Chapter 1375 - 1369: Encirclement
"Professor Liang, I'm not very familiar with nutritional products. What I want to know is, are our newly launched nutritional products similar to those advertised on television that claim to both enrich blood and iron? Compared to their products, what are the advantages of your research?"
Professor Liang smiled and explained, "That's certainly not the case. Those supplements merely replenish elements, such as alleviating anemia or other physical issues, but this approach is somewhat like treating a headache or a foot pain individually. I find it has significant shortcomings."
Lin Chuan said curiously, "But medically speaking, isn't it exactly about treating the headache when you have one? Consumers mostly buy nutritional products because they already have issues with their bodies, so they take specific supplements to address their problems. If they don't need them, why would they spend money to buy them?"
"Here, ordinary consumers actually have a misunderstanding, which is confusing the roles of nutritional products and medicinal products. As you mentioned, treating a headache should be done with proper medicine; nutritional products are absolutely unable to cure existing ailments. They merely supplement elements or enhance health and energy, effectively increasing health levels and reducing the possibility of illnesses."
Lin Chuan understood, "So, your research involves nutritional supplementation through traditional Chinese medicine for the overall human body, providing efficacy while also promoting health?"
"Exactly," Professor Liang was delighted to see Lin Chuan comprehending quickly: "On one hand, our nutritional products, through Chinese medicine supplementation, can benefit many aspects of the human body at once. On the other hand, for those who are already sick, especially older individuals, even if they finally recover, they suffer great vitality damage and have significantly reduced immunity, necessitating further nutritional supplementation. For those who already need to take Chinese medicine, this is both medicating and maintaining health—killing two birds with one stone."
Lin Chuan asked with concern, "But since these nutritional products also count as medicine, could they potentially conflict with the medications prescribed by doctors?"
Professor Liang nodded, "It's remarkable that Mr. Lin can think of this point; it's also the most challenging part of my new approach. However, based on my experience and years of experiments, I've found a rather good way to balance them."
"That's great, you can take the experimental data to Xinhuan Group and discuss it with their researchers. I'm personally very supportive."
Since Professor Liang said so, he must be absolutely confident, and the nutritional product market is expanding tremendously now. Taking this opportunity to enter and gain a share aligns perfectly with the company's interests.
With Lin Chuan's support, one of Professor Liang and his team's main objectives was achieved, and the conversation shifted to a lighter note.
Of course, this matter cannot be decided just like that; Xinhuan Group's main focus is still the launch of new medicines. After all, no matter how good the medicines are, after passing the experimental stage, they must be sold to generate profits—a responsibility Lin Chuan fully delegated to Gao Xiaoxiao.
This is also his way of maintaining balance. In drug development, he provided some checks, so in marketing, he should give her more autonomy.
After the investment opportunity in Japan ended, they had a lot of funds but felt a lack of direction for expansion.
After concluding Xinhuan Group's celebration party, Lin Chuan asked Gao Xiaoxiao to take care of sending the guests, while he drove and pondered over Sichuan University Group's strategic direction.
As he drove over Jiangbei Bridge, he inadvertently realized that two cars were tailing him!
Initially, he didn't easily spot the cars behind while thinking and driving, but their tracking method was very similar to the three cars during his time in Japan, which heightened his vigilance.
Same tactics, does that mean they are the same group as those from Japan?
Lin Chuan found it even more puzzling. Tracking him from Japan back to the domestic side showed that the opponent was relentless. Now, he couldn't determine whether this mysterious adversary was domestic or Japanese.
The only thing that slightly comforted him was that if the opponent tracked him from Japan, given the domestic regulation of firearms, they definitely wouldn't have access to them in such a short time.
Lin Chuan didn't take the people tracking him seriously since, with his skills, ordinary people couldn't be opponents. However, he didn't want to expose his abilities in such situations.
The opponent wasn't in a rush either, or perhaps the traffic conditions here couldn't compare with Japan; with vehicles coming and going, it was impossible for them to act here.
But Lin Chuan didn't want to drag it out with them. The relentless pursuit to finish him off annoyed Lin Chuan, and he wanted to scrutinize these people to understand their backing and whether they dared to attack him!
Maneuvering the steering wheel, Lin Chuan drove his car to the right while making a call.
