748: Chapter 748: Shrewd Tactics!
Sample Obtained!
748: Chapter 748: Shrewd Tactics!
Sample Obtained!
Xu Wei is back!
Wu Jie felt a jolt in his heart, a kind of indescribable anticipation.
He drove quickly to the Terminal 1 and found a parking space near the international arrivals area to stop the car.
“I’m waiting for you at the underground C18 parking spot!”
After sending a ssage, Wu Jie called Zheng.
“Did you have a good sleep?” As soon as the call connected, Zheng teased him.
“That was nothing.
I could sleep for three more days and nights!” Wu Jie laughed and imdiately asked, “When did the international flights resu?
Have all countries lifted their travel bans?”
Zheng sighed.
“It was officially lifted at midnight last night!
There was no choice.
Nowadays, the global economy is integrated.
The suspension of flights and ships between countries has had a huge impact on international trade.
The stock and futures markets in various countries were bleak, and no one could bear it!”
“And since all countries have repeatedly advertised that there are specific dicines, telling the public there’s no need to worry or be scared, if they continued to control traffic, wouldn’t that be slapping their own face?”
Wu Jie thought about it and felt the sa way.
If they tell the public not to panic and be afraid on one hand, but impose all kinds of restrictions on the other, isn’t that contradictory?
The public’s eyes are sharp, and their minds are not foolish.
“Alas!
This ans the special dicines are open for use in all countries now?”
“Damn it!
Why has the price gone up again?”
Zheng chuckled, “That specific dicine is not reliable.
Of course, use it as little as possible.
Setting a sky-high price also serves to deter people!”
Wu Jie thought to himself.
A special dicine costing two hundred thousand per dose, most people probably wouldn’t spend that kind of money, would they?
Even those who are rich and fear death would weigh their options.
If one’s body is healthy, why spend so much money on a special dicine?
Even if one gets infected and falls ill, there’s still a special dicine, isn’t there?
It can still cure, so why waste the money?
Brilliant!
This thod is really simple, practical, crude, and direct.
“So, with the special dicine priced so high, have there been any tycoons in our country or elsewhere who spent money on it?”
Wu Jie asked curiously.
Zheng spat and scoffed, “Isn’t that obvious?
Who the hell, full and idle, would spend so much on a special dicine?
Even if they got infected, the cost of treatnt with the special dicine later would only be twenty thousand.
Twenty thousand and two hundred thousand, which would you choose?”
“Crap!!”
Wu Jie was really impressed.
They do not restrict the specific dicine, but they have set an exorbitant price for it.
This way, it makes ordinary people reluctant to spend two thousand on dical fees and take the initiative to protect themselves to prevent infection.
It also deters the rich who fear death.
Two hundred thousand per dose of special dicine—who wouldn’t feel the pinch?
The experts who ca up with this ‘price regulation’ strategy are really clever.
But now that it’s like this…
“If the price is so high, if soone were to secretly produce it, they’d surely make a lot, right?”
Upon hearing this, Zheng couldn’t help but laugh:
“How is that possible?
The special dicine is produced by officially designated factories in various countries, and every step of storage, transportation, and use is monitored by professionals.
How could it be stolen?”
“Patients with the infection are treated in isolation at public hospitals, and the special dicine is managed and used by appointed personnel.
Without confidential information related to it, which pharmaceutical company could replicate it?
It’s just not realistic!”
“Even if soone with powerful connections and background were to steal the secrets and manage to produce the special dicine, how would they sell it?
To whom?
There has to be soone to make the deals, right?
Do you think our intelligence agents eat for nothing?”
“Even Rosdelle’s Auxiliary Business Association, if they had the information, would they dare to produce it?
Damn it, no one can guarantee the effectiveness of the dicine.
It might even be a slow poison.
If they hurt people for blood money, international intelligence agencies definitely wouldn’t let them off easy!”
Upon hearing Zheng say this, Wu Jie felt at ease.
With such strict control by the countries, even if sothing goes wrong in the future, it will only affect a small portion of people and not harm all of humanity.
After so idle chat, Wu Jie hung up the phone.
“Damn it!
How should I tell Old Xu about this?”
“Should I say that the strange disease samples he worked hard to bring back are useless unless we develop a truly effective special dicine?”
While muttering to himself, Wu Jie went online to check the news.
It felt as if the viral storm had really passed.
The most followed news was the World Cup, followed by celebrity scandals.
It wasn’t easy to find a news item, only one about ‘the first cured patient of the strange disease discharged from a Yincheng hospital’.
The dia always capture hot topics, following what people are curious and interested in.
Since this is the case in the news, it proves that people are not that concerned anymore.
Wu Jie rembered what Bai Fengling had told him, that in this era, information is so developed that any event couldn’t escape the seven-day rule.
A dog bites soone, a huge embezzler is caught, a major car accident happens, there’s a mass casualty sowhere…
No matter how earth-shattering the event is, it usually doesn’t take more than seven days for people to forget about it.
If you don’t believe it, just look at today’s breaking news.
Many news dia and public accounts are spreading it.
After a week, you’ll find that no matter how full of righteous indignation, shocked, or speechless people were at the ti…
After a week, many have forgotten, and there will hardly be any reports online.
And that’s precisely why.
Bai Fengling had just ntioned that their entertainnt industry particularly understood how to take advantage of this law.
If they wanted to stir up publicity or create a buzz, they had a very clear plan on when to release news, when to hire an internet army, when to clarify things…
All the ti points and tasks were arranged very clearly.
