musicians of old

Chapter 246 It's All the First Time (4K [-]-in-[-])

"Not bad, right? The information of the two is definitely in the most eye-catching position." Mark smiled triumphantly.

The poster adopts the design style of the more popular concert repertoire: light-colored background, black font artistic words, classical decorative frame
The content is a new batch of album marketing information for the third quarter of Hoffman Records, and the album of Fanning, Sheeran and the Saint Lania Symphony Orchestra concert undoubtedly occupies the largest font and the most conspicuous place. Location. .

Not only did they use a few sets of keywords and data full of gimmicks to emphasize their artistic attainments and market appeal, but also pointed out that the two are the latest cooperative artists included in the company, and the signing type is directly "great".

In addition to the ordinary signing contract, Hoffman Records has three levels from bottom to top: "famous" sign, "great" sign, "master" sign, or the corresponding English "Famous", "Great", " Master", the cooperation method that Fan Ning discussed for the two before, has reached the "Great" range.

Seeing Fan Ning's serious expression and staring at the poster without blinking, Mark hurriedly reminded again, "So, when will you come to the company to discuss the publishing plan of the next album in detail? Let me arrange it in advance."

He invested so much advertising money, naturally, to increase his status, but not for this record. Due to the stupid cooperation model before, the subsequent sales of this record have nothing to do with him.

At the end of the concert that night, Mark went to report to his boss tremblingly. Due to his outstanding achievements and shared honors, his boss was generally gentle, but hints of pressure between the lines had filled the entire negotiation room.

——Negotiate the next record quickly, the losses must be made back together, you understand what I mean! ?
Fanning finally looked up: "Maybe a studio record for piano solo, consider adding a few little pieces like the last concert."

"I heard about the magical large-scale variation you performed at the poet Bassani's funeral." Mark's eyes lit up, "Of course I have another suggestion here, maybe you can do a new performance of "D major No. A Symphony" commercial performance, I believe there will also be a large number of music fans paying for it."

"So which train are you going to post on?" Fanning returned to the original topic, "As far as I know, there are 24 trains in the subway system."

At present, the full turnaround time of this line for round-trip + buffering is 2 hours, and the operation interval is 5 minutes. Its non-interfering interval operation depends on the precise calculation of the differential engine and the scheduling operation of the password operator.

"The advertising fee we paid only included train numbers 9 and 10, plus a small part of the space at the Tulip Square station in the city center." Mark said this with a snorting expression, "so they are asking for a lot of money. , but the traffic it has shown in the past six months is unrivaled. If I had another choice, I would have torn up the draft contract in front of those unscrupulous guys from the railway company at the negotiation table!"

"Perhaps other cooperative merchants also think so." Fan Ning shook his head and smiled, "Do you mind if we experience the process of our advertisement entering the public eye with you?"

"Of course you are welcome." Mark quickly said, and then he looked at the expressions and postures of the other two again, and said carefully, "However, I have a small suggestion here."

"Oh?"

"The two are now in a period of rapid rise in fame, more and more people or music fans will recognize your identities, and more and more various media will follow your news."

With a sincere and tactful tone, he said, "With the elegant temperament and glamorous image of your handsome men and beautiful women, on the occasion of traveling together, um. Today we are going to travel together, and it no longer belongs to this category. This mainly refers to privately. When the two travel, especially in public places, if you want to avoid the trouble of accidental misunderstanding, or reduce the risk of being caught in side news, it is best to try to avoid suspicion or make some disguises."

Xilan on the side gradually widened his eyes as he heard this.

"Of course this is just my personal guess." Speaking of this, Mark coughed twice again: "Uh, another possibility is that this is not a misunderstanding, so my next suggestion is to seek a professional brokerage team. According to the scientific media According to the law, gradually expose the intimate relationship between the two to create appropriate gimmicks, instead of spontaneously growing wildly among the public and the media."

In the end, he smiled smugly, his eyes filled with the light of gold pounds: "This is the only way to maximize the box office and record profits of the two future performances, and let everyone take out all the money in their pockets as much as possible. Professional business is also what our company is good at.”

"It's a pertinent suggestion." Fan Ning's statement made Mark wonder for a while which piece of suggestion this was corresponding to himself.

"Wow!—"

There was a high-pitched scream, and the steam train headed with a few beams of dazzling white light, dragging a long string of carriages roaring from the distance of the tunnel, spraying billowing smoke, and gradually came to a stop with a bang.

"Are you sure there are only five carriages in a train? From the outside it looks like there are twenty or thirty carriages." Fan Ning looked at the huge steam machine in front of him like a steel monster.

