musicians of old

Chapter 278 Pollution is Myriad of Strange Things (4K [-]-in-[-])

After the arrival of November, the temperature in the north of Tiolein is getting cooler day by day.

The rain is dense, the clouds are low, and the cold wind outdoors is always mixed with the smell of soot, just like the early winter in the city that made people feel depressed when we traveled through last year.

But Fanning has been in a good mood recently.

Sheeran, Kaplan and Olga are also in a good mood.

Because it's warm inside.

And they're counting money.

"2040 seats in the symphony hall, 120 internal tickets, 180 sponsors, and 1740 available seats." In the small meeting room, Olga had a lot of bills and forms piled up in front of her, and two financial assistants next to her were sitting on a brass table. In front of the small differential engine, one person held the handle and the other typed on the keyboard, making the interlocking gears of the calculation cabin make the sound of meshing and rotating.

"Piano Concerto is priced at 36 pounds, with an average price of 18.5 pounds. The theoretical box office is 32190 pounds. After various discounts, the actual price is 24786 pounds. The total income of the three performances is 74358 pounds. Pay Sir Viadrin 10000 pounds for appearance fees."

"Other concertos are priced at 30 pounds, with an average of 16 pounds. The theoretical box office is 27840 pounds, and the actual box office is 22824 pounds. The total income of the seven shows is 159768 pounds."

Olga held a pen and said, "After deducting the fixed expenses until the end of November, calculate the result. By the way, there is also a subsidy of 11 pounds for third-rate bands in the fourth quarter, and 7500 pounds of artistic title money from Kent Motor Company."

She felt a little excited in her heart. With such a market response and the potential influence of the performance, it is certain that the old symphony orchestra will rush to a big echelon after the New Year's concert is over and the rankings for the fourth quarter will be announced in January next year. Wait until the 1 records to be recorded start to work.
"Good manager." The financial assistant replied, and it didn't take long for her to give the result, "The current liquidity on the books of the Turner Art Hall is: 382155 pounds!"

Such a cash reserve, regardless of other factors, can support daily operations for one year.

"Huh..." Kaprun, who was sitting upright on the other side, suddenly leaned back, "Professor Fanning, I must admit that up to this moment, I, a permanent conductor with a weekly salary of 80 pounds, finally felt a little more at ease. "

"To be precise, it's 'assistant conductor'." Joan deliberately corrected Kaplan's words. Although he has made rapid progress in Fanning's eyes recently and the rehearsal effect is quite remarkable, he has been flashing the topic of when he will take the stage. It is easy to hide, and can accurately point out a bunch of professional flaws as arguments.

"Caroun, I don't understand." Sheeran asked curiously, "Why do other people try their best to let them know what they are selling and how good it is when they face consumers? You deliberately Can it be sold like this the other way around?"

"People always like the new and dislike the old." Fan Ning smiled, "When they come into contact with the gameplay that they have never seen before, they always find it interesting and exciting, but the number of times increases, and more people imitate it, and aesthetic fatigue occurs. gone."

"Oh." Sheeran nodded thoughtfully.

Precisely because no one in this old industrial world has yet been stimulated by these subtle psychological marketing tactics.

The threshold of music fans has not yet been raised, so it is easy to be grasped.

After Fanning’s operations come out, just like the last radio “trailer”, it will definitely enter the marketing case again and cause a wave of imitation, but he has the upper hand and will firmly grasp it for a long time Market Advantage.

In the long run, the most important thing is still high-level content, as well as the unique and strong artistic atmosphere and service experience of the venue.

"One hundred thousand pounds." Fan Ning tapped his fingertips on the table, "During the entire bimonthly art exhibition and opening performance season, I will spend an extra one hundred thousand pounds as a promotional cost. When the tickets are sold out and not for sale, this matter It will become easier to manage, and the promotion purely to raise the voice will have a stronger effect."

"One hundred thousand, that is, the average performance cost of [-] per game?" Sheeran felt even more unreal. Not long ago, Fanning's start-up capital was less than this amount, and the salary expenditure of the next month and the next month Still unknown.

"No, it's actually mainly aimed at the art exhibition." Fan Ning shook his head, "Aside from the courtesy to the sponsor, there is no excessive expenditure on the concert, and I will devote most of my resources to venue decoration and exhibition viewing services. , exquisite picture albums, auction-related work, and opening up collectors and critics.”

Speaking of this, he smiled mysteriously: "You always think that the greatest potential lies in me. This is true in the short term, but it is not the case in the long run."

