The documentary filming crew spent 20 days shooting this film.
The oil market finally cooled down in late December, and the number of tourists visiting Silver Beach for fun and surfing was reduced by half compared to before, but there were still 2,000 to 3,000 tourists who came just to see the sea view every day.
The landscape of the Cultural and Creative Industrial Park has been transplanted almost completely, and every night when the landscape lights are on, it becomes the favorite place for the citizens of Biwan District to stay after dinner.
In the central square of thousands of square meters, there are old ladies and uncles dancing in the square, young couples in love, and families who come out to have fun with their families.
At the center, the model of Xingzhou Island glowed with bright starlight at night. Children attracted by it gathered around it to look at it. Because of the pond, they could not touch it, so they could only watch.
Seeing this, a vendor selling balloons and fluorescent sticks strolled over and asked like a thief: "This one of mine can also glow. How about asking your mother to buy you one?"
The child's mother dragged the child away with an expressionless face.
The patrol security guard came, and the vendor saw this, dragged his things and ran in the opposite direction, and disappeared in a moment.
...
This scene is very common, and can be seen in almost all major parks and commercial streets, but the filming crew still filmed it truthfully.
In the past, this place was pitch black at night. In the words of the citizens of Oil City, let alone human figures, there was not even a ghost. Who would have thought that after only six months of development, the bustle here is comparable to the mangrove park that has been developed for several years!
The director ordered: "Call it a day, go to the reserve tomorrow to shoot the last few videos."
The photographer was a little dazed. If it weren't for the director's reminder, he almost forgot that the theme of his documentary was pollution control and natural environmental protection.
The director said: "These materials can be put into the next-door theme column of poverty alleviation and rural tourism development. They won't be wasted."
The photographer: "..."
Director, you know how to make full use of resources.
Everyone packed up and took the staff boat back to Xingzhou Island the next day.
The director was originally going to the reserve, but the assistant suddenly said, "There is an ocean corridor or some other scenic spot on Xingzhou Island that is open today. Should we go and take some photos?"
The director asked, "What 'ocean corridor'?"
The assistant took out his mobile phone and searched for a long time among thousands of photos. Finally, he found a public notice of the Xingzhou Island project that he took while shooting in Area A of the office building. It said that there is a "ocean ecological corridor" project on Xingzhou Island that will be put into trial operation on December 22, the day of the winter solstice.
The director looked at him with admiration and decided to find out what this "ocean ecological corridor" is.
In their imagination, this corridor should be equivalent to a cultural exhibition hall. They remembered that there was an area on the southeast side of Xingzhou Island that was fenced off for construction. It was probably a building built on the edge of the island.
However, when they passed by, they did not find any corridor-like buildings, but saw a transparent glass cover similar to the subway entrance and exit.
This entrance and exit is built on the seaside, and you have to pass the ticket office and gate in front to get there.
At this time, some tourists have stopped in front of the ticket office. They looked at the road signs and signs curiously, muttering: "Marine Ecological Corridor?"
"Why don't I see a corridor?"
"Isn't that the entrance and exit? Where does it lead to?"
An imaginative tourist asked: "Is the corridor underwater?!"
The person next to him laughed and said: "How is it possible!"
The tourist retorted unhappily: "How can it be impossible? There is a hotel built underwater on Xingzhou Island!"
Everyone: "..."
That's right. This is unlikely for other seaside scenic spots, but on Xingzhou Island, what else is impossible?
"How do we get in?"
The security guard saw that he finally had some room to show off his skills, so he pointed to a QR code and said, "Today is the trial operation of the 'Marine Ecological Corridor', and to celebrate the Winter Solstice, the tickets are half-price. Scan here to buy tickets. Only 500 spots are available today, first come first served..."
Everyone scanned the code and said: Wow, the original price is NT$180, and the half-price is NT$90. Is this corridor so expensive?
Some people immediately gave up the idea of joining in the fun.
Some people were unwilling to give up and asked the security guard: "You have to introduce what's here, right? What if we spend 100 yuan to go in, but just look at a bunch of photos or fake things, wouldn't it be a waste of money?"
The security guard actually grumbled in his heart that the ticket price was too expensive, but it was priced like that, and he couldn't do anything about it.
At this time, Lin Qitong came out from inside, she smiled at everyone and said: "Everyone, please be patient. It's not that we don't want to tell you, but if we tell you in advance, won't there be no surprise? The content here can only be known by waiting for everyone to go in and see it in person, then we will know whether the ticket price is worth it. When has Xingzhou Island ever let everyone down?"
Everyone heard it and thought it made sense.
Lin Qitong changed the subject: "However, you need to abide by the rules of our island when you go in to visit: First, you are not allowed to bring in any photographic equipment with flash effects; second, you are not allowed to damage the equipment inside, and you are not allowed to litter or make noise.
"After today, you can only enter if you make an appointment in advance, and there are only one thousand places available for reservation, and one hundred places will be released every hour..."
