Deep within Baiyao Mountain, at the heart of the Escape Tower.
The place had become a completely different sight—Black Gate Cult believers had long since withdrawn, replaced by tens of thousands of automated machines crawling in tight, orderly ranks across the inner walls of the Skywell. This was the Escape Tower's entire logistical reserve, originally meant to maintain every facility within the tower and keep it running for at least a thousand years. But now, that was no longer necessary.
Over the past few years, one of their major tasks had been repairing the damaged central isolation layer and reopening the region on the other side of the Skywell.
That side led to the rear of the Sanctuary, to the lightless "Permafrost Zone."
When the Escape Tower was first designed, it had been intended to run through the entire Moon Satellite. Spaceships could be launched from both directions, while the gravity well could rapidly transport cargo from one side to the other, eventually turning the Sanctuary into an ultimate fortress spanning the Moon Satellite. But due to shortages of resources and manpower, that plan had never come to fruition, and the other end of the Skywell had been completely sealed off.
Reopening it now was not to continue the old fortress plan, but because Xia Fan needed to carry out a thorough transformation of the Skywell.
"How are things on this side?" He followed the corridor to the outer edge of the four-hundredth level and walked over to An. As one of humanity's most direct descendants, An also possessed all of Omega's permissions and could direct Thought Control in the reconstruction work.
The Skywell was now brightly lit inside. Even this deep within the four-hundredth level, they could clearly see the enormous curved rings and metal heat-insulation layers along the