Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1192 Exploring the Underground Laboratory! World-Class Security Stuns the Top Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets: 3K Chapters)

“Okay!” Fang Yan nodded in agreement.

Taking photos is not a casual activity.

It is a team building and management strategy carefully planned by Lao Hu and Fang Yan, with the core purpose of strengthening the cohesion of the new alliance and demonstrating technical strength.

The photos will visually showcase the team's top-tier talent pool, so even if those experts want to get cocky when they return, they'll have to see who's still here.

Therefore, this matter is actually very important at this moment.

Hearing Fang Yan agree, and with no one else objecting, the sister-in-law Zhu Xian stepped forward and addressed the crowd:

"Find a place with good lighting, preferably inside the workshop, and avoid backlighting, so that everyone's face can be clearly photographed."

Then she said:
"The veteran comrades should stand in the middle!"

Upon hearing this, Deng Tietao said:
"No, no, Director Fang and Mr. Hu should be standing in the middle! This rule cannot be broken."

Before they joined, they could stand in the middle, but now it's different. Their status has changed. Fang Yan and Lao Hu are the leaders, so it's right for them to stand in the middle.

The others nodded in agreement, pushing Fang Yan and Lao Hu, who were originally standing on the sides, to the center.

Once everyone had taken their positions, Zhu Xian addressed them:

"Come on, look at me, everyone smile!"

"Three...two...one!"

"Click!" The shutter clicked, and the photo was taken.

"Don't move! Let's have a few more to be on the safe side!" Zhu Xian said to Fang Yan and the others.

She took several more photos, and finally, satisfied, ended the shoot.

Next, Fang Yan asked Zeng Luquan to lead the way and began to look around the production workshop.

The workshop was brightly lit, and workers in the raw material pretreatment area were sorting and cleaning local medicinal herbs. The workbenches were clean and orderly.

In the pharmaceutical preparation production area, high-efficiency vacuum dryers, automatic packaging machines, and other equipment are running at a roar, and pills and ointments are being transferred at a uniform speed on the production line.

In the quality inspection and packaging area, technicians in uniform use precision instruments to inspect finished products. Qualified products are quickly labeled and boxed, and instruction manuals printed in multiple languages ​​are neatly stacked.

The workers and technicians were focused, and no one whispered to each other.

The walls are adorned with signs that read "Safety Production" and "Confidentiality Regulations," and standardized flowcharts are posted next to the workbench, giving the whole place a militaristic management style.

The air was filled with the aroma of rehmannia root, mugwort, and frankincense.

The ventilation system was running continuously, but the warm and humid feeling of the medicinal herbs being steamed could still be faintly detected.

Zhao Sijing picked up a handful of honeysuckle vines that were about to be processed, examined the cuts closely, and nodded, saying:

"The air-drying process was perfect, the active ingredients were intact, and the pharmaceutical manufacturing process was excellent..."

Fang Yan said to Zhao Sijing:

"This production process was developed by Professor Zeng Luquan and his senior, Professor Jin Shiyuan."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Sijing was taken aback and turned to Zeng Luquan to ask:
"Jin Shiyuan is your senior brother?"

"Yes." Zeng Luquan nodded.

Zhao Sijing quickly cupped her hands in greeting to him:

"Nice to meet you!"

He then introduced himself to the others:
"The lineage of the Imperial Physician King Qu Wenlou includes Zhao Shaoqin, Zhou Muxin, and Wang Hongshi, who are his fellow disciples."

Upon hearing that Zeng Luquan was someone of great importance, everyone quickly bowed and clasped their hands in greeting.

No one expected that dialects were so powerful that they could recruit such talents.

Then continue walking forward.

Huang Yaoyan leaned closer to examine the instrument panel of the vacuum dryer and said with some surprise:

"Temperature control accuracy of 65 degrees ± 0.5?! That's even more stable than a laboratory incubator! How much does this imported machine cost?!"

"This was brought back from Japan," Lao Hu said.

Upon hearing this, Huang Yaoyan exclaimed in surprise:

"They're willing to sell?"

Lao Hu said:

"Of course not. I directly used an American professional manager to acquire a pharmaceutical factory, then used an American identity to buy the machines, and then shipped them to Southeast Asia, making a round trip, before arriving in Tianjin. Several other production lines also made a round trip before arriving here."

"Great move!" Huang Yaoyan gave Lao Hu a thumbs up.

Then everyone continued to walk around the workshop from beginning to end, witnessing Fang Yan and his team's capabilities. Fang Yan then asked Zeng Luquan to open the underground research lab so that these people could go down and take a look.

Since they're all on our side now, we can still go down and take a look.

The key point is that neither Fang Yan nor Lao Hu have seen the underground structure in its entirety, so today is a good opportunity for them to take a look.

Upon hearing Fang Yan's request, Zeng Luquan nodded. He was familiar with the underground area, having been there every day.

"Alright, everyone, follow me!" Zeng Luquan called out to the crowd.

He led the group to an inconspicuous corner deep within the surface structure of the Secret Formula Research Institute.

This place was disguised as the entrance to a boiler room, with an old exterior and some seemingly ordinary clutter.

Zeng Luquan stopped and introduced himself to the crowd:
"Everyone, this is the entrance to the underground research institute." "Huh? Here?" The students from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine looked surprised.

He said in dialect:

"This is because the design incorporates some necessary concealment and protection measures."

Zeng Luquan nodded, confirming the dialect pronunciation, then turned and pointed to the entrance:
"Please stay close to me, everyone. The passage inside is a bit winding."

