Dual Worlds: I Have a Doomsday World

Lin Qi and the Capitalist’s message in the temporary chat caught the attention of every member.

King Arthur wondered to himself, ’When did the Wizard get involved with the Capitalist?’

Master Ma, on the other hand, was thinking, ’The Capitalist really lives up to her title as the First Director of the Asian Political Zone Big Business Alliance. Of all the members in the Mercenary Corps, Guang Ling is probably the only one whose identity she hasn’t uncovered yet, right?’

As for Jingang, he showed no emotional reaction. From the day he joined the Mercenary Corps, he had understood that his relationship with the Capitalist was a binding one.

Lin Qi paid it little mind, simply waiting quietly for the summit to resume.

Shortly after his exchange with the Capitalist, the lifting platform in the center of the circular chamber activated.

Director Qiao Xi appeared before everyone once again.

Once the platform stabilized, Qiao Xi announced, "The final scoring category has been calculated. After deliberation by the summit committee, the weights for the comprehensive scores and rankings have been confirmed."

"Within two days, all pharmaceutical companies under the Asian Political Zone Big Business Alliance must submit their upstream supply chain resource request lists according to the summit rankings. The quantities must comply with the allotted quotas."

"The supply chain resources are fixed. All resource priority will be determined by the rankings. If a specific resource is in short supply, high-priority companies will be served first. Lower-priority companies will be required to resubmit their lists by a new deadline."

From this moment on, the pharmaceutical industry in the Asian Administrative Region was facing a complete reshuffle.

The extent of this upheaval, however, would depend on the final rankings.

If all the major corporations, United Pharmaceutical included, remained in the top five, then the changes wouldn’t be too drastic.

Conversely, it meant that colossal profits were about to be redistributed.

As Qiao Xi finished her announcement, two ranking lists appeared.

First was the ranking for the individual category of academic ability.

First Place: United Pharmaceutical, Score Redacted

Second Place: Rotor Pharmaceutical, Score Redacted

Third Place: Tianshui Technology, Score Redacted

Fourth Place: Dawn Pharmacy, 9.5 Points

Fifth Place: Moore Potion, 9 Points

Fifth Place: Kudou Human Body Engineering Company, 9 Points

Seventh Place: General Biological, 7.5 Points

...

This list appeared a few minutes before the comprehensive rankings.

The moment the data appeared, the entire circular chamber erupted in a wave of discussion.

"None of the four major legacy pharmaceutical companies even made the top three?"

"Rotor Pharmaceutical? Tianshui Technology? Did they really get that lucky and manage to design a successful Potion?"

"The odds aren’t actually that high. Out of more than one hundred and seventy companies, only two got ridiculously lucky and managed to complete a Potion design..."

All the Pharmaceutical Researchers understood the reason behind these results.

Perhaps the representative from United Pharmaceutical had genuine skill, but the other two companies that surpassed the major corporations were most likely just running on sheer luck.

The moment the scores appeared, Liu Xuan asked in surprise, "Is the maximum score for the academic ability category only ten points?"

Lin Qi shook his head and revealed the truth. "Theoretically, the maximum score is 145.5 points. But in practice, scoring over 10 is next to impossible for an ordinary Pharmaceutical Researcher."

Without his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi’s final score would have likely been similar to the researcher from General Biological’s; he definitely wouldn’t have secured first place.

Liu Xuan nodded thoughtfully at his words but didn’t ask for his specific score.

In any case, they had secured another first-place finish in an individual category.

This meant the chances of United Pharmaceutical taking first place overall had increased significantly.

While Liu Xuan was already calculating United Pharmaceutical’s odds of taking the top spot, the two representatives from Kudou Human Body Engineering Company had fallen deathly silent.

A terrible premonition took root in their hearts.

Rotor Pharmaceutical!

This wasn’t the first time that name had come up.

"If I’m not mistaken, in the previous category’s ranking, Rotor Pharmaceutical was fifth, while our Kudou Human Body Engineering Company didn’t even break the top ten..."

"Shut up!"

Kudou Gen’s expression was incredibly grim.

He frantically searched for the rankings of the other two categories.

After seeing them, Kudou Gen’s face turned ashen.

Damn it!

’Where the hell did this Rotor Pharmaceutical come from?’

’Why is it ranked sixth in channel projects?’

’And fourteenth in market share.’

’If you add it all up, this obscure little company’s four rankings are...’

Fifth, second, sixth, fourteenth!

’And Kudou Human Body Engineering Company’s are...’

Second, third, fifth, sixty-third!

The project Kudou Gen had participated in was a complete Waterloo. Sixty-third place—a gap of dozens of points behind the other legacy corporations.

Kudou Human Body Engineering Company was originally the top contender for first place.

’Now, it looks like we might even be surpassed by a small company.’

’We might not even be able to hold on to a spot in the top five.’

Kudou Gen had no doubt the other companies would kick them while they were down.

’Even if it causes their own rankings to fluctuate, they will push to drastically increase the weight of the strategic layout category.’

’And as it happens, that’s the category with the largest gap between Kudou Human Body Engineering Company and that so-called Rotor Pharmaceutical.’

’Fifth place versus sixty-third place!’

’Putting myself in their shoes, if I were at the helm of one of the other companies, I would absolutely seize this opportunity to crush Kudou Human Body Engineering Company.’

The fall of a major corporation would allow its competitors to carve up an unimaginable amount of profit.

"The final rankings are confirmed!"

Following someone’s startled cry, the final ranking list appeared before everyone.