A soft breeze filtered through the open windows. The sun painted warm streaks across the floor, catching the gentle movement of white curtains swaying with the air. Liora sat on the balcony, her baby curled peacefully against her chest, one tiny hand gripping her shirt as if afraid she'd vanish again.
It had been a month since she built the ten bases on Blue Planet. And in that time, everything had changed.
People had poured into the newly constructed shelters like water rushing into a dry riverbed. Survivors, drifters, and entire families who had been holding on by a thread finally found a safe place to rest. The bases—designed to be impenetrable, self-sufficient, and warm—became the new lifeline for humanity.
Each day, thousands of refugees arrived, and before long, the bases were overflowing.
And when the system issued another mission—Build 10 more bases—Liora had completed it within a week.
That wasn't the surprising part.
What stunned her was the new feature.
