Chapter 9 Paradise Team Building 1
Cao Xiaoliang and his classmates were already in their second semester of their freshman year, and summer vacation was approaching. Most students were busy preparing for final exams, so Cao Xiaoliang and Zhang He were the rare few who actually went out to play at the end of the semester. So when the two posted something on their Moments, the other students clicked on it out of curiosity, noticing they'd actually been out playing. They were about to tease them, but when they took a closer look at the content—something about a fantasy park and holographic monster-slaying—they were completely bewildered. What the hell was going on? Were these two just teasing everyone?
The classmates gave a friendly thumbs up, nothing more.
Cao Xiaoliang and Zhang He were so excited to share this great thing with all their friends that they immediately posted it on their Moments. They weren't disappointed by the lukewarm response; after all, they'd already walked to the park entrance and still not believed it! They then posted the news to the class group, where the teacher wasn't present.
Cao Xiaoliang: "Really! What Zhang He and I experienced tonight was truly holographic technology! It was so shocking! We were all so scared we almost thought a real monster had appeared! Zhang He was even knocked to the ground by a monster in the park, crying for his mother!"
Zhang He: "Cao Xiaoliang, fuck you! Get back here right now!"
As the two were talking, someone popped up in the class group to ask for the address.
Cao Xiaoliang thought his recommendation was successful and immediately typed a reply: "It's at 88 Taoyuan Street, the one with the big red banner, it's really eye-catching! The park will be closed tomorrow for renovations, so everyone can go the day after tomorrow. The owner said that the park is now in trial operation, and all tickets for the holographic experience are half off, only ten yuan a ticket."
It was already ten o'clock in the evening. Zhang Minmin, a freshman in high school, had finished memorizing words and was about to go to bed when she heard a constant ding-dong sound coming from her phone. She picked it up curiously and saw Cao Xiaoliang in the class group promoting a newly opened theme park. He was so enthusiastic that if you didn't know, you would think that the theme park was opened by his family!
Zhang Minmin wasn't interested in this. She wouldn't be fooled by boys who only knew how to play around and didn't study seriously! She was planning to turn off her phone and go to bed, but when she saw the address Cao Xiaoliang gave seemed familiar, she hesitated, searched on the local map, and confirmed her suspicion. Her sense of justice surged, and she picked up her phone and started typing, "Cao Xiaoliang, I just searched on the map. No. 88 Taoyuan Street is the Tongxin Amusement Park. This park has been closed for many years. I passed by it a few days ago. How did it suddenly become a holographic park? It's the end of the semester, and everyone is studying hard. Don't affect everyone anymore." She took a screenshot of the map on her phone.
Everyone was already skeptical about Cao Xiaoliang and Zhang He's promotional material. After all, boys are often mischievous and have played pranks on others more than once. With the screenshots Zhang Minmin attached, everyone felt they had seen through Cao Xiaoliang's scheme. Soon, another classmate spoke up.
Student He He: "The AR experience center in the mall costs dozens of yuan for half an hour! How can it be ten yuan? And as far as I know, true holographic technology is not possible at this stage, either domestically or internationally, let alone capable of knocking people down."
He He's family runs a technology company that focuses on AR. If there really was such a big technological breakthrough in the country, he couldn't have not heard about it. Moreover, if such an amazing technology really came out, there would have been a press conference to warm up the market long ago. It would be impossible for it to operate quietly in an ordinary theme park.
The classmates had already concluded that Cao Xiaoliang and Zhang He were cooperating to trick them, and they immediately started to make a fuss.
"Cao Xiaoliang, Zhang He, if you two are too free, why don't you help me finish the test paper? I will definitely support you and go to Tongxin Paradise for sightseeing."
"What's so interesting about a shabby amusement park that's been closed for so many years? These two suddenly played this game in the middle of the night. Could it be that they wanted to distract us so that they could secretly recite the book and beat us?"
"Holy crap, this is actually possible! These two are so insidious!"
