Apocalypse: Starting By Hoarding A Billion Food Additives - Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Rumors Rise Everywhere, Everyone Kicks a Fallen Wall

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The sales of the fillet steak had been booming, and in less than a week, it had brought Zhao Feng at least 500 million in revenue.

It was easy for a product like a steak to break into the global market, so they were able to earn more.

Finally, the sales of the filet steak had reached the goal of the reward provided by the system.

“Ding, Master, congratulations on successfully selling a large number of synthetic steaks. Congratulations on obtaining a new reward, the recipe for synthetic crab roe sauce!”

“We only need to use one-fifth of the cost of the real crab roe sauce to produce a crab roe sauce that is not inferior to the authentic one in terms of nutritional value and taste!”

It was still the same old rules and operations.

Five days later, the synthetic crab roe sauce was completed, and three days later, it was put on the shelves of supermarkets and major shopping malls.

The performance of this synthetic crab roe sauce was just like its predecessors. Once it was launched, it occupied nearly half of the market share of crab roe sauce.

Once again, Zhao Feng had earned a lot.

Moreover, by now, there were basically no competitors in the food industry who would question Yaoyao Food’s products.

Everyone knew very well that ordinary methods would not affect Yaoyao Food in any way. Instead, they might end up suffering losses.

The most important thing was that there were no problems with Yaoyao Food products. If the competitors couldn’t find any flaws, they naturally had no angle to attack.

However, Zhao Feng did not know that a sneaky figure was busy in the office after work.

He seemed a little nervous, constantly looking around for fear of being discovered.

After a while, he put a USB into his pocket and quickly left the company headquarters.

It didn’t take long for this person to appear at the headquarters of Zhao Corporation. The person who met him was Zhao Ming.

“Director Zhao, the things you want are in this USB drive. Hurry up and check the goods. The money you promised me before…”

Zhao Ming smiled and nodded to the secretary beside him.

Soon, the man’s phone rang.

Seeing the string of numbers on the message, the man was extremely excited.

As for Zhao Ming, he laughed proudly.

“Haha, well done. You don’t have to go to work for the time being. Stay low for a while!”

The man nodded his head heavily. He was a commercial spy that Zhao Ming had developed in Zhao Feng’s company.

His goal was to steal the formulas of various products from Yaoyao Food.

He even copied many of the factory’s production videos from the company’s monitoring room and stored the production process of various products on a USB drive. Finally, he handed it over to Zhao Ming.

The next morning, Zhao Feng suddenly received a call from Ding Yao.

“Zhao Feng, something bad happened. The recipe for our latest crab roe sauce has been published on the internet!”

Hearing this, Zhao Feng said disapprovingly.

“Crab roe sauce recipe? And who is it that thinks they have seen through our recipe?”

“It’s different this time. I also thought that someone was trying to scam me at first, but I just checked it and the published formula is correct!” Ding Yao hurriedly said.

“It even included the production process of our product. Now, voices are questioning everywhere on the internet.”

“Someone even wants us to announce the production cost and whether our pricing is reasonable. You should quickly take a look and see how we’re going to deal with this matter.”

Facing the anxious Ding Yao, Zhao Feng hurriedly comforted her.

“Don’t be in a hurry. I’ll handle this matter. First, find someone to suppress the momentum on the internet as much as possible. Get someone to delete any malicious remarks that defame our company.”

“To be able to obtain the real formula, this matter is definitely not simple!”

This formula was provided to him by the system. Zhao Feng did not believe that anyone would be able to research and recreate the formula.

It even came with the production process. How could this be possible?

At this time, the internet was full of doubts about Yaoyao Food, and it was obvious that there was a group of ghostwriters leading the way.

However, the netizens couldn’t clearly distinguish who were the ghostwriters, so the tide of this wave was becoming more and more intense.

“Is the formula that was announced this morning real? Yaoyao Food’s synthetic meat didn’t contain any meat at all. You call this a meat product?”

“And their milk tea, all of their products are different from what we imagined. This is a scam! This is a fraud!”

“Yaoyao Food, please give the consumers a reasonable explanation immediately. This is too much!”

“Even the swill that pigs eat is more authentic than the products of Yaoyao Food!”

In addition to the overwhelming denouncement on the internet, some popular bloggers also obtained the method to gain more online attention.

They began to find professional agencies to test Yaoyao Food’s products. They didn’t test the nutritional content but the raw materials used in the products, whether it was consistent with the formula published on the internet.

In addition, the company had also received summonses from multiple courts.

Many foods and beverage companies filed lawsuits against Yaoyao Food, demanding compensation for the damage to their reputation.

The reason was that many consumers attacked these catering companies, accusing them of using the unqualified products of Yaoyao Food.

Most of these companies were hotpot companies.

As the saying goes, when a wall falls, everyone kicks it. When a tree falls, the monkeys scatter.

Businessmen always sought advantages and avoided disadvantages.

Even if the companies in the hotpot industry had followed Zhao Feng and made a lot of money, now that the wind had changed, everyone was targeting Yaoyao Food.

At this moment, the first thing Zhao Feng was doing was not to provide clarification to the public.

He wanted to catch the mole!

After Zhao Feng received the news, he only thought about it for a short time. He was sure that there must be a mole who had leaked the company’s internal information.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the recipe given by the system to be researched.

Finally, two days later, the staff of the security department found the employee who had returned to the company after work and secretly copied all kinds of confidential documents through the surveillance cameras.

“What are you doing? I didn’t do anything! Your videos are fake! Let me go!”

Who knew that the man who stole the information still insisted that he had done nothing even when he was caught?

Under such circumstances, Zhao Feng was helpless.

There was no use in suing him for commercial espionage at this time.

The apocalypse was coming, and he might not even be able to wait for this person to be sentenced.

“Take him under control and hand him over to the security bureau.”

Zhao Feng temporarily gave up on pursuing the commercial spy and returned to the market where public opinion was boiling.

The consumers were still worried that they had eaten something bad. Some people even began to publicly call for a boycott of Yaoyao Food on the internet, calling for people to stop buying these unworthy products!

In order to stop their losses in time, some businesses even started to terminate their contracts and even returned the products to Yaoyao Food!

The situation was extremely grim.