Chapter 571: V
Coming to this space station Internet café again, even if Lotte is like Shen Mo, he can't help but feel a little melancholy.
However, standing at the door and looking at the doorman dressed as a mecha warrior for a long time, he still couldn't figure out what kind of suitable words to use to describe his mood, saying that things are not people is inaccurate, saying that people are not things is too blunt, and finally can only casually mutter a word last year's most popular lyric "Where has the time gone?"
However, he soon realized that it was even more hypocritical to ask this sentence as a young man in his early 20s, so he could only shake his head and follow Wu Pan into the capsule-shaped elevator.
To be precise, this store can no longer be called an Internet café, or it was not an Internet café in the first place.
Because of the impact of the massive popularity of low-end smartphones and free WiFi, as well as the gradual peak of the demographic dividend caused by 20 years of family planning work, the Internet café industry has encountered an industry winter that has lasted for several years, and there is no sign of recovery.
In this case, some Internet cafes choose to close their doors, while others choose to upgrade the software and hardware environment, improve the grade and price, and specially regain the concept of the original form of the Internet café café and start the so-called "Internet café".
In fact, the earliest imported food was the Internet café, just because the people's income level was still very low at that time, and the junk food and foreign fast food that foreign sling tramps ate every day were regarded as mid-to-high-end trendy food here, and they naturally couldn't afford to consume the Internet café. As a result, the Internet café that streamlined the business and focused on low prices came into being, and fortunately caught up with the booming period of online games, and made easy money for a few years, of course, it was a few years ago or even more than ten years ago.
In fact, as early as when Atletico opened the first space station Internet café, the golden age of Internet cafes has already shown signs of ending, but it is supported by popular online games such as DNF, CF and LOL, which are better than their predecessors, and they barely hang a trace of vitality. So at that time, the space station Internet café took the high-end route, which was actually the same thing as the Internet café that is becoming more and more popular now, but it was just out of habit to hang the name of the Internet café.
Since the beginning of the summer vacation of the third year of high school, Shen Mo and Wu Pan have contributed the winter and summer vacations, as well as all kinds of gold and silver long vacations, to the No. 7 space station Internet café at the door of their homes. Of course, there is also a considerable amount of pocket money for the two of them, everything is good here, the machine is good, the environment is good, the service is good, it is expensive, expensive, expensive.
If it weren't for the CTA website, where they could take on part-time jobs from time to time to earn pocket money, the two of them would probably have gone bankrupt long ago.
It's just that as the fame of this website grows and there are more and more members, it is becoming more and more difficult to get a good job with less work and more money. So later, they rarely did this, but they gave full play to their advantages as locals of Ludao, and became scalpers for a while, whenever the new bee products were offline, the two of them would run to line up early, buy them back and sell them to other netizens at a higher price.
Now the online store they applied for "Mopanshan Electric Thunder Cave Digital Monopoly" is still selling Bee brand electronic products that are advertised as original and genuine, but the main source of profit has become their own products.
In recent years, the supervision of Internet set-top boxes has become more and more stringent, which has made relevant manufacturers and users miserable. Some users have chosen to slowly get used to the new box system, while others have abandoned the same unlucky box manufacturers and turned to the Internet to buy so-called smart players.
The essence of these smart players is to remove the screen of the Android tablet,Establish a connection with the TV to transmit signals through HDMass or wireless projection,And then with a remote control or remote control application that is more in line with TV habits,It becomes a simple network set-top box。
Although the manufacturing threshold for Android tablets is very low, and all parts can be bought, even the legendary bed board factory can produce them, but this is not something that Shen Mo and his two students can handle. Fortunately, they have other ways,Bee biscuit card has a model that supports HD fan output,There are also great gods on the Internet who have developed a smart player system for it,They only need to buy the H version of the biscuit card and swipe the corresponding system ROM,A simple and simple player is baked。
As for the shell, it has been omitted, firstly, because I don't have the time and energy to find a special supplier, and secondly, it is more in line with the DIY spirit to expose the motherboard. It was by opening a store in Taobao to sell these players who assembled and flashed their own machines, and Shen Mo and the others not only earned pocket money for living expenses, but even the tuition fees were solved by themselves.
