Chapter 74 Parking Lot
Chen Wangping is a surgeon specializing in gastrointestinal tumor surgery and comprehensive treatment. About six months ago, she received a strange patient. During dissection, she discovered a strange mass of flesh and blood that seemed to be constantly growing and reproducing. Later, the mass of flesh and blood suddenly vanished, leaving the glass case empty. The case itself was then taken away by military personnel.
In the next five months, the number of such patients increased, from one or two cases a month to more than ten cases a month. At the same time, news reports of monsters attacking passers-by appeared from time to time. The surviving victims all said that they were attacked by an invisible creature.
"Many people said it was fake news, and everyone around me said they'd never seen it. But I didn't believe it. Until a month ago, a foreigner doing a livestream outdoors encountered a monster. He claimed he could see it, and he targeted the monster's weakness and killed it. In the livestream, he was indeed attacked by an invisible entity. Many people analyzed the video and confirmed that it was genuine. He later claimed that he defeated the monster thanks to a comprehensive analysis of monster weaknesses."
Chen Wangping clicked on a picture on her phone and enlarged it to show Chi Yizheng.
It was a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet, which detailed the abbreviations and weaknesses of the monsters. Chi Yizheng found that this descriptive language was very familiar. After reading a few more items, he realized that this was the summary he had made himself.
Chen Wangping replied, "Later, I traced the source of this image and discovered it came from the monster atlas in the Fantasy Land viewing corridor."
Chi Yizhen: ...
The monsters all look strange and bizarre. It cannot be said that all of them are ugly. There are also some that look quite fantastic, but the vast majority are not good-looking or even bizarre. Considering the acceptance level of Chinese people, Chi Yizheng initially refused minors from entering to visit. Later, he specially selected some that looked relatively pleasing to the eye and let them in. However, the monster maps in the viewing corridor are constantly updated.
Tourists who are very obsessed with fighting monsters will go into the viewing corridor to check the monster map, and then cooperate to fight monsters based on the weaknesses on the map.
Therefore, the main visitors to the viewing gallery are still those who love to fight monsters. Of course, after the launch of the fantasy haunted house and hot spring pavilion, the number of visitors to the viewing gallery is even greater than before.
Chi Yizheng knew that someone would make a table of the contents on the monster atlas, but he didn't expect that someone had already spread the contents abroad last month.
Chen Wangping said, "I felt unsafe abroad, so I decided to buy a ticket back home to visit the Fantasy Park. Director, you should already know what happened next."
Chi Yizheng nodded and said nothing more. He believed that after experiencing traveling to another world, Chen Wangping already had a standard in his heart.
He just said, "Have a good rest. After the visitor center is completed in two days, you can go to work."
Chen Wangping relaxed visibly.
The moment he left the suite, Chi Yizhen tapped the game button. "Is the situation overseas serious right now?" Although he knew from the incident where the plastic glasses were sold overseas that there might be some research and understanding of monsters abroad, he hadn't expected them to appear so early, half a year ago! At that time, he was still an ordinary person who knew nothing about it!
Game: [The hole over there is very small.]
Chi Yizhen: “How small?”
Game: [The kind that can only allow level 1 and 2 monsters to pass through.]
The hole beneath the Fantasy Paradise had already seen monsters above level 10 emerging. Level 1 and 2 monsters were easily defeated by a normal, intelligent person with a gun. The only difficulty was that people from other countries generally couldn't see monsters, which made killing them very difficult.
Chi Yizhen: "Where is that hole abroad? Can I go over and plug it?"
Game: [No.]
Chi Yizheng frowned.
Game: [Players, please don't worry. Things will soon turn around, and the overseas hole won't get any bigger. Because others have paid the price for this before.]
"Okay." There is no point in thinking too much. We should quickly develop and expand the paradise while the evil god on the other side hasn't noticed this side yet.
Chi Yizheng left in a hurry.
In the following days, Chen Wangping helped Duoma adapt to life in the park. The dormitory building was completed, and the cubs in the hot spring hall finally had their own dormitory. The construction of the visitor center and parking lot was also proceeding simultaneously.
Since the land behind the park will be used for future development, and there are streets and shops in front of the park, it is impossible to expand outward to build a ground parking lot, so it can only be dug underground.
It cost 200,000 points to build the visitor center, but 500,000 points to build the underground parking lot.
By August 25, the visitor center and underground parking lot were completed simultaneously, and Chi Yizheng still had a balance of 200,000 yuan in his account.
"I should use these points to build a new office!" Chi Yizhen muttered, but after looking at the map, he changed his mind, "I'd better save them for now. I don't know how many points the new project will require!"
In this way, the construction of the new office area was delayed again and again. The employees watched as the brand new dormitory building, Cheng Liang’s magnificent visitor center, and the parking lot were built. Everything was bright and beautiful, but their office area was still an old building from 20 years ago. It seemed out of place in the fantasy park. In two words, it was shabby.
However, the boss doesn’t care about this kind of face issue, so the employees don’t need to care about it even more. The salary and benefits are good anyway, so it doesn’t matter if the office area is a little shabby!
On the other side, the tree spirits in the children's area and the dwarfs in the restaurant have been busy with the same thing for several days.
The director of the park wants to open a shopping area in the visitor center because tourists need a place to buy local specialties and souvenirs.
The results of the discussion by the tree spirits are: bracelets with sleeping effects, fruits grown by themselves (the kind that are edible, not the offspring of tree spirits), flowers that can last for half a year without withering and are produced by extraordinary powers, as well as various small accessories made by the tree spirits, etc.
The dwarfs' specialty, of course, is their food! Besides their beloved sweet and crispy snacks, they've also developed over a dozen other snacks inspired by Earth-sourced foods.
