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Moreover, with effective treatments available, people will no longer fear patients with Oripathy. In other words, they will shift from a lifestyle of "wearing masks, maintaining distance, and having frequent checkups" to one of "never wearing masks, having close contact, not having any checkups, and occasionally holding parties."

Even if there is a so-called "miracle drug" that can cure the disease, it is only a temporary cure, not lifelong immunity. Not to mention that patients in stage III can only be controlled. This is the best situation for medical groups.

People keep getting sick and keep buying medicine. Before you know it, you've become a stage III patient and a free ATM for life. Although the profit is not as high as before, the steady cash flow is much more stable than the income from a one-off deal. And this stability is reflected in the stock price.

"Cheers!" Rhine Life's headquarters was basking in the joy of its stock price stabilization and its sales and profit reports all showing a red line. Although the profit margin on a single stock had become less attractive, the straight-line increase in sales volume already spoke volumes.

Moreover, unlike previous inhibitors, this cure can completely cure you as soon as you show symptoms of infection. Simply put, the nanoparticles inside will kill and expel these mutated cells within seconds, stopping the chain reaction of Oripathy.

Therefore, regardless of whether they are sick or not, wealthy people are happy to buy several vials of penicillin and keep them at home for emergencies. Ordinary people are the same. Just like shortly after the advent of penicillin, everyone regarded penicillin as a panacea and had the habit of keeping several vials of penicillin at home.

"Your Excellency, the Chairman of the Insurance Association cordially invites you to a charity reception for patients with Oripathy."

"Please cancel it for me."

Anyone with a brain knows what these guys are thinking. But right now is the time for Rhine Life to sweep the market and make huge profits. Getting involved with those insurance salesmen at this time is like using your own profits to pave the way for their business.

These guys haven't seen the truth yet, wanting to get this kind of thing without sufficient benefits and exchanges.

"So, regarding the inclusion of litholytic agents in medical insurance..."

"Hmm, no rush, let's leave them alone for a few days." It's not like I'm the one in a hurry right now.

"What about Congress..."

"Give our congressmen a heads-up and tell them to object." It'll probably involve tariffs, forced inclusion in insurance, or an antitrust investigation or something. Seriously, as if everyone has a few members in Congress.

"The people from Blacksteel and Thor will stay in sync with us, and those politicians might not be willing to."

Are you kidding me? Kazdel's space cooperation project has only just begun, and over 1000 billion Colombian dollars have already been poured in. There's still no sign of them breaking even, and you're already causing trouble for Kazdel? Who are you going to make take the blame for this colossal mess?

Moreover, Thor and Blacksteel, who are paying for the business, wouldn't just stand by and watch their partnership fall apart.

Thor is talking about deploying weapons in space, planning to make money by selling conceptual arms; Black Steel's space launch port has just laid its foundation, and their invested space security company has just opened for business, and then you want to sanction Kazdel and increase Kazdel tariffs?

Do you really think the Colombian military-industrial complex, medical complex, and private military contractor alliance are all benevolent people?

Chapter 88 is still very simple to fill in.

Chapter 88

Columbia, RheinLife Laboratory

"Move everything out of here, guards. Two people, come and help."

"Two more people go upstairs; there are too many bottles and jars over there."

"Be careful, you fools, these are deadly things."

"Oh my god, you idiot, don't go near the cage!" Amidst the commotion, people came and went in the laboratory, and various equipment and materials were being packed up in an orderly manner. Because the development of a new drug for Oripathy had not made any progress for a long time, and Rhine Lab was not a charity, it naturally chose to lay off its related research and development institutions.

This doesn't mean they'd be happy to be distributors, but rather that they'd rather not invest in a path with little hope of success and instead focus on analyzing and developing Kazdel's finished products, attempting to circumvent their physical patents.

Terran has no international patent protection. In fact, Terran doesn't have an international organization like the United Nations or the WTO to maintain such rules. Therefore, Terran's patent law is usually implemented domestically in each country, and some countries don't even have the concept of patents, such as Ursus and Great Flame.

