Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 331 Galaxy Life ARE78 Project
On the outskirts of a coastal city in an African country, there is a complex of several low buildings, outside of which is a wall covered with high-voltage barbed wire.

There is also a watchtower on the wall, on which armed men with guns can be seen stationed.

There is an entrance and exit gate on the wall facing the main road. There is an English sign on the door, which translates to 'Galaxy Biotechnology Company.'

The entire base looks ordinary from the outside, with just a few more armed personnel, and the buildings are low and not very fancy.

However, once you enter the building, you will find that the buildings here are very solid and the various protective measures are very strict. Many places are guarded by security equipment and armed personnel.

One of the buildings, which doesn't even have windows, has even stricter entry and exit controls. Entry requires triple authentication including fingerprint, 3D face, and pupil.

After passing through this gate, you can see a lot of modern interior decorations and equipment inside.

Many people in white coats are busy in different laboratories.

In a small meeting room on the third floor, five or six people were gathered together, and all of them looked happy and even excited.

"Our drug ARE78 has shown very good results in the first phase of clinical trials. We have conducted 78 clinical trials, and the experimental results have proven that our drug ARE has significant effects. The physical condition of the clinical trial participants who took our drug has been significantly improved. According to our statistics, after taking the drug for three consecutive months, % of the participants have recovered their physical functions to the level of three to five years younger."

“This is a very good data!”

"According to our prediction, if you take the medicine continuously for more than one year, your body functions should be able to recover for more than ten years. If you continue to take the medicine intermittently, you can maintain this effect and prevent your body functions from continuing to deteriorate with age!"

"More importantly, our drug No. 78 did not have any obvious side effects. We monitored the physical conditions of all test subjects throughout the entire process, and no abnormalities occurred during the medication period."

"The most obvious side effect found so far is that after stopping the drug, the body's functions will gradually return to their original state. At the same time, some test subjects have developed symptoms such as high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease after stopping the drug."

"Although there are still side effects after stopping the drug, compared with our previous experimental drugs, this can be said to be a historic breakthrough!"

"Although there are still side effects after stopping the drug, this is not the key point. The key point is that we have successfully restored the body functions of the test subjects, which is the core and most important feature of an anti-aging drug!"

"I strongly suggest that the company increase the scale of the second phase of clinical trials. We need more clinical trial data to explore its efficacy and to clarify whether there are other side effects. At the same time, we need to further explore the side effects after drug discontinuation!"

"In addition, I suggest that the company further enrich the clinical trial population. After all, our drugs are developed based on genetic technology, and the genes of different groups are different. At present, we are only conducting clinical trials in Africa on local groups. In the future, we can try more clinical trials on different groups to clarify whether drug No. 78 has different changes in the genetic characteristics of different groups!"

"We must rely on the strength of the entire company to carry out subsequent Phase II and even Phase III clinical trials. At the same time, we also need more human and material support. Now the strength of our branch alone is not enough to complete the subsequent research and development of ARE78!"

The news that the new anti-aging drug ARE78 developed by a local Galaxy Biotechnology Company had successfully completed the first phase of clinical trials was soon reported to the Galaxy Life Company headquarters in South Africa.

Not long after, an encrypted report from Galaxy Life Headquarters was sent to Xu Shenxue's encrypted computer, and then Xu Shenxue saw the news that the ARE78 drug had successfully completed the first phase of clinical trials.

And this... was the first time that Xu Shenxue received news that Galaxy Life's drug had successfully completed the first phase of clinical trials several years after the company was founded.

Before this...Xu Shenxue had never received any good news, basically all kinds of failures!
In the past few years, Galaxy Life has spent more than one billion US dollars each year on various research and development. Its previous acquisition model was to acquire a domestic pharmaceutical company, and then establish three large R&D centers based on it, recruiting a large number of top talents to develop anti-aging drugs.

These three large R&D centers are actually Galaxy Life’s main R&D institutions. In addition, there are two R&D centers each in the United States and Europe.

However, these R&D centers located in China and developed countries are all very high-end pure scientific research institutions. They do not conduct clinical trials or anything like that... They are all engaged in serious drug R&D and production business.

In fact, Galaxy Pharmaceuticals has quite a few pharmaceutical products on the market in China, all of which are generic drugs from pharmaceutical companies that it had previously acquired. It also acts as an agent for the production and sales of some imported drugs from abroad.

These pharmaceutical businesses actually don’t make much money, they are basically just a sign that Galaxy Life puts up for outsiders to see.

