Lin Haiyin invited Lin Chaoyang to the island in the hope of deepening cultural exchanges between the two places, and he had good intentions.

But as Lin Chaoyang is a well-known person in the mainland's cultural circles, it is not easy to enter the Bay Island.

Lin Chaoyang called Lin Haiyin specifically to express his gratitude to her and explain the difficulty of landing on the island.

In recent years, the relationship between the two places seems to have eased, but in fact there is still a mutual grudge, especially on the Bay Island side, which shows the chicken intestines vividly.

Lin Chaoyang is currently living in Xiangjiang. So far, there are no records of mainland literary and art circles visiting the island for exchanges.

Lin Chaoyang finally joked to Lin Haiyin: "The cultural department of Wandao is guarding against us people more than it is against Sichuan!"

Lin Haiyin said, "I will coordinate and give it a try. If you get permission, you can come."

"That's not necessarily the case. I have to say hello to the government."

Given Lin Chaoyang's reputation and status in the literary world, entering Taiwan and the island is a very symbolic event, and the authorities must be very cautious about such things.

Lin Chaoyang hung up the phone and called a comrade from New H Agency to briefly introduce the situation.

After waiting for a day, news came from the New H Agency, encouraging Lin Chaoyang to go to the island for exchanges.

Lin Chaoyang then called Lin Haiyin again. With this reply, Lin Haiyin happily said that she would try to communicate first.

In her early years, she served as the supplement editor of the "United Daily News" and discovered and cultivated a large number of well-known writers in the Bay Island. She has a high status in the Bay Island literary circle. In later generations, some people even called her the grandmother-level figure of Bay Island literature.

With her influence in the cultural circles of the Bay Island, she can only say "give it a try".

Eight of Jet Li's later films have been hot-selling in Wan Dao and have become a cash cow for Golden Harvest. However, they still don't even have the opportunity to go to Taiwan for publicity. This shows that Wan Dao is on guard against the infiltration of mainland culture.

Fast forward to November, and the bustling Cityplaza at 18 Taikoo Shing Road, Hong Kong, located above the subway, has been one of the popular places for leisure, entertainment and shopping for the middle class in Hong Kong for many years.

Today is Saturday, Cityplaza is still bustling with people coming and going.

But in this huge building, there is one location that is particularly different.

The store in the southwest corner of the first floor was originally a store of the clothing brand Marks and Spencer, covering an area of ​​nearly 2,000 square meters.

In recent months, business has been deserted. Until last month, the store put up a sign saying it was closed for sale, attracting the attention of some customers.

Then one morning, when a customer passed by, he found that the place had been blocked by spray-painted cloth, and it seemed that the merchant had changed.

Most of the printing cloths in shopping malls will have some information about the relevant stores printed on them when they are enclosed.

There is no written information on the spray-painted cloth outside the Marks and Spencer store. Instead, there are several two- to three-meter-high cartoon images.

Some customers who love to read comics can easily recognize those characters, such as Hua Yingxiong in "Heroes of China", Wang Xiaohu in "Dragon and Tiger Gate", Ji Fa in "Legend of the Emperor", "Legend of Sword and Fairy"

Li Xiaoyao inside——"

Such a discovery can't help but make customers full of curiosity, wondering why these comic characters appear on the spray-painted cloth.

More than a month passed slowly. Early this morning, someone passed by and discovered that the spray-painted cloth that was originally covering the place was missing.

The store has a large transparent floor-to-ceiling glass as its wall, and the words "Yulang ACG" in the middle of the door are simple and fashionable.

A group of teenage children were gathered in front of the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass of the store. In the store window, a nearly two-meter-tall full-scale model of Hua Yingxiong stood solemnly and lifelike.

"I am destined to be a lone star in the sky, and I will live my whole life alone without a partner."

Any young person who reads comics has never heard of this sentence or seen this person.

"Wow!"

"Isn't this too handsome?"

"Is he really a heroic hero?"

The boys stood in front of the display window, barely touching the glass, their eyes full of greed.

While everyone was watching, someone suddenly called out: "Go and look over there, there's a bigger one!"

Hearing the sound, everyone swarmed away and saw a statue of a Chinese hero nearly five meters high placed in the atrium of Taikoo Shing Center.

The momentum was even greater than the one they saw in the display window.

"I'm holding your mother in my mouth! You're so handsome!"

A comic fan was so excited that he cursed, but the people around him didn't mind at all, because that person just expressed everyone's feelings.

"Hey, hey, hey, Ah Wei, didn't you bring a camera? Come on, take a picture of Hua Yingxiong and me!" Someone asked his companions to help take pictures.

Someone stepped forward and wanted to touch the statue up close, but was suddenly stopped by someone.