If it weren't for the fact that this area has always been in a gray area, and the entry barrier is too low, resulting in more and more competitors, the two of them may have actively responded to the country's call for innovation, and would have taken a leave of absence from school to run the business full-time like Silicon Valley heroes.
As the elevator went up, Shen Mo turned his head to look at Wu Pan next to him and said, "It suddenly occurred to me that it seems that we have actually been working for Boss Ma for the past few years!"
"Huh?"
"I found that the little pocket money I used to earn in CTA was not all handed over to the boss in the end? Even if it's our TV box,It's because Boss Ma can't look down on such a small profit.,Unwilling to have a hard anus with the Temple of Light,Otherwise, there will be a TV box made by the so-called folk masters.。 And then most of the money we made went back to the pocket of the boss of the horse in the end, what is this not a day job?"
"Huh!" Wu Pan snorted and expressed disdain, "So this is it? Did you just find out that your money was all earned by the surname Ma?"
Shen Mo recalled that most of the various services and products of the ATBM Big Four were used by themselves, although they were basically free, but they also bought a lot of value-added services, such as sticking 8 members or something, so he said, "There is also Boss Li of the bear factory, but it is still spent on Atletico Madrid!"
"Of course, who made you a die-hard fan! As soon as you heard that this store was reopened, you came to give me money, and you had to bring me to send it together. ”
This space station internet café was closed for two months and has just opened today. Then Shen Mo immediately pulled his good friends and came here, intending to experience the first virtual reality Internet café in the real sense.
It is said that during this time, he logged on to the xucc website every day to apply for a visit ticket, and wanted to go to the magical virtual hall in Wu Pan's mouth, but his luck was really a little back, and he never succeeded. Although Xiao Shen's efforts to suggest charging admission fees have had an effect, they are aimed at foreign friends, and domestic tourists are still free to visit, of course, they have to overcome the outrageously low winning rate.
As the fame began to spread, more and more people logged on to the website of the Luda Innovation Center to apply for tickets, not only foreign friends at home and abroad came to visit the museum, but even those tourists who traveled to Ludao began to list the big glass ball as their own visit target.
For domestic tourists, anyway, the headquarters of the heron is a must-go as an important attraction, and it doesn't take much to register an account to apply for it when doing online homework, and if you are lucky enough to win the lottery, you can also go in and see the high-tech is also quite good. As a result, it was bitter for Shen Mo and them, and the winning rate of admission tickets further declined, and it seemed that it was going to exceed the winning rate of the car lottery in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Of course, for students like Wu Pan, no matter how many people draw lots, it can't affect them, and tourists can't come in during class hours during the day on weekdays, so they are contracted during this time. As long as there is no class in the schedule, you can apply, and the popularity has been reduced to a normal level, obviously as a college student studying on the most beautiful campus, it is obvious that the interest in "famous school VR tour" is much less than that of tourists.
Even so, Wu Pan still went five times, and praised him once, making Shen Mo also tickle.
He had the intention of spending 200 to buy tickets for the midnight show, but unfortunately this was a special provision of crooked nuts, and he could only honestly register and make an appointment for domestic tourists.
Therefore, the No. 7 space station Internet café was transformed into a VR-themed Internet café and reopened, which is great news for Shen Mo.
Although this V bar also requires customers to make reservations and apply for tickets on its official website to control the flow of customers under the pretext of safety and quality of experience, this does not affect Shen Mo and them at all. The two of them are senior members here, and they can easily come back with two tickets directly for membership privileges.
After the renovation of Station 7, the biggest impression is that it is darker, and the price has increased a little, if Shen Mo had scolded the black face and black heart before, it would have been inhumane, but now Boss Xiao Shen doesn't care.
The light inside also became even darker, the lights were installed on the floor, and the light was so dim that he couldn't even see Wu Pan's face next to him.
