Chapter 227 It’s a big deal

Chapter 227 It’s a big deal

Chapter 227 It’s a big deal

Seoul seems to be more holy after the snow, but also a little colder.

Seongbuk-gu, Changshin, Sungjun residential.

Carrying a bunch of keys, Shen Wuguo walked through the entrance hall and into his living room.

In the not very spacious living room, a woman in a light blue house dress was pacing back and forth between the sofa and the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a swaddled baby.

Seeing Shen Wuguo coming out of the entrance, the woman smiled at him, put a finger to her lips and hushed softly.

Shen Wuguo understood what she meant. He moved lightly and put the key carefully into his pocket. Then he changed his shoes and walked towards the woman quietly.

This house was not Shen Wuguo’s real home, but his “outdoor home”. The woman was not his wife, but his lover. However, the baby in the cradle was indeed his son, his only son.

Different from those playboys who are obsessed with beauty all day long, although Shen Wuguo does not like his legal wife at home, he likes his lover who gave birth to a son for him. If he was not afraid of having his legs broken by his father, he would have dealt with the unreasonable woman at home and married this woman named Chen Shuyuan home.

Walking to the woman, Shen Wuguo glanced at his cradle son. Seeing that the little guy was sleeping soundly, he lowered his head slightly and kissed his tender forehead.

The child was sleeping very lightly. After being disturbed by him, his eyelids moved slightly, and then his dark eyes opened a slit.

Shen Wuguo was startled and Chen Shuyuan glared at him in reproach. Fortunately, the child did not wake up. His eyes just opened slightly and soon closed again. Not only that, he opened his mouth and yawned loudly.

Looking at the child smacking her lips and a bunch of little bubbles coming out from between her pink lips, Shen Wuguo smiled, then leaned over and kissed Chen Shuyuan on the cheek, then pointed in the direction of the spiral staircase on the right.

Chen Shuyuan understood what he meant, so she just nodded and then started pacing again with the child in her arms.

Tiptoeing to the spiral staircase, Shen Wuguo glanced in the direction of the woman again before climbing up the staircase.

Chengjun Residence is not a high-end residential area, but Shen Wuguo bought the upper and lower floors of this house and made it into a duplex after a simple renovation. The lower floor has a living room, kitchen, dining room, etc., and the upper floor is a study and bedroom.

After going up to the second floor, Shen Wuguo went straight to his study. He closed the door tightly, then walked to the desk, turned on the computer on the desk, made himself a cup of tea, then walked around to the back of the desk, lit a cigarette for himself, and sat down on the chair behind the desk.

After taking two puffs of his cigarette, he moved the mouse, selected an icon on the desktop with an abstract NGN logo on a yellow background, and double-clicked it.

Soon, a login interface popped up on the desktop, which was the login interface of the NGN software.

Shen Wuguo selected his account number from the drop-down menu in the account column, entered his password, and pressed Enter to log into the software.

Soon, the software logged in successfully. Before he could check his friend information, a pop-up window appeared in the middle of the desktop. This was a pop-up window launched by NGN software some time ago. In Shen Wuguo's opinion, it was really annoying.

Just when he wanted to close the pop-up window, a message in the pop-up window jumped into his eyes: "Blue sea and blue sky, you and I will protect them together."

There was only this one line of text on the huge pop-up window, and the blurred background behind it was a map of South Korea, but there was a dark stain in the lower left corner of the map.

Out of curiosity, Shen Wuguo clicked on the link in the pop-up window, and then a web page popped up. He didn't know if it was because the Internet speed at home was slow, but it took a long time to open the webpage. It took about six or seven seconds for the entire page content to be refreshed.

The moment the page appeared, Shen Wuguo couldn't help but frown, because this page had no aesthetic appeal at all. The entire page was in black and white, just like an obituary page. At the top of the page was a striking number, the last few digits of which kept changing, as if the number was getting bigger and bigger.

After taking a puff of cigarette, Shen Wuguo looked at it carefully. He found that the number had a title, which was the so-called "Current number of volunteers registered". After counting the number again, it was "73497".

