Chapter 33 Returning Customers?
Late at night.
Zhou Lei came out of the Super Dream game cabin in the experience store and finished today's training.
He looked around and found that the number of people in the experience store tonight seemed to be much less than before.
Super Dream experience stores are generally open 24 hours a day. The characteristic of the sleep game cabin is that players are in a state of light sleep when experiencing Super Dream, which will not cause a great mental burden.
Even if you play all night, you will not be overly tired. You can just go back and make up for two or three hours of sleep.
It is said that entertainment industry giants such as Changye Entertainment Group are rushing to develop Super Dream game cabins that can completely replace sleep. At that time, in theory, 8 hours of sleep time can be converted into entertainment time in Super Dream.
However, this concept is a bit too outrageous even in terms of the technological level of this world.
So far, it is just a rumor, and even the trial version of the product has not yet been released.
As for those street Super Dream experience stores that use sitting game cabins or even head-mounted devices, although it is much more tiring to play than the sleep game cabin, in order to maximize profits, they will also be open at night, but the price will be lower.
This is not much different from the Internet cafe in Chen She's previous life.
In the past few days, due to the popularity of "Xian Ting Xin Bu", Lishan Technology's Chaomeng Experience Store has many customers at night, and the utilization rate of Chaomeng game cabins is about 70%.
But today, the number of customers who stay overnight has dropped sharply to about 30%.
Zhou Lei received equipment at the company headquarters during the day, so he didn't know the specific reason.
He asked several rebel waiters who were on night shift, and found out that a large-scale conflict would break out between the Shark Gang and the Jungle Gang tonight!
People nearby got the wind in advance, and they all stayed indoors, so the flow of customers in the experience store was also greatly affected.
The waiters in the experience store are rotated by the rebel soldiers, and there are also certain security forces at night to prevent some emergencies.
Tonight, these rebel soldiers who have just updated their equipment are all on high alert.
Although the fight between the two gangs is unlikely to affect the experience store, they still need to be highly vigilant.
Zhou Lei asked everyone to continue to strengthen their vigilance, and he went to the rooftop of the experience store, took out his alloy sword, and stroked it lovingly.
The captain had already said that for Zhou Lei and other rebel soldiers who were talented in cold weapon combat, the company would not only provide weapons, but also use company resources to provide guarantees for their future development, which made Zhou Lei look forward to the future development.
For some reason, Zhou Lei always felt that his style of behavior changed after the captain fell into a coma, but this change was more for the better.
Although the original captain Chen She also had a strong personal charm, everyone was willing to follow him through life and death, but for the future of the entire rebel army, most people still felt that there was little hope and were very pessimistic.
And now, for some reason, Zhou Lei and other ordinary rebel soldiers felt for the first time that the future had become brighter!
At this moment, Zhou Lei heard a burst of shouting and killing from the street below the experience store.
Zhou Lei came to the side of the building and looked down, only to see two waves of gangsters fighting in the night!
The shouts and cries mixed with the sounds of cold weapons colliding, coupled with frequent gunshots, depicted a picture of "freedom".
Zhou Lei was still watching seriously, a little worried that the fight between the two gangs would affect the experience store, but after watching for a while, he put his mind at ease and turned to treat this gang fight with the mentality of watching fun and excitement.
In fact, Zhou Lei has not seen many such scenes.
He is different from Zhang Sirui. Zhang Sirui has joined the resistance army for many years. He is an old hand and has seen all kinds of big scenes.
But Zhou Lei is still very young. After joining the resistance army, he has basically been working in the Chen Group. He was promoted to the manager of the experience store by Chen She recently.
Seeing the two gangs fighting on the street at this time, Zhou Lei realized that these gangsters really had no fighting skills and fought without any rules.
Both sides have limited guns, so the main target of the gunman is the gunman on the opposite side, and most of the gangsters can only wave their machetes in a very primitive way on the street, fighting blood.
Zhou Lei had no doubt that in this level of fighting, as long as a team of more than a dozen rebels attacked from behind, both gangs could be wiped out.
Soon, the sirens of the police car sounded.
However, the DCPD police car did not enter the core area where the two gangs were fighting, but stayed on the periphery of this area.
It seemed that they did not care about the outcome of the fight between the two gangs at all, but were more worried about the damage caused by the gang fight to the surrounding area.
As long as the fight between the two gangs was maintained within a certain range, the DCPD would not risk getting hurt to stop it.
When the fight between the two gangs was about to come to an end, the DCPD police car would come out to disperse these people.
Zhou Lei felt that it was meaningless and was ready to turn around and leave to go back and rest.
Since it had been determined that this gang fight would not have any impact on the experience store, he did not need to pay attention to it anymore.
However, just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly saw a familiar face in the crowd fighting on the street.
Most of the rebel soldiers have been genetically modified and have better eyesight than ordinary people. Although the situation below was very confusing, Zhou Lei could easily distinguish the familiar figure.
"Isn't that Zeng Hailong?"
I saw Zeng Hailong holding a machete and fighting bloody battles with several brothers behind him, screaming and rushing forward with all his strength.
At this time, the gunmen on both sides were also fighting fiercely, and the people on both sides fighting with cold weapons were all mixed together. Opening fire at will would probably hurt one of your own, so Zeng Hailong was not worried about the bullets fired at him by the Jungle Gang for the time being, and could focus on Kill people.