He stepped forward first and turned a seemingly rusty valve handle. A heavy cement panel next to it silently slid to the side, revealing a deep passageway that emitted a faint, cold white light.

A stream of filtered air, carrying a faint scent of cleaning agents, escaped from it.

Everyone was stunned by the scene.

"A bit...a bit precise?"

"Uh-huh……"

The students from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine looked at each other in bewilderment.

Zeng Luquan introduced:
"This is just one of the entrances. It can be abandoned if necessary, and other unopened entrances will be activated. Our security level is built to the highest protection standards."

"Come with me, everyone!" he said, inviting the crowd.

As Zeng Luquan had previously revealed to Fang Yan, the entrance passage is not a straight path, but requires passing through two near-90-degree right-angle turns.

The passageway was not wide, only allowing two people to walk side by side. The walls were smooth cement surfaces, and the ceiling was fitted with low, bright explosion-proof lights.

The floor is covered with hard rubber flooring with raised anti-slip texture. At the corners and in the middle of the passage, tiny sensor probes installed on the walls are clearly visible, faintly emitting a dark red glow.

These are all high-tech devices that people have never seen before.

The ultraviolet sterilization lamps are hidden in a recess at the top of the passage, emitting an almost invisible pale blue glow.

Zeng Luquan reminded them from the front:
"Pressure sensors and infrared scanning are installed here, and the passage is sterilized by ultraviolet light 24 hours a day, mainly for the necessary protection of a standardized and high-level laboratory."

The air inside the passageway was noticeably drier and cooler than outside, with a clear sense of movement. The low, well-damped sound of the ventilation system could be heard.

After passing through the corner passage, the space suddenly opened up before me. A more spacious underground space than I had expected appeared, with an overall well-organized layout.

Zeng Luquan pointed to the most central area:
"These are three P2-level biological laboratories, mainly used for experiments on medicinal materials that are toxic or require a high-cleanliness environment, and for research on active ingredients. They are equipped with high-efficiency filters and negative pressure systems."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked through the thick double-layered observation window and saw white protective suits, goggles, and sophisticated instruments hanging on the walls inside. The indoor lighting was even and stable, and the equipment was advanced—the kind that looked very high-tech.

At the edge of the core area, an extremely heavy metal gate caught everyone's attention.

The door has a huge rotary mechanical combination lock and a keyhole that requires two different keys to be inserted at the same time.

Zeng Luquan specifically pointed to the square structure at the top that was almost integrated with the ceiling:

"That's a pre-set blast relief vent that automatically opens when the pressure exceeds the set value. The warehouse is kept at a constant temperature and humidity, and is fireproof and theft-proof. The winding entrance passage is to prevent the impact of a straight blast shock wave. Outside there's also..." He smiled with a hint of helplessness but also pride, "...an emergency pool with 3 tons of quicklime buried underground, which can quickly absorb moisture and keep dry in extreme situations, such as flooding. Although the probability is extremely low, the design specifications must be in place."

This amazed Zhao Sijing, Deng Tietao, and others standing nearby.

Compared to the above, this place below is practically a "doomsday fortress".

Zeng Luquan continued to introduce other areas:
"The rooms next door are instrumental analysis rooms and microbial testing rooms. Over there is a reserved low-temperature storage room for active ingredients of medicinal materials. The room lined with lead plates is a newly renovated isolation room used to process special samples or conduct research with potential radiation risks, ensuring safe isolation."

"But it hasn't been put into use yet."

Zeng Luquan's gaze fell on a more ordinary iron door on the other side of the hall:

“That passage leads to deeper facilities, including a power backup system, large water tanks, and an internal communications hub. Most importantly,” he lowered his voice, a hint of caution tinged with the project's significance, “it’s designed to connect to an emergency exit passage that ultimately merges into Beijing’s underground pipeline system, ensuring the safe evacuation of personnel and critical data in extreme circumstances. However…”

He paused and looked at Fang Yan:

"Currently, the security system for this part requires the data to be written to a magnetic card. According to confidentiality regulations, entry is currently prohibited for visitors without a magnetic card."

Fang Yan remembered the card he had prepared, which meant that only Zeng Luquan and he could enter, while Lao Hu couldn't.

The others weren't so curious, but after hearing these things, they realized that the level of investment from higher-ups was even greater than they had imagined.

Zeng Luquan continued:
"Our design goal is to create infrastructure with high self-sufficiency and resilience."

Everyone nodded and began to move around.

The temperature in the entire underground space is constant and the air humidity is moderate, completely eliminating the stuffy feeling of being underground.

The lighting is adequate but not glaring.

The ground beneath your feet and the solid walls convey an unusual sense of stability, and the roof structure is clearly specially reinforced.

Zeng Luquan explained:

"The ventilation system here can operate independently and has a high level of filtration. In addition to providing clean air, it also has the initial filtration capability to deal with nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) attacks. This is the configuration of a top-level research facility."

"Many foreign laboratories do not meet this requirement."

Deng Tietao looked around, circled halfway around the metal door with the rotary lock, and knocked on the door. The dull echo made him gasp in surprise.

"This...this isn't a research institute! I'd believe it if you told me it was a national treasury vault!"

Huang Yaoshen was staring blankly at the observation window of the P2 laboratory when he heard Zeng Luquan say "nuclear, biological and chemical filtration," and he suddenly turned around:

"You even considered this? We're researching herbs, not building an atomic bomb!" Despite his words, he couldn't help but lean closer to the glass, staring intently at the sophisticated instruments inside.

I was struck by how much importance this place seemed to receive than I had imagined.

P.S.: I still owe you 37000 words after finishing this chapter.

There will be more this afternoon!

(End of this chapter)