Little China Girl: The Wuhan Plague [changed later to “Tentacles”]

“Little China Girl” combines the prologue and first chapter of “The Wuhan Plague” (“Sleepless in Wuhan”) by Allen&Bonte wherein David Cheng meets Xi Di Wan, the girl of his dreams. It is June of 2018, and David Cheng is a brilliant twenty-two-year-old epidemiologist who has just graduated from Stanford University. He is an expert on viruses. A secret lab in Wuhan, China hires him to find a vaccine. It is fighting a corona virus.
David is shocked to find out this is a big lie. He discovers the horrific real aims of this Chinese Lab.
This starts a race against time to stop the evil plan before he is caught by lab security. The team intends to kill him to prevent their secret being exposed.
Will David succeed or be killed?
What is the horrific secret?
This fictional account is set against the real life Covid-19 pandemic.