Discrimination

Chapter 65 - Discrimination

The British Secret Intelligence Service is located on the banks of the River Thames in the Victoria district of London, and this building, which is externally known as the Government Telecommunications Agency, is next to a building much taller than it. Inside the building, in room 2612, Carlos is sitting with a few of his men, drinking wine. He was all about staying next to the government intelligence agency and showing how smart and powerful he was.

The guys were dressed in suits and casual clothes and didn't look at all like Middle Easterners, much less guys of any faith. They talked and laughed without any of the tension and urgency of having to make a big case.

Nasser, a close associate of Carlos, took a call and said, "Colin was arrested."

"He confessed?"

"Yes."

Carlos said without the slightest shock, "It seems the British know I'm here!"

Nasser nodded his head. Asked, "Carlos, the British must be protecting Lin Jiaqin closely, we have no chance, should we give up?"

"Let's continue."

"Why? Even if we kidnap Lin Jiaqin, we may not be able to get the formula. Besides, it's useless for us to ask for the formula."

"Nasser, to be a man, we have to keep our word, since we promised, we have to do it."

"OK. but we kidnap her under the tight protection of the British Security Service?"

"Aluf is already scouting, you also take someone to prepare!"

"Yes." Nasser left the room and went to make battle preparations.

In the morning, Fisk appeared in the lobby of the Cambridge Hotel on time with a few staff members. He took Lin Jiaqin and the others to Cambridge University.

Founded in 1209, Cambridge was first established by a group of teachers who fled from Oxford to escape a brawl, and King Henry III granted Cambridge a teaching monopoly in 1231. Cambridge and Oxford are known together as two of the finest universities in England, and are often referred to together as Oxbridge because of the similarity of the two ancient universities in many ways, including their modes of operation.

It is actually a loosely organized consortium of colleges, each highly autonomous, but all adhering to a single Cambridge University Charter, which is drafted and adopted by the university's legislative body and revised annually. The University of Cambridge is responsible only for examinations and degrees, while the specific criteria for admission are determined by the colleges themselves, and they recruit their own students. Cambridge's 35 colleges are scattered throughout the small town. Even so loosely, it is still a top research university, and is regarded as one of the top universities in the UK and the world.

Fisk took the group on a tour of Cambridge University, mainly of the 1,000-year-old Trinity College and the Cambridge University Library. Each of Cambridge's 35 colleges has a large or small library, but when it comes to Cambridge's comprehensive research library, it was built more than 600 years ago and has a collection of more than six million books, with a Chinese collection of about 100,000 titles. The Chinese Department's collection includes oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty, various types of books engraved in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties and the Qing Dynasty, various codices, paintings, topiaries and other cultural relics, many of which are treasures. Lin Jiaqin and others walked through the collection and went forward to the biology lab.

The research laboratory of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a national treasure in the eyes of the world, but in Cambridge University, it is just a normal three-storey gothic building. It was here that the rs preparations needed by the Wahine Group were located.

Fisk came to the front of the building and proudly said: "This is the institute of the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who is a genius structural biologist in our country. This is one of the bases for our company to fund and develop new drugs for our company's research."

Liao Fei made a marvelous look, in fact, he was quite disdainful in his heart, this guy was born in India, was an American citizen, just working in the UK, as for being your genius biologist in the UK!

The building is not as luxurious as its fame, nor does it have the security to match. The door here is unguarded, so just go in and out.

Liao Fei looked at He Jiayu and observed the surrounding environment.

He Jiayu understood Liao Fei's meaning and deliberately asked, "Why don't you see any security personnel here, is it possible that such an important institute doesn't even have security?"

"Of course not, this building is not only Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's institute, there are other institutes, so the first and second floors do not have any security, personnel are concentrated on the third floor. That is, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's institute."

"Oh! Why not separate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's institute, where people come and go, it's not very convenient."

"There are a large number of experts here, will often study together, so none of them will leave here and find another place."

Liao Fei has finished looking at the first floor, except for a camera at the entrance, there is no defense device anywhere else. Perhaps infrared and other defensive devices are activated at night, but it is not visible during the day. The second floor is the laboratory of other scientists, are installed with card access control, and there is no other protection. There is only one camera in the building, I do not know if it is because British scientists focus on privacy, or these laboratories are not important scientific information, and are not afraid to steal.

Walk up to the third floor, two stainless steel doors with transparent glass windows will be locked tightly this floor, there is a camera above the door, behind the door sat a security guard, through the glass window looking at the people coming up.

Fisk's assistant Oswalt walked up, took out his access card, opened the door, and invited the crowd in.

