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Chapter 141 An Explosive Interview, Dragon Blood Pills

The opinion poll results are in.

In the editorial office of The New York Times, several veteran editors stared at the data for quite some time.

The teams they sent out to conduct questionnaire surveys specifically targeted the Midtown and Upper East Side districts.

Those areas inhabited by wealthy, middle-class people in suits who commut daily between Wall Street and Madison Avenue.

In these places, Li En and his newly established "Earth Alliance" have a support rate of 65%.

If this figure were placed in neighborhoods with relatively average incomes, it would likely reach over 95%.

Some people are willing to fill in an extra checkmark on the questionnaire, but the New York Times didn't ask them.

The turning point for all of this happened five days ago.

Lee En gave an exclusive interview to Ben Yurik.

After that report was published, the entire New York media landscape was devastated within hours.

Ben Yurik did not add any unnecessary comments to the article.

He simply wrote at the beginning, "The following are Officer Lee's original words," and then transcribed the interview recording word for word into text, printing it verbatim on the front page.

In that interview, Lee En elaborated on the first thing he would do after taking office:

The plan is to establish public hospitals on a large scale in New York City, while significantly increasing the salaries and benefits of doctors and nurses working in these hospitals.

Someone in the press section asked a question on the spot: Isn't this just using public funds and capitalists' donations for charity?

Those medical companies only see public hospitals as a piece of fat meat, and they won't stop until they've devoured it completely.

Lee's answer was extremely concise, so concise that Ben Yurik repeatedly checked the recording to make sure he hadn't missed anything.

He said that Umbrella Corporation's first product, Dragon's Blood Tablets, has entered mass production.

The approval process for Dragon Blood Pills to go public could be the subject of a farcical novel in itself.

Umbrella Corporation submitted complete approval materials to the relevant authorities twice, and both times they were rejected.

The reasons for the rejections were very official and carefully worded, citing several regulations. They seemed impeccable. After reviewing the rejection letters, Li En did not offer any rebuttal. He simply asked Baron to retrieve the names and addresses of the people who had signed the approval forms and then made a phone call.

The person answering the phone was Frank Castle, the captain of the first squad of Hellsword.

The people are busy with the High Table operation in Washington, D.C., so busy that they don't even have time to turn their skulls back into their original form.

Within hours of making the call, all the signature fields on the approval forms were filled.

Dragon Blood Tablets have officially hit the market.

The first batch of pills released triggered a chain reaction in a very short time.

It's not like Dragon's Blood Elixir, which allows cells to repair themselves and genuinely extends lifespan.

But it can heal hidden ailments.

Those old injuries that have accumulated over the years and slowly eroded the bones, joints and blood vessel walls deep in the body can be healed by just one treatment.

It can also significantly improve the overall efficiency of the human immune system.

Colds, inflammation, and wound infections are common ailments that account for the vast majority of medical expenses in ordinary people's lives. Taking one Dragon Blood Pill will make the symptoms almost disappear in no time.

In cases of amputation or deep trauma, grind the pill into powder and apply it directly to the wound.

The healing process was so fast that the emergency room doctors dared not write the truth in their medical records.

In a very short period of time, Umbrella Corporation became an international company with operations spanning several continents.

Of course, this also relies on the two super groups behind it.

Almost all of the Osborn Group's production lines were transformed by Norman Osborn into Dragon's Blood tablet production workshops, and they were renovated one after another, producing drugs day and night, but it still wasn't enough.

Tony Stark also converted several of Stark Industries' heavy production lines, which were originally used for weapons production, into new facilities.

What rolls out of the assembly line is no longer missile guidance components and firearm parts, but aluminum foil plates of pills printed with the Umbrella red and white logo.

Only after the two giants' production lines were running simultaneously could the output barely begin to meet demand.

However, price is another hurdle; the retail price of one Dragon Blood Pill is ten yuan.

This price isn't outrageously expensive in the pharmaceutical market.

But for those struggling to make ends meet in Hell's Kitchen or on the outskirts of the city, ten dollars is a pill or several days' worth of food.

