Chapter 485 Visiting Students

"Let's turn to page 73 of the textbook, Crystal Ball Patterns and Omens. What type of omens appear most often in crystal ball divination, let me see who... The wolf girl in the third row, you answer .”

Jiang Qi stood on the podium, wearing a dark robe and a hood on his head. His whole body was tightly wrapped in clothes, with only half of his face exposed, looking like a divine fortune teller.

Wang Shiliang's dress is relatively normal, but only a little. He was wearing a loose robe. It could be vaguely seen from the gap between the loose clothes that there was a long robe underneath. He wore round-framed glasses that are standard for fortune tellers in movies and TV dramas. On his head was an exaggerated pointed hat. On his left hand Beads, a crystal chain on her right hand, and something similar to a cross hanging around her neck.

If Jiang Qi's dress is that of a standard fortune teller, then Wang Shiliang's dress is that of a psychopath.

Wang Shiliang's crazy look was his own idea.

In his words, since his personality is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, he must also combine Chinese and Western styles when tidying up his clothes.

The robe represents that he is an assistant teacher at the Academy of Incredible Magic, and the long robe shows his identity as an Eastern fortune teller. The bead string on his left hand was a gift from a friend from the East, the crystal chain on his right hand was a meeting gift prepared for him by a friend from the West, and the cross on his neck was specially worn for self-defense after he discovered that there was a vampire in the school.

Anyway, no matter what he says, it makes sense.

The wolf girl in the third row who was named stood up excitedly and said loudly: "The most common omen is the omen of death. In crystal ball divination, a series of dark patterns such as black, fog, undead, and skeletons will be seen. A harbinger of death.”

Jiang Qi nodded happily: "Yes, according to incomplete statistics, a fortune teller will divine more than 100 death omens related to himself in his life. Of course, these death omens often do not come true. In fact, most fortune tellings do not come true. The accuracy rate of fortune-telling is less than 2%, so I don’t recommend that everyone take divination as their major subject.”

As he spoke, Jiang Qi put his hands on the crystal ball on the podium and watched the fog rolling in the crystal ball: "Most people don't have the talent for divination. Everyone wants to know their future, but foreseeing the future is not necessarily a good thing. "

Speaking of this, Jiang Qi's heart ached briefly.

He foresaw the future and then lost his precious Cantonese chef.

The current chef of Jasmine Restaurant is also a Cantonese chef, and his cooking skills are no worse than Ji Xue's, but this chef doesn't know how to cook Watan Huadiao Chicken!

Watan flower-carved chicken!

Jiang Qi wiped the saliva from his heart while feeling sad and painful.

"Now, let's calm down and put away the distracting thoughts in our hearts. Place your hands gently on the crystal ball in front of you, feel it with your heart, and establish a connection between your soul and the crystal ball."

"Don't think about things that are too grand, long-term, or simply impossible to achieve, such as when you will die, when you will get rich overnight, etc. The predictions that novices can successfully predict are often small things within a few days. Everyone You might as well think about small things like what you’re going to eat for lunch today, what you’re going to eat tomorrow morning, whether you can run into Teacher Zero in the corridor.”

"Now, take a deep breath with me."

"Breathe in."

"Exhale."

"Breathe in again."

"Exhale again."

"Empty your mind, relax yourself, don't have distracting thoughts, think quietly, and feel quietly."

Jiang Qi opened his eyes and looked at the students in the classroom who were touching the crystal ball with their eyes closed and their hands. He nodded to Wang Shiliang and said it was time for you to perform: "Assistant Wang, you are here to assist everyone."

"Okay, Teacher Jiang." Wang Shiliang nodded enthusiastically.

Jiang Qi tugged at the hem of his clothes, strode like lightning, and left the classroom with a calm look on his face.

The boss has such a well-organized class schedule that he only lasts half a period. When it comes to making up lies, he directly sends Wang Shiliang, a professional lie teller, to make up lies.

Jiang Qi hurriedly left the divination classroom and headed to the principal's office on the first floor after class.

There is only one main staircase in the Incredible Magic Academy. When Jiang Qi reached the second floor, he happened to meet Liao Min who was taking an elf gardening class. Among the normal teachers, Liao Min was the one who taught the most professional and informative classes.