However, the physical patents used by Kazdel are a common practice in Terra's international trade. Simply put, they set self-destruct or some kind of functional limitation on one or two physical components. You can only produce them if you buy these core components from the original manufacturer, which indirectly achieves the effect of an international patent.

Therefore, for Rhine Life Group, the best option is to crack Kazdel's physical patent so that it can develop its own new Oripathy drug. However, the difficulty of this reverse engineering is no simpler than developing a new drug directly, and may even be more difficult.

Even if Rhine Life had enough funds, it would be impossible to conjure up so many professionals and core experts. Therefore, they would inevitably have to close down these laboratories and institutions that yielded almost no profit and instead conduct research and development in large research facilities located outside the Colombian capital.

To house the research team that comprised several laboratories, Rheinmetall purchased a large tract of land, reportedly so large that it would take several hours to drive there.

"Is there really no room for compromise at all?" the female researcher holding the documents asked, frowning. "The research work here is also very important!"

“There’s nothing we can do, Miss. You should get on the bus and leave with the second group. Don’t make things difficult for us.” The head of the guards responsible for protection and escort was also helpless. “This matter is not under the jurisdiction of our security department. It’s a decision made by the board of directors.”

"Can……"

"What are you all dawdling for? Hurry up and load it onto the truck!" The workers carrying the heavy culture tanks huffed and puffed as they walked across the aisle and placed the tanks on the transport pallets.

“Our proposal was rejected,” another middle-aged researcher walked over dejectedly. “Some of us will be transferred to the cutting-edge new drug research and development center, while others will be reassigned to other research departments, or even…”

There may be layoffs. Rhine Life doesn't have enough money and resources to launch a large number of projects. Since we need to concentrate our efforts on doing things, some projects may naturally be abandoned. Those capable researchers, research directors and experts will not have to worry about work. Even if there are no projects for the time being, Rhine Life is willing to spend money to support them.

But for the interns and research assistants who come to do the hard work, there's not much to say. Those who have vacancies will be placed, those who don't will be transferred to administrative or other positions, and those who can't be placed will be eliminated.

Meanwhile, in the research facility office, Kal'tsit nodded politely, "Thank you very much for your cooperation." Rhine Lab had received a large amount of research data from the Loken Water Tank, and that was the purpose of her trip. In exchange for Kazdel turning a blind eye to the development of new drugs, the Rhine Lab board of directors naturally made corresponding exchanges of benefits.

The most important clause is that Rhodes Island is allowed to back up the data of several classified projects, such as "Flame Demon" and "Kitten". After all, these projects were initially considered to be failures. The one that came closest to success was the Rosemary Twin Project. However, the data and results of this project had already fallen into Rhodes Island's hands, and they were not confident that they could get them back.

As for the rest, they generally consist of only one or two unrepeatable, accidental achievements and tons of dangerous failures, causing the security department to be on edge every day. To be honest, the security department is the happiest when these projects are cut.

Because you don't have to worry about being called down to a certain underground level every day to deal with a bunch of weird and wonderful things with a baton and an electric shock shield, it's like working at Lobotomy Corporation. At least Lobotomy Corporation provides its employees with EGO weapons and equipment.

"Sigh, these are all failed products. Perhaps it is because of these successive failures that we were..." and were merged and laid off.

“We have no intention of commenting on your company’s arrangements. Now that the transaction is complete, I should take my leave. Thank you for your hospitality, Director.” Kal'tsit waved the folder in her hand, indicating that Rhodes Island had obtained what it wanted.

"Sigh~" The director stood up, glanced around the office. He had grown attached to this place, but now, he guessed the land would be used for other projects and construction after it was cleared.

"Is everyone here?" The guard counted the personnel and supplies. After confirming that everyone was there, he pounded on the vehicle door. The land transport ship, loaded with a large number of personnel and equipment, left the laboratory's docking area. There was still some cleanup work to be done.

Some researchers are backing up data, while a few others are making a final check of the facility for any leftover reagents, documents, and laboratory animals.

In conclusion, this experimental base, located in a secluded river valley, has finally been completely shut down. Demolition crews are currently demolishing the water towers and the large, emptied cultivation tanks. Abandoning the facilities does not mean that pioneers and wanderers are allowed to come in and rummage through them at will.

