Chapter 84 Chinese New Year

     VR virtual reality games have only become widely known in the past decade. They can give people an immersive gaming experience. Shooting and action games are the most experiential and exciting.

     Of course, although VR games are often criticized for unclear images and dizziness, there are still many people who want to try them.

     It has not become mainstream at present because the equipment is too expensive. Going to a VR experience hall often costs more than 100 yuan for a half-hour experience, which is very uneconomical for many people.

     Tourists know that the Holiday Inn on Xingzhou Island will have a game room, but they did not expect there will be a VR experience platform!

     They chased the staff and asked: “Will there be a charge for playing these games? Can we play without staying in the hotel?”

     The staff responded: “Except for the free opening of the hotel lobby, the rest of the area requires room cards or bracelets to enter and exit. The game room, tea room, table tennis, billiard room, board game room and gym on the first floor are all free, but each game has a time limit. You can only play for half an hour at a time. If you want to experience it again after half an hour, you can only queue up again.”

     It’s very cost-effective to only play for half an hour!

     Tourists suddenly began to worry whether the room fee here will be very expensive.

     Especially when they learned about the check-in rules here, curiosity made them scratch their livers and lungs and become curious babies:

     “How can we be sure that it is the person who checked in if the front desk does not check in?”

     ——The hotel’s intelligent management system can automatically recognize faces.

     “If the information collected is leaked, will privacy and security be guaranteed?”

     ——The intelligent management system is an extremely secure system that has been encrypted multiple times and cannot be hacked even by hackers. After collecting the relevant information of the guests staying in, it will be uploaded to the terminal. Except for the island owner, no one has the authority to view and process it. And only the island owner knows where the terminal is, so you can imagine the level of confidentiality.

     “Who is your island owner?” 

     –This question is not within the scope of our answer!

     The question goes back to the hotel itself:

     “The game is free to experience, so is the restaurant also free?”

     –You can follow our official website, official blog and public account.

     “You set up a tea room, but no one knows how to make tea, so it will only become a lounge, right?”

     –The tea room is originally a place for tourists to rest and relax, and there will be tea artists stationed there. If you don’t want to drink tea, there are water dispensers, juicers, and self-service coffee machines in the lounge outside for tourists to DIY.

 

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     Netizens organized a series of questions and answers into a table and posted it online, and gave their own conclusions:

      “Looking at the official announcement when the hotel was planned, I thought it was an economy hotel. As a result, there are not many hotel rooms, and the exterior decoration is not in accordance with the specifications of a five-star hotel. But after walking around the first floor, I found that the specifications are not lower than those of some five-star hotels advertised on the island! I guess the room rate must be several hundred yuan.”

     Netizens joked: “The pattern is small, I think it costs thousands, haven’t you heard the old saying? Free is the most expensive!”

     “To be honest, if it costs thousands, I don’t want to stay. I would rather stay outside and buy a ticket to the island the next day. I think it’s more cost-effective.”

     “Is there a possibility that you are not their target customer group at all? Moreover, are you sure you can grab a ticket for the next day?”

     “Damn, who are you looking down on? I will stay for you even if it costs 10,000 yuan, and then I will slap you in the face!”

     “…”

     The clamor on the Internet did not affect Li Yaolin’s plan and layout at all.

     She decided to start the trial operation on Valentine’s Day half a month later, and the reservation qualification will be open one week in advance. Just like the holiday cabin, it is only open to tourists who have already purchased tickets.

 

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     In addition to the opening time of the Holiday Inn on Xingzhou Island, the hot spots on the Internet also include the Spring Festival activities on the island.

     Whether it is a check-in activity or a treasure hunt activity, it is held from New Year’s Eve to the sixth day of the first lunar month. There are relatively few foreign tourists traveling on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, but the citizens of Youshi will still drive to Baoren Port Pier with their families to take a boat to the island after dinner.

     The treasure hunt is also a very interesting activity for children, so on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, there will be many children running and treasure hunting on the island.

     And this family-friendly atmosphere is most favored by official media. For several consecutive days, reporters from TV stations and newspapers went to the island for interviews and reports.

     Lin Qitong, who was at home on vacation and watching the news broadcast with her parents, accidentally saw Xingzhou Island, which was out of the country for more than ten seconds when the host was broadcasting special news about Spring Festival travel and tourism!

