The vehicle first drove towards the company's headquarters in downtown Mumbai, where Li Yiru had already prepared a reception banquet. Zhang Heng did not refuse. Although his body was unresponsive, Thompson and Zhao Qing who were following him must have been tired from the journey. It was only right to let the three of them rest for a night.
The vehicle moved slowly on the bumpy road.
Looking from the car window, both sides of the suburban area are covered with yellow land, with occasional small shacks. There are almost no buildings or factories. It is not until we are almost entering the city that building-style buildings gradually appear.
After entering the urban area of Mumbai, Zhang Heng had only one feeling, and that was that it was dirty and messy!
There is no right or left distinction at all on urban roads. Buses, cars, tricycles, and motorcycles are crowded together, and they go wherever there is a gap. Zhang Heng even saw an ox cart on the road ahead!
Where the bullock cart passed by, rows of yellow-green cow dung were scattered evenly, and then were flattened by each cart, like a piece of straw cake stuck to the road.
Before he could recover, a large truck roared past with its deafening horn, almost grazing Zhang Heng's Mercedes-Benz.
Everyone in the car took a breath of air. Only Fang Hao, who was driving, kept smiling bitterly, "Boss, this is the style in India. You will get used to it if you walk around the streets more in the future."
Zhang Heng rubbed his ears calmly, and quickly closed the car window and turned on the air conditioner. He felt better. At least it was not as noisy as the environment outside the car. However, the car could still only move forward slowly at a walking speed, and often stopped. As we walked, there were cattle and sheep blocking the way.
The strangest thing is that Zhang Heng even saw a bus that was modified from a World War II Allied military vehicle, even the steel bars on the windows were still there. This is not amazing enough. What is amazing is that when the bus entered the platform, it did not stop. The passengers on it jumped out of the window. At the same time, those who wanted to get on the bus jogged for a while and then jumped on!
Zhang Heng and Thompson were stunned by the wonderful sights along the way. The two cars stumbled and finally entered the city center after more than an hour.
Compared to the fringes of the city, the city center is much more normal. The bright high-rise buildings and clean billboards give everyone a feeling of returning to the modern era from ancient times.
In the city center, the company rented an office building on one floor as its office in the city, responsible for serving customers. Next to the office building is a three-star hotel.
For convenience, Li Yiru set up a reception banquet here.
After getting off the bus in front of the hotel, Zhang Heng was shocked. He knew that there were slums on the edges of Indian cities, but he didn't expect that Mumbai was even more outrageous. The slums were directly crowded with the city center.
A large number of plastic sheds are piled up around the hotel and on the roadside with no buildings on both sides. Next to the hotel are piles of small workshops for plastic recycling, leather products, ceramics, etc. The pungent smell of curry rice and sewerage still lingers in the air.
"Zhang Heng, this way." Just when Zhang Heng was speechless and choked, Li Yiru's voice came from the front. Zhang Heng turned around and saw that Li Yiru was wearing a white T-shirt and a pair of t-shirts on his lower body. Wearing light blue jeans and not wearing much makeup, I guess in a place like this I can keep away from the local women by more than ten blocks without makeup.
Zhang Heng also smiled and waved to Li Yiru, making a casual joke, and everyone entered the hotel with the warm hospitality of the waiter in front of the door.
The hotel in the city center is magnificently renovated, with huge luxurious revolving doors, neatly dressed doormen, luxurious red carpets inside the doors, and magnificent chandeliers. It is like a world away from the filthiness of the outside world.
"Are you getting used to staying here for the past half month?" Several people were welcomed into the luxurious private room that had been reserved. Zhang Heng sat down first, and then everyone sat down one after another. Seeing Li Yiru naturally sitting next to him, Zhang Heng Heng asked casually.
"It's not bad." Li Yiru rolled his eyes at Zhang Heng, "Except for being a little uncomfortable at first, I'm more accustomed to it now."
"Oh?" Zhang Heng looked at Li Yiru in surprise.
In fact, within a few hours of arriving in India, he himself could no longer stand the environment here. He did not expect that the pampered Li Yiru would be better able to adapt to such a dirty and messy country than he was.
"Who is this? How come I haven't seen him before?" Suddenly, Li Yiru looked at Adam, who had been silent from beginning to end, and asked in a low voice.
"This is the security guard I hired in Singapore. He will be responsible for the security of the pharmaceutical factory in the future." Zhang Heng fooled him with a casual joke.
The meal passed by in a hurry. In fact, no one had a good meal, especially Zhang Heng. For the first time, he discovered that the so-called world-renowned Indian food was nonsense.
When Indians cook, curry is sweet, chicken, duck and fish are also sweet, and vegetables are still sweet. When he finally finished eating and drank tea, he realized that even the tea was sweet...
Fortunately, this was the Grand Indian Hotel, otherwise Zhang Heng would have thought he was in the land of sweethearts.
After that, Zhang Heng dismissed everyone and asked them to rest in the hotel for the time being, while he, Li Yiru, Fang Hao, and Adam drove towards the pharmaceutical factory in the suburbs.
Along the way, Zhang Heng saw the magnificence of India. Villas or small buildings were surrounded by walls, with green grass and shady trees. The owners in colorful clothes occasionally came out for a walk, lazily enjoying the sunshine. But what is more important is the squalor and poverty in India. This is a country where the gap between rich and poor is even wider than that in China.
