As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 260 Audition
“Their design of the experimental method to prove the life-extending drug is very clever.

It also proves that the lifespan of the experimental mice has been extended to a certain extent.

Based on experimental data, it can be inferred that humans will be able to extend their lifespan by about one to two years.

However, the correlation between the clinical trial results of this experiment in humans and the extension of life span is not strong enough.

To put it bluntly, current clinical trials cannot prove that human life span has been extended by one or two years. At most, they can prove that human life span can indeed be extended by life-extending drugs.”

“In fact, the main reason is that it will take at least ten to twenty years to complete clinical trials for life-extending drugs.

The Europa League and China cannot wait that long. They need to transform the technology obtained from Merlin into tangible benefits as soon as possible.

As long as it is proven that the drug has no fundamental problems, its actual use effects can be verified after it is put on the market.

What’s more important is that everyone from their government to the people below will agree with this decision.

When they learn about the existence of life-extending drugs, no elderly person is willing to wait for more than ten years for the clinical results of the life-extending effect to form a complete closed loop.

Even if we build up public opinion in the other party's media, it will not affect their policies or the implementation of life-extending drugs.

We can’t even stop the life-extending drugs from entering the American market.”

“Yes, humans’ obsession with longevity has made the launch of life-extending drugs almost inevitable.

Even if it is launched a little later, people and the media will still question it.

What if Merlin has bad intentions and there is a problem with the life-extending potion? The safety of the drug has not been fully proven yet."

"If it was America that obtained the recipe for the life-extending drug, do you think we would wait until clinical trials were complete before launching it on the market?"

"will not."

The two people in discussion are American mages, both top experts in the field of biomedicine.

American didn't know the truth about the life-extending potion. They didn't think it was jointly developed by the Europa Union and China, but believed that the technology was exchanged by both parties in Merlin through magic coins.

Not only America thinks so, Russia also thinks so. They feel like they have been stabbed in the back.

Everyone had exchanged for biological storage technology before, but when the life-extending potion came around, they had nothing to do with it.

As for the official statement from China, the other party does not believe it.

Developed it? The life-extending potion was announced in the magic forum, and after the announcement, the production process of the life-extending potion was newly put on the exchange.

It wasn’t researched earlier, it wasn’t researched later, so why is it researched now?
However, even if Russia feels that China has stabbed them in the back, it will not do anything. As long as America is still there, they will have to band together with China for warmth.

At least China can still maintain a cool political environment while a hot economy. Russia cannot even achieve a hot economy. It can only export energy and food, and it is easy to find substitutes for them.

Especially in the past five years, not only has the photovoltaic industry been rolled out on a large scale, but the commercial photovoltaic conversion rate has also been further improved.

The cost reduction, efficiency improvement and global coverage of photovoltaics have alleviated the energy crisis. The popularity of new energy vehicles has caused crude oil prices to fall since their high in 2023.

This is not good news for Russia, which relies on crude oil and natural gas exports.

China is pursuing the development of the entire industrial chain, while the European Union is pursuing the return of the supply chain brought about by artificial intelligence.

America is pursuing further technological development, while Russia does not have a clear strategy.

Even if you get the magic coin, you still have to rely on the capital saved from many years ago.

It can be said that they have been living off their past achievements. All they can do before the curtain rises on a new era is to increase investment in basic education.

In addition, Russia has been vigorously promoting smart agriculture in recent years, and the entire Siberia is a test field for smart agriculture.

They hope to achieve automated planting in the vast Siberian region.

Of course, to achieve all this, we cannot do without the help of China in agricultural machinery and large-scale automated planting.

Huawei has been conducting experiments with Russia on more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Siberia for more than two years.

The experiment achieved good results, and at the same time, seeds from China Seed Group are also entering the Russian market on a large scale.

The reason why it is Huawei is that Huawei has been deeply involved in the Russian market for more than 30 years, and the business here is not mobile phone business, but communication equipment.

As early as 1997, Huawei established its first joint venture company, Beto Huawei, with local enterprises in Ufa, Russia.

