to show her: "News of the World."

Lily has never read this newspaper, but the name sounds very unusual: "A worldwide newspaper?"

"Yes! Published in many places around the world!" Albert didn't even mention his relationship with The Sun, and asked inductively: "Has Martin bullied you?"

Lily touched the top of her head subconsciously. Since Martin broke his leg, he seemed to have received a lot of punches.

But she could hear that the reporter's question was not right, and said: "It's not considered bullying, it's just that he is relying on my house to eat soft food. My family used to be very poor, and there was not enough food. We had to rely on robbery to eat."

Albert was quite disappointed, and continued to induce: "Nothing else? He stays at your house for a long time. Your house is small and there are many girls' private affairs. Will there be many embarrassing things?"

Lily said in her heart, there have been many times, but I won't tell you.

She can fully confirm that this is not a good person: "An embarrassing thing? It seems that once..."

"What?" Albert asked.

Lily is not Martin, so it takes some time to make it up: "There are some bastards in the community who always like to bully girls. Once they bullied me, Martin saw them, beat them up, and asked them to call me big sister. As a result, those bastards Every time I see me, I obediently stop and call Big Sister, I am very embarrassed."

Albert's expression remained unchanged, but he was disappointed again in his heart. He continued to repeat Lily's words, but he didn't get anything useful.

During the more than two months of filming here, Martin applied many patches.

Everyone just tell the truth, there is no need to make up good things for him, the normal bad things in the slums in the past will make his image fuller.

People who really know what he's done, like Elena and Bruce, don't talk to the media either.

A few minutes later, Albert was completely disappointed. The stupid things that came out of Lily's mouth, if they were actually reported, would only become a proof of Martin Davis's struggle to break out of the quagmire.

So it was with the Clayton community, and so it was with Lily Carter...

Albert felt that White would not gain anything in the House of the Beast.

"Thank you." Albert said goodbye and left.

He crossed the road, got into a car diagonally opposite, and shook his head at Alex: "It's useless."

"White didn't get anything either," Alex said.

Albert suggested: "Head, do you want to change the target?"

Alex vetoed: "Don't you think this is not normal? Like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, etc., these bottom-up stars, which one is not a lot of black material? Why Martin Davis All these years of positive moves out of poverty? Is that justified?"

What he believes in will not change easily, just like the treatment of some politicians, the families of the victims of 9/11 and the wounded veterans of the war in Afghanistan.

No injustice, no hatred, just for the news.

Alex no longer hesitated: "Call White and ask him to go back to the hotel immediately, and we will go to Washington."

On the other side, Lily waited for a while, then immediately took out her phone and sent Martin a text message.

There will be another chapter later.