She was originally a gardener, she was the oldest, and she was an ordinary human who had the talent to learn wood element magic and was personally certified by Teacher Zero. She had a strong natural affinity. The plants in the botanical garden on the second floor, except for a few normal plants that Jiang Qi asked Principal Peggy to buy back and transplant specially, the rest basically look normal, but are actually magical plants native to the magical world that consolidate the wood element. .

Liao Min was taking classes in the botanical garden, feeling at home like a fish in water, surrounded by invisible magical elements, and her whole person looked much more holy.

"When pruning, pay attention to the branches. For example, this flower should be cut here."

With a click of the knife, a branch fell down.

Liao Min looked up and saw Jiang Qi. He nodded and smiled politely at his boss and continued class.

Jiang Qi continued walking down and saw two half-orc students who were having a great time playing with the flame candles. One was wearing a large wizard robe and wrapped himself tightly to look like a witch. Xiongtou talks about life and ideal students.

Okay, this is incredible magic school.

If there were two more people who caused explosions, fought in groups, and caught people everywhere trying to feed each other poisonous weeds and mushrooms, Jiang Qi would wonder if he had gone to a real magical academy.

"Mirror, mirror, tell me who is the most beautiful orc in this school!"

Jiang Qi passed by another orc who used the picture frame as a magic mirror.

Jiang Qi came to the door of the principal's office.

Compared with when the school first started, there was an extra sign on the door of the principal's office, which read: The principal's office is an important place, please do not enter unless invited.

In order to prevent actors from overdoing their freestyle, Principal Peggy specially placed a spell on the doors of all teachers' offices. Unless the teacher himself opens the door or agrees, the door cannot be opened.

Jiang Qi stood at the door of the principal's office. Suddenly, a stick figure emerged from under the door number. Just like in the animation, the stick figure trotted diligently to the door handle and twisted the door handle hard.

Of course, it is impossible for a two-dimensional stick figure to twist a three-dimensional door handle. In a wonderful visual interplay, the door handle slowly twists and the door opens with a click.

The stickman collapsed on the ground, panting, stroking the non-existent sweat from his head, and trotted back to hide under the door sign.

Jiang Qi couldn't hold back for a moment, so he pressed the bottom of the door number to pull out the stick figure. The door number shook violently, and the stick figure poked his head out from above, grabbed the door number, and then retracted it.

The words on the door plate changed instantly.

From the Principal's Office to Do Not Disturb.

"Boss?" Seeing that Jiang Qi had not come in for a long time, Principal Peggy made a confused voice in the principal's office.

"I'm here," Jiang Qi said. Finally, he poked the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door sign in confusion and walked into the principal's office.

In the principal's office, it looked like a leisurely scene of teachers having a tea party.

Principal Peggy, Lilian, Jiang Cha, Kua Kua and Teacher Ling are all here. The round conference table is covered with a light green tablecloth. Various snacks and exquisite flower arrangements are set off by the tablecloth like a painting. .

One look at the flower arrangement and you can tell it is Liao Min's work.

There are teacups in front of each seat, and the teacup in front of the seat belonging to Jiang Qi has been filled with tea.

Jiang Qi sat down, pointed to the door and asked, "Is the stick figure on the door number your new one, Principal Page?"

"Some interesting little magic tricks we have just made." Principal Page said with a smile, "We will be shooting a promotional video soon. Of course, we need to create some selling points to make it more interesting."

Now that we are talking about the main topic, Jiang Qi stopped talking about those things that are and are not, and followed Principal Peggy's words: "What is the plan for the promotional video now?"

Principal Page stretched out his hand and pointed his fingertip at Kua Kua: "The current plan is to make a pilot promotional video for the Incredible Magic Academy with Kua Kua as the protagonist."

Kua Kua nodded proudly.

Jiang Qi was a little surprised. At first, he thought that the promotional video of the Incredible Magic Academy would be the same as the promotional video of Xuecun, with Lilian as the protagonist.

Not for anything else, just because Lilian is beautiful.

A red-haired beauty full of exotic charms, and Teacher Zero making a guest appearance, whoever watches this promotional video will not be confused.

