Silent Room

"This, this drug…" Uncle Dan's voice was laced with excitement, and the faces of the people around him changed. In the petri dish, some of the area had formed clots of bacterial colonies in stationary phase, their growth speed was staggering; while in other areas, namely the spots which had been added with the tested drug, had no sign of bacterial colony formation. This medicine was effective against the new strain of legionella pneumophilia! It was effective!

A light cut through the darkness. He Feng and his team were so excited that they lost their power of speech. Even though a stream of cough evoked from them, hope renewed their hearts. 

"It's effective, Doctor Gu, your medicine is effective." He Feng said between coughs, "We're saved, we're saved…"