Later in 2022, Ericsson and Nokia withdrew from the Russian market one after another, making Huawei almost the only provider of communications equipment in Russia.

Even when facing America's technical blockade, the two sides seemed to sympathize with each other.

Russia simply had to choose Huawei because the country wanted to develop smart agriculture but did not have any outstanding companies.

Smart agriculture has extremely high requirements for communication equipment and artificial intelligence. Russia is good at software such as artificial intelligence, but there are really no local companies that can show off their communication equipment.

It’s because I fell behind for too long and there are too many courses to make up.

"The genetically modified staple food seeds developed by Macmillan for Monsanto are already on the market, but these seeds are not much different from those produced in China.

Monsanto has been absent from the market for too long, and its entire corporate image needs to be rebuilt.”

"The existence of the mage has disrupted the balance too much. The fact that the mage can sense whether the seeds are good or bad has completely wasted the genetic modification research and development matrix that Monsanto has spent more than ten years to build."

Monsanto is also unlucky, having started developing genetically modified seeds at least twenty years ago.

Later, they built their own GMO database and matrixed all GMO seeds in order to find the patterns among GMO seeds.

Prepare for the ability to customize seed design in the future.

You should know that Monsanto's annual R&D investment is at least 2007 billion euros. Since , more than half of this billion euros has been invested in the GMO R&D matrix.

Previously, China did not have to pay Monsanto for all its genetically modified agricultural products.

Monsanto holds a large number of core patents on GMOs.

However, Monsanto's plan is to wait until GMOs are widely promoted in China and become popular before charging patent fees.

It’s the same way Microsoft indulged pirated Windows systems in China back then.

However, they did not expect that the sudden emergence of China Seed Group would directly shatter Monsanto’s dream and its market share would gradually shrink.

If you pay attention to the news, you will notice that in 2018, Monsanto was acquired by Bayer Pharmaceuticals and delisted from the US stock market and privatized.

The acquisition amount was as high as 630 billion euros, which later triggered a layoff crisis of more than 1.2 people at Bayer Pharmaceuticals. The market value of Bayer Pharmaceuticals evaporated by more than 300 billion euros in the following six months.

Everyone knows that Bayer Pharmaceuticals is a company located in Germany, but Bayer's largest shareholder is BlackRock Group, an American asset management giant with assets under management exceeding 50 trillion RMB.

At the same time, BlackRock is the first investor of a purely foreign-funded fund company to enter China.

Bayer's top ten shareholders include BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Oakmark, and Franklin Resources. It can be said that nine of Bayer's top ten shareholders are held by funds under the American Financial Group.

The only European enterprise among the top ten shareholders is the global pension fund owned by the Norwegian government.

Therefore, the actual ownership of the Bayer Group is in the hands of Wall Street, otherwise they would not have been able to acquire Monsanto.

It seems incredible that America would ask the mage to rescue the seed subsidiary of a German pharmaceutical giant.

In fact, the ownership of this German pharmaceutical company belongs to American.

As a result, Bayer only has the sales rights but not the production rights for this life-extending drug.

With the help of the Marshall Plan, American capital directly and indirectly controls too many companies in Europe.

“I personally think that Monsanto’s GMO matrix R&D system is correct, but the variable of magic has too great an impact.

As a result, Monsanto's research and development bore fruit before it even blossomed, and it was unable to maintain such high-level research and development under the wizard's dimensionality reduction attack.

Wall Street investors cannot tolerate Monsanto investing more than 1 billion US dollars in R&D for consecutive years without seeing any profit. "

Unlike Jiang Yan who devoted himself to the research and development of the seed industry, American only sent people to assist Monsanto in seed research and development on a part-time basis.

It is just using the mage's perception ability to judge the quality of the seeds after batch processing.

The subsequent series of work including seed breeding, screening, finding gene mutation points, etc. are all completed by Monsanto's R&D personnel.

"The advantages of combining science and magic will be revealed later. The Chinese magic seed industry is only at the application stage.