Everyone started to talk and labeled Cao Xiaoliang and Zhang He as "sinister people" who appeared to be relaxed but were actually secretly introverted. They launched a campaign to criticize the two of them in the small group, and some students even went back to their Moments to cancel their likes.
Cao Xiaoliang and Zhang He were so angry when they saw this!
How could the two of them possibly hold their own against a dozen or so classmates in the class group? They could only return to the private chat interface to lick their wounds.
Cao Xiaoliang: "Humph, if they don't go now with half-price tickets, they'll regret it later!"
Zhang He: "Right! From now on they will know how wrong they were today!"
Coincidentally, on the other side, a kind-hearted tourist who immediately posted a circle of friends to promote the park after leaving it also suffered the same treatment.
His name is Wei Hua, he is 30 years old this year, and he has never been married because of his sexual orientation. When he saw Sal, he was shocked by his handsomeness, but he also knew that it was impossible for someone like Sal to be with an ordinary person, so he went to the park at first just to take a few more glances at the handsome guy, but he didn't expect that he would become a fan of the park in the end.
After the other tourists left, he bought two more tickets. Every time he raised his stick and hit the ferocious monster, he felt as if he had blown away the pressure of life and the setbacks in his career. After coming out, although he was exhausted from the intense exercise, he felt refreshed all over, even more comfortable than after a foot soak and massage.
He immediately decided to visit the park every day. It offered both exercise and stress relief, wasn't it ten times better than the gym? He immediately canceled his annual gym membership and decided to spend the money on the park.
As for those who didn't accept his recommendation and laughed at him, Wei Hua was not young anymore and would not argue with them. In the past, he would quietly exit the chat box, but now... he immediately added them to the blacklist. Hey, that's great!
Forget about useless socializing! Wouldn’t it be nice to spend your time in paradise?
Chi Yizheng naturally had no time to care about what happened to the tourists after they left. It was already 11 o'clock in the evening when the park closed. Even though the body of a level 2 player was very strong, he still felt tired after two days of high-intensity work without sleep.
After seeing off the last tourist and closing the gate, he did not return to the rental house, but instead fell asleep in the security room of the park. For him now, there was no place safer than here.
Three hours later, Chi Yizheng woke up full of energy and began to check the progress of the task.
He completed the first main quest, which the game required within three days, on the first day. Eleven tourists had come in tonight, but more than eleven tickets had been sold, with many experiencing the experience more than twice. In the end, a total of 30 tickets were sold, bringing in a total of 300 yuan.
If it were a regular theme park, this amount of revenue would indeed be pitifully small, but the main source of income for the Fantasy Park is not money, but experience and points.
He opened the game panel and saw a message in the taskbar. He opened it and read: [Congratulations to the player for completing the first main mission. You have received a Two-World Shuttle Card and 100 points.]
[Congratulations to the player for gaining 11 followers. Although the number of followers is small, it is a good start. Please keep up the good work.]
Chi Yi honestly thought, does buying a ticket to enter the park make you a believer? That's a pretty perfunctory belief. But at the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't have to brainwash people like a cult, or else his conscience would be really bothered.
Something occurred to him, and he asked, "Do I have to pay for a ticket to be considered a believer? What if the park is holding an event and giving away free tickets?"
The faith of a believer can only be measured by money. As the saying goes, where there is money, there is love. If a believer is unwilling to spend money for his Lord, then his faith must be false.
Chi Yizhen: ...
It's actually true! He tentatively asked, "What if someone spends tens of thousands of dollars in the park?"
The game's mechanical sound seemed to stir at this moment. [Then he must be a representative of the fanatics!]
Chi Yizhen: ...
The more money you spend, the more true your faith becomes. While this might seem absurd at first glance, it actually makes sense if you think about it carefully! Especially for a poor guy like Chi Yizhen, if a game can make him willingly spend tens of thousands of dollars on it, then he must truly love it! Chi Yizhen's thoughts instantly became on par with the game.
He continued to play message reminders.
[Your followers have killed five level 1 monsters for you, totaling 50 experience points. You have gained 40 experience points.]
