Chapter 190 Lantern Festival Auction

"Mr. Jiang, you're here too!"

"Mr. Zhao, long time no see!"

"Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu, I've long heard of your great name!"

Just before nine o'clock in the morning on the Lantern Festival, a group of businessmen who came to participate in the park's charity auction met at the visitor center.

Meng Xiaodai was once again in charge of the reception. She, along with several park staff, escorted the group to the "Book Tour" Experience Hall, confirming the list along the way. Wow! Not only were all the previously registered and confirmed guests present, but there were even extras. However, since they had proven their financial strength on the spot, Meng Xiaodai didn't say anything and simply added a few more names to the list.

The walk from the visitor center to the "Book Travel" experience hall was quite long, to be honest. Inside, there were a few middle-aged men with large bellies, clearly weak and out of breath. Halfway through, they started panting and started to complain, "Your park facilities are terrible! You should get some sightseeing buses around the park."

Meng Xiaodai agreed, but inwardly she thought, all the land currently used for construction in the park is less than two thousand acres, and the walk from the visitor center to the "Book Travel" experience center is only a little over a thousand meters, which only takes about ten minutes. And she's already tired halfway? Is she just too lazy and blaming the park's facilities?

In fact, the tourists who often come to the park to fight monsters are generally in good physical condition. Not to mention walking more than a thousand meters, they can even run a few laps without getting red in the face or out of breath. Meng Xiaodai is now a long-distance runner herself, and it has been a long time since she saw a middle-aged man with such a weak body.

Her hearing was now quite sharp, and she could hear tourists whispering from a distance asking these bosses whether their bodies were drained by alcohol and sex.

Unfortunately, these bosses don’t have such good hearing. Not only do they not notice other people’s dislike, they are also quite confident in themselves.

Xiao Song, who was beside Meng Xiaodai, said, "Sister Meng, the auction doesn't start until 10 o'clock. Do you want to invite them to the restaurant to rest and have something to eat first?"

Hearing this, Meng Xiaodai immediately recalled Manager Sal's stingy demeanor during the previous event. The director had handed over the entire charity auction to Manager Sal, including the venue and items, without the director's involvement.

In this case, all conditions and requirements are one-size-fits-all for Sar.

The event started on the 15th, and the announcement was sent out on the 9th. It wasn't until the 11th that Meng Xiaodai discovered the park hadn't applied for auction qualifications. After reporting this to Sal, the manager was nonchalant, saying, "It's okay. We can get on the bus first and buy tickets later. If we're really too late, we can just not apply. No one would dare say anything anyway."

Meng Xiaodai's heart skipped a beat, realizing once again that the park's upper echelons, people like Sarchi Xiaozhen, knew just how special they were. Despite this, to avoid being exposed online as lacking auction qualifications, she quickly arranged for someone to apply. They applied that morning and received the qualifications that afternoon.

Then Meng Xiaodai inquired about the venue arrangements. Although the park was already quite large, each expansion was due to the opening of new projects, and every area was fully utilized, so there was not much space available for auctions.

Her proposal at the time was to convert a large lounge on the third floor of the hot spring center into a temporary auction venue. The place was large and well-decorated. Usually, there were rows of massage beds for tourists to rest on after soaking in the hot springs. If it was converted into an auction venue, it would just require adding more chairs.

Although it looks a bit simple, the park is not a professional auction house, so there is nothing wrong with doing it this way.

Then, Thrall flatly rejected it. "If it becomes an auction site, where will the tourists go to relax? Every place in the park is making money. They are only here for the auction, not for consumption. And they don't even help the park fight monsters. There's no need to be so nice to them."

Meng Xiaodai wondered how much money tourists could spend in the park in a day. These big bosses could actually spend hundreds of millions of dollars to participate in the auction!

Sar said, "I temporarily loaded an auction story into the Book Tour Experience Hall, so they can just go directly into the experience hall."

Well, save the venue. Anyway, the experience center is all virtual world, it doesn’t take up space, and it won’t hinder the park’s profit.

Then Meng Xiaodai asked about the reception issue. Sal was also very stingy. Anyway, they were allowed to enter the experience hall, so if they felt thirsty or hungry during the trip, they could just generate virtual food for them in the experience hall.

Meng Xiaodai was stunned: "But those are all fake. I'll be hungry again when I leave the experience center."

Sal raised his eyebrows and said, "That's perfect. Those big bosses are all fat anyway. Let's help them lose some weight."

Meng Xiaodai: ...

What I mean is, the park earns so much money every day, there’s no need to be so stingy!

Coming back to her senses, Meng Xiaodai calmly replied, "It's okay. Just go directly to the experience center. Manager Sal has arranged everything."

Xiao Song nodded and smiled. "Since it was arranged by the manager, then there's nothing to say. It must be very thoughtful."

Meng Xiaodai: ...

Help! What's so poisonous about Sal? Why is every man in the park so captivated by him? Not only are the gays rushing to spend money on him, but even straight guys like Xiao Song are obsessed with him.

Could it be that Thrall has some special skills to seduce people?

Meng Xiaodai has a lot of ideas, but that doesn't stop her from appearing to be patient and considerate in welcoming the guests.

After sending these big bosses into the temporary passage opened for them in the "Book Travel" Experience Hall, Meng Xiaodai received a call.

