Chapter 3599: Helena's Excellent Opportunity

This time, not only did Kim Xiaomeng's expression turn grim, but the team leader's face also became extremely unpleasant, wishing he could directly eliminate Park Soo-hyun to vent his inner anger.

As the leader of this small team, he usually kept a low profile, and when organizing everyone to come out for protest activities, he generally did not step forward himself, instead inciting radical elements like Kim Xiaomeng, who were eager to climb the ranks, to take the lead, even using extreme actions to create flashpoints, while he pretended to be an inconspicuous rookie in the team, quietly controlling the scene's rhythm.

Because of this strategy, few outsiders knew his true identity, let alone his actual position in the organization, so he earned money and bought expensive high-displacement muscle cars without worrying about exposure.

But he never expected that a traitor would emerge from his own ranks—this Park Soo-hyun, like a mad dog, actually bit him and exposed him.

The worst part is that Park Soo-hyun has already revealed their organization's profit model, which is tantamount to completely stripping away everyone's fig leaf; once this reaches Sweden, Swedish authorities will certainly investigate the entire matter, and the fact that his organization has accepted benefits from various interest groups and long engaged in selling secondhand clothing to Africa cannot be concealed.

Anxious, his first thought was to prevent the situation from heating up further, as being watched by so many people and recorded by so many phones would only worsen the impact the longer it dragged on; the best solution was to quickly stop blocking the road and let these people leave.

These people are all travelers trying to catch flights, and they only became onlookers here because our side provoked them by blocking the road; therefore, as soon as we stop blocking the road, they will surely hurry to board their vehicles and leave.

So he immediately shouted at those still sitting dazed on the ground: "Quickly make way, let them hurry through!"

Some quick-reacting members had already rushed to the roadside, while some silly little darlings remained sitting cross-legged on the ground, dazedly looking left and right.

The team leader, now furious, took a few steps forward and kicked and shoved these people while shouting: "Hurry up and make way—do you not understand or what?! Get lost!"

After saying that, he shouted at the onlookers: "Ladies and gentlemen, our team has encountered a traitor intent on smearing us; I represent the team and reserve the right to pursue his legal responsibility, but I also urge everyone to keep their eyes open and not believe this person's one-sided words! If you maliciously spread unverified and irresponsible statements online, we also reserve the right to pursue your legal responsibility!"

Although the team leader lacks integrity, he understands the core elements of crisis public relations.

Whether it's governments, corporations, or individuals worldwide, once faced with a crisis PR situation, there are only two steps in total.

The first step is to determine whether one is right or wrong.

If one is right, then one should use every possible means to prove it before the public, no matter how tortuous the process.

If one is wrong, then one must absolutely not be stubborn; one must firmly remember the eight-character maxim of Eastern philosophy: "Major issues minimized, minor issues resolved."

This simple basic principle is not truly understood by many Fortune 500 companies, nor even many countries; some enterprises and nations, clearly knowing they have made mistakes, still insist on hardlining to the end, even unwilling to spare enormous human, material, and financial resources to cover up and quibble over their errors, instead dragging themselves into a PR quagmire comparable to a swamp, where costs keep rising while effectiveness keeps declining, even causing reputations to collapse at breakneck speed.

But in fact, as long as they sincerely reflect, apologize, and resolve the issue at the first moment of error, losses can be controlled immediately and continually reduced.

The so-called "major issues minimized, minor issues resolved" is the true embodiment of ancient Eastern wisdom; one must definitely control the situation to make it smaller, rather than allowing it to continually expand.

A matter, when developed on a small scale, will always have a day when it returns to zero or becomes negligible.

But if a matter develops on a large scale, the harm it produces will have no upper limit, possibly even leading to the collapse of a building.

Just like a certain brand years ago, which cut costs on refrigerator door closers, leading to consumer rights defenses; if they had admitted fault immediately and actively corrected it, they could have resolved the issue at extremely low cost and gained goodwill from their proactive attitude, but instead they adopted the most foolish approach, ultimately causing the brand image to collapse and nearly disappearing from the market.

The leader of this environmental team deeply knows he is completely in the wrong; in this situation, what he should do is not argue here and continue expanding the impact, but quickly seize the time to disperse the crowd and rapidly reduce influence.

And this tactic of his indeed proved effective.

Although many onlookers enjoyed seeing them fight like dogs, this is after all a closed road to the airport, and many people are rushing to catch flights, especially that elderly lady just now who was hurrying to return to Huaxia by plane; seeing these people make way, she hurried back to her taxi, begging the driver to take her to the airport immediately.

So the first car pulled out, followed closely by the second and third.

The originally impassable road began to show signs of loosening.

Some less urgent people still wanted to keep watching the spectacle, but unable to move their cars still parked in place, and with everyone's quality far exceeding that of these extreme environmentalists, they all ended up suppressing their desire to watch, hurriedly returning to their cars and driving away.

Soon, Ye Chen also started his car, driving everyone out of the traffic jam; Helena in the car said resentfully: "I don't know how this will turn out in the end; if Sweden doesn't pursue their responsibility or conduct a thorough investigation, they might just get away with it."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "If you want them to pay a legal price, I think you can completely contact the Nordic police; as the Empress, suggest they take advantage of these people still not having left Nordic countries to quickly bring them back for investigation, and demand the police not just go through the motions but definitely record their full statements, then synchronize this matter from the Nordic official level to the Swedish official level; this way, Sweden will definitely treat it seriously, and if Nordic media appropriately fan the flames, this might become the opening to tear off the hypocritical mask of extreme environmental organizations, benefiting all of Europe in the future."

Speaking, Ye Chen added: "Based on today's experience, I feel Europeans have suffered enough from these hooligans, but everyone just dares not stand up to protest them, because everyone fears following in JK Rowling's footsteps; but this time is different, they have already exposed a corner of their own evidence of guilt; if you can harden up, stand on the moral high ground, follow the vine to melon, go with the flow, and reveal these people's true faces, you will surely become a hero in the hearts of Europeans."

The survival soil of extreme environmentalism basically exists only in Europe, and only in EU countries.

This is because EU countries have relatively developed economies, are mostly old-school capitalist nations, and the entire society has maintained a long-term leftist tendency, giving these jumping clowns who ride on people's necks to defecate the confidence to do so.

If they were in Asia, Africa, or Latin America—those economically less developed developing countries, even third-world nations—once these people dared to jump out and shout for environmental protection using extreme methods, locals would directly give each person a hundred big leather bags to beat them out of the country, and no one could affect their livelihood.

Although North America is also highly developed, the folkways there are truly tough; think about it—in a country where guns outnumber people, where would they have the chance to ride on others' necks to defecate? Before they even take off their pants, a burst of bullets would already have struck them.

Eastern Europe needs no further mention; even if you gave them money begging them to go, they would absolutely not dare set foot in Eastern Europe.

Therefore, they have always been drifting among EU countries; today they came to Nordic countries to stir up demonstrations, tomorrow they go to Central Europe to stir up parades, when idle they go to England and France to damage a few artworks, and even when bored to the point of testicular pain, they bring paint to dye people's rivers.

Ordinary Europeans actually also dislike them, but this is just like LGBT—people dare to be angry but not to speak; occasionally, a justice-minded person says a fair word, and they will be swarmed and attacked by the crowd, even publicly humiliated and mocked by the female star they themselves helped elevate.

People all long for a true hero to step forward and once and for all resolve this matter, but so far no such person has appeared.

But today, this incident occurred in Nordic territory, and with such a farce as padding, it is absolutely Helena's excellent opportunity to step forward!