A small group of top people on Earth basically know what Galaxy Life's real business is... anti-aging and even life-extending technology.

Basically, a group of super-rich people jointly invested and let Xu Shenxue take the lead in developing anti-aging drugs, and even tried to prolong life, or even achieve immortality, and become immortal...

At the very least, I want to live to be ninety or a hundred years old and still have good health.

To this end, a large group of super-rich people were able to put aside their prejudices and fully cooperate.

Even those American financial groups that fought to the death with Xu Shenxue were pouring money into this Galaxy Life crazily. Several American financial groups and some super-rich American capital have invested more than 4 billion US dollars in this Galaxy Life.

American capital is actually the largest sponsor of Galaxy Life!

Next is European, Central Asian and Indian capital...There are also many super-rich people in India.

Over the years, Galaxy Life has raised more than 8 billion US dollars from around the world, and more than 40 super-rich individuals or families have invested in it.

The qualification to raise funds is quite high. Not to mention other factors, the threshold price for raising funds is 100 million US dollars.

The minimum investment is $100 million, and there is no actual return. Even the shares are only symbolic. The only reward is that once anti-aging or life-extending drugs are developed, the investors themselves or their designated descendants can get priority use.

One hundred million dollars is just a ticket for buying a ticket that you don’t know if or when it can be redeemed!

However, based on Xu Shenxue's strong ability to lead a team in the field of high-tech research and development, a large number of super-rich people still chose to trust Xu Shenxue.

You can say that Xu Shenxue is a nouveau riche who does things in an ugly and dirty way, not at all decent.

With a bazooka in one hand and a smartphone in the other, he forced his way into a small circle at the top of the planet, then scare people while snatching food.

It makes a group of old consortiums feel disgusted and disgusted!

However, you cannot deny Xu Shenxue's strong strength in the field of high technology!

Xu Shenxue, who is able to dominate the world in the field of smart terminals, and has brought the impoverished Chinese semiconductor industry to world-class levels, and has also developed driverless electric cars, drones, AI technology, robots and other miscellaneous things.

Putting aside his character, his abilities are absolutely top-notch!

If someone says that Xu Shenxue is incompetent, especially in leading a scientific research team and has poor vision in the field of high technology, the consortiums of various countries will slap him in the face... If Xu Shenxue is incompetent, then what are we? Trash?

When Xu Shenxue wanted to engage in life sciences, even his arch-rival, the American consortium, could not help but be tempted and made generous donations...even though reason told them that this was not very reliable.

But Xu Shenxue has succeeded so many times, who dares to say that he will fail this time?
What if this succeeds?

Before his failure, whenever Xu Shenxue wanted to do something, he didn't even need a plan, and there would be a lot of people supporting him, contributing money and manpower, fearing that they would not be able to get on the train if they were a little late.

The American consortium is no exception!
Competition is competition, fighting is fighting, but this kind of competition and fighting is actually more about fighting for territory and the right to speak.

As for money... these days, who doesn't have tens of billions of dollars?
Some of the things that Xu Shenxue cares about are actually just like that in their eyes. They are just bargaining chips that can be used to exchange interests and can be taken out as exchange of interests when necessary.

Because, in the eyes of many people, although they have competition and conflicts with Xu Shenxue, they can still cooperate in some areas.

Especially in the field of life sciences.

To some extent, they have already regarded Xu Shenxue as 'one of their own'... not someone with the same interests, but the same kind of person.

However, Xu Shenxue is not the same type of person as them... their ideals are different.

What these wealthy people want is to have more say and at most they just want to live longer and become immortal.

But Xu Shenxue is actually more idealistic. He wants to gain more satisfaction from a sense of accomplishment and also wants to visit outer galaxies.

Compared to these wealthy people, Xu Shenxue is more like an idealist... Of course, the premise of this idealist is that he has a system.

If there wasn't a system, he wouldn't be doing all this mess.

But I didn’t dare to think about it when there was no system, and I still don’t dare to think about it now that there is a system. Then what is the purpose of the system?

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The relationship between Xu Shenxue and some other financial groups is actually quite complicated and contradictory. If they are enemies, they are not that hostile; and if they are friends, that is even less the case.

Just like neighbors in the global village, they quarrel on weekdays, but they still live in the same village...

Galactic life is a special field product of this complex and contradictory relationship.

