My American magical life
Chapter 105 - 105 29 Who Dares to Stop the Live Broadcast

105: Chapter 29: Who Dares to Stop the Live Broadcast?

105: Chapter 29: Who Dares to Stop the Live Broadcast?

Nina’s death plunged all the hostages into terror, each person fearing for their life.

Father Andrei had not expected his gun to discharge accidentally.

“I…..”

The gang leader seemed to want to say something, but after glancing at Cheng Daqi, he eventually held back the rest of his words.

“Andrei, don’t worry about it.

Just one hostage is dead; we still have so many others.”

The Wasp Woman truly didn’t care; to her, these hostages were nothing more than expendables.

A tool to threaten the police.

“Everyone get down!

It was just an accidental discharge, get down!” Thor was always the one to cover things up; he stepped forward and pushed the hostages back to the floor.

“Bruce, come here, we’ve decided to continue listening to your ideas.”

Father Andrei pulled Cheng Daqi out, as the kidnappers ultimately had to bow to reality.

The police no longer cared about their hostages, and the attack just now was only the first wave.

Even though so many officers had died, the LAPD still had over ten thousand people.

Even if they fired all their ammunition, they could not withstand the police who were determined to attack.

“What must we do to bring down Dracula?”

Cheng Daqi, who Father Andrei had pulled up, had recovered from the shock of the bullet hitting his head, adjusted his Iron Man mask, and said.

“Utilize the power of the media to blow this up, make it so big that they wouldn’t dare to attack.”

Thor and Andrei were both a bit dumbfounded.

Haven’t we caused enough chaos already?

“I know what you’re thinking, but your kind of execution is merely brutal.

It can ignite public opinion but can’t genuinely touch people’s hearts.

Your intentions are just, and Dracula is evil by nature, but you’ve executed too many hostages, and ordinary people will be repelled.”

Affirmation and negation, guiding people through both positives and negatives, is a fundamental skill of manipulation.

“So what should we do?” asked Thor.

“Leverage the media’s live broadcast to create a kidnapping variety show.

Do you remember why my boss and I came here?

He came to study the labor costs of hiring America’s homeless, and there are a lot of homeless people here!”

Cheng Daqi was confident in his strategy, convinced that there were no major flaws in his thinking.

While not astoundingly ingenious, at least it was a feasible approach.

“Have these homeless people talk about why they became homeless and why they ended up on Red Street.

Then let them grade each other, score the level of tragedy for different people, and the least tragic one will be executed first.

This strategy has two benefits.

Firstly, the hostages wallowing in misery will mostly associate their problems with the inaction of America’s government, as they are the nation’s underclass and likely to believe the country has wronged them.”

This misplaced attribution can sway public emotion; most Americans are patriotic but dislike Cao Dan’s government.

Secondly, it turns the conflict between you and the hostages into inter-hostage conflict.

For the sake of survival, hostages will verbally assault each other, even fight.

This kind of conflict and struggle can actually increase viewers’ enthusiasm to watch the live broadcast.

What do you think of this variety show concept?”

“Your idea is indeed good, but there are many in the library who aren’t homeless.

What about them?

Also, how is doing this related to bringing down Dracula?”

Thor was more clear-headed than Andrei and raised two questions.

“Those who aren’t homeless can be grouped separately, also lined up according to the degree of tragedy, with the least tragic one going first in the execution.

How simple!

As long as this kidnapping variety show is successful, and we truly stir up the audience’s emotions, Dracula will be like being roasted on a fire by you.”

Cheng Daqi didn’t find Thor’s questions to present any difficulty.

“If we do this and the government tells the TV stations to stop broadcasting, what then?”

Andrei initially ignored Ian’s request for cooperation simply because of this factor.

“You say if the live broadcast stops, you’ll kill all the politically correct hostages, do you think anyone dares to call a halt?”

“Fak, you’re truly a genius!

Bruce, you’re truly a genius!”

Thor excitedly slapped Cheng Daqi on the shoulder, this was the first time he’d seen someone with such “wisdom” in reality.

If the live broadcast stops, kill all the politically correct people among the hostages!

My God!

That’s genius!

Andrei was also excited, he found that if they followed Cheng Daqi’s train of thought, there was really a chance to keep the broadcast going forever.

Politically correct people, the darlings, sweethearts, cuties of American politicians.

Which politician doesn’t like politically correct people?

The specific effect of the kidnap variety show was unknown, but Cheng Daqi felt that his just conceived plan to “kill the politically correct people first” was surely brilliant.

“I’m not a genius, I just feel the pain for those warriors desecrated by the Dracula Group!

They died for the country in battle, and even after death, they were insulted, and the law didn’t even care!

As a righteous man, I hope your ideals will be successful.”

Cheng Daqi’s voice was full of genuine emotion and even began to choke up.

“I don’t mean to help you, I’m just a simple translator, but I hope the boss’s method can work.

Those greedy capitalists should go to hell!”

After bamboozling them, throw in some empathy to enhance the effect of the bamboozling.

This belongs to standard tactical moves; the intensity of emotion can vary according to the situation.

How many heroes can resist genuine emotions that are deep and sound?

If you treat acting as an instinct, then it becomes reality.

To Andrei, the genuine emotions displayed by Cheng Daqi at this moment seemed real!

“Bruce, I think you could be the chief director of this variety show, we will follow your command.”

Andrei must have been fooled by the system’s LV2 eloquence, he actually suggested Cheng Daqi command the kidnappers.

Seeing his two companions looking at him with strange faces, Andrei realized he had misspoken, and quickly added.

“Of course, it’s just to direct the flow of the variety show, you’re still a hostage.”

“May I ask, where is the Dracula Family’s young son now?

If he’s still alive, why not bring him out too, and let him go to the homeless group.”

Cheng Daqi decided to add a gimmick to the “variety show,” like: “Little Dracula desperately trying to gain sympathy, yet ranked as the least pitiable and to be executed first.”

Or “Little Dracula cries uncontrollably because his life has been too sweet.”

Of course, all of this was predicated on Little Dracula being alive.

Father Andrei nodded, and directly instructed Thor to bring the person over.

“It’s him, locked in an ironclad bookshelf, look, he’s still jumping around.”

Grabbing Little Dracula by the neck, Thor laughed and said.

Little Dracula looked young, with eyes full of fear, crying so much that snot bubbles were forming.

“Kid, do you recognize me?” Cheng Daqi asked.

“I know you, your mask is Iron Man, you’re the boss of the people who kidnapped me.”

Cheng Daqi was also helpless, the kidnappers wore hoods that covered from the neck to the back of the head, which made it hard to distinguish who was who after putting them on.

“I’m not…

nevermind, it’s all not important, what’s your name?”

“Demon, Mr.

Kidnapper, my name is Demon Dracula.”