Dual Worlds: I Have a Doomsday World

Chapter 320: Chapter 227: The Si Clan’s Legacy? Explosion and Assassination

’I can’t just take the blame for everything, can I?’

He’d often shifted the blame to others, but now, for some reason, the blame had finally landed on him.

’Ah, forget it. It doesn’t matter. Liu Xuan won’t say anything to anyone anyway.’

He continued to listen as Liu Xuan explained the details of the summit.

"According to the intel Director Jin Yuanxi gave me, the summit will be held the morning after tomorrow. It will last for twelve hours, and each company must send one A-level Researcher to participate."

"During the summit, the council will jointly oversee an assessment and scoring of the A-level Researchers’ academic abilities. This will be used to generate a score for each company’s academic capability in Pharmacy."

"This score will affect the subsequent resource allocation and the final contest for the Si Clan’s inheritance."

’Scoring? Carving up the profits?’

Lin Qi frowned. If it was purely a clash of academic ability, Lin Qi was about sixty percent confident.

But if the council was jointly leading and intervening, it was possible that the subjective judgments of its members would be involved.

Lin Qi couldn’t say for sure whether this was a good or bad thing for United Pharmaceutical.

Liu Xuan continued explaining that the evaluation of a company’s academic ability was only one part of the summit.

"The assessment of academic ability is just one part of determining a company’s overall strength. The resource allocation and the fight for the Si Clan’s inheritance will require a competition of overall strength. Therefore, to judge that, there are two other scoring systems."

"These two scores will be judged concurrently while the summit is in session."

"First, a score based on the company’s market share for its products in the Asian Administrative Region. In this regard, we at United Pharmaceutical will be at a complete disadvantage. Our total market share might be less than one percent. This isn’t good news, but I’ll figure out a way to work around it."

"Second, a score based on the distribution ratio of the company’s sales channels in the Asian Administrative Region, specifically using the number of branch offices in major Cyber Cities as the metric. We are also at a complete disadvantage here."

"At the end of the summit, the combined score from all three systems will be used to rank the overall strength of pharmaceutical companies in the Asian Administrative Region. This ranking will determine the unified allocation of production resources, and the Si Clan’s inheritance will be given to the company with the highest combined score to absorb."

This was the intelligence Jin Yuanxi had disclosed to Liu Xuan.

This was completely different from what Lin Qi had expected.

He had originally thought the summit’s procedures would be customized, specialized, and biased.

He never expected the final framework to be so... fair.

"It’s a very fair method of judgment, but this exact kind of fairness is the greatest unfairness."

Lin Qi saw through it completely.

A process like this for the summit was likely the result of the four major pharmaceutical companies working together.

Each of them had a different permanent council member backing them. Even if Jin Yuanxi wanted to offer a pledge of allegiance, he couldn’t stand against four permanent council members.

The fact that all companies could even participate in the ranking was probably the result of Jin Yuanxi’s efforts.

Under such a framework, to get the greatest benefit, one had to have the strength to match.

Liu Xuan nodded and said, "Under this summit process, we have almost no chance of competing for the Si Clan’s inheritance. But we do have an opportunity to preserve United Pharmaceutical’s original development plan and retain the possibility of the Liu Clan independently supplying resources to United Pharmaceutical."

"As long as we can secure the highest rank below the four major pharmaceutical companies, we’ll have a chance to use Jin Yuanxi’s influence to achieve our goal."

As Liu Xuan said this, she actually felt a little guilty.

It meant she couldn’t fulfill the promise she had made to Lin Qi in her heart. She really wanted to help him obtain the S-Class Pharmacy Literature.

She could tell that Lin Qi wanted it very much.

But United Pharmaceutical was, after all, a startup. It was already difficult enough just to protect itself.

Lin Qi didn’t rush to respond to Liu Xuan, but instead fell into thought.

’Is there really no hope?’

Lin Qi asked a question: "In the information Jin Yuanxi gave you, did he mention the respective weights of the three scores?"

The three scoring systems were independent; the final score wouldn’t necessarily be a simple sum.

Therefore, the weight of each score was extremely important.

If the weights were changed, the rankings of the top four, or even the top five, could change dramatically.

For example, if the academic ability score had the highest weight, perhaps even accounting for over ninety percent, then Lin Qi might not need to make any arrangements at all and still have a chance to compete for first place.

Of course, ninety percent was too exaggerated, but fifty or sixty percent was something they could fight for.

At worst, even forty percent would be a good thing.

Liu Xuan shook her head and said, "According to Director Jin Yuanxi, the weights will only be announced at the very end of the meeting to prevent the participating companies from making arrangements and exchanging benefits in advance."

’Heh!’

’Sounds nice, "preventing them from making arrangements in advance"?’

’The four major pharmaceutical companies are deeply intertwined. Pulling one thread affects the whole system. How could it be so easy for them to trade benefits?’

’The council’s real intention is clearly to wait until the summit is over and all three scores are finalized, then start the game based on the results.’

’Only after the scores are set does the game have any value.’

Lin Qi thought for a moment.

’The weights exist, and the scores aren’t just added up. This means United Pharmaceutical actually still has a chance to compete!’

’If I max out my academic ability score, I’m confident my academic skills aren’t weaker than any A-level Researcher!’

’If I have the help of Spiritual Vision and my theoretical abilities are still weaker than others, then I’m just a piece of trash.’