"Boom!" The huge biomass cultivation tank collapsed completely. Security personnel with flamethrowers carried out a final high-temperature disinfection of the pile of rubble. On the other side, guards and researchers counted the personnel and belongings layer by layer before evacuating and locking the elevators and all security doors.

In this world, any reliable biological laboratory will be extremely careful when it runs away and dismantles its facilities. They will disinfect, lock the doors, check, and take inventory. They know that missing even one thing can be fatal.

A few days later, at the Kazdel Research Institute, "Damn it, junior, where did you get this junk?" The senior's lab was in complete chaos, with the sound of electromagnetic rifles firing in the background. "The lower floors are all sealed off, and the security drone team is still engaged in a fierce battle."

What did you do?

"It's just a small experiment, the key is that this thing is a bit difficult to handle."

"Boom!" "Oh, they've deployed heavy weapons." The senior student's expression was calm, seemingly not taking the artificial sun rising in the distance outside the window seriously at all. "Okay, Facility A has been blown up, now it's our turn." It was obvious that they were also in the process of evacuating and fleeing.

"Actually, we just organically combined these things with plant cells and nano-memory metals, because a brilliant idea was going to make some monsters that are common in fantasy stories."

"Slime? Did it work?"

"If we fail, do we really need to run away? This year's funding applications and expense reports are going to be a nightmare." Outside the car window, a black, semi-transparent object had broken through the laboratory's surface defenses and began to expand outwards.

However, it seems that because the Originium particles at the core have limited mass, the expansion finally stopped after almost completely engulfing the entire experimental area.

The Terrans then watched remotely as the Covenant dealt with the malfunction of the experiment. The entire hill where the laboratory was located was torn apart and lifted into the sky, then completely shattered by a dense orbital bombardment, and finally crushed into a ping-pong ball-sized ball by a gravitational weapon.

The next second, due to the ultra-high pressure and ultra-high temperature, it turned into a scorching luminous sphere that emitted high-energy neutron rays. Then, its mass exploded. As a result, not only cells, but nothing else remained, because even atoms no longer existed, leaving only neutrons.

"It's cleaned up, but the samples you sent are gone too. Next time you send something like this, remember to put a high-risk label on it. We'll use a high-safety experimental facility next time."

"See? You Terrans haven't ruined yourselves yet. It's really just luck." Old Xia looked at the Doctor, whose expression was a bit stiff.

"What are you all looking at? Oh, right, Rhine Lab brought back their research results. I think their fluid is quite interesting." The group, who had just been watching the slime go out of control, were horrified to see Kal'tsit pull a jar of silvery-white slime from a box. "Holy crap!"

Immediately, Kazdel's research facilities were thrown into chaos. It was as if a group of people had just finished watching a horror movie and, before they could even recover, turned around to find Sadako standing right behind them. It was a testament to their composure not to jump three feet high.

Several hours later, the silvery-white fluid was sent to a high-security laboratory for analysis. They were only slightly relieved after confirming its weak self-renewal capability. "Rhine Labs' suicidal tendencies are truly astounding. I suspect they could kill you all before you're blown up by the solar storm."

"I think so too, so what's the deal with this thing?"

"Similar to D32 steel, the Originium Arts conductive metal can be understood as a new type of metal that transmits nerve impulses, complexed with tiny particles of Originium. It uses the mutual interference of the Originium effect field to transmit nerve impulses and translates them into Originium energy impulses, thus creating an effect similar to a soft fluid with extremely fine metal powder particles."

"So, this thing doesn't actually have the ability to think or act autonomously. It needs a controller or a matrix to remotely control it. So, did Rhine Lab do something strange?"

"Yes, they created a matrix called a polymer."

"Was it completely destroyed?"

“Who knows?” Kal'tsit rolled her eyes. Who knows if they destroyed it completely? “Then we can only make an identical matrix to avoid the possibility that they didn’t destroy it completely. A controllable matrix. And to be honest, this stuff is quite useful. This fine metal powder should be a new alloy rather than a product of the ancients, right?”

