When receiving a call from Xing Conglian, Lin Chen was squatting in front of the shelf, retrieving a whole row of toothbrushes.
The hall downstairs is full of dancing music, and there seems to be a DJ who is specially tuning it. The electronic sound mixed with the screams of the fans sounds so powerful that even if he is separated by two floors, it is not very good. I could hear what Xing Conglian was saying on the phone.
"How are you?"
Xing Conglian's voice sounded a little cold.
Then this sentence "Are you okay" should not be a daily greeting. He listened to the meaning of Xing Conglian's words, and was obviously worried that he might not be well.
"It's okay for now, what happened?"
He answered, carefully studying the toothbrushes hanging on the shelves.
Maji is indeed the petty bourgeoisie's favorite daily brand, and even toothbrushes are dazzling.
The row of toothbrush heads in front of him were of different sizes, and even differentiated the hardness of the bristles. He picked up the label of each toothbrush and read it carefully from beginning to end, and found that he had no choice. Dynasty was really a child of a rising virgin, which was really troublesome. .
"That's right, one of our colleagues just came back from patrol and heard that the crowd in the mall exceeded the limit. Is the situation at the scene dangerous?"
"The shopping mall I walked in 20 minutes ago, since I can walk in, the flow of people should not have reached the level of seriously exceeding the standard, and the danger should not be said, but there are indeed a lot of people at the scene."
"Is there anything suspicious?" Xing Conglian asked again.
Hearing this, Lin Chen stood up from the shelf and looked out of the store through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
From his position, he could see a lot of people surrounded by the handrail in the corridor on the third floor, and there seemed to be a steady stream of people walking towards the handrail.
As there were more and more people, it almost formed a dense human wall. His sight was almost completely blocked by the human wall, so he could only vaguely see the green canopy at the top of the coconut tree in the lobby on the first floor.
Looking at the things hanging under the canopy, he said, "There is a problem."
"What's the matter?" Xing Conglian's voice obviously sank.
"You ask Dynasty to answer the phone first."
After he finished speaking, he heard the person on the other end of the phone pause, and then Wang Chao answered the phone: "Achen, are you alright?" Wang Chao's voice was even more nervous, "If you have anything, you must tell me, I will help!"
"It's okay, I just want to ask you, what type of toothbrush do you want, and what are the requirements for the hardness of the brush head?"
"Ahhh! How long is it that you still care about this!" Chao Dynasty shouted.
He squatted down again and said to the boy, "If today I not only encountered an accident again, but also hadn't bought a toothbrush, I wouldn't think it was worth it."
"S size, medium hard!" The other end replied quickly.
After Wang Chao finished speaking, he groaned again, obviously being educated by Xing Conglian again.
Lin Chen's fingers moved over the row of toothbrushes, then picked up the one designated by the dynasty and stopped, picked up one of them, and asked one more question: "Are there any requirements for the color?"
"Indigo Indigo!"
Sure enough, you guessed right.
He looked at the indigo bluetooth brush in his hand, turned and walked towards the cashier: "Okay, don't return the phone to your boss, I have something to ask you, what did you tell the police station chief yesterday?"
"Boss, did you hear me? Ah Chen asked me, you let go!" Wang Chao shouted on the phone, and then he ran a few steps, as if to avoid Xing Conglian, then panted and answered loudly, "You said Is Director Zheng, Director Zheng is very nice, he said he would immediately notify the mall for rectification, what's the matter?"
Lin Chen frowned.
Hand the toothbrush to the cashier.
The cashier swiped the price tag with a swipe, and then said, "Hello sir, 98.9 yuan, thank you."
Really luxurious child.
Lin Chen took out a 100 yuan payment from his pocket, and watching the cashier's change, he said to the person on the phone, "I'm afraid the rectification effect is not very good."
"Why didn't the effect work well, did Director Zheng make a phone call, and did the commercial shoot not take off?" The dynasty's barrage of questions struck again.
Lin Chen took the steel rod handed over by the cashier, and put it into the bag along with the toothbrush.
He raised his head slightly and looked at the canopy of the giant star coconut tree again. Several steel wires passed through the canopy vaguely, and were tightly connected to the things under the canopy.
