After enjoying afternoon tea, they went to a nearby tea garden to admire the tea trees that never withered. Wu Xian invited Jiang Han to visit Northern Frontier Pharmaceuticals' processing plant. For pharmaceutical companies with extremely strict industry confidentiality, study groups and visitors were usually not allowed in.
Take Wilhelm Pharmaceuticals, for instance. If Kraken did not possess some of the abilities of the Face Fruit, it would probably have been difficult even to enter the company to observe and gather material.
But if one of the company's managers was willing to bring someone inside, that was another matter entirely.
Wu Xian happened to be a mid-level manager at Northern Frontier Pharmaceuticals in South City. Bringing Jiang Han in met with virtually no obstruction, and she directly led her to Northern Frontier Pharmaceuticals' highly confidential raw-material processing plant in South City.
It was located on a small floating island roughly two hundred kilometers north of Trade Street. A fragment of Folded Space had been used to open up a place resembling a demi-plane. Two Archwitches and the security training teams they led were stationed on the island, while the production teams were maintained by another two Archwitches.
From the outside, it looked like a lake wrapped in jungle. Stone cliffs stood along the lake shore, with processing factories and living facilities built both above and beneath them. It looked just like the encampment of an expedition team opening up a new continent—except this expedition was stationed on a Sky Island within the city, and every Wednesday they had off and could go outside and wander around however they pleased, or so Wu Xian said.
The demi-plane was like a fissure opened in the stone wall. The witches had sealed it off with fences and stringent protective measures. One could enter