Chapter 21 Chapter 19 Standards of Personality

At the beginning of May, Daxiong returned to Tokyo.Since March last year, it has been a full year and two months since I left Tokyo. In March of this year, in order to understand the acceptance results of the new N gas product delivered to the US military, I wrote a test report long ago, and I am still somewhat sure about the performance of this product.Since it is the first time to deliver the finished product, I always feel a little uneasy before seeing the result.This is exactly the same feeling as waiting for the admission notice after the university exam.Xiangzi and Kenichi sent Onishi to the car that the company came to pick him up for work, and Onishi suddenly thought that Kenichi would definitely have this experience when he was admitted to university in the future.

Onishi came home late at night three days ago, and today was the third time he went to the company. The "acceptance" of N gas ended yesterday, and today it is time for the APA (US Army Quartermaster Headquarters in Japan) to reply.This determines future order quantities.The sudden rise in peace and anti-war sentiment in Vietnam since the April 1 statement is indeed worrying.Johnson's statement, because it was released in the United States, did not see a cessation of heavy bombing of North Vietnam, so some people doubt it.In fact, this is just a momentary self-comfort.The US President's speech on reducing the scale of the Vietnam War and unilaterally stopping the bombing of North Vietnam is showing an epoch-making change in the US Vietnam policy.Therefore, it undoubtedly casts a shadow over Japan's arms industry.As long as the danger of war has not been completely eliminated and the armaments have not become a pile of scrap iron, there is no need to pessimistically think that the order contract for N gas will be completely cancelled.However, orders cannot be expected to increase, at least at a time when the United States is making peace gestures.Moreover, the U.S. military is different from ordinary commercial customers. Once it is not needed, it does not follow Japan's trade laws and business practices at all, but unilaterally cancels the contract.For this reason, Onishi returned to his home in Tokyo, where he had been away for more than a year, and he was not in a relaxed mood, on the contrary, he was anxious.

It was the same feeling this morning.Knowing that the U.S. military would not reply so early, he asked the company car to pick him up earlier than usual.Finally, it lasted until this afternoon, and the answer from the US military finally came.Upon receiving the notice, Daxi hurriedly pushed open the door of the manager's office, and immediately understood most of it.Manager Ogata, Specialist Ogata, Director Ono, Director of Organic Industrial Products, Director of Development, and other heads of Nippon Chemical Corporation all had happy faces and waited for him without omission.Greeting Daxi is like welcoming a general who has returned in triumph.

"Ah, Onishi-kun, great success. The U.S. military believes that the performance of our N gas is far superior to the LSD poison gas they use. It is really an excellent product." Manager Ogata smiled and almost hugged Onishi. "The U.S. military has confirmed that with a very small dose, the effect is very strong and significant. It is colorless, odorless, cheap, and can be mass-produced. It also has many advantages such as no death and no sequelae. From these aspects, it has surpassed the past. All the chemical poisons that destroy the human body. The U.S. military formally notified us to quickly design a production capacity of about 300 tons per day." Director Ono, who usually seldom gets emotional, couldn't restrain his excitement today.

"This is the fruit of your long-term hard work. It's really hard work." The manager Dasaburo patted Daxi's shoulder affectionately and said. Onishi received congratulations and praises from the company's head group one after another, and felt the blood rushing to his cheeks. "No, but," Onishi finally found a chance to say amidst the praise. "The development of N gas has not been fully completed, and it will take some time to observe the impact on fetuses and patients..." "The trial product has already received such an evaluation from the U.S. military. This is confidential. After it is fully completed, an internal notice to be adopted as a regular weapon by the U.S. military has also been issued at the same time."