Her words made everyone more curious about the situation inside.
Some tourists who were not short of money thought, I have stayed in a hotel that costs thousands of yuan, why should I care about this ninety yuan?!
They decisively bought tickets and locked their phones in the lockers at the ticket office.
Others Seeing this, the rest of the people also hesitated to pay the money. The rest of the people planned to wait for these tourists to come out and find out the situation inside before deciding whether to go in.
The filming crew also wanted to go in. Lin Qitong had received instructions from Li Yaolin in advance and said to the director: "The situation inside is special. Only one person is allowed to go in, and the use of flash is not allowed inside. No one is exempted. Please comply with this. "
The film crew looked at each other, and finally decided that the director would carry a camera with the flash turned off to shoot.
The director followed a few tourists and crossed the bridge which was several meters wide. Although he couldn't see below, he knew there were reefs underneath.
They came to the "glass cover" just when they were about to reach the seaside.
There was a long staircase that went straight down to the sea. Through the transparent glass tunnel, they could see the waves hitting the glass. Under the sun, the sea surface was sparkling, and the staircase under the sea also refracted the light and sparkled.
The tourists who had previously proposed that the "Marine Ecological Corridor" was on the seabed were a little surprised: "It really went into the sea?!"
However, these tourists had taken the subway and visited the Ocean Park, so they were not too shocked.
No one wanted to climb the stairs, so they all went down the escalator.
As the escalator moved, the sea water gradually covered their heads. They saw tropical fish swimming above, fine sand washed up by the sea water, and starfish attached to the glass... The deeper they went, the more marine life they could see, and the variety gradually became richer.
They didn't know how deep they had descended, but there was a sign at the end of the escalator that they were in the sea ten meters deep.
And this was not the end of the corridor. Rather, it was the beginning of the corridor.
After leaving the escalator, the corridor material below suddenly turned into transparent plexiglass. No, it should be said that almost all the walls and ceilings were transparent. You could see patches of marine plants below. Walking on it was like walking on a glass plank road, and the scenery outside was also in full view. On
both sides of the corridor were corals of various shapes, so abundant that the director alone knew no less than fifty species!
A current rushed up from the director's tailbone and rushed straight to his head.
He began to find it interesting.
Some tourists have been fascinated by the underwater landscape on both sides, while some tourists are still trying to discuss this place with scientific and rational thinking: "The light here is too good. Can it have such an effect ten meters below the sea?"
Looking outside is like looking at a fish tank, except that some neon lights are added around it.
A tourist nearby sneered, "That's because you haven't dived in Xingzhou Island. If you have, you wouldn't have such doubts."
"What's wrong with you not diving before?"
"This is one of the characteristics of Xingzhou Island. Other places, even swimming pools, will often become very poor as long as the depth reaches a few meters, so the surroundings look a little dark and you can't see anything clearly. But Xingzhou Island is different. Even if you dive to eight meters, the visual effect can be maintained very well. Of course, the deepest depth I have ever dived is only eight meters, so this place really surprised me."
They could still distract themselves discussing these things, but other tourists had already forgotten where this place was. Someone saw two lobsters fighting on the seabed, surrounded by a few lobsters who were not sure whether they were eating watermelons or waving flags for them, which made the tourist laugh out loud.
Someone saw several flat creatures swimming on the seabed and subconsciously sought help from others: "What are those?"
The tourists next to him asked uncertainly: "Electric rays?"
"No, rays are round and plump, this should be a stingray."
The director said: "You are all wrong, this is a ray."
"This is a stingray. Rays look like bats, and this doesn't look like a bat at all."
"Only manta rays look like bats. The most intuitive way to distinguish between rays, manta rays, and rays is to look at the way they swim..."
The director almost forgot that he was filming when he was explaining science. When the tourists saw his camera and knew that he was filming a documentary, they finally stopped to avoid embarrassment on the show.
Just as everyone was immersed in the underwater world and began to discuss and learn about the marine knowledge that they had rarely touched, a young man came back from a walk, curled his lips and said, "This is nothing, you can see these in the aquarium!"
Everyone felt like they were splashed with a basin of cold water, and their passion for seeing new things and sharing knowledge was instantly wiped out.
They calmed down a little, but decided to walk inside.
After walking about a hundred meters, they reached the end, but there was a fork in the road on the left and right. The young man complained at the back: "What can I see in the aquarium? I spent 90 yuan, but apart from these seafood, I couldn't even see a big fish!"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the 90 yuan was a waste.
A tourist said impatiently: "Shut up, how can an aquarium compare to the real sea? These are all naturally grown, and most of them are creatures you can't see in an aquarium!" The
young man was angry and wanted to argue with him, but the people around him advised: "Did you forget that you are not allowed to make noise here?"
The young man said angrily: "I want Xingzhou Island to refund the money, and if they don't, I will call to report it!"