It was a huge poster running through three floors. Lin Chen narrowed his eyes, and he could even recall the singer's face on the poster. He had a lot of conjectures in his heart, and said to the person on the other end of the phone, "I Think, maybe for some reason, Director Zheng's order was not executed immediately."
There was another ownership struggle on the other end of the phone. After a while, Xing Conglian's voice came again: "Has the poster been taken off?"
"No."
During the conversation, there was another dense drum beat from the hall downstairs. The host didn't know what to say or someone didn't know who was at the scene. The violent bass sound made people's internal organs vibrate.
"I'll check with Lao Zheng. If possible, try to come out first." Xing Conglian said.
Lin Chen didn't answer him quickly.
The sliding glass door opened automatically, and he walked out of the store. The sound of people making him feel like the floor was shaking. The air was full of the smell of something boiling, excited and lively, anxious and irritable, it seemed, Ansheng International The opening ceremony should have achieved the desired effect.
"Hey, why is the scene so noisy?"
It wasn't until he walked out of the Maji store that Lin Chen realized that there was some deviation in his estimate of the flow of people.
In fact, he recalled that just now, in order to choose a toothbrush, he stayed in the store for more than 15 minutes. Within 15 minutes, because the opening ceremony was approaching, the number of people in the mall increased exponentially.
"Punishment Conglian..."
Lin Chen walked a distance along the hollow corridor and chose a location with a better view.
From where he was standing, the whole four-story hollow corridor surrounding the hall was already crowded with people, and only some places on the fourth floor had a slight gap, although he couldn't squeeze the handrail, so he couldn't see the hall clearly. The situation in the lobby is only getting worse in terms of the continuous flow of people surging up the escalator.
"I'm here, you say."
"I may not be able to go out for the time being." He looked at a place with a good view of the corridor on the fourth floor, and then said, "I can't grasp the situation in the hall for the time being. I need to go upstairs to have a look."
If it was an ordinary person, he would probably say, "Don't go, it's too dangerous." Lin Chen had even heard Wang Chao shout on the other end of the phone, but Xing Conglian was Xing Conglian after all, he pondered for a while, and then said: "Don't hang up, stay safe."
Lin Chen smiled indifferently.
Then he continued to observe the situation at the scene. The escalator was severely overloaded, and the situation of the observation elevator may be worse. At this time, a safe passage is the best choice.
He looked up at the road sign and walked forward: "Just in case, please ask Dynasty to help me get the floor plan of the mall first."
"I'm already doing Ah Chen!" Wang Chao's brisk voice came.
Although it was too noisy around him, he could no longer hear Wang Chao's usual crackling keyboard sound, but thinking about it, Xing Conglian had already thought of this in advance while he was looking at the road signs to find his way, and he switched the phone call to the public put.
"Wait a minute, I have to call up the camera, Ah Chen, how much battery do you have in your phone? If you really can't, go buy a power bank!"
"Don't be too nervous, nothing has happened yet..." Lin Chen said calmly, he turned left along the passage and walked to the safe passage, "And luckily, I fully charged my phone before I went out."
There are relatively few people in the safe passage, so the surroundings are instantly quiet.
The sound of Wang Chao quickly tapping the keyboard came, and Lin Chen had a strange feeling of peace in his heart: "Achen is now joking!"
"Rest assured, I will pay attention to safety."
Xing Conglian's voice cut in again: "Consultant Lin, I just had a phone call with Lao Zheng. He said that he had indeed informed the shopping mall, and it should be that the shopping mall did not rectify in time."
"How is the lobby?"
"Judging from the cameras in several channels, the flow of people has indeed seriously exceeded the standard. The wide angle of the hall is not clear, and the advertisements cover the stage. What the hell is Li Jingtian? I see many fans in uniform at the scene. What else is there?"
"That's the aid, Boss!" Dynasty interrupted him over there.
"I don't know much about this either. Li Jingtian should be a famous singer, right? There are fans at the scene?"
"Is he going to hold a concert in Hongjing, why are there so many people?" Xing Conglian asked.
"I don't know that either."
Lin Chen quickly walked out of the safe passage and walked to the location he was optimistic about earlier.
