Chapter 9: Cloud White Potion

After clearing out all the dittany in all the pharmacies in Diagon Alley, Murphy spent most of his gold coins, and he bought a large amount of raw materials for various medical potions such as Skele-Gro, Blood-Replenishing Potion, and wound cleaning agents for future research, finally spending all the Galleons he had just received.

More than 6,000 Galleons were gone before they were even warm in his hands.

But Murphy didn't feel distressed at all.

Anyway, money is for spending.

Then, Murphy bought a large amount of Muggle dittany, Panax notoginseng, and other various Muggle herbs in a Muggle herbal shop.

In fact, Murphy had long discovered that although the names are the same, many medicinal materials in the magical world, such as dittany and aconite, are inconsistent with the same-named medicines in the Muggle world.

Like dittany, although it is very similar to the dittany in the Muggle world in form, the latter cannot produce the therapeutic effect of magical dittany no matter what, and the essence extracted by the same method has no effect.

Regarding this, Murphy can only guess that wizards in the past cultivated magical dittany through magic or some other way, making it another kind of plant.

Returning to the Darkholm old house, Murphy used magic to crush all the two kinds of dittany into powder, mixed them together, and added various Muggle herbal powders such as Muggle Panax notoginseng and kudzu powder, making it a mixture that no one could reverse-engineer to analyze the raw materials.

The production method of Essence of Dittany is too simple. To keep the secret of its formula, the only way is to start with the raw materials.

Murphy had made up his mind that the raw materials used for the production of Essence of Dittany in the future would appear in front of others in the form of this mixed powder.

Then Murphy divided the powder into several large bags and stuffed them all into the bag with the Undetectable Extension Charm.

Then he went out to register the company.

Two days later, Murphy Apparated to Patrick's house. Led by Mrs. Duncan, he walked into Patrick's study. The latter was on the phone. Seeing him come over, he just nodded first, signaling Murphy to wait a moment.

Murphy wasn't polite either, found a sofa and sat down, flipping through a few Muggle books on the bookshelf.

Most of Patrick's collection was about the pharmaceutical and biological industry, and he also subscribed to quite a few academic journals. It could be seen that he had invested huge energy and effort in this industry.

With this spirit of continuous learning, no wonder he could become the premier pharmaceutical salesperson in London.

After a while, Patrick finished his call. He looked at Murphy and smiled. "Good news, bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Murphy smiled. "Tell me the good one first."

"I inspected five pharmaceutical factories, among which Isis Pharmaceuticals, which I am most optimistic about, made an investment mistake last year. There is internal news that they are preparing for restructuring. I estimate that it can be bought for about 900,000 pounds, which is a big sum saved compared to the estimate."

"This news is indeed good, what about the bad news?"

"Drug approval is a bit troublesome. The director of the Review Committee, Douglas, is a friend of mine, but he was just transferred elsewhere, and the guy who just took office is a shareholder of Blue Mountain. He requested to provide the formula to ensure the safety of the drug."

Murphy frowned.

Patrick had already submitted his resignation to Blue Mountain Pharmaceuticals. It is understandable that Blue Mountain's shareholders don't want him to have a good time.

"What are your thoughts?" Murphy asked.

This matter is not a problem for Murphy. At worst, he can cast a set of Imperius and Obliviate spells on that guy.

Murphy didn't have much psychological burden about using Unforgivable Curses to achieve his goals, as long as he didn't make it known to everyone and get out of hand.

"The formula can absolutely not be provided," Patrick said. "His request for herbal medicines is not in line with the rules. I will unite several companies to put pressure on him, and getting a temporary production license shouldn't be a problem."

"However, we must produce products and put them on the market as soon as possible. As long as the market reaction is good enough, he cannot stop us."

"I don't understand this, you just operate it." Murphy said.

"There is one more thing." Patrick said. "The production method you told me before was laboratory preparation, which is different from industrial production. You have to find someone to design the industrial production process. This requires you to tell me the complete experimental steps."

Patrick said, staring at Murphy.

Some laboratory preparation processes for drugs may leak part of the formula, but Patrick didn't explain much. He hoped that his employer could have enough trust in him.

Murphy didn't ask much either, took a notebook from the small bag behind him, tore off one of the pages, and handed it to Patrick.

"It's all on here."

Patrick breathed a sigh of relief, solemnly took the notebook page, read it carefully, and then nodded. "The production process is very simple, I can find a few graduate students to do the industrial production design. What about the raw materials?"

"Already prepared."

"From these steps, raw materials are indeed the key to White Potion. You must find a way to keep the materials secret." Patrick reminded.

"Rest assured."

Murphy said, handing a seal to Patrick. "I have already registered the company, this is the financial official seal, the registered capital is one million pounds, it has already arrived, it should be enough to buy the factory you mentioned."

Patrick took the official seal, and saw at the bottom it was written: "Umbrella Industries Financial Special Use".

"Umbrella?" Patrick nodded. "It fits the positioning of dittany very well. This name is good."

Murphy blushed, he was really having a mouth-slip when he went to register the company.

Fortunately, the Resident Evil series hadn't been released at this time, Umbrella was still a quite normal name, and this word also had meanings like umbrella, protective umbrella, shelter, etc., which was indeed very suitable for a pharmaceutical company.

"Then is the official name of White Potion called White Potion?"

"Call it Cloud... cough, Cloud White Potion."

The memory of the previous life made him unable to help but slip again.

"Cloud, umbrella..." Patrick nodded approvingly. "Consistency, very good."

Good my ass!

Since seeing the effect of Essence of Dittany, this guy seems to have started to 'Dihua' (over-interpret).

"Then I will go to contact Isis Pharmaceuticals tomorrow," Patrick was very motivated. "As for you, boss, I will arrange a few graduate students to help you design the industrial process. With this, we can decide what kind of production line we need."

Leaving Patrick's house, Murphy couldn't help but feel a bit emotional. Sure enough, it's better to let professional people do professional things.

If he had started from scratch to build a pharmaceutical company, he would have been completely in the dark, and it would never have progressed so fast like now, with a pile of things to do every day.

This also gave him a wake-up call.

Even if the goal is omniscience and omnipotence, he is still far from that level. With his current ability and knowledge, he is still a novice in many fields.

Must not be arrogant or self-opinionated!

He was just an undergraduate in computer science in his previous life. The experiment of making Essence of Dittany by non-magical means had already exhausted his previous life's biological and chemical knowledge.

Therefore, things like the progress of Essence of Dittany—purification, and the determination of effective substances, etc., he didn't have the ability to do.

This is why he needs the Muggle world.

He needs talent.

A lot of talent!

There are too many things to do, and his energy and ability are not enough to cover all aspects.

Therefore, he needs to borrow strength, needs to gather a large number of professional talents like Patrick, and use their power to achieve his goals.

Muggles, for the sake of my great cause of immortality, work hard!

Well, I have to give Patrick some shares later.

Just as he said, a good boss must learn to draw a pie.

(End of chapter)