"Yes, at least I haven't seen it."

"How does it compare to the Originium particle conduction material in the Ark?"

"I don't know, we need to do a comparison. If it works..." The amount of wiring work for Ark would be reduced by at least two-thirds, because these fluid-like fine metal particles can quickly form lines. In a sense, it is also a military research project of Colombia.

Of course, it has now been withdrawn. The reason is, of course, that they discovered that the key raw materials for the new drug exported by Kazdel contained more ideal nanoparticles, so they naturally abandoned the research and development.

"Alright, can you complete this research?" Old Xia looked at the group of people from Rhodes Island, most of whom were staring at the sky.

Rhodes Island's medical research and development capabilities are actually slightly weaker than Rhine Lab's, and the difference in manpower is even greater. To put it bluntly, Rhodes Island only has a handful of people who can serve as research and development directors and key researchers, some of whom came from Rhine Lab.

If Rhine Life Sciences indicates that it is difficult to continue development, then there is indeed a big problem, especially since this project is the result of Rhine Life Sciences' original founding team.

"So, you need to outsource it, right?"

"How much will it cost?" Kal'tsit asked instinctively.

"This doesn't cost any money, and you might even make a little money." Paid research usually requires money, but if the other institution is also interested in the research project, you can use the sharing of patents as a reason to get a "partnership fee" from them. Of course, it depends on how well the negotiations go.

"So, you're going to keep looking for your senior?"

"How could that be? This kind of thing looks like biological research, but it's actually microscopic physics research. I'm going to contact the Micromechanical Engineering Laboratory, which is a professional commercial research institution. Of course, if they're not interested, you'd better be prepared to pay a hefty price."

The cost will definitely not be low. However, Lao Xia estimates that the other party is still interested in adding it to their patent database, especially if they give up some patent rights and related authorizations. In that case, it is possible to obtain the results at a preferential price or even at a loss.

"So how long will it take?"

"That depends on how far Rhine Labs has come in. However, we can also conduct some research on its applications. By the way, do you have any additional requirements for this thing? Make a list and discuss whether there are any functions that are impossible to achieve."

"Not yet, as long as it works, that's fine. We don't have that much time and effort to make a perfect product right now." The doctor said that as long as it can meet Rhine Life's basic requirements and can work stably under high-energy radiation in space, that's enough.

"Okay, actually, if we don't consider special abilities like the Originium Effect Field, it's basically just the most basic micro-mechanical particle solid printing material," Old Xia shrugged. "You can find it in any colony supermarket, so the technical difficulty isn't that high." Of course, the strength and functionality of the printed objects are also unlikely to be that high.

The problem was temporarily solved, but Lao Xia still carefully collected the pile of silver slimes. Just kidding, he had just watched his senior's mishap and the club's explosion. If another one happened here, he couldn't find a team as capable as the one to cover it up.

"Rhine Life, I think they'll put on a show of explosions at their headquarters sooner or later."

“It’s not like they’ve been performing company-wide demolitions for the first time.” Kal’tsit rolled her eyes; she’d seen it all before. “Since they secured the investment, they’ve demolished the facility at least a few times. The Ifrit incident was one, where the entire facility melted. Then there was the Rosemary incident, though we were the ones who did the demolition. And then there were a few more. I’ve said it before, Terra will die at the hands of these people sooner or later.”

"However, their technique of encoding neural impulses and neurotransmitters is quite interesting. I will study it when I have time and then give it to my students as a research topic."

"Wait a minute, a student project? Isn't that a bit too far beyond the curriculum?"

"Really? I don't intend for them to perfect this thing; it's just research on its application," Old Xia said confidently. "This kind of small project shouldn't be too difficult, right?"

"What the hell is this?!" DoumiaoOTZ knelt down in front of the desk. She had just returned to the dormitory when she received the new research topic from her supervisor. After taking a look, she remained in this position.

“Joyce, are you still awake? Show me this topic…”

“Ms. Hemer, you…”

"What are you doing? It's 3 o'clock, time for tea first, this can't be done!" Research institutes and laboratories across the country were in chaos once again.