Chapter 18 The stalking gangster
In the afternoon, there was still nowhere in front of the experience store.
Zhang Sirui and Chen She sat on the sofa in the lounge area of the experience store together. Although they didn't say anything, they could see that they were a little impatient.
It's so deserted that it's a bit too cold at the beginning, right?
As the store manager, Zhou Lei is obviously more anxious.
Some time ago, Chen She took him to the prosthetic clinic to repair the mechanical prosthesis, which moved Zhou Lei very much. He felt that he must run the experience store and repay Mr. Chen.
Now seeing this deserted situation, he really felt restless.
But Chen She was quite satisfied with his current state. He sat leisurely on the sofa and used an electronic magazine to read relevant information about the Knights of Time and Space.
Since the sign of the Knights of Time and Space appeared on this street, Chen She has been concerned about this special organization.
Although according to common sense, the Knights of Time mainly choose bustling areas with dense crowds, such as landmark buildings in the inner city to carry out activities, and it is unlikely that they can cause trouble in such remote areas. However, Chen She still felt that for the sake of prudence, he had to master some information about this organization as much as possible.
At least you need to have a comprehensive understanding of what they do and whether it will threaten yourself.
There are many information about the Knights of Time and Space that can be found on the Internet, but most of them are spread by rumors, full of demonized descriptions, which are obviously too fake.
Just like the information about the Rebels on the Internet is also unreliable.
While watching, Chen She tried to identify, trying to outline the true image of the Knights of Time and Space in his mind as much as possible.
At this moment, the young Zhou Lei was a little restless. He came to Chen She, bent down, and whispered: "Mr. Chen, do I think the content of the electronic billboard at the door should be changed? Or maybe a few of us go nearby to distribute flyers."
At the door of the experience store, there is a huge electronic billboard with some promotional materials for "Embers to Extinguish".
First, there is a huge poster: a knight with a long sword and a lot of clothes is walking towards the walls of the imperial city. In front of him are many enemies with hideous, fierce and terrifying faces.
There are also some slogans below, such as: "Extremely challenging role-playing super dream", "A noble journey to save the people", etc.
In addition, there are models of the game cabin in the experience store, prices of the experience store, and playable game lists, etc.
This is also the standard configuration that most Super Dream Experience Stores have.
Show all these contents on the electronic display screen at the entrance, and players will naturally be attracted after passing by.
But for this new experience store of Lishan Technology, this information has become a factor of dissuasion.
The poster of "Embers Are Extinguished" will not be particularly persuaded to retreat. The key is the information below.
The high-end super dream game cabin and high prices directly dissuaded most people on this street. After all, there is a cheap super dream experience store not far away, because it uses a cheaper sitting game warehouse and game helmet, the price per hour is only about 1/3 of that.
What’s even more terrible is that the experience store of Lishan Technology has only one super dream on the game list, which is "Embers Are about to Extinguish", and it is a trial version.
Even if others are willing to spend money to play for an hour or two, they can't find the game they want to play.
"Embers Are Extinguished" has not been officially launched yet, and can only be played in this store. But you don't think it is a good opportunity to try out the new super dream first, and you will only worry that you will become a sucker and a guinea pig to be slaughtered.
So Zhou Lei was considering whether he wanted to change the content on the electronic billboard, even if he was a title party, he would trick the person in first.
Moreover, considering the lack of publicity, sending leaflets on the street should also help to help people.
Although the world is well-developed with technology, many things have become electronic. However, flyers are extremely costly and have good results, so this extremely primitive publicity method has not been completely eliminated.
Chen She put down the electronic magazine in her hand and glanced at Zhou Lei.
He is really worthy of being a rebel army, and he is familiar with the things like distributing flyers.
Chen She was still thinking about how to respond, but Zhang Sirui spoke first.
"Mr. Chen, I think it's too slow to send flyers. It's better to just pull a few people from the street to experience it. After they have finished the experience, they will have a good reputation, and there will naturally be more players coming to the door."
The way Zhang Sirui thought of was simpler and more crude.
Chen She said in his heart. He thought, are you sure that after forcing a few people to come, you will have a good reputation for our Super Dream Experience Store instead of becoming more afraid?
Although this seems to be a good idea from the perspective of persuading customers to withdraw, Chen She felt that the noise was too big and not safe enough.
It would be great to maintain this deserted state.
So he continued to maintain this calm expression and smiled slightly: "Look at the same mold, you two are just carved from the same mold. Why are you so impatient? Keep calm?"
"Our store has just opened for one morning. As a new store, it is normal to have no customers. Now you are suddenly making a big fuss and scaring everyone away. Not only can you not change the current situation, but it may make things worse. Why bother?"
"Everyone is down-to-earth and keeps your heart in your stomach. Good wine is not afraid of deep alleys. Our super dream is so excellent that it will sooner or later become popular in the entire Dawn City."
"Sit down, sit down."
Although Zhang Sirui, Zhou Lei and others were still a little anxious, they felt a little relieved when they saw Chen She being so arrogant and remained calm in the face of danger.
Chen She continued to pick up the electronic magazine to read.
He is seeing some key information about the Knights of Time.
The Knights of Time and Space appeared on the old soil about 20 years later than the Rebels. However, considering that the Rebels first appeared, it was just a small amount of inequality armed forces. Therefore, this time gap is not obvious.
