When Balus finished speaking, the foreign seed company bosses didn't agree with him this time.
They were increasingly convinced that the other side might really have a technology for increasing crop yields—or perhaps they were simply afraid that it did.
Unlike Balus, they stood to lose far more than a political victory. For them, this was about the enormous profits of their own seed companies.
"Don't worry. It's definitely a publicity stunt," Balus said firmly again.
Besides, as long as they recorded a video of the other side's publicity stunt and uploaded it to their own networks, the other side would not only be utterly humiliated but would also completely lose the initiative in negotiations.
But Balus didn't know that, at that moment, Chen Dabe and Captain Hong were already meeting with Qin Lin and Ma Hong in the security office at Qinglin Villa.
Academician Zhu and the others had gone back, but Ma Hong hadn't left. That meant Minister Lu would still arrange for other academicians to come.
As soon as Qin Lin entered the security office, he asked, "Have you confirmed it? Is it someone from Qinglin Laboratory?"
Captain Hong explained, "Yes. The signal fluctuation is coming from among that group."
Since the Honeymoon Suite Area was prone to problems with hidden cameras being installed, Qinglin Villa had purchased a lot of detection equipment long ago. Every security guard carried one.
Someone had once tried to install a micro-camera in the honeymoon suite to frame them over the Beauty-enhancing Duck. The culprit had been caught on the spot.
Basically, anyone who entered Qinglin Villa carrying such equipment would be caught.
The security guards had no law enforcement authority, so they would report the matter to Captain Hong and his team to handle.
But this time, the situation was