Meng Chao frowned. He thought about it for a long time before he nodded slowly and said, "If that's the case, it's indeed suspicious. Has your family ever thought about going to court and asking the Supernatural Tower to judge this?"
"How could there not be any? We've searched the drug management department, the Supernatural Tower, and the related departments in the Survival Committee."
"But the Survival Committee, the supreme ruling organization in Dragon City, was created by Heaven Pharmaceuticals and the other eight mega corporations working together. Even the Supernatural Tower was built by them.
"If we go to the Supernatural Tower and the Survival Committee to sue Heaven Pharmaceuticals, wouldn't it be like that joke? Who dares to sue me?
"Besides, at that time, the order in Dragon City had just been restored. Many of the regions still maintained the law of the jungle, where the strong preyed on the weak and the victors were kings. When they faced a large-scale invasion from the monsters, all methods that could fend against the monsters were protected and even encouraged.
"My parents fought a lawsuit against Heaven Pharmaceuticals for more than three years. They trampled on the doorsteps of all the departments and organizations, but the final verdict was: First, Heaven Pharmaceuticals' Heaven 9 was different from my family's super gene drugs in terms of their production process, molecular structure, and spirit energy enhancement model, so it could not be considered an imitation.
"Second, Universe 9 has been mass-produced and helped countless Dragon City warriors and superhumans obtain even greater power. It has contributed greatly to the defense of Dragon City, so we naturally have to protect it.
"Therefore, not only is my family's accusation unfounded, we cannot continue spreading the 'rumors' of 'imitation' in society and on the Internet. We must clarify the 'rumors' of the past and eliminate all the negative influences on Heaven Pharmaceuticals!"
Meng Chao fell silent.
If everything Su Lun said was true, then the Heaven Medicine Company was indeed going too far.
However, this was not a reason for Suren to betray humanity.
But at least that would explain his motives.
"What? You don't believe me?"
Su Lun cackled. "The nine great mega corporations aren't good people. There are plenty of similar sins on them!
"Steal my family's gene medicine formula, steal other companies' runic symbol machine blueprints, steal spirit energy martial arts, and spirit energy magnetic field construction models. Once you steal the wisdom of countless talented original creators, you use your huge capital and traffic to imitate them. Then, through promotions and price wars, you force the small and medium-sized companies into a corner. In the end, you monopolize the entire market, and you can earn as much profit as you want.
"Over the past few years, the nine great mega corporations controlled more patents and inventions, and they completed their bloody, primitive accumulation. They formed a complete monopoly over all the industries that control Dragon City's lifelines. That's why they wiped off the blood on their mouths and hands and became dignified and well-dressed. They started paying attention to table manners and rules.
"In the early years, what happened to my family was nothing out of the ordinary. Many small and medium-sized enterprises encountered it."
Meng Chao nodded.
As someone who had been reborn from the apocalypse, he was not as naive as the average university student.
The nine great mega corporations were naturally not pure and flawless rabbits.
A real rabbit would not be able to slaughter its way through the zombies and collapse of order in the apocalypse to rebuild civilization and order.
Before the Survival Committee was formed, all of Dragon City was actually an enlarged version of the lair.
No, it should be said that it was ten times more chaotic and ugly than the lair now.
After all, the current lair was also restricted by the laws of the outside world. The Supernatural Tower just did not want to manage them because it was not worth it, but it did not mean that they could not manage them.
But decades ago, Dragon City was really lawless. It was a place where the ugliness of human nature was exposed.
Morals, laws, and rules were all empty words in front of a fist the size of a pot and covered in bone spikes.
Sky Pillar, Universe, Heaven, Soaring Dragon … At that time, the current mega corporations were like gangs like Golden Tooth, Black Bone, and Poison Scorpion.
Meng Chao had heard about their style of doing things and table manners, so he could imagine it.
"I believe that all primitive accumulation is bloody and ugly," Meng Chao said.
"What happened after that? What happened to your parents' pharmaceutical factory?"
"It's over."
Su Lun dragged the shackles that weighed hundreds of kilograms and shrugged laboriously.
He was so angry that red pus seeped out of the wound below his knees again.
However, his face was full of deliberate calmness. "In order to develop the new drug, my parents were already in debt, and the lawsuit with Heaven Pharmaceuticals seriously affected their survival and development in the industry.
"Heaven Pharmaceuticals is a giant in the gene medicine field. They control the lifelines of a lot of raw material suppliers and even hunters. When I heard that my family was fighting a lawsuit against Heaven Pharmaceuticals, many of the suppliers, advertisers, and distributors who had been working with us for eight years stopped working with us. A few financial institutions also stopped providing loans and credit support to my family. Even if they were willing to continue lending to us, the guarantees and interest were so high that we couldn't bear it.
