Chen Ge confronted Liu Kang during a live broadcast, and Liu Gang posted a video to respond directly to Chen Ge. The two big Vs from different platforms cursed at each other from a distance, attracting countless onlookers.
Some people have already started betting on whether Liu Kang can successfully pass Chen Ge’s haunted house.
The situation on the hot searches keeps changing, with Mr. Luo, the boss of Virtual Future Park and New Century Park, fueling the trend. Both sides feel they have a sure win and are trying their best to stir up the hype.
The platforms also responded quickly. The platform where Liu Gang worked opened a separate special topic, and Chen Ge’s short video platform also pushed his live broadcast room to the homepage.
While Liu Kang and Chen Ge were arguing, there were some truly calm netizens who understood the key point. This challenge about the haunted house was, on the surface, a conflict between Chen Ge and Liu Kang, but in fact it was a collision between the New Century Park and the Virtual Future Park.
Hanjiang is not a big city, but it is a rapidly developing city with great potential. However, with its current capacity, it is difficult to support two large theme parks at the same time, so one of the New Century Park and the Virtual Future Park must become a victim.
Judging from the current situation, Virtual Future Park has a great chance of winning, as all pre-sale tickets have been sold out. However, in terms of popularity alone, New Century Park is much higher than Virtual Future Park, and the haunted house owner Chen Ge is a man who always brings up topics, so it is hard to say who will win in the end.
There was a lot of noise on the Internet, with fans of both sides going back and forth, each with their own main battlefield, and no one was willing to give in. Everyone was waiting to see the result tomorrow.
Chen Ge's live broadcast lasted until the afternoon. When the broadcast started, his number of fans was 400,000. When the broadcast ended, his number of fans had skyrocketed to 650,000. This can be said to be a miracle of some size.
After turning off the camera on his phone, Chen Ge picked up the teapot on the table and took a few gulps of water. "I've said so much, my throat is burning. It turns out that dealing with evil spirits is easier."
Pulling open the curtains, Chen Ge stretched his body.
"We need a batch of puppets for the new scene. I wonder how Qu Changlin is doing."
Chen Ge ran out of the haunted house. As soon as he showed his face, he heard the exclamations of tourists outside. Many people stared at his face, which was definitely not handsome.
"Boss Chen! We all watched your live broadcast! Awesome! Scare that bastard to death tomorrow!"
"That Liu Kang has never died, so he wants to see the world after death."
"Brother Chen! Ole Ge!"
Many of the tourists queuing outside are regular customers of the horror house, including the strategy team of Hanjiang Forensic Medical College. For them, playing in the haunted house was just a pastime, but the younger students failed one after another here, and later the seniors came and did not get any good results. This group of idealistic and ambitious young people followed the school motto of facing challenges head-on, and now they are gritting their teeth and refusing to give up, and they are just short of dragging the teachers along.
What's even more strange is that the president of the Forensic Medical School has nightmares every few days. He always dreams of his mentor scolding him. The president couldn't remember clearly what his mentor said after waking up, but he seemed to vaguely hear the words "New Century Paradise Haunted House".
He himself did not believe in these things, but he kept having the same dream. Anyone could bear it, so the principal himself wanted to clear the haunted house as soon as possible.
How could a group of forensic students who will face brutal and cunning criminals in the future fail to handle a haunted house?
"A new scene will be opened tomorrow, and everyone can come and join in the fun." Chen Ge greeted everyone with a smile, then walked through the crowd.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Ge arrived at the puppet workshop. Qu Changlin did not disappoint him. This actor who was neglected in the Xinhai Haunted House had a great talent for making puppets.
The same thing, made by Qu Changlin, is very scary, as if each doll's eyes are conveying some kind of emotion.
"I just want to make some adult companions to comfort lonely hearts, but you two are not so good." Qian Guigen looked at the room full of eerie heads and limbs, shook his head and sighed.
"Don't listen to the boss's nonsense, Changlin, you're doing a great job." The workload was very heavy, so Chen Ge started to help. When he used his puppet talent to make puppets, Qu Changlin was stunned.
The skill was amazing and breathtaking. He felt that Chen Ge was not making puppets for a haunted house, but creating human body art.
"Dolls also have souls. Only by giving them souls can tourists feel the reality."
The park stopped operating at 6pm, but none of the employees of the horror house left. Zhang Jingjiu and Scissors drove the park's truck to transport the first batch of dolls back to the horror house, while Xu Wan and Gu Feiyu stayed to help.
The park is also full of busy figures, and all the staff are preparing for tomorrow.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, the park was debugged for the second time. After everything was normal, the employees went off work one after another.
