The next day, Kay and the George family arrived at the Midtown High School gymnasium.
A top-notch high school like Zhongcheng High School has better supporting facilities than ordinary universities. For example, their gymnasium can accommodate more than 10,000 people, which is comparable to a commercial gymnasium, and the best part is that it is not rented out. You must know that the maintenance of such a large gymnasium is a terrible expense.
From here you can see how awesome Midtown High School is.
The venue was very grand and there were many people in attendance. 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 recruit students with excellent academic performance.
For example, Gwen's 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 Carterbury High School. It's also a great high school. But Gwen’s academic gene showed up in junior high school. Originally, Caterbury High School wanted to acquire Gwen, and even found her school friend Helen. Helen had the same plan at the time, and everyone wanted their children to attend their former alma mater. Carterbury offered good conditions, with tuition fees free of charge.
At the same time, Zhongcheng High School also took a fancy to Gwen, but Zhongcheng High School was more generous and directly offered a 3S-level scholarship. This level of scholarship not only frees tuition, but also gives extra money. So the George family decisively chose Midtown High School.
It's just so realistic.
In fact, the George family did not make a wrong choice. Gwen is now only a sophomore in high school (i.e. 10 years old) and has already become a student assistant. She should join the student union this year and become the president of the student union. This is a very rare honor. After all, when many universities in the United States award scholarships, they do not just look at past achievements. Social practice experience and various honors are also indispensable. Gwen has no problem entering college, but if she wants to get a full scholarship from a top university, honors like this are essential.
Even with this kind of honor, Gwen would benefit immensely even if she entered society.
Many people say that there are no aristocrats in the United States. This is not true at all. The United States does not have aristocrats in name only, but it does have aristocrats in fact.
As early as the founding of the United States, a system based on elites was established. Their political system has never been a democracy, but an elite representative system. Just take a closer look at their electoral system. This kind of elite is actually just another form of nobility.
The United States should have no king, so there would be no titles of nobility.
So how to distinguish between elites and common people?
So the elites thought of a way, through education!
That’s right education!
Those good universities are the easiest way to distinguish one's identity.
Some universities sound lofty when you hear them. For example, if you graduated from Yale University, other Americans will immediately be in awe when they hear it. After all, Yale University is not something 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 have no fixed standards. You can't enter just by scoring a certain number of points in the exam. Very troublesome. There is a set of data that can intuitively see the class divide in the United States.
Among the students admitted to well-known universities in the United States, 75% come from high-income families, while only 25% of low-income students come from high-income families! And among these poor 25%, there are still many people who will have to give up Yale because they cannot afford tuition.
Let's take Yale as an example. Yale University charges more than 80,000 US dollars per year. Tuition: 45,000 to 50,000 US dollars per year. Room and board: 25,000 to 30,000 US dollars per year. What's even more awesome is that there are book fees. Those in the United States The textbooks at top universities are all different, and this alone costs more than $2,000.
With such a rough calculation, it's almost 80,000, but students may have daily expenses.
Calculating it this way, after one year, it will be aimed at 100,000. And 60% of families in the United States don't even have a thousand yuan in savings... How many students can you expect to be able to afford it?
The American dream, many times, is really just a dream. You can't succeed just by working hard.
With this resume, Gwen can complete the class jump! Become a noble graduate of a famous school! Like George, it is difficult for others to talk about his alma mater.
To be honest, Kai was expecting a fight between dragons and tigers.
It's as intense as an NBA game. The audience below burst into applause and cheers. The competition on the stage was intense and fierce. Everyone was sweating profusely and their veins were bulging, as if they were going to eat their opponents alive.
After watching the results, I realized... no wonder no one watched the NAQT TV broadcast.
The audience watched in silence the whole time as the two teams on the stage competed in knowledge. Only when the answer was correct, there would be applause. A horse where everything is calm...no passion at all.
All in all, there was no sense of participation.
And...hell, this is a high school student competition, right?
Why are those questions so difficult?
Anyway, Kai was confused. Kai could understand the words in those questions, but he was blinded by the combination of them.
No, no, you may not even understand the words.
For example, a word appeared in the middle of the game.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Do you think that's a bunch of gibberish?
No, that's a word.
The Chinese word is silicosis! Or called pneumoconiosis.
Anyway, Kai was confused, what is this?
It was only when Gwen's mother took out her phone and searched for the word that Kay and George figured out what it was.
