"For late-stage cancer, advanced AIDS, Ebola, and other diseases widely considered death sentences, a single shot is enough to completely free you from the torment of illness. Two shots can cure you completely. Three shots can restore you to full health and return your body to its best condition."
"Yes. Our T-1 Viral Antibody Serum doesn't just heal your body. It can also fully restore the physical damage and exhaustion caused by disease while treating you."
"And that's not all. The true focus of this serum is public prevention. Yes, just like you're thinking, its original design philosophy is the same as Baymax. Its purpose is to spare the entire population from the suffering caused by illness."
"If Baymax wasn't enough, or if poor congenital development left you with weak physical health, you don't need to worry. Your savior, the T-1 Viral Antibody Serum, is here. It can comprehensively optimize the host's physical genetics and bring the body to its most ideal state."
"And even... if you suffer from congenital paralysis, it can still be used. Because at its core, our T-1 Viral Antibody Serum optimizes the host's physical genetics and strengthens and restores the body's own cells so they can fight off external viruses."
"Of course, after hearing all of this, some of you may have your doubts. You may even think I'm just making impossible promises."
"And I completely understand that. To be honest, when I first saw this project myself, I thought it sounded like pure fantasy, something impossibly far away."
"So now, let's take a look at the treatment footage. As a brief reminder, all of the following videos were filmed with the patients' consent, and there are no legal or privacy issues involved."
After saying that, Lisa smiled and signaled to the technical team beside her to begin playing the footage showing patients before and after receiving the T-1 Viral Antibody Serum.
The videos were then projected in front of both the audience and the livestream viewers through the venue's 3D projection system.
At that moment, everyone present, as well as everyone watching online, slowed their breathing and stared at the footage with total concentration.
From the very beginning, the patients appeared emaciated, little more than skin and bones, their bodies marked with needle wounds the size of fists. Their faces were full of pain, yet they still forced themselves to act calm in front of their families, struggling to hold themselves together while being interviewed.
Then came the injection process itself. The visible agony, the trembling, the clear movement of the medicine traveling through arms so thin they looked like dry sticks.
And then the gradual recovery.
Until finally, there they were, bright-eyed, light on their feet, able to get out of bed and jump around.
Everything unfolding in front of the audience looked both completely real and strangely unreal, like science fiction brought into reality.
Before long, the forty-minute documentary came to an end in front of the ten-thousand-person crowd and the tens of millions watching through the livestream.
Even long after it ended, neither the livestream chat nor the venue itself produced a single sound.
It was as if someone had pressed pause on the entire world.
Only after the 3D projection shut off and Lisa picked up the microphone once again did the venue erupt into the most thunderous applause it had ever heard.
AIM had even publicly released the patients' medical records and identities.
Under those circumstances, even an ordinary person could verify the truth with ease.
There had been dozens of patients in the footage. There was no way every single one of them could be fake.
And everyone knew it in their hearts. Whatever people might say out loud, the state those patients had been in was something only the terminally ill could truly show.
For ordinary people, beauty might be a fun topic of discussion, something to chat about during downtime.
But the moment illness enters the picture, nobody has the energy to care about beauty anymore.
Because every pleasure in life depends on one thing first: being healthy enough to enjoy it.
If you're dying, what good is even the most beautiful woman in the world standing right in front of you?
And so, at a moment that concerned their own lives, both now and in the future, every single person's attention toward the T-1 Viral Antibody Serum rose to an entirely different level.
Now that something capable of saving their lives had truly been created, people all over the world felt like they were dreaming after watching those videos.
They could hardly believe that a drug could exist that worked against virtually every major disease.
Maybe Lisa hadn't listed every possible illness.
But if even the known diseases she had named could truly be treated, then what would there really be left in the future that could defeat them?
From that point onward, barring accidents and natural disasters, people would no longer have to live in fear of disease.
And some of them suddenly realized something astonishing.
AIM had seemingly taken over the entire chain of human health.
From detection, diagnosis, and screening, to treatment, recovery, and finally prevention.
With just two technological breakthroughs, AIM had managed to create an entire one-stop system.
At that moment, the impact on humanity was almost too great to process.
Everyone had once dreamed of living a full life free of sickness, growing old naturally and peacefully.
But that had always been just a dream.
Dreams were dreams precisely because they couldn't be realized.
And now...?
"Ma'am, I have a question. May I ask it?"
At that moment, after the crowd finally came back to itself, Jameson was the first to stand and address Lisa.
He even noticed that his tone was missing its usual sharpness.
"Of course. Go ahead."
Lisa smiled and gestured for him to continue.
"Is the footage your company just showed us real?"
"And if it is, how much do you intend to charge for this serum?"
With those few words, Jameson had directly asked the two questions everyone cared about most.
As soon as he finished, everyone in the room seemed to hold their breath and stare at Lisa.
They all knew that medicine capable of treating cancer usually came with outrageous price tags.
And something as all-purpose as this serum could easily cost tens or even hundreds of millions.
But this was AIM.
Maybe... just maybe... they would surprise everyone again.
"Excellent questions. First, to answer your first one, the footage we played is the original unedited recording. Any institution in the country is welcome to verify it frame by frame and word by word through any method available. As for the patients themselves, we paid each of them five hundred thousand dollars in exchange for lifetime authorization."
"All of their medical records, illness histories, hospital visits, and treatment records will be made fully public in the disclosure section of AIM's official website, where anyone can review them."
"And now, to answer your second question."
