Outside Tokyo Tower, the atmosphere was unusually grim and tense.
The police had completely sealed off the scene, keeping all the gawkers outside the safety perimeter. Only the bomb squad remained inside.
As for the troublemaking media, the police had ruthlessly kept them out as well. Though they loudly protested about things like the "right to know," the Metropolitan Police Department showed them no mercy.
"This is an investigation, not a performance! If the criminal learns from your broadcast, it's the same as exposing the progress of our police search! If the criminal does something because of your livestream, then you're accomplices!"
After receiving Fang Zheng's reminder, the Metropolitan Police Department finally stiffened their spines and forcefully shut down all those reporters. In truth, they were already full of anger. This whole matter had started because of the media; otherwise, it would never have become such a mess. Fang Zheng had also said in his text message that they were to stop all media interviews and control everyone with knowledge of the case. Of course... if handled improperly, that approach could easily provoke resentment. But for the Metropolitan Police Department...
We've already been ripped apart by you media people so many times. What's one more time?
Haven't you always screamed about how useless the police are, while praising some high school student as Japan's savior of law enforcement?
Get lost!
As long as they caught the criminal in the end and found the other bomb, they would have an answer for the public. But if the criminal did something because of media coverage and caused all their efforts to go to waste, those idiot reporters definitely would not think they bore even the slightest responsibility. They would only once again loudly proclaim the police incompetent.
Thinking that way, the Metropolitan