Chapter 018 The thugs following
In the afternoon, the experience store was still deserted.
Zhang Sirui and Chen She sat together on the sofa in the rest area of the experience store. Although they didn't say anything, it could be seen that they were a little impatient.
It's so deserted, isn't it a bit too cold to start?
As the manager of this store, Zhou Lei was obviously more anxious.
Some time ago, Chen She took him to the prosthetic clinic to have his mechanical prosthesis repaired, which touched Zhou Lei deeply. He felt that he must run the experience store well and repay Mr. Chen.
Now seeing this deserted situation, he really felt uneasy.
But Chen She was quite satisfied with his current situation. He sat leisurely on the sofa, flipping through the relevant information of the Space-Time Knights in an electronic magazine.
Ever since the logo of the Spacetime Knights appeared on this street, Chen She has become interested in this special organization.
Although according to common sense, the Space Knights would mainly choose to carry out activities in busy areas with dense traffic, such as landmark buildings in the inner city, and would not come to such remote areas to cause trouble. But Chen She still felt that for safety reasons, he had to grasp as much information about this organization as possible.
At least you need to have a comprehensive understanding of what they do and whether they pose a threat to you.
There is a lot of information about the Time and Space Knights that can be found on the Internet, but most of it is based on rumors and is full of demonized descriptions that are obviously too false.
Just like the information about the rebels on the Internet is equally unreliable.
Chen She watched and tried hard to identify, trying to outline the true image of the Knights of Time and Space in his mind as much as possible.
At this moment, the young Zhou Lei lost his temper. He came to Chen She, bent down, and whispered, "Mr. Chen, do you think we should change the content of the electronic billboard at the door? Or we can go to the nearby area to hand out flyers."
There is a huge electronic billboard hanging at the entrance of the experience store, with some promotional materials of "Embers Are Out" on it.
First, there is a huge poster: a knight holding a long sword and wearing torn clothes is walking towards the wall of the imperial city. In front of him are many enemies with hideous and ferocious faces.
There are some slogans below, such as: "Extremely challenging role-playing Mewtwo", "A noble journey to save the world", etc.
In addition, there are models of game cabins in the experience store, prices in the experience store, and a list of playable games, etc.
This is also the standard configuration of most super dream experience stores.
Display all of this content on the electronic display screen at the entrance, and players will be naturally attracted when they pass by.
But for Lishan Technology's new experience store, these information have become a dissuading factor.
This poster of "Embers Are Going Out" is not particularly discouraging, the key is the information underneath.
The high-end Super Dream game cabin and its high price directly discouraged most people on this street. After all, there is a cheap Super Dream experience store not far away, which uses cheaper sitting game cabins and game helmets, and the hourly price is only about 13 yuan.
What’s even more terrible is that in this experience store of Lishan Technology, there is only one Mewtwo game on the game list, which is "Embers of Desolation", and it is a trial version.
Even if others are willing to spend money to play for an hour or two, they simply can't find the games they want to play.
"Embers of Desolation" has not been officially released yet, and it can only be played in this store. But everyone does not think this is a good opportunity to try out the new Mewtwo first, but only worries that they will become the guinea pigs to be slaughtered.
So Zhou Lei was considering whether he should change the content on the electronic billboard, even if it was just a headline-grabbing one, to lure people in first.
And considering the problem of insufficient publicity, handing out flyers and inviting people to the streets should also have a good effect.
Although the world is technologically advanced and many things have become electronic, flyers are still very low-cost and effective, so this extremely primitive form of publicity has not yet been completely eliminated.
Chen She put down the e-magazine in his hand and glanced at Zhou Lei.
They are worthy of being the resistance army, they are very familiar with things like distributing leaflets.
Chen She was still thinking about how to respond when Zhang Sirui spoke first.
"Mr. Chen, I think handing out flyers is too slow. It would be better to just pull a few people from the street to try it out. After they have tried it out, a good reputation will form, and more players will naturally come to the store."
The method Zhang Sirui thought of was simpler and more brutal.
Chen She said in his heart, "Haha." He thought, are you sure that forcibly pulling a few people over will create a good reputation for our Super Dream Experience Store instead of causing greater fear?
Although this seems to be a good idea from the perspective of dissuading customers from buying, Chen She feels that it is too noisy and not safe enough.
It's good to maintain the current quiet state.
So he continued to maintain this calm expression and smiled slightly: "Look, you two are just like cut from the same cloth. Why are you so impatient? Keep calm."
"Our store has just opened for one morning. As a new store, it is normal that there are no customers. You are suddenly making a big fuss and scaring people away. Not only can you not change the current situation, but it may even make the situation worse. Why bother?"
"Be down-to-earth and keep your heart in your stomach. Good wine needs no bush. Our Mewtwo is so good that it will sooner or later become popular throughout the whole Dawn City."
"Sit down, everyone sit down."
Although Zhang Sirui, Zhou Lei and others were still a little anxious, they felt a little more at ease when they saw that Chen She had the demeanor of a great general and remained calm in the face of danger, and continued to wait patiently.
Chen She continued to pick up the e-magazine to read.
He was seeing some key information about the Knights of Time and Space.
The Time Knights appeared in the Old Land about 20 years later than the rebels. However, considering that the rebels were just a small and inferior armed force when they first appeared, the time difference is not significant.
