The deal with the Special Department went through smoothly. Over the following week, every company under Xia Xu underwent a major transformation.
First, naturally, the three major companies formally merged into Star Sea Group. Military-industrial qualifications and all other relevant approvals were issued, while Star Sea Biotech took over the Xinyuan Building. All personnel and equipment were gradually relocated there during this period.
The building's layout remained largely unchanged. The lower floors served as reception and office space, while the upper floors housed individual pharmaceutical laboratories and equipment rooms. Naturally, the existing top-tier underground biology laboratory was still assigned to Gu Haiming for biological research.
Thanks to the pharmaceutical negotiations a few days earlier, Star Sea Biotech also secured an initial order worth a full two hundred million from the Medical Insurance Bureau. In accordance with Xia Xu's conditions, payment had already arrived in advance.
With this ample injection of funds, Star Sea Biotech expanded without pause, buying up factories on a massive scale. Funding turned into production capacity, which in turn steadily fulfilled demand from orders. Everything entered a virtuous cycle.
However, that two hundred million was actually only the smaller portion. The real money lay in the Werewolf Enhancement Serum.
The Special Department had deep pockets and seemed to treat money as no object, placing an order for a full hundred doses of Werewolf Enhancement Serum outright.
Without a stable source of K Protein, however, Star Sea Biotech could not fulfill the entire order on its own.
In the end, they adopted a cooperative arrangement, with the authorities collecting and providing the K Protein themselves. The consequence, however, was a brutal price cut: the price was halved outright.
Even so, this order still brought Xia Xu a full billion in funding, likewise paid directly in advance as cash.