Under the watchful eyes of the public, Xingzhou Island released two pieces of news without delay:
1. On the first day of the trial operation of the underwater tourist tunnel, 500 lucky tourists who have visited Xingzhou Island will be invited to experience the "crossing the seabed" journey for free.
2. The opening day of the underwater tourist tunnel is set on the birthday of the island owner, and tourists who share the same birthday as the island owner will receive a 50% discount on the underwater train ride on this day in the future.
As soon as the news was released, Xingzhou Island's service hotline was flooded with calls. Many people wanted to know the invitation conditions of Xingzhou Island. Are only those privileged classes and upper-class people eligible?
In this regard, the island's response was very consistent: "The list was decided by the island owner himself, and the invitation letter was also written by the island owner himself. Only the island owner and the invited people know who can get the invitation."
They wanted to call the island owner, but the island owner's phone was always blocked by the housekeeper.
Even if the leader came to hint, Li Yaolin said helplessly: "The invitation letter was sent out on the day the news was released."
How could it be such a coincidence? The leader knew that Li Yaolin was preventing others from using power and personal connections to get in through the back door, so he sent out the invitation letter first and then issued the notice.
Although they were somewhat unhappy about Li Yaolin's behavior, they would not expose her, let alone make the relationship awkward for such a small matter.
A netizen spread the news that "a certain leader wanted an invitation letter for his child, but was rejected by the island owner." It is said that the leader's child specifically begged his father to ask the island owner for mercy, but the island owner "did not give his father face", causing him to angrily complain about the island owner to his friends, and his friends turned around and told the people around them...
Netizens don't know whether this news is true or not, but they all think that this is indeed the island owner's style of doing things. After all, what happened in the "Marine Ecological Corridor" is still vivid in their minds. Everyone knows that the island owner is a person who is not threatened by others, so how could he be afraid of power in this matter!
After the news spread, tourists who had been to Xingzhou Island were excited. Although tens of thousands of tourists had been to Xingzhou Island, they had one more chance to experience it for free than those who had not been to Xingzhou Island. If they were invited, it would not be "lucky" to describe it, it would be an honor!
Tourists who had the same birthday as the island owner were also very happy. Although they could only get a 50% discount on that day, they were still much luckier than others!
Other netizens who have never been to Xingzhou Island and whose birthdays are not on the same day as the island owner are jealous: "No wonder they say reincarnation is a skill, you are really lucky!"
"This is not a lottery, which means it is not based on luck. There are so many tourists visiting Xingzhou Island, who can get the invitation?"
It's not that no one has thought of using express mail sent from Xingzhou Island to find the invitees, but there are tens of thousands of express mails sent from Xingzhou Island every day, and it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack for them to check.
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In a community in Youshi, Zhang Mei had just got off work and was about to pick up her child from school when she received a call from the courier. She thought the things she bought on PinDD had arrived, so she asked the courier to leave it at the door.
In the chat group, her good sisters are discussing the underwater sightseeing tunnel of Xingzhou Island, and they are all preparing to experience it as a family after it is opened for operation.
Zhang Mei is naturally unwilling to miss such a project, but she is worried that she will not be able to get a ticket at that time.
Thinking back to the beginning, when Xingzhou Island was first developed, there were not so many tourists, and she did not have to compete with so many people for the 4,000 places, and she could go to the island to play at any time. Later, Xingzhou Island became a popular tourist attraction, and it became difficult for her to go there - the last time she went to the island was two years ago.
Fortunately, Xingzhou Island also has a cultural and creative industrial park with no quota restrictions, so the weekends of their family of three became spent in the industrial park. The performances in those exhibition halls and open-air theaters alone can allow the family to spend a beautiful and fulfilling day here.
After picking up her child and returning to her home, she saw her neighbor standing in front of her house, holding an envelope and reading a document bag. Seeing her, he was a little flustered and embarrassed and said, "Zhang Mei is back. I saw a courier on the ground and thought it was mine!"
The neighbor's door was diagonally opposite, so how could his courier be at her door?
Although she was a little confused, Zhang Mei didn't think much about it. After all, they had known each other for so many years and the neighbor was not a bad person. She said, "Oh, I asked the courier to put it at the door."