The voice on the other end of the phone was that of a mature woman. "Hello, Miss Meng, I'm Liu Meilan. Regarding what I said before..."

Meng Xiaodai was very impressed by this person. The park always offered discounts for people with disabilities, so she often saw more disabled people in the park than outside. Every week, Meng Xiaodai would receive a list compiled by the staff, which listed the number of people with disabilities the park had welcomed that week and any shortcomings in the park's facilities and services for these people.

Then it will be sorted out and sent to Chi Xiaozhen, allowing the other party to decide whether to add new services and facilities.

Liu Meilan's daughter, Liu Zhenzhen, was born blind despite her cute appearance and good personality, which left a lasting impression on Meng Xiaodai. It would have been fine if she were an adult, but it's always a pity for such a young child to be born with a disability.

After Liu Zhenzhen saw the immersive mode of Liu Meilan and her daughter in the "Book Travel" experience hall, she went to the experience hall every day. However, the experience hall had just opened not long ago and it was currently the most popular period. Moreover, during the Spring Festival, tickets to the park were not as easy to buy as usual. After playing in the experience hall for four or five days, they found that they could not book tickets for the next week, so they kept calling the park's customer service, hoping to get a long-term ticket for Liu Zhenzhen so that she could live in the experience hall all the time.

Meng Xiaodai felt that this idea was not appropriate, because life in the experience hall could not replace reality. The little girl's experiences in the experience hall were basically fictional stories, and she was so young that her concepts were not formed. Meng Xiaodai was worried about affecting the little girl's growth, and secondly, she thought that this was not in line with the regulations of the park, so she rejected it. Unexpectedly, Liu Meilan called almost every day to inquire.

Meng Xiaodai was always terrified when she received a call from Liu Meilan before. It wasn't that she was afraid of her, but she felt that she had disappointed a mother's expectations time and time again, and she felt a little uncomfortable.

But this time, she smiled and offered a suggestion. "Ms. Liu, it's true that our park doesn't have long-term tickets for the Experience Center. However, our Manager Chi heard about your story and said that a group of small animals will be arriving soon and we're currently short of a keeper. If you're willing to become a keeper, then as a park employee, you can apply for an employee card that grants you unlimited access to all attractions within the park every day. This card can also be used by relatives."

Ms. Liu Meilan already has her own career. If she were to work as a zookeeper at the park, it would inevitably delay her original work. However, after hearing what Meng Xiaodai said, she hesitated for only two seconds and immediately said, "Okay, how about this afternoon? I'll go for the interview this afternoon."

Meng Xiaodai was in a good mood, thinking that you will definitely be glad for this decision in the future. She replied: "Okay, I look forward to your coming." Then she hung up the phone, feeling so happy that she almost hummed a song.

As a result, when I turned around, I saw a man wearing black clothes, a hat, and a black mask, who was wrapped tightly all over his body, moving stealthily towards the entrance of the auction.

Meng Xiaodai shouted, "What are you doing?"

The man shuddered and whispered, "I'm here to attend the auction."

Meng Xiaodai's eyes showed suspicion, but she subconsciously put on a professional smile, "Hello, please show me your name and invitation letter."

That person: "Zhen Xinglai."

Meng Xiaodai: "I've memorized the list a long time ago, and that name isn't on it. Sir, if you don't tell the truth, I'll call security."

The man said how could it be possible, and then seemed to have thought of something, and whispered: "Zhen Xianghong." He looked around and said: "This is my stage name. The one just now is my real name. I didn't lie. Don't tell anyone." Then he touched his pocket and took out the invitation letter.

Meng Xiaodai showed a surprised expression, "So you are a big star, please come in."

After Zhen Xianghong went in, Meng Xiaodai asked her colleagues, "Who is Zhen Xianghong? I've never heard of him."

Colleague: "Hey, I've heard of this guy. He has a lot of negative news. I heard his family is rich and he became the protagonist by spending money. He has a very bad character. It's best to stay away from him to avoid being dragged into scandals by him."

Meng Xiaodai didn't care about the entertainment park; she simply found it baffling. What kind of scandal could a celebrity have with an ordinary person? What could she possibly gain from that ordinary person? But since her colleagues had warned her, she tacitly stayed away. She just had to do her job. Paparazzi couldn't get into the auction anyway.

Speaking of which... Meng Xiaodai looked around and didn't see any trace of paparazzi, not even a suspected fan. She thought that this guy was so obscure, what could he have to hide.

This was not the first time that Zhen Xianghong came to the "Book Travel" experience hall, but he had no idea that the auction he entered at this time was the virtual world generated by "Book Travel". Like everyone else, this was just a large room in the experience hall.

After all, once you lift the door curtain and walk in, you will see a spacious corridor covered with a red carpet. Going further in, you can see a restaurant with a huge crystal chandelier hanging on the wall. There are delicious food and fine wines in the restaurant, and several familiar bosses in the circle are chatting and laughing.

Who could have imagined that what they ate was fake, what they drank was fake, and even the chairs they sat on were fake?

Of course, Zhen Xianghong was not concerned about how luxurious the venue was. He stared at the big bellies of the bosses one by one, thinking that these people's wallets were fatter than their bellies, and he wondered if the money he brought today could compete.