"Is this the place?" she asked Lu Shifeng uncertainly, "Can this place heal my face?"
If Lu Shifeng hadn’t brought her here, she would almost think soone was playing a joke on her.
But Lu Shifeng was definitely not the kind of person to joke around.
"This is the place." The man nodded, got out of the car first, then opened the car door on her side to help her out.
He acted as if he was unaware of Su Xingyu’s thoughts, leading her straight inside, to the lobby on the first floor of a rundown building. It was a deserted reception area with only a computer and a young girl sitting in front of it, head down, painting her nails.
Upon hearing footsteps, the girl looked up at them.
She had an ordinary face, a lazy expression, and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Lu Shifeng pulled out a thin card from his suit pocket and handed it to her.
It was a black card with a greenish shine, subtly patterned like the skin of so snake, giving it an ominous look.
But the receptionist’s deanor changed upon seeing the card. She took it and swiped it through a card reader next to the computer, then stood up, respectfully handing it back to Lu Shifeng: "The elevator to the base is at the end of the hallway to the left, sir. Just swipe the card there; soone from the base will et you."
Lu Shifeng took it as usual, leading Su Xingyu in the direction indicated by the receptionist.
Su Xingyu followed him, her curiosity piqued. What kind of card did Lu Shifeng give out that changed the attitude so drastically?
Lu Shifeng led her to the elevator and pressed the down button.
Su Xingyu could no longer hold back: "Down? Isn’t this the first floor?"
In cities, lower floors are generally used as parking garages. If Lu Shifeng was taking her for treatnt, they should be going up.
The elevator doors opened with a "ding" before them.
Lu Shifeng led her inside, finally explaining: "This biodical company is very secretive. This old building on top is just a cover. Their core base is below."
Saying that, he pressed a button below the B1 level button that had no label.
Su Xingyu was filled with doubt. If she didn’t understand Lu Shifeng so well, she might suspect he was trying to traffic her as so sort of slave.
The feeling of descent subtly indicated the elevator was rapidly moving downward, yet it seed like a very long ti had passed without stopping.
Su Xingyu wondered if she was hallucinating and asked Lu Shifeng quizzically, "Why is it taking so long?"
"Because the base is built very deep underground," Lu Shifeng replied tersely, his expression growing solemn.
Being married for so long, Su Xingyu still knew so of his habits. For instance, he only spoke concisely and with an imperceptibly serious deanor when he felt threatened.
Could it be...
Is it dangerous down there?
Su Xingyu’s thoughts raced wildly, feeling a bit uneasy.
"Just what kind of biodical base is this," Su Xingyu couldn’t help but ask Lu Shifeng, as if trying to alleviate that inexplicable unease, "why is it so secretive and mysterious?"
Her voice was like crystal, resonating in the quietly sealed tal space, causing faint ripples.
Lu Shifeng turned to look at her, his voice steady yet undeniably authoritative: "The owner of this base is very dangerous. You could say they are the most dangerous person in the world. Xingyu, be careful later. If sothing happens, don’t act rashly. Find for help imdiately."
His words left Su Xingyu feeling sowhat apprehensive. The most dangerous person in the world?
If anyone else had said it, she might not believe, but coming from Lu Shifeng, one couldn’t help but believe it.
Only soone not ordinary could make him feel threatened.
After what felt like a century, the elevator finally ca to a stop. The tal composite doors opened silently, revealing a vast silver-white plaza. It looked like an endless expanse of moonlight, smooth, mysterious, stretching infinitely into the distance, where there were intersecting elevators—no, more like fluorescent conveyor belts, pale purple, moving slowly, linking near and distant platforms, spheres, and rooms both aboveground and deep below, making it feel dreamlike.
Su Xingyu gazed at it all in awe.
It was all so unbelievable. The architecture here seed more like a sci-fi movie set, not sothing from the real world.
"This..." she couldn’t help but exclaim in amazent.
Lu Shifeng looked at her briefly and gently took her hand, leading her out.
A faint breeze seed to brush past.
If Su Xingyu rembered correctly, they should be underground now, so how could there be a breeze?
She was puzzled, but the massive impact of this underground base left her too overwheld to think too deeply.
Such a place beneath S City, it was truly incredible.
Outside the elevator, a person dressed as a researcher in a white lab coat appeared to greet them. The researcher had a bland deanor, scanning them with nondescript eyes and confird, "Mr. Lu Shifeng, Ms. Su Xingyu?"
"Yes." Lu Shifeng replied simply, affirming.
The other nodded almost imperceptibly, inviting them, "Follow ."
All pleasantries were spared, and not a word was wasted.
Su Xingyu was astonished. This place was truly mysterious. Normally, those outside eting Lu Shifeng would be overly respectful as if afraid to offend him. Yet this person acted as if Lu Shifeng’s esteed status ant nothing. No... it’s not that it ant nothing, but that everyone—be it wealthy people or ordinary folks—seed the sa in the researcher’s eyes.
Su Xingyu, being a photographer, had a knack for reading people’s eyes, and she got that impression from the researcher.
She quietly followed Lu Shifeng forward, boarding a faintly purple glowing conveyor belt under the researcher’s lead, soon arriving at an enclosed spherical space.
At the center of the spherical space was a nutrient tank, a semi-transparent glass pool suspended in mid-air, filled with an unknown purple liquid.
The researcher stopped and turned to Su Xingyu, saying, "Lie down in there."
The color of the liquid was too strange, prompting Su Xingyu to glance at Lu Shifeng.
Lu Shifeng asked the researcher, "Are you sure this is the solution to help Xingyu recover her face? Her face is damaged this badly, doesn’t she need surgery or sothing?"
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