Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 615: The Giant with Strange Actions

Shanying didn't quite understand the twists and turns of medical companies, but he had seen a lot of dirty things done by these giant companies, so he was always willing to speculate on their behavior with the greatest malice.

Especially these European and American pharmaceutical companies!

Their scandals are simply too numerous to be imagined...

In order to make money and put as much money as possible into their own pockets, these European and American pharmaceutical companies constantly collude or gamble with insurance companies, creating many appalling scandals.

And Africa and India are the drug testing fields for these companies!

The highly contagious disease Ebola broke out suddenly in Africa in July, and in less than four months it swept across Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Considering the progress of the development of these vaccines, how could Shanying not think too much?
An infectious disease broke out in July, and your vaccine came out in November?

These big companies can certainly argue that they have been doing research in this area, and seeing that these people don’t seem particularly anxious, there may be some other inside stories.

Deliberate poisoning and using vaccines to monopolize the market, Shanying has only seen this kind of thing in American movies...

He also didn't quite believe that giants like Merck and Granstreck would dare to do such a thing, but he firmly believed that things were definitely not as simple as Glassman said.

Because these European and American pharmaceutical companies have too many previous records. In the past twenty years, they have "invented" too many diseases...

However, most of these diseases are concentrated in mental illnesses, and many minor illnesses that do not affect life are artificially magnified.

Who knew about depression twenty years ago?

But today, twenty years later, mental problems such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, etc. have become major issues that people need to treat, which naturally leads to over-medicalization and the hot sales of psychiatric drugs.

The situation is most severe in the United States, which consumes 49% of the world's prescription psychotropic drugs.

17% of adults in the United States have been prescribed at least one psychiatric medication, 12% have used antidepressants, and 8.3% have been prescribed sedatives, hypnotics, and antianxiety drugs.

This is a huge business, and with the promotion of some so-called public experts, a variety of psychiatric drugs have begun to spread around the world.

No one can deny that those symptoms exist and do endanger people's health, but vague judgment criteria and profit-driven over-medicalization have artificially created a huge medical blue ocean.

This is the highest level of creative demand!
To achieve their goals, American pharmaceutical companies have the largest lobbying groups.

Compared to the well-known military-industrial complex, the influence of pharmaceutical companies is actually more powerful.

In 2014, the total GDP of the United States was 17.6 trillion US dollars, and total military expenditure accounted for 3.4% of the total GDP. Together with the 1.5% of the total generated by military-industrial enterprises, it is actually just over 8600 billion US dollars a year.

And what about the pharmaceutical industry?

In the pharmaceutical sector alone, American pharmaceutical companies can contribute $1.3 trillion a year, not counting other projects in the medical industry.

The entire healthcare industry accounts for between 18 and 20% of GDP, or about $3.5 trillion...

In the same year, the total GDP of Southeast University was 63 trillion RMB, and their healthcare accounted for 5.6% of it, or 3.5 trillion RMB.

It is true that the United States still has a huge advantage in the field of high-end medical care, and they have always maintained a leading edge in areas such as drug research and development...

But the reality is that capital monsters are inhumane, and this is the same in any country in the world.

But under the American system, pharmaceutical companies are particularly crazy!
Especially after Shanying experienced the laboratory incident at Dimension Card, he developed a deep prejudice against the so-called pharmaceutical companies or laboratories in the United States.

The brutal and inhumane scenes in the laboratory caused a deep-seated stress reaction in the bones of a man like Shanying who grew up hearing about the evil deeds of Unit 731...

That's why he destroyed the laboratory without mercy and even chased them to Arizona and killed all the adult males in the governor's family!
If the other party hadn't mentioned the Ebola virus, a highly contagious disease...

If I wasn't worried that my wife and children might be at risk of Ebola after coming here...

Shanying may not even want to ask any more questions and will just let the people from these big companies leave.

Instead of telling Michael all his thoughts, Shanying invited him to stay for dinner.

Old Joe next to him had been in contact with Quetta, and after the Mountain Eagle's situation came to an end, he spoke up, "Without Quetta, it would be impossible for the National Guard to cross the complex wetland waterways by water.

Boss, are you sure you want to bring Quetta back?"

Shanying nodded slightly and said, "Take them back first. Before we have accurate information, it's best for the people in Brown Bear Camp not to get involved with those people and things."

Shanying thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be a serious matter, but based on my understanding of these big companies, their current attitude and approach are likely to go wrong."

Old Joe was a little confused and said, "What do you mean?"

Shanying stroked his chin and said, "If it were you, and your laboratory lost the virus and vaccine that could cause a terrible disaster, what would you do?"

Old Joe said as a matter of course: "Of course I will try every possible way to get it back!"

Shanying nodded and said, "You are right, but look at what those people did...

There were five of them, all of whom looked like senior executives, and one of them claimed to be a consultant from the Department of Homeland Security.

