In the afternoon, Pei Qian left Fei Huang Workspace and rushed to Huanyu Tianjie.
He had finished watching the rough cut of Tomorrow is Beautiful. On the whole, he had mixed feelings.
He was happy because the film had not been edited very well. There were no special effects at all. What's more, the plot was very toxic. It looked like it was going to fail.
What worried Pei Qian the most was that all the actors in the movie were very good at acting, especially the three main actors — Zhang Zuting, Lu Zhiyao, and Lin Ruyi. They were practically competing with each other's acting skills. Pei Qian was starting to panic.
Lu Zhiyao's overacting problem had been completely corrected. Lin Ruyi did not look like a newcomer at all. Zhang Zuting's acting skills were impeccable.
It was hard for Pei Qian to predict the effect of such a film after it was released.
Just as Pei Qian was struggling, he arrived at Huanyu Tianjie.
"Boss Pei, should I follow you up?" Little Sun asked.
Pei Qian thought for a moment and said, "No need. Wait for me in the car. I'll come down after one look."
Pei Qian did not think too much. He just wanted to confirm the shared phone booth's safety and then rush back to Handong University to meet Lin Chang.
He took the elevator to the top floor.
It was Saturday afternoon. Pei Qian was already prepared for Huanyu Tianjie to be crowded. However, he could not help but be stunned when he walked out of the elevator.
He glanced at the entrance of the cinema, feeling a little confused. "Eh, so many people? Is there a good movie playing today? "
However, Pei Qian was stunned when he took a closer look.
There were indeed many people at the entrance of the cinema, but they did not look like they were here to watch a movie!
No one was maintaining order, but everyone was neatly divided into two teams.
Both teams walked very quickly. One team only took a photo in front of the phone booth. The other team took a number from the pick-up machine in front of the phone booth and left.
He took a closer look at the exterior of the phone booth.
There was a huge concept art on it: Modest, the Guardian of Justice!
This huge concept art occupied the main part of the front of the shared phone booth. Modest was a burly man with a determined gaze. He looked ahead proudly, and there were all kinds of weapons behind him, showing his heroic spirit.
Many people queued up just to take a photo with this huge artwork.
What's more, it was different from ordinary posters and the original art of the game. This drawing was hand-drawn by Ruan Guangjian and he had added many unique techniques to it. The thick paint technique made it look rather freehand, making it look very artistic at first glance.
It was so beautifully painted that it was no wonder that people who came to the mall would come here to take photos with it.
Pei Qian stood in front of the phone booth and looked at the huge concept art speechlessly.
"What the f * ck …"
He did ask Ruan Guangjian to draw something to decorate the shared phone booth, but he didn't ask him to draw a Coin-Scattering Hedgehog!
For some reason, Pei Qian had a feeling that the Coin Scattering Hedgehog was staring at him with a faint smile on its lips as if it was mocking him.
He then looked at the phone booth.
The side of the escalator clearly displayed the current queue number: 14. Time remaining: 7 minutes.
Pei Qian's heart turned cold as he vaguely sensed that something was amiss. He looked through the crowd and realized that the number on the number pick-up machine had already reached 29.
In other words, since this morning, 14 people had already taken a number to experience the shared phone booth. Now, there were still 15 people in the queue!
Of course, he couldn't rule out those who had taken a number but did not come to experience it. However, there shouldn't be many of them.
At first, Pei Qian saw that the queue was moving very quickly but no one was entering the phone booth. He had even heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that everyone was just looking at the phone booth from the outside and not intending to enter it to spend money.
However, he understood now. It wasn't that no one was queuing up; they were queuing to take a number! It was more advanced!
Pei Qian hurriedly whipped out his cell phone and scanned the QR code to download the shared phone booth's application.
Previously, the application had been very simple and only had a QR code scanning function. However, now, there were many more functions.
The most obvious change was the addition of a queuing function.
As long as one took a number at the entrance of the phone booth, they would be able to enter the queue and fill in their estimated playing time in the phone booth.
