Chapter 308: The Price of the Stirring Stick
"A new agent, which can alleviate the side effects of the X gene. In fact, this is the result of many years of research by Dr. Hank, but there have been some breakthroughs recently. Katie said this to the foreign ministers via video conference.
"Actually, both Professor X and Dr. Hank are working to alleviate the conflict between mutants and ordinary people. And I'm their student, and I'm the same as them in that philosophy. At the same time, Dr. Hank is a brilliant scientist, and I believe everyone has heard of this. He has a great deal of knowledge in genetics and biology. ”
Katie is telling the truth, and the level of Dr. Hank's research is no secret. In fact, he joined the X-Men formed by S.H.I.E.L.D. when he was younger.
Including the stealth materials of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s sky carrier, he made them. Dr. Hank and Professor Charles have always had a semi-official identity. Before Xavier School for the Gifted and Talented closed, the U.S. government was well aware of some of their movements, and the mutant school formed by Professor Charles and Dr. Hank was used to balance Magneto's mutant brotherhood.
However, due to various accidents, Xavier Genius School was forced to close. At this point, the U.S. government has also lost the whereabouts of Professor Charles and others, and it is difficult to trace him.
After all, this is Professor X, a man who has been competing with Magneto Marx for nearly half a century. S.H.I.E.L.D., THE FBI, and other organizations, have listed Magneto as the most wanted criminal, and they haven't caught it for so many years.
If Professor X doesn't want others to find him, then these intelligence agencies really can't catch him. The only thing that is reassuring is that Professor Charles is a pacifist and not a Magneto-like activist. Otherwise, the President of the United States will not be able to sleep well at night.
In fact, most people can guess that Professor X was behind the establishment of Tuvalu (this guess is not entirely accurate). Because almost all of the members of the new X-Men team formed in Tuvalu are teachers or students at Xavier's School for the Gifted.
Although Charles Xavier never made an official appearance. But everyone believes that Professor Charles is behind all this.
But even behind the scenes, Charles's approach is moderate, although the formation of Tuvalu is surprising. Tuvalu's formal approach, however, is not radical. Especially now that I've come up with a new potion.
Relieves the pain of lesions in Epsilon mutants, but destroys the X gene. Well, this kind of thing probably can't be done by someone else, but if it was the good old man Professor Charles behind it, he would indeed do this kind of thing to the detriment of himself and others.
Tuvalu is just beginning to develop and needs a large number of mutants to work together to create a strong nation. The newborn potion will undoubtedly split the mutants that were originally united into two groups.
This kind of thing looks stupid in the eyes of politicians. After all, Professor Charles is still not a good politician! Even if he can teach some very good students, those students may be very good in thinking and have high moral standards. But that's not how politics works!
Tuvalu's self-destruction of the Great Wall has been applauded by politicians in other countries. Especially after Katie has clearly revealed that this potion was developed by Dr. Hank, everyone vaguely feels that this is Professor X's handiwork.
If the hand behind Tuvalu is Professor X, then these foreign ministers have a plan. They know how to deal with it. At least the previous confidence in the nascent agent had risen from five percent to twenty percent. That's already a big increase.
After all, Professor Charles has always been a semi-public figure, his name is on the attention list of global leaders, and after half a century of research, everyone knows him well.
Of course, they have studied Professor Charles very thoroughly, but what if the opponent is not actually Professor Charles, or is Professor Charles just being pushed out as a smokescreen?
The complexity of the entire X Freshman Program and the twists and turns inside it are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. In Li Jie's opinion, this plan is much more difficult than killing Hydra.
"The nascent potion has been studied by Dr. Hank for almost half a century. Dedicated to alleviating lesions in epsilon-class mutants. We know that many mutants don't actually have many practical abilities, but they have to bear the side effects of mutant abilities. This seriously plagues their daily lives. Tuvalu's purpose is to give more mutants a better life, and since these people's abilities are bothering them, it is only natural that we should reach out to our fellow citizens to make them live a better life. ”
Katie spoke sincerely, and this little girl who was not yet twenty years old had sincere feelings. Because all of this comes from her heart's true thoughts, not any acting skills. So even the foreign ministers of all countries who have seen through people's hearts and have dealt with all kinds of ghosts, snakes and gods for a long time do not feel that there is any flaw in what Katie said.
"So since this potion is so good, you should produce more and help those mutants who are in trouble, isn't it your responsibility? The British Foreign Minister continued to ask.
Katie shook her head with a wry smile: "I said, we don't have that much money." It was very expensive to make this batch of potions. In fact, we only made about two hundred potions, and we couldn't do anything about it. ”
Foreign ministers fell silent.
