Three days later, on 14 September, off the coast of Brisbane.

The mid-spring sun, slanting on the South Pacific Ocean, reflects the colorful Great Barrier Reef quite brightly.

This is the middle of Australia's east coast, which is also the end of the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs that stretch for hundreds of nautical miles from north to south along the continental shelf on the east coast of Australia.

Because there are thousands of reefs that protrude from the surface because the corals grow too fast, the water here is extremely rich in color.

The shallower the water and the higher the bottom corals, the more light green the water will be. The deeper the water and the thinner the coral, the darker the blue color will be.

This scene of the scenery cannot be felt on the sea by speedboat or cruise ship.

Because the gradual change of the color of the sea water must be separated by at least a few nautical miles or even a dozen nautical miles to have a significant difference. Looking at the sea, you will feel that the small sea in front of you is this color at any time, and it is not easy to notice that the boat turns blue or green slightly after driving for more than ten minutes and half an hour.

However, if you observe it from the air, because the field of vision can be opened dozens of times at once, the magnificent scene is very obvious.

You can see the whole sea at your feet, from green to blue, and even slightly purple at the deepest point, and then gradually turning back to inky blue and light green. The delicate color gradient fully deserves the reputation of "rainbow on the sea".

At least the rainbow colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are completely covered from the amplitude of the four colors of "green, blue, blue, and purple".

Fortunately, there are helicopters on the "Zhu Sen" yacht, and there is more than one, so when passing by the Great Barrier Reef, every morning and dusk, of course, Gu Kun will allow the attaché and female secretary on the ship to go up to the sky to take a look and take a ride.

(The Mi-26 helicopter is too big, there is only one, and that is used to transport the gold twin Maybach.) There are also small helicopters, which cannot be loaded and can only carry people, and are usually parked in the lower hangar. Enough for Gu Kun's women and ministers to go to heaven. The bodyguards and waitresses won't be able to make their turns. ）

Early this morning, Gu Kun went for a ride with a few colleagues, and sat in an EC-135 ducted tail rotor helicopter, which had a very good noise reduction and mute effect, and was quite elegant for high-end customers.

"It's so beautiful, I'm afraid that in Lanfang, no matter how beautiful you build those coral islands on Galloping Horse Reef, in terms of the quality of the seawater, they can't compare to here. ”

After a ride in the sky, Lan Fang's Foreign Minister Tang Jia couldn't help but comment, and he spoke very straightforwardly. As he spoke, he couldn't help but take a deep breath and feel the salty gale.

Gu Kun didn't think much when he heard this: "There's no way, Lanfang's territory is too small, this kind of 'rainbow on the sea' can't do this without the grand coral reef group that stretches for hundreds of nautical miles."

It's like only giving you an area of dozens of square meters, no matter how delicate you are, you can only make a Japanese-style garden with a startling deer, and you can't make a Gusu garden. Let's go our own way, there's nothing to envy. ”

Even from Gu Kun's standpoint, he doesn't like those countries that cloth dogs, and he has to fairly admit that in the issue of coral reef scenery, the Great Barrier Reef does have an advantage that the Lan side cannot match.

After spinning in the sky for a while, when he was about to return to refuel, Tang Jia suddenly saw two more helicopters appear in the sky, so he was slightly nervous, and took the initiative to ask: "Why are there helicopters here? It's 100 nautical miles from the coast, right? Could it be some kind of patrol and interception plane?"

Gu Kun glanced at it contemptuously, and found that it was not an armed helicopter, so he was not nervous at all: "Look at this model is just a tourist, as far as I know, there are indeed many helicopter viewing projects for tourists on the Great Barrier Reef."

When we came all the way just now, didn't we also see that there were occasionally boxy platforms on some coral reefs on the sea, which were actually helipads. I didn't build a building, just a square ping, a trestle, and some oil storage tanks. You can refuel the helicopter that comes over for sightseeing and go immediately. ”

Tang Jia recalled that just now he did see some strange platforms on the sea that did not look like natural formations, saying that they were man-made but there were no houses on them.

I didn't expect those that turned out to be the helipads of sightseeing helicopters, and the Australians could really come to things.

The lifestyle of a wealthy tourist is so boring and unproductive.

......

Tang Jia didn't know that when she and Gu Kun were teasing the Australian sightseeing helicopters on the horizon, the tourists on those helicopters also discovered Gu Kun's plane, and soon found the yacht on the sea, and then couldn't help complaining.

"Why does that helicopter over there look so cool? It looks like the legendary Comanche. Compared to them, our shabby model is like Apache!"

On the plane, a wealthy businessman from an oceanic country of more than 200 pounds, apparently a photography enthusiast, was a vice president of Fox TV, sitting in a helicopter with a telephoto lens around his neck. He used the telephoto gun barrel as a telescope, and he could easily observe the model of Gu Kun's plane.

