Chapter 28. Blacklist

     Li Yaolin received a call from Captain Pan, who revealed the leader’s intention, which was that the city’s leaders also agreed with her idea, and it would be best to turn the passive into the active in this matter.

     Since Yóushì wants to establish a protected area, there must be wild animals worth protecting, so leaving the green turtles and turtle eggs, and then dispatching professionals from other protected areas to help, is the best solution.

     Yóushì city has already called the protected area in Hui City, and I believe there will be results soon.

     Long Feng and his colleagues were dumbfounded when they received the call from their superiors. The purpose of their business trip was originally just to bring the turtle eggs back to Hui City for hatching, but they didn’t expect to bring the turtle eggs back, and they also lost themselves.

     Li Yaolin saw that the two of them were a little confused, and said with a smile: “It seems that we will have to work together for a while in the future.”

     Long Feng: “…”

     He didn’t say anything, so Li Yaolin took it as his agreement and began to ask him what kind of equipment and environment he wanted to meet the standards of the protected area.

     Long Feng had no choice but to compromise and said, “We can put aside other equipment for now, but it’s better to build an incubator first. The incubation time of turtle eggs is about fifty days, so if you really plan to build an incubator for these nearly one hundred turtle eggs, you still have to hurry up.”

     Li Yaolin smiled slightly: “Build it first, I think there will be more than ninety-eight turtle eggs on the island in the future.”

     The incubator doesn’t have to be too fancy. According to Long Feng and Cen Yingda, it’s just a bungalow with good lighting. It mainly needs to reduce artificial lighting, increase natural light, and simulate the environment of the beach, but it can prevent snakes, rats, seabirds, etc. from having the opportunity to steal turtle eggs and attack hatched turtles.

     That night, Li Yaolin spent 30,000 yuan to build an incubator in the protected area.

    The next day, when Long Feng and his colleagues came over, they were dumbfounded again: “This house didn’t exist yesterday, right?”

     Li Yaolin said: “It was built overnight last night.”

     Long Feng: “…”

     Where did they find the construction team? It’s awesome!

     Long Feng asked cautiously, “Isn’t it an illegal construction?”

     “All the formalities are complete.”

     Long Feng knew that Li Yaolin had probably planned the wildlife reserve long ago. After all, the temporary construction of additional buildings still needs official approval, and the process will take more than a month. How can it be so fast?

     Talking about future cooperation, Li Yaolin said, “If you don’t mind, you can live in our staff dormitory for the time being!”

     She was not responsible for paying Long Feng and his team, but after all, they were seconded, so the problem of food and accommodation still had to be properly arranged.

     Long Feng was quite satisfied with this. He could also see that Li Yaolin was very cautious about green turtles. For this reason, the negative impression that she stopped them from taking away the turtle eggs out of the nature of a businessman seeking profit was also improved.

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     After this matter was handled, the cultural and tourism department invited Li Yaolin to attend the Lady Xian cultural promotion event held in the Citizen Park in two days. Although it had nothing to do with tourism, Li Yaolin wanted to know more about the city, so she agreed.

     Next, she was either busy with meetings or attending official activities. When she returned to Xingzhou Island again, Editor-in-Chief Shen called and confirmed the interview time for tomorrow.

     Li Yaolin then vaguely remembered that the deputy editor-in-chief of the travel magazine had made an appointment with her for an interview.

     She said: “No problem, I will tell the passenger ship, and you can come directly through the employee channel tomorrow.”

     Editor-in-Chief Shen paused: “No, our magazine pursues truth.”

     “Okay, but if you want to stay overnight, we don’t have a hotel here for the time being, only employee dormitories, please make do with it.”

     Editor-in-Chief Shen thought that an island that can be played in one day should not need to stay overnight. But he didn’t say it absolutely, so as not to encounter unexpected situations at that time, and he would be embarrassed.

     After ending the call, the accountant came to report to Li Yaolin about the revenue of Xingzhou Island these days. After she finished reporting, Lin Qiang came to report on the safety work on the island.

     In fact, Li Yaolin can see all these things on the APP, but she usually only looks at whether there are red words, that is, some negative information.

