Chapter 98. Bear Kid

     In the end, the island owner did not do such species discrimination, but she said that ferocious carnivorous marine animals such as killer whales and sharks could come over, but they had to agree on three rules:

     1. No harm or attack on humans (except poachers)

     2. No fighting with protected animals in the protected area, nor harming them

     3. No damage to the assets of the island owner and farmers.

 

     The first two are easy to understand. Regarding the third one, the specific understanding is that the fishery resources in the more than 3,000 hectares of sea area planned by the island owner as a green proliferation area cannot be touched, and the fish in the remaining 7,000 hectares of sea area can be eaten by them as they please.

     “Xiaoyu, please tell them that anyone who comes to my territory will be deemed to have agreed to these three conditions. If they violate them… Hehe, Xiaoyu, use your harpoon to take them away.”

     The little mermaid: “…”

     It said proudly: “I am an assistant, not a security guard.”

     “The hourly wage has increased to 200 yuan.”

     The little mermaid wiped its harpoon with a rag, making it sparkle. It said as it wiped it: “Since the island owner has begged me so sincerely, I will reluctantly agree to your request~”

     Li Yaolin looked regretful: “I didn’t expect that under the corrosion of money, our relationship would become so plastic.”

     The little mermaid: “Island owner, don’t say that. It’s too painful to be corrupted by money. As the island owner’s assistant, I am willing to bear this pain for the island owner!”

     The little housekeeper couldn’t stand the “drama” behavior of the plastic superiors and subordinates. It reminded Li Yaolin: “Island owner, according to monitoring, the current public opinion index ‘comprehensive index’ exceeds 8 points, ‘clear index’ 7 points, ‘negative index’ 3 points…”

     Li Yaolin wondered: “Why did the negative index increase?”

     “It seems that someone deliberately guided netizens to associate the Chinese white dolphin with the underwater hotel under construction, and believed that the construction of the underwater hotel would threaten the Chinese white dolphin.”

     When the little housekeeper said this, Li Yaolin knew who was behind it: “It seems that they finally couldn’t sit still.”

     She hasn’t promoted the underwater hotel yet, so how can ordinary tourists know so much?

     It should be that the people of Romantic Sea House Group saw the public notice and knew that once she started promoting, the popularity of Xingzhou Island would inevitably reach a new peak, so they wanted to use public opinion to force her to stop working.

     Li Yaolin said with a smile: “It’s another attempt to guide public opinion to blacken the island. Don’t they have any new tricks? No wonder the popularity and reputation of the resort have not improved at all after so many years.”

     When she developed the diving spot, the other party also used environmental pollution as a stain on Xingzhou Island and asked the navy to discredit Xingzhou Island.

     As for why they wanted to discredit Xingzhou Island, which was not well-known at the beginning, Li Yaolin only knew the reason after carefully understanding the project plan of the “Ocean Tourism Town” invested by Romantic Sea House.

     In the project, they also planned the Coral Sea Diving Base, but they didn’t expect that Xingzhou Island would develop the diving base one step ahead, which destroyed their plan to make Romantic Sea House the only diving base in Yóushì.

     Even if they built the Coral Sea Diving Base now, it would only be eclipsed by Xingzhou Island.

     Knowing that the other party has run out of tricks, Li Yaolin arranged in an orderly manner: “Since the other party has helped us to publicly promote the underwater hotel, let the publicity department and public relations department prepare countermeasures. Instead of hiding it, it is better to tell them openly that our underwater hotel will not only not threaten white dolphins, but also have the opportunity to see white dolphins when staying in the underwater hotel…”

     Since Xingzhou Island has exposed the cost of dealing with pollution and repairing the ecological environment every year, few people will question that Xingzhou Island’s projects have caused serious damage and impact on the marine ecological environment.

     Therefore, the water army hired by Romantic Sea House can only confuse those passers-by who don’t know Xingzhou Island.

    Regarding whether more passers-by will be deceived in the future, Li Yaolin is not worried, because after the finale of Director Fu’s “Mermaid Love Song”, the first episode of “Journey to the West” has also been successfully broadcast.

     The program team’s position on Xingzhou Island has always been neither smearing nor exaggerating. Except for some program props, the pictures they shot on Xingzhou Island are all true restorations. The audience feels more involved in watching this program than watching “Mermaid Love Song”.

     Because although “Mermaid Love Song” was filmed on Xingzhou Island, there were too few scenes, unlike this variety show, where the guests almost ran all over Xingzhou Island and played all the projects, allowing the audience to “visit” Xingzhou Island once.