The neighbor hesitated to speak, but the lively and active child ran over to take the document bag first. She looked at the words on it and shouted, "Mom, it says Xingzhou Island. It's sent from Xingzhou Island."
Zhang Mei was stunned. She didn't buy anything on Xingzhou Island. How could there be a courier from Xingzhou Island?
At this time, she noticed that the neighbor not only did not leave, but stared at the document bag, and seemed very curious about what was inside.
Zhang Mei smiled at the neighbor, quickly opened the door, and went home with the child.
After closing the door, the child couldn't wait to open the courier and took out a small envelope from it.
"Is this a letter?" the child asked.
Zhang Mei saw that the envelope was sealed with wax, and the stamp on it was very familiar to her, because so many people wanted to get a postcard with this stamp!
She didn't know what she thought of, her heartbeat began to accelerate, and her breathing became heavy.
Just as she was about to speak, the child opened the envelope and took out an invitation letter from it.
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Soon someone posted the invitation letter online, and netizens found that most of these people were ordinary people, some were teachers, some were businessmen, some were students, and some were housewives; there were elites with a monthly income of hundreds of thousands, ordinary white-collar workers with a monthly income of three to five thousand, and big stars who paid hundreds of millions of yuan in taxes...
The only thing they had in common was that they were all loyal fans of Xingzhou Island.
Some of them, such as Zhang Mei, helped Xingzhou Island clarify negative news at the beginning of its development; some, such as Zhou Qunfang, were super lucky winners who won eight out of ten times in the Xingzhou Island lucky draw; and some did some good deeds on Xingzhou Island.
After learning these rules, everyone felt less jealous. After all, they had been to Xingzhou Island, and they were just traveling, while others had made some contributions to Xingzhou Island while enjoying themselves.
Although the invited people did not say anything, they felt warm in their hearts. They spoke for Xingzhou Island and did good deeds on the island, but it was not for Xingzhou Island. For example, Zhang Mei, who originally quarreled with someone online to prove that the environment of Xingzhou Island had really improved, was just mad at the quarrel, but she did not expect that the island owner would know about it and personally invite her to experience such a meaningful activity many years later.
Many people sighed: "The island owner is really kind!"
"Wow, I love the island owner so much."
Another netizen asked sincerely: "Am I the only one who thinks that the island owner is everywhere? The island owner knows everything these people do, which is too awesome! Does the island owner have nothing to do and hang around the island all day?"
Li Yaolin: "..."
Are you talking about the little mermaid? !
Little mermaid: "?"
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Soon it was the day of the trial operation.
Early in the morning, the invited tourists entered the site with the invitation letter under the guidance of the staff.
Many tourists from other places came here as early as yesterday. The time written on the invitation letter was 8 o'clock - the reason why it was so early was that in addition to arranging for them to experience the "undersea sightseeing tunnel", Xingzhou Island also prepared breakfast for them. Tourists who want to have breakfast can enter in advance, and tourists who want to solve breakfast by themselves can arrive before 9 o'clock.
Unsurprisingly, all 500 tourists arrived on time before 8 o'clock, and none of them wanted to miss the free breakfast.
Earlier than them were the journalists from all over the country. Because the "Underwater Tourist Tunnel" had not yet been officially put into operation, there was no opening ceremony, and naturally no journalists were invited to participate. In order to obtain first-hand information, the media waited at the gate before dawn to film the preparations of Xingzhou Island and interview the invited tourists. For the
first time, the tourists experienced the mood of stars walking on the red carpet. They were excited and proud at the same time. They walked on the red carpet with their heads held high and their chests puffed out, as if they were bathed in spring breeze. After
breakfast, the staff of Xingzhou Island also told them the precautions, and then divided them into five groups according to the order of their arrival, and arranged them to go to the "platform" to wait for the bus.
The "platform" of the Cultural and Creative Industrial Park is between the commercial street and the entertainment area. It is not as big as the real station platform, but it is also very spacious.
There are surveillance cameras, guardrails and patrols all around, so it is not easy to climb over.
