Urban Sims

Much of the love in this world has nothing to do with interests.

But more than 90% of all hatred is related to interests.

If the degree is judged based on the proportion of profit loss, it may correspond to situations similar to the following:

10% loss of interests: hate

20% loss of interests: great hatred

30% loss of interests: extremely hateful

40% loss of interests: hatred that wants to kill people

50% loss of interests: the hatred that wants to kill your whole family

More than 50%: No need to say more, it’s just life and death

This is the saying that taking people's money is equivalent to killing their parents.

As the largest and most well-established medical group in Area 52, the Yuanyue Alliance has not been very interested in it since the beginning. Those so-called delicacies are just an energy supplement that deceives people's taste senses and have no value.

It is these worthless things that caused the overall profits of the medical group to drop by 10% in just 10 years.

After the Machine Alliance was defeated, the Yuanyue Alliance launched the "Life Extension Food Package", which brought a heavy blow to the medical group's "mid-term life extension" medical project that produced the most benefits. A large number of customers disappeared like a reservoir flood. It is expected that The profit loss is close to 50%.

At this time, Zhou Ming should have felt a sense of danger. Maybe there would be another batch of killers trying to take his life to warn or attack the Yuanyue Group.

However, the so-called killer did not come, and a sudden and without warning influenza came first.

This kind of influenza is highly contagious and spreads through air, water, daily contact and other channels. Like a plague, as long as one person is sick with this kind of influenza, the whole family will be infected soon.

One city, two cities...a hundred cities...all the cities

I don’t know if it was the result of human factors, but within three to five days, this flu was prevalent in all the cities in Area 52.

In just one week, more than 80 million people fell ill with this flu.

But the strange thing is that although there are many infections, the number of deaths due to influenza: 0.

You don't even need to go to the hospital to see a doctor or buy medicine, because this kind of flu is not fatal. Even if you are infected, you will only have a low fever for two days, and at most a headache. In a few days, you will recover automatically, without the need for injections and medicine.

This is a low-fatality viral flu, but...

"Why do I have no sense of taste? Why can't I taste anything?"

"Recently, I feel that the taste of food is getting weaker and weaker. I added a little more salt, but it still feels bland. This morning, I put a spoonful of salt directly into my mouth. Oh my God! My tongue is broken. I can’t taste the salt anymore.”

"It's the same for me. Recently, everything I eat is like drinking boiled water. I thought there was something wrong with my body, so I went to the hospital for a checkup. The doctor said that I had lost my taste function!"

"What can I do! My whole family has lost their taste. Even my mother's cooking skills can't be tasted by herself."

"According to the survey statistics of Ray Time TV: So far, the number of people suffering from 'odorless syndrome' in Area 52 has exceeded 80 million. This symptom is caused by the PXY-A virus influenza that was popular some time ago. This virus will not cause death, but it will damage the nerve cells in the taste area of ​​the brain, resulting in the loss of taste and the perception of all tastes... This new type of virus is called the 'tasteless virus'."

"The Tasteless Virus is still spreading. It is estimated that 120 to 150 million people in Area 52 will be infected with the virus. The virus has spread to every corner and can still survive for 20 years under natural conditions, so the virus will spread for a long time. Time will eventually cause more than 90% of people to lose their sense of taste, and going to Yuanyue Restaurant to enjoy delicious food will become a luxury for a few people."

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"Despicable, shameless! Bastard!"

The remote control in his hand was thrown against the wall, smashing it into pieces. Zhou Ming was jumping on his feet and cursing in the living room.

He knew that the medical group whose interests had been harmed would take action against him, but he did not expect that the other party would use such vicious methods to directly release the virus, wipe out people's sense of taste, drain money from the bottom of the cauldron, and completely cut off people's dependence on delicious food.

Obviously, their plan was successful, extremely successful!

The business of restaurants and hotels at all levels in the Yuanyue Alliance has plummeted.

Especially for mid-to-high-end customers, the retention rate is less than 10%.

Even the chefs infected with the Tasteless Virus have gone from creating delicious food to "tasteless people" who don't know what delicious food is.

Countless talented chefs seem to have had the most important pillar removed from their bodies. Some collapsed and committed suicide, some were unable to recover, and some were discouraged and left the industry forever.

Yuanyue Academy, which had tens of thousands of teachers and students, was scattered and dispersed, with less than a thousand people remaining.

An atmosphere of pessimism and despair enveloped the entire culinary world.

The Yuanyue Alliance, which was established 25 years ago, has encountered the most devastating crisis since its establishment - the Crisis of the Tasteless.

During this crisis, which had the most serious impact, when almost everyone had lost their fighting spirit and confidence, one man stood up and used his speech to inject the last glimmer of hope into all those who had faith.

God of the Far Moon!

On the stage, he roared at everyone:

"Are you just going to admit defeat? Are you just giving up? A bunch of cowards, a bunch of bastards! Is this war going to end before someone is going to surrender?"

"I'm telling you! As long as humans still need food, as long as people still need to eat, this war is far from over!"

