Chapter 819: Journey to the East
"どうぞ (please)!" A thin book was handed to Shen Mo.
Subconsciously took it, and he came back to his senses and said, "Ali Kata!"
Noticing his stiff Japanese pronunciation, the person opposite was slightly stunned and asked in a low voice, "From China?"
"Hmm!" Shen Mo nodded, "You too?"
"International students, a few of us formed a small club and came over to join in the fun. ”
"I've graduated, and I'm here with my classmates," Shen Mo reached out to touch the business card case, only to realize that he didn't bring this thing today, "Is it okay to have a mobile phone business card?"
"No problem," the other party said with a smile, "and what is your booth number, I'll take a look later." ”
Sending the new business card with the address, Shen Mo politely said goodbye. Everyone is racing against time to sweep the goods, and he naturally has no reason to waste time, otherwise this authority dog will be in vain?
This is the Tokyo Big Sight, and the 90th CicMarket Doujin Instant Sale is in full swing.
CM does not charge for tickets, but you need to queue up to get a number, and over time, a very distinctive audience grouping phenomenon has been formed.
Those who come to line up all night the day before the start are called the full all-night group, and those who go out in the middle of the night to line up are called the half-night group. Since a number can bring 20 people into the venue, those who have friends queuing in advance can come back early in the morning, and they are considered to be an all-night number group.
These people are the vanguard troops, accounting for only a small head of the CM passenger flow, and the large army will not arrive until the tram system starts to operate, so there is a tram departure group. When they enter, the test of physical strength and endurance will also come, and there are often unlucky children with poor health who are carried away on stretchers.
The doujinben and peripherals sold by CM are not sold in large quantities.,After the first few groups of spectators took turns to harvest.,Soon there will be nothing left.,And then there's the train departure back group.。 The goal of this group of people is more to feel the atmosphere and appreciate the COSer, and they don't need to come early to squeeze their heads, they can wait for the sun to rise and the light is bright.
In addition, there is also the most chic and comfortable group of people, that is, the special admission roll group. They take the stall owner tickets provided by the organizers to the participating societies to enter, 1 person looks at the stall, 2 people sweep the goods, as long as there are enough Natsume Soseki or Noguchi Hideyo in their pockets, they can harvest the most popular doujinben and peripherals.
Continuing the tradition of coins, European countries like to use the faces of leaders on banknotes, and countries around the world have followed suit and put their own politicians on banknotes. The island nation did the same in the beginning, and Prince Shotoku, Empress Jiko, and Ito Hirobumi all put yen banknotes on it. However, in 1984, the new version of the yen removed them and replaced them with a group of writers and educators, saying that it was to boost the morale of the people. The thousand-yen banknote was first Natsume Soseki, and in '04 it was replaced by bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi, who sometimes used the names of these two to refer to the amount.
1,000 yen is about 60 yuan soft girl coins, but the actual purchasing power is slightly smaller, and it is usually used for daily change along with 100 yuan coins. Arcade shops and capsule toy machines like the latter the most, and the former is the most used on CM.
Shen Mo's Japanese was taught by himself with a quick learning manual, barely able to cope with daily conversations, and when he saw Japanese, he subconsciously looked for Chinese characters and then looked at the text. He simply didn't look at the content.,When you see a book with a good painting style, you buy it.,When you encounter interesting and interesting peripherals, you collect it.,Soon the yen brought was consumed.。
Back at the Mill Technology booth, the first thing he saw was the brown-haired man sitting awkwardly on the pony, "Hey! Kern, how's the business?"
Clavenbell withdrew his gaze from the album, pointed to the barely shrunken pile of books in front of him, looked up and said, "Shin, business is a little bad, I only sold four copies, you're in trouble." ”
The corners of Shen Mo's mouth twitched, "You still call me manager, or boss," Shen Mo said and looked at the stack of books, "You've already sold five copies, this is not a bad start." ”
"Actually, there are only four of them, and one more is here. ”
"I thought you bought it yourself. ”
"Oh no, boss, you can't do that! I need money for a plane ticket. ”
"You're thinking wrong," Shen Mo hurriedly interrupted the other party's words, "Don't worry, we will definitely be able to sell them out, and we won't let you use the album to pay for your salary." ”
Shaking his loot, he explained, "The exhibition has just begun, and everyone's attention is on these hot products. When these are all sold out, our opportunity will come. ”
Then he walked into the stall, "So, boy, don't sit around here, go see what you like!"
