Great time travel

Chapter 48. Throwing pots and selling iron?
Takashiro's mansion, the bedroom of the Takashiro couple

At this moment, the originally elegant and luxurious bedroom has become messy—the Persian carpet decorated with gold and silver thread patterns, the Imari porcelain from famous Kyoto masters, and the colorful "Kyo Yuzen" silk kimonos , the mink fur coat originating in Russia, the ukiyo-e scrolls inherited from the Edo period, the Swiss watch of Patek Licui, the furniture, perfume and skin care products of Chanel in France...all of these represent the luxury of the noble status of the upper class , were roughly disassembled by the owner of the room, and then stuffed into a huge machine in the middle of the room, and finally turned into strings of numbers and stacks of banknotes, spit out from a hole at the bottom of the machine .

"...Mom! No! Isn't this your favorite sapphire necklace?"

Miss Takashiro Saya was turning out of her room with two small dresses and a pair of red leather shoes that were no longer fit, when she looked up, she saw her mother holding a string of sapphires each the size of a pigeon egg The necklace was stuffed into the [automatic pawn machine], and I couldn't help screaming.

However, Mrs. Takashiro Yuriko smiled and shook her head, while resolutely stuffing the sapphire necklace into the pawn entry of the machine.

At the same time, Soichiro Takashiro came over with a large box in his hand, and pawned more than a dozen high-end suits, five or six pairs of leather shoes, and a box of gold-plated tie clips, and then worked together with his wife to lift the latest home theater LCD TV, stuffed into the [automatic pawn machine] - anyway, there are no TV programs to watch now, and even the power supply will be cut off in a few days, so what's the use of keeping it?
In addition, the floor lamp, table lamp, sofa and dressing table in this bedroom have long since disappeared without a trace.

Although Gao Cheng and his wife are very open about this, thinking that these things will not be brought with them when they are born, but their daughter does not think so.

——Looking at the empty room that quickly changed from familiar to unfamiliar, Takashiro Saya couldn't help but feel his eyes turn red, and he felt an urge to cry.

"... Woohoo, the furniture, electrical appliances, and clothes are also pawned, and even mother's jewelry is sold! Dad! Mom! Do you want to fill all the valuable things in our house into these Go into the bottomless pit of liars from another world?"

She threw her old clothes into the [Automatic Pawn Machine], shouting as if to vent.

Then, Takajo Saya was grabbed by her mother Takajo Yuriko's shoulders, and looked into her eyes, persuading her earnestly:
"...Saya-chan! Don't lie to yourself anymore! You should know better than us whether they are liars or not! Bamboo dragonflies that can fly through their heads, wonderful submarines that can sneak into the ground, and handbags that can catch living people out ...All of this is enough to prove their identities! What's more, they saved your life from the zombie-infested Fujimi Academy! Our Takashiro family has no tradition of repaying kindness with revenge!"

"...Moreover, regardless of whether the cat-shaped robot and its companions are really the Doraemon and others we know, they do have the ability to treat people infected with the zombie virus! Now these people from other worlds are us The only savior! You can’t be offended no matter what! What’s more, now that the whole world has collapsed, these expensive brand-name goods at home are not as effective as a bottle of mineral water and a pack of compressed dry food!”

His father Soichiro Takashiro also sighed and touched Saya's hair, and said in agreement, "...if zombies invade this mansion, no matter how expensive these things are at home, they will not save our lives. Even if we follow the original Make a plan to escape from the city and take refuge in the Okumingko mountain area, and you can't move these heavy belongings...so...don't be petty anymore! Saya! You are causing trouble for everyone!"

"...Okay! Dad, Mom, I accept that I was wrong." Under the watchful eyes of his parents, Takashiro Saya lowered his head unwillingly, "...But, for this vaccine, they actually prescribed it to us. The price of 800 billion yen is too outrageous!"

Regarding this typical layman's point of view put forward by his daughter, Soichiro Takashiro and Yuriko Takashiro exchanged a complicated look... In the end, Yuriko Takashiro coughed dryly and replied: "...that... Saya-chan, you may not understand This aspect. However, according to the information collected by my mother when she was investing and managing money on Wall Street over the years, it is true that if she wants to develop a new vaccine, she will have to spend so much money..."

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——In a modern society with a rigorous scientific system and complex legal procedures, the birth of any new drug is no longer a flash of inspiration created by a few talented scientists in a small workshop, but has become a costly project. Huge, time-consuming systems engineering.

First, scientists must create a variety of compounds that may affect the physiology, biochemistry, and pathology of the body based on current understanding of disease and how the human body works.Then, from the huge compound alternatives consisting of hundreds of thousands of compounds, we screen out suitable targets, continuously improve its composition and structure, reduce its toxicity, enhance its target pertinence, and make it suitable for use in The metabolism in the human body remains stable in a normal environment, so as to obtain the initial test product, then determine its quality standard and stability research, and clarify its production method.

After a series of efforts, the new compound can finally leave the chemical laboratory and enter the stage of animal experiments.However, after confirming the efficacy of the new drug in animals, and generally understanding its pharmacological and toxicological characteristics, it is necessary to invest in the stage of human experiments that require huge ethical responsibilities and clinical risks—in order to save money and avoid lawsuits, Pharmaceutical companies often use these experimental drugs on people in poor third world countries.Even the major cities in Japan, where the economy had not yet taken off in the early post-war period, served as human test bases for Ruihui Company for a period of time.

Next, through a series of carefully designed and arranged drug clinical human experiments, thousands of subjects are recruited for research, and only after reliable results are obtained and approved by the drug regulatory department, this compound can become a drug. New drugs, put into production and distribution.

Therefore, in the medical circles of Western countries in the modern world, most of the new drugs with truly breakthrough efficacy often require more than ten years of research and development time, and the research and development costs may even be as high as billions of dollars!
(There are also new drugs with low research and development costs. For example, when Pharaoh Wang was an intern in the hospital, he had a headache for memorizing the name of the drug. It is obviously the same compound, but there are seventeen or eight names, and it is still changing. Every year more and more. Because every time the government imposes price adjustments, pharmaceutical companies will change the name of the product to avoid the price reduction-obviously, the research and development costs of this domestic "new drug" will infinitely approach zero...)
In short, under such circumstances, Doraemon offered 800 billion yen, or 28 billion U.S. dollars, to the natives of the world for the special vaccine against the zombie virus... Although it is not cheap, it is It is already a "honest price" within the industry average market range.