They would harvest the traffic when the heat was at its peak and when people were most interested.
And now?
The Sakuragi Hana virus incident, which broke out in Yincheng, hadn’t even reached a week yet, and the direction of the news and public opinion had changed.
The mory of a fish is only seven seconds!
And it seems the mory of netizens is only seven days!
…
Knock knock knock!
The car window was tapped, Wu Jie opened his sleepy eyes, and seeing it was Xu Wei, imdiately unlocked the car.
Xu Wei glanced around, then opened the door and sat in the rcedes, barely containing his excitent.
He took out three perfu bottles from his backpack and handed them to Wu Jie.
“Don’t open them!
My blood is inside, along with the blood from two other confird patients, they’re all definitely carrying the virus!”
“Others co back from Yincheng with costics and such, but I bring these back, it’s really fucking thrilling!”
Wu Jie imdiately placed the bottles in the glove compartnt and casually asked:
“Give a bank account number, I’ll transfer the paynt to you.”
“Paynt?
What paynt?
Didn’t we agree to sell it and then get rich together afterwards?” Xu Wei asked with a hint of surprise.
Wu Jie shook his head, “It’s not that simple.
Right now, all the special dications are monopolized by the governnts of various countries, and the prices are frighteningly expensive.
Starting from scratch, wanting to research and develop a product and then get it into mass production, at the quickest, would take several months, even years!”
“Ah??
That…
doesn’t that an I’m happy for nothing!”
Xu Wei was instantly crestfallen, his mood deflated.
Wu Jie consoled him, “I’ll give you two million as a reward; it’s not a bad deal for you.
And I guarantee that once I’ve successfully developed the drug, you can use it for free, of course, the precondition is that you relapse.”
“Holy shit!
Two million…
damn, Wu, you really are rich and capricious!
But…”
Xu Wei rolled up his sleeves to show Wu Jie the needle marks on his arms:
“But what do you an by a relapse?
After being confird in Yincheng, I was injected with the special dication and got well very quickly.
And just to be extra safe, I spent another half a million for another shot of the drug!”
“And it baffles , why did I only spend half a million, while you’re saying it costs two million a shot in the Yincheng market?
This is way too strange!”
Wu Jie offered a faint smile.
“The latest price, over at Yincheng, for a healthy person to get a shot of the special dication, they’re charging three million now.
The prices have skyrocketed in other countries too, dostically it’s two hundred thousand per injection!”
“Don’t look so shocked.
It’s simple, really.
The reason you got it so cheap in Yincheng is that you’re a patient; they use the special dication on you and give you shots to prevent you from continuing to consu special foods!”
“For a healthy person wanting to get the special dication, that’s occupying dical resources.
If you were an official, with a limited production of special dication, would you save the lives of patients first, or cater to the healthy people who are greedy for life and fearful of death first?”
Xu Wei laughed imdiately, “Nonsense!
Of course you would save people first!
Otherwise, who could bear the responsibility for mass fatalities?”
Changing the subject, Xu Wei asked curiously,
“But why did they make sign a liability waiver, saying if I get sick again in the future, it’s unrelated to them?”
Wu Jie scoffed, “Haven’t you been vaccinated since you were young?
Who dares claim a vaccine works one hundred percent?
Every year, there aren’t just a few who, despite being vaccinated against rabies after being bitten by a dog, still end up dying.”
“Damn!!”
Xu Wei grunted heavily, then asked, “Got a smoke?”
Wu Jie passed over the cigarettes and lighter and urged, “Hurry up; I’ve been waiting for your bank account number!”
“What account number?
Who are we to each other?
Do I look like soone who’s missing two million?
If you make a lot of money from your research later on, just give a share; that’s enough.
You giving compensation now, what do you take for?”
After a brief pause, Xu Wei chuckled and asked:
“That beautiful girl, Chu Yunxuan…
is she still at your company?
I’ve been dreaming about her these past few days; I truly feel captivated by her.
If she’s still there, can I co work at your company?”
Wu Jie glanced at Xu Wei.
“You’re a demolition nouveau riche; you’ve got no worries about food and drink just from collecting rent every month.
Why the hell do you need a job?
As for Chu Yunxuan…
she’s already changed jobs and gone to Bing City!”
“Ah?
That’s…”
Xu Wei sighed and shook his head, “Seems like it’s really a case of so close, yet so far with her!
In that case, take to the Tianyuan Haozun Hotel!”
Wu Jie rolled his eyes, “Dammit, why not just go straight ho?
What do you need a hotel for?”
Lighting the cigarette, Xu Wei exhaled a cloud of smoke and smiled:
“Got an old fla saying she misses !”
Wu Jie snorted and shook his head.
Pulling out of the parking spot, he casually said:
“Before I drop you off, could you let draw so blood for testing?
I’d like to analyze the special dication in your system.”
“What the fuck, man?
Of course you can draw so!
Who are we to each other, just go ahead!”
After leaving the airport, they found a blood donation station.
Wu Jie showed his credentials, and a doctor imdiately helped draw blood.
If it’s free, wouldn’t you give sothing to express your gratitude?
Thus, Wu Jie gave Xu Wei two pills, one for detox and one for nourishnt.
After saying goodbye to Xu Wei, Wu Jie drove straight to Tang’s Pharmaceuticals research institution.
He really wanted to see just how formidable this Sakuragi Hana virus was…
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