Although compared with the subway in the previous life, it has primitive power and mediocre speed, but it is much larger in terms of length, width and height. Steel pipes are exposed everywhere in the huge body, and carbon slag and black ash are hung in the gaps. It keeps dripping down the track.

Several people in the queue boarded the train.

……

"Mr. Adair, is this the part used for the ventilation of the subway or for the removal of steam from the train?"

At Tonalesin Station in the north, Joan was not exhausted, and was staring at a dark pit on the ground.

Its diameter is about [-] centimeters, and it is located in an inconspicuous corner at the junction of the steam fan room and the tunnel. If Joan hadn't used her wound perception ability close to the middle level to let the staff clear away the piled construction waste, it would definitely be Can't find its existence.

"They usually go up, at least on the side." Lu's tone was also very puzzled, "Wait a minute, I've already asked someone to check whether it is the construction content in the original design plan."

The inner wall of this pit has a somewhat rough and uneven mud feel, and it is pitch black and bottomless, but its diameter is too small, it does not seem like a secret passage that can allow humans to pass through.

A few people just found the longest metal rod they could find, but they didn't poke it to the bottom. It was at least five meters deep.

"Mr. Adair, the initial design drawings of the site did have a sign of this pothole, so it should have been dug by the laborers in the construction team." A technical worker wearing a hard hat ran out of breath. come over.

"So, the purpose?" Lou asked, staring at him.

"It doesn't indicate any purpose, it's just a small circular pattern."

"Who designed this before, and who reviewed it?"

"It may be difficult to investigate, at least for a while, and it will be difficult for us to hold accountable even if there is irregular approval."

"Fill out all the relevant official documents, meeting minutes, payment bills, approval and acceptance sheets over the years, and all the signing links one by one. Can't find it?" Lu sped up his speech.

The technician reminded with some difficulty: "Mr. Adair, this subway line has been in motion since 882 in the new calendar, and the preliminary design work was completed in 886. Strictly speaking, it has a history of more than 13 years. Even [-] years have passed since the start of construction. You should know how irregular the retention of various ledgers, approval management and risk control methods were when the imperial industry developed by leaps and bounds."

"Wouldn't some secret organization instigate the digging?" The leading police officer tried to ask.

"This possibility is not ruled out." Lu frowned and stared at the black hole.

"And" the technician hesitated to speak.

"What else?"

"And on the design drawings, there are more than one similar signs, and there are at least five or six in this area recently." The tone of the technician was also suspicious.

What does this mean?Groundhog?

Lu frowned: "If this is even done by a secret organization, it can only mean that the data of the guys in the Special Inspection Office are seriously inaccurate, and the number of banned people is probably one-third of the official knowledgeable ones? I think It's three times, no wonder everyone is struggling to fight the fire, the rats hiding in the sewers of industrial cities with a population of four to five million people, there is nothing that those who understand can do nothing." Seal it, use glue, or cover it with some glass or plate."

"Ok."

At this moment, the faint noise from the direction of the public platform suddenly rose several times.

"What's going on over there? Go and have a look." Lu led a few people forward, and other staff began to search for sealing materials.

"Mr. Director, the No. 10 train stopped 1 km away from the current station. Because of an inexplicable power failure, the passengers waiting for the train were in a commotion." A minute later, the staff in charge of communication brought the news.

"It's already nine o'clock, and the peak period is supposed to have passed, so why are there still more and more people?" Lu pressed his pocket watch, and then looked at the wave after wave of heads outside the diversion cordon.

"Maybe it's the closing ceremony? Because the last stop was Tulip Square Station, not far from the National Concert Hall." The staff guessed.

Passengers can go wherever they want, and when they want to leave, there is no reason to question them one by one.

"And it's a power failure again?" Lu looked at the direction of the end of the tunnel, a distance of one kilometer, but it was relatively straight, and the car lights at the end of his vision were faintly visible.

".Yes, but the cause has been found out. Occasional minor problems can be repaired within [-] minutes. Notified the other trains in the circulation circle, and also emphasized that the passengers on the train should not get off without authorization and walk in the tunnel."

Looking at the crowds of passengers, Lu felt an absurd feeling in his heart.

The reason was found immediately.

However, is he on par with a power failure?

……

To the south, the train at the Norberwyn quarry station started slowly.

Fanning and Sheeran stood facing each other holding the armrest.

The seats have long been occupied. In such a large-sized carriage, the standing passengers will not be stuck together, but the average distance between people is less than one step. Looking around, the number of people in each carriage is steadily over a hundred. This is also due to current limiting.

"What do you mean by the 'pertinent advice' you just said?" Sheeran felt a little restrained and wanted to talk about something.