Galaxy Life, which receives investments from global consortiums, nominally has its headquarters in South Africa, but in reality its R&D headquarters is in China, and it also has a R&D center in the United States and Europe.

After these R&D centers have produced preliminary theoretical and experimental results, Galaxy Life's R&D and testing bases in Africa will take over the next step of conducting various tests. After the tests, several drugs that appear likely to be successful will be selected and then the first phase of clinical trials will be carried out locally.

As for the Phase II clinical trial... In fact, among the more than 100 R&D projects that Galaxy Life had tried before, no drug had ever reached the stage of Phase II clinical trials.

Project ARE78 will be the first project to launch Phase II clinical trials.

If nothing unexpected happens, the second phase of clinical trials will continue in Africa to further explore the effects and side effects of drug ARE78, especially the side effects after discontinuation of the drug, whether such side effects can be resolved and controlled, etc.

If the second phase of clinical trials can be successfully passed, the subsequent third and fourth phase clinical trials will be further formalized and gradually conducted in some backward countries.

The entire model is that R&D is carried out in China and clinical trials are carried out overseas.

As for why it has to be so complicated... it is mainly to make clinical trials more convenient. After all, in most normal countries, legal and compliant drug clinical trials are actually very troublesome, with too many procedures and too much money.

It is impossible for Galaxy Life to carry out research and development so slowly, so how can it be so convenient?

Just like many European and American pharmaceutical companies like to conduct clinical trials in India, the reasons are similar.

However, Galaxy Life is even more radical. It goes directly to Africa and prefers to conduct clinical trials in war-torn countries in Africa.

After Xu Shenxue received the news that the ARE78 project from Galaxy Life Science had completed the first phase of clinical trials, he quickly instructed Galaxy Life Science to launch the second phase of clinical trials according to the predetermined plan.

At the same time, we are also looking forward to good news from the second phase of clinical trials. To this end, Xu Shenxue also increased the weight of Galaxy Life's scientific research quotas, temporarily calling on several S-level quotas and more than ten A-level scientific research quotas to support research and development.

Of course, whether it is good news or bad news, it will not be known in a short time. Clinical trials still take some time, at least a year.

However, Xu Shenxue himself is not in a hurry. After all, he himself does not need these anti-aging drugs.

He adds points directly from the system.

Over the years, Xu Shenxue has used achievement points to add points to himself to improve his physical fitness. Although the system does not display any numerical values, he can still feel his physical fitness continuing to improve.

Not only has my physical fitness not declined with age, but it has actually been getting better and better.

He had nothing to do before, and because he was curious about how good his physical fitness was, he tried the 100-meter race. Without any professional training, he unexpectedly ran a time of 9.96 seconds.

If a sprinter can run into this range, he is considered to be at the top level. Xu Shenxue relied solely on his physical fitness. Without any professional training and even his starting posture was incorrect, he managed to run to the level of 9.96 seconds, which is clearly beyond the level of an ordinary person.

Adult males who exercise regularly and have very good physical fitness but have not received professional sprinting training can generally only run between thirteen and fifteen seconds.

Only professional sprinters can run a time of around ten seconds. There have been only two sprinters in China who have ever been able to run under ten seconds.

Xu Shenxue, without any professional training, ran 9.96 seconds solely relying on his physical fitness. It would be shocking if people told them about it.

This is obviously not up to the standard of normal humans... at least not up to the standard of normal humans today.

As a result, Xu Shenxue no longer dares to allow the research and development team of Galaxy Life to conduct physical tests on him.

Because the test data is estimated to be exaggerated, it will arouse suspicion from R&D personnel and even scare people.

Xu Shenxue had a hunch that if he continued to add points like this, it was hard to say whether he would gain immortality or not. After all, the system didn't tell him.

But sooner or later, my physical fitness will become non-human... or it will become a little superhuman.

This is also one of the reasons why Xu Shenxue studied life sciences. He is actually very curious about his own physical condition.

At the same time, there has been no change in his physical or appearance over the years. It’s okay now, but ten or twenty years later, if he still looks like a twenty-year-old young man, how will others see him?

He also had to find an alternative source of technology.

Eternal youth gained by taking anti-aging drugs is easier for others to believe than adding points to the system!
After all, the former is still in the field of science, while the latter is purely in the field of metaphysics...

I’m not in good shape today. I can barely write four or five thousand words to meet the full attendance requirement. Let me take a break and try again tomorrow!

It’s the beginning of the month yet, and those who have a guaranteed monthly ticket can also vote.

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