Chapter 165 AED

In the afternoon, after Pei Qian left Flying Phoenix Studio by car, he headed to Global Paradise Street.

He had already watched the roughly edited version of "A Beautiful Tomorrow," and overall, it was a mixed bag.

The good news was that the film wasn't edited very well at the moment, the special effects were completely missing, and the plot was indeed quite toxic, so it seemed destined to be a flop.

The worrying part was that all the actors were on point, especially the three main actors, Zhang Zuting, Lu Zhiyao, and Lin Ruyi, who were exchanging blows with their acting skills like crazy, making Pei Qian feel a burst of panic.

Lu Zhiyao had completely corrected his over-the-top acting, Lin Ruyi didn't seem like a newbie at all, and Zhang Zuting, needless to say, his acting as a movie emperor was impeccable.

Pei Qian really couldn't predict what the effect of such a film would be after its release.

As Pei Qian was struggling with this, Global Paradise Street arrived.

"Boss Pei, should I go up with you?" Xiao Sun asked.

Pei Qian thought for a moment, "No need, just wait for me in the car. I'll take a look and come right down."

Pei Qian didn't think too much. He just wanted to confirm the safety of the shared phone booth, and then he had to rush back near Handong University to meet with Lin Chang.

He took the direct elevator to the top floor.

It was Saturday afternoon, and Pei Qian was prepared for Global Paradise Street to be crowded, but when he came out of the elevator, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He glanced at the entrance of the cinema, feeling puzzled. "Huh, so many people? Is there a good movie being released today?"

However, upon closer inspection, Pei Qian was dumbfounded.

There were indeed a lot of people at the entrance of the cinema, but these people didn't seem to be there to watch a movie!

No one was maintaining order, but everyone was orderly divided into two lines.

Both lines were moving very quickly. One line was just taking a picture in front of the phone booth and then leaving; the other line was taking a number from a number dispenser in front of the phone booth and then leaving.

Looking more closely at the appearance of the phone booth.

A huge original painting on it: Modest, the Guardian of Justice!

This huge original painting directly occupied the main front part of the shared phone booth. Modest in the painting was burly, with firm eyes, proudly looking forward. The various weapons stuck all over his back further showed his heroic spirit.

Many people were lining up simply to take a photo with this huge original painting.

Moreover, unlike ordinary posters or game original paintings, this painting was hand-drawn by Ruan Guangjian, who added many unique techniques. The impasto technique made it look quite freehand, making people feel very artistic at first glance.

It was so well-drawn that it was no wonder people visiting the mall wanted to run over and take a photo with it.

Pei Qian stood in front of the phone booth, looking at this huge original painting, speechless for a moment.

"What the f*ck..."

He did ask Ruan Guangjian to come over and draw something casually to decorate the shared phone booth, but he didn't ask him to draw a money-scattering hedgehog!

For some reason, Pei Qian had a feeling that this money-scattering hedgehog was staring at him, with a faint smile on its lips, as if mocking him…

Looking at the phone booth itself.

The side facing the escalator clearly showed the current queue number: 14, remaining time 7 minutes.

Pei Qian felt a chill in his heart, vaguely feeling something was not right. He looked through the crowd and found that the number on the number dispenser had reached 29.

In other words, since this morning, 14 people had taken a number and experienced the shared phone booth, and there were still 15 people waiting in line!

Of course, it couldn't be ruled out that some people took a number but didn't come to experience it, but there shouldn't be many of those people.

When Pei Qian first saw that the line was moving quickly, but everyone wasn't going into the phone booth, he was slightly relieved, thinking that everyone just liked to look at the phone booth from the outside and didn't really want to go in and spend money.

But now he understood, it wasn't that no one was lining up, it was that they had switched to taking numbers and lining up, which was even more advanced!

Pei Qian quickly took out his phone and scanned a QR code to download the shared phone booth App.

The previous App was very simple, with only a scanning function, but now, it had many more features.

The most obvious change was the addition of a queuing function.

As long as you took a number at the entrance of the phone booth, you could enter the queue and fill in your estimated playtime in the phone booth.