If there are too many poor people, the whole country will appear poor.
Finally, the car drove into a place that resembled a vegetable market. Because it was time to get off work in the afternoon, both sides of the entire street were occupied by stalls. Countless Indian women were wearing the legendary "sari" and swinging slowly in front of the car. Even honking the horn to death had no effect.
The so-called sari is actually a very long piece of cloth wrapped around and around from top to bottom, and the top and bottom are tightly wrapped. The belly part is not wrapped, and the circles of dark and fat meat are swaying in front of the car window. To and fro.
That's fine with Li Yiru and Adam. Li Yiru is a woman and has no feelings about this kind of scene, and Adam, as a new clone, has no idea about this aspect either.
Only Zhang Heng and Fang Hao had to look away and closed their eyes to rest...
Adam was not attracted by the scenery around him from beginning to end. He seemed to be separated from the world. Nothing or conversation could attract his attention. He stared straight ahead with an expressionless face as always.
However, at this moment, a slight knock on the window completely attracted Adam's attention.
I saw a little Indian girl, about seven or eight years old, standing weakly outside the car window, tapping on the car window.
The little girl had a sallow complexion and was only wearing a T-shirt that was so dirty that the color could not be seen. She was holding a ceramic bowl with a corner missing in her hand. She was looking at Adam blankly, her two eyes expressionless. There is no trace of desire for life in the big eyes.
Adam's pupils shrank, he didn't know what he thought of, but he unexpectedly lowered the glass window, took out a hundred dollar bill from his bag, and was about to put it into the little girl's bowl.
"I wouldn't do this if I were you." But at this moment, Li Yiru, who was sitting in the driver's seat, suddenly spoke.
Adam's hand suddenly trembled, and he quickly closed the window again, and then looked forward again, with no expression on his face from beginning to end.
"Boss Li, why..." Fang Hao on the side asked immediately.
"Many women in India make a living by begging. Look at the roadside. If you give them one, you won't be able to leave until your wallet is completely empty." Li Yiru pointed to dozens of people on both sides of the road. The begging team of hundreds of people said calmly.
Fang Hao sighed and said nothing more.
Zhang Heng half-squinted his eyes, taking in all Adam's expressions, and then closed his eyes again.
It wasn't until more than two hours later, when the sky was getting dark, that the car finally left the city and started driving in the suburbs.
He hadn't noticed it before when he went from the airport to the city. Only then did Zhang Heng realize that the roads in the suburbs were not as bad as usual. The bumpy cement roads had not been repaired for an unknown period of time, and there were still puddles of things that were either feces or sludge lying on the road. The ground stretches endlessly to the end of the road.
It was not until around 8 pm that the group of four finally arrived at the pharmaceutical factory.
The laboratory building and office building of the pharmaceutical factory are brightly lit. It seems that because they know that the boss is coming to inspect, work does not stop even at night.
Li Yiru opened the car door, pointed to the brightly lit scientific research building in front of him and said skillfully, "The pharmaceutical factory I acquired has a dedicated research center and a large well-equipped laboratory. The pharmaceutical factory supports a hundred scientific researchers and There are two hundred and thirty-three factory employees. I have calculated the abilities of these people. Except for four European and American scientific researchers, the rest are barely up to standard. "
"The building on your left is a company apartment, which can accommodate three hundred people. The large blue steel building in the front is the factory. There are five assembly lines in the pharmaceutical workshop, ranging from production to packaging. ”
"What kind of medicine does this pharmaceutical factory originally manufacture?" Zhang Heng was a little curious.
"Generic anti-cancer drug Iressa."
Zhang Heng was stunned. He did not expect that the pharmaceutical factory he acquired would be such a famous drug. But it is not surprising. Now the whole world is in an uproar because of T-1. When T-1 is launched, these anti-cancer drug factories will Facing transformation and discontinuation.
Li Yiru stepped out of the car, holding his black hair blown by the cool breeze, and suddenly said quietly, "In addition to the 200 million U.S. dollars, you also spent 500 million U.S. dollars to purchase a large number of medical precision instruments in Singapore, and invested in India. The funds can already buy half of my family’s group. I’m curious about what you want to do.”
"Cryonics, I told you."
"No, I'm not asking about what's on the table, but about your real purpose." Li Yiru turned his head and glanced at Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng frowned and wanted to be tougher, but finally sighed, "Of course, besides this, there are other reasons, but I can't tell you now."
"Okay, I'll wait for the day when you can tell me." Li Yiru said quietly.
"Wait until the day I think is appropriate." Zhang Heng said seriously without avoiding Li Yiru's gaze.
He knew that he was a little sorry for Li Yiru, who had silently dedicated himself to him, but this kind of thing was related to his own survival, so he had to be cautious.
What's more, there is really no chance for him and Li Yiru.
Unless a biochip was also implanted in Li Yiru's brain, he could safely reveal his true purpose, but he was unwilling to do so.
Since he doesn't want to hurt Li Yiru, he can only carefully protect his plan from being leaked until the day when the company's strength can challenge the superpowers and even control the global financial system. At that time, the plan will not be leaked. There's no point anymore.