"Li Zhonghai, it's Lin Chuan." Lin Chuan said while driving.
Li Zhonghai was considered a veteran of Jvyi Gang and was reassigned to handle matters at Haiqing Pool after Huang Bo and others encountered an incident.
Haiqing Pool hasn't resumed operations, mainly because the impact of last time's incident was too great.
"Brother Chuan, it's me. Any instructions?" Li Zhonghai said on the phone.
"Zhonghai, go and gather some people, get several cars, and wait for my command near the park area! How long will it take!"
Lin Chuan's orders were sudden, but Li Zhonghai realized Lin Chuan must have encountered some trouble, and without any delay said, "I can find people in ten minutes and gather them heading to the park in about twenty minutes."
Lin Chuan calculated and said, "If you are confident in gathering and reaching the park within twenty minutes, spend extra time to assemble more cars. When the time comes, I want you to block the road completely!"
"Understood!"
This is why Lin Chuan chose to immediately call Li Zhonghai to seek the underground power connection he feared.
He couldn't go to Song Xiaojia for this; if he asked Song Xiaojia to use her connections in the police force, it wouldn't achieve such efficiency and might even attract attention from someone possibly watching the police station's entrance. Any large-scale mobilization would alert them.
Moreover, even if they acted, they wouldn't follow Lin Chuan's command, so seeking his own people became the more efficient option.
Another advantage is that the opponent hasn't realized that he has discovered them; as long as he cleverly detours, they likely wouldn't act recklessly.
However, the opponents weren't fools; having followed Lin Chuan in various twists and turns for twenty minutes, even if unfamiliar with Jiangbei City's traffic, they sensed something amiss.
Moreover, during this time, continuously trailing behind, it's impossible for them to think Lin Chuan is unaware of their presence in such circumstances.
One of the cars suddenly accelerated, attempting to rush ahead and block Lin Chuan when he was unprepared, but they had attempted this strategy before. No way would Lin Chuan let them succeed, especially since the car he was driving now was far more powerful than the one he had in Japan.
Simultaneously, Lin Chuan hit the gas, accelerating quickly, and took aggressive maneuvers to block the direction they intended to surpass him.
Thus, the people behind fully understood. There was no longer any need for disguise; the opponents began a strong offensive!
The two cars smartly created distance from each other, and from two directions tried to overtake Lin Chuan.
But their vehicles themselves had no advantage compared to Lin Chuan's, especially since they were pursuing him; in terms of maneuvering direction, Lin Chuan held the initiative.
Several attempts failed, but the people behind had no intention of giving up because they realized Lin Chuan, in panic, was driving towards more remote areas. There were already no crossroads here, so if they kept up the effort and Lin Qi made one mistake, he'd be doomed!
Lin Chuan also realized it was now the critical period, for just three kilometers ahead, he'd reach the park!
"Brother Chuan, we've already done as you instructed, hiding separately in the park and along the main road. The cars behind disguise themselves as parked in spots; are you alright now?" Li Zhonghai called.
Lin Chuan felt relieved and said, "Good job, I'm about to reach the park. Once you see the three cars pass, let those disguised vehicles block the road, then divide the men to pursue them from behind! This time we must catch them!"
Having received the message, Lin Chuan no longer engaged in games with them, accelerated, and left the vehicle behind him far behind.
The vehicle behind was equally baffled; even though the vehicle performance was similar, their car was loaded with many people, giving Lin Chuan's car a considerable advantage.
At this point, as both sides competed, expecting them to calmly retreat was indeed overestimating their capability.
Neither side was concerned about the engine's endurance anymore; in the quiet night, the engine roars equaled those of heavy diesel engines.
Three cars rapidly passed a parking zone, and the pursuers didn't notice that several supposedly unoccupied cars there immediately started moving.
But within two minutes, they reacted, as a row of cars suddenly turned on headlights, racing toward them, and Lin Chuan calmly parked beside them.
Within an instant, two to thirty people with wooden bats and iron rods rushed out from in front of the cars, and a few cars rushing toward them emerged from a park.
"Not good! It's a trap!"
It was only then they realized, thinking there was still room to retreat, they quickly reduced speed, turned their cars around, and in the face of the blockade, sped back the way they came, not knowing they had further trapped themselves.