The profits from pharmaceuticals were so high that General Xia was furious and wished he could catch a few unscrupulous merchants and rip them off, because he had occasionally heard about the high cost and difficulty of accessing medical care.
"Isn't fifty yuan too expensive? Are you going to become a dishonest businessman?" General Xia looked at Lin Yao with some hesitation, feeling that his grandson-in-law couldn't be allowed to fall into such a depravity, lest he want to kill him whenever he saw him in the future.
“Grandpa, the sale of ‘Anti-toxic Powder’ is temporarily suspended. It should be reserved as an emergency supply and given priority to the military. Or we can store it. There are readily available Western medicines that can replace it. Domestic patients will only spend a few dollars to solve the problem, so it’s not a big deal.”
Lin Yao said seriously, "As for overseas, it shouldn't matter if we collect a little more money. We haven't paid off our loans yet, so keeping some money for ourselves will give us peace of mind. We can also buy more medicinal herbs to prepare. You know that the price of medicinal herbs is soaring these days, and there are always some unscrupulous merchants who take advantage of the situation to hoard large quantities and artificially inflate prices. We don't have time to deal with them now, but we'll deal with them sooner or later. In the future, if these people get sick, they won't be able to get Minhong's medicine. We won't care if they die at the entrance of Minhong Hospital. The relevant notices have already been issued, and the blacklist system has been improved."
"Besides, what if we have to clean up some messes later and we don't have money? Who am I supposed to complain to?"
Lin Yao shut General Xia up with a single sentence. Both of them knew exactly what the "cleaning up the mess" meant, and they had discussed it more than once. They had been preparing for this plan for Min Hong to clean up the mess after the decision-maker made a mistake. Funding was especially crucial at this time. After hearing this, General Xia immediately cursed himself for being petty before.
What Lin Yao didn't tell General Xia was that after hearing Lin Yao's description, the Pakistani ambassador immediately took the "poisoned man" incident very seriously. This country, which has always been in the midst of war and other threats, reacted quickly to something that could bring devastating blows to the entire nation and people. Ambassador Baha Hariz even used his mobile phone to make an international call from Lin Yao's villa to report on the matter and seek the opinions of the Pakistani leadership.
Even Xiao Cao, who is fluent in various languages, couldn't understand the content of the call. It was obviously handled with some kind of special secrecy and some kind of code. However, judging from Ambassador Baha Hariz's enthusiasm and full cooperation after hanging up the phone, Lin Yao knew that the Pakistani leadership had already believed in the existence and threat of the "poisonous man" and invited him to participate in dealing with the Pakistani crisis. The efficiency and decisiveness of the decision-making left Lin Yao speechless with shock.
They even unconditionally believed a foreigner, simply because of Min Hong's previous actions, including Lin Yao's Chinese identity, but all of this felt unreal to Lin Yao, like a child's game.
What excited Pakistan the most was a statement Lin Yao made, saying that they were developing a drug that could expose or even eliminate "poisonous people," and that the research had made a breakthrough. As a result, Pakistan's enthusiasm for Lin Yao raised the temperature in the entire "City Forest" reception hall. Baha Hariz, who insisted on embracing Lin Yao, also brought with him a special, lamb-like body odor.
Heaven knows when a drug to quickly kill the "poisonous people" can be developed. Lin Yao made this promise only because of the hint from Xiaocao in his mind. She said that the research results of the expert group gave him inspiration and he was confident that he could develop a special drug. As for the drug to quickly kill the "poisonous people", further research was needed. Xiaocao had to conduct experiments herself before she could give her opinion on the next step.
Therefore, after finally getting rid of the Pakistani ambassador, Lin Yao was then pestered by General Xia, but he was anxious to go to the laboratory to see the results.
"You brat! Are you even listening to me?!"
A roar pulled Lin Yao back to reality from his daydream. He saw that General Xia, glaring angrily, had his face almost touching his nose. The sound of Xiao Cao's chuckle echoed in his mind, and Lin Yao immediately knew that Xiao Cao had deliberately not reminded him.
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"Ah! Grandpa, I'm sorry. I was thinking about something very important, and talking to you gave me a sudden inspiration, so I got distracted."
Lin Yao immediately apologized, and casually threw in a free compliment, which immediately softened the old general's expression. "What did you just say?"