The feeling that all the internal organs were resonating came again, and as he got closer and closer to the top of the hall, this feeling became more and more serious. Lin Chen touched his chest, clenched his phone, and squeezed five or six people. I finally reached the edge of the armrest.
Looking down from the fourth floor, all you can see are densely packed heads. A large area in front of the stage is surrounded by baffles. The security guards hold hands in a full circle around the baffles. It was full of girl fans in uniform costumes.
The girls were fair-faced, and they were wearing uniform red dresses, like fresh rose petals, spreading out layer by layer around the stage, they were shouting the idol's name, because there were too many overlapping voices. It has become blurred by the fourth floor.
But they were roughly shouting: "Sedum! Sedum!"
Perhaps it was because the range of the seating group was so large that the crowd outside the baffle could not see the performance on the stage clearly, so people kept crowding forward, trying to break through the security wall.
"How is the situation around the stage?" Xing Conglian asked.
"Very bad." Lin Chen said coldly.
At this moment, the song ended, the DJ who was tuning on the stage stopped moving, and the host came on stage again.
"Everyone is HIGH not HIGH!" the host asked.
"HIGH!" the fans under the stage replied frantically.
"Happy or not!" The host handed the microphone to the audience.
"Happy!" the fans replied in unison.
"Who are you here for today!"
"Sedum! Sedum! Li Jingtian! Ahhh!"
The girls' shouts sounded in unison, and the transparent ceiling of the mall began to tremble.
"Is this crazy, how many people are there?"
Obviously, the enthusiastic call of the fans has reached Xing Conglian's ears through radio waves. It seems that the crazy voice alone has scared Xing Conglian.
"It's hard to estimate, does Zheng Institute have anything to say?" Lin Chen frowned, he increased the volume, and could no longer speak in a normal tone.
"Old Zheng Gang said that their people have been outside to divert the flow of people and prevent the surrounding people from crowding into the mall." Xing Conglian just said that here and stopped, "Old Zheng hung up the phone after saying this, I guess he was too devastated. ."
Before he knew it, Xing Conglian's voice became much louder because he followed his volume.
"If the police divert the flow of people on the periphery and stop people who want to enter the mall, it will easily cause congestion on the periphery, but also people in the mall can't get out, right?" he asked.
"It should be like this, I'll find out more about the situation!"
Lin Chen could feel that there were more and more people around him, and he looked at the hollow corridors around the hall, and the places that were vacant were now filled with heads.
The host was still on the stage to enhance the atmosphere: "I know who you are all here for! Please read his name aloud to me again!"
"Sedum!!! Ahhh!!! Sedum ahh!"
Just as the girls were shouting, Lin Chen was completely pushed to the railing, and the people behind him were still pushing forward. His upper body had unknowingly protruded out of the railing, which made him have to hold it tightly. The railing will not lean forward any more.
The atmosphere was so warm that a thin layer of sweat appeared on his palms.
"Okay, I heard it, I know who you are all here for, it's Li Jingtian, right!"
"right!!!"
The host's voice overwhelmed the crowd's shouts again, and he shouted, "But today, before that person comes out, you still have to give us a little time for the mall, let us finish the opening ceremony, okay! Answer it out loud! I!"
"it is good!!!"
The host's ability to mobilize emotions is really good. After several back-and-forth questions and answers between him and the girls in the audience, the atmosphere of the scene has reached a new level.
After the girl's door finished shouting, the host pressed his hand and made a quiet gesture, and then he said, "I promise, we will spend a very short time!" After teasing, he suddenly stood up and respectfully said, " Next, let's invite Mr. Zheng Wei, general manager of Ansheng International Shopping Mall, to give a speech, everyone, don't worry, I have seen the speech of BOSS just now, it is very, very short!"
After he finished speaking, he gestured towards the bottom of the stage, and following his gesture, Lin Chen saw that in front of the girl fans in red dresses, sitting a row of elites in suits and leather shoes, Like the leaders of the meeting and the relevant people of the mall board of directors.
Then, as if the hunch came true or it was inevitable by chance.
Among the elites, he saw a figure in a neat suit that made him very, very familiar.