After the samples of these products were delivered to Chi Yizheng, Chi Yizheng immediately decided to put the products of the tree spirits in the limited supply area. At the same time, he asked Sal to take a letter to Nameia, the leader of the tree spirits, to ask if they were willing to sell products to the paradise. The trading items were some extraordinary props produced by the paradise.
While a bit of a hassle, the biweekly communications from the tree spirits convinced Namea of Fantasyland's goodwill, and they expressed their willingness to provide the park with goods. The tree spirits were relatively few in number, and due to various sales, they were scattered across the alien world. After being freed, the tribe leader Namea found fewer than a thousand members, and even if they worked overtime, they couldn't produce much.
The situation was different for the dwarfs. They were originally a race of over a hundred thousand people, but now, as the abyss rift was gradually unsealed, there were no caravans traveling to and from them. When they learned that the paradise needed a large number of snacks, they immediately accepted the order.
If you have goods, you need packaging.
Chi Yizheng contacted the factory that had previously made the annual pass for him.
This factory is located in Jinan City. The owner's surname is Xu, but it is in another district. Jinan City has four districts: Old City District, Xinghu District, Mudan District, and the last one is Sancai District where factories are clustered.
In recent years, due to poor economic performance, these factories have closed down or gone into recession, making it difficult for local people to find jobs.
The sudden rise of Fantasy Park attracted many tourists from other places. Although there might not be any significant impact in the short term, it would be beneficial to factories like theirs in the long run. Therefore, although the orders for Fantasy Park were large in quantity, urgent in demand, and had many designs, Boss Xu happily accepted the orders and distributed them to several factories to work on simultaneously. They were all completed and delivered within a few days.
Of course, in addition to the goods provided by the tree spirits and dwarf elves, Chi Yizheng also imported some local specialties of Jinan. He picked products that he had tried himself and found delicious and useful, but had not been able to promote.
Everything was ready. On the evening of August 26, Meng Xiaodai announced that the park would open a visitor center the next day.
vFantasy Park: Good evening everyone! The long-awaited visitor center is finally complete! The long-awaited merchandise will be available for purchase at the center, and everyone is welcome to come and enjoy it. Also, the underground parking lot at Fantasy Park will open promptly at 8:00 AM tomorrow! See the table below for specific parking fees.
The official account of Fantasy Park has been very quiet recently. Fans who have long been accustomed to Fantasy Park releasing new projects every few days are no longer used to it. When they suddenly found that Fantasy Park had released new updates, they immediately rushed in.
—Wow! A visitor center with a parking lot! Yay!
——Wow, finally there’s a parking lot! God knows how miserable I am every time I go there and can’t get a parking space. Garden, you still understand my heart.
The visitor center is probably just like any other place, a place to relax and shop! I wonder if they sell dwarf pups, I really want one!
——Don’t even think about the dwarf cub, but you can look forward to the wreath of the tree spirit sister!
——I just saw an insider reveal that the number of tickets sold for Fantasyland will be adjusted to more than 20,000 starting tomorrow. I wonder how big the parking lot is. I hope we don’t have to fight for parking spaces in the parking lot by then!
Although the Fantasy Park has no new projects, everyone is very satisfied with the parking lot. However, some netizens expressed surprise, saying that the director loves to fight monsters so much, but it is unreasonable that he did not ask for parking spaces this time!
The head teacher replied: Don’t worry, it will be arranged right away.
Netizens who received the reply said: Holy crap! How obsessed is the headmaster with killing monsters?
It’s over, it’s over. Will it develop to the point where you can’t enter the park if you don’t kill monsters?
Netizens fell asleep with worries, and then the citizens of Jinan City who were traveling the next day said, why is the traffic jam worse than before so early in the morning?
Citizen Li Chenggong and his family are one of those stuck in traffic.
Their family lives near the Fun Amusement Park in Mudan District. They went to the Fantasy Park not long ago and couldn't forget it. However, as the family was busy with work, they only came a few times throughout the summer vacation.
Today happens to be Saturday, and the children have to go to school on Monday. At the end of summer vacation, the family finally squeezed out time and planned to go to Fantasy Park for two days and drive the children to school early on Monday morning.
Who knew there would be such traffic today?
The traffic ahead had been still for a long time. Li Chenggong opened his car window and asked the driver in the lane next to him, "Why are there so many cars today?"
The driver was surprised and said, "Don't you know? Fantasy Park has opened a parking lot, and everyone is driving here early in the morning for fear of not getting a spot. Did you see those cars in front of us? They all have out-of-town license plates, and they're blocking our local roads."
Although he complained, the driver looked somewhat happy.
After all, with such a great local theme park attracting so many tourists, in the long run, all the locals in Jinan will benefit. Recently, even the rent in Jinan has increased! Previously, most of the properties were empty and no one was renting them.
After listening to this, Li Chenggong seemed to have some understanding. He works in a government department and recently heard vaguely from his superiors that they were going to build an overpass and a subway. He didn't believe it before, but this trip made him realize that there were too many people from other places coming. I heard that the park now only sells 20,000 tickets a day.
The road was jammed for more than half an hour, but it was finally clear.
Li Chenggong still remembers the last time he visited Fantasy Park, he couldn't find a parking space and had to drive far away. The family then had to take another bus to get there. But now, driving all the way there, he finds that the roadside parking spaces that used to be so crowded are now empty, with a traffic police officer nearby directing people to park there and urging them to drive forward.
Li Chenggong didn't know much about Fantasy Park. He vaguely remembered that although there was a small square nearby, the open space was not very big. Even if it was all used as parking spaces, could it accommodate so many cars?
Looking at the endless traffic jam ahead, Li Chenggong became a little worried.
"I hope you don't ask us to drive back!" He smiled at his wife and children.
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