The system would add up the estimated playing time of everyone in the queue so that the user would know how long they had to wait.
When it was almost time, the user could rush to the phone booth in advance and wait.
There were other actions on this page as well, such as giving up on queuing.
That way, everyone would not have to wait at the entrance of the phone booth. They could arrange other activities according to the estimated time, such as shopping, buying drinks, desserts, and the like.
Pei Qian looked at the estimated time on the application. It had already reached three hours!
What's more, people were still taking a number.
Pei Qian calculated the price and his face turned pale.
Ten yuan for fifteen minutes, forty yuan for an hour. From the looks of it, the phone booth had not been idle ever since the mall opened. It had to be open for at least eleven to twelve hours a day.
That way, he would be able to earn four to five hundred yuan a day!
Of course, that was because it was a Saturday today. There were more people and that ensured that the phone booth would always be occupied.
If it was a working day, he would definitely earn less.
However, no matter what, the income was still very considerable!
Pei Qian was very confused. This was strange. Wasn't this just a phone booth? What could one do in an hour inside?
He wanted to look in, but the curtains were drawn inside the phone booth. He could not see clearly at all. He could only vaguely hear music coming from inside.
There were many people on this floor, and it was very noisy. That was why the music was also very faint.
Pei Qian did not give up. He walked around the phone booth. However, the curtains were quite tight. Although there were gaps, the dignified Boss Pei could not possibly peep in front of the phone booth.
He could vaguely see two people inside, but he could not see exactly what they were doing.
Pei Qian walked around and found a stack of flyers on the other side of the electronic screen of the phone booth.
The flyers were placed here. Those who were interested could take them.
Pei Qian took one and realized that it was not an advertising flyer in the ordinary sense.
There were words and pictures on it. The picture looked like a screenshot of a television program.
'A customer suffered a cardiac arrest in a shopping mall. An AED successfully saved him! The shared phone booth hid a 'life-saving artifact'.
"Recently, in a shopping mall in Jingzhou City, the staff of the shopping mall used an AED to save a young man's life.
"This scene happened on the top floor of Jingzhou City's Huanyu Tianjie Shopping Mall. A man suddenly fell to the ground after walking out of a cinema. The staff of the shopping mall who heard the news immediately split up the work. At the same time, they called 120, evacuated the crowd, and immediately began to save the man.
"At the critical moment, the staff immediately went to the 'shared phone booth' at the side and took out an AED automatic external defibrillator to perform emergency treatment on the man.
"After four rounds of AED defibrillation, the man's heartbeat and breathing had basically recovered by the time 120 personnel arrived at the scene.
"After that, the man was sent to the hospital for treatment. The medical staff said that it was fortunate that the man received help from the AED. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
"Experts said that more than 85% of cardiac arrest patients are caused by ventricular fibrillation. The only way to eliminate it is through electrical defibrillation. If an AED can be used to defibrillate the heart within a short period of time, the success rate of rescue would be greatly increased. That's why there's a saying like the 'Golden Four Minutes'.
"According to statistics, more than 90% of sudden deaths occur outside the hospital. Therefore, how to quickly obtain an AED to defibrillate the patient has become the key to saving the life of a cardiac arrest patient.
"However, at the moment, the popularity of AED equipment is not high in our country. Our reporter visited many subway stations in Beijing, but the answer we received was that there was no AED equipment at the moment.
"Yet, in Jingzhou, a small shared phone booth actually 'hid' such a life-saving device. What's more, it worked miraculously. This was not a fluke. Instead, it was an inevitable result of the shared phone booth's public safety awareness and social responsibility.
"Zhang Wang, the founder of the shared phone booth project, said that in his vision, the shared phone booth would not only be a cultural landmark of the city, but also a beacon of social responsibility …" Pei Qian's eyes widened.
He took a closer look and realized that this was not a newspaper report. The logo on the top left corner of the picture was from Central TV 2.
"Didn't I just freaking not come for a week? How could I cause such a huge commotion?! "
Pei Qian was dumbfounded. He remembered that the last time he had seen the shared phone booth, it had been a bare, run-down booth. It had been so quiet outside that it had been practically deserted.
