"Baka!"
Nippon, Yoto Government Building, inside the Ministry of Defense office, Minister of Defense Nakatani angrily threw the document on the ground.
"What the hell are those guys at Takeda Pharmaceutical doing! Didn't I tell them to restrain themselves at the last meeting? "
The secretary stood at the door and didn't dare to make a sound.
After a while, Nakatani vented the anger in his heart and took a few deep breaths.
"Go and get me the chairman of Takeda Pharmaceutical!"
"Yes …" The secretary nodded and bowed, then quickly turned and left.
At the same time, the Takeda Pharmaceutical building was also in chaos. The tragedy that happened on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship made the whole world panic over the name T virus again. As early as half a year ago, the CIB had their eyes on the name Takeda Pharmaceutical. However, Takeda Pharmaceutical had always been very careful, and they had people from the Ministry of Defense covering for them. Even the UA agents could not collect any evidence.
The board of directors of Takeda Pharmaceutical had put pressure on Tanimura countless times, asking him to strictly restrain the actions of the Kurofune. This included limiting the supply of raw materials, strictly reviewing funding applications, and dispatching inspectors to monitor the laboratory.
If the action in City K was exposed, not only would Tanimura lose his life, but all the members of the board of directors would be charged with crimes against humanity and be sanctioned by the International Court of Justice.
However, just last month, Tanaka suddenly disappeared on his way home from work.
This scared the board of directors of Takeda Pharmaceutical. At first, they thought it was the CIB who arrested him and thought the company's secrets had been exposed. Later, after inquiring, they learned that the CIB knew nothing about it.
Fortunately, Tanimura immediately ordered a secret search for the whereabouts of this man throughout Nippon. But unexpectedly, in just a month, the missing Tanaka had already run abroad, and he even made big news.
"Where is Tanaka?" This was the tenth time Tanimura asked this question.
"I haven't found him yet." The vice president said anxiously, "I have contacted all the societies that are related to us and mobilized all the underground forces we can use to search for his whereabouts, but …"
"A bunch of trash," Tanimura scolded, his fingers trembling as he touched his temple.
From the day Tanaka disappeared, he realized that the situation might not be right. He didn't expect it to really happen!
Dammit, where did that guy get the raw materials!
As the chairman of Takeda Pharmaceutical, Tanimura certainly saw the synthesis formula of the T virus. The production of one gram of virus concentrate required at least one kilogram of methcathinone. The raw materials could be bath salts or Arabic tea, but no matter what, they were all contraband among contraband!
Tanimura's eyebrows twisted together.
"President, what should we do now?" the vice president asked, trembling.
"Delete all research data and delete all information related to Kurofune from the company's database." Tanimura ordered decisively.
Takeda Pharmaceutical had been listed on the CIB's list of suspects. Now that such a tragedy had occurred, with at least 27 Americans killed on the cruise ship, the CIB would no longer hold back. Even if the Nippon government wanted to protect Takeda Pharmaceutical, the CIB would use special means to infiltrate the company.
Since the secret could no longer be kept, then it was better to destroy it completely!
Although this was a research result worth 500 million USD, it was nothing compared to a company with a market value of 10 billion USD!
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
The two stopped talking, looked at each other, then Tanimura said.
"Please come in."
Tanimura's secretary came in.
Tanimura frowned slightly and looked at the secretary.
"Didn't I say that before my conversation with the vice president ends, no matter what happens, don't come to me."
"But … it's a phone call from the Ministry of Defense."
Tanimura sighed and asked.
"What did Minister Nakatani say?"
"He asked you to find him after work," the secretary said timidly.
"Where do we meet?" Tanimura asked in a deep voice.
"Yoto Grand Hotel."
In a hotel instead of a government building, it seemed to be a secret meeting.
It made sense, virus-related matters were certainly not suitable to be discussed in the office, especially at this sensitive moment.
After work, Tanimura sat in his Honda and drove in the direction of Yoto Grand Hotel.
After passing two traffic lights and turning a corner, he slowed down.
There seemed to be a traffic accident in front, and the traffic jam was very serious.
Tanimura looked at his watch. It was almost the appointed time, and he couldn't help but be anxious. He reached out and slapped the steering wheel twice, but the car in front still didn't respond. It seemed that the traffic accident seemed to be very serious, and the car wouldn't be able to move in a short time.
Tanimura sighed, took out his phone, and called the minister, but he didn't know if he owed money or something, the phone couldn't be called.
Tanimura, as the president of Takeda Pharmaceutical, certainly didn't have the guts to stand up the Minister of Defense. So he hesitated, parked the car on the side of the road, walked across two streets, and stopped a taxi.
"Go to Yoto Grand Hotel."
"Okay," the driver replied in standard Japanese.
The car drove very smoothly. Tanimura leaned against the seat and loosened the tie around his neck. Through the rearview mirror, he saw the female driver's face. A very delicate face, coupled with the ponytail, looked a bit pure.
"Where are you from?" Tanimura asked in a casual tone.
"Nagoya."
"Nagoya, I heard there are a lot of beautiful women there." Tanimura teased.
"Hehe, sir, you really know how to joke." The female driver smiled politely.
Seeing that the beauty didn't seem to be interested in him, Tanimura didn't care and directly revealed his name.
"My name is Tanimura. If you often watch the news, you must have heard of my name."
"… It turned out to be Mr. Tanimura." The female driver showed a surprised expression. "I heard that you are … the chairman of Takeda Pharmaceutical?"
Satisfied with the feeling of the beauty looking at him in a different light, Tanimura smiled.
He understood these people who came to Yoto from other places to work, especially the female students who seemed to have just graduated. Living in a 30000 yen single apartment, sleeping on a few square meters of tatami, taking dozens of minutes of Shinkansen to work in the city every day, and couldn't resist the temptation to take private jobs to shoot short movies …
Especially this kind of beautiful girl, the agent looking for "actors" would definitely not let her go.
"Can I know your name?"
"Shinno Haku."
"Shinno Haku … good name." Tanimura smiled and said in a sincere tone, "If you have any inconveniences in life, please contact me. This is my business card. My phone number and address are on it. "
Of course, this address was not his own home, but the villa he bought in the Hachioji area.
Tanimura put the business card in the box behind the paddle switch.
A smile appeared on Shinno Haku's face as she held the steering wheel and turned a corner.
"Thank you, I think I can definitely become good friends with Mr. Tanimura."
Shinno Haku's words made Tanimura's heart warm up, and he secretly thought that there was hope, so he chatted with this new female friend.
Time passed quickly, but they hadn't arrived at the Yoto Hotel yet.
Tanimura took out his watch and glanced at it. There were still ten minutes until the agreed time.
Looking at the gradually thinning buildings outside the window, he frowned slightly. "Is this the direction to the Yoto Hotel?"
"There is a traffic jam on the main road, so we can only go around on the side road," Shinno Haku said politely.
Suddenly, Tanimura realized that something was wrong. He took out his phone and opened the map, but he didn't receive 4G signal.
"Please don't worry, Mr. Tanimura —"
"Stop, now!"
Shinno Haku was stunned, then she smiled.
"… It seems that I can only ask you to sleep for a while."
Tanimura cursed in his mind and immediately reached for the door, ready to jump out by force. However, the door was locked with a click.
Just as he turned around and was about to subdue the driver and stop the car, his sight happened to meet a taser.
"Please behave before we arrive at the destination."
Crack —
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