Chapter 0214 – The Seven Week Miracle
”Moderately difficult? No problem.” Chen Ge agreed in one gulp and was prepared to arrange for the staff of the Tanto Ward to enter Twilight Sun Middle School for a visit, and then invite them to enter the third ward building if they could pass the test without any problems.
”Thanks a lot then.” Hanging up the phone, the person in charge of the Tanto Disease Hospital was still remembering Chen Ge’s kindness in his heart, thinking that this person was really nice and enough of a friend.
Chen Ge was actually quite happy that the staff of the Tanto Sickness Hospital was coming to visit, after the construction of the third sick building was completed, so far, no visitors had been able to go in, which gave Chen Ge the stifling feeling of not being able to share good things with others.
Now it was good that the people from Tanto Sick House were coming. They stayed in the haunted house pretending to be ghosts for years, so they must have more guts than normal tourists, so they might really be able to pass through Twilight Sun Middle School and enter the third sick building.
”The mannequin fillers should have solidified by now, I’ll go and bring them back at night to set them up in the third sick building, and design a few more scares along the way.”
Chen Ge decided to use what he had learned from Tanto Ward on the third sickbay before letting the Tanto Ward staff go in and try out the effects.
During lunch time, Chen Ge took his design to the office building.
”Director Luo, I have a proposal I want you to look at.”
In the office Luo Dong was looking at his laptop with a worried frown, the expression on his face only eased a little when he saw Chen Ge come in, “If you need it, just look for Lao Xu, I’ve already asked him to cooperate with you to the fullest.”
”He can’t make up his mind on this matter.” Chen Ge put the document he wrote overnight on Luo Dong’s desk, “I want to build a multi-functional rest hall next to the haunted house, and in the long run, this rest hall will cover a large area.”
Luo Dong flipped through the proposal written by Chen Ge, he carefully read it twice before putting down the sheets of paper, “Paradise is now strapped for cash, maintaining all the facilities in normal operation is already a bit of a stretch, I’m afraid that there will be problems with the capital chain if we invest any more.”
”Luo Dong, this multi-functional building can definitely bring us a lot of revenue in the future, this is something I have confidence in. The catering can provide a better resting environment for the visitors, and the limited special haunted house souvenirs are considered a kind of witness to their conquest of the various scenes of the haunted house, which can inspire their desire to raid new scenes even more.”
”I know you are confident that you can do a good job, and I also believe in your ability, but there are some things that need to be considered in the larger context.” Director Luo aimed the laptop screen at Chen Ge: “This is an internal video of the Virtual Future Paradise in the eastern suburbs, you can comment after watching it.”
Director Luo clicked the mouse, and a giant whale leaped out of the sea on the screen with a splash.
As the giant whale dives down, it starts to enter a light and strange underwater world, surrounded by a variety of fish and water monsters constantly appearing, and there is even a ghost ship moving forward on the seabed.
The video transformed into a first view, and the filmmaker seemed to be standing on the ghost ship, located in the middle of the deep sea, close to the ten thousand fathom trench, passing between the erupting underwater volcanoes, enjoying everything.
”This is an entertainment program in the middle of the virtual future paradise, called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, what you see is their upcoming exposure of the promotional video.” Luo Dong should have his own channels to get the video in advance, “Tell us what you think.”
Chen Ge now finally understood why Luo Dong had a sad face before, he felt shocked just by watching the video, not to mention experiencing it from the filmmaker’s point of view.
”The competition is strong, but it’s not like we don’t have a chance.” Chen Ge gripped the armrest of the sofa, he would never give up until the last moment.
”You continue to look down.” Hearing Chen Ge’s reply, not only did Luo Dong not get angry, the expression on his face eased a lot.
The second half of the video was a very futuristic city, with tall buildings, flying cars, all kinds of robots maintaining the operation of the entire city, and tourists sitting in the middle of a capsule-like experiential carriages that traversed through the city.
”This is another main project of the virtual park – virtual city, tourists wear 3D glasses throughout the whole process, and experience various projects in a completely virtual city.” Luo Dong turned off the video and looked at Chen Ge, “Isn’t it amazing? In fact, a few years ago I thought that there would be such a day, the third generation of parks centered on various realistic entertainment equipment will one day be replaced by the fourth generation of parks that are even bigger and full of futuristic feeling.”
”Luo Dong, what we saw was just a promotional video, with the current technological means it shouldn’t be enough to restore those scenes in the video.” Chen Ge objected, “Many games also use very cool promos when they go online, only to realize after actually playing that there is a big gap between the game content and the advertisements.”
”It doesn’t need to be a hundred percent restoration, as long as they can achieve thirty percent, there will be countless people going to experience it.” Director Luo stood up and walked to the window, “New Century Paradise was constructed at the beginning of the century, more than ten years have passed since then, it was once brilliant, but now it’s time for it to come to an end. It is estimated that from next week, the entire Jiujiang, and even the province, can see the advertisements of the Virtual Future Paradise everywhere, and at that time, our situation will become even more difficult.”
”Dong Luo, how much longer until that paradise in the eastern suburb opens?”
”Less than two months, seven weeks to be exact.”
”Time is a bit tight, but we still have a chance, hang in there until the end, there might be unexpected results.” Chen Ge stood up and prepared to leave, the Future Virtual Paradise was about to start its publicity campaign, which made him feel a lot of pressure.
”Don’t leave in a hurry, I happen to have something to inform you, I hope you can be mentally prepared in advance.” Director Luo returned to the table and clicked on a report on the computer.
”What is it?” Chen Ge was a little surprised, and he stopped in his tracks.
”I had Old Xu do an analysis, thirty-five percent of the tourists who entered the park for a visit in the recent week were heading for your haunted house, and this number is still growing.” Luo Dong didn’t hide anything from Chen Ge, “Now that your haunted house has become the park’s signature, it reminds me of when your parents first came to New Century Paradise.”
”It’s mainly because everyone took care of me.”
”You don’t have to be modest, this is your ability.” Director Luo looked at the data on the computer and analyzed, “Your haunted house is now the key to attracting tourists to the park, many people buy tickets to the park, in fact, just to visit your haunted house. I believe there are many more tourists who want to visit your haunted house, but the park ticket price of $260 will stop their impulse, after all, they only come to play the haunted house and are not interested in other entertainment facilities.”
Chen Ge listened quietly, realizing that Luo Dong might say something very important.
”We are uncompetitive compared to Virtual Future Land, so we can only rely on lowering ticket prices to attract people. Originally we planned to implement it two months later, but considering the current situation of your haunted house, we decided to start earlier.” Luo Dong is very decisive: “Paradise ticket price reduction, corresponding to your haunted house ticket price can be adjusted up, the specific ticket price how to change is still under negotiation, today just give you a greeting in advance.”