     During the Chinese New Year, Xingzhou Island is decorated with festive atmosphere, and many decorations are very Lingnan style, such as hanging red lanterns on trees and placing “Winter Flowers” in the staff cafeteria…

     The most obvious thing is that a lot of potted plants were bought and placed, from the waiting hall of the dock to the buffet restaurant, hotel, office building, and even the lighthouse. Some peach blossoms and orange potted plants will be placed at the door, and some “red envelopes” will be posted, which are all a few cents.

     Each holiday cabin is also posted with couplets, and tourists instantly feel like they have returned to the countryside from Malaysia… They don’t dislike it, but feel warm instead.

     Some sharp-eyed netizens also noticed that the news broadcast on Xingzhou Island, and they once again set off a wave of recognition of relatives on the Internet: “This style of painting, it is confirmed, my mother is from Lingnan!”

     “This joke has been played for almost half a year, aren’t you tired of it? Fortunately, I, as your own son, am generous and don’t mind you randomly recognizing relatives.”

     “Everyone upstairs goes out without a face. Look at my IP. My identity as the young island owner can’t be concealed.”

     “Hehe, I, the eldest lady of Xingzhou Island, have never heard that my mother has an illegitimate child!”

     There are also serious netizens who said: “Are all the rich women in Lingnan so low-key? I checked all the rich people in Lingnan, and I didn’t find any clues.”

 

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     Lin Qitong looked at the comments on the Internet and thought: As expected, every time Xingzhou Island is on the hot search, it will inevitably be accompanied by the digging of Sanniang’s background. Originally, no matter how hard people dug, they didn’t have to worry about what they could find. But because Li Yaolin never made a statement or refuted the rumors, many people registered related usernames such as “Xingzhou Island Owner” and “Island Owner Li Yaolin”. Then some of them took advantage of the curiosity of netizens and started to cheat online.

     According to the feedback from the official blog of Xingzhou Island, some netizens have complained that they were cheated.

     The editor of the official blog asked: “How were you cheated? Do you want me to help you call the police?”

     One of the male Internet celebrities who was cheated said that a V-blog user who claimed to be the owner of Xingzhou Island said that she was busy developing the island all day and had no time to fall in love, so she was still single, so she wanted to find a boyfriend online.

     She saw that he was handsome and asked him if he wanted to develop a romantic relationship.

     During their relationship, she pretended that she had invested several hundred million yuan in building a hotel on Xingzhou Island and that she had no money. She wanted to ask the male Internet celebrity to borrow some money temporarily and return it to him when the funds were turned around.

     Then he was cheated. Although the several thousand yuan he was cheated of was not worth mentioning to him, he felt that he was deceived and his relationship was frustrated.

     Official blog editor: “…”

     Such a simple scam, why would you fall for it? !

     You were deceived and your relationship was frustrated, what does it have to do with Xingzhou Island? It’s not the island owner who cheated you of money and sex!

     Li Yaolin was also very speechless after learning about this, but in order to avoid more unnecessary misunderstandings, she finally asked the smart housekeeper to help find the scammer and help the male internet celebrity report to the police.

     Xingzhou Island only issued a statement to remind netizens that Xingzhou Island only has this official blog. All the accounts on the Internet that are active in the name of the owner and employees of Xingzhou Island are basically fake, and don’t believe that the island owner will find netizens to fall in love.

     Although Xingzhou Island did not reveal the male internet celebrity who was deceived, and netizens did not know who was deceived, the Internet was still lively for a long time.

     In addition to this incident, Lin Qitong mentioned this to Li Yaolin when she called to wish her a happy new year: “Why don’t you register a V-blog as the owner of Xingzhou Island? The official blog will help you verify it, so that there won’t be people using your name to confuse netizens online all day long.”

     Li Yaolin said: “I have a V-blog!”

     “You have a V-blog, but do you want to use it to verify your identity as the island owner?”

     Li Yaolin thought of her V-blog and her many dark histories from her school days, so she refused: “I don’t have time to post.”

     “I’m not asking you to post every day, just occasionally post some pictures of Xingzhou Island, and you don’t have to show your face. The reason why netizens ask about you every day is because you are too mysterious, and many people don’t even know if you really exist. But when netizens find that they can’t get the news they want by following your account, they feel bored and won’t stare at you every day anymore.”