The latter's face was happy, and he flattered Shen Mo and said, "Boss, if you promise to advance my salary for a few more days, I will be very grateful to you!"
"Of course it's no problem," Boss Shen picked up his phone very boldly, "I can transfer money to you, pay for the package or PayPal." ”
"No, no, no," Kraven shook his head in refusal, pointing to the cash box and said, "I need paper money, damn it, why do they only take paper money?"
"I've run out of yen. Maybe you can write an email to SoftBank or Line and suggest that they introduce a mobile payment feature. You can write to the ants and ask them to cover the CM. ”
In addition to the main business of venture capital, SoftBank also operates mobile communication services and is the second largest operator in Japan, while Line is a popular instant messaging software in Japan, both of which have a basis for making payments but do not.
The United States has a well-developed check and credit card system, and cash is only used for small purchases, and suddenly taking out a large amount of cash will be considered a gangster money launderer. The situation is similar in Japan, where the average adult holds two and a half credit cards, and credit cards and transportation shopping cards are quite well-developed, resulting in a weak demand for mobile payments. Only those stores that are aimed at overseas buyers will access the payment package, after all, the customer is God.
"Sour," Craven shook his head, "they won't listen to me." ”
Turning his head to see Wu Pan returning to the stall, he became excited again, "Oh Wu, do you still have cash? Lend me some!"
"Of course there is," Wu Pan boldly took out four tickets, on which Noguchi's head was particularly eye-catching.
"And these," Shen Mo opened the cash box and took out four more tickets, which were also stuffed into the hands of the American guy.
"Oh my god, what can you buy for a hundred dollars," Kraven said with a grim look on his face as he took the eight thousand yen that the two bosses had put together.
He and Shen Mo met on a flight to Tokyo, and under the repeated Amway of Shen Mo and others, the guy revised his itinerary and stayed in Tokyo for two more days, waiting to participate in the CM pilgrimage.
However, he underestimated the consumption level of this international metropolis, and the prepared tourism fund bottomed out in advance, so he had to give Shen Mo and them a part-time job to help watch the stall. Of course, the early entry benefits promised by the other party are also what impresses him, otherwise he would rather go to the road to count cars.
"You gave him all the money, what should you do when you go back?" Shen Mo asked.
Wu Pan didn't care, "What else can I do?" By the way, I bought all the books requested by the two beauties, right?"
Qi Linlin and Sun Yan had already given them a task, designating a number of clubs that were good at being girls and being beautiful, and let the two of them run to sweep the goods. And the two of them didn't come over until the afternoon, and by the way, they completed the achievement of COS on the CM.
Hearing Wu Pan mention the task, Shen Mo was shocked, "Oh no! I forgot!"
Standing up and picking up a few albums, he ran out, leaving only a sentence to the other party, "You watch first, I'll change money!"
"Haha," Wu Pan smirked, reached out and took out a comic book, and read it happily.
However, his pride didn't last long, and he soon found himself in the trap. Shen Mo's prediction was completely correct, and as the works of the big hands were sold out one after another, the audience finally began to pay attention to the other stalls, and soon someone found the commemorative album stacked on the Moke booth.
Claven and Shen Mo left one after another, and he was the only one left in the stall, as long as someone came to patronize the business, he had to stand up and say "どうぞ!" to others, but he was too busy to scold.
Although it has two major shortcomings: the artist is unknown and the content is not good, but the exquisite full-color picture and the classic and aesthetic painting style also have a lot of attraction. When someone discovered the secret hidden under the skirt, a long queue quickly formed in front of the stall, which made him experience a taste of pain and happiness.
When Shen Mo came back again, he saw Wu Pan in a daze in front of a pile of tickets, and all the three hundred albums had been sold out.
"What are you looking at? I've never seen so much money?"
"Cut! 300,000 yen, 18,000 yen?" Wu Pan said disdainfully, "I'm looking at Hideyo Noguchi." ”
Shen Mo walked into the stall, put down the Tan Meiman he had bought for the second time, pulled a chair and sat next to Wu Pan, "See what he does?"