After the Resistance Army was extinguished by the Great CBU, the power of the Time and Space Knights surpassed the Resistance Army and became a terrorist organization on the old land that made everyone unable to sleep or eat.
Those big chaebols were actually not particularly afraid of the Resistance Army. Relatively speaking, they were afraid of more of the Knights of Time and Space.
The reason is very simple. The rebel army only aims to overthrow the big chaebols, and has relatively bottom lines in their actions, and does not really pose a fundamental threat to the big chaebols.
But the Knights of Time and Space are a group of unyielding madmen. Their goal is not only to kill all the big chaebols, but also to fundamentally change the entire world.
The ultimate goal is to let all human beings enthusiastically embrace life in time and space, change their life form, and enter a new era!
Seeing this, Chen She felt that the name of the Knights of Time and Space was so gigging to their faces.
This is definitely a cult!
The former leader of the Knights of Time and Space was a Westerner named Epsilon. No information about his life was found on the Internet, and only some wanted notices and news about him many years ago were found.
According to the information found publicly, he is a curse scholar with level 7 energy fluctuations. He has been the number one wanted criminal on the entire old soil for a long time, and is also known as the most dangerous person.
However, later the top strong men from the major chaebols formed a team and carried out a beheading operation on him. From then on, the Knights of Time and Space fell into a state of headless dragons.
But even so, the power of the Knights of Time and Space is still hiding in various big cities, taking advantage of all opportunities to destroy and complete Epsilon's legacy.
In addition, there are many different opinions on the Internet about Epsilon's death. As a super strong man with level 7 energy fluctuations, he is still a very special profession like a curse scholar. Many people suspect Epsilon was just pretending to die.
It is very likely that he has preserved his spirit or soul through certain means, and has been trying to influence the real world through various methods.
But it's more of a conspiracy theory, without any actual evidence.
Theoretically, there should be members of the Knights of Time in Dawn City, just as Chen She and the others are also hiding in Dawn City.
But their number should be relatively small, and it is unlikely that a series of dangerous activities will be launched openly.
Chen She felt a little relieved and felt that she should not have anything to do with such an extremist organization.
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Chen She didn't know that it was not only Zhou Lei and the staff of the experience store who were trapped in confusion and entanglement.
In the dark alley opposite the experience store, several gangsters who had been secretly following the experience store were also trapped in this confusion and entanglement at this time.
These gangsters all have a tattoo of a shark head, and they are members of the Shark Gang.
The two street gangs, the Shark Gang and the Jungle Gang, are snatching control of the street, and friction has often occurred recently.
The control of the street is ultimately to collect protection fees from these stores. Otherwise, the gang will fight for life and death for so long, how can I support it if I don’t have money?
However, the store suddenly changed hands and was doing decoration with great fanfare. On the one hand, the two gangs did not dare to act rashly, for fear that the other party would pick peaches; on the other hand, they also wanted to fatten up before killing them, for fear that they would scare the owner away.
So these little gangsters were instructed by their boss and kept lurking nearby, observing the dynamics of the experience store.
I thought that as long as the business of this experience store became popular, I would come to collect protection fees immediately.
For these street gangsters, they really can't see how powerful this new store is, and it seems that it is not easy to mess with.
But if they just retreat, then they should not be on the road.
Most of these street gangsters are brainless and rough people. What does prudent action mean? They don’t understand at all.
What's more, according to common sense, those truly powerful chaebols and large companies generally do not come to open stores in such places. Even if they open stores, they will show their muscles as soon as possible, so that others know that they are not easy to mess with and avoid unnecessary trouble.
And this experience store has performed like a standard fat sheep from beginning to end, and it is hard not to be moved.
However, the current situation has confused these street gangsters.
Their confusion is exactly the same as Zhou Lei and others.
How can this experience store be so deserted?
It's simply unreasonable!
Logically speaking, if you have money to buy a Chaomeng Experience Store here and set up such a beautiful decoration company, your financial situation will definitely be good.
Before opening a store, we will always do some market research and conduct some preliminary publicity work, right?
How could it be so deserted?
Moreover, after the experience store officially opened, the store manager seemed to be indifferent to the current situation.
I didn't even think about doing something, and I saved it a little.
It feels like this store is full of evil, which makes them a little confused.
The little leader of these gangsters is Zeng Hailong, with a fleshy face and strong muscles. He is the only one among these people who have mechanical prosthetics. Although it is just a right hand, this is enough to ensure that he is the absolute protagonist in the melee of street gangs.
Being able to call this name in the Shark Gang is enough to show that his strength has been recognized to a certain extent.
A gangster asked, "What should I do? Brother Long, are we still waiting?"
What they had expected was that the experience store would be very popular as soon as it opened, and they took this opportunity to kill and blackmail.
At that time, the store owner will definitely be worried about fighting, driving away customers, disrupting the business, and having a high probability of compromise.
Unexpectedly, the whole morning passed and there was still no one in the store.
This made this group of gangsters feel very uncomfortable.
Zeng Hailong was also a little depressed. But he had come, so he couldn't come back empty-handed like this. He kept waiting. What if the store was still so deserted after 13 or 5 days?
Chapter completed!