At this point, Shen Wuguo finally calmed down and read the webpage from beginning to end, and then he figured out what the content of the webpage was. There is no doubt that this is a "volunteer action initiative" launched by NGN Software in the name of its company. The specific content is: the crude oil leaked in the waters of Tai'an County is spreading to a wider range along the entire coastal waters, and it is causing huge damage to the entire Yellow Sea near the peninsula. In order to quickly curb the spread of crude oil, minimize losses, and save a large number of fishing grounds in the sea area, NGN is willing to invest 50 billion won to purchase oil booms, suction machines, skimmers and other equipment worldwide, and at the same time, recruit volunteers nationwide.

There are several links throughout the page, including predictions of the impact range of crude oil pollution, interviews with fishermen in polluted fishing grounds, current volunteer distribution maps, channels for public donations, and a list of public accounts, etc.

Shen Wuguo remembered very clearly that when he went to work at the bank in the morning, this pop-up window had not appeared yet. But now, in just one morning, the number of volunteers who had registered through the pop-up window has exceeded 70,000.

He tried to click on the volunteer registration entrance, and was shocked to find that in order to sign up as a volunteer, he had to register, and it was a detailed personal identity registration. The process was quite cumbersome.

Clicking on the charity donation page, Shen Wuguo discovered that there are currently seven or eight companies that have provided donations or material donations to this volunteer initiative.

"Tsk", Shen Wuguo felt that this activity was interesting. The key point was that the Blue House had not yet made any rescue arrangements for the oil spill, but An Rushong and his NGN had organized such a public welfare activity first. Wasn't he afraid that jumping too high and too hastily would attract a blow from the Blue House?

He looked at the mobile phone he had put aside and wanted to call An Rushong, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

At the same time, in the president's office of NGN Company, An Rusong put down the landline phone on his desk, tore off the note paper he had just made a note on, handed it to Jiang Xiuyuan who was standing beside him, and said, "Record this as well, I'll deal with it later."

The call that just ended was from Moon Yi-cheol, director of the office of the chairman of KD Transportation Group. On behalf of KD Transportation Group, he expressed to An Rusong that they were happy to respond to this public welfare action and were ready to temporarily allocate 200 buses across Seoul to transport volunteers to Taean County.

An Rushong would naturally not refuse such a thing. On the contrary, he really wanted it.

Previously, in his and Han Mi-yeon’s conception, once this event was launched, the number of volunteers who signed up should be able to reach tens of thousands. In this way, the entire event would be considered a great success.

But who could have imagined that within less than one morning after the call for the entire event was issued, the number of volunteers who registered through the website had exceeded 70,000, and the number was still continuing to rise.

One point that must be emphasized here is that in order to ensure the accuracy and completeness of volunteer information registration, NGN has set up a temporary registration database. If an NGN software user wants to sign up as a volunteer, he or she needs to register detailed personal information, including name, home address, contact information and 13-digit resident registration certificate number.

In a place like South Korea, people who are able to complete this cumbersome registration process are at least likely to really want to participate in the event.

If this trend continues, it is estimated that by this time tomorrow, the number of registered volunteers will really be able to exceed 200,000.

Two hundred thousand volunteers!
How big is this? To put it bluntly, this is going to recreate the grand occasion in 1998 when the whole nation donated gold to resist the economic crisis.

But what An Rusong didn't know was that in his previous life, because of the oil spill, there were 500,000 volunteers in South Korea participating in the oil cleanup operation. Moreover, these volunteers did not have a unified organization at the time, and they were completely mobilized by small and medium-sized environmental protection organizations.

When things developed to this point, An Rushong realized that something bad had happened, because with the current scale and capabilities of NGN Company, it could not support such a large-scale public welfare action.

Not to mention the 200,000 volunteers who might show up tomorrow, even if there were more than 70,000 people now, he would not be able to organize them.

Because even if these volunteers do not need NGN to arrange vehicles for transportation, they do not need NGN to provide logistical support such as food and tents. However, NGN is not able to supply a complete set of waterproof clothing with cold-resistant effects, and special equipment and facilities for cleaning oil stains.

An Rushong had only planned to supply enough materials for 10,000 people. Now the number of people has increased twenty times. How could he be able to support it?

Are they going to organize hundreds of thousands of people to go to the beach to enjoy the breeze? If that were the case, this charity event organized by NGN would really become a laughing stock around the world.

Now, the only way is to stop the recruitment of volunteers and limit the number of people to within 1. But in that case, even if the normal activities are successfully held, they will still be criticized.

(End of this chapter)