Chapter 1807

Over the next two days, Hong Wu's underlings gathered in large numbers at airports and high-speed railway stations.

They carried out various disguises and secretly filmed all foreign nationals entering Jin Ling over these two days, subsequently summarizing the photos to Chen Zekai.

More than ten soldiers of the Cataclysmic Front hid near the Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical factory to screen every suspicious person who appeared there.

However, after Nakamura Junpei and his party arrived in Jin Ling, they did not immediately head to the vicinity of Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical. They first rented a villa in the suburbs of Jin Ling, waiting for the American side to use special channels to solve the various instruments and equipment needed for their experiments.

At the same time, the popularity of the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill was also continuously climbing.

Because the reverse engineering was not successful, the Americans did not dare to violate the agreement reached between Smith and Ye Chen.

Therefore, the Mayo Clinic was still releasing the physical changes of Jimmy after taking the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill to the public every day.

Besides this, the treatment process and results of the other four patients who received the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill treatment, after their names and identities were hidden, were also published.

These four terminal cancer patients, after receiving the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill, saw their physical conditions continuously improve and their vital signs continuously stabilize. Its excellent medicinal efficacy made the whole world even more admiring of the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill.

At the same time, Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical also officially opened applications for free drug trials domestically. The number of people for free drug trials opened domestically this time reached one hundred.

After all, the FDA spent 100 million US dollars to get a mere twenty boxes of Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill.

And this time, Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical was actually going to take out more than six hundred boxes to promote free drug trials domestically. Once this news came out, it immediately made the whole nation's favorability for Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical increase manifold.

The application conditions for Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical this time were written very clearly: one must be a patient who meets the terminal clinical definition to apply for the drug trial.

How to select these one hundred people required a very detailed and perfect point policy.

This point policy was jointly determined by multiple factors.

These included: the patient's educational background, the patient's situation of receiving various commendations, whether the patient has a criminal record, the patient's actual family economic situation, the patient's family member situation, etc., all had a great impact on the points.

Theoretically speaking, patients with high education, high quality, no criminal record, frequent commendations but poor family background, and who are in their prime, with old people above and children below, are the easiest to be elected.

Ye Chen was also very clear that conducting screening like this might not necessarily achieve one hundred percent fairness.

Everyone can understand high education, high quality, and no criminal record. After all, such people naturally have greater contributions and value to society, and from the perspective of traditional Chinese moral views, good people living long lives is the most reasonable.

What really caused intense discussion in society was why priority was given to those with poor family backgrounds.

Many people asked online, do people with well-off family backgrounds not have a chance to survive?

To answer this question, Ye Chen wrote a passage and let Wei Liang publish it on the official Weibo account of Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical.

This passage wrote: "Both are terminal cancer patients. Those with good economic conditions might have taken ten years from the discovery of the disease to the development to the terminal stage; but those with poor economic conditions might have only taken half a year from the discovery of the disease to the development to the terminal stage."

"In other words, patients with good economic conditions have already won a longer survival cycle for themselves in the past."

"Therefore, we hope more to give this limited opportunity to those patients with poor family backgrounds, so that they can live longer, and also allow them to bear more for their families."

After this passage was released, the public opinion on why rich people cannot participate in the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill drug trial finally settled down.

To ensure that there would be as few cases as possible where patients passed the review but were no longer there, Ye Chen required Wei Liang to finish all reviews within one week and publish the big list. One week later, the selected one hundred patients would have to start taking the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill.

Immediately following, the Gulf of Aden, which had not been peaceful recently, suddenly spread a big piece of news again.

Multiple pirate forces in the Gulf of Aden moved out in unison and hijacked six cargo ships in one go that noon.

The news spread, shocking the whole world!

Including Ye Chen, who was in the country, received pushes from major news media at the first moment.

The way Gulf of Aden pirates hijack cargo ships is very simple and crude, nothing more than using speedboats to chase and intercept slower-moving cargo ships, using various weapons to intimidate the other party into giving up resistance, subsequently boarding the ship to control all crew members, and then driving the ship to their own base camp, waiting for the shipowner to bring money to redeem the people.

This time, when they hijacked other ships, they all encountered resistance from international security personnel, and both sides had casualties.

However, only the process of hijacking the Xinglong was extremely smooth.

Because the Xinglong had almost no resistance throughout the whole process, nothing more than a few crew members symbolically spraying high-pressure water jets with high-pressure water guns. After the pirates fired warning shots, the crew members were so scared that they even stopped the high-pressure water guns.

Subsequently, the pirates successfully boarded the cargo ship and happily discovered that the shipowner of the Xinglong was too stingy and did not even hire security personnel for this ship.

Thus, they were in high spirits and controlled all dozens of crew members of the entire ship.

Immediately following, the Xinglong began to change course and sailed toward their base camp.

As soon as the Xinglong turned its direction, this gang of pirates could not wait to report the news of the successful hijacking to their leader.

The leader heard that they had successfully hijacked a cargo ship with nearly twenty thousand containers and was naturally overjoyed, feeling that he had caught a big fish.

Thus, he immediately released the news to the outside world, claiming that the Xinglong had been hijacked by him, and called out to the shipowner of the Xinglong, demanding that the shipowner pay them a ransom of 10 million US dollars.

They had no idea who the shipowner of the Xinglong was.

However, according to their experience, as long as they announce the ship's information to the outside world, the shipowner will naturally come knocking on the door without delay.

According to past experience, after the shipowner confirms that the ship has indeed been hijacked, they will immediately communicate with the leader of the pirate organization, on one hand requesting them not to harm the crew, and on the other hand bargaining on the price issue.

Regarding things like hijacking, pirates can afford to drag it out, but shipowners cannot.

Now that shipping prices are so high, one trip can earn 100 million US dollars. If it is really delayed for a period of time because of being hijacked, not only will transport income suffer heavy losses, but they also have to compensate for the cargo owner's losses.

Sometimes, the losses incurred by dragging it out for one day can exceed several million US dollars.

But what this pirate leader did not expect was that Yisu Shipping from China did not contact them at the first moment.

On the contrary, Ye Chen received a call from He Zhiqiu at the first moment.

Once the call was connected, she said somewhat nervously: "Mr. Ye, our ship has been hijacked!"

"Yes," Ye Chen smiled slightly: "I saw the news."

He Zhiqiu said anxiously: "The robbers said they wanted a ransom of 10 million US dollars. I haven't replied to them yet. Didn't you just arrange for people from the Cataclysmic Front to escort it? This ship just fed back news eight hours ago saying that the soldiers of the Cataclysmic Front had already boarded the ship. How could this kind of thing still happen..."

Ye Chen laughed: "This is the requirement I set for the Cataclysmic Front."

"Ah?" He Zhiqiu was stunned and blurted out: "Why?"

Ye Chen laughed: "Don't worry for now, the ship will definitely be fine. As for why, you will know very soon."