The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1949

Chapter 1949: Chapter 972: The Origin of Long Yi

After placing the first aid kit into the groove, the originally empty secret room indeed revealed a different scene: what unfolded before the eyes was a dark and long passage.

Long Yi’s eyes lit up the instant the passage appeared, just like a child who had wandered away for days finally seeing the harbor of home.

He hurriedly rushed into the passage.

Gu Jiao stepped forward to follow.

In fact, Gu Jiao had always been curious, where did such spaces come from, and through what means are they left in this time and space?

It seemed unlikely that they were created by a single hand, as ancient developed energy and infrastructure were insufficient to carve out such a base within just a few decades.

Gu Jiao also considered whether it came from a research institute in a past life, but she quickly dismissed this guess.

The equipment in the operating room was far more advanced than that of the research institute.

Long Yi pushed open the door at the end of the passage; a strong light flashed, and Gu Jiao instinctively raised her hand to block it.

Long Yi unhesitatingly dashed into the room, and once Gu Jiao adjusted to the light, she too walked over.

To Gu Jiao’s surprise, it was not an operating room but rather a fully equipped laboratory.

In the center was a rectangular experiment table made of special metal, with nothing on it, as if the Grandfather had tidied it up beforehand.

Apart from the wall with the door, the other three walls were lined with shelves about three meters high, filled with transparent glass vessels.

Inside these vessels were soils of varying colors and compositions; some soils had successfully nurtured plants, while others were acidic and decayed, with no living plant organisms.

The latter case accounted for the vast majority.

And all these... were for cultivating purple herbs.

Looking at these failed experiment samples, Gu Jiao could almost imagine how the Grandfather repeatedly planted purple herbs and failed each time, until he eventually sank into collapse and despair.

There were no more discoveries in the laboratory, as if all the endless hardships had been deliberately erased by the Grandfather.

Long Yi came to the shelf on the right-hand side upon entering, pressed a switch on the wall, and with a click, it seemed that a lock had been opened.

Then, Long Yi gave a gentle push forward.

Turns out there was a hidden door on that wall.

Seeing Long Yi enter through the door, Gu Jiao followed him in without a second thought.

The scene before her left her utterly amazed.

It was neither an operating room nor a laboratory, but rather a... small indoor playground.

Long Yi jumped in with open arms, diving into a pool of blue and white ocean balls.

He was too large to be submerged by the balls, so he buried his head into them.

Apart from the ocean ball pool, there were trampolines, iron bridges, climbing walls, rainbow ladders, and other children’s play facilities here.

However, if scrutinized closely, these play facilities differed from those in past-life malls; they had greater difficulty, steeper slopes, and various data monitoring.

"So, is this a place for Long Yi to play, or a training ground?" Gu Jiao murmured.

Long Yi went on to ride his childhood pony; unfortunately, he was already very big, and could only sit on it with arms and legs curled, feeling awkwardly cramped.

Even so, he began to rock on it.

Gu Jiao felt there was more to this place than merely being an indoor playground and was watching keenly when suddenly, a mechanical sound emanated above the front: "Beep~"

Soon after, a slender green light scanned over, first falling on Long Yi, sweeping from head to toe.

Then a rotating detector above spoke: "Mengmeng, welcome home."

Indeed, it called him Mengmeng.

When Long Yi left, he was only five years old. How did it determine Long Yi’s parameters after so many years?

While pondering, the green light from the detector scanned over Gu Jiao, the light at its source flickered twice, and the mechanical voice sounded again, its tone noticeably cold: "Unidentified intruder detected, should it be eliminated?"

A row of gun barrels emerged from the walls and pointed directly at Gu Jiao!

Gu Jiao’s brow twitched.

In the next moment, Long Yi shot up intending to pull Gu Jiao over, but before he could make a move, the detector spoke.

"System pause."

"System error." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"System reboot."

"System overload."

Gu Jiao was completely clueless about what was happening; after another series of beeps, the detector hung downwards, crashing.

Uh, the crisis was resolved just like that?

Three seconds later, it restarted, first retracting the guns, and scanned Long Yi once again.

This time, its tone was much lighter: "Mengmeng, today is a beautiful day, welcome home."

And then that was it, it did not scan Gu Jiao again.

"Is Grandfather here?" Gu Jiao asked it.

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