The Gustav Group, through unscrupulous means, obtained a drug called the Elixir of Life, and subsequently launched it onto the market.
While the drug's efficacy was astonishing, its price was equally staggering.
Each patient required six injections annually, one every two months, with each injection costing ten million US dollars.
This meant that a single person would spend sixty million US dollars for a year's worth of the drug – a sum comparable to the price of a third-generation fighter jet.
However, the world was replete with wealthy individuals. For those who could afford sixty million US dollars annually to improve their quality of life and extend their lifespan by a few months, the expenditure was deemed worthwhile.
Unfortunately, the materials required for producing this drug were extremely expensive, and the entire production cycle spanned five months, resulting in a prohibitively high production cost.
Even with the Gustav Pharmaceutical Group operating at full capacity, they could only produce enough for 200 to 300 individuals per year.
Furthermore, a portion of these supplies was used by the Gustav Group as gifts to influential elderly figures to maintain relationships.
Consequently, this drug not only generated billions of US dollars in annual profit for the Gustav Group but also played a crucial role in their network maintenance.
This led to a highly compressed production and supply cycle. As soon as a new batch of the drug was produced, it was immediately dispatched to prominent figures worldwide.
The Gustav Pharmaceutical Group had also established a vast production system to supply the various raw materials for this drug.
Ling Tian's presence here was due to intelligence obtained from the Misty Rain Pavilion, indicating that the latest batch of the drug would be produced within the next day or two, after which it would undergo packaging and testing before being released for sale.
Acquiring such intelligence was not difficult; the Misty Rain Pavilion could deduce it simply by analyzing the drug's sales figures.
Ling Tian activated his Heavenly Eye divine ability, his spiritual power penetrating the container and reaching the liquid within.
Simultaneously, with a flicker of thought, a mass of liquid floating in his Spirit Realm's warehouse was transported into the container.
This liquid, nearly half a cubic meter in volume, was a mixture of various yeast, lactic acid, and anaerobic bacteria.
It was important to note that the medicinal liquid within the container possessed high biological activity and nutrients, and the container's temperature was maintained at 42°C, an ideal condition for microbial growth.
Upon Ling Tian's transfer of this bacterial-laden liquid from his Spirit Realm, the internal stirring mechanism of the container rapidly dispersed it. Within minutes, the bacteria permeated the entire container.
Subsequently, these bacteria began a furious fermentation process...
Ling Tian then exited the workshop and proceeded to another facility several hundred meters away. In this workshop, several purification devices were processing the continuously supplied raw medicinal liquid.
This purification process was also time-consuming and costly; for every ton of raw medicinal liquid, less than a kilogram of effective substance could be extracted.
The extracted raw medicinal liquid was stored in containers nearby.
With a thought, Ling Tian transferred an entire barrel of thick engine oil into a tank, mixing it with the precious medicinal liquid.
Having accomplished this, Ling Tian smiled slightly and moved on to another adjacent workshop.
A little over an hour later, a Sea Eagle soared over the factory, heading towards the sea several kilometers away.
On the coast, there was a massive aquaculture farm! This farm housed hundreds of thousands of Boston lobsters.
The core component of Gustav Pharmaceuticals' Elixir of Life product was, in essence, the raw extract derived from Boston lobsters.
Not all Boston lobsters were suitable for use; they had to be over three kilograms in weight and alive. Tens of grams of lobster oil were extracted from the lobster's brain.
From these tens of grams of lobster oil, only a few milligrams of active substance could be isolated. Naturally, after the lobster oil was extracted, the lobsters were immediately sent to the adjacent processing plant to be turned into food products, thus utilizing waste.
Due to the stringent environmental laws in the United States, which prohibited the large-scale capture of wild Boston lobsters, this farm served as the sole primary raw material source for Gustav Pharmaceutical's Elixir of Life.
This body of water, covering over ten square kilometers, was divided into hundreds of grids, each containing a large number of lobsters.
Ling Tian directly entered his Spirit Realm and set the coordinates on the metal tag attached to the Sea Eagle's neck.
Subsequently, the Sea Eagle began to descend. At an altitude of several dozen meters, Ling Tian proceeded to pour lime into the various pools from his Spirit Realm.
Approximately one ton of lime was deposited into each pool. Upon contact with water, the lime rapidly underwent a chemical reaction, causing the entire body of seawater to boil.
Following this, Ling Tian maneuvered the Sea Eagle to a corner of the farm where a pipe connected to the sea, drawing in seawater and circulating it into the aquaculture ponds.
Ling Tian directly deposited several tons of crude oil here before controlling the Sea Eagle to fly away.
After a night of activity, Ling Tian felt somewhat exhausted, particularly as he had expended a significant amount of his spiritual power by releasing large quantities of materials from his Spirit Realm. He soon fell into a deep sleep within the Spirit Realm.
An hour after Ling Tian's departure, a piercing alarm suddenly blared from the core workshop of the Gustav Pharmaceutical factory.
The on-duty staff were stunned, their faces reflecting disbelief as they stared at the screens before them!
To monitor every stage of the drug's production, a portion of the medicinal liquid was drawn from the containers every hour and sent to the laboratory for testing, thereby controlling the production process.
Gustav Pharmaceutical Group's production capabilities were among the top global tier, with their entire production process being largely mechanized and automated.
The extraction of a portion of the medicinal liquid from the containers and its subsequent analysis were all automatically handled by computer programs.
However, the results of the recent analysis indicated that all critical indicators had exceeded their threshold values, with some even surpassing them by tens or hundreds of times.
The entire screen was awash in red, and the person in charge on-site was utterly bewildered.
The data before them could only signify one thing: this batch of medicinal liquid, valued at billions of US dollars, was completely ruined!
After a considerable pause, prompted by his subordinates, the on-duty supervisor finally reacted. At that moment, only one thought occupied his mind!