I haven’t felt the latecomer advantage for many years.”

The American mages are optimistic.

The main reason is that we have maintained a leading position in the field of science and technology for too many years.

The American scientific community rarely doubts that it can maintain its leading position; most doubts are limited to the anti-intellectual atmosphere in the country.

And more and more students with good grades are unwilling to engage in scientific research, but instead study medicine, law and finance.

Science and engineering fields are filled with Indians and Asians.

Of course, this phenomenon is not unique to America. It exists in universities in all Western countries, but it is more common in America.

"The task assigned to us is almost impossible to achieve. The European pharmaceutical companies shared too little information in the Lancet magazine.

It doesn't involve the production process at all.

Even if we later obtain the life-extending potion and want to reverse engineer the production process, it will still take a lot of time.

It may even be mission impossible.”

Reverse engineering is difficult, especially when technical information is blocked.

China's technological progress over the years is due to its own internal factors, as well as technology spillovers caused by the transfer of foreign supply chains.

In order to reverse engineer the production method of soda ash, Mr. Hou Debang spent five years based on the brief information of the Sowell process.

Although modern technology and scientific instruments have advanced, the complexity of life-extending drugs is also growing exponentially.

The two have been researching in the field of biomedicine for many years. After reading the paper on life-extending drugs in The Lancet, they realized that this task was almost impossible to accomplish.

“Is it possible to obtain production materials from the European Union or Chinese pharmaceutical companies?

If they want to promote it on a large scale, there will definitely be a large number of factories producing it, and their secrets cannot be kept."

"The manufacturing process alone will be leaked sooner or later, but how can we circumvent the other party's patents?"

“We can make life-extending agents for internal use, as well as optimize existing ones.

They can only extend lifespan by one or two years, but we can extend lifespan much longer.”

There are many people who covet the life-extending potion besides American, but American is probably the only one who has the ability to continue with in-depth research.

"I've figured it out. Let's create a self-media account together."

"We split the profits 50-50."

After Lawrence was discharged from the hospital, he spoke to Herman in the B&B they rented.

In 2022, Airbnb withdrew from the Chinese market. Two years after its withdrawal from the Chinese market, it announced its re-entry into the Chinese market.

Airbnb’s strategy for the Chinese market has been changing, but this has not affected their popularity abroad.

Renting someone else's home is much cheaper than staying in a hotel, especially for students with a single source of income.

Herman opened his mouth wide: "Why do you suddenly change your mind so quickly?"

"I thought you were going to be in the next Harry Potter movie!"

In an interview, a producer from Warner Bros. said that Lawrence's image is very suitable for playing roles in modern fantasy works.

When asked by a reporter, he said that if the other party was willing, he would be willing to give the other party the opportunity to star in the Harry Potter series.

Lawrence shook his head and said, "That was just a polite trick by the other party in front of the media. I didn't receive any call from Warner Bros."

"The reason why I want to start a self-media with you is because something happened to me."

"I'll tell you the details after I return to Manchester."

Herman nodded and said, "Okay, thank you for your trust. I will definitely not let you down."

The reason why Herman said this is that with Lawrence's popularity, many mature KOL operating companies are willing to sign a contract with Lawrence and offer him a high price.

Although Warner Bros. has not contacted him in the past few days, many KOL economic companies have contacted Lawrence.

The original meaning of KOL was opinion leader, and later it gradually evolved into internet celebrity. As long as you have fans, you are a KOL.

Whether or not you have your own subjective opinion on things has become unimportant.

Lawrence nodded and said, "Our profits are split 50-50. If you don't do a good job, not only will I lose money, but you will also suffer huge losses."

As soon as Lawrence finished speaking, his phone rang, and a voice came from the phone:
“Mr. Lawrence, your contact information is a little difficult to find, and it took some time to find you.

I'm the head of casting for Warner Bros. in England and I was wondering if you're available lately?

We think you have a lot of overlap with a character we are about to start filming, and we would like to ask if you are willing to audition?"

(End of this chapter)