Chapter 49, No Choice
Although the Takagi couple understood from a professional perspective the sky-high price of 280 billion yen demanded by Doraemon to develop and customize a zombie virus vaccine, Miss Saya Takagi dismissed it from a comic perspective. question.
"...Dad! Mom! Perhaps with today's science and technology, it does require so much money to develop a vaccine, but with the 22nd century technology level of people from other worlds, why do they still need so much money? Obviously there is even such a thing as an [automatic medical kit]..."
"...I also mentioned this issue to Doraemon."
Soichiro Takagi replied with a straight face as usual, "...he replied that in the parallel world of the future, although technology is advancing rapidly, prices have also soared horribly due to inflation. The degree of depreciation of the Japanese yen in the future will be The disparity is just like before the war and after the war. Nobi Nobita once ordered a box of high-end candies from the future world, but was charged a sky-high price of two million yen, and almost had to sell his kidney to pay off the debt..."
"...Uh...there seems to be something like this in the comics..."
Saya Takagi bit her fingers and her eyes wandered, "...But this is all their one-sided words. Who knows if it is true..."
Seeing that her daughter was still so clueless, Takagi Yuriko had no choice but to reach out her hand and flick her little head.
"...At this time, don't you understand? Shaye! It doesn't matter whether they told the truth or whether a lion opened his mouth! The important thing is that we have no choice at all! In today's world where the dead eat the living In the apocalypse, even if we sit with gold and treasures as high as mountains, Can stones be exchanged for food, weapons, and transportation? Can we save our lives under the siege of zombies? Not to mention a special medicine that can treat zombie virus infections—something that even the President of the United States cannot get! Unless he is also one of the members behind the scenes...
And all of this, those people from another world can provide! Not to mention some external things that we can't keep in the first place, even if it's a bigger price, we have to grit our teeth and agree. This is not a business negotiation where you come and go, but a matter where you have no choice at all!
So, Saya, please don’t show your temper in front of them anymore. This is tantamount to making fun of all of our lives..."
——In fact, some time-travelers were very dissatisfied with Doraemon's honest price of 280 billion yen as soon as he opened his mouth.
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"...Xiao Qiuqiu, how could you let that solid-headed Doraemon quote the lowest price right from the beginning?"
In the courtyard of the Gaocheng family's residence, in an empty corner, the rotten girl Ma Tong was speaking to Wang Qiu unceremoniously in a tone that said she hated iron, "...how can there be such a business in this world?" Don’t you even know how to deceive people? Even I, who have only sold toilets in the ceramics market, know that the most important thing in this kind of business is to put a bait first, and then apply it layer by layer. Overweight!
Still don’t understand what I mean? oops! You can tell them: The development of a vaccine is a very professional issue, and it is not clear at the moment. If it is better, a few billion yen may be enough, but if the virus is more stubborn, it may be necessary. It’s hard to say how many trillions there are. As for these specific data, pharmaceutical companies need to conduct more detailed analysis, but you should also be mentally prepared for the worst. Because the delivery time you require is so urgent, it indirectly limits the other party's development time, and they will inevitably open their mouths. Twenty-eight billion yen is just an estimate. The specific amount depends on whether the specific research process of the vaccine goes smoothly... Then, you can continue to increase the price and increase the price during the implementation process, and exploit them until they die from overwork. ! As far as I know, doctors in every hospital are basically good at this. ”
While she was talking eloquently, she made a gesture of "getting better step by step", "...Don't you know how to learn a little bit?"
Wang Qiu was almost embarrassed when she heard this, "...Sister Ma Tong, your idea is good, but you must also consider the other party's actual endurance! First of all, a person like Doraemon who is extremely kind-hearted and has extremely high integrity , A very thin-skinned guy, if he can really get into trouble and get into money and want to make a fortune, just I'm afraid he is already extremely wealthy! He is now forced to lose his moral integrity by the huge debt, and it is already very uncomfortable for him. If he is allowed to further rob the survivors of this zombie apocalypse... Well, if he can do this. In this case, he is no longer Doraemon!
Secondly, you also know that the yen banknotes in this world are like waste paper to Doraemon in another world. Therefore, the 280 billion yen we want to search this time means that we will search for 280 billion yen worth of physical objects in this city! In other words, it is equivalent to making up 30,000 high-end sports cars or more than 300 Boeing passenger planes! It cannot be like the Yankees playing "quantitative easing". Just operate it on the computer and conjure up hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars like magic! If our asking price is too harsh, we may turn these people from hope of escaping from the apocalypse back to despair, and even do something self-destructive. Therefore, we can plunder 280 billion days from this world. Yuan, it’s already very difficult, it’s better not to be greedy...”
