The woman said perfunctorily: "This kind of equipment needs to be specially customized. I don't know the price."
Lu Cheng said: "I can pay the reservation fee first!"
"Sir, are you serious?"
"Of course I am serious. If your company doesn't do it, I will find another company and someone will do it."
"Then you first make a deposit of 100,000 yuan. We need to open a separate mold for you and use lead-copper alloy, which is relatively expensive."
“What material are ordinary barbells made of?”
"alloy steel."
"Is the lead and copper barbell strong? Will it break if dropped?"
"It's not made of mud. It's as strong as a shot put. How could it break?"
………
At Shuanghe Fitness Equipment Co., Ltd. in Botou, Hebei Province, the original receptionist was sick and asked for leave. The manager's assistant Lu Xin answered the call. She received a reservation of 100,000 yuan and felt weird.
She took the recorded data and handed it to the company manager Hu Chang.
"Manager, someone requested special customization! Looking at these data, how should it be produced? How should it be priced?"
Hu Chang was young, about thirty-five or sixteen years old. After reading the data, his eyes widened and he shouted: "How dare you accept such a request?"
Lu Xin said: "He has already called to make a reservation!"
"Who is he?"
"The person who placed the order is named 'Lu Cheng' and his address is Daicheng..."
"Can I look up the name?"
"What's he doing to check?"
"I suspect that he used barbells and dumbbells as weapons, rolled down the mountain, destroyed vehicles and killed pedestrians."
"We're not from the Public Security Bureau. Why do we care so much?"
"It is the obligation of every citizen to ensure social stability and unity."
"Wait a minute, the name Lu Cheng seems a bit familiar to me. Maybe he's not an ordinary person... I remembered that in this year's Olympic trials, an outstanding male athlete emerged and qualified for three events. His name was 'Lu' Cheng'! Could it be this person? They are all from Daicheng!"
"This is too weird! Can a 5,000-kilogram barbell be played by a human being?"
"Manager, since the other party has called us for advance payment, let's make it for him! I think this is a good thing! Although we can't mention his name to avoid infringing on his reputation and portrait rights, we can hype our equipment."
"Yes, there is a need to hype it up and call it a 'barbell made for dinosaurs.'"
"Since we need to open molds, we might as well make several more, 1,000 kilograms, 2,000 kilograms...5,000 kilograms, and promote them as 'all-round, all-field' equipment. Even if no one buys them, they can still be placed in the exhibition hall. For publicity!”
Soon, the company's website and online stores on Taobao, JD.com, and Pinduoduo launched advertisements for "equipment made for dinosaurs"! This stunt attracted many shoppers to watch.
“Are the manufacturers crazy?”
“In order to gain popularity, we will do anything we can!”
"A barbell weighing up to 5,000 kilograms? Who is this for?"
"There is also a treadmill with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour! Is this a test of a sports car?"
"The normal speed of a treadmill is only 16-18 kilometers per hour. 200 kilometers per hour is too abnormal. Is it really for dinosaurs?"
"I heard that when spiritual energy is revived, dinosaurs will be resurrected..."
"How can spiritual energy be revived? You have read too many novels!"
"It's true! My dad works in the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department, and there have been a lot of strange murders recently... If nothing else, just in the past six months, there have been 5 prison escapes across the country. This would never have been possible in previous years! 56 The meter-high wall can be turned over in a 'swish'...Prisons are being renovated everywhere..."
"The train accident not long ago was caused by ants biting the bridge piers. It is said that the end of the world is coming!"
Lu Cheng only waited for half a month before receiving the specially made equipment. To this end, he made a final payment.
He told the manufacturer: "Please keep the mold. I will buy another set in a few months."
He wanted to wait until Quancheng bought a house before getting a set of equipment to put in it.
Manager Hu Chang replied: "Haha, don't worry! The mold will be kept for a long time. Since the advertisement went out, we have received unexpected orders and sold several sets of 800 kilogram barbells and a set of 1,000 kilogram barbells. If this continues, who knows if a 2,000-kilogram barbell won’t be sold in a few years?”
2000 kg refers to the upper limit of the barbell. Reducing the barbell plates can reduce the weight.
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "It seems that with the revival of spiritual energy, some strong men were born!"
In the following days, he received consecutive calls from Li Hong, saying that he had negotiated endorsement deals with several companies!
Some time ago, many manufacturers did not want to cause trouble because of the malicious attack by Tian Feifei and the suspicion of doping. After Tian Feifei lost two lawsuits and Lu Cheng qualified for three Olympic Games, his net worth suddenly increased sharply, and more people wanted to be endorsed by him.
After negotiation and struggle between Li Hong and Huang Guangjing, three large companies were selected, with endorsement fees of more than 10 million, the highest being "Xtep". The 15 million agreed last year was invalidated, and this year it was increased to 25 million, and there will be more in the future. One note, if Lu Cheng wins the Olympic marathon championship, the endorsement fee will double; if he wins the 100-meter championship, the endorsement fee will quadruple, which is 100 million! This is just one year’s endorsement money!
Track and field is the king of sports, unlike table tennis and weightlifting. Any Olympic champion who wins the marathon or 100 meters is comparable to a superstar!
As the signing bonus gradually entered Lu Cheng's account, he had more than enough money to buy a house in Quancheng, and he was in no rush to sell those bracelets, rings and necklaces.
Because prices are soaring, saving money is worse than saving things. It's similar to buying real estate. In the past few years, the value of real estate has increased rapidly, which is much higher than depositing money in the bank. Saving jade has the same effect, with the value increasing by 20-30% every year, and sometimes the value increasing by 100% in a year. For example, for Hetian jade, in 2004, the price of first-grade white jade seed material was 60,000 to 80,000 yuan per kilogram; in 2021, the price was 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per gram; and it will double or triple again by 2028!
Moreover, he is also planning to buy a jade micro-engraving machine and try to engrave runes on the bottom of the ring or the pendant. If he can succeed, the jade will be transformed from a simple decoration into a magic weapon, such as a storage ring, and its value will rise to the sky. .
His skills are too low now and he is in the stage of keeping a low profile and biding his time. Over time, if your skill improves to a certain level, you might not be able to sell jade talismans publicly!
Thinking of this, Lu Cheng placed an order online for a jade micro-carving machine and cut Russian blue and white jade.
He cut the green and white jade into thin slices of several inches, and then machine-carved them with a CNC multifunctional jade carving machine.
The first rune he chose was the word "empty".
According to the great witch Wu Huan, the most common characters on storage rings are the first character "empty", the second character "empty", the third character "little" and the fourth character "kuo". As for What else is behind it, Wu Huan doesn’t know.
After the runes were carved, he placed the jade piece on his forehead and vaguely saw a circular space inside, only one foot in diameter.
Despite this, Lu Cheng was still very happy: "Not bad! I didn't expect it to be so easy to create a storage space!"
Then, he tried to carve another word "virtual" on the back of the jade piece.
However, before the characters were carved, a crisp "click" sound was heard, and the jade piece was broken! It seems that the jade slip is too thin.