     As an Internet celebrity, Lin Qitong has a deep understanding of this. Others can easily gain fans if they update frequently, but she updates frequently, but posts some boring content, so she won’t lose fans too quickly.

     Li Yaolin: “…Okay, I’ll try.”

     Since many user names related to Xingzhou Island and the island owner have been registered, and even the name “Li Yaolin” has been registered by many people, Li Yaolin used his nickname “Desperate Li Sanniang” as his user name.

     After registering, Li Yaolin took a photo of himself stamping a postcard and posted his first V blog: “Happy New Year and good luck to everyone!”

     Lin Qitong immediately asked the publicity team staff on duty to repost this V blog on the official blog, and added a message: “Happy New Year to the island owner!”

     Netizens immediately flocked to the V blog to leave messages:

     “F*ck, is this the real island owner?”

     “The official blog reposted and stamped the certification, it is the real island owner!”

     “Yeah, I am the first fan of the island owner!”

     “This time, a real island owner finally came. I wonder why the island owner didn’t get a yellow V certification?”

     “Is there a possibility that the island owner just registered for the V blog and doesn’t meet the requirements yet.”

     “Am I the only one who noticed that the island owner is still working during the Chinese New Year? Is this a stamp?”

     “At least it shows that the limited edition postcards are really stamped by the island owner herself!”

     “It turns out that the island owner is really a woman, but this username… I don’t think she is in her twenties, but in her fifties or sixties.”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

    She couldn’t help but reply to this netizen: “Are you looking down on those who are bad at naming? Angry.jpg”

     The number of replies that were already increasing, this one directly rose to three hundred floors in a few minutes, and the netizens who were replied to cried out: “My mother replied to me, and I said I am my mother’s biological son!”

     “Pfft, the island owner’s reply is so cute, what should I do if I want to kiss her?”

     Li Yaolin: “?”

     You want to kiss me if you have contributed to the development of Xingzhou Island, what a joke!

     Fortunately, she didn’t reply, otherwise the stupid netizens would definitely comment: “Oh, I’ll go to Xingzhou Island to work!”

     Remembering the reason why she registered this V blog, Li Yaolin changed her profile to remind netizens to call the police in time when they encounter frauds under her guise.

     After that, she closed the V blog and went back to work.

     Little did she know that the popularity of her registered V blog was still slowly rising, especially after Fu Dao, Zhou Qunfang, Zhou Bingyan and others followed her one after another, her number of fans also rose rapidly, and she had more than 200,000 fans in half a day. Those who didn’t know thought she bought zombie fans.

     Li Yaolin’s V blog private messages have accumulated more than 99 messages, and the only V blog post has a variety of hot comments:

     “The island owner’s profile is that she does not borrow money, does not seek marriage, does not have online love, and does not spend a lot of money to have children… Hahaha, XSWL, the island owner is really interesting.”

     “One of the seals the island owner stamps must be mine, hehe!”

     “Come and take advantage of my luck, I hope I can win the annual ticket in this check-in event and treasure hunt event!”

     “Island owner, please post a photo!”

 

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     When Li Yaolin finished her work and opened V blog again, the comments under her blog post had exceeded 10,000, with 50,000 reposts and even more likes.

     She has more than one million fans, more than 30 celebrities in the entertainment industry follow her, as well as some familiar magazines, popular science bloggers, big Vs, etc. Some fans even applied for the super topic of the owner of Xingzhou Island, which has more than 1,000 posts.

     The private message background is full of news that various advertisers are looking for cooperation.

     Li Yaolin didn’t quite understand: Why did it feel different from what Lin Qitong said? Netizens seemed to be more interested in her story?

     Lin Qitong said: “What are you doing? Hurry up and advertise for Holiday Inn while it’s still popular!”

     Island owner: “?”

     “Didn’t you ask me to come up with a plan to promote the hotel before?”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     “So you asked me to register for a V blog so that netizens wouldn’t lose their sense of freshness?”

     “Yes, why not? But you just opened an account, so the attention must be very high. Then use this popularity to advertise, isn’t that great!”

     “It’s great.” She said, “but I feel that your brain can’t think of such a plan to kill two birds with one stone.”

     “Tsk, who are you looking down on! Hurry up and advertise.”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     I didn’t expect that she, the dignified island owner, would also be arranged by others one day.