HP's Foreign Land

one,

Two days later, Carlo clutched the newspaper and lamented Heimdall's foresight. In the middle of last month, the comet broom company, which had just launched a new series of products—the magic dragon—was exposed by a Spanish media to a scandal of discord among high-level executives, pointing out that Comet The two bosses of the company have long been in harmony, as can be seen from the company's contradictory and stagnant broom design concepts in recent years.

Comet Broom Company is a family business, and the two bosses currently at the helm are sisters and brothers.The elder sister is mainly in charge of marketing, and the younger brother is in charge of design. There is a big age gap between the two, and their personalities are also completely different.The will of the leader of the previous generation planted hidden dangers for the intensification of conflicts between the two in the future. The sister who holds the main power of the company insisted on maintaining the tradition that Comet has always adhered to. The broomstick has become unrecognizable, and he is complacent, euphemistically calling it epoch-making; while the younger brother is just a self-proclaimed reformist, who scoffs at his sister's self-importance and pursues novelty at the same time, but it is a pity that every time a product that he thinks is refreshing is ordered before it is launched. discontinued.

One sticks to the rules, and the other is blindly unconventional.

That's what it was all about. The conflict between the siblings gradually heated up. The little boss gathered a group of like-minded friends to put pressure on his sister. The big boss was struggling with internal and external troubles.

In the evening, Heimdall asked Mr. Victor Krum, the current spokesperson of Comet, "Will Comet go out of business?"

"Not likely," Victor said. "Their sales performance is still relatively outstanding among similar companies. Internal conflicts will not affect sales, but may stimulate sales."

Heimdall felt that if the wizarding world had a stock market, Comet's stock price would probably fall by [-]%. It is not good news that the decision-making level is constantly divided and it is exposed.

"The good sales are due to you." Heimdall flattered him instantly.

"Isn't there still you?" The master patted back with a tacit understanding.

"Then I'll go ahead and order Comet's broomstick repair kit," Heimdall said.

Heimdall used to use the multifunctional repair box that swept out. After the master became the spokesperson of Comet, their family can get a good discount when buying things in Comet.It's a pity that the multifunctional broom repair box is not included in the list of free products. If it weren't for the 6% discount price which is a quarter cheaper than the sweeping price, Heimdall would still prefer sweeping.

Sweeping’s gadgets are made more manly—it’s just big, and it’s just right for Judge Sturluson’s rough hands to hold, but the comet is too delicate to handle it.

"Have you heard any internal rumors?" Heimdall lowered his voice thievingly. There were obviously no other wizards in the room except the two of them, and it was not enough for Xiaomi to join the interest group. "For example, the future trend and how the sister-brother struggle will end is known all over the world. It's impossible to let it go on, right? Is the younger brother going to seize power? How sure? The older sister can't be captured without a fight, right? After so many years of being a big boss who has strategized, he will not have no foundation at all."

For Heimdall, as long as the matter has nothing to do with him, he is still willing to gossip about the rich and powerful houses...

"What do you think of Comet's products? As an ordinary consumer." Victor did not answer the question.

Heimdall's first reaction was: "It's a bit expensive..."

"Sweeping and Nimbus brooms are not cheap." Not to mention the Firebolt, which makes the working class sigh, but the latter is a broom for special competitions and is not in the general market.

"Based on the current market price, Nimbus is the highest, followed by Comet, and finally Sweep. If I am a consumer, I would buy Sweep for the purpose of saving money; if I want to buy a good, well-made, time-honored Nimbus is The first choice..." The unfinished words were quite clear, and it was very embarrassing for the comet caught in the middle.

Victor thought for a while, then said, "You've used the comet's broom, what was your overall impression?"

"Honestly the gimmick outweighed the utility," recalls Heimdall. "The Magic Dragon series released last month, and the Griffin series, which was advertised in an extravagant manner at the end of last year, such as sky griffins and earth griffins, are really impressive in appearance and feel good in hand, but the performance after the actual launch is really not satisfactory. Compared with similar products, there is no bright spot. I think Comet has introduced new ones over the years, only the earliest Millennium series and the later Knight series are perfect in terms of speed and balance.”