     In addition, the program team put a clip of Song Ruqing saying that she knew the island owner in the trailer. Such a gimmick directly sent this variety show and Song Ruqing to the hot search – Song Ruqing was mocked by haters and water army for her big face, and fans spoke for her. The two sides fought verbally and involved the other guests.

     Finally, the island owner posted a V blog to confirm that they did know each other and played table tennis together, and the war of public opinion stopped.

     In addition, Shu Shuang adopted a dugong cub, Zhou Bingyan, as Zhou Qunfang’s boyfriend, recorded a program with Zhou Qunfang’s mortal enemy Song Ruqing… But there were too many hot spots for hype, resulting in the ratings of these two episodes setting a new high for Lychee TV variety shows.

     Several video websites also came to Lychee TV to buy copyrights and wanted to broadcast them simultaneously.

     “Journey to the West” became popular.

     Passersby were attracted to watch the show and were amazed by the Xingzhou Island in the show. In the end, few passersby were led by the marketing accounts that blackened Xingzhou Island, and the “negative index” monitored by the housekeeper also dropped to 1 point.

     The operation of the Romantic Sea House group not only failed to lead netizens to attack Xingzhou Island, but also made everyone curious and yearning for the underwater hotel.

     A netizen posted a blog and tagged Li Yaolin, jokingly saying, “Island owner, your publicity department is incompetent. We learned that Xingzhou Island was going to build an ‘underwater hotel’ from the negative news about Xingzhou Island!”

     This statement attracted many netizens to follow suit. The head of the publicity department, Lin Qitong, who was caught in the crossfire, posted an expressionless message on the official blog:

     “Originally, I wanted to wait until the project was completed and the island owner had inspected it before making it public. I didn’t expect everyone to be so well-informed. Since everyone knows about it, there is nothing we can do. The island owner said that she would draw a lucky person (up to two people can be brought) to stay in the underwater hotel for one night. If you are lucky, you will have the opportunity to see our lively and cute white dolphins on the seabed!”

     It was the lottery session that netizens loved the most. This time, everyone’s network speed seemed to have increased to 8G. In less than half an hour, the number of reposts exceeded 50,000, and two days later it reached an astonishing 200,000! 

     Although the prize draw date is two months later, everyone is still very much looking forward to it, and they have to see how many new competitors have been added every day.

     Although “The Mermaid Love Song” has ended, its popularity has not yet subsided, and the peripherals jointly sold with Xingzhou Island are also selling well.

     Audience fans also send private messages to Director Fu, the producer and several major actors every day, asking if there will be a second part and when it will start filming.

     If possible, they hope that the second part will still be filmed on Xingzhou Island, and it would be best if more stories that take place in the sea can be filmed, such as the controversial mermaid queen in the play.

     Although her position is opposite to that of the male protagonist, the male protagonist’s father tried to usurp the throne first, and it is also normal for the mermaid queen to get rid of the male protagonist in order to stabilize the throne.

     Besides, the mermaid queen can stand out from her brothers and inherit the throne. She must be very outstanding herself, and there are still many things that can be written about her.

     Director Fu: “…”

     Bah, you just like the mermaid queen because she is beautiful, rich and powerful!

     Due to the high demand and the very good market feedback, the producer made money, the actors gained popularity and improved their reputation, and Director Fu also proved his talent, so the producer and Director Fu discussed –

     Or continue to shoot the second part?

     Although the story of the hero and heroine has ended, the story of the mermaid can still be continued.

     Director Fu read a lot of comments from the audience, and some netizens sent him a lot of videos, which showed a young female staff member of Xingzhou Island communicating with dugongs and white dolphins. I don’t know where the girl came from, but those wild marine creatures are very close to her, just like the mermaid queen in the story…

     He was shocked and generated a lot of creative inspiration.

 

…

 

     The people of Romantic Sea House could still pretend not to see the noise on the Internet, but after learning that a company that had advertised in their resort for three years had clearly stated that it would no longer cooperate when the contract was about to expire this year, and instead spent twice the price to advertise in Xingzhou Island, they could no longer deceive themselves.

     Facing the shareholders’ doubts, the boss of Romantic Sea House said embarrassedly: “This time… it was a mistake.”

