1855 United States Tycoon

Proving the effect of White Tiger soup is only the first step. Even further proof of the curative effect of "Qingwenbaidu Decoction" is only the first step. There is a considerable gap between these two things and Scrooge's ultimate goal-the antiviral oral liquid. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Chitu Kingdom in later generations carried out extensive work on popularizing health and immunization. Because the industrial capacity was not strong enough at that time, many Western medicines could not be produced by themselves. At the same time, the rabbits lacked small money in their hands, and generally could not afford the tall imported Western medicines. In addition, at that time, they were still being killed by the hawks and the "killers". "One hundred million rabbits and tigers staying in the Dying Bay" are blocked by Chang Gong, and many tall western medicines are not available at all. Therefore, they can only play a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, which is more convenient and cheaper.

In the battle against the virus, hundreds of medical rabbits have spent five years developing an antiviral oral liquid based on White Tiger soup and Qingwenbaidu drink. This broad-spectrum antiviral drug has Viruses, especially most influenza viruses, have a very good therapeutic effect, with an effective rate of over 90%. Compared with its source, White Tiger Decoction and Qingwen Baidu Decoction, the effect of this medicine is much better.

Therefore, this kind of antiviral oral liquid is the real goal of Scrooge. Compared with the Chitu Kingdom decades later, there is still a gap in the scientific level of Scrooge's hands. But Scrooge felt that he also had advantages in some aspects. First of all, Scrooge knew the direction and knew that this thing could be successful, so Scrooge dared to invest money in it. Secondly, the research of this drug itself does not require too high technology, what it really needs is a large number of experiments. In this regard, Scrooge felt that he had a complete advantage. Scrooge can easily find a large number of various patients in Asia, and in many places, these people can be used as experimental materials almost without restriction, and they can even ask them for money while using them as experimental materials.

In addition, Scrooge knew that once the Spanish flu broke out in the future, how big a market this thing would have. So Scrooge was willing and able to invest more money in it than the Chitu Kingdom in the early 1970s. More money means more experiments can be conducted in the same time.

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There is an unnamed island between Samar and Mindanao, which is not too big. The island is larger than four square kilometers in size and has not been developed because it is not close to the route. The island is covered with cliffs on three sides, only one side is relatively flat and there is a short sandy beach, but there are quite a few reefs on the coast on this side. Therefore, it is not easy to get to this island. But one thing that is rare on this island is that there is fresh water on it. In the island environment, fresh water is almost one of the most important resources. With it, it is possible for people to live on the island for a long time. In fact, there are also residents on this unknown island, and an indigenous tribe of about dozens of people lives on this island. They usually make a living by rowing canoe fishing near the island.

Early that morning, Vanu was paddling his canoe, preparing to go fishing, but saw a big boat approaching the island. Vanu had seen some of these big ships, and he knew that these big ships were all white-skinned people. These white skins are very fierce, and many nearby tribes have been wiped out by these white skins. So Vanu was shocked and hurriedly rowed the boat behind a rock and hid.

The boat stopped about six to seven hundred meters away from the small island, and then a small boat was dropped from the big boat, a few white skins boarded the small boat, and then the small boat rowed towards the small island. After a while, the boat leaned on the beach, and Vanu saw a few white skins jumping from above, and then unfolded a tripod that looked like a boiling water or barbecue, and set it there. There was a tube on the shelf, and then a few white skins were busy around the thing for a long time, then they picked up the thing again, moved it to another place, and repeated the same. Again.

Vanu didn't know what those people were doing, and he didn't know what that kind of thing on a tripod was. But he knew that Baipi was on the island, and it was probably no good. Looking around, no one seemed to notice him. Vanu quietly paddled the canoe towards the other side of the beach, where there were more rocks. Even if Baipi spotted him, he probably wouldn't dare to chase him.

Vanu drew ashore there, tied the canoe to a reef, and then walked through the dense rainforest on the island towards the place where the tribe lived. He wanted to report Baipi's arrival on the island to everyone.

