Chapter Seventy-Five: Notoriety
"Mr. King, may I have a drink?" was Shakru as he came to the bar to drink with a few of his friends, when suddenly an old bearded white man raised his glass and invited him.
Shakru hesitated for a moment, then agreed, "Well, of course, what do you call me, sir?"
"You may call me Pandit II!" replied the old man slyly.
"Pandit II?!" Shakru was surprised for a moment, and then reacted: "Ah, you are the king of tomorrow!"
The old man nodded and replied, "That's right, let's make preparations in advance today." Introduce myself, my name is Salman, and speaking of which, you should be a peer with Mr. Pandit, and now I work at Pharmasset!"
Shakru thought for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Pharmasset, ah, I remember, is your company developing a polymerase inhibitor called NS5B?"
"Mr. Pandit, you're so well informed, we've just started this project, and you've just gotten the news!" Salman said in surprise.
Because he was a doctor in his previous life, and he started as a generic drug in this life, and he made a lot of money with eflornithine before, Sacreo is now paying close attention to various pharmaceutical research and development institutions in Europe and the United States, not to mention Pharmasset's NS5B polymerase inhibitor, which is the famous Sophiebuvir known as the miracle drug for hepatitis C in later generations. It is important to know that there are many more patients with hepatitis C than with chronic myelogenous leukemia, so Sophiebuvir is also known as a money printing machine in the industry.
However, it was not Pharmasset that later controlled Sophiebuwe, but the American pharmaceutical tycoon Gillette, who is said to have spent $11 billion to buy Sophiebuwe's patent rights from Pharmasset, but then Gilled made several times the profit, thus embarking on a monopoly road of specializing in the acquisition of finished and semi-finished drug patents and then producing and selling them at a high price.
Now that he has met a senior member of Pharmasset (after all, ordinary employees can't afford to spend $70,000 to be the king for a day), Shakru naturally didn't want to miss this opportunity, and said to Salman very seriously: "If your company has made progress on this inhibitor and is willing to sell it, please contact me as soon as possible, and I will definitely try to give you the most favorable conditions!"
Unexpectedly, Salman looked at Shakru with a strange look in his eyes and said, "It seems that Mr. Pandit, you still don't know your current reputation in the industry!"
"Fame, what fame can I have?" asked Shakru, puzzled.
"Since the last time you bought at Bayer at a low price and sold eflornithine at a high price, now all the drug research and development companies in the industry have put you on the blacklist of advanced vigilance, once you are interested in a compound or patent, no matter how much money you pay, it is not to sell, the fear of losing money is one thing, the main thing is to make a joke like Bayer again!" Salman replied with a smile.
Hearing this explanation, Shakru was very crying and laughing, although he also knew that even if Bayer wanted to keep it secret, the circle of pharmaceutical research and development was so big, and everyone would know about it sooner or later, but he really didn't expect to know it so quickly, and he actually regarded himself as a flood beast, how could he take it cheaply in the future?
So he smiled bitterly and said, "I was just lucky last time!"
"Just luck, then why did you know in advance about the role of eflornithine in cosmetics?" Salman asked rhetorically.
Just when Shakru was worried about how to answer Salman, Mu Qimiya suddenly came over in time, first raised her glass to Salman, and then said to Shakrug: "My dear, everyone is waiting for you over there to play games!"
Shakru hurriedly took this opportunity to get out and apologized to Salman: "I'm sorry, Mr. Salman, I have to go over first, and then we will have a chance to talk later, this is my business card!"
"Okay, you're busy, you must visit if you have the chance!"
Seeing Mu Qi Miya clinging to Sha Klu's coquettish appearance and swearing sovereignty, Liu Qing complained in her heart, what are you proud of, aren't you just a junior raised by someone in China, someone has a wife in India!
But in fact, she is very envious, although she is just a lover, but this Indian is really good to her mother, not only is she willing to spend her connections to promote her to a big production as a star, but she is also willing to spend so much money to rent a country to play the game of king and queen with her, if it were me, she would definitely be dead.
Just when Liu Qing was thinking wildly, Miao Miao next to her dragged her and reminded: "What does Qingqing think? It's your turn!"
Liu Qing then remembered that now everyone is playing a game of boxing in dialect, everyone has to use their own dialect, Liu Qing played two as usual, but because she was absent-minded, she quickly lost the drinking matter.
But when Sha Kelu heard about her hometown, he immediately frowned and asked her, "Your family is from Wenchuan?"
Liu Qing nodded a little uncertainly and replied: "Yes, my hometown is from Wenchuan, why have you been there, boss?"
Shakru said in his heart, although I haven't been there, but I can't turn a blind eye to this world-shaking event that happened in your house two years later, but what should I do about it?
But who will believe what I say? Maybe they will be arrested by the state for spreading rumors. Ah yes, I'm an Indian now, so I guess I won't be arrested, but I certainly won't listen to me.
If there are few people, you can still find a way to transfer people from the earthquake area by organizing any activities, but there are hundreds of thousands of people in Wenchuan, how can this be adjusted?
Seeing that Shakru looked unrelenting after talking to Liu Qing, Mu Qi Miya suddenly became vigilant in her heart, could it be that this Liu Qing's charm is really so great? It seems that he really has to be careful.
So he dragged Sha Keru and said, "Honey, what do you want, so distracted?"
Sha Kru said in his heart I was thinking about how to save hundreds of thousands of people, but I guess you won't believe it even if I tell you, so I said casually: "Oh, I seem to have seen this place in Wenchuan in a book, and I should really go to it if I have the chance!"
Hearing Sha Kelu say that he was going to Wenchuan, Liu Qing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took the initiative to ask: "Boss, you are going to Wenchuan, that's great, I'll be your guide when the time comes, I'm familiar with it, and it's very close to Jiuzhaigou, it is said that Journey to the West was filmed there, and you can go there to play by the way!"
PS: I don't read much urban literature, who knows which book has a plot about the early warning of the Wenchuan earthquake, please tell me, I'll learn from it!