The Royal Botanical Garden had now become an entirely different place.
The original glass walls had been completely sealed off. The Empire had added another layer around the botanical hall, fully enclosing the Dragon's corpse. Outside, armed guards stood at every turn. The defensive walls were nearly ten meters high, and the surrounding bunkers were equipped with antiaircraft guns and heavy machine guns.
Anyone who did not know better would have thought it was a prison for dangerous criminals.
Li Wei, however, felt considerably reassured. Something like this absolutely had to be kept under tight security. Anything less would have been a serious problem.
Everyone had to pass through three checkpoints before being allowed into the research institute. Even Li Wei was no exception.
"Well, damn. I haven't been here for a while, and the place has really changed."
As he entered the institute and looked at the impressive lobby before him, Li Wei could not help remarking on it. The entire lobby was clean, bright, and white, giving it quite the feel of a modern tech company.
The only thing that spoiled the atmosphere a little was...
"Mr. Li Wei, what are those?"
Annie looked in puzzlement at the three large tanks beside the wall. Inside were corpses preserved in formalin-human corpses, at that.
Twisted, deformed human corpses.
Beneath them were plaques bearing their names and detailed causes of death.
"Oh, three complete idiots."
Li Wei glanced at them and snorted. Back when he had first brought the Dragon's corpse here, three idiotic researchers had heard some rumor about drinking Dragon blood granting immense strength, immortality, invulnerability, and the like. They had secretly drunk a few drops, and this was what had become of them.
After receiving the report, Li Wei had suggested simply turning the three idiots into