Why do the NPCs in the Magic Academy have such high requirements for appearance? Why do all the actors play vampires, half-orcs, witches, or elves? Isn’t it just because they are eye-catching?

Handsome vampires are vampires, and unhandsome vampires are monsters.

In the same way, a beautiful witch is a witch, and an unbeautiful one is a witch.

Jiang Qi has already helped Principal Peggy figure out what to shoot for the promotional video. There is no need for any plot. Just let the camera circle around the school and catch everyone. Even the shooting method of the admissions brochure will have a great effect. .

"How did you think of Kua Kua as the protagonist?" Jiang Qi asked.

"Because Principal Peggy said that Kua Kua looks unique." Kua Kua said in a shrill voice.

Principal Peggy nodded and continued: "The Incredible Magic Academy is different from Snow Village. Snow Village is mainly about accommodation, and what needs to be highlighted is the environment. Using Lilian and the tavern as the protagonists can highlight the advantages of Snow Village."

"In the words of Teacher Cheng, the Incredible Magic Academy is an immersive script-killing experience with a large-scale live-action interactive magic theme, with the focus being on immersive experience."

Principal Peggy pointed at Lillian and then at Kua Kua.

"Boss, if you are an ordinary viewer, when you see Lillian and Kua Kua in the video, which one of them do you think is more like coming out of the magical world?"

"Praise." Jiang Qi said without hesitation.

Although Lillian really knows magic, she can't help but boast that she doesn't look like a creature that can be born naturally in this world.

We can't let Lilian show everyone how to blow up a laboratory with her bare hands in the promotional video.

"When will the filming start?" Jiang Qi continued to ask.

"It will start tomorrow. Boss, you can rest assured about the shooting. Lillian has previous work experience in shooting Xuecun promotional videos. She will assist Kua Kua in completing the shooting tomorrow."

"Mr. Boss, Kua Kua will work hard!" Kua Kua agreed.

"Come on!" Jiang Qi patted Kua Kua's thin shoulder to encourage him and started the next topic, "Has the price been decided?"

Pricing is the most important thing before opening the Magic Academy.

As a large-scale live-action interactive magic-themed immersive scripted game, the Incredible Magic Academy must be charged separately.

Since there are separate charges, how much one person charges becomes the biggest question.

If all the projects in the amusement park had homework to copy before, then there really was no homework to copy at the Incredible Magic Academy. Principal Peggy didn't even attend many classes during this period. She continued to surf the Internet intensively every day, but she couldn't find any cases that could be copied on the omnipotent Internet.

Since there are no cases to copy on the Internet, Principal Peggy can only copy his own decisions.

Visiting student!

Players who have played large-scale immersive experience scripted killing games know that when playing this kind of game, the players themselves are designed.

The closer these characters are to the players themselves, the better. If they are too divorced from reality, there will be an embarrassing situation where the actors are acting very hard but the players are embarrassed.

So which kind of persona is not embarrassing?

The answer is of course visiting students.

Jiang Qi has been a serious visiting student, and he has the most say. Being a visiting student is not only not embarrassing, the feeling is no different from receiving the admission notice to Hogwarts when he was 11 years old.

If not for the conditions at the time, Jiang Qi would have even wanted to be a visiting student at the school for a whole year.

Visitors to the Magic Academy are a wonderful mechanism.

Visiting student quota is open all year round.

In order to facilitate the visiting students to experience the classroom, when the school teachers find that there are visiting students in the class, they usually start with a short activity and talk about something that looks cool and easy to use but has no practical effect.

These contents are very similar to the wonderful little physics experiments that the physics teacher will show the students in the first physics class of junior high school. It is fun, but it is useless at all. It will not be tested in the exam, and it will not be learned in the future.

The only function is to first trick students into the ocean of physics and then drown them.

Most of the teachers at the Incredible Magic Academy follow this class process.

Of course, some teachers do not need to do extravagant work, such as cooking class teachers. Just go to class as usual. Whichever dish the visiting students encounter will be that dish. If you encounter it, you are lucky. If you don't encounter it, it means you are not lucky enough.

