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"It's also possible that the other party deliberately timed it to create a punctual persona, or they might be trying a different approach, since ordinary pursuit methods are useless for Chashao Cat."

"That makes sense," Swire also suspected that she had been stood up. What kind of man would arrive fifteen minutes early for a blind date?

However, what Pink Dragon said made sense. If she hadn't reminded her, Swire felt that she would definitely have been distracted by this unusual situation.

If the situation changes from how to make the other person give up to nitpicking about their lateness, then it will just turn into a girl's coquettish pouting, and might even cause the other person to have some inappropriate thoughts.

"It's 3:10. Officer Swire, did you really get stood up?"

Sister Gui glanced at her watch. If this was a surprise attack, it was going too far. Wasn't she afraid of really getting angry and running away?

"Old Xia, you got stood up, didn't you?" White Rabbit glanced at the clock; it was 3:10.

"Wait a little longer. At times like this, girls will deliberately be late to see how magnanimous and patient the guy is."

W shook his head slightly. In this situation, the woman would definitely be late; punctuality is definitely not one of a woman's virtues.

"That makes sense," Old Xia, whose own romantic experience was also zero, thought this situation was normal after W's explanation. "By the way, Yelena, do you want to go to the night market later? The food here is too sweet. I prefer the more down-to-earth snacks."

"Okay!"

As time ticked by, Swire gradually lost her composure. It seemed she had truly been stood up by the man, and a palpable resentment almost enveloped her.

Although Old Chen felt sympathy for Swire's plight out of basic compassion, but...

Anyway, it's hilarious that even this char siu cat has come to this!

Swire, the "flower of the Guard Bureau," was stood up on her first blind date. This joke will probably circulate in the Guard Bureau for a long time.

"How am I supposed to get through this awkward situation? Especially with other people around!"

Swire glanced at Old Xia, who was as calm as a Buddha statue, and felt that she was about to embark on the path of social death.

Just then, the angel who saved Swire arrived. "Whoosh—" A car engine roared to life, a van turned the corner, followed by the sound of gunfire.

"Go!" Swire grasped at this last straw, and the other operators reacted quickly as well.

The difference in popularity between Little Tiger and Old Chen was so obvious. Old Chen sat still and didn't move, while the other operators quickly understood Little Tiger's plan. Rather than becoming a joke about being stood up on a blind date, it would be better to just say that they came here to ambush him.

As for who was lying in ambush... well, they just popped out on their own. As for why they didn't tell the others, well, that's for the sake of secrecy.

As for other far-fetched points, considering Swire's good looks and wallet, everyone will wisely refrain from mentioning them.

"Wow!" Everyone in the restaurant sprang into action instantly. The waiters and idle customers dropped what they were holding and rushed out like cheetahs chasing their prey, heading into the underground parking lot across the street. More than a dozen police cars poured out and headed towards the truck.

"Let's go too! Let's go help!" Old Xia also thought this was a perfect excuse to get away and a reason to stand the woman up!

"My goodness!" The ordinary deliveryman looked back and saw that the gang vehicles chasing him had disappeared, replaced by more than a dozen police cars from the Lungmen Guard Bureau, and an even more powerful sports car behind them. "Damn, half of Lungmen's police have come! This shouldn't be happening!"

Honestly, even if I ran a red light and was involved in human trafficking, there shouldn't be so many police officers lying in wait on the street to arrest me. This shouldn't be happening! I'm just an ordinary, unremarkable human trafficker, this shouldn't be happening to me.

Soon, the delivery truck, which was slightly inferior in both vehicle performance and technology, was blocked by Lao Xia's car. Then, more than a dozen police cars pulled up, and dozens of burly policemen showed their badges and pinned the bewildered deliveryman to the ground.

“Human smuggling…smuggling infected people? You’re something else—” Looking at the two little girls with their mouths gagged and their eyes brimming with tears in the bag, an angry Swire kicked the unlucky guy. This was not just anger from being stood up, but also anger from this kind of evil. “You all saw it, he resisted arrest, that’s why I took action.”

