Chapter 1872 — A Sudden Turn of Events
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But the two had scarcely turned to leave when Fatty Lai's voice rang out again: "The new-product launch has reached its end here—but before Xu Shilan sings, I should like to take this occasion to condemn the unscrupulous practices of a certain brand in our industry!"
"Whoa—" The media in the hall erupted at once. Of everything at this launch, Fatty Lai's remark was plainly what interested them most. Until now, Doctor Guan's products had shown not the slightest competitiveness, and they had written the whole event off as a flop.
But who would have thought that this was the real highlight!
Kang Guifeng's eyelid twitched, and he stopped dead in his tracks! At present, the only player in the industry capable of competing with Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals was the Divine Doctor Kang Pharmaceutical Group. If there was dirt to be dished, it would surely be about them.
"Father, let's stay and hear what they have to say!" Kang Jinglong sneered. "If they spout nonsense, we can sue them for libel!"
Meanwhile, Fatty Lai produced a test report from an authoritative institution and began to hold forth at leisure.
He never named the brand outright, but the products he targeted—the "Golden Wound Medicine, Deluxe Edition," the "All-Pain Relief Formula," the "Weight-Loss Pills"—were all flagship products of the Divine Doctor Kang Pharmaceutical Company. Now that he laid them out one by one, anyone with eyes knew exactly whom he meant!
When Fatty Lai precisely identified the chemical components contained in these medicines and spelled out the harms of the weight-loss pills, the faces of Kang Guifeng and Kang Jinglong changed on the spot!
They knew well enough about the chemical components in the "Golden Wound Medicine, Deluxe Edition" and the "All-Pain Relief Formula"—Kang Jinglong, in particular, was in charge of all research, development, and production, and was no stranger to either drug. But hormones and aminopyrine were not prohibited substances; at worst, adding them amounted to concealment. Those "weight-loss pills," however, were nothing short of slow murder!
Yet the formula had been handed over covertly by the You family, and not a single soul in the Kang household could decipher its pharmacology or the properties of its ingredients. Kang Jinglong, professional in the field though he was, could make neither head nor tail of the pharmacology within; and now that Fatty Lai had suddenly dragged it all into the light, both men's faces turned green at once!
The fallout from the "Golden Wound Medicine, Deluxe Edition" and the "All-Pain Relief Formula" would be comparatively easy to defuse—hormones, after all, properly used, are also medicines that cure, and aminopyrine is likewise found in painkillers and cold remedies.
But those "weight-loss pills" were a death sentence for the Kang family! If what Fatty Lai said was true, the Divine Doctor Kang Pharmaceutical Group would face pressure without precedent! Anyone buying medicine would recoil at the very first impression; no matter how cheap the group's drugs might be, consumers would not accept them—because people spend money to cure their illnesses, not to buy their own deaths.
When Fatty Lai finished recounting the side effects of the weight-loss pills, the whole hall erupted. The media had found their big story and their bombshell; and among the onlookers, some had been taking Divine Doctor Kang's weight-loss pills themselves, some had relatives or friends on them—and now every one of them raised their voice to curse the unscrupulousness of Divine Doctor Kang!
To concoct such a poisonous thing—taken over the long term, was this not simply a slow-acting poison?