Yet, not only was everyone queuing up to go in and play, but it had also been reported on television!
Suddenly, Pei Qian felt like he did not recognize this world anymore.
At that moment, the door of the shared phone booth opened. The couple inside left, consciously taking the paper cups and microphone covers with them. The couple at the back was already waiting outside the door. It was a seamless transition.
Pei Qian quickly tiptoed and glanced at the things inside the shared phone booth.
There was a beverage machine, a jukebox, a capsule machine … there was a dazzling array of things inside the shared phone booth!
Pei Qian clearly remembered that the last time he had been here, there had only been a lonely phone and a water dispenser.
There were drinks, capsule machines, songs, and stamping cards. No wonder these people were unwilling to come out after entering!
Obviously, the beverage machine and capsule machine had to be charged extra. If he included the revenue from this …
What's more, this was just one of the shared phone booths.
Suddenly, Pei Qian realized something. He quickly walked to the stairs and prepared to leave.
The phone booth at Huanyu Tianjie was hopeless. Not only was it warmly welcomed by consumers, but it had also saved people and was reported on television!
Pei Qian could not remove it now even if he wanted to!
However, there were other things he could do now. For example, he had to stop Ruan Guangjian from beautifying the other twenty phone booths!
At first, Pei Qian had thought that the phone booth only had a phone and a water dispenser. No one would spend money on it. That was why he had asked Ruan Guangjian to draw an original concept art. That way, he could spend more money.
However, this original concept art had undoubtedly become a cultural landmark. Many people would come from afar to take pictures with it. Naturally, these people would want to spend money on the phone booth!
Thus, he had to stop Ruan Guangjian and stop him from drawing for the other phone booths!
Pei Qian did some calculations. Ruan Guangjian could only draw one phone booth every three days. That meant that he would need two months to draw twenty phone booths. Only ten days had passed. At most, he would have drawn four phone booths.
There was still time!
Pei Qian called Ruan Guangjian as he waited for the elevator.
"Hello, Boss Pei, what's up?" Ruan Guangjian was very quiet. It did not seem like he was in a shopping mall.
Pei Qian did not think too much about it. He asked directly, "Er … which one of the phone booths have you drawn?"
Ruan Guangjian's voice sounded confused. "Phone booth? Didn't I finish them a long time ago? "
Pei Qian, "???"
He felt a little dizzy. "Didn't I only draw one every three days? How could I have finished them? "
Ruan Guangjian smiled. "Oh, that's right. Drawing one phone booth every three days is too slow! I thought that by the time I finished all twenty phone booths, it would be Chinese New Year. I still have other work on hand. It would be too much of a waste of time.
"Then, I found more than ten friends in the group and outsourced the work. Each of them will be in charge of one phone booth. They just have to draw them according to the original concept art I gave them.
"Don't worry, Boss Pei. They are all my friends. I guarantee their standards. I've checked all the phone booths. There are no problems with them. I've corrected the occasional small flaw.
"Er, Boss Pei?"
Ruan Guangjian thought that the line had been cut off when he heard no one speak for a long time.
After a long time, Pei Qian finally said, "That's all, then."
After hanging up, Pei Qian silently walked into the elevator and went to the underground parking lot.
"Boss Pei, where are we going?" Little Sun did not ask much although Pei Qian had obviously spent too much time up there.
Pei Qian thought about it and said with a black face, "To Times Mall."
He was not going to give up. He had to see all the phone booths with his own eyes!
"Alright." Little Sun did not ask much and drove off immediately.
Pei Qian took out his cell phone and sent a message to Lin Chang.
That afternoon, he needed to visit all the shared phone booths before he could meet Lin Chang.
Lin Chang quickly replied, "Boss Pei, don't worry about your work. I'm busy as well. Don't stand on ceremony."
Pei Qian heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Boss Lin was reasonable!
After comforting Lin Chang, Pei Qian immediately called Chen Kangtuo.
"How's the haunted house project? Hurry up!"
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