Chapter 972 The Origin of Long Yi
After placing the small medicine box into the recess, the previously empty secret room indeed revealed a different scene: a long, dark passageway came into view.
Long Yi's eyes lit up the moment the passage appeared, like a child who had been away for many days finally seeing the harbor where he was going home.
He rushed into the passageway without waiting.
Gu Jiao followed.
Gu Jiao had always been very curious about where such spaces came from and how they were left in this space-time.
It's highly unlikely that he created it single-handedly. The existing energy resources and infrastructure in ancient times were insufficient to allow someone to establish such a base within a few decades.
Gu Jiao also considered whether it came from a research institute in her previous life, but she quickly dismissed this guess.
The equipment in the operating room is much more advanced than that in the research institute.
Long Yi pushed open the door at the end of the corridor, and a bright light shone in. Gu Jiao almost instinctively raised her hand to shield her eyes from the light.
Long Yi rushed into the room without hesitation, and Gu Jiao followed after her eyes adjusted to the light.
To Gu Jiao's surprise, this was not an operating room, but more like a fully equipped laboratory.
In the center is a rectangular experimental table made of a special metal. There is nothing on the table, which looks like it was carefully tidied up by the Godfather before his death.
Apart from the wall with the door, the other three walls are lined with shelves about three meters high, displaying transparent glassware.
The container contained soils of various colors and compositions. Some soils had successfully nurtured plants, while others had become acidic and rotten, with no plant life surviving.
The second scenario accounts for the vast majority of cases.
And all of this... is for the purpose of cultivating gromwell.
Looking at these failed experiments, Gu Jiao could almost imagine how the Godfather repeatedly tried to cultivate the purple gromwell, only to fail time and time again, until he finally succumbed to complete collapse and despair.
No further discoveries were made in the laboratory, as if all the endless hardships had been deliberately erased by the Godfather.
Long Yi went to the shelf on the right-hand side of the entrance, pressed a switch on the wall, and with a click, it sounded like a lock was opened.
Then, Long Yi pushed forward.
It turns out there was a hidden door in that wall.
Seeing Long Yi enter through that door, Gu Jiao followed without hesitation.
The scene before her eyes completely stunned her.
It was neither an operating room nor a laboratory, but rather... a small indoor playground.
The dragon spread its arms and plunged into a pool of blue and white ocean balls.
He was too big to be submerged in the ball pit, so he plunged his head in.
Besides the ball pit, there are also trampolines, suspension bridges, climbing walls, rainbow ladders, and other play facilities for children.
However, upon closer inspection, these amusement facilities are different from those in the shopping malls of my previous life. They are more challenging, have steeper slopes, and are accompanied by various data monitoring.
"So, is this a place for Long Yi to play, or a place for training?" Gu Jiao murmured.
Long Yi went to ride his childhood rocking horse again, but unfortunately he was already very, very big now. When he sat on it, his arms and legs had to be tucked up, making him feel very cramped.
Even so, he still swayed back and forth.
Gu Jiao had a feeling that this place was more than just an indoor amusement park. As she was looking around, a mechanical voice suddenly came from above her: "Beep~"
Immediately afterwards, a thin green light scanned over, first landing on Long Yi, then sweeping from head to toe.
Then, the rotating detector on top spoke: "Mengmeng, welcome home."
It really is a cute name.
It is said that Long Yi was only five years old when he left. So many years have passed, how did it determine Long Yi's parameters?
As she pondered, the green light from the detector scanned Gu Jiao. The light at the source of the instrument flickered twice, and the mechanical voice sounded again, this time with a noticeably cold tone: "Unknown intruder detected. Eliminate?"
A whole row of gun barrels emerged from the wall, all pointed at Gu Jiao!
Gu Jiao's brow twitched.
The next second, Long jumped up and was about to grab Gu Jiao, but before he could make a move, the detector spoke.
"System paused."
"System error".
"System restart".
"System overload".
Gu Jiao had no idea what was happening. After another series of mechanical beeping sounds, the detector slumped down and crashed.