Although those two series are outdated today, there are many wizards who still use them in life. The millennium and knights have been eliminated in the arena. It is very good as a household broom.I remember the craze for snapping up Millenniums and Cavaliers that was popular among housewives.

Heimdall also remembered one more thing: In order to flatter Rommel, the director of the Wizarding Sports Department of the Finnish Ministry of Magic bought a set of Comet Gryphon in the name of the Finnish national selection team last year, the broom test pilot of the selection team After using it, I was very dissatisfied, and had a quarrel with the stubborn director... As you can imagine, the new director Tuukaneng was ordered in such a critical situation.The shiny Gryphon broom still gathers dust in the warehouse of the Finnish national Quidditch selection team.

"Does that mean you like Comet classics?" Victor asked.

"The products after the comet didn't make my eyes shine..." Heimdall hesitated, and the obsessive-compulsive disorder of the head of the laboratory was on the verge of breaking out.

"I see," said the master meaningfully. "I will promise to stay."

"What do you mean? Who let you go?"

"The big boss of Comet begged me to stay, and Comet will prepare to launch the next season's product——Eclipse Knight series."

"Eclipse Knight? Knight series fried rice?"

"The original name was Rainbow Ghost. Considering the copyright issue, I finally gave up and decided to use Lunar Eclipse Knight. This series is based on the old knight and improved."

"Rainbow Ghost is a good name, has it been registered by another company?"

The master shook his head, then nodded again, "'Other Company' is still in the construction stage."

Heimdall looked confused.

Victor answered slowly, "The little boss is going to start anew."

After going around in a big circle, the master finally responded to Heimdall's initial question head-on.

"Break up from the family business and start your own business?" Heimdall thought to himself that as a second-generation rich man, his determination and perseverance are admirable, and the road to entrepreneurship is not easy.

"To be precise, the comet split the north and the south. The old comet was renamed the north comet, and the original site remained unchanged; the small boss took away a group of backbones of the company and established the south comet company in Spain. The north and south comets are still one, but they have nothing to do with each other in terms of business. You can’t drag each other’s legs, and occasionally you can cooperate.”

"What a toss..." Heimdall sneered. "I'm afraid Rainbow Ghost is the name of the new series that the little boss came up with, right?"

Victor nodded.

"Young designers have followed the little boss to break new ground?"

Victor nodded again.

"In order not to be robbed of the limelight by Southern Comet, Northern Comet has no choice but to bite the bullet and sell Knights. Change?"

Victor did not comment, but said: "Do you want to try Eclipse Knight yourself?"

Heimdall's eyes lit up, "Comet, no, the new series of Comet Bei is still endorsed by you?"

"I said, I decided to stay in Comet North."

The little boss also handed over an olive branch, and the sales of the products endorsed by the old man were pretty good.

"If you agree, I'll send someone to talk to the big boss about your advertising fee." Victor said.

"Are you kidding me, I'm a fake woman, and now the whole wizarding world knows it."

"What's the matter, did someone accuse the image in the ad to be bad? The big boss is not afraid anymore, what are you afraid of?"

"big boss?"

Victor nodded, "Actually, the big boss proposed it. By the way, she also said that she is your fan. Once you appeared in the advertisement, her heart beat."

Heimdall was in a daze.

Forgot to mention, the big boss likes women.

two,

The shooting of the new ad went relatively smoothly. After all, he had rich experience in women's clothing, and with the endorsement fee, Heimdall was particularly able to afford it this time. He even exchanged experience and offered suggestions with the stylist, but he was never rejected by the stylist. Adoption... The stylist who worked with him for the first time felt that Heimdall was very easy-going, unlike the black ones in the newspaper who kept getting carried away with Joe. After talking more, Heimdall learned from the stylist that Nan Comet had also They are rushing to shoot a new commercial, even though they haven't even found an office yet.