The system would add up the playtime of everyone in the queue, and users could know how long they had to wait.

When it was almost their turn, users could arrive at the phone booth in advance and wait.

This page could also perform some other operations, such as giving up the queue.

In this way, everyone didn't have to wait idly at the entrance of the phone booth. They could completely arrange other activities based on the estimated time, such as shopping, buying drinks and desserts, etc.

Pei Qian looked at the estimated time on the App, which had reached three hours!

Moreover, people were still constantly taking numbers.

Pei Qian did some quick calculations and his face instantly turned pale.

Ten yuan for 15 minutes, forty yuan for an hour. It seemed that the phone booth hadn't been idle since the mall opened. It would have to be open for eleven or twelve hours a day.

At this rate, it could earn four or five hundred yuan a day!

Of course, this was because it was Saturday today and the traffic was relatively large, which ensured that the phone booth was always in use.

If it was a weekday, the money earned would definitely be less.

But no matter how you calculate it, the income was very considerable!

Pei Qian was very puzzled. What was so strange about it? Wasn't it just a phone booth? What could you do inside for an hour???

He wanted to look inside, but the curtains were drawn, so he couldn't see clearly. He could only vaguely hear music coming from inside.

This floor was very crowded and noisy, so the music was faint.

Pei Qian wasn't willing to give up, so he walked around the phone booth, but the curtains were tightly closed. Although there were gaps, Boss Pei wouldn't stoop to peeking.

He vaguely saw two people inside, but he couldn't see clearly what they were doing.

As Pei Qian walked around, he found a stack of leaflets on the other side of the phone booth's electronic display screen.

These leaflets were placed here, and anyone interested could take one.

Pei Qian took one and found that it wasn't the usual type of advertising leaflet.

It had both text and pictures on it, and the pictures seemed to be screenshots from a TV show.

"A Customer Suffers Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a Shopping Mall, AED Successfully Saves Their Life! 'Life-Saving Device' Hidden in Shared Phone Booth"

"Recently, in a shopping mall in Jingzhou City, shopping mall staff saved the life of a young man with an AED."

"The scene in the picture took place on the top floor of Global Paradise Street Shopping Mall in Jingzhou City. A man suddenly collapsed after walking out of the cinema. Shopping mall staff who arrived after hearing the news immediately divided up the work, calling 120 while evacuating onlookers and immediately starting to rescue the man."

"At the critical moment, the staff immediately took out an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) from the 'shared phone booth' next to them and performed emergency rescue on the man."

"After 4 AED shocks, when the 120 personnel arrived at the scene, the man had basically recovered his heartbeat and breathing."

"Subsequently, the man was sent to the hospital for treatment. Medical staff said that fortunately, the man received AED assistance, otherwise the consequences would have been disastrous."

"Experts say that more than 85% of patients with sudden cardiac arrest are caused by ventricular fibrillation, which can only be eliminated by electrical defibrillation. If AED defibrillation can be used within a short time of cardiac arrest, the success rate of rescue will be greatly improved, so there is also the saying of 'golden four minutes'."

"According to statistics, more than 90% of sudden deaths occur outside the hospital, so how to quickly obtain an AED to perform electrical defibrillation on patients has become the key to saving the lives of cardiac arrest patients."

"However, at present, the popularity of AED equipment in our country is not high. The reporter visited several subway stations in the capital city, and the answer was that there is currently no AED equipment configured."

"However, in Jingzhou, a small shared phone booth actually 'hides' such a life-saving device and has a miraculous effect. This is by no means a fluke, but the inevitable result of the shared phone booth founder's public safety awareness and social responsibility."

"Zhang Wang, the founder of the shared phone booth project, said that in his vision, the shared phone booth is not only a cultural landmark of the city, a pure land in the noisy city, but also a lighthouse for inheriting social responsibility..."

Pei Qian widened his eyes and took a closer look, and found that this was not a paper media report. The logo in the upper left corner of the picture was actually CCTV-2.

"I haven't been here for just over a week, and such a big thing has happened???"

Pei Qian was dumbfounded. He remembered that the last time he saw the shared phone booth, it was just a bare, empty booth with a desolate exterior.