I saw a young man in work clothes carrying a quarantine belt and saying, "Pretty boys, be careful, this thing is going to fall down and smash people." The young man in work clothes placed the quarantine belt two meters away from the statue and formed a circle.

, comic fans looked at the L0G0 on his clothes and knew that he was an employee of the store.

"When does your store open?" someone asked.

"Today is the first day of opening, at 9:58. From now on, it will be the same as the shopping mall's business hours every day."

The young man in overalls replied and walked towards the store.

Comic fans circled the statue of Hua Yingxiong for a while before returning to the store. Then they discovered that there were dozens more people in front of the Kung Fu store.

"There are too many people, right?"

The comic fans complained, but they still lined up obediently and waited for the store to open.

A month ago, the comic magazines and comic book volumes owned by Yulang Agency announced the news of the company's first peripheral store.

As early as the 1960s and 1970s, the concept of "first release" was born in the Japanese animation industry. Ultraman, Gundam and other animation characters were made into collectibles, and the displayed models were used to empty the wallets of animation fans.

It's just that the second dimension and otaku are not as popular as they were in later generations. Especially in Xiangjiang, collecting comic peripherals is still a very new concept, so comic fans are full of enthusiasm for this peripheral store opened by Yulang Organization.

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As the opening time got closer and closer, more and more comic fans came, and a long queue gradually formed, attracting many passing customers' glances.

At 9:18, four waiters fired a salute and the store officially opened.

Comic fans immediately rushed in regardless of the colorful ribbons and films floating in the sky.

The Yulang ACG store occupies an area of ​​2,000 square meters. There is a model of the most popular comic image of Yulang Comics in the windows on both sides of the entrance.

The interior decoration of the store is mainly pure white, supplemented by white lights, which makes it look very classy.

The store is divided into a comics area, a peripheral area and a leisure area. The bookshelves in the comics area are full of comics and magazines owned by Yulang Organization.

Comic fans only glanced at the comics section after entering, and then quickly shifted their attention to the surrounding areas.

Comics can be bought in bookstores, toy stores, and stationery stores outside, so they are not very attractive to them.

Compared to the comics section which only contains publications, the peripheral section is much more dazzling.

A variety of comic character figures are displayed on the simple display cabinet, all of which are popular characters from the comic works of Yulang Agency.

There are various sizes ranging from palm size to thirty or forty centimeters, but I haven't seen a life-size model like the one at the door.

In addition to these figures, there are also some strange-looking items on the display cabinet.

"Wow, this is Hua Yingxiong's red sword!" Some comic fans saw the origin of one of the items at a glance.

"Look at that, that's the wine sword fairy's gourd!"

"This puzzle is - this is the Battle of Huangshan in "Drunken Master", right? Damn, it's actually in color, and it's much more detailed than the scene at the end of the comic!"

"Look! Zhao Ling'er's colorful poster, Ling'er is so beautiful!"

The furnishings in the surrounding area cover various types of products such as figures, prop models, toys, cultural and creative products, etc., which are irresistibly attractive to comic fans.

A group of people are like rats in a rice vat, addicted to it and unable to extricate themselves.

While most people are obsessed with the surrounding area, looking left and right, scratching their heads over which product to choose, someone in the leisure area has already taken advantage.

A glass of iced drink in the leisure area costs 3 yuan. Most customers who order drinks are worried about what to drink, but the comic fans who are ordering now are worried about which cup to choose.

"Give me Mu Shura's cup!"

"Okay, customer."

The drinks in the leisure area are nothing special, but the cups used are printed with popular characters from "Heroes of China" and "Dragon and Tiger Gate", especially those with female characters, because they satisfy some unexplainable desire.

, and is even more popular among comic fans.

"Do you sell this cup?" a comic fan asked.

"Sorry, this is not for sale." The waiter replied.

The manga fan suddenly looked disappointed, and then heard the waiter reply: "But if you spend a certain amount in our store, the cup can be given away for free."

The comic fan immediately became interested and asked: "How much do you spend to get a free cup?"

‘When you spend over NT$200, you can choose a cup of your choice.”

Hearing this number, several comic fans shouted "black heart". A cup costs 200 yuan. There are at least 50 kinds of cups at the drink counter in the leisure area. If you collect them all, wouldn't it cost more than 10,000 yuan?

"Why is there no Ma Xiaoling here?" A comic fan asked, pointing to a pile of cups with characters from "Dragon and Tiger Gate" printed on them.

"Ma Xiaoling's cup may be launched in two months."

Some comic fans immediately realized the sinister intentions. This was because they were afraid that they would collect all the cups. What a vicious marketing method!

"Hey, Ah Wei, lend me 20 yuan and I'll pay you back tomorrow."
To be continued...