Uh, the crisis is over just like that?
Three seconds later, it turned on again, first putting the gun away, and then scanning Long Yi again.
This time, its tone was much lighter: "Mengmeng, it's a beautiful day, welcome home."
And that was it; they didn't scan Gu Jiao again.
"Is the Godfather here?" Gu Jiao asked it.
It did not answer.
"Is King here?" Gu Jiao called out the Godfather's code name in the organization.
It still did not answer.
“Long Yi, talk to it,” Gu Jiao said, turning to Long Yi.
Long Yi looked up at him, thought for a moment, and earnestly instructed it: "You need to speak."
It did indeed react, its tone light and slightly amused: "Does Mengmeng want to chat?"
"Jiaojiao has something to ask you," Long Yi said.
The detector began scanning Gu Jiao.
"Unidentified intruder detected. Should it be eliminated?"
"System paused."
"System error".
"System restart".
"System overload".
The detector crashed again.
Gu Jiao sighed, "It seems like this won't work."
I also want to retrieve some information related to the Godfather from its database.
Whether it was a system malfunction or the Godfather wrote an avoidance procedure, this person really left without leaving a trace, not even a single word.
...
However, the trip was not without its discoveries.
Long Yi showed Gu Jiao his bedroom, where he had slept as a child—it was actually a hibernation pod.
The bottom of the hibernation chamber records various characteristics of the life form it contains.
"K93 Galaxy, intelligent life form, level S."
Is this Long Yi?
Long Yi is not from this timeline.
What is level? Is it combat power? No wonder Ryuichi is so strong?
But how did the Godfather come to encounter such a powerful dragon?
I always felt it was somehow related to the first-aid kit.
Long Yi lay down in his hibernation pod, his hands folded on his stomach, behaving obediently, just like when he was a child.
Gu Jiao asked him, "Long Yi, do you remember when you first met your father?"
Long shook his head.
Thinking of something, Long Yi sat up, went to his desk, opened a drawer, and took out a photo of Gu Jiao from her past life.
In the photo, she is on an undercover mission, with a cold expression, wearing a red sundress and a crescent-shaped jade pendant.
It was the one she gave to Xuanyuan Qi.
After Long Yi's memory was erased by the people of Jianlu, he still subconsciously remembered the jade pendant. When he was assassinating Xuan Yuanqi, he saw the jade pendant around Xuan Yuanqi's neck and abandoned his mission.
Gu Jiao pointed to the photo and asked, "Did your father tell you who she is?"
Long nodded and said solemnly, "He is the most important person in my life, someone I must protect once I meet him."
...
Xiao Heng was drinking tea with Chang Kun in the courtyard, glancing towards the house every now and then.
Chang Kun smiled and said, "If the young marquis is curious, he can go in and take a look."
Xiao Heng coldly snorted, "What am I curious about? A man who spared no effort to create Dark Night Island for my wife, planted the Purple Grass, treated her better than I did, and made her think about him all the time! I'm not curious at all!"
Chang Kun: ...Then, stop shaking your leg before you speak?
Gu Jiao and Long Yi didn't come out until a full hour later.
Xiao Heng's eyes had already darted to Gu Jiao, but he feigned composure and asked, "Finished reading?"
Gu Jiao hummed in agreement, her mood slightly downcast.
When Xiao Heng saw her looking so heartbroken over another man, he was so frustrated he wanted to jump up and down.
He asked calmly, "Did you find anything?"
Gu Jiao shook her head: "No, he erased everything too cleanly, as if he was afraid I would discover something here."
Xiao Heng raised his hand and gently touched her head: "He doesn't want you to be sad."
Xiao Heng felt that if he were in that situation, he would definitely do the same.
Everything he did was not to earn her gratitude; on the contrary, he hoped she could live without any worries or burdens.
Therefore, she didn't need to know that he had been in hell; she just needed to move forward and see the light.
The Dark Night Island arc has been mostly explained, and the side story is more than halfway through. I'm happy.
(End of this chapter)
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