Chapter 149. Cure -2
"I asked him how he got my phone number, and he told me that one of my friends had given it to him. I called my friend to question why he would share my number with a stranger. Do you know what he said? He simply replied, ’Trust him.’
Once I learned the identity of the person calling me, I had some doubts. I even brought the King of the Netherlands along to visit him. He was just a 20-year-old man. When I arrived at his house, we immediately tested the cure for the cancer patients I had brought with me. It was just a serum, and remarkably, the cancer was cured with a single dose.
When the doctor confirmed that the patients were okay and showed no signs of side effects, I felt relieved. With the cancer that had been killing so many people, we finally had a cure. However, after a moment of joy, a complex problem began to form in my mind. What would happen to the doctors specializing in cancer? What about the nurses treating these cancer patients? They would lose their jobs if this cure became widespread. Another question was the cost of the cure: how much was he willing to sell it for? That was the dilemma I faced in that moment.
I looked at the young man who discovered the cure and expressed my concerns. I told him that the value of this cure was in the tens of trillions of dollars, and that Johnson & Johnson didn’t have the capability to produce that much. The young man looked back at me and said, "I know the value of this. I can offer you a 25% royalty for my charity. You can sell this medicine for a maximum of $40,000. As for the price of the cure itself, I’ll sell it for $550 billion." When I heard that, I was naturally pleased. But he wasn’t finished; he continued, "Just give me $500 billion, and the remaining $50 billion will be distributed as compensation to the doctors and nurses working in cancer treatment. All of the $500 billion you pay me will go to my charity."
He was known as Playboy and had many girlfriends. His family was building a major charity with a global reach—they were the Grays, a family of philanthropists in the U.S. This day marked the end of a large number of patient deaths due to cancer. Currently, we have 4 million serums ready for distribution. I hoped that people would not hoard this cure and instead help those in need; greed should not overshadow our mission. We are willing to cooperate with every country, but if we find out you’re hoarding the cure, it won’t be given to you unless you step down. That’s all. God bless you, and God bless the world"
Every nation that received the news immediately contacted Johnson & Johnson. In Korea, billboards and commercials promoting the serum were playing repeatedly, with Itzy as the face of the campaign.
"This needs to be addressed immediately. Call the CEO of Johnson & Johnson; we need to talk," President Trump ordered his secretary. It didn’t take long for Trump and the CEO of J&J to connect via video call.
"Hello, Mr. President. I know why you called," Joaquin, the CEO, said.
"I want to place an order and distribute this serum in the U.S. How many are you willing to sell to us? I know you only have 4 million of these serums available currently, but the majority of cancer patients are in the U.S., and we are ready to pay more," Trump replied.