     Before, others said that the power behind Li Yaolin, the owner of Xingzhou Island, was very deep. He thought that he was backed by a large group with a market value of 20 billion, and there was no need to be afraid of the other party like a small enterprise like Yu Fan. Unexpectedly, reality still gave him a slap in the face. Although it didn’t hurt, it was extremely embarrassing.

     If the construction of the “underwater hotel” was a project carried out according to plan during the development of Xingzhou Island, and the appearance of the Chinese white dolphin was an occasional event, it was not enough to say that this was Xingzhou Island’s “return” to Romantic Sea House. The loss of advertisers is Xingzhou Island’s blatant counterattack.

     After all, advertising on Xingzhou Island does not affect advertisers from continuing to advertise in Romantic Sea House Resort. The reason why the other party terminated the cooperation with Romantic Sea House is that the price of advertising on Xingzhou Island is very expensive. Even so, there are many advertisers scrambling to bid.

     Advertisers thought the cost was too high, so they simply cancelled the advertising in Romantic Sea House. Anyway, the effect of advertising here has not been very good in recent years, so it is better to spend more money to advertise in Xingzhou Island.

     Xingzhou Island has a good brand image and reputation, and it is on the hot search all day long. Isn’t this a free opportunity to take advantage of the hot search!

     Advertisers who used to advertise in Xingzhou Island not only did not withdraw the advertisements after the expiration of the cooperation period, but would rather increase the amount to renew the contract, which shows that the advertising effect is good – the rental price of Xingzhou Island advertising space was raised by them.

     Advertisers have calculated this account, even if they have to spend twice the price, this deal is still cost-effective.

     In this regard, the shareholders of Romantic Sea House Resort were very dissatisfied and said: “Now don’t worry about whether others will reach the coast. Let’s worry about our operation first! The May Day revenue report is out. During the five-day holiday, our total number of visitors is only 20,000. Do you know what this means?!”

     The department manager muttered: “There are only 20,000 people in Xingzhou Island…”

     The shareholder corrected: “Including those tourists who stayed overnight on Xingzhou Island, the total number is 27,000.”

     He said seriously, “Moreover, Xingzhou Island only allows 4,000 people to enter the island every day, not to say that only 4,000 tourists choose it. Even if it is not a holiday, the number of people landing on Xingzhou Island has always remained at this level. On the other hand, what about us? At the least, there are only more than 100 people entering the park!”

     “Looking at the occupancy rate of holiday homes and hotels, our occupancy rate is 67%, the occupancy rate of holiday cabins on Xingzhou Island is 100%, and the occupancy rate of holiday hotels is as high as 98%, and the turnover is eight times ours! So, what’s the point of you staring at the trivial things of Xingzhou Island every day to discredit it?

     “This will not improve our situation. If you say bad things about Xingzhou Island, the tourists who originally wanted to go to Xingzhou Island will not come here. Don’t spend time and money on this kind of thing in the future. I don’t want the money I invested to be squandered by you!”

     The righteous have many supporters, while the unrighteous have few supporters. Romantic Sea House not only provoked Xingzhou Island this time, but also offended the Wenhua Group, so don’t expect the Wenhua Group to join them in curbing the development of Xingzhou Island in the future.

     The villages near the two docks of Xingzhou Island either purchased the seafood processing of Xingzhou Island for profit or made profits by relying on the popularity of Xingzhou Island. The villagers were “bought”, so when the news media interviewed, these villagers basically did not say bad things about Xingzhou Island. Facing the camera, they all smiled and said that the fishermen’s life has improved a lot after more tourists come.

     Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the Binhai Scenic Area to continue to organize small groups to exclude Xingzhou Island.

 

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     With the continuous exposure of Chinese white dolphins, more and more data prove that they are very adaptable to the new life in Xingzhou Island. The projects operated in the sea will not affect them. Even when athletes go to train sailing, the sub-adult white dolphins will play next to them, which always distracts the sailing athletes.

     The sailing coach complained to Li Yaolin about it several times. Every time Li Yaolin criticized it, it made a sad sound, and the staff of the reserve and the tourists of the Mermaid Square begged: “Don’t criticize it, it’s just a child!”

     Once someone backed it up, the sub-adult would happily jump out of the water and perform an elegant diving action for everyone. The tourists either applauded or cheered, and some even whistled.

     Their behavior encouraged the sub-adult, so it not only harassed tourists playing sailing and windsurfing, but also ran to the diving area and pushed up the tourists who had finally overcome the psychological barriers and dived to the bottom of the sea, with a proud look of “I saved people, praise me quickly”.

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     See, this is how the naughty child is spoiled!