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Chapter 373 Figure
October 9, Wednesday.

Nitiantian Game Experience Store.

"Hey? Manager! What a rare customer!"

As soon as Gu Fan walked into the experience store, he heard Sui Tao's voice full of surprise.

He waved his hand: "Hey, what do you mean by rare guest? Keep a low profile. I was just assigned to a more important position for a while. Now that things over there are almost done, I can come back to check on the experience store.

"How's everything going here?"

Sui Tao nodded quickly: "All good, all good! Thanks to the good leadership of the store manager, our experience store is thriving!"

Gu Fan almost choked on his cough and quickly signaled Sui Tao to shut up: "Okay, I understand what you mean, but it's better not to use this word as much as possible."

Sui Tao didn't understand: "Huh? Why?"

Gu Fan didn't explain any further, but just looked at the current state of the experience store.

I have to say that the experience store is indeed becoming more and more lively. The occupancy rate of the lobby on the first floor has almost reached more than 70%. As for other floors, although they are not visible for the time being, judging from the key collection situation at the front desk, the occupancy rate should be more than 50%.

This attendance rate is not very high for an Internet cafe, but it is quite good for an experience store or a console game store.

After all, their business models and charging standards are different.

The players in the lobby are basically playing various games seriously.

Gu Fan noticed that the subsequent games launched by Against the Heaven, such as the 70th version of "Shadow World", have also been updated in the experience store, and some players are playing them at this time.

However, those who play "Shadow World" in the hall are basically lone wolf players. If they need to turn on the microphone, they will basically go to the special private room on the second floor.

It can be seen that many players in the lobby are familiar with each other. They will chat when they are tired of playing games, and even use some equipment in the experience store by themselves, such as coffee machines.

"Is there anyone who knows how to use a coffee machine? Please help me make a cup of coffee, thanks!"

"I will, would you like a latte or an Americano?"

"Iced Americano! I'm going to fight this boss today and I have to defeat him!"

"It's ready, come and get it yourself."

"Okay, thanks buddy."

This is the unique business model of the Against the Heaven Game Experience Store: customer self-service.

Of course, there are special coffee machines in the experience store, as well as ice cream, drinks and snacks. But there are no baristas or salespeople.

Because Gu Fan didn’t invite me.

So far, Sui Tao is the manager of this store, and there are five other employees besides him.

Initially, there were three store clerks, but the turnover was still a bit strained, so the number of staff was expanded to five, which barely ensured that there was always at least one clerk in the experience store during normal working hours.

Of course, there are cleaning staff, but they are not counted as store clerks.

If it were a normal store, a clerk would not be able to meet the needs of so many customers even if he worked himself to death.

Most shops will choose to hire an extra barista to make coffee for customers, and then arrange at least one or two employees on each floor to meet customer needs at any time.

But this experience store has implemented Gu Fan's philosophy from the very beginning, reducing the number of store employees to the minimum as much as possible and allowing customers to manage themselves.

Therefore, customers use the coffee machine to make coffee and choose drinks and snacks by themselves. At present, the clerk only plays a simple supervisory role, and can choose to help a little when the players are busy.

Gu Fan's ultimate goal is to enable players to take care of themselves completely, and it would be best if they could even open and close the experience store by themselves. Of course, this goal is far away, and it may require the help of many technical means to achieve, but it is a general direction after all.

"So what instructions do you have for this visit, Manager?"

Sui Tao's work attitude has been relatively positive recently, because it is visibly that the business of the experience store is getting better and better, which also makes him feel a sense of accomplishment.

Gu Fan smiled slightly: "Of course I am here to promote Against Heaven's flagship product for the next period of time!
"Wait a moment, the stuff should be here soon."

After Gu Fan finished speaking, he looked at the logistics information on his mobile phone. Sure enough, after a few minutes, the express was delivered to his door.

These are several large cardboard boxes. After opening them, there are rectangular boxes inside. Judging from the packaging and the transparent part of the outer shell, this is a well-made figure.

Sui Tao temporarily dragged the large cardboard boxes into the warehouse and locked them up, leaving a few for display and placing them at the front desk.

Soon, curious customers came over.

"Oh! This slit cheongsam is quite exciting!"

All the figures are of the same person, but there are three different types based on the poses and shapes.

This character is of course the first female character of "Tokimeki Dreamland", Elliot. Her appearance is just as designed before, with gold hairpins and red tassel pendants on her soft blonde hair, and a tight, gold-thread high-split cheongsam on her body. The sleeves of the robe are slightly raised at the forearms, and there is semi-transparent black gauze on the upper arms and thighs.

The first one is a standard standing figure, with eyes looking straight ahead, a tall and straight figure, and a heroic look.

The second one is a seated figure, holding a book and reading, looking gentle and elegant.

The third one is a dynamic figure, which seems to be releasing some kind of spell, and is surrounded by spell effects of different colors.

The postures of these three figures have their own merits, and the textures of their skin and clothes are meticulously detailed, making them considered to be relatively fine products among the figures.

Hou Ji is already an old customer of the experience store. He and students like Zhuge Jun have now been upgraded to old players of the experience store. Because they come here frequently, they can get obvious discounts on prices.

In addition, Gu Fan also launched a "work-intensive program" in the experience store, which means that customers of the experience store can help with some chores in the store, such as helping to make coffee, simple cleaning, maintaining equipment, or giving guidance and introductions to other customers, etc., in exchange for a certain amount of compensation.

So college students like Hou Ji and Zhuge Jun who have nothing to do come here when they have nothing to do.

Seeing this well-made model at this time, these college students could not take their eyes off it.

"Is this a figurine made by Nitiantang? I haven't seen it before?
"What game is this?" Hou Ji asked curiously.

"It's obviously not from the previous games. Could it be from a new game? Could Against Heaven be making a two-dimensional game?"

Zhuge Jun is a loyal player of Against the Heaven game and has played almost all the games. He can tell at a glance that this figure is not a character from any previous game.

Gu Fan nodded: "It is a new game from Against Heaven, but it is hard to say whether it can be considered a two-dimensional game. It probably doesn't count."

So far, the figures have been basically completed, and the desktop program for Elliot has also been completed. The preliminary publicity work for "Tokimeki Dreamland" will be carried out soon, so most of the information can be disclosed.

The only thing is the specific game type of "Heartbeat Dreamland", which is left as a surprise to the players.

Zhuge Jun was stunned for a moment: "Oh? Isn't this a two-dimensional game?
"But looking at this figurine, and the feeling this character gives people...

"Oh, I see. Manager, you mean that because the style of this character is closer to the realistic style of the three-dimensional world, it is not considered a two-dimensional game, but the gameplay is basically the same, right?"

Gu Fan smiled noncommittally: "All I can say is, please stay tuned."

(End of this chapter)