At the same time, Chen Ge also received a call from Director Luo.
"Everything is settled. Tomorrow morning, the designers of the Virtual Future Park's reincarnation horror scenes will come to visit your horror house. In the afternoon, you will go to experience their scenes. The whole process will be live broadcast online. However..." Mr. Luo paused and said, "The Virtual Future Park agreed very readily. There must be a problem. You must pay more attention tomorrow."
"I won't be careless."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Ge concentrated on the task at hand. All the employees of the haunted house came to help, and they worked together until 11 o'clock in the evening.
"You guys go home quickly and have a good sleep. Leave the rest to me." Chen Ge took out his cell phone and glanced at the time.
"Boss, can you do this by yourself?"
"Boss, I usually go to bed at two or three. My nightlife has just begun, so I'm not in a hurry to leave."
"Boss, you should take a break too."
Seeing the employees who were reluctant to leave, Chen Ge felt warm in his heart: "Listen to me and go home quickly. If you don't leave, I will deduct your salary."
After everyone else left, Chen Ge gave each of them a red envelope and then continued to work.
At two o'clock in the morning, all the dolls were ready, and Chen Ge loaded them into the truck and transported them back to the horror house.
When we arrived at the haunted house, with the help of the evil ghost employees, efficiency was improved. It only took half an hour to place all the dolls in the previously designed positions.
"True and false, false and true, what you thought was a ghost was just a doll, and what you thought was a doll was the ghost following you."
After going through the new scene from beginning to end, Chen Ge also made a few small props. He did not return to the staff lounge until four in the morning.
"The sun rises every day, but the people who see the sun change every day." Chen Ge hugged the white cat and Xiao Xiao, leaned against the bed and slowly fell asleep.
It was unknown how much time had passed before Chen Ge, who was half asleep, was awakened by the ringing of his cell phone. He glanced at the time and instantly woke up.
Putting the white cat down, Chen Ge went to the bathroom of the haunted house to take a cold shower and changed into new clothes.
He looked at himself in the mirror and smiled the most standard and kind smile in the service industry: "I have been busy for several months just for this day."
After wiping off the mist on the mirror, Chen Ge turned around and walked outside.
Lifting the thick door curtain, the sunlight shone on his face. Chen Ge pulled open the guardrail of the horror house with a smile on his face. Several of his employees had arrived in advance.
"There will definitely be more visitors to the haunted house today than usual, so please take care of yourself. Come on, I'll do your makeup first."
Before eight o'clock, all the employees of New Century Park had already started to get busy. Two workbenches were added at the entrance of Chen Ge's horror house. One was specially used to distribute detection bracelets, and the other one was not known for the time being. All that could be seen was that there were six medicine boxes neatly placed under the table.
At 8:15 in the morning, all the staff were in place and music started playing in the park.
At 8:30 in the morning, media vehicles kept arriving at the park entrance.
At 8:40 in the morning, the east and west gates of the park were already crowded with tourists, many of whom were not locals from Hanjiang but had come from other places specifically.
Seeing this scene, all the park staff felt relieved. They were all worried that no one would choose New Century Park during this peak season.
At 8:45 in the morning, several staff members put several filming equipment into the park, and Mr. Luo also called Chen Ge at this time.
"Mr. Luo, do you have something to talk to me about?"
“You can take a look at Liu Gang’s homepage. They have created a Paradise Treasure program on their platform that monitors the number of visitors to the park in real time. This should be a trick played by the Virtual Future Park. They want to laugh at us.” Mr. Luo’s voice was very calm. He was like a reef in the sea, and would not be shaken by wind and rain. It was precisely because of Mr. Luo as the backbone that the New Century Park was able to survive for a full ten years.
"It's still unclear who will laugh at whom." Chen Ge became more confident when he saw so many tourists coming.
"Don't underestimate the Virtual Future Park." Director Luo sent Chen Ge a few pictures. The parking lot of the Virtual Future Park was full of cars, and tourists were queuing near the four gates in the east, west, south and north. "According to the current situation, the Virtual Future Park can receive at least 19,000 tourists today. We only achieved this number in the first year of opening. In addition, I am worried about one thing."
"What's up?"
"The park is a long-term business. Part of the reason why so many people came to our park today is that I did a little promotion. Our park has been in business in Hanjiang for ten years. It is the memory of many people. It can be regarded as a nostalgic card. Look at those tourists who came early to line up. Many of them just want to keep this memory." Mr. Luo's voice changed slightly: "I am very grateful that they can come at this time, but if we exclude them, we have actually lost half of the game. We are very popular online, but after all, only a few people will come to Hanjiang specifically to visit."