"Regular weapons?" Onishi couldn't help taking a long breath.For a worker who manufactures weapons, it is the unanimous wish that the company's products can be adopted as a country's regular weapons.Especially for the products of Japan's arms industry, which has no army in its own country, to be officially adopted by the most powerful US army in the world is a long-cherished wish.Now, to get his wish. "Needless to say, this is produced by the largest manufacturer in the country. Let those guys who talk about peace go to hell. Even if the Vietnam War is over, as long as the crisis of the war is not completely eliminated, the US military will continue to stockpile high-quality weapons. It is a big customer from God. In the future, we have to work hard and continue to develop. In order to produce this batch of orders, we immediately converted the pesticide factory of Dadong Chemical Company into a factory for producing N gas, and mass-produced it with the trial product as the standard. This For a while, the factory will be refitted according to Kiyosato's development process, okay?" The manager's voice was very high-pitched.

"Dadong Chemical Company can produce 200 tons per day, right? One ton is priced at 3 million yen, and 200 tons will have a revenue of 600 million yen. Moreover, this is only one day's production. But it still cannot meet the order All the needs." Ono also replied excitedly. "Minister of Organic Chemistry!" Manager Ogata said to a cadre. "How much money and time will it take to convert the equipment of Dadong Chemical Company from the production of pesticides to the production of poisonous gas? Please make a budget immediately." "Yes. It can be estimated within two hours. It probably won't take a lot of money and time."

"All in all, try to sell as much as you can. Although it is officially adopted, war and the army are not guaranteed." Ogata smiled happily. The company leaders present all laughed in unison.The laughter of victory came and went.Onishi was in the middle, feeling that he had become a part of them. As soon as Onishi returned from the manager's office to the office prepared for him during his stay in Tokyo, he immediately picked up the phone and connected Kiyosato.After a while, Murayama, the deputy director, came to answer the phone.Onishi told Murayama the news of the success of the trial product, and seemed to see Murayama's joyful expression at this time.For the mountain people trapped on the isolated island on land, the news from our company is also good news. This is undoubtedly the gospel from the kingdom of heaven.After a while of excitement, Murayama reported a news report: Three days ago, just after Onishi left, a twenty-nine-year-old patient was sent for human experimentation.

"Ah, I finally got it. So, what's wrong with this man?" "It's leukemia. To be precise, it's myelogenous leukemia, a survivor of Hiroshima. At the appointed time, I hung up the call to the Central Research Institute. I heard that you are at the head office today. I just wanted to hang up again. Director I'm so sorry you dropped the phone." "Yeah. It's okay. The most important thing is how long will the test subject survive?" "According to Mr. Nishioka's diagnosis, it will not exceed two months at most." Nishioka is a doctor sent from the head office to the laboratory to treat diseases for the personnel of the laboratory and observe the situation of human experiments.

"Two months? It's really short." Daxi frowned, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, let's start the experiment tomorrow, okay?" "Hey, but, Director, you haven't come back yet, this..." "No problem. As I said just now, the test of N gas must be accelerated. It cannot be delayed for a day. You must get all the data and conditions you need, and you can continue the test." "Yes. Understood." After hanging up the phone, Onishi remembered that he forgot to ask the names of the human test subjects, but he didn't want to hang up and go to Kiyosato to ask for clarification.