"Indeed, we are chefs, and the value of a chef is the sense of taste, but without the sense of taste, you can't live? Have you forgotten that you still have a heart for cooking? A heart for cooking that is hotter than the sun? This heart Have you lost your heart? Has it dimmed?"

"To tell you the truth, I have also been infected with the tasteless virus. Like you, I have lost most of my sense of taste. But am I desperate? Do you think I'm broken?"

"On the contrary, I think this is an opportunity to make a delicious dish that people can taste without relying on the sense of taste and only relying on a cooking heart. This realm is what I call ' I have never reached this supreme state of tasteless taste, but I believe that someone here can definitely reach this state, as long as his cooking heart is still emitting light and heat."

"The tasteless virus is not terrible. As long as the taste memory genes in human genes have not been eliminated by those despicable dark forces, every newborn baby is a new hope. We must protect these hopes! And look for them! The way to fight against the tasteless virus and restore your sense of taste! Sitting and waiting for death is useless, but facing up to the difficulties is the real hero!"

"Everyone, I am 61 years old and can still fight for 50 years. Most of you are younger than me. Is anyone willing to stand up and join me in this battle?"

As soon as the words fell, there was a roar, and everyone in the audience stood up, with a captivating fighting spirit released from their sparkling eyes.

As a result, it was a difficult battle similar to a Jedi counterattack. Since the speech known as "the speech that rekindled the last fire in the dark night" in the history of culinary development, in the following 30 years, people who have united together have The Yuanyue Alliance and the Area 52 Medical Group launched a comprehensive confrontation with great disparity in strength but tenacity.

First of all, what Zhou Ming wants to protect is the Yuanyue Alliance's basic market - the catering market. In order to prevent the Machine Alliance from making a comeback, the Yuanyue Alliance took the initiative to lower the price. In a short period of time, it also developed a variety of products suitable for " Foods that are tasted by "tasteless" people. These foods are low-priced and have a smooth and refreshing taste. After entering the gastrointestinal tract, they can make the gastrointestinal feel very comfortable and make tasteless diners feel that in addition to the taste, these foods have From now on, you will feel comfortable in other aspects.

After taking various measures and maintaining its fundamentals, Yuanyue Alliance invested nearly 100,000 yuan to fully enter the medical field. Under the financial offensive, it purchased a large number of advanced medical equipment, recruited a large number of outstanding medical talents, and poached many large hospitals by any means. In just five years, they successfully developed the PXY-A virus prevention and treatment vaccine, which was given free of charge to all people who still have a sense of taste, and a "Taste Restoration Laboratory" was established to study how to restore the lost sense of taste. The palate of tasters.

It may be because the technical reserves are too weak. The Taste Restoration Research Laboratory has spent more than 30 years and countless resources, but there is still no way to repair the damaged taste cells in the brains of people with taste loss. Instead, it has developed a bunch of by-products, such as "Supernatural tongue", "supernatural nose", etc., have many benefits for chefs who have a sense of taste, but they are still useless for those who have lost their taste.

Secondly, in addition to researching vaccines and repairing damaged taste cells, the most important research project of the hospital called "Biotechnology" founded by Zhou Ming is medical life extension, because medical life extension is the most important focus of the medical groups in District 52. For profit-making projects, if "Biotechnology" makes a breakthrough in this area, it will be equivalent to removing the salary from the bottom of the cauldron and killing those medical groups.

Or because it entered the medical field too late and had a serious lack of technical reserves, it took 30 years for "vital technology" to achieve only a small number of results.

However, even if only a small amount of results have been achieved, the medical life extension package launched by "Biotech" can still achieve the effect of extending life by 20 years.

But the key thing is that the cost and price of this life extension package are extremely low. You can buy it for only 20 gold.

What’s even more shocking is that for this life extension package, Biotechnology also accepts credit point orders. As long as you spend 8 million credit points, you can also enjoy life extension treatment.

This really digs into the roots of those medical groups. Although the medical technology that extends life by 20 years is just outdated junk technology in the eyes of these hospitals, it is still cheap, 20 gold, or 8 million credits. More than half of the families in Area 52 can afford it.

As for their target customers, those middle-to-high-income customers who need to spend more than 100 yuan to achieve mid-term life extension, now they can spend 100 yuan and go to Biotech Hospital, and the whole family can get life extension treatment, and it is extremely cost-effective. On average, 1 coin has a purchase life of 1 year.

Credit points are also accepted for payment…

Wow!

More than 30% of the customers of various medical groups in District 52 were snatched away at once.

Faced with this severe situation, these medical groups had no choice but to discuss countermeasures and then directed their attack firepower from the Yuanyue Alliance to "Vital Technology".

As a result, all kinds of viral influenza that make people lose their sense of taste gradually disappeared, and the number of people with a sense of taste began to slowly increase. In this battle against the medical group, the Yuanyue Alliance, which has been watching hard in the dark for more than thirty years, Finally saw the dawn of victory.

However, "Biotechnology", which has been established for a short time and has barely gained a foothold in the medical field by virtue of its low price advantage, can it continue to gain a firm foothold in the medical industry surrounded by wolves and tigers?

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