"I'm asking you, didn't you ask Pakistan for any benefits? And I'm telling you, Old Man Xiao gave in. This military meeting didn't pass that damn resolution. It will be discussed again later. This 'discussion' actually just means sending an expert group to participate in your **research experiments.
General Xia wore a smug look on his face, as if the failure of the resolution was entirely his doing.
"Benefits?" Lin Yao turned his head and looked at the pile of medicinal herbs being unloaded outside the door. "Consider it helping them out. They did their best when something happened in Sichuan last time, and this time I'm repaying the favor on behalf of my hometown folks."
"Have them purchase and collect more Chinese medicinal herbs, and also see if they can be cultivated. Ephedra, Rhodiola rosea, licorice, Cistanche deserticola, Cynomorium songaricum, and other medicinal herbs are all available in Pakistan, which are exactly what I need."
At this point, Lin Yao paused, wondering why Xiao Cao had suddenly added "Cistanche deserticola" and "Cistanche lanceolata" when he suggested the medicinal herbs. He wondered if Min Hong was going to produce aphrodisiacs in the future!
"Grandpa, the expert group is just in time. Your mention of the expert group reminded me. You should go see your great-grandson first. I'll go see the experts. I heard they've made some progress. I have to go there right away. I've already been delayed for quite a while."
"I'll go with you to take a look." Hearing that the experts had made a breakthrough, General Xia was naturally eager to go and see for himself.
Although he secretly longed for Xiao Guli to act spoiled in front of him, which would be a way for him to experience what it felt like for Old Man Xiao to be a generation younger than him, and he could also devise a plan to use the little guy to coerce Old Man Xiao, a strategy known in military tactics as attacking the enemy's defenses by taking advantage of the situation, all of this was insignificant compared to what the experts had researched. General Xia already regarded the "poisonous people" as the greatest enemy of the entire country, surpassing even the United States, Britain, Japan, and India in this peaceful era.
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"Lin Yao, you've come at the right time! Quickly help me connect these wires. I can't manage all of this by myself, it's really inconvenient without an assistant!"
Professor Chen, a 67-year-old neurosurgeon, caught sight of Lin Yao and immediately asked him for help without hesitation. While arranging for Lin Yao to help, he buried himself in sorting through the dense network of sensor cables on the test subject. Sweat was beading on his forehead, and even the powerful air conditioning couldn't cool him down.
Lin Yao gave an "oh," then left General Xia, who had come with him, and stepped forward to help organize the detection lines.
These experts and scholars were the type of people who least valued the powerful and wealthy; they only genuinely respected those with expertise in their fields. Lin Yao happened to be one of these people, and thus immediately gained everyone's approval. Coupled with Lin Yao's competence and good temper, the experts, who were all quite old, developed the habit of ordering him around. They spoke and acted without any of the usual polite formalities or tedious manners, and Lin Yao also liked this style. Their relationship grew increasingly close.
"Kobayashi, you've come at the right time. We've discovered something new."
73-year-old endocrinologist Nie stopped his work, looked at Lin Yao who was approaching and smiled, "You know what, these test subjects are not human. They still have human instincts and reactions, and even more intense reactions."
Lin Yao paused, but didn't stop. He quickly walked to the operating table to help Professor Chen connect the probe cables. The densely packed cables were a large bundle, at least a hundred or so, each tip of which was a gleaming silver probe, extremely sharp, making it easy to insert into various parts of the test subject's body.
The fervent experts no longer treated their test subjects as normal humans. Monitoring the neurological, tissue fluid, and endocrine responses to various drugs and other stimuli was crucial, thus significantly increasing Professor Chen's workload. As a result, the villa was fitted with over ten sets of specialized monitoring equipment, and the number of probe cables increased considerably. For convenience, the metal-plate-attached and sensor-based devices were long gone, replaced by more direct and effective, though painful and harmful, silver-plated, snap-on probes. All the experts agreed on this.
"Really? That's wonderful!"
While quickly inserting the silver needles into various parts of the test subject's body according to their numbers, Lin Yao glanced at Elder Nie with feigned surprise before turning back to continue inserting the needles. "Elder Nie, tell me quickly, I can't wait any longer!"
"You brat! You still won't tell me the result? I'll ask you myself!" Lin Yao's inner grumbling was overheard by Xiao Cao, who responded with two giggles.
"Xiaolin, we have tried many drugs. So far, we have tested 125 kinds of human hormones in the field of endocrinology alone. Most 'toxic people' will react to these hormones, and the reaction is more intense than that of ordinary people."