Rust - Chapter 197



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RUST -197

Detroit

The Ojin group was definitely weird.

What company uses composite gloves for their interiors?

Is there any chance that a bomb would be set off in the chairman’s office or conference room?

“Samantha. Have you secured control of the Ojin Building?”

[90% secured. Stopped.]

Why this again?

It went up to 80% quickly. After 80%, it took a while, and after 90%, it didn’t make any progress at all.

“Samantha. Please organize and upload all the materials related to the Ojin Group. Articles, and even the materials currently on the connected server.”

Feeling like things were going a little differently, Hood started to dig into the Ojin group.

It started out as just an ordinary pharmaceutical company, a small factory that was embarrassing to even call a pharmaceutical company. It was a small company that received subcontracts from other companies and produced generic drugs whose patents had expired.

A small company suddenly announced a new drug. A drug with the abbreviation BH. The drug, which showed remarkable effects on depression, quickly became a blockbuster drug with a market share of more than 50% in the depression medication market.

The growth of Ojin Pharmaceutical, which grew into a mid-sized pharmaceutical company in an instant, was unstoppable.

however···

[Controversy over the narcotic nature of Ojin Pharmaceutical’s antidepressant]

[How did addictive drugs pass the review?]

[Ojin Pharmaceutical stock price plummets]

[···National Tax Service Search and Seizure of Ojin Pharmaceutical]

[Small investors at a loss due to trading suspension of Ojin Pharmaceutical.]

[Developers investigated for drug controversy]

[Developer with a 13-year-old daughter? A shameless CEO who uses a minor as a shield]

[13-year-old girl’s patent controversy. Japan’s Takaichi Shinyaku. Patent infringement lawsuit.]

[Will Ojin Pharmaceutical collapse like this due to the controversy over narcotics and patent infringement?]

[World Group. Ojin Pharmaceuticals acquisition proposal.]

[Will World Group Become Ojin Pharmaceutical’s Savior?]

[World Group Manager. ‘Ojin Pharmaceutical’s technology is world-class. Even excluding the controversial antidepressant, it has sufficient future value.’ Will the trading suspension be lifted?]

[Ojin Pharmaceutical World Group’s acquisition offer rejected. World Group swap deal is also possible. We will open up all possibilities for the future and have an open and honest discussion.]

[Patent controversy Japan’s Takaichi Shinyaku jumps into the Ojin Pharmaceutical acquisition battle. China’s Shaojin Group makes a huge investment offer to Ojin Pharmaceutical.]

[Courtship pouring in from all over the world. What is the future of Ojin Pharmaceutical?]

Hood just skimmed through the main articles. Because it was a pharmaceutical company, there were papers and patents floating around that were hard to understand. Among them, there was the occasional content. 13 or 14 years old. If it was 13-14, wouldn’t it be 6th grade of elementary school to 1st grade of middle school?

‘Are you a genius enough to design a drug?’

Even though Korea is stuck between China and Japan, if a 13-14 year old kid was a genius, it would have been known worldwide. Is the chairman trying to protect the real developer by using tricks?

After the news that the takeover battle was intensifying, all news articles about Ojin Pharmaceutical suddenly disappeared from all media. The results of the tax investigation were not released, and no results were released after the trading suspension. Trading was simply lifted a long time later. The stock price also steadily rose without a surge.

The Japanese pharmaceutical company that jumped into the takeover battle and the Chinese pharmaceutical company that proposed a large-scale investment also disappeared without a trace.

There was a major investment from the World Group. It was an investment, not an acquisition.

Based on the huge investment, Ojin Pharmaceutical began to rapidly increase its subsidiaries. It created 10 subsidiaries, including Ojin Medical Device, Ojin Trading, Ojin Biotech, Ojin FNC, and Ojin Chemical, and established a group. This was the beginning of the Ojin Group.

It took only 7 years for the company to grow from a factory-level company that produced generic drugs and subcontracted production to a group company. If a company had grown at such a rapid pace, it should have been internationally famous. But it wasn’t.

‘This is strange.’

