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Day 309, Saturday, October 26th
[When the flight takes off, the pilot--who must not be named--announces their landing will be the middle of Saturday morning local time. The in-flight entertainment is a tablet with several articles tabbed up for Ash's perusal.
Asians in New York City have been turning up brutally murdered, in a manner many articles find a connection between a rash of violent, though not seemingly racially charged youth gang member deaths from last fall/Winter. The writers don't know of Colonel Foxx's existence to draw the parallel, and thus see it as what to them is another intergang conflict after a year of relative quiet on that front.
In the days leading up have been deaths in other cities, though without the same visual brutality upon discovery. Thus, the news sites have yet to be drawing parallels, aside from a few blogs trending to Stop Asian Hate.
In Chicago, male Chinese national Ling Minghao was found cleanly sniped within his bedroom. With no open window blinds, there's suspicion of it being an inside job, within the house, and yet there are no signs of poisoning, nor other injuries. The bullet hole is found even through the curtain.
In Boston, female Taiwanese national Ling Qungying, wife of a rich Taiwanese banker who had married into her rich family and kept her name despite the shame that would normally bring to an already prestigious first son of a Chinese family, was shot. The angle of the bullet was noted to be a mystery, coming from above to hit the brainstem at the back of the skull with no penetration of the straight lines which would have been needed to make a straight shot, and security cameras of the outdoor orchestra showing nothing but an extremely windy day; there's theory her husband at her side was the real target, but even then the shot at him would be deemed irrational.
In Milwaukee was the death of Song Hongyu and Jiang Zhiyan. Hongyu was a rebellious seventeen year old Chinese national from a very rich family tied to the Chinese Triads, and Zhiyan his thirty year old translator, body guard and attendant; a sniper shot at a concrete wall had him killed instantly with the debris managing to blast and kill Zhiyan as well, in front of several stunned gangsters. This was believed to be a set up by the small street gang he was meeting up with, due to Hongyu's younger sister, Chen Lihua, aged ten, found at the scene unconscious due to what was believed to be an oral poisoning but miraculously uninjured. And yet, it was the small local gang he had been meeting with who had called the police to fetch the body and look into the crime in the first place, deepening the mystery.]
Asians in New York City have been turning up brutally murdered, in a manner many articles find a connection between a rash of violent, though not seemingly racially charged youth gang member deaths from last fall/Winter. The writers don't know of Colonel Foxx's existence to draw the parallel, and thus see it as what to them is another intergang conflict after a year of relative quiet on that front.
In the days leading up have been deaths in other cities, though without the same visual brutality upon discovery. Thus, the news sites have yet to be drawing parallels, aside from a few blogs trending to Stop Asian Hate.
In Chicago, male Chinese national Ling Minghao was found cleanly sniped within his bedroom. With no open window blinds, there's suspicion of it being an inside job, within the house, and yet there are no signs of poisoning, nor other injuries. The bullet hole is found even through the curtain.
In Boston, female Taiwanese national Ling Qungying, wife of a rich Taiwanese banker who had married into her rich family and kept her name despite the shame that would normally bring to an already prestigious first son of a Chinese family, was shot. The angle of the bullet was noted to be a mystery, coming from above to hit the brainstem at the back of the skull with no penetration of the straight lines which would have been needed to make a straight shot, and security cameras of the outdoor orchestra showing nothing but an extremely windy day; there's theory her husband at her side was the real target, but even then the shot at him would be deemed irrational.
In Milwaukee was the death of Song Hongyu and Jiang Zhiyan. Hongyu was a rebellious seventeen year old Chinese national from a very rich family tied to the Chinese Triads, and Zhiyan his thirty year old translator, body guard and attendant; a sniper shot at a concrete wall had him killed instantly with the debris managing to blast and kill Zhiyan as well, in front of several stunned gangsters. This was believed to be a set up by the small street gang he was meeting up with, due to Hongyu's younger sister, Chen Lihua, aged ten, found at the scene unconscious due to what was believed to be an oral poisoning but miraculously uninjured. And yet, it was the small local gang he had been meeting with who had called the police to fetch the body and look into the crime in the first place, deepening the mystery.]