The big boss who dotes on his younger brother is determined to draw a line with his younger brother.

"The little boss came back yesterday and asked the boss for money. I heard that the little boss's Gringotts vault has lost a single Nat, and the boss stopped depositing pocket money in his vault. In the end, they broke up again." The stylist is a gossip guy, just like Carlo.

After the North-South division of Comet Company, the employees who stayed in Comet North unanimously changed their name to the big boss as the boss to reflect the uniqueness of the person in charge.The little boss used his older sister as a cash machine, and separated them out to be independent, and blatantly poached her sister's corner. How could he go back and ask for money? Normal people don't have that kind of shame, they are really ignorant.

"Probably the little boss's gold Galleons are used for commercials." Heimdall said slowly.

The stylist smiled slightly, and exchanged a knowing look with him through the full-length mirror.

"I read the newspaper, and I was fascinated immediately. The dark color is actually very suitable for you. In order to separate from the old you, for the new northern comet, and for the new knight who has high hopes, I want to continue to try the dark color. Hue, don't you mind?" the stylist asked expectantly.

"You are a professional." Heimdall shrugged.

"It may be different from the previous advertising image, or even completely opposite." The stylist reminded anxiously.

"I have been described by the Spanish media as a disgusting pervert in women's clothing. Even if I wear the previous skirt, I will not be a lovely comet princess in the eyes of people with ulterior motives. It's okay, do as you think."

The stylist beamed and promised, "I'll let those people bite off their tongues and chew them!"

The new week is approaching, and two comets, one north and one south, put up new product advertisements at the same time. The entire flying broom market is almost occupied by Comet’s north-south split topic. The products are placed in a prominent position.

The heroine of South Comet is an unexpected but reasonable "prototype" - the legendary Squib girl.

A truth looms.

"Looks like it's all caused by the southern comet!" Heimdall's friend complained for him.

Northern Comet’s new series Lunar Eclipse Knights were launched at the same time, with Central European countries as the dividing line, the northern part of Europe was dominated by overwhelming Northern Comet advertisements, and Southern Comet competed in southern Europe.It's a pity that Southern Comet was established too hastily, the funds were not in place, and the available resources were very limited, so it couldn't be as tall as Northern Comet. Only a few big cities in Spain can see the new advertisement of Southern Comet.Although Italy, which is also in southern Europe, is not very enthusiastic about comet brooms, cities such as Rome, Venice, and Florence are all investing in advertisements for Comet North, and newspapers have successively published information and posters of new products.

The boldness of Northern Comet's death and rebirth has won unanimous praise from everyone. The vicious queen in the advertisement is even more addictive and has a great visual impact.The transformation of the princess into an evil witch route surprised and delighted the fans.

In the poster of Eclipse Knight, the black-robed queen is lying in a huge and exquisitely carved quaint pensieve, her long black hair overflowing with silver flowing water, her whole body is enveloped by coiled black memories, the queen's red lips are in a It is particularly eye-catching in the black, coupled with the face that seems to be smiling but not smiling.The stylist's guarantee is not exaggerated, it really makes people unable to look away.

Regardless of the final sales volume, as far as advertising posters are concerned, Northern Comet is even better. Southern Comet, which flaunts a new starting point and new direction, uses old ideas and old "prototypes". The craze triggered by Comet Princess has long been In the past tense, there is no newness, no highlights, and not enough eye-catching for ordinary people. Even fans of "prototypes" cannot deceive themselves in terms of styling.

One of the elements of advertising is freshness.

The advertisement of Northern Comet, which looked like a Hollywood blockbuster, finally entered the broom section of the cooperative magazine under the long-awaited, new and old fans who were fascinated by the evil queen rushed to buy the magazine as soon as the magazine was released, and then used the magazine's bonus Novelty magic glasses for viewing.

PS: The idea of ​​the glasses was provided by Mr. Heimdal Sturluson from Durmstrang College, and the Weasley joke shop in the UK was put into production.