Bad smell. This is what you get when you are connected to power or the underworld. I could tell because I was looking for something like this and I had a leash on me. The Ojin Group was definitely not a normal company.

Is this also a coincidence?

The pharmaceutical company that World Group had was acquired by Ojin Group, and the distribution company that Ojin Group had acquired was handed over to World. It was as if they were dividing the labor between the two.

Although the World Group is several times larger, it seems to be pushing misdiagnosis in the fields of biomedicine, health supplements, and health food. Is this possible in a cold capitalist market economy?

Why on earth?

Tata dadadak – the keyboard sounds got faster and faster.

oh my god.

The hands that were typing on the keyboard froze. Hood held his breath without realizing it. The honeymoon between World Group and Ojin Group was not a simple division of labor.

If you spray medicine, we will spray our medicine on you.

If you guys disguise yourself as foreign workers and cause trouble, we will also disguise ourselves and come in and turn it over.

Organization for organization. Crime for crime. Bullshit for bullshit. Blood for blood.

‘So you sell medicine in World and make it in Ojin?’

Japan and China have been poisoning Korea and are taking revenge on the world? Aren’t they crazy? If this continues, aren’t we going to kill each other?

‘ah?’

Hood understood. What should one do when expressing regret or protesting strongly is of no use?

The United States was also suffering from drugs coming from China and South America. In particular, cheap drugs coming from China were extremely dangerous.

Unlike cocaine and methamphetamine, which cost between $70 and $100 per gram, Chinese drugs can be purchased for less than $10 per gram. The price was quickly spread as if it was a steal, and it was a very dangerous drug because it was cheap.

When the US protested to China, China responded, “We are a country that executes drug offenders immediately,” and “What can we do with criminals doing that?” They do this to the US, so why would it be any different if Korea protests?

Japan was the same. They started to attack Korea with the yakuza as their main focus. Private money? Moneylending, entertainment, and drug distribution. The yakuza, with their strong cash mobilization power, began to absorb Korean crime syndicates or use them as subcontractors.

The number of drug dealers is increasing like mushrooms, as if two more sprout when one is cut off. They need to be severely punished, but neither the legislation, the judiciary, nor the administration are keeping up. The situation is one where only victims are emerging.

Someone must have said, ‘Rather than getting beaten up like this, let’s just let those bastards do what they want.’

That’s what the World Group and the Ojin Group did.

‘Ha- this-‘

Hood shook his head. But how did your friend end up with those guys?

‘huh?’

A face that passed by briefly between various articles and photos.

“Samantha, the Madou Middle School from earlier? That photo and article. Again. Details.”

[Genius girl enters Madou Middle School.]

[10-year-old girl enters middle school, causing a stir. Legally, there are no problems.]

[Early Admission and Graduation: Is This the Right Method for Gifted Education?]

[Madou Middle School Graduation Ceremony.]

“Stop. There. Graduation photo.”

A graduation photo appeared on the screen. In the center was a young female student. Her face gave off a sense of emptiness. Should I say it was fleeting? Should I say it was blurry? Even in the photo, she seemed like a strange child.

“Na-ju-hyeon-”

Is this Ojin’s only daughter? And a familiar face in the corner. She looks young, but it’s certain.

“Employer?”

No, why is the employer there? Next to him was a face that I could memorize because I’ve been tracking it these days.

“Green Sun?”

Huh? What is this? Why are we all gathered here? Hood was momentarily confused.

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Shusuk-

A wrist that fell flat on the table.

Blood gushed from his neatly severed arm as he clutched a glass of whiskey.

The silence was even more eerie because there were no groans or screams of pain. Chairman Naojin nonchalantly lifted the glass of whiskey with his other arm and poured it into his mouth.

nice-

Maru was quite surprised by Chairman Na’s appearance, which was neither fearful nor surprised.

‘Is it the medicine? The narcotic painkillers?’

Even if he was taking narcotic painkillers, would he be able to do that when his own arm was cut off? A normal person couldn’t do that.

‘You’re crazy.’

It was clear that he was not in his right mind. Maru looked at Chairman Na’s arm, where blood was flowing out. It was a useless stabbing. If Chairman Na lost consciousness or died from excessive bleeding, it would be meaningless.

