"Hello, could you please tell me how you killed the Lord of the Abyss?"
"Hello, I am Wang Suyi, a reporter from Changping Shouyue Journal. I heard that we suffered heavy losses in the abyss this time. Can you disclose some specific circumstances?"
"Your Excellency, as a party involved in this accident, do you have any objections to Changping City's insistence on going its own way and using the qualifications of the temporary qualification examination to conduct conquests in foreign lands? As far as I know, some of the family members of the victims who suffered from this are at the door of the government.
protest....."
"Mr. Lu, your righteous act of going deep into the seventh level of the abyss alone to save a group of candidates is shocking. Can you tell me how you made up your mind in the first place..."
"Snapped!"
Lu Ping'an closed the door directly. It seemed that he was still spending time in the hotel room today.
This is the fourth day of return. The provisional qualification examination has passed one stage, and the final passing rate does not exceed 1%... Lu Ping'an himself is not surprised at all by this result. Such a low passing rate is actually a big surprise to everyone.
It's a good thing.
However, it is obvious that his information has been leaked, and now there are a bunch of reporters guarding the door as soon as he opens the door.
"Tsk, didn't you mean the secret keeper? How come they were all reported publicly?"
"Times have changed. Now openness and openness are the main themes. Everything is for the exploration and development of the outside world. Professionals have become a middle- and high-level income group in society, and they naturally receive more attention."
Xia Qin was quite open. She had just taken a shower, opened a can of beer and sat on the bed watching TV.
The days of not having to work overtime are an overly happy dream for her, especially now that this dream has been going on for a while.
Jurisdiction? It doesn’t matter, I just made a call, temporary workers from the outside world... The knights did a pretty good job. The ancient city’s overly rich combat power allowed the number of security guards to continue to expand, and the crime rate has always been within a safe range.
"......I see."
Lu Ping'an glanced at the news TV in the room, which was also reporting on the situation in the outside world. With the abyss war that happened two days ago, it was no wonder that he became the focus of public opinion.
We are clearly in a period of transformation in social public opinion and atmosphere, and we need to set up a large number of positive examples. Officially recognized professionals and meritorious deeds will naturally receive official oriented reports.
"...Don't mention it. I was reminded by the reporter that I remembered those unlucky guys who were taken to the seventh floor of the abyss. Are they okay?"
"Very good. With your ability to defer payment and the enclosed treatment in the courtyard, they are actually much better off than the unlucky ones on the third and fourth floors."
"That's good."
Lu Pingan directly took the cold beer and started drinking it himself.
He actually had no interest in tobacco and alcohol, and for some reason he was even a little tired of drinks, but seeing Xia Qin's expression of enjoyment on her face made her feel a little itchy.
"Hey, hey, I drank it, go to the refrigerator and get it yourself."
"I do not mind."
"I mind!" Someone directly waved his small fist, and it was not gentle to hit him.
"Well, Sister Xia, people in their twenties are all adults, so that's not the case."
Lu Pingan looked at this "adult woman" with a surprised look on her face, making her face turn red.
"Little kid...you are not yet an adult, not twenty! You are not allowed to drink!"
Looking at the woman who got angry and snatched the beer back, Lu Ping'an sighed helplessly, and went to get a new one from the hotel's small refrigerator.
A small episode, Lu Pingan really didn't care at all, but Xia Qin finished the beer in two gulps, then crushed it into flat pieces and threw it directly into the trash can.
Lu Pingan shook his head, took out the nearest newspaper, sat on the other bed and started reading.
He was actually notified that he might become the focus of public opinion recently, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly and urgently.
"Sure enough, the death rate this time is still a bit higher..."
Didirona's reaction was a bit too violent, and her actions exceeded expectations (it was later proven that she had obtained advance information through spies). The first wave of counterattacks was much faster than expected, and the losses naturally exceeded expectations.
When the intensity of war suddenly rises, the ones who die fastest are naturally the cannon fodder... ahem, the weak.
The mortality rate of candidates is a bit high, which naturally has a rather bad social impact... At this time, official propaganda will try to promote some positive images.
Their publicity department checked the situation and found out that this was actually a long-planned victory that could be well publicized.
General trends and great victories must be publicized, but specific examples and figures are the fulcrum of publicity, and they must be promoted with all their strength.
Among the many promotional materials, Lu Ping'an from the ancient city is extremely eye-catching.
Not only did he kill Snake King Didirona, but most importantly, the reason why he appeared in the Seventh Abyss was to save the captured candidates (and his unknown companions).
A young man risked his life and went to the abyss of hell to save others. By some mistake, he encountered the returning demon king. As a result, he successfully killed her after a hard-fought battle and became the biggest contributor to this battle...
.Isn’t this the “Legendary Young Hero” script that best suits the promotion?
The official propaganda department confirmed Lu Ping'an's background, confirmed that he had been a "war hero (Green Planet)" before, and had an obvious official background. There was no need to worry about the collapse of the house, so they naturally promoted it as a propaganda focus.
This is also the reason why Lu Ping'an is in trouble now and can't even go out.
But from his point of view, this is actually a good thing... He needs a reputation so that he will not be traded away as a "chess piece of some value".
Although the possibility of this is very low, and the ancient city has been expressing its friendliness, if this possibility can be better denied, Lu Ping'an has no reason to refuse.
"How long is this going to last? This is so inconvenient for me."
"Wait for the next big news break, if nothing else happens, it will happen in the next two days."
As the person involved, Lu Ping'an himself was very calm, but an honest person like Xia Qin was inexplicably unlucky.
She would be in Lu Ping'an's room. It wasn't that something really happened, but she simply went into the courtyard at night to practice more. When she came out, she found that something was wrong.
If she left the room directly and was photographed, the tabloids would probably be very happy... That might not be the case for the person involved, Xia Qin still wanted to face it.
If the news really comes out that "the female captain of the special service team used her power to support a high school boy (Lu Ping'an a year ago)", in the context of the current era, she, a young and beautiful girl, probably doesn't need to think about getting married.
"Oh, it was obviously you who jumped down to save them. I just went to catch you. These reports didn't even mention it. I obviously said it, but they made you invisible." Lu Ping'an put down the newspaper. He had already noticed that something was wrong with the news reports.
place.
"Normally, publicity needs... There will be formal records and they will be given to the media, but obviously they did not report them honestly. After all, compared with a stupid soldier who is doing his duty to save candidates he has never met, and
Young heroes who achieve great feats by accident are more likely to attract the public's attention. They just report selectively as always."
Xia Qin herself is very calm. When she just became captain, a tabloid compiled a lot of nonsense like "too young captain" and "former captain's XX". She has little regard for today's traditional media.
No good feelings at all.
"In two years, when the new network becomes popular, these traditional media that chase news everywhere and create news will decline a lot..." Lu Ping'an paused and said a little comfort.
"Really? By that time, there should be less headline-grabbing, fake news, and inciting ethnic conflicts... Well, Lu Ping'an, why are you covering your face?"
"No, I just remembered that the media is just a tool. The key is the people who use the tools. If people don't change, the media won't change either... They will only get worse!"
Some things will change, but some things won't. It's probably the difference from "sticking to headlines" to "choosing the reporting method that gets the most clicks"... Well, apart from the different sayings, is there any difference?
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But now, official and private professionals really need the propaganda power of these media.
Because things in the shadows also take advantage of these opportunities to crawl out.