"Look at other people's 'money to carry the road'," Wu Pan raised his head, "Although most of the articles on the circle of friends shared by my dad are problematic, the yen avatar is still quite reasonable." ”
"What are you talking about?"
Wu Pan picked up a thousand-yuan note and shook it, "10,000 is the educator Yukichi Fukuzawa, 5,000 is the female writer Kazuha Higuchi, and 1,000 is the bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi, and when teenagers see the three of them every day, they will naturally be interested in science and literature, so Japan can win so many Nobel Prizes." ”
"There's a relationship with Mao!" Shen Mo snorted: "The literary award is too subjective, not to mention, just talking about the physical and chemical awards, most of those award-winning results were released in the 80s and 90s. At that time, Japan's economy was booming, so it was natural that there was money to invest in scientific research, and it was inevitable that it would produce results. ”
"At that time, our scientists were still envious of the 10,000 households that sold tea and eggs, and their stomachs were not full. Now the country has money, but unfortunately the threshold of scientific research competition has also been raised, and the test equipment is tens of millions and hundreds of millions at every turn, and there are still those who want to catch up. ”
"Alas, the simple ones have been studied, and the rest are high-end. If Tang Feifan hadn't died at that time, he would definitely have won the Nobel Prize if he found Chlamydia trachomatis. ”
Tang Feifan is 11 years younger than Noguchi, and he also studies microorganisms. Noguchi discovered Treponema pallidum, but he found the wrong trachoma pathogen, but it was Tang who was the first to isolate the trachoma pathogen, which was called Tang's virus by the academic community at the time.
In fact, the strain he isolated was Chlamydia trachomatis, a prokaryotic microorganism that lives in cells, usually under 500 nanometers in size, and is difficult to detect with light microscopy. The rabbit's optical microscope has never been powerful, and the first 100,000-fold electron microscope was not available until 1959, but unfortunately Tang had committed suicide by then.
The great life and death of the nest make Tang Feifan's status quite embarrassing, history textbooks will not focus on the founder of the rabbit virology, and medical textbooks are not accessible to ordinary people, and in the end, it was the spontaneous propaganda of netizens that justified his name. However, spontaneous transmission is often prone to false transmission, and he is falsely reported as the discoverer of the trachoma pathogen.
In fact, Chlamydia trachomatis was discovered as early as 1935, but it was not possible to go further because of the limitations of microscopy and separation technology.
"You're thinking too simply," Shen Mo said, "Even if a person is still alive, if he wants to win the award, he still has to wait until now." Artemisinin was successfully extracted in 72 years, and the African people have already eaten it, and it is not until last year that a prize was given, which is called 'international, international, recognition, and can'!"
"You are too ......" Wu Pan originally wanted to say that you had delusions of persecution, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
After thinking about it, he changed the subject and asked, "Where did you borrow money just now?"
"A booth set up by a group of domestic students. ”
"Huh, they know you, you have such a big face?"
"Of course I don't have that big face," Shen Mo shook his head, and nodded again: "But you can still do it with some cash." ”
"What are they selling?"
"I'll look for it," Shen Mo stood up, walked over to the bag in front of him, and pulled out a comic book and a disc and put it on the table.
The cover of the disc is basically the same as the comic book, and the name is "Monster Visit".
Wu Pan picked up the disc package and looked at it and threw it aside, which contained the client of the "Monster Visit" game, but the two of them didn't have a CD-ROM drive at hand, so they could only wait to go back and find a way.
Flipping through the comic book, he immediately smiled, "This routine is so familiar!"
Although he didn't know the Japanese characters on it, he could understand most of them thanks to the occasional Chinese characters and the strong narrative picture.
The content of the story is very simple.,Middle school life Sasaki Tetsu was pulled by a classmate to buy old things.,Stumbled upon a beast-shaped sculpture that was very familiar.,Remembering that there is a similar one in his own family.,So I bought it and made a pair.。
Che didn't notice it for a while, and the two sculptures were smashed to the ground by the long-curious cat Xiaobai, and then something strange happened, and the fragments merged with each other to become monsters. He called himself "You", saying that he had a fate with Che and wanted to protect him for the rest of his life.
You has the endurance of a leopard, the claws of a rabbit, the eyes of a bear, and the nose of a pig.