Chapter 2: The Fire
At 9 a.m. the next day, Yang Guoping came to his office on the top floor of the J Pharmaceutical Building as usual, made himself a cup of coffee, turned on the computer, and began to browse the company's pending work emails.
At this time, the internal phone on the desk rang, and the secretary Xiao Huang informed Yang Guoping that Professor Chen's assistant Jiang Wei was waiting for him in the reception room outside, and Yang Guoping directly told Secretary Huang to let Jiang Wei come to his office for an interview, and hung up the phone.
After a while, there was a knock on the office door, Yang Guoping beckoned Jiang Wei to come in, and immediately closed the office door.
"How's the research going?" Yang Guoping seemed a little impatient and asked straight to the point.
"Mr. Yang, at present, the 1677th biological in vivo experiment report of Project X has been reviewed by Professor Chen, and according to the actual situation, it has reached the clinical trial standard." Jiang Wei looked at Yang Guoping's expectant gaze and continued: "But Professor Chen is not very satisfied with the results of this experiment, the 1678th experiment is currently underway, and the results are expected to come out this Saturday." ”
"Is there anyone else who knows the results of the experiment other than your drug R&D center department?" Yang Guoping took a sip of coffee and said.
Jiang Wei said solemnly: "At present, except for our research center to participate in the X R&D group, only you know, the research and development of X drug you know is strictly confidential before it is marketed, and other personnel of the company other than the R&D team will not know his specific progress and experimental results." ”
"Good." Yang Guoping praised: "With your judgment, can this 1678th experiment meet Professor Chen's requirements after being dissatisfied with the 1677th experiment?" ”
"Mr. Yang, do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" Jiang Wei pretended to be mysterious.
"Nonsense, when is it, you still have the heart to joke with me here?" Yang Guoping put down the coffee cup in his hand with a serious face.
"Strictly speaking, our 1677th experiment has met and far exceeded the clinical trial standards stipulated by the state, but Chen Lao has been desperate and striving for excellence."
"This old thing delays our business opportunities, and we are paying for him in order to keep improving!" Yang Guoping slapped the table heavily: "Did you bring the information I wanted?"
Jiang Wei immediately handed over a folder: "Mr. Yang, I have sorted out all the latest research report you wanted, the current X-component ratio and drug efficacy, please take a look at it." ”
Yang Guoping took the folder and looked at it: "Does the old thing know that you prepared this information for me?" ”
"Don't worry, I'm the only one who knows all this!"
"Okay, then you can go back to work first." Yang Guoping waved his hand.
Jiang Wei turned and walked out of the office.
After Yang Guoping saw Jiang Wei leave, he put down the folder in his hand, paced to his floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the scenery of N City, and couldn't help but think about how to convince Professor Chen. Chen Yuli is a well-known drug researcher at home and abroad, his strictness is known to everyone, and he has studied and worked with people who have all understood his pursuit of refinement of the project, how to persuade Professor Chen to do clinical experiments in advance, Yang Guoping seems a little powerless, after all, he and Professor Chen have had more than one conversation, and in the end he chose to give in, this time Feesman personally came to ask and was willing to provide free clinical trial individuals, so that Yang Guoping's heart once again ignited hope.
Walking back to his desk, he picked up his coffee and took a long sip, the bitter coffee sliding into his stomach and leaving him deep in thought.
At this time, Professor Chen was analyzing and studying his own drug samples in his own laboratory, he sometimes held his breath and stared at the changes in the test tube's heavy drugs, and sometimes closed his eyes and thought hard about modifying the plan, when suddenly the phone on the table remembered, he sat up violently, picked up the phone, it was Yang Guoping.
"Old Chen, please come to my office immediately." After speaking, Yang Guoping hung up the phone.
Chen Yuli stood up, took off his white coat and walked out the door, he knew what Yang Guoping was asking him to go to the office, because he had experienced situations like this many times, he knew that Yang Guoping had been trying to persuade him to conduct clinical trials in advance, so as to put the drug on the market as soon as possible and obtain benefits, every time he thought of what he was going to experience next, he felt a headache. Along the way, when he met a colleague and greeted him, he nodded mechanically in response, because he was thinking about how to deal with this "vicious battle" with Yang Guoping next.
Unconsciously he came to the door of Yang Guoping's office, and after knocking on the door and being invited, Yang Guoping invited him to sit with a smile on his face, and personally soaked him in a pot of his favorite hair tips.
"Old Chen, I've been very busy lately." The smile always hung on Yang Guoping's face.
"Mr. Yang, I know what you want to say to me, and you don't have to go around in circles with me, an old man." Professor Chan gets straight to the point.
"Okay, since Old Chen knows my original intention of looking for you, then let's get straight to the point." Yang Guoping put away his smile: "The research and development of X has met the clinical trial standards, and I hope you can hand over the final samples at the end of this month, and we will conduct clinical trials." ”
"Mr. Yang, how do you know that X has met the clinical trial standards?" Professor Chan was a little surprised.