[Your park sold 30 tickets and you earned 300 points.]
Chi Yi really understood. Points can be obtained by completing tasks released by the game and selling tickets, with ten points for each ticket. Transforming the park and killing monsters can gain experience points for upgrading, but one-fifth of the points gained by tourists when they kill monsters must be shared with the tourists.
But why is it only one-fifth? Is it a problem with the equipment or the venue?
Chi Yizhen decided to test and compare this later. For now, he had other things to do. His announcement to the tourists that the park would be closed tomorrow wasn't without purpose. He needed to continue upgrading the park. While the park could certainly draw in a surge of traffic with the "holographic monster-killing" selling point, it couldn't rest on its laurels if it wanted to thrive long-term.
The predecessor of Fantasy Park was Children's Park. Locals knew this to some extent. The shabby park could be fooled by the night and the script, but no park was open only at night, and continuing like this would inevitably arouse suspicion from tourists. After all, he had said in front of tourists before that the team's dream was to build the best park.
Furthermore, although he had an adventure, he was still a human being, and humans had to eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep. If the park did not make money, his savings would not last long.
Taking all factors into consideration, it is necessary to manage the park well.
Chi Yizhen then opened the virtual image of the park model and began to work on the renovations. Building a wall to block the hole and opening a new gate had cost him five hundred points. The points he'd earned today, plus the remaining points, totaled nine hundred.
"What can I do with 900 points?" Chi Yizheng's eyes couldn't help but move towards the mission reward: the Two-World Shuttle Card.
Should I use this card to go to another world and complete a quest? After all, one quest would earn me a thousand points! After hesitating for a moment, Chi Yizhen decided to give up. Although it was Sal's body that was traveling there, not his real body, that world was too dangerous. He should first reach level 10 before going there. Then he would blow Raymond's head off!
Finally, Chi Yizheng decided to upgrade the park used for today's experience activities.
This was originally an area in the amusement park for children to play, with carousels, rocking cars, crash cars, etc., covering an area of about one acre. After years of abandonment, it was overgrown with weeds and sand, gravel and dust were everywhere. Now it has been transformed into a place for adults to fight monsters. There is too much garbage and debris, which can easily cause tourists to fall and bump into things. People come to the park to have fun. What if tourists are injured?
So Chi Yizhen first cleared out the entire park, leaving only some weeds and a few dilapidated rides to create an atmosphere. This step cost him 100 points, and Chi Yizhen was heartbroken. Then, to stimulate tourists' spending, he made a merit scrolling board at the entrance of the experience park, which ranked people based on the number of monsters killed. He then spruced up the experience park to integrate it with the game experience. Before long, he had spent all 900 points, but he felt that he hadn't bought anything yet. He couldn't even see anything!
"Why is it so expensive?"
[Ding! The garbage collected in the experience park has been detected to contain Level 2 energy. Do you want to decompose and reuse it to make props?]
Chi Yizhen: ...
There is such a good thing!
He didn't hesitate and clicked OK immediately.
There was a glittering light on the panel, and in just a few minutes, the props that were disassembled and then made were completed.
***
The next day, a company in Jinan City.
Early in the morning, Meng Le, who was in charge of the front desk work, received a message from Manager Wei posted in the work group.
Wei Hua: After the meeting, the company decided to set the date for the team building tomorrow. The location has been selected, the newly opened theme park at 88 Taoyuan Street. I have personally experienced it and it is definitely worth it. The company will reimburse the tickets and lunch. Everyone will gather at 10 o'clock tomorrow, so don't be late.
Meng Le replied "Received" neatly in the group. After dealing with the leader, she immediately switched to a small group and complained to a few good colleagues. She felt that the leader was really impulsive. He had previously said that the team building would go to a farm house, but this time it was changed to an amusement park. The colleagues were also wailing, thinking that the weekend team building was more unbearable than going to work. What a team building! It would be better to just stay at home and take a nap!
"What a crappy amusement park! I wish it closed down tomorrow." Meng Le thought.
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