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"As long as the reefs from here to here are cleaned up, we can easily build a dock that can dock boats of about 500 tons." Engineer Rodriguez said to Francis, the company representative standing next to him, "This is very Hurry, a small dock can be built in less than a week. But the laboratory or something will be much slower. First of all, you have to clean up a large area of ​​rainforest. Cut down the trees and use DDT to eliminate mosquitoes in large quantities... …Oh, by the way, there seem to be indigenous people living on this island, right? While you are clearing the rainforest, I’m afraid they must also be cleaned up. Then it’s building houses, cisterns, hell, and installing electrical equipment... It’s crazy to install a completely independent power generation device on such a small island! In short, these infrastructure constructions may take half a year... Hell, what on earth are you going to study on this deserted island?"

This deserted island later became famous. Many years later, in various thrillers about the plague and something, this small island, which was later called the Red Island, appeared frequently. This is because the island has a laboratory with the longest history, the most advanced equipment, and the largest scale of dangerous bacteria and viruses in the world.

After decades, the laboratory was protected more tightly than the nuclear power plant. The rainforest on this island has basically disappeared, and all the ground is covered with thick concrete. The United States Marine Corps is stationed on the outskirts of the island. Twelve nautical miles around the island are designated as restricted areas. The laboratory building complex on the island is tightly covered by a thick reinforced concrete safety cover, like the safety shell of a nuclear power plant. The entire laboratory is completely isolated from the outside world. Even the air cannot flow freely. The air entering the laboratory has been sterilized for several rounds, and the air flowing out from here is even more so. They even have to be heated to 600. Celsius, and lasts for thirty seconds before it can be discharged from here. Everyone who enters this laboratory that looks like a huge tomb from the outside must also be carefully disinfected, and then put on a set of work clothes that are sealed like a spacesuit in a sterile environment. . Work clothes are completely integrated. Helmets, gloves, and masks cannot be opened by themselves. It is impossible for a person to put on or take off it by himself. It must be done with the help of others. This also avoids the possibility of virus infection due to personal misoperation. Any researcher, once entering this laboratory, is like entering space. He is completely separated from the world, and when he wants to leave here, it is even more troublesome than returning to Earth from space, because he has to stay in the quarantine for a long time to ensure that he will not take some of it The extremely dangerous virus is brought out. In this laboratory, there are preserved viruses such as smallpox, Ebola, Marburg, Hanta, Sala fever, rabies, dengue fever, and various influenza (including Spanish flu), as well as plague, anthrax, and tuberculosis. , Syphilis, Salmonella typhi, Staphylococcus sarcophagus and so on. Even in legends, there may be some super viruses or super germs artificially made through genetic engineering.

However, this is the situation many years later, and at this time, due to the limitation of the technology level and the difference in social pressure, the protective measures here simply cannot be compared with later generations. Scrooge chose to build his virus laboratory here, mainly because of the following points.

First of all, this is the Philippines. It is completely under the control of United States. What happens is easy to solve. Secondly, stay away from the crowd here, in case something does not cause a large-scale infection. In case of any infection, it is also in the Philippines, which is far away from the United States. It's not on the route here, it's relatively hidden. There is fresh water here and it is cheap to maintain. As for the various high-level anti-infection safety measures, there were really not many at that time.

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As Rodriguez expected, the dock was basically completed in less than a week. At the same time as the construction on the side of the pier, a group of black water mercenaries with as many as 150 people landed on the island. According to the legal contract signed by Scrooge and the United States government, the United States government sold the island to Scrooge. Now Scrooge is the only legal owner of the island. As for those who have occupied history illegally for a long time. For the natives of Gaozhi’s private island, Scrooge kindly decided not to charge them for lodging and the cost of hunting, fishing, and cutting trees in Scrooge’s private land, but now the island is going to come in handy. Of course, those illegal residents should honestly withdraw from Scrooge’s private realm. Isn’t this just a matter of course?

However, those savages lacked civilization. Scrooge has asked people to post notices on the coast ordering illegal residents to quit immediately (written in English, it doesn’t make any difference whether they are written in practical terms, because these natives have no words at all. ), which lasted for a full twenty-four hours, and then those illegal settlers still despised Scrooge's legitimate rights and interests, and refused to stop infringing Sacred's inviolable private property. Therefore, in desperation, Scrooge had to let the people of Heishui come to reason with the natives.

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