Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 256 Who Killed Spider-Man? !

"Congratulations, Kent..."

New York, Front Press.

Benjurich hosted a small celebration to congratulate Colin for his latest 'Pulitzer' award for scoop for his coverage of the New York mayor's attack in Frontline.

"Thank you."

Obviously, Ben Yurich and others wanted to make this celebration a surprise.

However, for today's Colin, surprise is already a rather distant concept, but on the surface, he still made an expression of surprise to match Ben Yurich's celebration.

"I thought the results would come out later."

The event didn't last long. After celebrating Colin's award, many people returned to their jobs. Colin also expressed his surprise to Ben Yurich.

As I said before, Colin didn't pay much attention to the nomination for the 'Pulitzer Prize', so he didn't even pay much attention to the news of the award.

"Normally, the awards will be announced later, but who calls us journalists?"

In this regard, Ben Yurich smiled and explained.

As a benchmark award in the journalism industry, the 'Pulitzer Prize' may not be the fairest, but it is definitely the most influential journalism award.

For most winners, the 'Pulitzer Prize' can effectively increase their visibility.

"About your interview, I have already arranged the time, just after you get the certificate and prize from the 'Pulitzer Prize' in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow."

Yes, there are bonuses for winning a 'Pulitzer'.

Although the $7500 cash award is not high among news awards of the same type, most of the winners did not come for this cash. On the contrary, once they can win the "Pulitzer Prize", then The benefits brought behind are far beyond what can be compared with just a few dollars.

Considering that Colin still needs to go to the Rockwell Library of Columbia University where the "Pulitzer Prize" banquet will be held tomorrow to collect the certificate and bonus, Benjurich did not arrange too cumbersome news work for him.

On that day, he only needed to write the news that he had sorted out before.

"Who killed Spider-Man?!"

In the office, Ben Yurich subconsciously raised his eyebrows as he looked at the headlines that Colin had taken.

"Are you sure you want to use this topic as the focus of the report?"

As we all know, Jameson, the man behind "Frontline," doesn't like Spider-Man, and he publicly accused all of this on his network news show not long ago.

And Ke Lin's report somewhat contradicted Jameson's opinion.

"The press is free, isn't it?"

Although Colin didn't believe this statement in his heart, it didn't prevent him from using it to convince others.

In the office, facing the reasons given by Colin, Ben Yurich was silent for a while before nodding.

"You are right, Kent, there should indeed be a different voice in the report on Spider-Man."

Ever since the news of the mayor's attack was revealed, Colin had a vague tendency to develop into a great reporter in "Frontline", and this point became more clear after he won the 'Pulitzer Prize'.

With the status of a 'Pulitzer Prize winner' as an endorsement, even if he does not have the status of a "Frontline" reporter, he can still report news with his own influence.

It was also with this in mind that Ben Yurich had to make concessions.

"Frontline" is not Jameson's "Daily Horn" after all. Even though the establishment of the newspaper does have Jameson's sponsorship and help, it still belongs to Ben Yurich's newspaper.

As far as Benjurich knows, after receiving compensation from Harry Osborn, Jameson has already planned to buy back the ownership of the name of the "Daily Bugle" and establish a new "Daily Bugle".

If this is the case, then Ben Yurich must reconsider the relationship between himself and Jameson.

After all, the vast majority of employees in the current "Frontline" are from the previous "Daily Horn". Once Jameson's new "Daily Horn" is established, Benjurich does not rule out that a large part of them will return Going to work under the "Daily Bugle" is obviously not good news for "Frontline" today.

Unless Benjurich is willing to give up his "Frontline" and also return to Jameson.

But this is obviously not what Ben Yurich expected, especially under the current situation that "Frontline" is developing smoothly, so "Frontline" like Colin entered the newspaper after its establishment, and Jameson's previous "Horn" Daily New Employee With No Affiliation, Became Banyurich
In particular, Colin, a new employee, has a bright future ahead of him.

Vaguely, no, he has become the ace reporter of "Frontline" today.

As a veteran reporter who had worked for the "Daily Horn" for many years, Ben Yurich naturally knew the importance of an ace reporter for a news newspaper.

To put it bluntly, more than half of the success of "Frontline" can be attributed to the news reported by Ke Lin.

It is precisely because of his influence on "Frontline" that led to Ben Yurich's ambition to develop independently.

If it weren't for the success of "Frontline", Benjurich might also become a member of the "Daily Bugle" founded by Jameson in the future.

……

"Who killed Spider-Man?!"

On the same day, on the official website of "Frontline" News, the latest report on Spider-Man written by Colin was published.

Recently, due to the exposure of his true identity, Spider-Man has vaguely become the traffic code of major newspapers in New York.

All kinds of newspapers wanted to publish some content related to Spider-Man on it, and some of them went directly to May Parker's house, or simply went to the high school where Peter graduated to interview their views.

The overwhelming news directly reported all the experiences of May Parker's family, even the death of Ben Parker and the death of Peter's parents.

Such an approach naturally caused dissatisfaction among some New Yorkers.

The report published by Ke Lin in "Frontline" just fit the thinking of this group of people.

In the news, Colin briefly described the chaos in the major media reports on Spider-Man during this period of time, and then expressed his criticism in sharp words, thinking that these people were the ones who 'killed' Spider-Man The murderers, what they have done is killing this superhero who has been working hard to protect New York.