"Yes, yes, we all saw it."

“I testify that Sir was forced to use force during the process of subduing the criminal…”

“Yes, yes, we all saw it.” White Rabbit also testified. Her personal conflict with Swire was a personal conflict, but on this matter of public justice, she and Swire were on the same side.

"Take him back! Interrogate him properly, sigh—" Swire shook her head. Luckily, this human trafficker appeared, otherwise it would have been troublesome. Being stood up on her first date would have become a lifelong disgrace.

"Mr. Xia, thank you so much for your help. I'm sorry for taking up your time."

"It's alright, I was just about to give them the cold shoulder anyway..."

"Oh, that's perfect! It's getting late. How about this, it's on me. Let's go somewhere else for afternoon tea. Do you want to come?"

"No, no..." The other operators waved their hands. Everyone could tell that the little tiger was in a bad mood. After all, for a girl who was quite confident in her appearance, being stood up... she would need to eat at least two desserts to recover.

"Recently, the Lungmen Guard Bureau cracked a large-scale human smuggling case, with an estimated hundreds of children being smuggled to Colombia for human experimentation by a company. This operation has successfully dismantled this dark smuggling network..."

Looking at Swire, who was forcing a smile in front of the camera, and Lao Xia in the corner next to her, Lao Wei was stunned. Weren't they going on a blind date?

How did it come to this? Or is it that he, an old man, can no longer understand the romance of young people these days?

"Hey, Old Bug, you're really something! You actually managed to do this. Enough said, I understand, I get it. I'll compensate you for your losses through another channel. I thought you'd try to sabotage me behind my back, but I didn't expect you to be such a good friend..."

The big tiger's tone was cheerful, though Lao Wei didn't know what he had figured out or what he had lost.

But all I could do was politely say it was nothing, that we were old buddies and there was no need to be so polite, and then hung up the call in a daze.

"Shadow Guards, what did they do yesterday?"

"They ate at a high-end tea restaurant, strolled through a night market, and then gave an interview to reporters. Afterwards, Officer Swire personally interrogated the criminals at the Guard Bureau. That night, she led the Guard Bureau in a raid on their hideout, basically destroying the stronghold except for some leaders who escaped. Boss Xia provided some of the improvised explosive devices, and one of his bodyguards also contributed a lot..."

Although several ringleaders escaped due to their lack of resources, at least the top leader was stopped, making it impossible to rebuild this dark smuggling chain in the short term.

"I understand." Old Long adopted a Commander Ikari-like demeanor, lost in thought. "What's Officer Chen doing?"

"She disguised herself as an ordinary tourist and worked with Officer Swire to apprehend the target..."

"Oh—" Old Wei opened the photos taken by the shadow guard, then spat out a mouthful of tea. "This...this..."

This is clearly a handsome and dashing young man, a resolute and serious young police officer, his brows slightly furrowed, one hand gripping the criminal, the other resting on his sword sheath, his face seemingly concealing a righteous rage—

It wouldn't even need modification to be used as propaganda material for the Guard Bureau—but if it weren't for that Crimson Sky weapon, Old Wei really wouldn't have recognized who it was.

"Slap!" Old Wei slapped himself across the face, speechless. "Don't tell Madam Wen Yue about this..."

He raised his brother's daughter into a real man, a handsome young man. He didn't know how to explain it. Should he proudly say that there was no need to worry about the heir, because his daughter had become a son, or should he apologize on the spot?

However, looking at Old Chen standing next to Swire, Old Wei thought he might as well say to Tiger, "Why don't you let my niece marry your daughter? It would be a double blessing!" Look how well-matched this golden couple is.

Chapter Eight - I don't know what title to use

chapter eight

At the construction site of Longmen Old Town, the original fortress-like buildings have been completely demolished. Some of the original residents who lived here have moved to other areas with their demolition compensation, while others, including the infected, are living in the dormitories of various construction sites.