Good guy, good guy, 45 letters in a word. Isn't this life-threatening?
And this is a knowledge quiz for high school students, right? Why do such professional medical words appear?
All in all, very exaggerated.
It’s strange that someone would watch this kind of game on TV!
But luckily Kai can read the scoreboard.
Well, luckily we didn't end up in a situation where we still didn't know which team won at the end.
Midtown High School wins!
Then the audience burst into applause.
Seeing George's excitement, Kai was really afraid that he would go crazy like Fan Jin who passed the exam.
Fortunately, this didn't happen.
Just when everyone was preparing to celebrate, a sudden announcement came out from the school radio, asking all teachers and students to evacuate immediately.
Kai and George looked at each other, feeling bad.
Evacuate students?
Was there a fire?
Fortunately, this time because the final was to be held, the New York City Police Department specially dispatched additional police officers nearby. Group incidents are a very serious problem no matter which country they are in, not to mention that they involve students.
If an accident happened at a school like Midtown High School, the police chief would be ready to bow down and dismiss the get out of class.
Just as the two were helping to evacuate Midtown High School, their phones rang.
Then their expressions changed.
The UN General Assembly venue was bombed!
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The United Nations Headquarters is located on the east side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, USA. It is bounded by First Avenue on the west, East 42nd Street on the south, East 48th Street on the north, and overlooks the East River on the east.
It does not fall under the jurisdiction of the New York Police Department, and it does not even technically belong to the territory of the United States. The United Nations Headquarters is owned by the United Nations, and it is an international territory. No officer or official of the federal, state, or local government of the United States, whether executive, judicial, military, or police officer, may enter the United Nations Headquarters except with the consent of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Within the headquarters, the United Nations has its own firefighting and security forces.
But after all, the problem is that the New York police can't really turn a blind eye to it.
Take this conference for example, because there were many demonstrators who ran over to support the King of Wakanda. This has also caused this session of the United Nations General Assembly to attract a lot of attention. Therefore, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the New York police specially sent a large number of police officers to the surrounding area to prevent accidents from happening.
The accident happened anyway.
This meeting was held on the 13th floor of the United Nations Secretariat Building south of the United Nations Headquarters. It was considered a warm-up for the formal conference.
Something happened.
A bomb exploded beneath the building. The side of the building facing the road was severely damaged.
More than 80 demonstrators died on the spot, a dozen passers-by who drove by were also killed, and hundreds of others were injured. Inside the building, there were also heavy losses. Thirty-seven staff members of the United Nations Headquarters were directly killed and dozens of staff were injured. During the conference, the King of Wakanda died directly, 12 representatives died, 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, various countries expressed their opinions on this terrorist attack. While condemning the perpetrators, they also put pressure on the United States.
If this thing happened on American soil, if not the United States, who should we look to?
The White House was also in tears.
Nima...what the hell is this? Benjamin originally planned to go to the United Nations Headquarters tomorrow morning.
This...can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune?
However, Benjamin didn’t think so.
Instead, I had a splitting headache.
The impact is too bad. It has even shaken the international status of the United States!
Yes, it's true.
Representatives from many countries have already begun preparing to evacuate. If the United Nations headquarters is not safe...why would other countries send representatives here? To die?
The two major powers in the east even proposed to move the United Nations headquarters.
In the past, this proposal was made by a furry bear, and most people would just listen to it happily. This time, another mysterious eastern country with widespread influence proposed it, which is thought-provoking. Many countries really feel that this matter... can be discussed.
After all, the recent situation in the United States is indeed not good.
If this thing really happens, then the United States will be extremely embarrassed even if its mother opens the door for shame!
Naturally, Benjamin couldn't let this happen.
So as soon as this happened, Benjamin ignored all opinions and immediately left for New York.
Even if there is a battlefield, he will go!
If you don’t go there, the United Nations headquarters might really be moved!
Sure enough, Benjamin's statement immediately won the favor of many people. At least this shows the determination of the Americans!
But in this case, the NYPD was caught blind.
After all, it was the New York Police Department that was responsible for perimeter security at the time!
Now the first commissioner of the New York Police is at the headquarters with the deputy commissioner and the police chief. Although they also know that they can't help, but in this situation, should they be allowed to play golf?
Believe it or not, if it breaks out, society will die in 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, so we went straight to the topic when everyone was present.
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 product of the laboratory. 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?
