Chapter 16 PC Room

Chapter 16 PC Room

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 left without any regrets. From now on, he was determined not to come back again. If one day in the future, he had to come back to live in such a place, he would rather choose to die.

I have already contacted the landlord, and he will come back to take over the house later.

An Rushong abandoned all his past belongings here. He wanted to make a complete break with the past, or to be more precise, with his predecessor. He would be a brand new An Rushong, a man who was destined to thrive on the peninsula.

After leaving Daolin Road, he went to KTO again and submitted all the necessary documents and information to apply for a driver's license. As a reborn person, An Rusong could drive, but his previous life was so bad that he didn't even have a driver's license, so he had to get one first.

After completing the application for the driver's license, An Rushong took a taxi and headed straight to Shengudong in Gangnam District. The PC room named "Gwan" that Shen Taian mentioned was right there, and he wanted to go and see the trial sale of the plug-in there.

Twenty minutes later, the taxi stopped outside a three-story building that looked rather shabby.

There are some bicycles and a dozen motorcycles parked on the sidewalk in front of the building, and on the glass door at the entrance of the building are some game posters. The two most eye-catching ones are one from MapleStory and the other from DNF.

A huge 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 specifically for the PC room.

As early as 2002, the South Korean government invested 10 trillion won to build a so-called "high-speed communication network". The network broadband is relatively advanced and the speed is relatively fast. At the same time, the network penetration rate is also very high.

In addition, the competitive pressure in Korean society is very high, and 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 PC rooms, that is, Internet cafes, "the only place to relieve stress."

After getting off the car at the sidewalk, An Rusong pushed the door and walked directly into the PC room. As soon as he opened the door, he felt a pungent smell of cigarettes coming towards him - South Korea has not banned smoking in Internet cafes yet.

In An Rusong's previous life, it would not be until next year, that is, 2008, that the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs of South Korea would pass a so-called "Revised Version of the Trial Rules of the National Health Promotion Act" and officially designate Internet cafes as no-smoking areas.

Therefore, for some people, especially minors, Internet cafes today are not only a good place to play games and surf the Internet, but also a place where they can smoke and even drink without any hesitation.

Frowning at the smell of smoke, An Rusong walked in. Facing the door was a screen partition covered with posters of various games. A corridor about two meters wide led to both sides of the partition.

At a glance, at the end of the left side is the bar, and the shelves that occupy almost the entire wall are filled with various snacks, drinks, and even cigarettes and beer. A girl with a bun is standing at the bar and talking to two customers. At the end of the right side is a door with a toilet sign on it.

An Rusong walked towards the bar. When he was two steps away from the bar, he heard the two customers say to the girl at the bar: "13000 won a month, isn't that too expensive? Can't it be cheaper?"

"That's right, that's right, a monthly card for World of Warcraft is only this price," said another customer.

After listening to the two guests, An Rusong stopped. 13000 won a month, this is the price of the DNF plug-in.

Initially, according to An Rushong's idea, he was thinking of setting the price at 6000 won per month, but both Zhao Chenghao and Shen Taian thought that the price was too low and they would not make much money, so they directly more than doubled the price to the current 13000 won per month, which is equivalent to 100 yuan in RMB.

Just like the guest said, the cost of a monthly card for World of Warcraft is less than 14000 won now.

"I'm sorry, we are just selling the plug-ins you mentioned, and we don't have the right to bargain. I'm really sorry." The girl at the bar bowed to the two guests and said this.

The two customers had no choice but to pay two bills, apparently each buying for one month.

After watching the girl at the bar collect the money and write down CDKs for the two customers, An Rusong stepped forward and asked, "Beauty, is Brother Cheng Hao here?"

The girl bowed to the two guests who were about to leave, then turned to An Rusong and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm a friend of Brother Cheng Hao, and I made an appointment to meet him here," said An Rushong.

"Ah, are you Mr. An?" The girl had obviously received instructions from Zhao Chenghao. She said, "I'm very sorry, Brother Chenghao just received a phone call and went out. But he specifically told me before he left that you should wait for him here for a while. He should be back soon." "Okay," An Rushong nodded, then 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 surprisingly decorated quite upscale. In addition to rows of computers, there is actually a row of tea seats near the east wall. At this moment, six or seven young people are gathering together to eat at the tea seats.

A quick look revealed that there were at least a hundred machines in the entire hall, which was now almost full of people, both men and women, and the noise was quite loud.

"Are there any extra machines? Open one for me." An Rushong asked after 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 Rushong asked curiously.

"The first floor is the lobby, the second floor has partitions, and the third floor is the all-inclusive private rooms," the girl explained to him.

"Oh, let's go to the first floor," An Rusong said without thinking. He had just taken a quick look and saw that there were many DNF players on the first floor. He wanted to learn 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 go to the seat according to the number on the card. The password was on the back of the card. By the way, the girl also showed him the location of the machine.

The machines require guests to sit in matching numbers, which shows that the Internet cafe management system used here is still a bit backward. In An Rushong's previous life, the management system used by the Internet cafe no longer required guests to sit in matching numbers, and guests could also order food directly on the system, and even order companionship services. It was very user-friendly.

Holding the plastic card given by the girl, An Rushong walked towards the machine slowly. Along the way, whenever he saw someone playing DNF, he would stop and take a look to see if the other party had purchased the 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. So, as An Rushong walked along the way, he saw a total of more than 20 people playing DNF. Only three of them did not use plug-ins, and these three people were all young boys with immature looks, probably junior high school students, with limited purchasing power.

An Rusong's machine was number 84, very close to the booth on the east side of the hall. Two girls sat on the two machines to his left. The one next to him had straight, long hair that went past her shoulders, but it was dyed blue and yellow.

She was wearing a loose black T-shirt on her upper body, and her lower body was hidden under the computer desk, so you couldn't see what she was wearing.

The other girl had a frizzy bun and wore a light yellow loose T-shirt. This girl was obviously unwilling to sit still, she actually squatted on the sofa, one of her canvas shoes was abandoned on the side of the sofa, the heel was flattened.

Because the girl was squatting, An Rusong could see the words on the back of her T-shirt. They were two lines of English: "I am a prostitute!!!" Yes, there were three exclamation marks at the end of the sentence.

This sentence, translated into English, means "I am a prostitute". So, it is really terrible to be uneducated.

The two girls looked young, but they had thick smoky makeup on their faces. In the words of later generations, they were two definitely non-mainstream, rebellious girls.

Because the two girls were playing MapleStory, An Rushong didn't pay much attention to them. He just walked to his computer and sat down, turning on the computer while looking at the customer on his right.

On his right was a teenager in a light blue school uniform, who looked like a middle school student who had skipped classes. This guy was playing DNF, but without any cheats.

The machine started up, and An Rusong saw the plug-in he had made on the desktop. He clicked the icon, opened the plug-in, and entered his account and password. Just as the plug-in interface appeared, an electronic ringtone sounded in his trouser pocket. It was the phone ringing.

An Rushong used one hand to control the mouse, opened the DNF game, and used the other hand to take out his mobile phone from his pocket and answer the call.

The call was from Sun Manzhu. She asked An Rushong that the "Screaming Chicken" factory had already stocked 2 pieces. If it continued to produce at the current speed, the risk would be too great. After all, there were still some squeezed vinyl dolls in the warehouse, and these inventories would take up the little funds the factory had.

Sun Manzhu's worries were not unnecessary. After all, DreamToys was a small company that could not afford the risk. Moreover, before the relationship with Japan was severed, the company had never squeezed out its products.

(End of this chapter)