After that, he raised his chin proudly, but no one around him said anything. He was about to put his harsh words into action, but he found that everyone's eyes passed him and fell behind him.
What happened?
He was confused, especially when he saw the director shaking his hands and pointing the camera lens behind him, he could no longer suppress his curiosity and turned around.
A large number of fish swarmed in from afar, making people think of the end of the world and the scene when the catastrophe occurred. The fish swam over their heads, blocking out the sun and the sky, and soon took away all the light around them.
"Is this a fish storm?" someone asked in a low voice.
However, no one answered, because the number of fish was too large. They waited for a few minutes, but the fish still did not disperse.
If their mobile phones had not been put in the locker, they really wanted to turn on the flashlight to see what was going on.
They were a little uneasy in their hearts, and at this time, a ray of light squeezed down from the top... The fish school was finally not as dense as before, and a ray of light could be seen.
Before they could relax, they saw a blurry black shadow approaching from a distance. The closer the shadow got, the faster their heartbeats became, until they saw a black-skinned animal with only a white belly.
This animal caught up with the lagging fish at a very fast speed, and swallowed dozens of fish with one mouth.
At this time, everyone who was shocked and stood still had a trembling voice in their hearts, and asked themselves tremblingly: "This, this, this... is this a dolphin, no, a killer whale?!"
Yes, this is a killer whale, an adult killer whale, because when it swam over everyone's heads, everyone estimated in their hearts that its body length was seven or eight meters...
When the director got goosebumps, he vaguely remembered that killer whales seemed to be marine creatures that like to live in groups.
Just as this thought came to mind, several killer whales that looked very honest and cute but had ferocious mouths appeared in their sight one after another, followed by two small killer whales and a slightly older killer whale that was protecting its younger siblings.
The young man was already stuttering: "Is it fake, fake?"
How could there be killer whales here? There are Chinese white dolphins and dugongs living here, and they are all on the killer whales' food list!
As soon as they finished speaking, their most familiar Chinese white dolphin "Pipi" appeared. It stopped more than ten meters away from the killer whale and then made a very urgent cry.
Everyone had forgotten the rule of "no noise" and shouted to Pipi nervously: "Pipi, run, that's your natural enemy!"
They were so anxious that they were sweating and wanted to call the police, but they found that they didn't have a mobile phone at all... Oh, calling the police didn't seem to be of any use.
Although the director was also worried about Pipi, all he had to do was record the most realistic scene, so he just looked around to see if there were any staff members present.
As a result, the staff didn't see it, but they saw the island owner Li Yaolin standing in front of the glass curtain wall, watching the scene calmly.
Yes, the director had met Li Yaolin, but Li Yaolin refused to appear on camera and didn't like others to take pictures of her, so the director resisted turning the camera to her.
He was about to ask Li Yaolin what she thought of this scene, but found that Pipi swam in front of the island owner and seemed to complain to her through the plexiglass that a group of uninvited guests had come here.
The tourists also noticed it, and they stared at Li Yaolin in a daze.
Li Yaolin raised the corners of his lips, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the glass, comforting them: "Don't be afraid, they won't hurt you here."
The little killer whales were wandering not far away, and seemed to want to get closer, but their parents were not around, and their sister kept bumping into them to prevent them from getting closer.
Li Yaolin added: "Just follow the rules here, even if you are latecomers, I still welcome you!"
The little killer whales finally ignored their sister's warning and swam over happily. Pipi swam a little further away subconsciously, but when he saw the new guys acting coquettishly in front of the island owner, he was afraid that these guys would replace his position in the island owner's mind, so he swam back fearlessly and squeezed a little killer whale away.
Tourists: "!!!"
Are they dreaming?
Will killer whales and dolphins ever live in harmony?
And, is this girl a human?
Why can she communicate with killer whales and white dolphins so naturally?
Li Yaolin's behavior reminded them of the keeper in the reserve who is said to be able to command dugongs and white dolphins.
Wait, a girl in her twenties, and what she just said...
How can this be a keeper in the reserve? Is this the mysterious owner of the island? !
Oh my god, they actually met the owner of the island, the "non-blood-related mother" of the silly netizen!
Take pictures, take pictures!
They touched their trouser pockets excitedly... Oh, their phones were not on them, and they didn't have any equipment to take pictures.
There is a camera here, but the director clearly wanted to pay more attention to the group of killer whales that get along well with the white dolphins, so how could he record what the island owner looks like as they wish?
The adult killer whales who found that the cubs had fallen behind came back, and they also found the food mixed in the team, no, the little white dolphins, and the island owner who can decide whether they stay or go.
They know that eating a white dolphin is more enjoyable than chasing a school of fish and eating hundreds of them, but the premise for them to come here is that they promised to abide by the rules here, so they hypnotized themselves: we are all from the dolphin family, which means we are a family. Since we are a family, of course we should live in harmony!
The author has something to say:
Killer whales: Are we worth 180?
Visitors: It’s worth it.
——This
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