The security guard knew Oswalt and knew that his company sponsored the institute, even so. The guard still stood up, blocked the way, and asked, "Oswalt, who are they?"

"These are people from China's Huayi Group, working with my company to develop drugs and are here for a visit."

The security guard nodded and flashed his body away.

Liao Fei saw that the security guard had a pistol and a baton on his waist, and there was a walkie-talkie on the table next to him, with a red alarm button next to it, which should directly connect the security room of Cambridge University to the police station of Cambridge City.

The main research room of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was at the innermost part of the building, and as the group walked forward, there was no one moving around in the corridor, and there was no sense of busyness. The first few rooms were ordinary research rooms with only a few researchers working in them, nothing special looking. There are no cameras in each research room, it seems that the British hate being watched.

The main research room, the crowd can only stop outside the door, through the glass, watching the researchers inside busy. To enter the research room requires fingerprint verification. And neither Fisk nor Oswalt had access to it.

Don't look at them as investors, sponsoring the Institute, but it's just as impossible to get into the most confidential places. This is different from China, Chinese investors must have absolute control, if even the laboratory is not allowed to enter, certainly not a dime will not invest in you. But Europe is different.

Oswalt knocked on the door and waited quietly.

Ramakrishnan heard the knock, looked up in disgust, saw that it was Oswalt and Fisk, the expression on his face was only a little better. He went to the door, opened it himself, and asked, "Hi! Fisk, Oswalt, what brings you here?"

Fisk smiled, "Ramakrishnan, I brought my partner to visit your lab."

"Oh! Are you not mistaken? This is an institute, not an amusement park, there's nothing to visit."

"They are my important partners to develop anti-AIDS drugs together."

"Japanese?"

"Chinese."

"No way. I've had a major breakthrough in my research, and who can or cannot visit at this time."

Liao Fei noticed a flash of disgust under Ramakrishnan's eyes when he heard about the Chinese. It seemed that he might be prejudiced against the Chinese or worried about China's copycat ability, and was unwilling to let the Chinese get close to his achievements.

"Hey! Listen, they're not going to see your research, they're just visiting the research lab equipment to show what our company is capable of."

"Fisk, just so you're clear, this research lab is mine, not your company's. Your company is yours, and this is mine, and we are not directly related."

Fisk's face changed, he had to spend millions every year to support Ramakrishnan's research, now he just wanted to show people around, and he was subjected to a hundred difficulties, which made him a little unbearable, especially in front of Lin Jiaqin. "Ramakrishnan, I invest millions of pounds to you every year, and this is how you talk to me?"

Ramakrishnan looked at Fisk and said expressionlessly, "We are cooperating, I am not under your control. If you are unhappy with me and think that the money invested is not worth it, you can terminate the sponsorship at any time, but you absolutely cannot enter the research room today."

Fisk was a patron, but he was not the only patron of Ramakrishnan. Being a Nobel laureate, there are not many people who sponsor him. Fisk's sponsorship is not charity, but also rewarding. Once the scientific research is turned into results, then Fisk is in possession of the results of the shares, which is a strict distribution plan. In other words, it is actually a venture capital. No results, is the sponsorship, the results is the investment. A very simple thing, so Ramakrishnan simply do not care whether Fisk will continue to sponsor, now only one step away from turning into results, Fisk at this time to withdraw, can only suffer huge losses.

"How dare you talk to me like that?" Fisk said discontentedly.

"The Chinese are all a bunch of thieves and scoundrels, and you are going to bring a bunch of thieves to me and expect me to do something to you?" Ramakrishnan didn't care in the least that Liao Fei and the others were here and spoke very directly.

Here, except Wang Liqiang's English was not very good, everyone else could understand Ramakrishnan's words, and their faces all instantly sank, a kind of violent anger was about to burst out.

"Hey! Ramakrishnan, I want you to apologize to my partner." Fisk said irritably.

"No, I refuse."

Seeing that the situation was going to freeze, Oswalt said to Fisk, "Boss, let me talk to him, maybe he will change his mind."

Fisk did not want to withdraw from the sponsorship, but he just had to say that, or Lin Jiaqin rage, this cooperation is likely to fall apart! You know this cooperation is not only for financial benefits, but also the requirements of the British government.

Oswalt said to Ramakrishnan, "First, let my boss and guest go to your office to rest while we talk."

Ramakrishnan considered and said to the assistant in the research room, "Ruiz, you take them to the parlor."

"Okay. Sir." Ruiz walked out of the lab and led the group into the adjacent parlor.

She brought the people into the parlor, poured a few cups of coffee, and left the conference room with no intention of accompanying them at all.