"If it's not you, then who is it?" All the people present were at a loss.

However, Fanning knew very well that once Impressionism became popular, the value of his commissioned painting collection would be.

Think about the prices of paintings by masters such as Monet in previous lives.
With a family property of more than [-] pounds, I have been tossing about it for so long, and it is just a matter of one or two paintings.

Don't limit your imagination about the art auction market. Fan Ning couldn't help shaking his head and laughing at this thought. Those music professionals in the previous life always teased themselves as "music migrant workers", which is not unreasonable.

He immediately said loudly: "Mr. Congreve, maybe you can continue to contribute a few ideas to the sponsorship plan, which should also belong to your field of expertise. To be honest, the naming of Kent Motor Company this time I think the asking price ratio is still a bit low, maybe we can upgrade the plan for the two luxury and wine chaebol groups in the future to bring a better experience."

The fat black gentleman holding hot coffee said without thinking this time: "My experience with this is that you need to make the customer feel that you are targeting him."

At noon on November 11th, when the last round of ticket warehouses was emptied, the media went back to catch up on the live report, and the music fans dispersed from the ticket outlets
East Mecklen District, a street in a residential area just 3 kilometers away from the straight line of Turner Art Hall.

"Jingle Bell"

"Vassius?"

A blond gentleman with a hooked nose was standing on a steel railing more than one meter high, pulling the doorbell of a small single-family apartment in front of him.

"Bang bang bang!" "Joe Vassius?" Seeing that no one answered, he changed from pulling to knocking.

"This is the fourth time I've visited and he's not at home." A lady with short hair and gentle temperament in a light-colored high-necked trench coat next to her frowned slightly at this moment, shaking her folding fan lightly, "Captain Salman, this time The situation is even more special, do you want to go in and have a look?"

Salman's fingertips had a cyan halo, and he raised his hand to put it on the iron door, but he seemed to put it back in consideration of the impact: "Call a few police officers to come over and open the door."

After the meeting at the door of the sealing room in late August, he told Vassius to stop his mysterious actions and investigations, and at least go on vacation until the end of the New Year before returning to work depending on the situation. He may not be at home during the vacation, and he will not be able to contact him for ten and a half months. It's all normal, which is why they felt nothing at first.

But the relatively risky seal room exposure record has been submitted to the headquarters in accordance with the management regulations. I have also reminded Vassius that vacations are vacations. If there is a request from the superior unit, he must actively cooperate. According to Vassius' prudent temperament Don't take a vacation and forget the basic principles.

Now the headquarters sent a letter requesting a pollution review, and the timing was within the expected range, but Vassius still did not show up, and the two realized that he had been out of contact for more than two months.

Ten minutes later, Salman stood in the spacious living room, frowning lost in thought.

After working together for more than four years, this is the first time he has visited the deputy's home, which is normal for a colleague relationship.

The place is bright and tidy, with no peculiar smell. It’s just a little stuffy after the windows are sealed. It can be seen that no one has lived in it recently, but the sense of life is still there. The living room is also complete with necessary items. The time of no one is not long enough to count in years. It should not be will be more than three months.

But Salman always felt that something was wrong.

Is it because the layout of the living room is too empty?

He said, "Miss Anna, how do you feel?"

The thoughtful, short-haired lady Anna, who has just been promoted to a mid-level investigator, thought for a moment: "There are some abnormal intuitions that need to be verified."

In the next hour, people from the police station called up some information and conducted some interviews with nearby residents. Salman and Anna carefully checked every corner of Vassius' residence.

Vassius has bought this apartment since he was transferred to Uvransel as the "No. [-] man" more than four years ago, and has been living here, leaving traces of normal life activities, and the residents also have concerns about it. A normal impression at the level of "neighbor + stranger".

"Captain Salman, do you think Mr. Vassius's lifestyle is too much?" Anna gently closed an unlocked safe.

Inside were neat, brand-new banknotes.

The unit amount of the group is the weekly salary of Vassius' investigators, and the total amount has been accumulated for at least two years at a glance.

"Too reclusive?" Salman took Anna's words, "But it's nothing. There are not a few investigators with eccentric personalities. In our impression, he has always been withdrawn and indifferent but serious and meticulous. His colleagues can't talk about it. Like him, but almost no one will be dissatisfied with him at work."

"A withdrawn personality does not mean that a person is like a machine. It is impossible for a person not to be close to both people and things." Anna's words awakened Salman.

