He stood on the observation deck of a towering integrated defense center in Changning City, his gaze sweeping over the steel jungle below—a city now several times larger than it once was.
New types of protective fields flickered in and out of sight at the city's key nodes.
In the direction of the former Bluestone County, all that remained in his perception was a distant, vague, and empty coordinate point.
His parents had been safely settled in the city's core residential area, where security was far higher than it had been back in the county. This put his mind at ease.
His communication wristband vibrated slightly, projecting a vast 3D schematic of a surveillance network composed of multiple satellite city outposts and underground defense nodes.
He quickly reviewed the overall defense posture report following the integration of the Bluestone County sector.