"I am the CEO of the company, and it is my job to make progress and decisions on the company's affairs." Yang Guoping cleared his throat: "I know that X is the hard work of most of your life, and you hope to do it perfectly, and the current results of X have reached the clinical standard, so I hope that the work of clinical trials will be put on the agenda as soon as possible!" ”
Chen Yuli looked at Yang Guoping calmly, Yang Guoping at this time, high up, with an irresistible posture, Chen Yuli took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and said calmly: "Mr. Yang, in fact, I know that this day should have come a long time ago, X is currently just my own desperate bet, and the colleagues around me who participated in the development know that it has reached the step of being clinical, but after all, he is a drug, saving people's lives, I can't joke about this, yes, you are right, X is indeed ready to start human experiments now, But I'm still worried that it's not perfect in case it ......"
"Old Chen" Yang Guoping interrupted Professor Chen's words: "Since you have said that human experiments can be carried out, then let's start, after all, human experiments do not conflict with your continued improvement, if the current X is still flawed, then you have not stopped the research of X, we can use your next results to replace and continue the experiment." ”
Professor Chen was silent for a while, and then said, "Mr. Yang, this is an experiment on people!" ”
Yang Guoping knew what Chen Yuli was going to say next, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It has reached the standard of clinical trials, which means that there will be no problems, and we have been overcoming the difficulties of cancer for decades, which is already a great progress in human medicine." ”
"Now that you've decided, I don't want to argue with you anymore, it's been like this many times." Professor Chen put on his glasses and shook his head helplessly: "Okay, after all, I am just a drug research and development researcher, my duty is to make drugs that are beneficial to people, and the benefits are your businessmen's business, we have different angles, there is no need to continue, I have already thought about it, after the results of this week's research come out, I will give a reasonable judgment, and then I will resign from my job, I am almost 70 years old, and I should enjoy Qingfu." ”
"Old Chen, that's not what I meant." Yang Guoping hurriedly explained.
"Needless to say, I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I've made this decision for a long time, don't persuade me anymore." Chen Yuli said resolutely.
When Yang Guoping heard this, he immediately regained his majesty and said: "Okay, Professor Chen, since you have made a plan, then please hand over the X formula, and then we will give you a generous pension, everyone is good to get together and disperse, you see how it goes." ”
Chen Yuli knew that this would be the result, he nodded helplessly, got up and said goodbye.
Yang Guoping felt a little surprised by such a result, he didn't expect most of his life's hard work, since Chen Yuli agreed so readily, you must know that only Chen Yuli knows the composition ratio of the entire X, he, once Yang Guoping takes it for himself, then a large amount of wealth is beckoning to him in the future, thinking of this, the stone in Yang Guoping's heart suddenly fell to the ground, and the person suddenly relaxed a lot, and immediately dialed Flesman's phone after Chen Yuli left, he wanted to tell Flesman the good news about the upcoming clinical trials, Have Flysmann immediately arrange for the test subject to enter the company.
At night, at this time, there were not many staff working overtime in the J medicine building, and Xiao Liu, the sleepy security guard in the security room, was woken up by a sudden fire alarm bell, he put on a security hat and hurriedly ran to the monitoring room on the side, on the 21st floor, the smoke was billowing in the monitoring on the 21st floor, and he hurriedly took out his mobile phone to dial 119 while rushing out of the door.
At this time, several companions had already taken fire extinguishers and rushed to the 21st floor, ran all the way up through the fire escape, opened the fire escape door on the 21st floor, a heat wave erupted, several people covered their mouths and ran in, the fire was raging inside, and there was a shout of people, Xiao Liu and his companions 3 people hurriedly followed the shouting to the No. 3 laboratory, and saw Lin Xuelin, a researcher nested in the corner and covered with dust.
Lin Xuelin, who saw the security guard Xiao Liu, immediately pointed to Chen Yuli's office and shouted: "Go and save the professor, he is still inside!" ”
Xiao Liu immediately instructed his companion to take Lin Xuelin out, and he and another companion rushed to Professor Chen's office, but the fire in the corridor at the entrance of Professor Chen's office was too great for the two of them to rush over, so they had to hold a fire extinguisher and spray the fire while shouting Professor Chen's name loudly.
Soon the fire officers and soldiers of 119 arrived at the scene, due to the high floor of the fire, the ladder, and the helicopter also immediately entered the combat state, and due to the timely rescue, the fire was quickly extinguished.
At this time, Yang Guoping also rushed to the scene, looking at the research room on the 21st floor of the burned ruins and broken arms, he was dumbfounded, and quickly grabbed Xiao Liu, who was counting on the side, and asked, "What is the situation now?" ”
"Mr. Yang, the fire has been brought under control at present......"
"Sample storage room, how is the sample storage room?" Yang Guoping almost roared.
Xiao Liu was frightened and trembled and said, "Like...... Sample Storage ...... The room is high...... Highly hermetically sealed, ...... isolated Insulated ......"
Yang Guoping breathed a long sigh of relief and untied his tie: "Are there any casualties?" ”
"Report to Mr. Yang, Professor Chen ......"
"Professor Chen? What's wrong with him? Say it, you. Yang Guoping grabbed Xiao Liu's shoulders and shook it.
Xiao Liu's eyes were red and he lowered his head.
Yang Guoping couldn't care so much, pushed Xiao Liu away, and ran towards Chen Yuli's office.
Coming to the door of Chen Yuli's office, several firefighters and overtime colleagues were standing at the door, Chen Yuli's office door seemed to have been hammered open by firefighters with a hammer, half-hung there, Yang Guoping pushed away the crowd around the door, rushed in, and a charred corpse was lying on the aisle in front of the desk.