     Under normal circumstances… For example, if 400 tickets (including free and half-price tickets) were sold today, there would be a black record of “ticket revenue of 7,000 yuan” and other information; and someone on the island violated the rules and did something that damaged the ecological environment, such as someone crossed the buoy on the white beach a few days ago and dived into the seabed to pull seaweed, and a red warning appeared.

     After Li Yaolin confirmed again and again that this person was not littering, she did not give him three chances and blocked him on the spot.

     The reason why three chances are given for littering is that it is difficult to guarantee that there will be garbage falling without knowing it, but this kind of behavior that has been clearly warned when landing on the island is committed, which can only be said to be knowingly committing a crime.

     She worked diligently to improve the ecology of the island and the surrounding waters, but he came to destroy it, which is equivalent to making her bankrupt. She is not so tolerant of enemies who try to make her bankrupt.

     After blacklisting her, she ignored him. Unexpectedly, when Lin Qiang came to report today, he mentioned: “A tourist was making a fuss outside, saying that he couldn’t enter the island and asked us to give an explanation.”

     Li Yaolin raised his eyebrows and asked: “Did he say why he couldn’t enter the island?”

     “He said that when he took his ID card to the ticket machine to buy a ticket, it showed that he couldn’t buy a ticket, and the same was true for manual operation.”

     Li Yaolin said “Oh” and asked: “Then in your opinion, why can’t he buy a ticket?”

     Lin Qiang was silent for a moment, as if he thought of something, his eyes flashed: “Others can buy tickets, which means that it’s not the ticket machine that has a problem, but he has a problem. He should be blacklisted!”

     He remembered that Li Yaolin mentioned that violating the rules of the island would be blacklisted.

     At that time, many people didn’t care, thinking that it was a small tourist attraction, how could they find the ones who violated the rules among so many tourists?

     Even if they find it, there is no reason to push the tourists out. Even if they violated the rules first, as long as they make a fuss and affect the tourism image of Xingzhou Island, they don’t believe that the owner of Xingzhou Island can still be so tough!

     The people who were blocked this time questioned Xingzhou Island outside. Lin Qiang went out to explain that he violated the rules and was blocked, but he still refused to give in and told the passing tourists that Xingzhou Island bullied people.

     When Li Yaolin went out, he just heard the other party shouting arrogantly: “You said I violated the rules of the island. What rules did I violate? Do you have evidence? If there is no evidence, you are violating my legitimate rights and interests. I want to defend my rights!” Lin Qiang frowned, and the man said to the tourists around him,

      “They put people on the blacklist at will. You don’t know when you offended their staff and were deprived of the right to go to the island. Do you think it’s fair? I ask your boss to come out and give us an explanation!” 

     The tourists around, especially those who came for the first time, did have a bad impression of Xingzhou Island because of his disturbance: “Yes, you have to give people an explanation!” 

     “What do you want?” Li Yaolin walked over. 

     The tourist glanced at her: “I want to see your island owner.” 

     “I am, what do you want to say?” Li Yaolin asked again. 

     “You?!” Everyone was stunned. 

     They clearly didn’t expect the island owner to be such a young girl. “I’m looking for someone who can make decisions on your island. What’s the point of finding a pretty girl? Do you think I won’t hold you accountable if she’s a woman?” The tourist said dissatisfiedly. 

     Li Yaolin didn’t bother with him about whether he could make the decision. He said, “We have broadcasts and slogans on the island. From the moment you land on the island, you are reminded not to litter, destroy the ecological environment of the island and the ocean, destroy public property, or commit crimes such as stealing and fighting on the island. Since everyone has chosen to buy a ticket, it means that everyone has tacitly agreed to abide by the rules. If you violate the rules, you will naturally be blacklisted on the island.”

     There are not many tourist instructions for Xingzhou Island. With just a few short items, fish with a seven-second memory can remember them through repeated reminders from security guards, broadcasts, and lifeguards, let alone humans. Those who violate the rules either don’t take these rules to heart, or they knowingly violate them.

     The tourists looked at each other. No one expected that Xingzhou Island would actually blacklist people.

     “Why did I violate the rules?” the tourist asked unconvinced.

     “Your name is Hu Bingchang, right? Five days ago, at 3:12 pm on July 9, you ignored the warning and crossed the buoy of the prohibited area, and you also dived to destroy the ecological environment of the ocean and took away half a pound of Sargassum.”

