Chapter 0127 – Equipment Upgrade
The cab stopped at the entrance of the paradise, Chen Ge called Xu Wan, and the two of them worked together to move the cardboard boxes into the haunted house.
”Boss, what’s inside? It’s so heavy.”
”Simulated human heads.” Chen Ge didn’t explain much, “Don’t just open it and peek, be careful of scaring you.”
”Oh, I know.”
Putting the cardboard box away, Chen Ge let Xu Wan go to the dressing room to make up her makeup, while she walked out of the haunted house to sell tickets.
”Tomorrow when the Twilight Sun Middle School scene opens, the manpower problem has to be solved, if you really can’t recruit anyone, you can first ask Director Luo to borrow a park employee to sell tickets at the entrance.”
After pulling back the guardrail, Chen Ge hadn’t even walked out when a man in his early thirties greeted him, “Mr. Chen? I can finally find you.”
Chen Ge was rarely addressed like this, he glanced at the other party, the man in front of him was wearing a casual suit and carrying a black case, he had very spirited short hair, a full smile and white teeth.
”You’re looking for me?”
”I haven’t pulled off every one of your live broadcasts, it’s really too good.” The man came up and started to compliment, how is the quality of the live broadcast, Chen Ge’s own heart is clear, although the content is novel, but limited by the filming equipment, the total live broadcast experience is not very good.
”Thank you.” Chen Ge did not understand the other party’s intention, “You are my water friend?”
”I’m your hardcore fan, I’ve been following you since you posted your first short video and hit the heat list at midnight. Later, when Qin Guang copied your live content, when he started broadcasting, it was also me who went to the bar and uploaded your video, telling everyone that Qin Guang was actually copying.” The man’s mouth said that he was Chen Ge’s hardcore fan, but he acted calmly, and the smile on his face was just a professional smile, so he couldn’t tell how excited he was.
”Thanks a lot.” Chen Ge didn’t completely believe his words, but felt that this person was quite good, at least he could tell right from wrong, black and white, “They are all water buddies, you came to visit me here, let’s give you a 50% discount.”
”I won’t delay your business, let the friends in the back go in first.” He first let the tourists in the back enter the House of Horrors experience, and looking at the free time in the middle, he found Chen Ge again, “I heard that last time, Qin Guang Studio’s people came to look for trouble with you, and they ended up being ruthlessly cleaned up by you?”
”It’s just a rumor, the people from Qin Guang Studio have no bottom line at all, they purposely made two psychopaths come to my haunted house to pretend to be stunned, and after they framed me, they even disguised themselves as the victims, it’s shameless to the extreme!” Chen Ge said through gritted teeth.
The man next to her had a slightly odd look on his face after hearing this, and reluctantly laughed along with her, “I also think they set you up, visiting a haunted house is just a visit, how can you be scared to the point of hospitalization, and also be in a trance for several days, these people don’t even know how to find an excuse.”
”Scared to the point of hospitalization?”
”Yeah, they also threatened to retaliate against you and were ready to block all your recommendation channels, but then they were stopped by another studio.” The man smiled and looked at Chen Ge as if he was a fox wagging its tail, “After all, the platform is everyone’s, it’s not exclusively his, Qin Guang’s, alone.”
Having said that, Chen Ge already understood all of it, this man in front of him should be the representative sent by the other studio. It looked like they had a grudge against Qin Guang’s studio, otherwise they wouldn’t have run to the posting bar to report him for plagiarism when the whole platform’s resources were tilted toward Qin Guang.
A platform’s traffic and channels were limited, and Qin Guang getting bigger would take away the heat that originally belonged to them. For live streaming and short videos, the flow of users was tantamount to chronic suicide.
”You’re here to talk to me about cooperation, right? How do I address you?” Chen Ge looked at the black box in the man’s hand, fantasizing that it was stuffed with money.
”Actually, I’m also a platform anchor, just call me Liu Knife.”
”Liu Knife?” Chen Ge nodded, “Then how are you going to work together?”
”Recently, the live broadcasts related to Spirit Detection have been on fire, so of course we want to get a piece of the action, but unfortunately our studio can’t find a suitable candidate. Even if we force someone to go on air, the popularity and heat will definitely not be able to compete with Qin Guang. There’s one thing to say, although Qin Guang’s character isn’t great, his live broadcasting style is very interesting, and he’s a very charismatic person in his own right.”
”So you guys found me? I don’t think that I, a grassroots, can be more charismatic than Qin Guang.”
”You’re wrong, I’ve seen your live streams, and probably even you don’t realize that your live streams are completely different from others.” Liu Dagger put away his smile and pondered seriously for a while, “Other people’s live broadcasts are fake at first glance, including Qin Guang’s live broadcast, saying that it’s a spirit-detecting live broadcast, but the essence of it is that it’s just a different place to listen to the anchor tell a story. But your live broadcast is different, that kind of whole nervous feeling, as if really encountered a life and death crisis, so that people will follow you together with the heart, together with fear. Based on that alone, I’m going to say a word of admiration to you.”
Because those were originally true ah! Chen Ge felt that even if he told the truth, Liu Dagger wouldn’t believe it, “Maybe it’s because I’m a better actor.”
”You’re too modest, that feeling of dancing between life and death, I haven’t seen it in many professional actors.” Liu Dagger seemed to appreciate Chen Ge, “I think only your live broadcast is able to earn heat and traffic with Qin Guang, as long as you agree to work with us, we’ll do all we can to get promotional resources for you.”
”Then what do I need to do?” Payment and return were directly proportional, something Chen Ge knew very well in his heart.
”We’ll find some desolate and scary looking places for you, set up the scenery there, and then design something really scary in advance, all you need to do is go to that venue and broadcast live, and then push the advertisements we provide in the broadcast room.” Liu Dao was afraid of Chen Ge’s refusal, and took out a piece of information from the black box, “The horror scenes need to be set up in advance, and the scripts need to be written, about ten days to conduct a live streaming of the spirit search, and this cycle happens to be the same as Qin Guang’s team, so you can take a look at the venues we picked and the outline of the scripts first.”
Chen Ge flipped through a few pages of information, the venues these people picked were too conservative, there were even some directly next to residential neighborhoods, a slightly larger camera rotation would wear off.
”Do you think it’s inappropriate? Don’t worry, we can definitely guarantee safety, all areas have been inspected beforehand, and we will also arrange for a drone to follow you when you go live.”
”How can you win over Qin Guang by broadcasting live like this?” Chen Ge looked like he hated iron and steel, he returned the information to Liu Dao: “These venues are not interesting at all, the traces of scripted routines are too heavy, why don’t I recommend a place for you.”
”What place?”
”I don’t know if you’ve heard of the third sick building?” Chen Ge opened his cell phone and typed in the name to search for it, and soon a bizarre, cruel, and perverted message appeared on his cell phone screen, “I’m going to go live here next time.”
Liu Dao also saw the message on Chen Ge’s cell phone, and those horrifying and frightening pictures were reflected in his eyes, his throat rolled and he gently wiped away the sweat on his forehead, “Are you sure? Isn’t this a little too exciting?”