Team Leader Lin answered the call.
As soon as the call connected, he started complaining into the phone. "Director Lu, that Bob is way too arrogant. He can't figure out how to make a dinosaur, and he still has excuses? He actually thinks nobody else can do it either. Doesn't he know we have Academician Qin?"
Director Lu laughed when he heard that. "All right, Team Leader Lin, don't get angry. If he's that full of himself, we'll just give him a good slap in the face."
Team Leader Lin immediately caught on. "Director Lu, does that mean we can release our dinosaur research results?"
"Yes. Get some experimental data and materials ready. You know what can be made public and what can't."
"Understood, Director Lu. How should we coordinate with Academician Qin's remarks?"
They knew that at a scientific research conference like this, the person leading the experiment would usually go onstage and speak.
Academician Qin had led their experiment, so naturally he should be the one to speak.
But Director Lu said, "The three of you team leaders should each prepare a speech. You'll take turns speaking at the press conference."
"Ah!" Team Leader Lin was stunned. "Director Lu, we can't do that. The speech belongs to Academician Qin. How could we go up there instead? Don't joke about that. We have the utmost respect for Academician Qin."
In a situation like this, anyone other than the person leading the experiment who went onstage to speak might be suspected of suppressing them and taking credit for their work.
They weren't that sort of people.
If they really did that, they'd feel it was a desecration of science—and of themselves.
Director Lu laughed when he heard that. "What are you thinking? Boss Qin and I discussed it, and Boss