"I agree with Mark's professionalism." Fanning replied immediately.

The two were silent for a moment.

"It's my first time taking the subway, are you?" She changed a boring topic, and began to feel that the way she asked just now was inappropriate.

"It's my first time too." After Fanning answered, he thought about whether the answer was rigorous or not.

"Then have we never traveled far together?" She asked again.

"Didn't they set off for Santa Rambo together a few days ago?" Fanning was a little puzzled.

"Okay, then do you think the current overcrowded experience is not as comfortable as a carriage or car?"

"I feel fine."

"Oh."

Sheeran pulled the armrest above her head and looked at Fan Ning calmly. More and more passengers squeezed into the car, and the distance between the two of them was getting closer and closer, and their breathing could be heard.

"Mr. Fanning, we need to post all the way from the last car." At this time Mark squeezed between the two from the crowd, "Are you interested in experiencing it from the beginning?"

"Not interested." The girl replied instantly.

"Okay, okay, it doesn't matter, it will be pasted to the first section later." So Mark started to squeeze back again, "This is a delicate job, the position must be correct, the paste must be firm, and there must be no curling or folding corners. There are too many passengers, it will take some time, sorry, sir...,"

"What's the matter with you?" Fanning noticed that the deep red in her skin spread from her cheeks to her collarbone.

"Ah? I'm thinking of this magical underground rail transit system." Sheeran looked away, and after a few seconds of looking at the gas lights on the tunnel wall passing by at a high speed outside the window, he fell back on Fanning's face. "Do you know how they were built? I find it a bit inconceivable. Why did such a huge underground project come out, but the upper part still looks like the usual metropolis."

"You think too miraculously." Feeling the girl's sweet breath, Fan Ning blinked and smiled, "They call it the 'cut and cover' method, which seems to be a special term, but in fact it uses the method you can think of first. straight out of the most violent way."

"What's that?" The train stopped at the next station, and a passenger next to him got up, and Sheeran stuck to Fanning's body in the avoidance room.

"There's a seat here, ladies first," Fanning reminded her.

"Hurry up, I'm slow." Sheeran continued to ask, and the seat was taken by someone else after a few seconds.

"First demolish all the buildings on the road, then dig a huge trench, then cover it with bricks and cement and backfill the gully, and finally rebuild the buildings and transportation facilities on the ground." Fan Ning described to her succinctly.

In the previous life, the first subway in London used the same technology. It was only repaired in the early 6 kilometers and 7 stations. However, people in this old industrial city developed the violent aesthetics to the extreme. For the first time, they dug more than 20 kilometers in one breath and set up 16 stations. , and, the car is made a bit big.

"Ah, such a waste of massive destruction." She sighed, and pulled away.

"Yeah, this technology needs to be updated, it is too expensive, too risky, the original surface construction will make the foundation of the excavation work unstable, and the troublesome weather of Santaram Castle will occasionally cause water and soil layers The looseness and collapse of the tunnel, in order to discharge the smoke generated by the steam train underground, after the tunnel is completed, ventilation holes need to be drilled to connect the manhole cover on the ground.”

Therefore, the most common argument for the conservatives in the previous parliament, including the majority of the media, is that "passengers will either be buried in landslides or poisoned by steam smoke."

It can be said that its completion has experienced many doubts and obstacles from many parties. Fan Ning was not yet born in this life when the motion was proposed. From design to demonstration to start of construction and then to completion, he read the news of the trial operation of the subway in the classroom after time travel.

Its pleasant experience immediately caused a 180-degree turn in the public's attitude. Compared with riding in a carriage and anxiously counting pocket watches in the paralyzed traffic every day, this is simply a miracle. It immediately became the lifeblood of the imperial capital's traffic. component.

"Sir, you may need to get up, we are putting up posters."

After the train traveled a series of stations, Mark finally returned to the carriage where Fanning and Sheeran were.

After a gentleman in casual clothes with a high collar stood up, the staff put a few old newspapers on the stool, stepped on it, and began to draw with a tape measure and glue.

"Thank you, thank you." Mark, who was crowded in the crowd, did not forget to bow slightly.

"You're welcome." The other party looked at the black and white poster being pressed against the wall, and subconsciously spit out a short phrase.

Fan Ning, who heard the voice from the other side, had a flash of light in his eyes.

"Is there something wrong?" Sheeran, who noticed something strange, asked quietly close to her.

As a position was vacated, the squeeze of the crowd was transmitted outward.

Fan Ning leaned close to her ear, lowered his voice and said in a low voice, "The voice just now seems to be 'Experience Officer' Eroff."

(End of this chapter)