To this end, Rembitox even specially commissioned an engineering land-based vessel to dock on the deck of the old town of Lungmen, so that its employees and senior engineers would not have to live together with infected people.

The first building to be constructed was the office and independent laboratory building of Xia's Agricultural Investment Group, which had the least connection to the name, namely the subsidiary "Sanlian Pharmaceutical", as well as a sales hall on the first floor.

The structure is quite peculiar; it's a standard twin-tower structure, but not very tall. One tower houses offices, the other a laboratory, and the ground floor is a connected lobby used for sales and reception.

The reason for its bizarre structure is that this subsidiary was the first of all of Lao Xia's shell companies to officially open for business. It was a temporary structure quickly erected to serve the vast number of infected people and various engineering contractors on the construction site.

They may officially separate later, moving into a dedicated experimental park and office area, with the sales department being handed over to professional distributors. Swire volunteered to take on this task.

Given the existing 400 billion debt with Swire Group and the lack of familiarity with local medical groups in Longmen, Lao Xia chose Swire Group as his partner for this part.

As for companies like Rhine Labs, they are enemies who recently shut down their smuggling channels and bombed their partner, Loken Water Tank Laboratory...

After thinking it over, Lao Xia decided it was better not to deal with such large pharmaceutical groups. In addition, he was indeed planning to take the low-price dumping route, and Swire Group's department stores, which were aimed at the general public, were the best distribution channel.

The only medicine sold is the oral anti-Originium disease capsule launched by Lao Xia. The principle is to settle the Originium particles in the stomach and intestines, and to condense the excessively large Originium particles and excrete them with the feces. In this way, patients will only absorb small molecular weight Originium compounds, which can reduce the chance of developing Originium disease to a certain extent.

The effects are very limited for patients with Oripathy, but the effects are much stronger for ordinary people, greatly reducing the probability of ordinary people accidentally contracting Oripathy.

Of course, if you poke yourself a couple of times with an Originium shard or have close contact with someone suffering from Oripathy, then this medicine won't help.

However, now that the old city renovation project has reached this point, a large number of normal workers and infected workers are mixed together. The demand for this drug is very high, and the cost is not high. Lao Xia sets the price at 50 Lungmen dollars per bottle, with 200 pills per bottle.

Take two pills a day while at work, one pill at other times, and three pills in high-risk areas to ensure efficacy.

This is a devastating blow to some medical companies in Longmen that sell placebos with no therapeutic effect. It's like an Indian cotton cloth workshop being hit by the industrial textile industry. The actual efficacy proves that Lao Xia's medicine is really effective, reducing the accidental infection rate by more than 43%, which is enough for ordinary people who are afraid of contact with infected people or who are afraid of Oripathy.

However, this poses no threat to companies like Rhine Life, which manufacture legitimate relief and anti-Orizo disease medications, as their target customer groups and target markets are fundamentally different.

They target the high-end market where money is no object and earn excess profits, while Lao Xia's medicine targets the placebo market for ordinary people and earns a little hard-earned money. There is no conflict between the two sides in this respect.

Or, to put it another way, when the actual production of the drug is simply insufficient, pharmaceutical companies that are unable to capture this hard-earned market share have no choice but to give up. They can't very well shut down production lines that could generate over 200% excess profits to produce something with such low profit margins.

Moreover, if they were to follow Lao Xia's strategy of focusing on volume, either they would encounter the Longmen urban renewal and renovation plan, which would bring together a large number of customers and allow for centralized sales, or they would have to rely on distributors, with each layer of distributors taking all the profits, leaving the pharmaceutical company with losses.

[Regarding how much profit these medical drug and device distributors take, you can refer to the actual situation of medical insurance negotiations in China. You will find that the main reason why drugs and devices are so expensive is that middlemen make a profit by taking a cut. Once there are no middlemen, a drug that costs 200 yuan can be reduced to 20 yuan, and the pharmaceutical company still has enough profit.]