The U.S. Foreign Minister frowned and asked, "To get straight to the point, I don't really believe in your medicine." Tell us exactly what you are trying to do. ”
Katie raised her eyebrows and replied indifferently: "I can provide you with one or two pills for your U.S. drug regulatory department." I know that there are a lot of guys in the United States who discriminate against mutants, and I have encountered them. You can study these potions, and maybe the radicals who oppose mutants will be clamoring for all the mutants in America to be injected with them!"
"Ahem. The U.S. Foreign Minister coughed unnaturally twice. In fact, Katie is right, there has been a discussion within Congress that if this drug is really harmless, maybe someone will really push for a full injection of the new drug. Maybe it'll be included in the vaccine!
Americans are very open-minded, but on the other hand they are just as conservative and stubborn, especially some radicals. They are no longer stubborn but paranoid.
"Alright President Katie, this is not the time to say something angry. We really want to know what this potion really does. "It was the Chinese Foreign Minister who opened the pitch.
As the country with the largest number of mutants, China also has the largest number of Epsilon class mutants. Compared to other variants, epsilon is the worst. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have lifelong disabilities, and various side effects have seriously affected their daily work and life.
Although China is very lenient with mutants, and also uses the abilities of mutants to all corners of production and life. But the Epsilon mutants couldn't help at all. To put it mildly, it's never overt: the epsilon class is a bunch of waste, and this kind of mutant ability is better than nothing!
Because the status of mutants in China is different from that of other countries, this has led to the fact that epsilon-level mutants are listed as the minimum standard of medical insurance for the disabled.
The annual expenditure alone makes China feel very painful, and this is not a small amount of money! If the side effects of epsilon mutants can be completely cured, then it is completely acceptable to spend a little money.
"As I said, the true effect of this potion is as I just said, without any adulteration. "It's really not adulterated, because this is only the original elixir in Project X's nascent potions, and Dr. Hank hasn't added the "condiments" of those variant abilities yet.
"If it is mass-produced, what will be the output and input?" asked the Chinese foreign minister with great interest.
"With an annual output of 500,000 medicines, the initial investment of the entire production line will not be less than two billion US dollars! The production cost of the first batch of medicines will be extremely high, but the subsequent costs will be reduced. Katie said the offer that Lee Jay and Tony had negotiated at the beginning.
"If the scale is to be expanded, then the investment will continue to increase. ”
"So what if China is interested in cooperating with Tuvalu?" asked the Chinese foreign minister directly in front of the other foreign ministers. Anyway, the strategic relationship between China and Tuvalu is well known here, and there is no need to hide it.
"We're sorry, but it's not possible for us to offer a shared technology collaboration. For some reason. Katie glanced at the foreign ministers of the United States and the United Kingdom.
"This technology may be a boon to mutants, but it may also be highly toxic. We can't give the initiative to someone else. We can provide medicines as a source of follow-on financing, just like crowdfunding products. But we don't provide and share technology. Katie said, looking at the many foreign ministers.
"If developed countries can provide impermanent funding for Russia to reduce nuclear weapons, it can also allow underdeveloped countries to reduce greenhouse emissions. So why not try it and help more people?"
Everyone was silent, they still had their own abacus to calculate. Tuvalu wants an empty glove white wolf?
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Dum listened to Li Jie's statements expressionlessly, and finally spoke: "You mean to make me a-stirring stick? Do you think I look like an Englishman? I'm an authentic Slav and has nothing to do with Aung Rou Saxon!"
Li Jie shook his head: "Don't say it's so ugly as a-stirring stick." Wouldn't that help more people?"
"But are you planning to empty my private coffers? billions of dollars, isn't that a small amount of money to build momentum for Tuvalu?" said Doom, still coldly.
"You did invest billions today, but it's not gratuitous. You'll want to consider the benefits of the subsequent political repercussions. Well, even if you don't plan to be the ruler of Latvia in the future, it's always nice to have a good reputation, right?"
Du Mu snorted coldly at what Li Jie said, and he scoffed.
"Okay, I know you don't care about fame, but don't you want to revert back to being a handsome guy?"
Doom continued to say coldly: "I don't think one of my faces is worth spending billions of dollars!"
"Okay, okay! All the underwriting of the X-nascent Elixir (Beauty Elixir) in the thirty countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia for the next ten years is yours!" Seeing that Dum was completely unsuitable, Li Jie could only use a killer move.
There was a smile on the corner of Doom's mouth: "Thirty years!"
Li Jie: "Fifteen years. That's quite a lot, do you know how much it's worth?!"
Doom: "But the stakes are just as great, and there aren't enough benefits to be worth the risk." Twenty-five years. ”
Li Jie: "Okay, one price, all the sales in twenty Chinese New Year's Eve, I promise not to let any bottle of medicine not sold by you end up in Eastern Europe!"
Doom smiled: "Deal." ”
The two big hands clasped together and reached a consensus.