When Spider-Man's identity was exposed, no one cared about the safety of the superhero. Instead, everyone was chasing May Parker crazily, exposing everything about her to the media, even her family.

This is New York, the city that Spider-Man has always protected, and this is the people of New York, the people that Spider-Man has always protected...

"Who killed Spider-Man? (Who killed Spider-Man?)

I, said the New York, (it was me, said the New York)

With my bow and arrow... (with my bow and arrow...)
......"

At the end of the news, Colin deliberately adapted the nursery rhyme "Who Killed the Mockingbird", which is also the headline of the news.

Unsurprisingly, the release of Colin's "Who Killed Spider-Man?!" news immediately triggered heated debates in New York City.

Thanks to the development of anti-world online media, all major media sections quoted this report one after another that afternoon.

Although, a small number of them still think that it is unreasonable for Spider-Man to hide his identity as a superhero.

But more people are still on Colin's side, thinking that the media's recent practices have exceeded the limit. Most of them are people who have been directly or indirectly saved by Spiderman, and they belong to the silent majority. people.

Under the pressure of changing public opinion, many newspapers that previously reported Spider-Man news had to come forward to clarify and admit that their previous reports violated the fairness and privacy of the news.

Even big newspapers like The New York Times admitted their previous reporting errors in the form of columns.

However, the public obviously will not let them go because of this. The message "Who killed Spider-Man?!" has been appearing on the newspaper's website, expressing the support of New Yorkers for Spider-Man.

Perhaps, many New Yorkers already know that after such an incident, Spider-Man may not appear in New York again.

What they did was just to vent their inner dissatisfaction and express their nostalgia for this former superhero.

……

"I admit that the report by reporter Clark Kent may have some truth..."

"However, since you are a superhero, Spiderman, although I don't think what you have done can be called a superhero, but no superhero will hide his head and show his tail, only criminals will do this, Thunderbolt All the superheroes in the world disclose their identities, if Spider-Man you think you are a superhero, why don't you join the Thunderbolt team?"

"Or is it that you have some ulterior secret that makes you dare not join the Thunder Special Agents?"

Although the public opinion of the outside world is generally on the side of sympathizing with Spider-Man, Jameson still expresses his clear stand without changing his original intention.

[Contact the distorted time node, collect a small amount of time fragments × 3]

……

over New York City.

Colin looked at the prompt in the text in front of him, with a clear expression on his face.

The method of obtaining [Time Shards] through reports was discovered as early as when he was targeting Jin Bing.

This is obviously also a form of intersection, which is one of the reasons why Colin has not given up his identity as a reporter until now.

Withdrawing his gaze from the text, Colin returned his attention to the sun above his head.

Under the sunshine, there seemed to be a steady stream of power emerging from the body.

However, facing this situation, Colin frowned instead.

"Has it reached the limit?"

Stretch out your palm and feel the sun shining on your palm. Since unlocking [Energy Absorption], Colin has been absorbing and storing energy from the sun through the anti-world.These powers are also gradually increasing the abilities in Colin's body. Although this growth rate is not as fast as unlocking or upgrading imprints, it is worse than stability.

Now, it's clear that growth has reached its limit.

Or it should be said that the [Energy Absorption] of the [Black Iron] level has reached the limit of the energy it can absorb from the sun.

Although Ke Lin's body still doesn't have the feeling of being filled with the energy of the sun, the [Energy Absorption] bathed in the sun still cannot absorb even a ray of sunlight and store it in Colin's body.

This difference in feeling is obviously caused by the two levels of abilities [Bronze] and [Black Iron].

The defensive power of Ke Lin's body has been raised to the level of [Bronze] long ago, and the [Energy Absorption] that has just been unlocked is still at the level of [Black Iron]. The gap between the two caused his body to obviously It can also store more solar energy, but [Energy Absorption] cannot absorb more.

"It seems that this ability can only be improved through the serialization of comics in the real world."

Withdrawing his palm, Colin thought with regret.

Unlike most abilities to unlock, [Energy Absorption] is very difficult to unlock and even upgrade. In order to unlock this ability, Colin spent a lot of time and creative content. The radio drama "Superman Adventure" has completed the unlocking of the ability.

Nowadays, although the plot about Superman absorbing solar energy has been published through the "Superman" comics in the real world, the improvement of [energy absorption] has not happened for a long time.

This made Colin couldn't help but wonder, or the difficulty of unlocking the upgrade had a lot to do with the ability [Energy Absorption] itself.

As the core of all Superman abilities, [Energy Absorption] can only be upgraded through continuous serial accumulation.

Taking a deep breath, withdrawing his thoughts from the issue of [Energy Absorption] promotion, Colin raised his head and set his gaze on the satellite barrier above his head.

With the upgrade of [Super Vision], even if Colin is standing in New York City, he can clearly see this special barrier that surrounds the earth.

These densely-packed satellites suspended in the outer space of the earth are like a huge barrier covering the entire earth. Looking outside, there are few other planets except for the sun suspended high there and the moon in the corner. Mark of.

Colin was not surprised by this situation.

In fact, he had already noticed this phenomenon long after [super vision] reached the [bronze] level.

The stars in the anti-world sky seemed thinner than he knew.

Not only that, even astronomy for related research seems to be very unpopular, and there is not even a school in New York that specializes in related astronomical phenomena.

No one cares about the situation in the universe above their heads. The governments of the world seem to let the people ignore this intentionally or unintentionally.

(End of this chapter)