<h4>Chapter 279: Corporate Empire</h4>


    A few dayster, Chen Chen sat in the conference room and quickly flipped through a nner sent over by Xia Yin.


    “Project Xingtian?”


    After turning to thest page of the nner, Chen Chen could not hold back a smile. With his mouse, he clicked on a checkbox on theputer.


    At this moment, thepany’s new website style and the name of the bionic prosthetic project had been formally confirmed.


    Next, it was time for the head office to begin selling and promoting.


    However, in the nner sent by the head office, Xia Yin expressed the hope that Chen Chen could make more public appearances. It would be best if he could be a symbol, an emblem, of cklight Biotechnology, just like Tencent’s Ma Huateng, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, and JD’s Liu Qiangdong.


    After all, Chen Chen did have the qualifications to be a “symbol”— he had developed an age-reversal treatment project at the age of eighteen, then dropped out of college and started his own business. After only three years, he became the boss of a corporation with a market value of tens of billions.


    Youth, career sess, countless triumphs and des — these were all part of Chen Chen’s “symbol”.


    Xia Yin hoped that Chen Chen could attend TED to give a speech for this reason.


    TED, an acronym of the three words “technology”, “entertainment”, and “design”, was a private non-profit organization in North America. The organization was known for its TED conference, with the objective of “ideas worth spreading”.


    Those who qualified for the TED conference were also preeminent talents from various fields such as Nobel Prize winners or billionaires like Bill Gates and Musk who had created new legends or scientists, philosophers, artists, explorers, psychologists, linguists, religious leaders, phnthropists, and so on.


    Since 2006, the TED Talks had been posted online and quickly gained worldwide attention. It had be one of the most prestigious speech tforms in the world. If Chen Chen could get on this stage, cklight Biotechnology’s Project Xingtian would swiftly spread throughout the world. The effect of this would be much better than spending hundreds of millions or even billions of dors on global advertising.


    Seeing this, Chen Chen thought for a while and finally agreed to this proposal.


    With the increasing influence of thepany, Chen Chen’s name was destined to be known to even more people. As he was the first to create the cklight virus vine, Chen Chen was even nominatedst September in the list of candidates for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.


    If there was no unexpected plot twist, Chen Chen’s Nobel Prize this year was guaranteed. This was something the North American government had no choice but to do because if Chen Chen lost the nomination, it would affect the perceived authority and fairness of the Nobel Prize.


    After all, in the field of medicine in 2023, there would be no one who had performed better than Chen Chen.


    As Chen Chen closed the webpage, he started to ponder silently.


    Now, thepany had almost reached its peak in the development of biopharmaceuticals, owning several patents and also the trump card that was the Eco Science City. As long as the three anti-cancer drugs passed clinical trials in a few years and they released the AD-001 drug that couldpletely cure Alzheimer’s, not evenpanies like Pfizer and Novartis would be able topete with them.


    At that point, cklight Biotechnology would officially be an unprecedented world-ss pharmaceutical monopoly. It would be immensely difficult for even one or two continents or countries to do anything against them.


    However, as a rule, when cklight Biotechnology had developed to that extent, it had reached its limit. It was impossible to continue expanding, for instance, reaching the level of the Umbre Corporation.


    After all, the potential of a single industry was limited. Even if the global pharmaceutical industry was united, there was no power that could equal the Earth Federation. If Chen Chen wanted to go further, he had only one option —


    Horizontal cross-border development!


    If a group wanted to achieve long-term development, it must actively expand into other fields and reach the top in all walks of life. This was the path of development for the corporate empire.


    What was a corporate empire?


    It was a corporation with the characteristics of “imperialism”. It did not act in full ordance with economicws and had its unique means of doing things such as private armed forces that answered only to thepany, a unique economic monopoly system, and top-secret projects in cooperation with the government that were hidden from the public.


    Even the average country would be somewhat wary of such a corporation. Any of its actions could cause a global sensation and its political influence was no less than that of a nation.


    Even for continents, their control over this sort of corporate super monopoly was very limited. Chen Chen’s goal was to be an enterprise like this or even stronger!


    Still, cross-border development was not that easy. One would have no connections, technology or talents. Everything must begin from scratch, just like starting a business with nothing in hand.


    Therefore, for ordinarypanies, cross-border expansion was indeed a very dangerous move and might even lead to bankruptcy. However, for Chen Chen, it was not a problem at all.


