Fire Moth's ARC City base, formerly Heliopolis Life Sciences Pharmaceutical, had become the largest human settlement after taking in a large number of survivors from the City of Sighs.
Although a population of nearly twenty thousand was not much, and after excluding the elderly and young, there were only a little over ten thousand truly capable people, just enough to fill the forty-four-story building, both above and below ground, it already had some of the splendor of a golden age.
The increasingly crowded dormitories, the constantly operating office areas, the endless stream of people coming and going, and the small underground commercial district that was beginning to take shape.
And the defense line to ensure the safety of the base had also been initially established. The frontline troops of Sapphire City were ARC City's hardest shield, and the Jieyang Mountain, which served as its rear, had been cleared by Bianka a few months ago. It was now garrisoned by Natasha's team.
The next step in the plan was to gradually radiate the population of the base from the center of Fire Moth's base to ARC City.
The ninth underground level was ultimately just a "simulated commercial district." It was too small to even support the existing population for open purchasing.
And there were so many abandoned commercial districts outside ARC City. Heliopolis Life Sciences Pharmaceutical itself was in the city center area, and there were countless commercial streets nearby.
Revival was much simpler than construction, especially since everyone had survived from that prosperous era. They all knew what that world was like, they just didn't know how to do it.
Now that Otto was telling everyone what to do, even if they made a mistake, they could understand that they had "made a mistake" based on their own past knowledge.
Timely feedback on erroneous processes was very important.
However, whatever plans Otto was about to execute had nothing to do with Bianka and Kiana.
Now, the two had already infiltrated the top-secret area of Fire Moth, the twelfth underground level.
The ninth underground level was the limit of most people's access rights. Although the tenth underground level was still a residential area, the people who had a place there could be said to be "either rich or noble." Only a few people in the entire Fire Moth had access to this place.
And the eleventh underground level was the dedicated training ground for those special squads. Like the eighth underground level, it required higher access rights and strict identity verification due to the large amount of armaments.
The access rights required for the twelfth underground level were two whole levels higher than the ones above!
This was no longer a place that could be entered by merit or seniority. To date, only four people had ever been here.
Shu, Otto, the AI Ethics...
And Bianka, who was born here.
Otto had never revoked Bianka's access rights, and Bianka had never realized that her access rights were second only to Shu and Otto in the entire Fire Moth.
Strictly speaking, if you didn't count some proprietary information that only Otto and Shu knew, Bianka's access rights were on the same level as theirs.
Bianka even had the authority to mobilize various special squads! Otto's treatment of Bianka was terrifyingly good, but Bianka really didn't realize how enviable what she had was.
She didn't even know that she was the second richest person in Fire Moth! Her wealth was only one zero less than Shu's.
Oh, Otto used public funds. Kallen ate Otto's.
With Bianka's highest access rights, the two of them easily avoided the few people on the tenth and eleventh underground levels and successfully reached the "forbidden land" of Fire Moth.
After a short corridor, the scene of the twelfth underground level was revealed to them.
"This is..." The neatly arranged and staggered culture tanks opened Kiana's eyes, and she let out a cry of admiration. Various pipes crisscrossed under the floor and on the walls, eventually forming a huge cluster of vascular bundles in the center.
Kiana just thought about it for a moment and remembered that this was one of the quantum cluster calculator mainframes that Future City had established in various places.
She had seen a bigger one when she was playing in Future City.
The Zeroth Sequence was much more magnificent than this quantum cluster calculator that was only on one floor.
Even if you ignored the part that was buried deep underground and had almost become the foundation of Future City, the part on the surface alone was a rare super-large building in Future City.
In terms of height alone, only the space elevator was taller.
So this small quantum cluster computer was nothing special in Kiana's eyes. At most, she would just sigh and say, "So they have this thing here too."
But when Kiana's attention shifted to the culture tanks, her eyes couldn't help but narrow.
That's... a humanoid figure?
No, those are all humans!!
Kiana almost let out a sharp cry.
Fortunately, Kiana had really seen the scene of people being stuffed into these big cans before, in Future City...
Future City had everything. You could even learn to fly a helicopter and fire an array cannon in one vacation.
Most of the time, stuffing people into cans like this was for comprehensive treatment. It was a good thing. Although it looked very suspicious of human experiments, Kiana had never really seen human experiments in this form...
Otherwise, Kiana would have gone up and tried to rescue those trapped in the culture tanks long ago...
Kiana stared for three seconds, then suddenly narrowed her eyes.
Golden hair... very beautiful... hmm...
Kiana's eyes were almost narrowed to a slit. She pouted and looked at the young figures in the culture tanks on the left, then at Bianka, who was standing beside her with a head full of cold sweat, on the right.
They look so similar...
Kiana simply closed her eyes and began to compare the appearance of Bianka and the little people in the tanks in her mind.
Sure enough, no matter from which angle she looked, they all looked very similar to her older sister...
Looking at the pensive Kiana, Bianka's gaze wandered for a while before she decided to explain her origins to Kiana.
Just then, Kiana also cleared up the chaotic thoughts in her mind. She opened her eyes, and that wise light once again shot out from them.
"I understand!" Kiana's loud cry blocked the words that were about to come out of Bianka's mouth. She stared blankly as Kiana shook her head, then nodded and said to her with confidence.
"Older Sister, you must have been seriously injured, and then Otto healed you here!"
Is that so?!
Bianka's pupils quaked.
So that's how it was... not!
Kiana's confidence made Bianka lose her own. Fortunately, she remembered her origins very clearly. She was a mature artificial human, not an injured person who had been modified here as Kiana had said.
"That's not it. Actually... I'm the same as them..." Bianka was still a little embarrassed when she told the truth.
And Kiana, who had heard this, had her eyes widen in an instant.