That afternoon, Heimdall, who was leaving the classroom, was stopped by Zug who was crying.

"Director, why did you die!" Chu Ge beat his chest and stamped his feet.

This unlucky boy, what nonsense? !

"Princess..." Chugne's face was full of excitement.

"Obviously the queen!" Judge Strulusson was very dissatisfied, the CPU was upgraded, what a princess!

"It's the heroine... Director, you died so badly..." Chu Ge was devastated.

The head of the room is tolerant and ignores the second half of the sentence.

"The end of the villain is to be killed. He does a lot of evil, and the justice will win. Why cry, the queen is a bad person!" Heimdall tried to straighten out his three views.

In fact, Heimdall's handling of villains is more exquisite than that of decency. In the previous comet commercials, the villain prince played better than the fake fairy princess, which is simply a profound interpretation of snake spirit disease.At that time, in order to set off the fantasy theme and popular sales among the people, and Comet Company promoted the heroine, no one cares about the villainous prince.The new series of advertisements are the collision of justice and evil, the battle between the knight and the queen, supported by a plot and enough appearance rate, the three-dimensional effect of the queen is naturally better than that of a pure villain.

Zug is an obedient child, and the sadness of being interrupted by Heimdall is over.

"Why don't you give the queen a chance to reform herself?" The bear child was always aggrieved.

If an apology is useful, why do we need the police?

"Some faults are no longer unforgivable. Suppose you kill someone, will the deceased and the family of the deceased accept your apology?" Heimdall asked.

Moreover, Northern Comet is only making money by making brooms, and does not want to offend moralists. The villain deserves peace in the world.

Zug shrunk his neck, "Isn't that an advertisement..."

"You know it's an advertisement, so why are you crying! Have you finished your homework? Have you previewed everything you need to preview? How are you preparing for the final exam? Have you finished writing the summary I gave you last time? Next I will conduct a final review on whether you can be the director of the next experimental laboratory next week, do you think you can pass?"

Chuge's face changed drastically, and he ran away with his head in his arms.

Heimdall quietly revealed a schadenfreude smirk, thinking of his current situation...

He sighed old-fashionedly, clamped his book tightly and continued walking.

"I really don't understand..." When passing by the atrium, a strange voice suddenly came. "I'm talking about Stulusson. I didn't expect him to have such a hobby. Don't you feel disgusted? The girls in the first grade are young and ignorant. It's okay to be long and short all day long. Look at Zug in the third grade. Ma The farts are so ignorant...I think he, like the president of the student union, may have some unspeakable hobbies. So they can speak together and have a common language!" The fourth grade who was speaking then laughed, The laughter was full of stark malice.

Some students in the atrium agreed, some were perfunctory, and some pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Heimdall, who was in the shadows, hesitated whether to surprise him by appearing suddenly, or to use some means to retaliate now that no one noticed him.After thinking about it, Mr. Chairman, the latter option seems to be more practical.Just as he was figuring out how to act effectively, Robert Maroney interrupted the unfriendliness of the fourth grade.

"You really don't have any knowledge at all. Wearing a skirt is disgusting, and your mental capacity is really poor. Can you still go to the street like this? You can't stay in school. Girls in the first grade have skirts." Fan Fan Anyone with long ears could hear the scorn in Maroni's words.

The fourth grade was caught in hatred by his blurred-focused taunt, and his face was stiff with anger, "Your brother will be the president of the student union next school year, and he usually keeps low in front of Sturlusson, congratulations to him for finally getting his wish! You are a sycophant just like your brother! You only yell after Strulusson and lick your shoes! A few more yells might get you a vice-chairman to do it!"

Unexpectedly, Maroni just glanced at him lightly, and said with a sneer, "Did you see Rigg wearing a skirt in school? Or did he deliberately dangle in front of you wearing a skirt to disgust you? Can you not be so naive? Imagine Don’t you need to be so poor?” After finishing speaking, he walked away gracefully amidst the stunned eyes of the students.

