The Torch Building is not the tallest building in Los Angeles, but it is undoubtedly the most individual building among the high-rise buildings in downtown Los Angeles. The torch-shaped shape on the top is undoubtedly very distinctive .
Especially, if you look up at it not standing on the ground, but when you are standing on another building, you can fully feel the architectural features of this building.
At this moment, Hansen and I are standing on another high-rise building about 500 meters away from the Torch Building, quietly watching the Torch Building in the distance on the 70th floor.
This building stands about 500 meters away from the Torch Building, and its shape is a twin shape similar to the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York. Between the two seventy-nine-story buildings, there is a corridor connecting them.
According to Hansen, this is the closest high-rise building to the Torch Building, and among all the surrounding high-rise buildings, only this building has a helipad on the top. At the same time, it has the best viewing angle facing the Torch Building. At this moment, the building is almost full of media reporters from various TV stations around the world from the sixty-fifth floor up. It is not known how many cameras on these floors are facing the Torch Building opposite.
Of course, such good terrain. Of course, the police can't let it go. Of the two twin-shaped buildings of this building, several floors of one of them have been completely requisitioned by the police. I don't know how many snipers have already stood by in the best positions.
On the helipad on the roof, there are helicopters of several media TV stations, as well as police helicopters. Anyway, there are two buildings, and they are temporarily divided into one for the police and one for the media.
On this point, the United States is still very open, and this kind of thing is allowed to be freely interviewed and reported by the media.
Hansen and I each have a huge travel bag under our feet, which contains a lot of firearms and equipment, and roughly checked the time. Then Hansen took out two walkie-talkies, and he adjusted them in his hands, then took out a miniature asterisk collector from his bag, and adjusted them on the ground.
Then his eyes lit up and said: "Hey, look what we heard..."
While gently adjusting the sound in the earphones, while fiddling with the tiny signal collector, he introduced: "This is a wiretapping device, within a radius of 100 meters, anyone who uses a walkie-talkie, I can Cutting into their signal channel... It can also effectively block and disturb them. This is a non-civilian product." He frowned while listening carefully, and said at the same time: "Okay... yes... um..."
I knew he must have heard something. Sure enough, after Hansen put down his earphones, he glanced at me and said, "The latest news, our plan may have changed. You see, just now the police agreed to the conditions of the terrorists inside, expressing their willingness to send media reports The camera reporter enters the building and conducts on-the-spot interviews with the terrorists... Twenty minutes later, a TV station will send a camera reporter to take a helicopter from the top floor of the building to the Torch Building, and the plane will land on the top floor of the Torch Building... "
I narrowed my eyes: "You mean..."
Hansen said lightly: "What I mean is that we may split up into two ways. I will still stay here and jump directly into the 60th floor of the Torch Building from here. And you will find a way to get to the top of the building, No matter what measures you take, whether you sneak in, or your confidant uses violent means, in short, you can take that helicopter and land on the top roof of the Torch Building."
I nodded immediately, the two of us checked our watches, and then agreed on the time to do it.
I lifted the large canvas bag under my feet, walked out of the room, and then went up the fire escape.
The top floor of this building has been requisitioned by the media, and the media staff will not allow me to take the elevator to the top floor. I climbed from the fire stairs to the floor below the top floor in one breath, and then flashed into the building through the fire escape door.
This floor is also full of people from the media! Originally, this was probably an office floor for idlers, but at this moment, all the rooms are full of reporters from various media. It was arranged as one report room after another. Blacks, whites, yellows, all of them.
Numerous people with nameplates of various well-known media in the world walked back and forth on this floor. But no one paid attention to me.
I observed it, and the only problem is: it is probably the result of a compromise. The helipad on the roof of this building is monopolized by the three largest media. Only the media personnel of these three companies can pass through the only access to the roof of the building. The three media are: CNN, NBC, and a local TV station in Los Angeles. And there are staff members from these three media outlets on that channel, and those without work badges are absolutely not allowed to enter.
I circled back and forth on this floor. People here are very busy. Many staff members run back and forth carrying various equipment. The room on the side facing the Torch Building is filled with countless cannons. All cameras and video cameras are aimed at the Torch Building. And in the countless rooms that have been turned into live broadcast rooms, there are also a lot of media reporting equipment piled up.
I even saw many well-known ace reporters from the media present.
Finally, my patient search paid off. I heard someone yelling, "Jack, go and get me that coil of wire! I'm going to be on the plane in a minute! Damn you stupid guy, if you lose your mind again, I'll give you my head!" I fired you directly! Now, you hurry up and find that coil of cable! Then send it to the rooftop!!"
I looked around and saw a middle-aged man in a shirt who looked like a supervisor scolding a fat man. To my surprise, both of them were wearing badges, and the sign on them was the local TV station! It is also one of the three media that has the right to use the rooftop helicopter!
I immediately followed up quietly, following the fat man. The fat man was probably very upset when he was reprimanded, muttering curses all the way, and when he walked into a room that was used as a temporary warehouse, I glanced around and immediately followed him in.
There was no one in the room, and the fat man was facing me, looking for something in a pile of cables, then he picked up a roll of cables and just turned around, staring at me: "Hey! Who are you! Here It's a place that belongs to LATV... you..."
There was no more to say. Before he could finish speaking, I cut his neck with one palm and knocked him unconscious. Then I started stripping the overalls off him.
The guy was fat, and his overalls were a little too big for me, but it was okay. I also took off his badge and hung it on my chest, and then I purposely found a baseball cap and put it on my head, with the brim slightly lowered. In this way, when I lower my head slightly, others will not be able to see my face clearly.
In one hand I held the roll of cable that the fat man had found, and in the other I held my own canvas bag. He quickly walked out of the warehouse, and strode towards the passage leading to the roof.
The guards of the passage are the joint personnel of the three media who have the right to use the helipad on the roof. I went through the gate without any hindrance.
After all, it's just the security of the media organization, and it won't be too tight. And now there are so many media people in the building, it is impossible for them to know everyone.
The roof of the building is very windy, and this apron is enough to stop two large helicopters at the same time. But at this moment, I saw only one helicopter parked on the tarmac, which was a helicopter with the logo of the local Los Angeles TV station on it.
I immediately understood why a small local TV station could share the helipad on the roof of the building with two media giants... because whether it is CNN or NBC, they are not local after all. And that local TV station is a local snake! And even the helicopters are theirs, no wonder they can share the right to use the rooftop on an equal footing with the two giants.
The people on the top of the building are all three media outlets. I took a few steps with a coil of cables and a canvas bag when I saw a man with a CNN badge come over and look at me. He saw the cables in my hand, and then he yelled: "Omg, your cables are finally here! Come on, you, you, you, get your stuff on the plane!! Damn, I don't know how you guys work at this TV station !"
I quickly pretended to obey his orders and trotted all the way to the side of the helicopter. The helicopter was empty, and the cabin was divided into three rows. The first row was naturally the pilot and co-pilot positions. The second row of seats is the opposite of the two rows of seats. The space is also the largest facing the door of the cabin. The third row is at the end, and the space is a little narrower, with some cables and tools piled up in it. After I got into the cabin, I immediately pulled the seat in the third row lightly, and the The seat is pulled up, and the seat is empty. Although it is very small, it can almost accommodate a person hiding under it.
I was about to get in when I heard a voice behind me: "Hey, you!"