This rule applies to all courses in the Academy of Incredible Magic, because the visiting time for visiting students is fixed, only three days. But there are some courses in the school that are not popular. For example, the crystal ball divination class only has 1 or 2 classes a week.

Some visitors are not lucky enough to have a crystal ball divination class in three days, and they are unable to attend even if they want to.

There was such a successful precedent, and the copyright of this precedent even belonged to him. Of course, Principal Peggy copied it without mercy.

All students who spend money to experience the Magic Academy are visiting students.

The school itself will not change its established courses based on changes in the number of visitors. Counting from the official opening day as the opening ceremony, the flow of time in the Incredible Magic Academy will be the same as the outside world every day.

Every day's lessons are new and everyone is living as usual in school. The progress of the course has nothing to do with the visiting students. If there are visiting students, they will first talk about a useless but interesting piece of knowledge, and then continue according to the previous progress. There are no visitors, and you don’t even have to do the flowers. You can talk about it as you want.

The direct benefit of this kind of new day every day is that tourists can swipe N.

As long as you have money, tourists can even live in the Incredible Magic Academy for three months, ensuring that your classes are different every day, with new plots and high-degree-of-freedom exploration games every day.

Under this mechanism, the only ones who suffer are the teachers, because teachers really have to prepare lessons every day, and they cannot take the same courses.

Cooking classes and elf gardening classes are better classes that can have many different contents. Liu Lan had to prepare for a whole year of classes, and the contents had to be different every day, and they had to be updated in real time, just like a real class. People were dumbfounded when the announcement was made.

How can her bubble class be updated in real time? Isn't it just to fool children?

However, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. The resourceful Liu Lan came up with an idea and said that her class was a special magic experience class open to visiting students, and the content was the same every day.

The reason was quite reasonable, and she just got over it.

The price is that other teachers can only teach one class a day, or even not teach at all. Liu Lan has to attend several classes a day. Who said her class is a visiting student experience class?

It is also easy to solve the problem of asking for leave when meeting actors. The classmates will say they are sick, and the teacher will say to ask for leave. If you don't meet them, it means that the fate has not arrived.

The Incredible Magic Academy, a school that depends entirely on fate!

Jiang Qi was still recalling Liu Lan's sad expression when he learned that he was the teacher with the most classes, and then Principal Peggy said, "It's settled."

"Combining the number of visiting students in the school before, and based on my and Zero's statistical calculations, based on the current size of the school and the number of courses offered, the maximum number of visiting students that can be accommodated in one day is 370."

As an amusement park attraction, this number is low, but as a large-scale live-action scripted killing, this number can be said to be quite a lot.

"In terms of pricing, the opening discount is currently tentatively priced at 668 per day, half price for children under 1.2 meters tall, and full price for children over 1.2 meters tall."

"668?" Jiang Qi took out his mobile phone and did some calculations. "If the tickets are sold out in one day, more than 270,000 tickets will be sold. Isn't it a bit too cheap?"

Of course, the price of 668 will not make a loss. After all, the school draws cards. It is all magic and there are no water and electricity bills. The only cost is the actors' wages.

You know, there are more than 70 NPCs in the school alone.

But this is only the actual cost. On the surface, just building the castle of the Incredible Magic Academy costs hundreds of millions. A small group of 370 people can enjoy the whole castle for a whole day, and there is no additional amusement park ticket fee. The price is no different from charity.

"668 is just the basic price and does not include accommodation." Principal Peggy explained.

"If accommodation is included, it's 2888, including breakfast on the second day."

Jiang Qi:......

Jiang Qi thought about the two-person dormitory in the school and raised his finger to Principal Peggy: "As expected of you."

"This price is actually very cheap. After all, it is a special opening price. Think about it, boss, you can live in Hogwarts for a day for 2888. What a super low price and super value experience!"

"I'll ask you to spend 2888 to spend a day in the real Hogwarts. Would you like it?"

Jiang Qi said sincerely: "Stop!"

"Besides, we have a special night tour in the evening, and 2888 includes additional experience fees."

Jiang Qi pressed the calculator again, raised his head and asked, "How many dormitories can we open now?"