"As for the pricing of the T-1 Viral Antibody Serum, I believe many of you may have already noticed from the name itself that this serum line includes a very special numbering system."
"Because we took public affordability into account, we divided the Viral Antibody Serum into three different tiers: T-1, T-2, and T-3."
"T-1 includes treatment, prevention, and full physical restoration for all major conditions. It also contains a larger dose, making it the most powerful restorative option. That is why we are pricing it at ten million dollars per injection."
"T-2 is not as powerful or comprehensive as T-1, but depending on the condition, two to three treatment cycles are enough to cure currently known late-stage cancers. In other words, for most people, the T-2 Viral Antibody Serum is already more than sufficient."
"So we are pricing it at one million dollars per injection. Based on our preliminary clinical trials, even if a late-stage patient can only afford a single shot, its effects can still protect them from the ravages of the virus for up to ten years by comprehensively suppressing it inside the body. And if the illness is in an early or middle stage, one shot alone is enough to show results."
"As for T-3, we classify it as a preventive vaccine. It can treat most currently known early-stage pathological conditions, and if the body is not yet seriously damaged, it can also strengthen physical health. To put it simply, even if you're merely in suboptimal health, a single shot can restore you to a healthy state."
"And the price of T-3 will be one hundred thousand dollars per injection. Believe me, this is already the most accessible price point you could realistically hope to see."
"And if that still feels expensive, then the only answer is to wait for future technological breakthroughs that may allow us to lower the cost even further. Because AIM has always followed one core principle: giving back to society, benefiting the public, and making the world a better place."
"So if it becomes possible, we will do everything we can to push beyond current technical limits, reduce costs even more, and return those benefits to the public."
At that moment, as Lisa finished her explanation with a smile, everyone present, as well as everyone watching the livestream, couldn't help but feel that the women from before hadn't been goddesses at all.
This was the real goddess.
A savior of ordinary people, someone who genuinely carried the safety and wellbeing of the public in her heart at all times.
She and AIM weren't like those hypocritical politicians, constantly staging performances and empty promises.
From beginning to end, they had only ever worked to create the best technology possible in order to give back to society and improve people's lives.
From Baymax, to 5G, to smartphones, and now to the T-1 Viral Antibody Serum.
Only now did people realize that AIM had truly been planning for humanity from the very beginning.
For a moment, countless people began praising AIM's greatness and Killian's sense of social responsibility.
If modern governments didn't discourage personality cults so strongly, many ordinary people might already have wanted to elevate Killian into a genuine god.
"Hello, I have a question. I noticed that six pharmaceutical company CEOs are present in the invited seating section. Does that mean your company has entered into deeper cooperation with the pharmaceutical representatives invited today, and perhaps even with the corporations behind them?"
At that moment, a bespectacled reporter pushed up his glasses and asked a question that caught everyone off guard.
People had noticed the presence of those pharmaceutical representatives, of course.
But no one had connected the dots.
Now that it had been said aloud, the whole crowd felt like it had just woken from a dream.
Every single person couldn't help admiring the sharp eye of their colleague.
Meanwhile, representatives from companies like Microsoft and Stark Industries cast strange looks toward the pharmaceutical CEOs seated in the first two rows.
After all, each of those pharmaceutical companies was a major player in its own right.
Facing a cross-industry competitor like AIM, you'd expect hostility at the very least, if not outright corporate warfare.
Yet somehow they had joined forces instead?
And judging by how those executives were acting today, this partnership clearly wasn't new.
At that moment, the company representatives and vice presidents in attendance couldn't help feeling sincere admiration for those six pharmaceutical CEOs.
If they put themselves in the same position, they weren't sure they could smile and walk up to someone who was clearly coming into their industry to take a slice of their territory.
"Of course. Our company's philosophy is to seek out all possible cooperation. We believe that development comes through unity."
"We believe that only by uniting with major companies can we build a better tomorrow."
"And it is precisely because we shared that same vision that these pharmaceutical representatives reached a strategic partnership with AIM. Together, with joint investment and the combined core research of several pharmaceutical companies, we were able to develop the Viral Antibody Serum you see today."
"And that also proves something perfectly."
"Cooperation and unity are the true standard for mutual success."
"And AIM also hopes that in the future, we will be able to pursue even deeper cooperation with companies across every industry, so that together we can benefit the people, give back to society, and build a better world."
After hearing the question, Lisa responded with a calm smile and without the slightest hint of panic.
Because before stepping onto the stage, the company had already prepared answers in advance for every likely scenario.
And she had memorized all of them.
So even when a surprise question came at her, she could answer with complete confidence.
And sure enough, once Lisa finished speaking, the crowd broke into spontaneous applause at her polished, flawless response.
Wave after wave of applause crashed over the venue as if it might swallow her whole.
And hearing that positive response from the audience only made Lisa look even better.
She appeared even more confident and more invested than before.
"Hello, President Lisa, may I ask about the scientific principle behind this Viral Antibody Serum?"
"Because as far as I know, there may be drugs on the market that have effects somewhat similar to your company's product, but without exception they almost all target only a single condition. I've never heard of a medicine like yours that can eliminate nearly every major disease all at once."
At that point, as the questioning continued, another reporter raised a hand, was selected by Lisa, and stood to ask her question.
Since someone else had already covered the price, she decided to go straight for the essence of the drug itself.
And she was certain that if she brought back this angle, her newspaper would be able to turn it into an excellent article.
(End of Chapter)
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