"How did you end up here?"
At Chen Hao's question, Gong Honglin answered honestly, "I'm now the chief expert of Huaxia's T-Virus research team. As soon as I heard there was an infected person here, I rushed over."
"Oh, you're doing pretty well for yourself. You've even become the chief expert," Chen Hao teased with a smile.
Gong Honglin hurriedly replied modestly, "It's all thanks to the Golden Needle Technique you taught me, Master. It let me make quite a name for myself in the medical community over the past six months, which gave me the chance to become chief expert."
After chatting a little more, Chen Hao asked about the T-Virus. "How far has the research into the T-Virus progressed?"
Gong Honglin said, "That's a long story, Master. Come to the laboratory with me. You'll get a clearer picture there."
"All right!"
Watching Gong Honglin usher Chen Hao into the military helicopter as reverently as if he were welcoming a deity, Commander Xue rubbed the back of his head in bewilderment. "Who exactly is this kid? How can Expert Gong hold him in such high regard?"
Ever since the T-Virus had begun breaking out in one country after another, almost every nation had poured all its resources into forming a Special Task Force to research and combat it.
Under these extraordinary circumstances, every expert in the Special Task Force held a position far more important than that of any corps commander or commanding officer.
Success against the virus depended not on who had more ammunition or more advanced weapons, but on who could develop a vaccine first.
After puzzling over it for some time without making sense of it, Commander Xue gave up and roared at the dozen or so soldiers beside him, "What are you staring at? Get