Chapter 16 PC Room
In the back alley of Daolin Road, An Rusong took one last look at the dim living room in the basement, and then went out without any regrets. From now on, he is determined not to come back. If one day in the future, he has to come back and live in a place like this in despair, he would rather choose to die on his own.
I have contacted the landlord before, and he will come back to take over the house later.
An Rusong abandoned all his past belongings here. He wants to follow the past. To be precise, he wants to make a complete separation from his predecessor. He will be a The new An Rusong is a man destined to prosper in the peninsula.
After leaving Daolin Road, he went to "KTO" again and submitted various documents and information needed to apply for a driver's license. As a reborn person, An Rusong can certainly drive, but his predecessor was too weak and didn't even have a driving textbook, so he had to take a driving test first.
After finishing the driver's license application, An Rusong took a car and went straight to Shengudong in Jiangnan District. The PC room named "Gwan" that Shen Tai'an mentioned was over there. He wanted to check out the plug-ins. The trial sale situation there.
Twenty minutes later, the taxi stopped outside a three-story building with a rather dilapidated appearance.
On the sidewalk in front of this building, there are some bicycles and a dozen motorcycles parked, and on the glass door at the entrance of the building, there are some game posters, the most conspicuous of which are two , one of them is from MapleStory, and the other is from DNF.
A large neon sign hangs above the glass door, with white letters on a blue background and the "Gwan" logo on it. In addition, there are some slogans dedicated to the PC room.
As early as 2002, the Korean government spent 10 trillion won to build a so-called "high-speed communication network". The network broadband is relatively advanced and the network speed is relatively fast. At the same time, the popularity of the network has The rate is also very high.
In addition, the competitive pressure in Korean society is very high. Many young people regard the Internet as a pure land to escape from the real society. Therefore, the customer flow of Internet cafes is very large. Some young people even call the PC room, which is also an Internet cafe, " The only place to relieve stress.”
Getting off the car at the sidewalk, An Rusong opened the door directly and entered the PC room. As soon as he opened the door, he felt a pungent smell of smoke approaching - Korea has not yet banned smoking in Internet cafes.
In An Rusong’s previous life, it would not be until next year, that is, 2008, that the Korean Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family would pass a so-called “revised version of the National Health Promotion Act Trial Rules” and officially designate Internet cafes as No smoking area.
So, for some people, especially those underage, today’s Internet cafes are not only a good place to play games and surf the Internet, but also a place where they can smoke freely and even drink. .
Frowning at the smell of smoke, An Rusong stepped through the door. The door is facing a screen partition, which is also covered with posters of various games. A corridor almost two meters wide leads to both sides of the partition.
Take a look and you will see that at the end of the left side is the bar counter, which almost occupies the entire wall. The shelves are filled with various snacks, drinks, and even cigarettes and beer. A girl with a round head was standing at the bar talking to two customers. At the end of the right side is a door with a bathroom sign on it.
An Rusong walked towards the bar. Just when he was two steps away from the bar, he heard the two customers saying to the girl at the bar: "13,000 won a month, this is Is it too expensive? Can’t it be cheaper?”
“Yes, that’s right, the monthly card for World of Warcraft is only this price,” another customer also said.
After listening to the words of the two guests, An Rusong stopped. 13,000 won per month, which is the price of the DNF plug-in.
Initially, according to An Rusong's idea, he was thinking of pricing 6,000 won a month, but both Zhao Chenghao and Shen Tai'an thought this price was too low and they would not make much money. Therefore, he directly more than doubled his price to the current 13,000 won per month, which is 100 yuan when converted into RMB.
As the customer said, the current cost of a monthly World of Warcraft card is less than 14,000 won.
"I'm sorry. We are just selling the plug-ins you are talking about. We have no power to bargain. I'm really sorry." The girl at the bar bowed to the two guests and said this. said.
The two guests had no choice but to pay two bills in the end. It seemed that each of them bought it for a month.
Seeing the girl at the bar collect the payment and copy the CDK to the two guests, An Rusong took a step forward and asked: "Beauty, is Brother Cheng Hao here?"
The girl bowed again to the two guests who were about to leave, then turned to An Rusong and asked: "You are."
"I am a friend of Brother Cheng Hao, and I made an appointment with him to meet here," An Rusong said.