After the resistance was crushed by the big capitalists, the power of the Time and Space Knights surpassed the resistance and became a terrorist organization that made everyone in the Old Land uneasy.
Those big capitalists are not actually particularly afraid of the rebels. Relatively speaking, they are more afraid of the Knights of Time and Space.
The reason is simple. The rebels ' main goal is to overthrow the big capitalists. They act with a relatively low bottom line and do not really pose a fundamental threat to the big capitalists.
But the Time and Space Knights are a group of out-and-out lunatics. Their goal is not only to kill all the big chaebols, but also to fundamentally change the entire world.
The ultimate goal is to make all human beings enthusiastically embrace time and space life, change their own life forms, and thus enter a new era!
Seeing this, Chen She felt that the name of the Space-Time Knights was really too flattering for them.
This is definitely a cult!
The former leader of the Space Knights was a Westerner named Epsilon. No information about his life could be found on the Internet, only some wanted notices and news about him from many years ago.
According to publicly available information, he is a curse scholar with a level 7 energy fluctuation. He has long been the most wanted criminal in the entire Old Land and is also known as the most dangerous person.
However, later on, the top masters from the major chaebols formed a team and executed him. Since then, the Space-Time Knights have been leaderless.
But even so, the forces of the Time and Space Knights are still hiding in various major cities, taking every opportunity to cause destruction and fulfill Epsilon's legacy.
In addition, there are many different opinions on Epsilon's death on the Internet. As a super-powerful person with level 7 energy fluctuations, and a very special profession such as Curse Scholar, many people suspect that Epsilon is just faking his death.
He is very likely to have preserved his spirit or soul through certain means, and has been trying to influence the real world through various methods.
But this is more of a conspiracy theory without any actual evidence.
Theoretically, there should be members of the Space-Time Knights in Dawn City, just like Chen She and his rebel group are hidden in Dawn City.
But their numbers should be relatively small, and it is unlikely that they would openly carry out a series of dangerous activities.
Chen She felt relieved a little, thinking that he should not have anything to do with such an extremist organization.
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Chen She didn't know that Zhou Lei and other employees in the experience store were not the only ones who were confused and entangled.
In the dark alley opposite the experience store, several gangsters who had been secretly stalking the experience store were also caught in this state of confusion and entanglement.
These hooligans all have a shark head tattoo on their bodies and are members of the Shark Gang.
Two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jungle Gang, are fighting for control of the street and there has been frequent friction recently.
The control of the streets is ultimately to collect protection fees from these shops. Otherwise, how can the gangs support themselves without money when fighting and killing each other for so long?
It was just that the store suddenly changed hands and was undergoing renovations with great fanfare. On the one hand, the two gangs did not dare to act rashly, fearing that the other side would take advantage of them; on the other hand, they also wanted to fatten the store owner up before killing him, fearing that if they acted rashly, they would scare the store owner away.
So these gangsters, under the instructions of their boss, have been lurking nearby and observing the dynamics of the experience store.
He thought that as long as the business of this experience store became popular, he would immediately come to collect protection fees.
For these street gang thugs, they really can't see how powerful this new store is, and it seems that it is not easy to mess with.
But if they back down just because of this, then they should not be in the underworld anymore.
Most of these street thugs are brainless and rough, and they don't understand what it means to act prudently.
Moreover, according to common sense, those truly powerful chaebols and big companies generally will not open stores in such places. Even if they do open a store, they will flex their muscles at the first opportunity to let others know that they are not easy to mess with and avoid unnecessary trouble.
This experience store has performed like a typical fat sheep from the beginning to the end, which makes it hard not to be tempted.
However, the current situation has left these street thugs very confused.
Their confusion is exactly the same as that of Zhou Lei and others.
How could this experience store be so deserted?
It doesn't make sense at all!
Logically speaking, a company that has the money to buy a super dream experience store here and set up such a beautifully decorated store must be in good financial condition.
Before opening a store, you always do some market research and carry out some preliminary promotional work, right?
Why is it so deserted?
Moreover, after the experience store officially opened, the store manager seemed indifferent to the current situation.
I didn't even think about doing anything to save the situation.
They felt that there was something weird about this store, which made them a little undecided.
The leader of these gangsters is called Zeng Hailong. He has a face full of flesh and strong muscles. He is the only one among them who has a mechanical prosthesis. Although it is only a right hand, it is enough to ensure that he is the absolute protagonist in the street gang melee.
The fact that he is called by this name in the Shark Gang is enough to show that his strength has been recognized to a certain extent.
A thug asked, "What should we do? Brother Long, should we still wait?"
They had originally expected that this experience store would be heavily advertised and extremely popular upon its opening, and they would take advantage of this opportunity to extort money from it.
By then, the store owner will definitely worry about a fight, driving away customers and ruining business, and the probability of compromise is very high.
Unexpectedly, after a whole morning, there was still no one in the store.
This made these gangsters feel very uncomfortable.
Zeng Hailong was also a little depressed. But since he had come here, he couldn't just leave empty-handed. If he kept waiting, what if the store was still so deserted after three or five days? What would he do?
So he thought for a moment and said, "Never mind, let's meet the owner of this store first!"