In his view, the subjects of human experiments are not human beings, but similar to mice and rabbits used in experiments. That evening, when Onishi returned home, he received a letter waiting for him to open and read. He changed his clothes, and was just about to relax in the dining room, when Jianyi climbed onto his lap impatiently early in the morning.Three days ago, Onishi had just returned, and Kenichi was still hiding behind his mother, looking at him with a frightened expression as if he had seen a stranger; Call him sweetly "Baba, Baba". "This child is always noisy and rowdy. It seems that everything has changed now. He probably wants you as his father." Xiangzi said. Read the paper, watch TV, with the lovable, heavy child on your lap.In the past few years, the family happiness that I have almost forgotten has slowly warmed his frozen heart trapped in the barren mountains and mountains. The warm dining room, the children's laughter, the tempting aroma of dinner from the kitchen, the programs on the TV...all these are the warmth of the family.Thanks to the successful trial production of N gas, Onishi has not felt so comfortable and happy for a long time.Thinking of the three years spent in Qingli, it was an irreparable blank in my life. "That won't work. After talking about the business, you must return to Qingli immediately, otherwise, I'm afraid it will be hard to leave." Daxi was sounding the alarm to himself when Xiangzi came with a thick letter. "Who sent it?" "An unexpected person." Xiangzi's smile seemed mysterious. "Akita!" Onishi couldn't help saying out after turning over the envelope.Akita knew he was in Kiyosato, but he sent the letter here, clearly knowing that he was going back to Tokyo in a few days?Just hang up the phone for yourself, so why did you write such a thick letter?This guy!Onishi was thinking about it, and looked at the postmark again, becoming more and more puzzled.The postmark of the envelope clearly stated "Kiyosato" from which the letter was sent, and it was mailed yesterday.Either the letter was entrusted to someone else, or he was in Qingli. "What is he doing in Kiyosato? To see me? In this case, you don't need to write a letter, can you just come to Tokyo?" Onishi wondered more and more, and hurriedly opened the envelope. Mr. Daxiong Xiong: I came to Kiyosato again.To be more precise, it was sent by someone.You will definitely feel mystified.But when I explain it, you'll understand right away.It was the second time I came to the laboratory, and when I inquired, it was unfortunate that you happened to miss me and went back to Tokyo.In my heart, I felt that a stone had been let down, and I also quietly felt a little lonely.Until now, I am still saddened by the deep friendship between our former mountaineering partners.Today, I can immerse myself deeply in the memories and sadness of the past. Since I met you in the mountains of Dongdu Dashan, we have climbed countless mountains together.The two of them were connected by ropes and climbed the wall, starting from the first storehouse of Mt. Guchuan, to the north wall of Kashima Gun, Hodaka Feipuyu, Jianshan North Peak, Beidake’s Sawtooth Rock and other famous Japanese peaks. footprint. But don't get me wrong, I'm not writing to you now when I'm speaking of these difficult journeys just to recall the colorful mountaineering trips of our youth.This repeated mountaineering is the main course of our Spring Festival, and it can almost be said to be the content of our entire life.Strangely, why do we naturally become such a friendly climbing partner?Needless to say, it's not that you can't find other companions, nor are you particularly happy to travel with them (and you probably are, too). After graduating from school, we entered two very different societies.I feel more and more that there is no common language between the two of us, and that we have climbed countless mountains together without getting bored, and formed a pair of life and death. Now that I think about it, it's incredible!However, this is not difficult to understand. For us, mountaineering does not require completely consistent ideas, which will inevitably form a partner.Connected by a climbing rope, sharing the danger of life.Therefore, it can also be said that an unimaginable and inseparable bond has been created.Moreover, the friendship between our pair of partners will never be inferior to that of other partners.To this day, I still believe so.It is a pity that with such a close bond, everyone's economic concepts are not necessarily the same. How pure and profound it is to cultivate selfless friendship in mountaineering.But this friendship is not as indispensable in life as water and air.From this point of view, how cruel and ruthless reality is.You laughed at my advice and continued to develop poisonous gas. It was you who, in order to save me, risked avalanches and falling into the abyss, climbed the ice-covered and snow-pressed rocks, and carried me down the mountain.This is the simplest expression of the beautiful friendship condensed in the depths of people's hearts.However, in real life, it cannot be truly reproduced, and it often becomes an insurmountable gap.This fact is a tragedy. In my short life journey, I can have such a rare friend