Anyone who saw this scene would probably look at Robert Maroney differently.

Chairman Sturluson didn't bother to stay and admire the response of the fourth grade, he left the atrium and went to the student union as planned.

How could Maloney get the chance to despise other people's childishness?Merlin appeared.Although he complained so much, he seemed indifferent on his face, but the raised corners of his mouth revealed Mr. Chairman's mood.

Not long after the lights were turned off that night, a fourth-grade student was rushed to the school hospital by a friend in a certain fourth-grade dormitory after a period of chaos.It is said that the fourth grader who was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, woke up from the dream and found that he was submerged in the ruminant and excrement of the velvet, and he was sent to the school hospital with a pungent stench all over his body.Mr. Follett, the school doctor, told him that the smell needs to evaporate naturally for at least three days.

With the full cooperation of all the professors, none of the third and fourth grade students who underwent strict screening showed any abnormalities in their pussies, and the answer was still not found until the smell disappeared.After the hapless fourth grade asked the school to kill all the cattails and was rejected, the matter finally fell through.

three,

The wandering wizard who raised a female eight-eyed spider finally responded, and Heimdall arrived at the agreed place after zero o'clock, an unfinished building with only a frame.

A black cloak may be very oppressive visually. The homeless man entrenched in the unfinished building was woken up by his colleagues who were awake, and sneaked away with his bedding rolled up and his feet oiled.The places where wild cats and dogs haunt on weekdays have also become silent. Animals have a more primitive and keen sense of crisis than humans.

After the wandering wizard appeared, he stated his conditions straight to the point, and he still wanted buns.

Heimdall refused without even thinking about it, 【After so many days, you haven't come up with any other ideas? 】The small wooden board used by the Sturluson judge to talk is much more vivid than the low-key blackboard of the other party. A pair of wings are installed on both sides, made of coarse cloth and bamboo slices, which look like bat wings. Flapping like a kite without strings.The words on the blackboard are also transformed into color display by Heimdall's magic, accompanied by color-changing flash effect, which is lively and eye-catching.

[Your black cat is also good. 】

[I don't sell magical animals. 】

The wandering wizard fell silent.

[Or I can give you an idea. I noticed that the interior of your automatic trolley is too simple. I can help you install a rotating display shelf. The shelf divides the positions of main products and ordinary products. Add some other attractive details, what do you think of my flying plank?One plank is included with the purchase of the shelf, and the second set is half price. 】【... I used to suspect that you were not a wandering wizard. 】

[I am a businessman. 】Heimdall's face doesn't turn red and he doesn't pant, and it doesn't matter if he turns red and pant, since the other party can't see him anyway.

【I'm not interested in what you said. 】

[You can think again. ] Heimdall looked easy to talk to.

Borrowing the moonlight, Heimdall suddenly felt a shadow flitting in front of him, and then it suddenly expanded. The shadow appeared to attack him with overwhelming momentum, and the aggressive aura was quite unfriendly.

[My little beauty is very impressed with you, she wants to see you, I really can't stop her. 】As the chalk writing of the wandering wizard emerged on the blackboard, Heimdall finally saw the true face of the shadow, the female eight-eyed spider that almost blinded him.

The eight-eyed female, who was affectionately called "Little Beauty" by the wandering wizards, was extremely fast and approached aggressively in a blink of an eye.

The cloak on Heimdall's chest bulged, and a black shadow sprang out, which enlarged in the blink of an eye, and blocked in front of Heimdall neatly. The huge, powerful pincers that shone like shiny metal collided with the little beauty.The little beauty, who thought she was foolproof, was caught off guard, and was violently blocked by the big pliers. The harsh friction passed by her ears, and the little beauty was shocked back again and again.

The eyes of the wandering wizard who did his own thing under the cloak and hat suddenly widened.

He thought that what was hidden under the other party's cloak today was still the Chimera cub he had been thinking about day and night, but he didn't expect it to be a male eight-eyed spider.

[Sorry, my friend may also be a little excited. ] Heimdall responded.