The time soon reached nine o'clock.
"Xiao An, you can get off work." Uncle Chen found An Qian and came over to remind her.
"Okay." Anxi responded, holding the basket and preparing to burn the cut leaves.
"Hey, hey, let me do it. I just want to burn these."
Uncle Chen stopped An Qian and took the basket from her hand.
However, Uncle Chen was not in a hurry to leave after receiving the basket. He looked around and asked, "Researcher Li has left already?"
"He left early. He said he was very busy."
Anxi made up lies without blushing or heartbeat.
"Yes, that's right. They are quite busy." Uncle Chen nodded in agreement, then waved to An Qian and said, "You go, go back and rest early."
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Chen."
An Qian thanked her. After seeing Uncle Chen leave, she immediately turned around and rushed out of the fern garden. She found a toilet in the garden, took off the gray employee uniform and hid it in a nearby flower bed and covered it with soil.
Then she put her tied hair down to cover her face and put on her glasses.
Anxi walked struttingly in the botanical garden, looking for the research institute.
The location of the research institute is actually marked on the map of the park. In the corner of the botanical garden, the research institute is surrounded by some boring viewing areas.
Anxi followed the directions on the map and went around, finally finding the research institute.
From the outside, the institute looks like an ordinary gray-white four-story building with nothing special about it.
But the more this happens, the more suspicious it becomes.
Marking the institute on the map, but surrounding it with a viewing area with little traffic, is using "general" to cover up its "special".
Anxi adjusted her white clothes, pushed up her glasses, put on a straight face, and walked into the research institute with calm steps.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw two staff members in black guarding the door.
They glanced at An Qian, probably because they felt a little unfamiliar.
Anxi specifically asked Researcher Li how many employees there were in the research institute, to avoid having only three or four employees working together every day and making each other vomit in front of each other's faces, directly exposing her disguise.
When she heard that there were nearly 100 employees, she was relieved. Among the 100 employees, there would always be a few employees who lived alone and seldom socialized, and no one looked familiar to them.
Therefore, when faced with the searching eyes of the employees in black, Anxi looked back without hesitation. She was still holding the small flowerpot in which the flame bird's nest fern had been planted in her hand, and asked: "What's the matter?" ?"
"...No." The employee in black looked her up and down, then turned his head and continued to look out the door, meaning to let her pass.
But it wasn't enough for the black-clad employees to let her pass.
A few steps further in, there is a row of ticket gates similar to those in a subway station.
An Qian took out the employee card she just found from Researcher Li and turned it over to the back. There was a string of barcodes on it.
This should be it.
She pointed the bar code at the sensor on the gate.
With a "beep" sound, the transparent small blocking doors opened to both sides, and Anxi successfully entered the research institute.
The research institute is very empty, the floor is covered with blue tiles, and it looks very deserted.
In fact, there were not many employees in the research institute. Anqian walked from the first floor to the fourth floor and only saw four or five employees sitting in their small offices and resting.
Strange, where have the nearly 100 employees gone?
Anxi was puzzled, but she couldn't ask, so she could only walk around the fourth floor again.
When she reached the end of the corridor, Anxi found the elevator. She was too lazy to take the stairs up and down, so she simply waited for the elevator to pick her up.
"Ding~"
The elevator reaches the fourth floor and opens the door.
Anxi walked in and reached for the button, but before pressing it, she noticed something was wrong.
"B1?"
An unknown floor appeared on the elevator's button panel: the basement floor.
Anxi pressed it without thinking.
This is a key location, how could we not go there?
The elevator started and began to move downward.
It usually only takes 20-30 seconds for the elevator to run to the fifth floor, but Anxi watched helplessly as the time on her phone jumped from 9:31 to 9:32.
This underground level is some distance from the ground. No wonder there are no stairs leading to the underground level. I don't know how long it will take to walk.
"Ding~"
The elevator door opens.
"Hurry up! Pass me the water!"
"According to my records, the survival rate of this batch of plants is about 65%."
"The lights went out again! The seedlings I just raised!!"
This time Anxi experienced the presence of nearly 100 employees of the institute.
Anxi walked out of the elevator. No one paid attention to her at all. Everyone was busy with their own things, either hurriedly walking in the corridor, or looking at the information in their hands with a frown.
"This is... quite lively..."
Anxi avoided the employees running rampant in the corridor and looked around, observing the environment on the basement floor.
The underground floor is three times larger than the one above ground. The divided rooms are planted with various plants, including the maidenhair fern and shield fern that Anxi is familiar with. Rows of plants are hung above them to fill in the light. Lights, through which photosynthetic growth occurs.
This is the real cultivation area of the botanical garden.
Anxi had a hunch that the plant she was looking for was definitely here.
Pushing up her glasses, Anxi wanted to move on.
"Hey hey hey!! You! Stop! It's you! Wait!"
An Qian's shoulders were suddenly held, and when she turned around, she saw a young female ghost also dressed in white.
"Aren't you busy now?" the female ghost asked.
But she didn't wait for Anxi to answer, and directly took Anxi's hand and dragged her away: "If you're not busy! Come and get a spore for me!"