like you, but it can only be deeply buried in the memories of my youth.I can't help being immersed in sorrow. "Short life" means that I am a survivor of the Hiroshima disaster.Today I open my grief to you for the first time.I've become terminally ill from the radiation from the atomic bomb.When I roamed the mountains with you, I was not sick yet.I was so close to the center of the explosion, only two kilometers away.So it can only be a short trip in the world.Both my parents were like that, I just stayed around a little longer than them.That's why I read medicine and chose leukemia as my research subject, and that's why.You can understand why I hate your "products" so much. I think you probably know why I came to Qingli again.I was bought as a human test subject.My life is about to stop.I thought to myself: This is the best way to make use of my dying life.You can ask Mr. Ohara about the negotiation with Nippon Chemicals and the process of this transaction.In short, I sold my body as a "commodity" to the company you work for.I do not believe that by doing so I am making the most efficient use of my dying life, perhaps for a better use.But I am in such an ideological struggle, the fire of my life is going to be extinguished, I have to hurry up, and I can no longer hesitate. I sold my life to Nippon Kasei because of some reasons, I was in urgent need of money.You can despise me as much as you want to accumulate money in this way.But by no means am I just for that purpose, by no means.Also because of you.It can be said that I do not want to rely on our old friendship to ask you to stop this experiment. Now that I have sold it, the ownership belongs to you; no matter how the buyer handles it, the seller has no reason to make irresponsible remarks. I heard that you have gone to Tokyo, and I hastily wrote this letter, hoping to send it to you while you are in Tokyo.According to the staff, you can't come back until four days at the earliest.This express letter will be delivered to you about tomorrow.Because I am eager to complete the development of N gas, if this is the case, then by the time you read this letter, the human experiment with me as the subject has already started, and it may have ended. I solemnly ask you, even if you disagree, not to issue an order to stop the experiment, but to read this letter.If it stops before or during the test, then the meaning of selling will be lost.You know me, please don't stop me, you can carry out any experiment. As a cool-headed scientist, you're going to get this experiment going.The experiment was over, and I was perhaps in a miserable state.At that time, I beg you to see me as a human being, an old climbing partner, and look at me intently.Does your heart stir up waves?I leave it all to your conscience.In order to entrust everything to you "watershed in the soul", I sold myself.Are you a ruthless scientific worker who only observes and collects experimental data, or a humane person who can shed tears in front of such facts that are disguised as science and aimed at cruelty? want to try it. Onishi, I know that even if you listen to my advice, it won't help.But if you and I can do our best to stop the misfortune brought to mankind and work hard to create happiness, even though it is as insignificant as dust, if gathered one by one, we can prevent a huge disaster from being brought to mankind , Create a happy future. Chemistry is literally your life, just like my medicine.We cannot live without it.It is our spiritual backbone, our purpose in life.Evaluations in this regard will not change.However, you are wrong in this: under the cover of corporate orders, you only extract the dark side of chemistry and turn it into the meaning of your life or the pursuit of knowledge.You should understand this yourself, but why do you envision the development of poison gas as a bright future for chemistry?Disobeying the company's orders may be fatal to an employee; but before you become an employee, you should first be a chemist, a scientist. This is my philosophy of life, that is your philosophy of life, of course you cannot impose your own principles on others.There are as many different ideas as there are people, but there should be a common standard.This is: "On the edifice of civilization built by mankind, no matter how weak, everyone must add one brick, one tile, one tree and one stone." Sorry, today, I want to change this standard to: "In order to reduce as much as possible Human tragedies happen, and to the indefatigable efforts of men, however feeble, must be added their own." Can you confidently say that your hard work and hard work to develop N gas meet this standard?I don't want to blame you.Just feel sorry for you.We are old partners in mountaineering. Your heart, which was once dependent on each other with a rope and connected with mutual trust, fell into the abyss with the watershed as the boundary.We have entered two distant worlds that can never be approached. Are we really never close?I think you will look back on the present and think about the past, and take a good look back.I take the liberty and recklessness to talk about our old love and attachment of friendship, chattering and pouring out my heart. Anyway, I'm going to die.However, it was only slightly