Liu Chang'an led the little bird in her lion-dance knit hat through the ground-floor shopping area of Baolong Center. At the far end, they took an elevator down to the underground level of Building Two.
Building Two had been developed later, but its security level was higher. Hidden surveillance equipment was everywhere; even cameras had been installed along the edges of the escalator belts. The floors and walls were covered with sensing materials, fingerprints could be collected from every control button, and flying drones would periodically prompt people to look up before scanning their pupils and irises.
As for the automatic fire suppression systems on the ceiling, they were hardly cutting-edge technology. Many public places, such as high-speed rail stations and airports, had them. Once they detected a fire, they could respond within a minute, spraying water with a sputter.
It was just that the sprinkler nozzles on the ceiling here looked more like high-pressure water cannons substituted for automatic rapid-fire weapons in order to avoid domestic weapons regulations.
"Are you going to lock me up here?" Shangguan Dandan guessed, though she was not particularly worried. Although her moth was unfilial, he somehow believed the weak Empress Dowager was extraordinarily powerful. Even if he constantly wanted to frame her, he would not use such a low-level method. "This place looks like a prison."
At the thought of prison, Shangguan Dandan thought of execution and cremation. Once she confirmed that she had not killed anyone recently, she relaxed.
Ever since Liu Chang'an had explained the various punishments in a society governed by law, Shangguan Dandan had often worried a little that she would be shot and then sent off to be burned... Being shot and burned was not frightening. The crucial thing was that the furnace used to burn her was