So in Ben Ullrick's interview, Lee said the last thing:

New York City residents can take Dragon's Blood tablets prescribed at public hospitals after presenting their identification, and each tablet costs only one dollar.

On the day the price was announced, almost all the heads of major pharmaceutical companies across the United States were doing the same thing: making phone calls.

They tried to contact Li En through various channels to confirm with him in person whether it was true.

They simply couldn't understand why someone holding Dragon Blood Pills, a magical artifact that could almost redefine the entire pharmaceutical industry, would set such a price.

In these people's minds, ten yuan a piece is already considered charity.

If they had this panacea, they would sell it for at least fifty dollars, and only half a pill at a time.

They didn't want the patient to fully recover.

The best approach is to stabilize the condition in a way that prevents it from worsening, but also ensures that the patient can never be completely weaned off medication.

This algorithm has been meticulously refined in countless internal financial reports, down to several decimal places.

Lee En declined all of these requests for meetings from the heads of pharmaceutical companies.

He offered no explanation, not even bothering to come up with a reason for his refusal.

He couldn't be bothered to waste his breath on a bloodsucker.

Just as these leading companies in the healthcare industry, along with countless wealthy individuals, were joining forces to launch a simultaneous attack on the Umbrella Corporation.

A message leaked out from a secret channel whose source no one could say for sure.

The message was very simple.

The Umbrella Corporation also possesses something called Dragon's Blood Potion.

It is the prototype of Dragon Blood Pills, not just a difference of tens or hundreds of times; the two are not even in the same league.

Dragon's Blood Elixir can repair human cells, providing real repair, from telomere length to mitochondrial activity, from severed nerve bundles to worn-out joint cartilage—it can restore everything.

Even if a person in their seventies or eighties gets the injection, their physical condition can return to the level of someone in their fifties or sixties.

Life expectancy could be extended to 130 years.

For ordinary people, this news is just a distant and strange tale.

But for those old men who already possess wealth and power, prolonging their lives is the only thing they truly desire but have never been able to buy.

So now we have an extremely absurd situation.

Those young men from both parties who are responsible for shouting slogans in front of the camera.

They are still vehemently attacking the Umbrella Corporation every day, claiming that it's all a hoax, special effects, deepfakes, and conspiracy theories.

But those old guys who truly control the direction of both parties from behind the scenes, never showing their faces in public.

They were using every method they could think of and every connection they could leverage to try to buy a Dragonblood Potion from the Umbrella Corporation.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to abandon Mayor Morris.

Overtly and covertly, messages kept coming in, all conveying the same message: we felt that Lee was more suitable for the position of mayor of New York City.

Lee En left all these matters to Brock, Virgil, and Pepper to handle.

Brock was responsible for determining who genuinely wanted to talk and who was just trying to extract information.

Virgil was responsible for drafting all relevant legal documents and confidentiality agreements.

Pepper used her business acumen, honed over many years at Stark Industries, to sift out the truly valuable partners from among those who proactively approached her.

As for Li En himself, he had an even more important matter to attend to today.

In the suburbs, at Umbrella's new laboratory.

Dragon Blood Potion Type II has been successfully developed.

Various physical fitness tests require a sufficiently large venue and a sufficiently high level of safety protection.

It's no longer appropriate to stay cooped up in that converted laboratory building behind the school.

Tony Stark glanced at the budget sheet, casually signed his name, and directly booked a piece of wasteland in the suburbs that was over 5,000 square meters.

In less than ten days, the first batch of buildings rose from the ground, complete with laboratories, testing grounds, isolation observation areas, and equipment trial production workshops.

Compared to the school, this place feels more like a proper place to do research.

There's no need to worry about safety at the school.

Damon, Jessica, and Peter are all there.

Although Damon is just a school bus driver, his shotgun never gets dusty.

Jessica and Peter need no further explanation.

Even a well-organized gang would have to consider whether they were strong enough to withstand a single punch from Jessica before trying to breach the gate guarded by these two.

Basic security is guaranteed, no problem.

Even if some irrational person wants to attack the school.

Tony's prepared automatic Mark armor was no joke either.

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