"There are 40 dormitories. The number of dormitories on the first floor is not particularly large. Most of the dormitories are concentrated on the fourth and sixth floors. The night views on those two floors are very good."

Jiang Qi nodded and continued pressing the calculator.

"Not bad." Jiang Qi looked at the numbers on the calculator and nodded with satisfaction, "With the income from the canteen and souvenir shop, it shouldn't be bad."

"I remember Teacher Zero told me about a school open house yesterday. What was that?"

Seeing that the content of the conversation finally caught up with him, Teacher Ling said leisurely: "That's it. I talked with Principal Peggy during this period and felt that for the long-term development of the amusement park, it is necessary to provide free services to all amusement park visitors every month. Open the Academy of Incredible Magic.”

"How can teachers teach in this case?" Jiang Qi asked.

If you just visit the Academy of Incredible Magic, the school's large area can accommodate a lot of tourists, but the classrooms cannot.

The classroom can't be too crowded, and the teacher only has one voice. You can't let the teacher from the Magic Academy bring a loudspeaker to class.

"The teaching content on the visiting day is special, and you need to queue up to enter like other projects in the amusement park. The classrooms and auditoriums must be restricted, and the school itself must also be restricted. I will ask Lillian to make special magic props to limit everyone's visit. time."

"Of course, if the number of tourists is not large, there is no limit on the visiting time."

"Sounds good." Jiang Qi agreed, "It can be improved. One day per month is a bit too little, let's use two per month, one day in the first half of the month and one day in the second half of the month."

"Okay boss." Teacher Ling nodded with a smile.

Lilian saw that everyone was silent, and when the business was finished, she quickly raised her hand to speak.

"Boss, I have another question!"

"explain!"

"It's like this. Although I am the school director now, and the sign on my office does say "school director", I am also the proprietress of the Snow Village Tavern."

"The school is not open to the public yet. I come here every day to go to and from classes. When the afternoon time comes, I go to the Snow Village to run the tavern. The magic show in the evening also goes on as usual. I can really arrange the time. After all, I don't appear for a long time in the Snow Village. I don’t have too many classes here at school. I would like to take a few more classes, but Principal Peggy won’t let me.”

Jiang Qi:......

You are taking a fire magic class. To put it bluntly, it is an explosion bang bang tom class. With your rich experience in bombing laboratories, Principal Peggy is willing to let you take a few more classes.

Lilian continued to say with some annoyance: "Although there is no problem with the timing, when the school opens, everyone will know that I am the school director."

"I, the director of the Incredible Magic Academy, have to go to Snow Village to run a tavern. I have to write books and perform performances. Doesn't it seem that I am not in a position to do it? Should I put a stop to things in Snow Village?

"But if I don't go to Snow Village, won't the tavern become very unattractive? If so, won't people be willing to stay in Snow Village? Will it affect the business of the entire amusement park? In this case, wouldn't I become a tourist? Sinners in Paradise?”

Jiang Qi didn't know if Lilian would become the sinner of the amusement park. He knew that if Lilian continued to follow this train of thought, the amusement park would go bankrupt due to the opening of the Incredible Magic Academy.

"I think it's okay." Jiang Qi said, "Your status as a school director does not affect your running the tavern. Our school is so poor that we have to open paid visiting students to humans to maintain the business. You, a dignified school director, ran out It’s normal to make some extra money by running a tavern!”

Jiang Qi's words woke up the dreamer, and Lilian realized.

"But you reminded me." Jiang Qi looked at Lillian solemnly, as if he was seeing the free publicity agent of the Incredible Magic Academy.

"It's winter now, and the Snow Village has a lot of traffic. Basically, every tourist has to go to the Snow Village to check in. As soon as you show up, the entire tavern will be surrounded by tourists. Such a good resource cannot be wasted."

"As a school director, it's not too much to do a little free publicity for the school, right? From today on, when you go to the pub, you can advertise the Incredible Magic Academy and tell the tourists that the school is about to open. Why is it not managed well? Open up the visitor quota to make some money to maintain it. You can speak out about life, don’t be afraid!”

"You're not a rich person anyway."

“Start the early stage of publicity first, don’t wait until the promotional video is cut and then start promoting it.”

"Okay boss!"