He began to think belatedly about the various characteristics of this deputy, as well as what he had seen and heard about his basic necessities of life today.

Joe Vassius has no spouse, no children, no rumored lovers of any kind, and no social connections other than his colleagues in the Special Service, such as friends.

He didn't have his own private carriage or car, and he didn't hire a servant. His house was not small, and only some necessary toiletries were placed in the bathroom. The master bedroom had a bed, a wardrobe, an upright piano, and a desk full of music literature. Most of the rooms are empty, without any presence.

It can be seen that his home life is only sleeping, changing clothes, washing, and studying the fragments of the music series at the desk or in front of the piano-the latter is probably still included in the scope of work, the only exception is that there is a single sofa in the empty living room, which makes the two of them I feel that there is still a place where Vassius can move around during the remaining time at home, and that is to sit on this single sofa.

He never cooks his own food, which is often the case among high-income single men, but he always visits 2 to 3 restaurants habitually, and his eating habits are regular, not extravagant and wasteful, and not overeating , the consumption level is moderate, and the nutritional mix is ​​balanced.

There are four pairs of leather shoes of the same style in his shoe closet, three sets of suit jackets of the same style, ten shirts of the same style and more men's underwear of the same style in his closet, and he also owns six walking sticks of the same style.

In short, many things are really strange that cannot be said.

"Captain Salman, let me say something that makes my hair stand on end." Finally, Anna closed the door.

"Ok?"

"I think Mr. Vassius seems, it seems, he is not a person anymore."

Salman frowned: "Pollution is full of strange things, just like the teachings of 'Killing Abyss' or other Lords of Witness, you will never be able to fully know which upper-level things your hidden knowledge comes from."

"Strictly speaking, everyone with knowledge has been polluted. It's just that those of us who are still working for the authorities have not reached the stage of 'lost' or 'distorted'. Sometimes I even think, I and the evil god The difference between members is just a random one, and my pollution characteristics happen to be less against public order and good customs.”

"Perhaps what we think of as the strangeness of Vassius now is his polluted characteristics, which is not harmful, but the missions he took on in the past few times did increase his pollution risk, and the reason for losing contact follows these Check the incident."

Anna opened the small work notebook she carried with her, which listed a timeline of a series of known movements of Vassius before he lost contact.

"On July 7th, the auction house burned the painting. Benjamin got lost because of contact with the "Fountain in the Painting". The division of labor including the investigation of Vincent Van Ning was directly taken over by Joe Vassius."

"On July 7, a preliminary investigation was carried out at the Langefni Workhouse, and Benjamin was tried unsuccessfully on the way back."

"On August 8th, leave Uvransel to carry out the gnostic containment mission of the "Gate of No Light"."

"On August 8, I successfully arrived at Fort Santa Ramos, and reported on my work at the United Dream Conference held by the leadership organization."

"On August 8, I returned to Uvransel, and the daily inspection of the sealing room resulted in a relatively large risk exposure. The pollution detection of the "two friends" reached a normal high value, and the normal deployment work was carried out before the vacation. The backlog of 23 signatures, including the follow-up law enforcement affairs of the workhouse, was handled normally and in compliance with regulations.”

The movement is over, so far lost contact.

"Compared to the last inspection of the sealed room, in fact Mr. Vassius suffered the greatest risk of contamination when he performed the 'Gate of No Light' gnosis containment mission on the train." Ana analyzed.

Salman agreed with her conclusions, but he said: "Instead of thinking that the delay of 'hidden light' pollution is extremely concealed, I would rather believe that Mr. Poglerich's insight later actually, that high-level meeting had practical effects. , Ms. Norma Gunn successfully contained the 'Disaster', and Vassius also provided a lot of valuable information at the meeting."

"Including conjectures on the connection between 'Painting Sublimation' and the key to the 'Gate of Seven Lights', including the progress of the investigation of Caroun Van Ning and the audio series fragments, our current investigation of the remains of the 'Fountain of Painting' The work can be steadily advanced, and there are many ideas for the next step, and his intelligence can be said to have played a big role."

After sorting it out, both of them naturally believed that the node that went wrong might not lie in the "Gate of No Light" operation.

After all, the leader is behind the gate.

Salman narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Report to Mr. He Meng that Vassius has lost contact, report his abnormal characteristics in the past, and then carefully check the whole situation of entering and leaving the sealing room that day."

(End of this chapter)