But now, not only were everyone lining up to go in and play, but it was also on television news!

Pei Qian suddenly felt that he didn't recognize this world anymore…

Just then, the door of the shared phone booth opened, and the couple inside left, consciously taking away the used paper cups and microphone covers, while the couple waiting behind them were already waiting outside the door, seamlessly connected.

Pei Qian quickly stood on tiptoe and glanced at the contents of the shared phone booth.

Drink machine, karaoke machine, gashapon machine… the shared phone booth was full of all sorts of things!

Pei Qian clearly remembered that when he came to see it last time, there was only a solitary telephone and a water dispenser…

You could drink beverages, play with gashapon, sing, and even stamp your card, no wonder these people didn't want to come out after going in!

Obviously, the drink machine and gashapon machine would definitely be charged extra, and if you added the income from that…

And this was just one of the shared phone booths.

Pei Qian suddenly realized something and quickly walked to the direct elevator, preparing to leave.

This phone booth in Global Paradise Street was beyond saving. Not only was it warmly welcomed by consumers, but it had also saved people and was on television news!

Now even if Pei Qian wanted to remove it, it was impossible!

But there were still other things he could do now, such as immediately stopping Ruan Guangjian from beautifying the other twenty phone booths!

At first, Pei Qian thought that the phone booth would only have a telephone and a water dispenser, and no one would go in and spend money, so he asked Ruan Guangjian to paint an original painting, which would cost more money.

But now, this original painting had undoubtedly become a cultural landmark, attracting many people to come from afar to take photos, and these people would naturally enter the phone booth to spend money!

So, he had to quickly stop Ruan Guangjian and not let him paint any more paintings for the other phone booths!

Pei Qian calculated that Ruan Guangjian could only paint one phone booth in three days. It would take two months to paint these 20 phone booths. Only ten days or so had passed now, so he had painted at most four phone booths.

There was still time!

While waiting for the elevator, Pei Qian dialed Ruan Guangjian's number.

"Hello, Boss Pei, what's up?" Ruan Guangjian's side was very quiet, not like he was in a shopping mall.

Pei Qian didn't think much and asked directly, "Uh… about the phone booths we talked about before, which one have you painted to?"

Ruan Guangjian's voice was a little confused, "Phone booths? Didn't I finish painting them a long time ago?"

Pei Qian: "???"

He felt a little dizzy. "Didn't you say it would take three days to paint one? How could you have finished them?"

Ruan Guangjian smiled, "Oh, yeah, it would take three days to paint one phone booth, that's too slow! I thought that if I had to paint these 20 phone booths, it would be Chinese New Year by the time I finished, and I still have other work to do, so it would be too time-consuming."

"So, I found a dozen friends from the group and subcontracted these jobs. Each person was responsible for one phone booth, just painting according to the original painting I gave them."

"Boss Pei, don't worry, they're all my friends, and their level is guaranteed. I've checked all these phone booths, and they're all painted without any problems. If there are any small flaws, I've corrected them."

"Uh, Boss Pei?"

Hearing that there was no one speaking on the other end for a long time, Ruan Guangjian thought the phone had been disconnected.

After a long time, Pei Qian said, "That's okay, then."

Hanging up the phone, Pei Qian silently walked into the elevator and went to the underground parking lot.

"Boss Pei, where are we going?" Although Pei Qian had obviously stayed up there for too long, Xiao Sun didn't ask any more questions.

Pei Qian thought for a while, and said with a dark face, "Go to Times Mall."

He was a little unwilling to give up, he had to see the situation of all the phone booths with his own eyes!

"Alright." Xiao Sun didn't ask any more questions and drove off directly.

Pei Qian took out his phone and sent a message to Lin Chang first.

This afternoon, he had to see all the shared phone booths before he could meet with Lin Chang.

Lin Chang quickly replied, "Boss Pei, just focus on your work. I'm also busy here, so don't worry about me."

Pei Qian breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that Boss Lin was so understanding!

After reassuring Lin Chang, Pei Qian immediately called Chen Kangtuo.

"How's the haunted house project going? Speed up the progress for me!"