Maru took a wide can out of his pocket. He took out the latest hemostatic agent that he had obtained from an American soldier rescued from Japan, a hemostatic agent that was said to close wounds almost as well as instant adhesive.

As he approached with the styptic, Chairman Naojin grabbed Maru’s shoulder and pulled him closer, speaking in a small voice.

“Stop doing useless things. Kill me.”

“······.”

“If I live, do you think I would just leave your family alone?”

“······.”

Chairman Na’s voice continued to ring in Maru’s ear as he silently applied the styptic.

“I must avenge my friend.”

!!!

“plural?”

“Yes. I need revenge. So kill him.”

Chairman Naojin grabbed his shoulder and spoke softly as if whispering. The styptic stopped the bleeding in an instant. Amazingly. However, no one paid any attention to the styptic or the wound.

“Why do you want to kill me?”

Maru asked Chairman Na. He suddenly said that he would kill his family and that he would take revenge for Gi-sun and told him to kill him.

If you want to die so badly, why not just kill yourself? But you were trying to die by Maru’s hand. Why? That was the catch.

I laughed bitterly at the chairman.

“Your house corner···. You···.”

After my daughter entered Madong Middle School, one day she suddenly started begging to move. She wanted to move to a single-family home complex where the wealthy live.

Luckily, there was a property for sale. The house that had been devastated by the family tragedy.

‘I don’t like it. It’s not like someone just died in an accident, it’s a house where a murder occurred. The apartment here is nice, so why are you moving all of a sudden?’

‘Joohyun said she likes that house. She said it’s 30% cheaper than the market price. You know that there aren’t many properties for sale in that area, right?’

The move fell through due to my wife’s opposition. Then one day, my wife agreed to the move. It was strange to see her with a blank expression on her face as she suggested moving, but when I saw my daughter who was happy, I thought that was why.

That was the beginning.

After the move, his wife became very depressed.

‘What’s going on?’

‘no.’

‘Tell me. What’s going on?’

‘That’s what Mr. Ha from the house across the street said.’

‘Yes, Mr. Ha.’

‘Is this a family whose business is doing that well?’

‘Well, it’s famous as a mid-sized company. They say its technology is good. Why is business suddenly going so well?’

‘It’s just like that.’

When he came to a town that seemed out of place for a small pharmaceutical company president, Naojin became angry.

Although I didn’t have much money because I moved, I gave my wife a pretty famous designer bag as a gift. Seeing her happy made me feel good for a moment.

I got a bag, but I didn’t have any clothes that fit it. So I bought some clothes.

I have clothes and a bag, but I didn’t have any suitable shoes, so I bought some too.

And it’s embarrassing to wear, carry, and put on the same thing every time.

‘I think you’ve been writing too much lately. You weren’t like this before.’

‘Is that neighborhood the same as here? I’m talking about the house in front. They said they remodeled the kitchen with Italian marble, and the kitchen was really…’

So I went to find the company that renovated the kitchen in the house across the street.

‘···The dining table costs 50 million won?’

‘It’s reasonably priced, isn’t it? It’s cheaper than the bags that women carry around these days, and it’s a really good product.’

Naojin thought this wasn’t it. He was the president of a small pharmaceutical company, but he didn’t think he was short on money. He didn’t think that earning 1,000 to 2,000 a month was small. But this neighborhood was different.

As my wife spent more time with the kind landlady next door, her depression gradually worsened.

Then one day, my daughter sent me an email.

It was an unexpected story that she thought of medicine for her mother. Her daughter was known as a genius, and so she entered middle school three years early, but the medicine was a completely different matter.

But the content in the email was true. The name of the medicine that the daughter had made was Be Happy. It was a medicine that she had made because she wanted her mother to be happy.

This antidepressant became Ojin Pharmaceutical’s biggest hit. The drug, whose product name is Felix, which means happy in Latin, quickly took over the market.

In this way, he was able to handle his wife’s spending. His wife, who had regained her confidence, started attending various gatherings, but Naojin was not worried. His wife was his first love since high school.

It didn’t take long for that belief to be shattered.