Yanbai's family business empire stood amid the bustling streets.
The family company's headquarters was a pyramid-shaped city landmark, surrounded at ground level by streams of traffic and hurried pedestrians.
No one knew that hundreds of meters beneath this strange pyramid lay countless institutes devoted to different fields of research.
At the deepest level was a restricted area with no human staff, run entirely by robots.
Everything inside was carried out by various AIs and robots following instructions.
Anyone who saw it would have been dumbstruck.
The place was filled with advanced equipment and diligent robots.
Inside was a dazzling world with a solemn atmosphere, filled with over a hundred biological pods containing blue nutrient fluid.
They resembled ornate blue lamps hanging at regular intervals, casting a warm, brilliant glow.
Dozens of the pods contained small figures hugging their knees. They varied in size, but even the largest looked no bigger than a four- or five-year-old child.
In that still environment, however, aside from the sounds of cold machinery operating, there was only the faintest whisper of breathing.
Suddenly, the figure curled up inside one of the pods moved.
She had the body of a four- or five-year-old girl. Slowly stretching, she reached out with trembling fingers and operated the pod from within, draining the nutrient fluid.
Before long, after the fluid had drained and all readings met the required standards, the pod slowly opened.
The girl inside crawled out, her entire body twitching.
The robots responsible for managing the facility brought her fresh clothes and a bath towel.
It took a while for the twitching girl to stand properly. Wrapped in the towel, she struggled into the fitted clothes the intelligent robot had brought her, a gentle, elegant smile never leaving her beautiful, childish face.
"Oh? I really did get