    After all, Chen Chen had a key that could open the door to various worlds.


    Through that key, he could obtain any advanced technology that he wanted. These technologies would allow him to stand at the forefront of any field including energy, electronics,work, industry, even aerospace and military.


    As long as he had enough time, Chen Chen would be able to create a real-life Umbre Corporation sooner orter...


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    Three dayster, a major change suddenly urred on the official website of cklight Biotechnology Ltd.


    Previously, there were only four sections on the homepage of cklight Biotechnology’s official website, namely the biopharmaceutical section, the medical project section, the infectious disease section, and the electronic technology section.


    The four major sections were represented by the colors green, white, gray, and ck, so they were clearly distinct at a nce.


    The biopharmaceutical section, naturally, listed the three anti-cancer drugs that had entered the clinical trial stage while the medical project section included the “age-reversal treatment” project, the “Alzheimer’s disease reversal treatment” project, and so on.


    As for the infectious disease section, the research materials on the cklight virus and vine were publicly shared for anyone in the world to browse through and learn from.


    Each section had its own independent forum. Due to cklight Biotechnology’s prestige, these forums had gradually attracted the attention of countless schrs. Many experts in the medical field had registered ounts on the official website of cklight Biotechnology, which had be a professional website simr to an academicwork.


    Under the management of Little X, the forums under the official website of cklight Biotechnology had been managed in an orderly manner, thus winning the favor of those academic experts who now regarded it as a permanent haunt.


    However, just this morning, some academic experts and editors of various journals were surprised by cklight Biotechnology’s new official website when they opened it up to search for materials as usual.


    Among the four sections that were once arranged in a square, a new section had suddenly appeared.


    The color representing that section was gold and there was a new name on the section — tissue engineering.


    If someone clicked in curiously, they would be greeted with arge nk page. In the center of the nk screen, there was a big “question mark” and behind the question mark was a human figure.


    This figure was shadowy and vague, and one could just about tell that it was a human figure. Still, the peculiar thing was that this figure did not have a head...


    When they saw this new additional section, many people who were silently watching thepany now understood that cklight Biotechnology had new products.


    As a newly emerging pharmaceutical giant in the field of biopharmaceuticals, cklight Biotechnology did not have a very high profile, but its every move still roused the attention of countless people. After this information was released, many international mediapeted to make the first report:


    [cklight Biotechnology Is Suspected to Be Releasing a New Product. This Time It May Expand Into Tissue Engineering!]—Wall Street Journal.


    [Boom! ording to Industry Sources, cklight Biotechnology Is Suspected to Be Joining Forces With Musk!]—Tencent News.


    [cklight Biotechnology’s New Venture Is Confirmed to Be Rted to Tissue Engineering. Its Emblem Is Suspected to Be the Ancient Chinese Figure Xingtian!]—Sina Express.


    [When People Opened the Main Page of cklight Biotechnology’s Official Website, the Entire Earth Federation Was Stunned!]—UC Subscription.


    With the exposure from major media, cklight Biotechnology had publicly announced the release date of the new product and also announced that on 1 April, the founder and chairman of cklight Biotechnology would give a TED Talk. The venue of the talk was arranged by the TED officials, in a rare exception, to be in cklight Biotechnology’s Eco Science City!


    This gesture greatly boosted cklight Biotechnology’s reputation. Once again, cklight Biotechnology had be a discussion topic among the biotechnology crowd. Someizens who were more invested in the biological field had even more enthusiastic discussions.


    “The project is in the field of tissue engineering. If you consider this along with the headless horseman, it’s very easy to guess. It must be rted to head recement surgery!”


    Under the new section of cklight Biotechnology, someizens spected.


    “My *ss! If it’s head recement surgery, do you think the International Bioethics Committees would agree? Not to mention that stem cells still haven’t solved the problem of reconnecting the spinal cord and nerves!”


    Someone more knowledgeable quickly refuted this.


    “Maybe it’s cloning. Recently, wasn’t there news circting online that many wealthy people are cloning their bodies privately for future organ transntations? Maybe this silhouette of a figure without a head is a clone without a head, who can say?”


    Someone else guessed again.


    “Impossible, any human cloning is prohibited by the internationalw of the Earth Federation. So, all of you saying that it’s human cloning and head recement surgery can give it a rest.”


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