If it was really a luxurious lineup, why did they look for the National Guard?

The combined market value of Merck and Grenstrecker exceeds $3000 billion. When such a big incident happened, they actually asked the least professional Alaska National Guard to handle it, and also brought people from the CDC on board. In this case, are these two giant companies unwilling to even pay for the operation?

500 million US dollars is enough to hire helicopters to drop hundreds of people into the area. Would they be short of this little money?

Stealing Ebola virus and vaccines is fundamentally unjustifiable!

If you really want the virus, just buy a plane ticket to Africa and you can get it.

Vaccines sound great, but when Ebola wasn’t spreading on a large scale, it was essentially a losing business because Africa simply couldn’t afford it.”

After hearing this, Old Joe nodded with a stern face and said, "You are right. If I were their boss and something so important was lost, I would definitely not be stingy about spending millions to hire some truly professional people to cut the thief into pieces."

As he spoke, Old Joe looked at the calm Shanying and asked curiously, "Boss, have you guessed something?"

Shanying shook his head and said, "No, I didn't guess anything. I just felt that they didn't seem to be trying their best."

As Shanying looked at Michael, whose expression was uncertain, he smiled and said, "If I were you, I would take a recorder and go talk to Glassman and get his words.

As a small police officer, you'd better hold some chips in your hand, so that when the big waves come later, you may not be hit by the waves. "

After saying that, Shanying ignored Michael. He asked Old Joe to take the boat to pick up Quetta, and then he stood by the stove again, staring at the big barrel emitting heat, as if there was some secret of the world there...

Bald Glassman stood about 20 meters away from the terrace and watched for a while. He felt very sorry for the attitude of the mountain eagle, so he could only turn around and return to the dock...

They are all wealthy people, and it is impossible for them to set up tents in the brown bear camp when the temperature drops below zero.

As the person who hosted them, Michael unfortunately missed the dinner prepared by Shanying himself, and drove the people to the town of Marshall downstream by boat.

After confirming that those people had left, Shanying breathed a sigh of relief...

The attitude of these people showed that they were definitely not coming for the brown bear camp or him.

By the time the potatoes and beef were stewed, it was completely dark.

The Eagle handed the responsibility of serving the meal to the drooling Jesse. He made a lunch box and filled it with a large box of rice, potatoes and beef. After finishing it, he quietly came to the edge of the camp and released a dozen newly created crows...

The coverage range of a single crow is limited, and signal transmission becomes a problem if it flies far away. However, a dozen crows can monitor a range of 200 kilometers in radius and form a communication signal network.

Whoever those 'thieves' were, they had to light a fire to keep warm after dark, otherwise it would be difficult to survive the Alaskan night.

As long as they made a fire, they would be as eye-catching as a beacon to the crows that had the ability to detect heat.

After releasing the crows and assigning them a patrol area, the eagle returned to the terrace...

He chatted and laughed with the indigenous people, asking them what they should pay attention to in the winter and whether there were any interesting activities in the winter.

The result made Shanying a little disappointed...

The indigenous people here have no entertainment activities in winter. The only thing that can be called entertainment is probably some traditional family games.

In winter, they do not hibernate after storing enough food as the mountain eagle imagines, but instead engage in various forms of hunting and fishing continuously. This way, they can obtain some valuable furs while satisfying their family's needs for fresh meat.

A dish of potato and beef from Shanying can make these people eat so much that their mouths can’t stop. You can imagine their daily diet level.

Eating something fresh in winter is also a kind of enjoyment!

Shanying asked for a long time, but didn't get anything useful...

Only got a lot of so-called 'secret hunting locations'...

The indigenous brothers who ate his food promised that as long as he needed it, they would take him to catch the animals he needed and catch the most delicious fish in winter.

In the past, Shanying thought that these aborigines were all introverted people, but after eating something good and drinking some beer, they also started to pat their chests and brag...

What about getting drunk and going to sleep in a place where black bears hibernate?

When a kid wanted to eat fish in the middle of the night, he would go out on the ice for eight hours and bring back hundreds of lake trout.

After hearing this, Shanying gave a thumbs up and shouted "awesome", then silently put a cross on their "secret hunting spot" and reminded his children in the future not to play with such fools.

Just as Shanying was laughing and joking with the aborigines, Mori, who claimed that he would give him news soon, finally called him nearly 4 hours later...

The moment the call was connected, Shanying heard Mori say, "Shan, don't get involved...

This is a sting by the Department of Homeland Security!"

When Shanying heard this, he frowned and said, "What do you mean?
Was the downed plane a decoy?

What role does the Department of Homeland Security play in this?
Will their actions affect the safety of the Brown Bear Camp?"

Mori on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then said, "Shan, the matter is very complicated. I only found out a little bit..."

(End of this chapter)