In the future, Comanche, who was originally planned to be the next generation of the Oceanic Army, is a kind of ducted tail rotor, and the edges and corners are mostly obtuse geometric irregular polygons, which looks like science fiction. In contrast, the old-fashioned Apache is completely disregarding the sci-fi aesthetic, which is why tourists complain so much.

Now it is the Olympic season, and the Olympic Games will officially open in two days, and the number of European and American tourists coming to Australia will naturally increase significantly. The number of celebrities and wealthy people in various media circles is also overwhelming.

Before the official start of the competition, a charter flight to the Great Barrier Reef for a few days has almost become the first choice for wealthy tourists. So the current situation of the rich here can be described as a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. Among any bunch of guests who can afford to rent a sightseeing helicopter, you can smash a few of them, and you can pick out the existence of key executives of Fox or CNN, shareholders and founders of Internet companies, and so on.

In this environment, showing off wealth and pretending to be forced, the communication rate is frighteningly high, which can be called the most eye-catching focus on the earth at this moment.

Seeing that the rental services provided by their own travel companies are not as good as those of others, those who have money will of course be unhappy.

Who do you look down on? Why don't you say that there are such good and sci-fi helicopters that can be rented? And use those old planes that have been used for seven or eight years or even more than ten years to prevaricate us?

When Lao Tzu can't afford to spend this money, can't he?

Went ashore to complain about the fraud they introduced when they were introduced!

It must be that the best sources of goods in those travel companies have been rented out, but they do not tell consumers, and they are afraid that high-end consumers who "only buy the most expensive, not the best" look down on their unsalable inferior goods!

Unfortunately, before they had the opportunity to complain after going ashore, they saw another scene that opened their eyes.

A few minutes later, another female tourist in the same helicopter, who appeared to be the operator of a website from some Oceanic country, immediately fussed and exclaimed when she saw a blue-gray glittering shadow in the sky:

"OMG! What is that? Oh my God, when did the Great Barrier Reef offer such a service? Didn't it mean that there were no cruises here? Damn it. ”

The 200-pound Fox TV executive immediately leaned into the porthole on the other side of the plane, leaned on the glass and watched for more than ten seconds, and then said with envy, jealousy, anger and disgust:

"Cut, I don't know. Do you think it's a 'cruise ship'? It's a private yacht at first glance! Look at the superstructure, it's a bit like Paul Allen's, it can't be Paul Allen's playboy who came to see the Olympics? It's really a good time. ”

The reason why his tone was envious, jealous and angry was obviously because he was compared to others. But in the midst of his anger and disgust, it is because he is rich, knowledgeable and well-established than the female customers of the Internet company on the same plane.

This is the daily mentality of people who are more than the upper and more than the bottom.

It's like being semi-literate, and if you have the chance, you still have to say: "Hmph! Lao Tzu graduated from high school! Who is the same kind of person as you with a primary school education!"

The female director of the website was stunned, and she didn't dare to refute, she was indeed a nouveau riche who didn't understand the lifestyle of the aristocracy, and weakly muttered to herself: "It turned out to be a private yacht...... It's so far away, it's a pity that I can't see how big it is. Those Internet tycoons are really rich. ”

In and out of her words, she did not forget to secretly emphasize that "the other party is a rich Internet businessman". After all, according to their knowledge, the big ship is either Paul Allen or Larry Ellison, and there can't be a third.

Whether it is the co-founder of Microsoft or the founder of Oracle, isn't that the glory of the "Internet circle".

It seems that by emphasizing this point, the female website executive can save a little face in front of traditional media executives.

Because the course angles of the two sides are quite similar, this helicopter is getting closer and closer to Gu Kun's "Zhu Sen".

After a minute or two of staring at each other, the two sides were already close to a distance of only seven or eight nautical miles.

From the naked eye in the sky, the size of the "Zhu Sen" has also changed from the size of a fingernail to the size of a palm (a ship more than 200 meters long at 10,000 meters is indeed such a big one), and in the high-powered telephoto mirror of the long gun barrel, this picture is even clearer, and you can even see a figure shaking on the deck.

The Fox photographer was about to shoot when he noticed that the helicopter he was flying in shook and then lost its angle.

"Oh, what's the point, I'm going to shoot that!" the Fox executive immediately became agitated and yelled.

"Sir, we are going to the tarmac in front of the left, and the direction you are saying does not match the direction of the intended route. It's not good to change without permission. The helicopter pilot of the tour company explained very politely, and seemed to know that the guests were very rich, and it was not easy to offend, so they were so patient for the sake of high tips.

"Lean over for me! It's not that you don't have enough gas! What's wrong with just a few nautical miles! I'm going to shoot, here's your tip!" The Fox executive was also relieved, knowing how to solve these problems, and directly took out a large handful of dollars to shake it, afraid that there would be thousands of dollars.

This is not only a tip for the pilot, but also for the extra fuel and rental time costs of a slight detour of the helicopter.

As a news executive, it's common to spend money to grab the news.