A "train" drove in slowly, and the tourists found that it was not a real train, but more like a roller coaster. It can seat four people in a row, and there is an aisle in the middle, but it is obviously not for tourists to walk, because the tour guide said: "Please take your seats according to the seats, fasten your seat belts after sitting down, and do not unfasten your seat belts at will during the operation, otherwise the system will automatically stop after sensing it, and you will bear the consequences yourself."
All the invited tourists cherished this opportunity very much, so after fastening their seat belts, they did not move around.
The tour leader continued, "There are air cylinders and masks under each seat, which will pop out automatically in an emergency. The air inside can last for half an hour, so no one needs to worry about the tunnel suddenly breaking or being flooded. You can relax and don't be nervous during the ride."
The tourists who had been worried about such a terrible thing suddenly felt safe after hearing this.
When the train started, the tour leader acted as a tour guide and introduced the tunnel to the tourists: "The tunnel is 9,663 meters long and takes 30 minutes one way..."
Of course, the tourists' attention was taken away by everything around them, and almost no one paid attention to what the tour leader was saying.
The train slowly entered the dark tunnel. The tourists could feel it was going down. Because the lights in the tunnel were dim, they only knew that this section of the tunnel was just like the subway and train tunnels, and they could not see the scenery outside.
But it did not last long. Soon the concrete tunnel became a transparent glass tunnel, and the tourists' vision suddenly widened.
They either subconsciously held their breath and concentrated, or involuntarily exclaimed: "Wow--"
The lights in the tunnel were still one every ten meters, but because the location of the tunnel had not reached the deep sea, some natural light still shone in.
The tourists realized that at this moment, they had really reached the bottom of the sea!
There were fewer plants in the coastal waters, so there was no eye-catching scenery outside except for the occasional fish and jellyfish swimming by.
The train was still going down, and the further it went, the less natural light there was, and the darker the environment outside the tunnel looked. But when it reached about 20 meters underwater, the train stopped going down, and at this point you could just see a little bit of weak natural light.
Soon, the marine life outside the tunnel gradually became more abundant.
The tourists were all immersed in the ocean world, and suddenly, some tourists found that the brightness in the sea had increased a lot.
Is the train going up?
No, it's entering a glowing seabed area.
Some tourists have seen such scenery when they came to Xingzhou Island for diving, but the area they had dived in before was only a small area in the vast ocean. Now sitting on the train, passing through the tunnel, they saw a more dazzling and dazzling glowing ocean world.
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The terminal of this train is on a platform about 100 meters away from Xingzhou Island. Tourists from the island can only come over through this 100-meter-long bridge, while tourists coming from the Cultural and Creative Industrial Park need to transfer here.
When this group of tourists returned, they could vaguely see that the second group of tourists were already in the tunnel they came from.
The tunnel train runs about once every half an hour, from 9 am to 4 pm, for a total of seven hours.
As for the ticket price, it is the same as the price of the full-length cable car.
This journey is an unforgettable experience for all tourists. Some of them recorded videos to share with their families, and their families posted them online.
The online discussions were full of heated discussions:
"Wow, it's a real fully transparent underwater tunnel! Xingzhou Island YYDS! The island owner is awesome!"
"The underwater scenery is amazing!"
"I'm a little scared after putting myself in the first person's perspective."
"The price is not expensive at all, go for it, family!"
"Xingzhou Island never lets me down!"
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In Yangshi, a girl held a mobile phone, excitedly tugged at the sleeve of the man next to her, and said with excitement in her voice: "Honey, let's go to Xingzhou Island to take wedding photos?!"
The man's face froze when he heard it.
The girl next to him didn't notice his change of expression at all. She looked at her phone and started to think: "If we can get the ticket to Xingzhou Island, we will go to Xingzhou Island for two days. If we can't get the ticket, we can go to the cable car and the tourist tunnel..."
She said for a long time without waiting for the man's response, so she turned her head to look at him and found that he avoided her gaze and remained silent.
"Why don't you say anything?"
After a long while, the man said: "Isn't it good for us to take wedding photos abroad? Why do we have to go to Xingzhou Island? You know, there are the most people there, and it's not fun at all."
