Chapter 679 — Fat Lai Seizes the Moment
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"An ancient poison, unmatched through the ages!"
"Undetectable? Similar to a seasoning?"
The reporters all gasped in astonishment. Fat Lai's claim was a little too incredible for them to accept all at once! Wasn't this a bit too far-fetched? An ancient poison, unmatched through the ages, dredged up out of nowhere?
"Is that for real? If it's such an ancient poison, how come nobody else knows about it? And how did you people manage to study and identify it?" A reporter began to question. This reporter was one of Crippled Wolf's men, one of his underlings! Crippled Wolf was busy following up on the fainting incident, so one of his underlings had come to attend this press conference.
"Heh heh, I've already said it. This ancient poison, unmatched through the ages, has long been lost. That is to say, no one knows the poison's formula anymore; only a few of its principal ingredients are recorded in ancient texts!" Fat Lai was off on another wild tangent: "It was only after we analyzed the seven herbs and compared them against those few principal ingredients that we finally determined it to be the long-lost Seven-Herb Death Powder!"
"Oh? Then may I ask what these seven herbs are? And if it's already been lost, how could someone still have used it to poison people?" Crippled Wolf's underling, naturally unwilling to see the direction of public opinion shift, began firing off one pointed question after another.
"My apologies, but I'm afraid I can't disclose the poison's formula. For one, it involves the company's confidentiality policy; for another, if we published the formula, what if it fell into the hands of the ill-intentioned?" Fat Lai said with a smile. "However, we have already submitted the formula to the Songshan City police. As for why someone could still use it after it was lost, that's a matter for the police to investigate. We're merely a pharmaceutical company; that's not within our scope of business!"
Fat Lai's words drew a burst of laughter from the reporters below the stage, while Crippled Wolf's underling was furious! He retorted anxiously: "Could it be that you made up some poison just to make a name for yourselves? All this talk of an ancient poison, unmatched through the ages, is just to exonerate First High and drum up publicity for yourselves! This ancient poison, unmatched through the ages, can you even cure it? If you can't cure it, what use is producing a poison formula? And who's to say the formula is real or fake?"
Though Crippled Wolf's underling spoke bluntly, he had voiced what many reporters in the room were thinking. They too harbored doubts about the authenticity of the Seven-Herb Death Powder; after all, the whole affair was truly bizarre, beyond the bounds of what could normally be accepted!
An ancient poison, unmatched through the ages, was simply too remote from real life. So although Crippled Wolf's underling's questions were rather blunt, they did indeed represent the thinking of some of the people present.
"Heh heh, if it's an ancient poison, unmatched through the ages, and even the poison's formula has been lost, how could there be an antidote formula?" Fat Lai smiled, and here he deliberately paused.
"So then, you admit you're seizing the opportunity to drum up publicity?" Crippled Wolf's underling's eyes lit up, and he pressed the attack.
"I didn't say that. I merely said that since even the poison's formula is absent from the ancient texts and records, naturally there can be no antidote formula either." Fat Lai made a gesture for patience and continued: "However, although there was no ready-made antidote formula, through the tireless efforts of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals' expert team and after numerous experiments, we have finally compounded an antidote against the Seven-Herb Death Powder. At present, our factory is working overtime to rush out the antidote, and by roughly tomorrow morning, it should be produced in batches and administered to the fainted students!"