Chapter 714
Fade walked to the center of the stage, gesturing for the crowd to calm down. The crowd
immediately fell into silence.
Fade''s imposing manner made Loomis frown. Loomis had a bad feeling about Fade''s arrival.
Fade said, "I know that you are all very concerned about the Alstom Antibiotic. I''m here for this
matter today."
As soon as they heard that Fade hade to address the issue with the antibiotics, everyone got
excited. The conference regained its rowdiness.
"Mr. Chen, are you going to continue with the mass production of the Life Elixir Wine?"
"Mr. Chen, may I ask ask about your thoughts on this?"
"Mr. Chen, do you support the cooperation between the Dragonville municipality and Maritime
Ocean Pharma?"
Listening to these questions, Loomis also became interested in hearing Fade''s answer.
Fade''s expression chilled. He nced at Loomis and snapped, "Cooperate with Maritime Ocean
Pharma? That''s impossible!"
As soon as he said that, the reporters burst into an uproar.
"Mr. Chen, are you saying that you oppose the cooperation between Dragonville city and Maritime
Ocean Pharma?"
"Mr. Chen, can you tell me the reason why?"
"Mr. Chen, Maritime Ocean Pharma has proposed such a good offer, but you''re even objecting it.
I''m disappointed."
Hearing these, Fade sneered and said, "A good offer? Are you ignorant or are you just an
imbecile?"
"The original price is several hundred yuan, but now the price has shot up to five thousand yuan.
The good offer that you are talking about makes me wonder if you had your maths taught by your
Physical Education teacher?" Fade shot back.
Suddenly, everyone who had been present at the conference fell into silence and subsequently
lowered their heads.
A lot of the people started to analyze the offer proposed. Sure enough, they had been blinded by
the facade of a discount. Having heard Fade''s wake up call, they realized that the so- called
discount was not worth mentioning in the face of the ridiculous price.
Loomis'' face crumbled. He quickly sent winked meaningfully to a couple of people in the crowd.
Almost immediately, someone came forward to ask Fade, "Mr. Chen, you are against the
cooperation. How about the illness of themoners? Are we going to drag on like this? Or should
we buy your Life Elixir Wine?"
When he threw out the question, he paused in deliberation. Then, he popped a question out of the
blue, "Mr. Chen''s Life Elixir Wine has gotten a lot of sales during this time of crisis, hasn''t it?"
His words were misleading as it had an underlying malice beneath it.
There was no doubt that he was suggesting to everyone that the reason why Fade had opposed to
the cooperation was on the basis that he wanted to sell his Life Elixir Wine. The man hinted that it
was the instinct of businessmen to seize this opportunity to make a fortune, and that Fade did not
care about everyone''s health at all.
Sure enough, the crowd looked at Fade suspiciously, they started whispering amongst each other,
their prior opinions had also changed.
"I hadn''t thought of the fact that he is the one who manufactures the Life Elixir Wine."
"Yes, as long as we don''t cooperate, the sales of Life Elixir Wine will continue to rise."
"I thought he was speaking for us, it turns out to be a business tactic huh?"
How could Fade not see through his opponent''s scheme? He red at the member of the audience
who spoke and chided, "Nonsense."
"The sales of Life Elixir Wine have increased during this period of time. However, I would never take
the opportunity and raise prices to exploit everyone''s hard- earned money.... like a certain
someone."
"President Chen, so you have a glib tongue!" The man still didn''t believe him. He continued to
satirize Fade.
Fade nced at him coldly before he said, "Everyone suspects that the increased promotion of Life
Elixir Wine was to increase profits. I''ll tell you that this is absolutely impossible."
When the man heard Fade''s words, he was about to refute.
However, Fade continued, "Think about it. There''s been a high demand for the Life Elixir Wine.
What was the price of the wine in the market? What''s the price now? Do you think those vendors
will give up on profiteering and lower the price for no reason?"
Such a question made everyone rack their minds. They started discussing amongst each other.
"It was true that some time ago, the price of Life Elixir Wine ranged between ten to twenty thousand
yuan. Some may have spent thirty to forty thousand yuan to be able to get a bottle."
"During this period, it seems that all of them have gotten back to their original price of 500 yuan for
one bottle."
"I''ve read the news. It''s because Mr. Chen has curbed the vendors from raising the prices. That''s
why the price dropped."
"Mr. Chen didn''t oppose cooperation because he wanted to make a fortune at all. Otherwise, he
would''ve doubled the price of the Life Elixir Wine and everyone would still have no choice but to buy
it."
"That guy, you''ve misunderstood Mr. Chen. You should apologize."
"Yes, hurry up and apologize!"
"You''re not apologizing. Did you do it on purpose?"
Facing the pressure from the crowd, the man''s face fell. He could only apologize to Fade.
The situation at the scene settled down again. Loomis scowled. After all, his carefully nned n
was going to work soon. However, Fade rushed over with a group of people and ruined his n.
This infuriated Loomis. He didn''t want to drag on any longer. He looked at the leaders of Dragonville
and said, "Our press conference has a time limit. I wonder if you will ept the terms that I
proposed?"Property ? of N?velDrama.Org.
"If you still refuse to ept it, Maritime Ocean Pharma will officially withdraw from the market of
Dragonville."
Loomis was bluntly pressurizing the leaders toe to a decision.
Following what Loomis had said, the crowd that had been calmed down by Fade started stirring
again.
"Mr. Chen is right. Maritime Ocean Pharma is wicked."
"But there''s nothing we can do about it. Without the antibiotics, are we just going to die like this?"
"Yeah, Mr. Chen, you are right, but you did not provide us with a solution. We can only remain under
their malicious maniption!" "Just buy it. If you buy it, you can save your life. What''s the use of
money if we lose our lives?"
As the crowd discussed the matter, the officials of Dragonville felt pressured and their expressions
became stern.
On the stage, Loomis smiled with ease. "We don''t have much time. Could you please decide it as
soon as possible?"
Loomis had the situationpletely under control again. However, the group of experts who came
with Fade whispered something to the officials.
A smile appeared on the officials'' faces. Their stern expressions eased up all at once.
Seeing this, Loomis, who was on the stage, felt that something was amiss. The muscles on his face
twitched.