A line of Teacher Bais stood facing them. There were first- and second-generation models, pistols holstered at their waists, black submachine guns slung over their backs, and metal detectors in their hands.
The armed security guards in full combat gear stunned the Child Prodigies. It felt as though, if they hadn't made an appointment in advance, these Teacher Bais would draw their guns and open fire without hesitation upon seeing unfamiliar faces, spraying hundreds of bullets in an instant. Even an elephant in the elevator would have been shredded.
Compared with the Teacher Bais on the ground floor, the ones underground were colder and more mysterious. They offered no enthusiastic greetings or unnecessary chatter, merely gesturing for everyone to line up and enter.
Song He and Xiang Xiaotong took the lead and obediently went through security.
"Does even the dean have to go through security?" Yang Yu followed behind them.
"They're worried someone might impersonate him," Song He briefly explained.
The Child Prodigies went through security one after another. Then they followed Dean Xiang through several turns, and soon laboratories with glass walls appeared one after another. Quite a few professors and Teacher Bais were busy inside.
"The underground section of the academy is basically all laboratories," Song He explained as he walked. "They cover every field. About sixty teams are busy across these three levels. Projects are completed every day, and new ones begin every day as well."
"Are these laboratories conducting classified experiments?" Yuan Tiangang looked left and right. "Some of them have their curtains drawn, while others don't."
"There are two types," Song He said. "One is the classified experiment you mentioned. Next, everyone will be researching the Longevity Fungus and the color-changing insect here. These are experiments that can't be known to the outside world."
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