As for distributors, others might not know, but these well-informed bigwigs certainly do. They have Swire Group as their distributor, their future son-in-law, which guarantees basic profits and sales. In contrast, Rhine Life Sciences is just sticking its head out to be ripped off.

As a result, instead of being hit by these large pharmaceutical companies, all sorts of random attacks tripled, keeping W busy all day asking Lao Xia for a raise.

“Boss, you never said you were going to set up an anti-ore disease production line here. I caught fifteen people in one day who were planning to blast, set fires, rob and sabotage, and others who were planning to bribe insiders to steal from the warehouse.”

W complained bitterly, saying that "decency" is something only large companies talk about, because the hidden costs of making things big for companies of their size are too high, while small companies don't care about "decency" at all.

"It's alright, just bear with it for a couple more days." Old Xia turned to look at An Suo, "How's your matter going?"

"All done, boss," the little girl in the security department uniform said, giving an OK sign. "You paid too much."

"There's nothing I can do, those people are just too enthusiastic." The project payments that didn't rely on advance funding, due to various accidents and reasons, haven't even reached half of the 400 billion from Lao Xia. But just the drug supply contracts alone, he's calculated, are almost 100 billion Lungmen dollars.

At this rate, once the production line in Lungmen is established, leveraging Lungmen as Terra's largest commodity distribution center and trading port, the old town's real estate might not even have recouped its costs before they've already earned back 400 billion from selling medicine here.

And frankly, once this phenomenon occurs, a classic capitalist scenario will unfold: Old Xia is clearly not short of money; the pharmaceutical profits are substantial, and he could single-handedly develop the entire old town—

Banks, investment companies, and contractors would come begging him for money—a kind of Matthew effect: to everyone who has, more will be given; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

"However, this is a long-term benefit. Initially, Terra will sell very well because there are no competing products, but then it will enter a slow phase."

Because after panic buying, they'll find that the drug isn't actually very effective; at best, it's gone from a placebo to a health supplement, and the dosage is low enough that they can use it for a long time.

While health supplements may be a huge, highly profitable market, that's only true if the supplements are essentially just "placebos."

It's not like the kind of thing that Lao Xia has, which requires proper drug production lines and pharmaceutical workshops, nor is it a prescription drug that actually has toxicological effects and can be fatal if taken in excess.

"However, at least for now, I'm not short of money. On the contrary, my contract volume guarantees my long-term profitability. And right now, the more money I spend, the more people will come to give me money. So, Yelena, what I taught you before was trickery and cunning; now it's the righteous path of capital and business competition..."

"Use capital to hurt others!" Old Xia said with a serious face. "As long as you have enough capital to withstand losses, this is the all-powerful and invincible tactic in business warfare. You can sweep all your competitors out of the market with unlimited losses, and every penny you lose can be earned back a hundredfold after you monopolize the market."

"But we also need to consider the cost. I've already called the entire Yeti team over."

Yelena shrugged. The pharmaceutical company and Lao Xia's surroundings had been attacked so many times that it had generated half a year's worth of revenue for Officer Swire, almost equivalent to the effect of a large-scale crackdown on organized crime in Longmen. As a result, the prison was calling for a halt—they couldn't accommodate so many people.

"Instead of bribing those thugs, let my men do it."

"No, your people have other uses. Dark Soul, follow the plan I gave you before, understand?"

"I understand, but boss, you actually know how to use such underhanded tactics?"

In summary, it's just a case of medical malpractice. Since they're selling placebos, they naturally have no medicinal effect. And as someone who grew up in a slum, An Suo is very familiar with who has been victimized.

With the backing of their financial power, it's easy for them to take the lead in causing trouble. Yelena's Yeti Squad will take off their uniforms and blend into the crowd, responsible for thoroughly escalating the conflict and turning verbal denunciations into violent attacks. Once inside these companies, it will be time to test the Yeti Squad's tactical skills.

Compared to commercial struggles or stirring up trouble and spreading rumors, they are actually more familiar with this kind of violent breakthrough and sabotage, and they have received professional training as shield guards and city breachers.