     Hu Bingchang’s face suddenly changed. Facing the questioning eyes of other tourists, he shouted fiercely: “You are talking nonsense, do you have any evidence?!”

     Li Yaolin took out his mobile phone and clicked on a video. The video seemed to be shot by a drone. The mosaic-screened scene of him diving into the seabed, grabbing handfuls of Sargassum, and then stuffing it into his swimming trunks and taking it away was played to him.

     Hu Bingchang: “!!!”

     A tourist who saw this scene on the side: “…”

     Ah, what kind of bad taste is this?

     Hu Bingchang reacted and yelled, “You are violating my privacy!”

     “This video will not be published online, but you have destroyed the ecological environment of the waters under the jurisdiction of Xingzhou Island. In order to repair these damaged places, we have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources. I will call the police and have the right to ask you for compensation. Please provide the address to receive the lawyer’s letter.”

     Hu Bingchang: “…”

     He admitted that he was timid at this moment.

     I didn’t expect that the other party actually had evidence of his violation, but how did he remember that there was no drone around at the time? And why was his behavior on the seabed recorded so clearly?

     Weird, too weird!

     Hu Bingchang felt creepy and his back was cold.

     He argued: “I, I just want to feed the green turtles, I have no bad intentions!”

     “We prohibit feeding green turtles here, and such a large sea area has abundant resources for turtles to find food on their own, so there is no need for artificial feeding.”

     Lin Qiang narrowed his eyes and recognized him: “You are from the nearby fishing village, right? I have eaten there and remember you. You once brought a fishing net here, and I thought you were here for sea fishing and didn’t pay attention to it. Now I think about it, you are not here for the turtles, right?”

     “You, you are talking nonsense, I won’t talk to you anymore!” Hu Bingchang said angrily.

     He felt guilty.

     As Lin Qiang said, he was indeed a fisherman from a nearby fishing village. Because he went to the waters of Xingzhou Island many times to fish secretly but got nothing, he went to the island to find out in person. As a result, the rich catch of the anglers made him envious and jealous.

     He brought a fishing net here on purpose, just to catch some fish, but the safety guards kept a close eye on him, and the anglers refused to let him do so. He was feeling bored so he went swimming. He saw Sargassum while diving. On the one hand, he wanted to go against the island, and on the other hand, he was too greedy to do anything, so he grabbed half a pound of Sargassum…

     Seeing the increasingly distrustful eyes of the tourists, the socially dead Hu Bingchang quickly pushed through the crowd and hurried onto the boat.

     Lin Qiang looked at Li Yaolin: “Do you want to bring him back?”

     “Forget it, he probably won’t come again in the future, but the lawyer’s letter still needs to be sent.” Li Yaolin planned to ask Lawyer Wu to send him a lawyer’s letter later.

     Turning around and seeing that many tourists seemed a little uneasy, she put on a bright smile again: “Please rest assured, we are a law-abiding scenic spot and will not do anything illegal. As long as all tourists abide by the rules of the island, there will be no problems. I hope everyone can have a pleasant experience!”

     The tourists had originally felt uncomfortable because of Hu Bingchang’s words. After listening to Li Yaolin’s words, and thinking of the cameras that can be seen in the streets and alleys now, and the identity information that has been exposed invisibly, they became numb.

     At least Xingzhou Island did not cross their bottom line by installing surveillance cameras in private places such as changing rooms and toilets. Besides, which tourist attraction does not have surveillance cameras now? They think that surveillance cameras will have a higher safety factor.

     After buying tickets and boarding the island, the tourists quickly forgot what happened just now, especially when they saw the white beach and sea area. They all cursed Hu Bingchang. They didn’t know what was wrong with him. How could he bear to destroy such a beautiful ecological environment? Once the ecological environment is destroyed, it is unknown how much time and effort it will take to repair it.

 

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     After solving this problem, Li Yaolin continued to check the revenue of Xingzhou Island.

     She thought that the tickets for Xingzhou Island were already the bulk of the revenue, but she didn’t expect that the daily turnover of the convenience store directly reached 9,000 yuan.

     Li Yaolin: “?!”

     Shock! When did her convenience store make so much money?