earlier than the original scheduled death date.The price is that I can get that not a small reward, and I also want to use this opportunity to persuade.Am I too greedy? But please forgive my greed.And please, when I am crazy until I die, you can quietly guard me by my side. Finally, may I be able to pour out my heart in front of you, in the presence of a man with a conscience: may your N-gas be produced so well that it may drive me as miserable and mad as possible.So far, this is just my last wish. goodbye. Shuhei Akita At May 3rd Onishi read the letter, his face changed color, and he couldn't help but want to stand up immediately, but Akita's words "I just ask you to read the letter" made him bite the bullet and read on.Seeing that Daxi's expression was strange, Xiangzi asked repeatedly, "What's the matter?" But Daxi didn't seem to hear, and still looked at the letter intently. "I have to go right away." Onishi finally finished reading the letter, put Kenichi on his lap as if putting down something, and stood up hastily.The child, who was sitting comfortably on his lap, did not expect to be treated so roughly all of a sudden, and burst into tears as if being set on fire. "What happened?" Xiangzi was also stunned, and asked. "You can read the letter yourself." He handed the letter to Xiangzi, and went to the western-style wardrobe.By the time Xiangzi finished reading the letter, Onishi had almost finished changing. "I'm going to Kiyosato right now," Onishi said. "The experiment will start tomorrow morning, and there is still time to rush there." "Please wait a moment." Xiangzi shouted hastily as if he had thought of something. "You ordered the stop of the experiment, isn't it against Akita-kun's wishes?" "Xiangzi, what are you talking about!" "Akita-kun wants you to take a look at his crazy appearance!" "So what? It won't stop the development of N gas, it's just letting a friend die in vain like a dog." "Is that right?" "So what?" "You won't understand if you don't read it. Go and see him. Take a good look, and you will be able to draw the correct conclusion. Akita-kun will rest in peace." "Do you have the same view of the work I do as Akita?" "Now, this is no longer a problem. Anyway, whether the experiment is to be stopped or not, it is not up to us to decide. I just say: the experiment is in accordance with Akita-kun's wishes." "You mean, do you want me to die?" "I said it was Akita-kun's wish." "Ah!" Daxi cried out in pain. "After you've made up your mind, start now and do this experiment yourself." Xiangzi said word by word as if he were reading a book.However, in her voice of losing her feelings, there was bloody grief. "Akita-kun, there is such a tragic hidden pain deep in your heart. In Dajiu Hot Spring, you rejected my affection and always watched me from a distance. It must be because of this secret! Are you You don’t want to implicate me! However, will this really implicate me? A woman can live with someone who truly loves her, no matter how short the time, will she be involved in misfortune?” "Akita, how could you have such a miserable secret? You climbed mountains like a maniac, took leukemia as your lifelong research topic, and hated the development of N gas so much. All this is your answer to your tragic fate. Fight! I don't know, I really don't know at all!" The husband and wife looked at each other, but they were both conveying their respective aspirations to another friend. Human Test Report The human experimenter Shuhei Akita (29 years old), born on January 18, male, had a pre-existing disease: myeloid leukemia. Xiong Xiong of the National People's Congress of the Experimental Institute, Director of the Kiyosato Laboratory of Japan Chemical Co., Ltd. The test location is Takane Town, Kitakoma County, Yamanashi Prefecture, Kiyosato Laboratory of Nippon Chemical Co., Ltd. Test content The first test: At 10:00 am on May 4th, I inhaled the first test volume of N gas and lasted for about an hour. My face was pale, my fingers and toes felt cold, and I was conscious. I was injected with a mixture of glucose and vitamins.The detailed inspection report is attached. The second test: at 10:00 am on May 6th, inhalation of the second test volume lasted about 5 hours and 30 minutes. His face was slightly flushed, his consciousness was confused, and he fell into temporary dyspnea. The test was interrupted and he inhaled oxygen.In order to more accurately determine the data of the role of poisonous gas remaining in the body, control drugs.The detailed inspection report is attached. The third test: at 10:00 am on May 8th, I inhaled the third test amount, the duration was unknown, my face was flushed, and my fingers and toes felt cold.At 10:05, he was confused; at 10:10, he began to be in a state of delirium and unconsciousness; at 10:30, he could not recognize time, space and self, and he appeared in a state of insanity.At noon, after two hours, it still hadn't recovered.At 3:00 p.m., he was still in a state of insanity; at 4:36 p.m., his mouth and nose were bleeding, and his pulse was weak immediately.Oxygen was inhaled, hemostatic agent, glucose solution and cardiotonic injection mixed; at 4:56 p.m., died due to difficulty in breathing.

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