He was already tall and strong, and had a certain advantage in physical fitness. At this time, he was moving back and forth flexibly, raising the machete high in his hand, and then lowering it heavily, cleanly cutting off the opponent's people. Cut them to the ground one by one!
Zeng Hailong led these gangsters, who were like sharp knives, tearing apart the Jungle Gang's defense line with lightning speed, greatly boosting the morale of the Shark Gang!
Zhou Lei couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Zeng Hailong's moves are not very clever, but they are very simple and effective. In such a chaotic battlefield, his attack method is very effective. It can be said that it has formed a dimensionality-reducing blow to those unorganized gangsters.
The same was true for the few gangsters following Zeng Hailong. The team they formed directly broke up the opponent's formation, and the situation on the field was quickly reversed.
"You can't tell, but Zeng Hailong's skills are pretty good. At least he's outstanding among the gangsters."
"It's strange. When he first came to the experience store, his skills seemed to be very weak. He was completely beaten by us and lost his temper. In just a few days, he improved quite quickly."
Although Zeng Hailong's physical fitness is much worse than that of Zhou Lei and other resistance fighters, Zhou Lei can still see the rapid growth of this little gangster from Zeng Hailong's skill and fighting will twice before and after.
"No, is it the effect of "The Ember Will Go Out"?"
Zhou Lei suddenly realized that Zeng Hailong and the few gangsters behind him were regular visitors to the experience store. Although they were forced, they had indeed been repeatedly tempered in "The Embers Will Go Out".
And this kind of progress may not even be realized by Zeng Hailong himself!
"It seems that the captain did not lie to us. The Mewtwo of "Embers Will Go Out" can indeed improve our cold weapon combat skills and fighting will. And the improvement effect is very obvious, far more useful than "Desperate War"!"
"Could it be that all of this is within the captain's plan?"
Zhou Lei suddenly developed strong confidence in the Mewtwo of "The Ember Will Go Out".
The battle on the street was coming to an end, and the two gangs were similar in strength. However, the outstanding performance of Zeng Hailong and a few gangsters reversed the situation, and the Jungle Gang immediately collapsed.
At this time, DCPD police cars saw that the gang fight was over and entered the neighborhood one after another to drive away the remaining gangsters. The night gradually returned to calm.
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Early the next morning, Chen She and Zhang Sirui came to the experience store together.
As soon as he got out of the car, Chen She noticed something was wrong.
The whole street was in a mess, with many shops on both sides not open, and there were also the remains of some cars that had been burned by fire and a lot of dried blood.
The business of the experience store has obviously been severely affected, and the attendance rate has dropped a lot compared to before.
Chen She asked Zhou Lei with some confusion: "What's going on?"
Zhou Lei explained: "Last night, the Shark Gang and the Jungle Gang had a large-scale firefight, and the fight was quite fierce. However, our experience store was not affected in any way."
Chen She was stunned.
He had long heard that two gangs, the Sharks and the Jungle, were vying for control of the street.
It's just that it has been a small-scale friction before. Today you cut a few of my brothers, and tomorrow I will make a small sneak attack. The fight between the two sides is constantly escalating.
Until last night, a large-scale fight finally broke out between the two gangs, and the conflict reached its peak.
Chen She didn't care which gang won. Anyway, no matter which gang won, it would not cause any danger to the experience store.
On the contrary, the current situation is somewhat beneficial to Chen She.
On the one hand, the popularity of "Wandering in the Garden" is declining, and other Mewtwo experience stores are stealing business; on the other hand, gang fires have sharply deteriorated the business environment here. Although the experience stores have not been directly affected, they have been affected to some extent. will be affected.
At least people from other urban areas will stop coming here to play if they know it's unsafe.
The popularity of the experience store has dropped sharply, which is good news for Chen She. After all, the experience store was full every day and he was making crazy money. Chen She had to worry about how to spend the money every day, which was painful.
The current state of the experience store is very consistent with Chen She's golden mean.
He strolled to the rest area, sat on the single sofa, opened the electronic magazine again, and read it leisurely.
Judging from the current situation, there should not be a large number of customers coming in the short term.
However, not long after Chen She sat down, he heard chaotic footsteps outside, and a familiar voice said loudly: "This is the right store!"
Chen She looked up and saw many gangsters with shark tattoos gathered in front of the experience store.
He couldn't help but frown, thinking, could it be that the Shark Gang has grown in size after killing the Jungle Gang and wants to cause trouble in the experience store?
It stands to reason that Zeng Hailong's tragic experience should have warned the Shark Gang, and their boss wouldn't be so stubborn, right?
Zhou Lei and the waiters in the experience store also became alert, silently touching the guns on their backs, ready to fight.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little wrong, a burly man emerged from the gangsters, smiling and saying, "Manager! Manager, don't get me wrong, we are all here to support your business!"
Zhou Lei looked, isn't this Zeng Hailong?
Under the organization of Zeng Hailong, these gangsters lined up in a long queue and paid in turn.
The tense atmosphere in the experience store also eased. Several customers were shocked to see so many gang members coming to the door, and even thought about leaving.
But after seeing that the two sides would not clash. He lay back in the game cabin again.
Seeing this scene, Chen She was very puzzled.
What's going on?
He still remembered that Zeng Hailong and those hooligans were tortured by him last time and almost cried. When they left, their expressions showed that they never wanted to enter the experience store again in their lifetime.
But now they not only came by themselves, but also brought a group of brothers.
What, does this mean that I can't be the only one suffering? I have to let my brothers feel the same as me?