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All in all, after a morning of rummaging around, Takagi Souichiro had stuffed his Ferrari sports car into the [automatic pawn machine], Takagi Yuriko also donated her fitness equipment and jacuzzi, and Takagi Saya took out Her childhood clothes, and members of the "Concerned for the Country" also vandalized everywhere, even tearing down the bronze statue in the courtyard... but the money they finally scraped together was still a drop in the bucket.
There is no way, even though the Takagi family was once a noble descendant of the feudal lord Daimyo's family, the family does not open a treasury after all - in fact, the wealth of the rich and powerful people in the modern world is mainly reflected in their bank accounts and safes. What is inside is no longer gold bars and silver ingots, but check books, bank account certificates and business contracts. Very few people would dig a cellar in their mansion to bury large sums of gold, silver and jewelry like the wealthy locals in ancient times! For example, as we all know, Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States, but if you take someone to raid his villa, then except for the real estate of the house itself, even if you take all the things found from the house as second-hand goods In the market, even if you want to sell for 100 million US dollars, it will be difficult!
Fortunately, the Takagi family is a descendant of a famous family. In order to pay attention to the necessary ostentation, they have collected many antiques and gold and silver crafts from the shogunate era at home. In addition, Mrs. Yuriko Takagi is also a person who pursues trends, enjoys life, and likes luxury. She has bought a lot of various Parisian fashions and imported perfumes, so she can finally take out a lot of things to stuff into the [automatic pawn machine]... But compared to the astronomical figure of 280 billion, it is still far from enough.
"...Except for the most basic necessities of life, we have pawned all the extra things and raised a total of 500 million yen."
Standing in the living room that was as empty as locusts passing through, Mrs. Yuriko Takagi ordered someone to push out two large boxes full of banknotes on a trolley, and said to Doraemon and others with a sad face, "...if it were before the world collapsed. , with my connections and capital on Wall Street in the United States, if I want to temporarily borrow 280 billion yen, which is 2.8 billion U.S. dollars, I should not Not difficult. But now the whole world is being engulfed by zombies, and the bank assets of my Gaocheng family have been wiped out... So, the amount of money I can collect is the limit now. I wonder if you have anything cheaper. How to fight against today’s zombie virus? For example... buy more [automatic medical kits]?”
——Small note: Mrs. Yuriko Takagi was once a famous financial CEO who made waves on Wall Street in the United States. After marrying Soichiro Takagi, it is said that the assets of the Takagi family increased by a hundred times... It is a pity that all the money was used for speculation in the financial futures market. Disasters As soon as it arrived, it was instantly in vain.
Wang Qiu, who was already mentally prepared for this, winked at Doraemon to tell him to calm down, and casually teased Yuriko Takagi without a blushing face, "...This...it's okay. La! But Mrs. Gao Cheng, you also know that there are such things as banknotes. They are always depreciating. The price level in the 22nd century is definitely incomparable with this era, so even [automatic medical kits] cost 50 million yen each over there, which is about Treated 30 zombie virus infections..."
——Although this price is a complete lie with open eyes, Mrs. Yuriko Takagi can't chase Doraemon to check the account, can she?
"...In other words, this money is only enough to buy ten [automatic medical kits]? It feels a little not enough!"
Yuriko Takagi bit her lips and wrinkled her beautiful slender eyebrows, "... Are there any cheaper alternatives? Wang Jun?"
"...Is it even cheaper? Well, it seems to be possible!" Wang Qiu stretched out his hand and scratched his hair, tilted his head and thought for a while, then seemed to suddenly realize, he raised his hand and took out a green stick from his pocket. The test tube, "...Madam, please look, this is Doraemon and I raiding During the Hive Research Institute, the anti-viral serum of the T-virus, the trophy stolen from Umbrella Corporation, can be effective as long as it is injected into the infected person, and can be produced in large quantities using Doraemon's [Replication Mirror]. There is almost no cost..."
After hearing this, Mrs. Yuriko Gaocheng's eyes suddenly lit up... Unexpectedly, Wang Qiu changed the subject again:
"...but it only has a clinical cure rate of 90%, and there is a 10% chance of dying or turning into a zombie..."
Then, Mrs. Yuriko Takagi's eyes dimmed at the same speed. ——Who would be willing to gamble with his life on a 90% survival rate when there are safer options?