Searching for someone in northern Myanmar, and you call that earning tuition fees?

Su Ming's chopsticks stopped in mid-air.

He didn't look at Li Changfeng, but instead looked down at the braised pork on his plate.

The meat chunks were glistening with oil and had a rich, dark sauce color, making them quite tempting.

However, the words "immortal virus" were like an invisible cold current, instantly dispelling all the warmth and aroma in the cafeteria.

Zhang Hao, sitting opposite him, looked completely bewildered. He had been engrossed in eating and hadn't heard clearly.

"What? Diseased pigs that don't die?" he asked, his mouth full of rice, his words muffled. "Brother Li, your company also deals with swine fever? That's quite a leap into a new field!"

"..." Li Changfeng's lips twitched violently.

This is swine fever, the hell! This is an SSS-level state secret!

He wanted to yell at him, but seeing Su Ming's excessively calm face, he swallowed his words. You can't yell at this guy's roommate.

Su Ming finally raised his head, his gaze calm yet possessing an undeniable penetrating power.

"Let's go somewhere else."

After he finished speaking, he picked up his plate, stood up, and poured the leftover food into the recycling bin with meticulous care.

Li Changfeng paused for a second, then immediately reacted, picked up his plate of lonely steamed buns and followed. Before leaving, he gave Zhang Hao a look that said, "Shut up, you little rascal."

Zhang Hao was completely dumbfounded.

He watched the two figures walk away one after the other, and then looked at Lin Xiaoyue, the school beauty, who was curiously looking around not far away. He felt like he had been abandoned by the whole world.

Here we go again? What part-time job content is this that I can't listen to this time?

……

Willows sway gently by the artificial lake on campus.

This place is a well-known romantic spot on campus, where countless sweet nothings between couples are said to have echoed under the willow trees by the lake. However, at this moment, the strange pairing of Su Ming and Li Changfeng, a teenager and a middle-aged man, is completely out of place with the romantic atmosphere around them.

Su Ming leaned against a willow tree, looking at the shimmering lake surface.

"Speak," he said calmly.

Li Changfeng was no longer as awkward as he had been in the cafeteria; his expression was extremely solemn.

"Two weeks ago, a scientific expedition team sponsored by the US company 'Shield Biotech' went missing in the 'Weeping Rainforest' on the border of South Vietnam."

"A week later, the South Vietnamese military sent a platoon to search for them, but they also went missing."

"Five days ago, our technical reconnaissance unit deployed on the border intercepted a short distress signal, which originated from a radio station belonging to the South Vietnamese troops who had lost contact with the enemy."

Li Changfeng's voice was kept extremely low.

"The signal contained only three words: 'monster,' 'don't die,' and 'save me.' After that, we monitored something extremely terrifying."

He paused, seemingly organizing his thoughts for more precise wording.

"Our thermal imaging satellite observed a 'living being' in that area. He... or rather, it, moved about in the rainforest for five days and five nights without any supplies. During that time, it was bitten by venomous snakes, fell off cliffs, and was even pierced through the abdomen by the tusks of an enraged wild boar..."

Su Ming's eyelids twitched slightly.

"But he didn't die." Li Changfeng's voice trembled slightly. "Each time, he would get up again within minutes, and his wounds would heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. He was like a tireless beast, roaming the rainforest and attacking everything that was alive."

Su Ming remained silent.

"Immortality in a physical sense?" he asked the crucial question.

"Yes." Li Changfeng nodded with difficulty. "Experts from the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the military biological laboratory jointly determined that a virus never seen before has appeared in that rainforest. It can drastically accelerate cell metabolism, achieving a state of 'pseudo-immortality.' But the price is that infected individuals will quickly lose their minds, their brain tissue will be burned up in the ultra-fast metabolism, and they will eventually become 'living corpses' with only the instinct to attack left."

"We named it the 'Immortal Vine' virus because it appears to be related to a particular vine-like plant found in the rainforest."

"Currently, the virus is only spreading in the core area of ​​the rainforest. However, according to model projections, if it spreads through water sources or animal migration, the consequences will be..."

Li Changfeng didn't finish his sentence, but the consequences would be unimaginable.

Su Ming finally turned his head and looked directly at Li Changfeng.

"What do I need to do?"

His eyes showed no fear, no hesitation, only an extraordinary calmness.

Li Changfeng took a deep breath, straightened his body, and his expression became extremely solemn.

"The order from the Xishan Command is also... a request from the motherland."

"We need you to infiltrate the core area of ​​the 'Weeping Rainforest,' find the original strain of the virus, and bring back samples."

"This is... an SSS-level mission." Li Changfeng looked at Su Ming and said, word by word, "Comrade Su Ming, the country needs you."

A deathly silence fell over the surroundings.

After a long pause, Su Ming nodded.

"it is good."

A huge weight was lifted from Li Changfeng's heart, and he was so excited that he almost saluted on the spot.

However, Su's next words made him swallow back the breath he had just taken.

"How is the fee calculated?"