The girl raised her eyebrows: "Are you blind? How can Xingzhou Island not be fun? Haven't you seen that all the foreign tourists are going there? Since we have such a beautiful and fun island in our country, why should we go far away?"
The man said impatiently: "If you want to go, go by yourself!"
The girl thought he was weird, but didn't say anything. She just secretly used his ID number to try to grab tickets for Xingzhou Island when she was free.
Sure enough, this guy was on the blacklist of Xingzhou Island.
She didn't ask him directly what was going on, but posted on WeChat Moments that she was going to take wedding photos and asked married friends if they had any good studios and wedding photo locations to recommend.
She deliberately set it so that only their mutual friends could see it.
Soon someone replied that they could go to Xingzhou Island for photos, but only one person recommended Qionghai.
Among the ten comments, nine of them said to go to Xingzhou Island, so the answer recommending Qionghai was very special.
She chatted with the other party privately and asked, "Weren't your wedding photos taken at Xingzhou Island? I think they look great. Why don't you recommend Xingzhou Island?"
After she beated on him for a long time, the other party stammered and said, "Sun Fen's ex-wife works at Xingzhou Island. I'm afraid you'll meet her. That would be so embarrassing."
The girl then said, "Xingzhou Island has so many employees and the place is so big. How could it be so easy to meet her? And Xingzhou Island doesn't belong to his ex-wife. Are you afraid that she will play tricks on you? Do you know why he was blacklisted by Xingzhou Island?"
The other party didn't expect that she knew about this, and he couldn't hide it anymore, so he had to tell her that Sun Fen had fought a lawsuit with Xingzhou Island and lost.
She found the judgment document of the lawsuit herself, and got Zheng Xuan's mobile phone number from Sun Fen's friend. She contacted Zheng Xuan and finally figured out what was going on.
The girl was introduced by a colleague of Sun Fen's company. She had no connection with his previous circle, and was only taken out by him to meet his group of friends a few times.
She knew nothing about what he had done in the past. If it weren't for this incident, she wouldn't even know that he was such a person!
She was glad that she hadn't obtained a marriage certificate with Sun Fen yet, let alone being pregnant, otherwise she would have followed in Zheng Xuan's footsteps.
When Sun Fen learned from his friends that she was asking about his grievances with Xingzhou Island, and ran back in a panic to blame her, she decisively broke up with him.
"My wedding photos must be taken on Xingzhou Island, and my honeymoon must also be spent on Xingzhou Island. Since you are on the blacklist of Xingzhou Island, it means we are not suitable. Let's break up!"
Sun Fen was embarrassed, annoyed and panicked: "But we are getting married soon. Is our relationship of the past two years fake? Just because of Xingzhou Island, don't you think it's too funny?"
The girl said: "I feel sick when I think of you as that kind of person. I don't want to be stigmatized by you in places I don't know in the future, and be called a whore! Please don't mention this relationship anymore, I will just regard these two years of youth as wasted."
Sun Fen regretted his decision: "But I already know I was wrong, can't you give me a chance?"
"Oh, when I first mentioned Xingzhou Island, if you had been honest, I might have softened my heart and given you a chance, but you didn't. You even had the nerve to get angry at me, bah!"
The girl ignored him after she broke up with him. He tried to win her back several times, but she was harassed by him so much that she called the police and he was almost detained.
That girl was also a ruthless person. She went to his company and put up a banner asking him to stop harassing her, which led to everyone in his company knowing what he had done.
From then on, his relationships with the opposite sex became worse and worse.
He couldn't help but resent Li Yaolin for ruining his reputation.
But what could he do even if he hated her? The other party owns scenic spots such as Xingzhou Island, Pilot Island, Mingdeng Island, Jiahai, and Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, with assets of hundreds of billions. What can an ordinary white-collar worker like him compare with her? She might have forgotten him, who was like an ant!
He transferred this resentment and unwillingness to Zheng Xuan, and thought darkly in his heart: "Fortunately, I am not the only one suffering!"
In his opinion, what does it matter if Zheng Xuan is successful in his career? After her miscarriage, it will be difficult for her to have a child in the future. And will any man want a hen that can't lay eggs?
Until one day many years later, he suddenly learned from a friend that Zheng Xuan had given birth to a daughter.
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