"It doesn't matter. As long as word of mouth spreads, more and more people will come to play. Our overall strength is indeed not as good as the Virtual Future Park, but they are too ambitious and insist on becoming an all-round park. So let's focus on this point and defeat them." Chen Ge knew that this was difficult, but it was the only choice.
He also downloaded a park app. Now New Century Park and Virtual Future Park are displayed in the most prominent position on the homepage. The number of pre-sale tickets online for Virtual Future Park is twice that of New Century Park.
"The situation is very unfavorable, but we will all work together to change it."
At 8:50 in the morning, staff began to guide tourists outside the door.
At nine o'clock in the morning, New Century Park and Virtual Future Park opened for business at the same time!
The number of visitors who swipe their tickets to enter the two theme parks on Leyuanbao has begun to increase sharply, and they are moving forward at the same pace, with neither losing out to the other.
"Everyone return to the scenes you are responsible for! Let's start business!"
The first wave to rush into New Century Park were media friends who were following the hot topics, followed by old acquaintances of Chen Ge’s Haunted House, and many onlookers who were curious about Chen Ge’s Haunted House, and then ordinary tourists.
Three minutes after the park opened, a long line had formed in front of Chen Ge's horror house, and the lounge was full of people. Promotional videos of various scenes were played on a loop on the newly installed large screen outside the haunted house.
Uncle Xu and two other staff members were in charge of scanning the QR code and selling tickets, while Chen Ge stood at the door of the haunted house, as if waiting for something.
At around 9:20, a group of people appeared at the entrance of New Century Park. After a brief quarrel, a group of more than ten people went straight to the haunted house.
Some of them were holding cameras, and others were live streaming on their mobile phones. It was quite lively.
The two people in the lead, one was holding a folding fan in one hand, had a long face, and without beauty filters, his skin looked a little dark. This man thought he was an elegant man, and he frowned as he looked at the crowded crowd.
The other one had a work ID from the Virtual Future Park hanging around his neck. He wore thin-framed glasses, had light eyebrows, and very fair skin, as if he hadn't seen the sun for a long time.
Chen Ge has Yin pupils and could see them from a distance. The long-faced man holding a folding fan is Liu Kang, and the other one is the designer of the Virtual Future Park. His name is written on his employee ID: Bai Buhui.
"The Virtual Future Park and Liu Kang are here together. It seems that my previous guess was right." Chen Ge was just waiting for them.
Most of the tourists were queuing up, but a few of them did not follow the rules and went straight to the entrance of the haunted house.
"Stay at the back! Didn't your mother teach you to queue?" Several students from Hanjiang Forensic Medicine School were almost in line when they suddenly noticed someone cutting in line, and they immediately started shouting.
"We are not here to visit. The owner of this haunted house was very happy online yesterday, thinking that I would not dare to come. Now I am looking forward to his expression when he sees me." Liu Gang threw away his folding fan. He spoke very politely, but did not consciously queue up.
"You said the owner of this haunted house thought you didn't dare to come? Did you go to the wrong place?" The forensic medicine student suspected that he had heard it wrong. He was about to ask again when Chen Ge came over.
"Everyone, don't argue with them." Chen Ge smiled and pointed at Liu Gang: "They are here to challenge the new four-star scene."
“Challenging a new scenario?!” Several students from the School of Forensic Medicine immediately stood aside: “That’s fine, you guys go first!”
"You are just being mysterious." Liu Gang half-raised his head and looked at Chen Ge: "You are much more pleasing to the eye than you look on the Internet. I can't imagine that the guy who was shouting wildly yesterday is the same person as you."
"Since you are here to play, you are a tourist. I have always been very nice to tourists." Chen Ge was a little impatient: "Follow me, I will take you to the new scene."
"Wait a moment." Liu Gang didn't care how much of an inconvenience he was standing here. A dozen people squeezed to the door, and he asked the man holding the camera next to him to point it at him: "You can start now."
He took out his mobile phone and opened the live broadcast room of his platform. After confirming that everything was correct, he smiled at the camera.
"Good morning, all Kang fans! I'm Liu Kang, I'm standing at the entrance of that haunted house right now, and the guy next to me is the owner of the haunted house who was shouting like crazy yesterday. I'm going to broadcast the entire process live and challenge the latest scene of his haunted house!" Liu Kang is very good at stirring up the atmosphere, he threw open his folding fan and said, "Not much more nonsense, everyone, get your peanuts and sunflower seeds ready, and watch how I fight fakes today!"
As soon as he spoke, the live broadcast room received so many rewards, and the screen was filled with comments saying "Brother Gang is a real man."