"How ironic. It was only when one of the banks stopped working with us that my parents learned that Heaven Pharmaceuticals was the major shareholder of the bank that had been supporting us since we were a family business.
"Heh, my parents even tried to fight against such a giant. If that wasn't the same as throwing an egg against a rock, what else could it be?
"Even so, my parents didn't give up on hope. They used all sorts of methods to gather the final sum of money to complete the creation and testing of the super gene medicine. Then, they pushed it to the market.
"The problem was, Heaven 9 had already gotten to the market first, and it built up an unshakable image under the bombardment of advertisements. Besides, the quality and stability of their products were indeed slightly better than my family's products. But there was nothing we could do about it. My family had already spent too much money on the research, but it was easily stolen by the other party. They could continue spending money to increase the quality, but my family couldn't even bring out a single copper coin.
"As it turned out, faced with the unstoppable attack of 'Heaven 9', my family's gene drugs failed miserably. My pharmaceutical factory soon went bankrupt, and my father was infuriated to death, too."
Even though Su Lun had mentioned that he had killed his father, Meng Chao could not help but gasp in surprise.
Meng Chao could not help but gasp.
"When my father was a hunter, his physical constitution was really good. He was never seriously injured in the wild, and at that time, he was at the peak of his life," Su Lun said.
Su Lun said. "However, to be responsible to the consumers, after my mother opened the pharmaceutical factory, he left the circle of hunters and returned to his family's pharmaceutical factory. He became a tester of the gene medicine to obtain firsthand experience and data.
"This work had a really negative effect on his health.
"To develop the super gene medicine, he worked day and night without caring about his fatigue and pain. He tested all sorts of formulas that were beyond his limits and limits, and his body deteriorated rapidly.
"The three years of lawsuits that followed destroyed his will even more.
"On the night the verdict came out, he smoked all night and left more than one hundred cigarette butts on the ground.
"The next morning, my mother and I found him curled up in a corner behind a floor full of cigarette butts. He was dead."
"…"
Meng Chao did not know what to say. He could only ask, "Then, what about your mother?"
"My company collapsed and my father died, but I had to continue living. To pay off my debts and provide for me to study and cultivate, my mother came to the lair to work for Golden Tooth," Su Lun said with a smile.
Su Lun smiled and said, "After all, my mother is a famous pharmacist in the circle. Her three-year lawsuit was considered a spectacular one. Many people in the circle know what exactly happened, so they won't underestimate her ability.
"To develop the super gene medicine, my family borrowed a lot of money from the underground finance companies in the lair. Our biggest creditor was Golden Tooth.
"Then, we lost the lawsuit and the company went bankrupt. We naturally couldn't pay back the money.
"Saber Jin Wanhao really has the air of an underground emperor. When he heard about my family's misfortune, he wasn't in a hurry to force us to pay up. Instead, he lent my family a lot of money to solve some of the problems between the employees and the suppliers.
"Then, Jin Wanhao suggested to my mother that now that she had offended Heaven Pharmaceuticals, it would be difficult for her to continue working in the gene medicine field. It would be better for her to enter the lair and work for Golden Tooth. She would create gene medicine for the gang members and the gladiators in the monster coliseums.
"He even offered to sponsor my mother to build a brand-new laboratory, on the condition that my mother would prepare some gene drugs specifically for his use based on his physical condition, wounds, and illness. In other words, she would become his' personal pharmacist '.
Meng Chao came to a realization. Everything made sense now.
Superhumans' physical conditions changed all the time. The higher the grade of the gene medicine, the more they had to adjust the formula based on their cultivation realms, fighting habits, and the oscillation frequency of their vitality magnetic fields.
Many of the rich and powerful veteran superhumans had their own personal pharmacists. Some of them even had a large technical team to support their cultivation in all aspects.
If Su Lun's mother could really create the prototype of Heaven 9, she would indeed have the right to become Saber Jin Wanhao's personal pharmacist.
In fact, it could be said that Saber Jin Wanhao had seized the chance to pick up a treasure.
And since personal pharmacists had top secret information about the veteran superhumans' physical conditions, physiological parameters, injuries, weaknesses, and so on, they had a close relationship with their employers. They were usually their employers' trusted subordinates.
This also explained why Red Brows Su Lun was able to enter the lair and take up an important position in Golden Tooth not long after he graduated from Dragon City University. In just a few short years, his status rose by leaps and bounds, and he became the vice gang leader of Golden Tooth even though he was a helpless military adviser.
Saber Jin Wanhao was definitely not a muddle-headed and useless person.
As the master of the lair, he would not easily trust outsiders.
Su Lun was the child of his personal pharmacist. This was a rather close relationship.
It was no wonder then why Saber Jin Wanhao did not trust Song Jinbo and the others, who had been with him for decades, but only told Su Lun about his physical condition before he died!
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