"Ah, are you Mr. An?" The girl obviously obeyed Zhao Chenghao's instructions. She said, "I'm very sorry. Brother Cheng Hao just answered the phone and went out, but before he left, I have specifically told you to wait for him here for a while. He should be back soon." "Okay," An Rusong nodded, turned sideways, and glanced into the hall behind the screen wall.
Different from the old appearance outside the PC room, the hall behind the screen wall is actually decorated to a high level. In addition to rows of computers, there is a wall near the east side. There was actually a row of tea seats on the street. At this moment, there were six or seven young people eating together beside the tea seats.
At a glance, there are at least hundreds of machines in the entire hall. Now it is almost full of people, both men and women, and the noise is a bit loud.
"Are there any extra machines? Open one for me." An Rusong asked, looking around the hall.
"Okay, Mr. An," the girl at the bar asked with a smile, "Are you going upstairs or on the first floor?"
"Is there any difference?" An Rusong asked curiously.
"The first floor is the lobby, the second floor has partitions, and the third floor is an all-inclusive private room," the girl explained for him.
"Oh, just the first floor," An Rusong said without thinking. He just took a quick look and saw many players with DNF enabled on the first floor. He wanted to know about the use of plug-ins.
The girl didn't ask him to pay anything, she just gave him a delicate plastic card and told him to take a seat according to the numbers on the card. The password was on the back of the card. By the way, the girl also pointed out the location of the machine for him. location.
The machine needs to be seated according to the number, which shows that the Internet cafe management system used here is still a bit backward. In An Rusong's previous life, the management system used in the Internet cafe no longer required guests to seat themselves, and the system could also directly order food, and even It's a click-and-play escort service, and it's very user-friendly.
Holding the plastic card given by the girl, An Rusong walked towards the machine leisurely. Along the way, whenever someone played DNF, he would stop and take a look to see if the other person was there. Purchased a plug-in service.
Although it was his first time to come to "Gwan", Zhao Chenghao had been selling plug-ins here since two days ago. Therefore, An Rusong walked along and saw more than 20 people in total. I am playing DNF personally, and there are only three people who are not using cheats, and these three people are all young-looking boys, probably still junior high school students, with limited spending power.
An Rusong's machine is No. 84, which is very close to the booth on the east side of the hall. There were two girls sitting on the two machines to his left. The one next to him had straight and long shoulder-length hair, but it was dyed blue and yellow.
She was wearing a loose black cultural shirt on her upper body, and her lower body was hidden under the computer desk, so she couldn't see what she was wearing.
The other girl has a hairy and prickly head and is wearing a light yellow loose cultural shirt. This girl obviously refused to sit still. She actually squatted on the sofa. One canvas sneaker was abandoned on the edge of the sofa, and the heel was flattened.
Because the girl was squatting, An Rusong could see the writing on the back of her cultural shirt. It was two lines of English: "Iamaprostitute!!!" Yes, there were three exclamation points at the end of the sentence.
The translation of this sentence is "I am a prostitute". So, it is terrible to be uneducated.
The two girls look young, but they have thick smoky makeup on their faces. In the words of later generations, these are two completely non-mainstream, rebellious girls.
Because the game the two girls played was MapleStory, An Rusong didn't pay much attention to them. He just walked to his machine and sat down, turning on the computer while looking at the guests on the right.
To his right is a half-grown boy wearing a light blue school uniform. He looks like the truant middle school student from school. This guy is playing DNF, but he is not using any cheats.
When the machine started, An Rusong saw the plug-in he had created directly on the desktop. He clicked on the icon, opened the plug-in, and entered his account and password. Just when the plug-in interface appeared, an electronic ringtone rang in his trouser pocket. It was the phone.
An Rusong controlled the mouse with one hand and opened the DNF game. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket with the other hand and answered the call.
The call was from Sun Manzhu. She asked An Rusong that the factory had already stocked 20,000 pieces of "Screaming Chicken". If it continued to produce at the current speed, the factory would take some risks. After all, there are still some squeezed vinyl dolls in the warehouse. These inventories are taking up the few funds in the factory.
Sun Manzhu's worries cannot be said to be unnecessary. After all, "DreamToys" is a small factory and cannot afford the risk. Moreover, before the relationship with Japan was severed, the factory had never squeezed products.
(End of this chapter)