"Lieutenant Li, this way, please. That entrance is the disinfection passage for laboratory personnel. We don't need to go through there."
"Oh, oh—"
He wasn't exactly being overly submissive, but he obediently followed behind the guide. Along the way, Li Jiye felt like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Whenever no one was paying attention, he curiously looked around, only to immediately straighten his gaze and look ahead the moment the person in front turned around.
Honestly, since the day he was born, this was Old Li's first time visiting a place that was so obviously high-tech—no, futuristic sci-fi. Yes, the kind of sci-fi setting straight out of a movie.
Automatic facial-recognition gates, high-end holographic scanners, machines roaring endlessly behind glass partitions—he had heard they were high-precision 3D printers, technological products capable of controlling arrangements down to the microscopic molecular-crystal level. Many of the large laboratory-style rooms here were equipped with complete production lines of the same sort.
People in lab coats, protective suits, and even full sets of heavy gear moved in and out, busy with their work and completely ignoring everyone and everything else. To be honest, it gave this "outsider" a strange feeling—
He felt like some kind of "alien" who had entered a hive, while these people were all industrious worker bees.
Forget telling anyone else about it—Li Jiye was nearly amused by his own strange association.
This place was a highly classified scientific research zone in the province.
Before being driven here in a special car today, just as when he had first come two days ago, he had undergone a series of strict security and equipment inspections. Anything that might contain a signal transmitter or sensitive metal components could barely make it through.
As they continued onward, the deeper they went, the fewer