Of course, it's not that the Internet café runs out of money and can't afford to use more light bulbs, it's actually a decorative trick. Compared to really completely changing the internal structure, the cost of creating a sci-fi flavor with lighting decoration and wallpaper is undoubtedly much lower.
And the role of the lights here is also minimized, and after the elevator comes out, there is an electric scooter under the feet of the two people, which is carried to the service desk.
In the field of balance bikes, the bee is undoubtedly a veteran player, in this flat and orderly indoor environment, the reliability and safety of the scooter can reach a high degree, and it can be used with confidence. And when you walk through the slightly dimly lit corridors on such a scooter, quietly passing through the glowing hatches and portholes where you can see the space scenery, you will soon feel the cold silence that belongs to the space story.
Shen Mo stretched out his hand, touched it when he passed by the hatch, and touched five or six in a row, and then said with annoyance: "I thought these were all box doors, but they were all fake, no wonder the lights were so dim!"
"What do you want to do in a fully enclosed box?" Wu Pan also twisted his waist slightly and turned around, looking at his good friend funny, "If you are thirsty and hungry, just pull your sister to open a room, what are you doing in an Internet café?"
"How can I have so many dirty thoughts as you?"
"You're just dirty, when it comes to opening a room, why don't you want to go to bed and rest to do your homework, but you have to think about these things, you are dirty!"
In fact, there is no fully enclosed box here, and it is really because of what the two of them said, although it appears in videos such as "Candid Shooting Shameless Couple Internet Café Box War" and "Beautiful Female Netizens Met in Internet Cafes" is also a publicity exposure, but this kind of exposure is not what the operation is willing to see, coupled with the potential safety hazards brought at the same time, it was naturally excluded in the design.
The portholes are likewise just displays decorated in the shape of portholes, on which simulated orbital space images are automatically played, which are used to render the future and space themes that the space station's Internet café has been emphasizing.
These images are all interlinked, and the huge spaceship shell, the huge solar array, the dense antennas, the flashing beacon lights, the busy spaceport can be seen "through" the different portholes, and the content of these images will change accordingly as the viewer moves to make them look like the real thing.
Shen Mo walked back and forth in front of a porthole several times, and then sighed a little dejectedly: "Hey! I thought the bees had come up with some black technology, but it turned out to be just a naked-eye 3D display!"
"It's already very good, it's not easy to break down such a large and detailed complex scene to each display, and also track the user's eyes to present the right picture, okay!"
"I'm curious," Shen Mo put his left hand on his cheek and his right hand on his elbow, and then said, "If there are a bunch of people watching around a screen, will the system be busy with too many eyes?"
"If you can't be busy, you can reduce the image quality and effect, what's the reason to hesitate, and what are you here for?
The service desk was brightly lit, and Shen Mo thought maliciously that this was probably because he was afraid that the lights would be too dim and he would receive fake money.
There is still a lot of balance in the card of the two of them, but they don't have to queue up to pay the money to store the value, they directly swipe the card in the member channel to verify their identity, and then they pedal the scooter and drove to the boarding area.
The machines have also changed dramatically, with sparse seats, divided into several types and separated by chest-high partitions, from comfortable-looking single- and two-seater sofas to self-powered 4D chairs, and of course the latest omnidirectional treadmill with posture assist, while VR glasses are hung in the air on shelves.
The orange spring line hanging from the ceiling was very eye-catching, not the wireless version mentioned by Wu Pan, which made Shen Mo slightly disappointed.
They don't need to be introduced by the network manager in a futuristic spacesuit, they can easily guess the functions of different areas, the sofa is a place to watch movies, browse the scenery, and experience VR chats, the 4D seat brings more somatosensory stimulation, and the video and game are common, and the treadmill is the exclusive area for FPS, RPG and other running games.
After glancing at the pink two-seater sofa and stopping on the treadmill for a while, the two finally walked to the 4D chair, because Wu Pan was very impressed with this kind of chair and praised it. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net