(Buying a house, renovating it, endless hassle and running around... I really don't know how many more days I can keep this up...)
On this ruined planet filled with nothing but wreckage and debris, the existence of an advanced megacity like Great City was astonishing. Though it too had been built atop all manner of old ancient machinery, the city was still grand enough to be called magnificent.
Great City stood within a massive crater more than two hundred kilometers across. The crater cut cleanly through every nearby warship wreck, making it especially conspicuous amid this land piled high with jagged metal ruins. This striking incongruity became even more obvious when flying over it—it was hard to imagine seeing something so orderly in this filthy, broken-down world...
Because the crater walls formed a smooth slope of nearly eighty degrees, Great City was effectively separated from the outside world by a barrier. While waiting for the ship to land, we curiously spent half the day studying how the people of Great City usually got around. One method seemed to be aircraft. As the only place in this world that could be called prosperous and advanced, Great City possessed an enormous number of widely used aircraft. Above the city was an aerial traffic network as bustling as Shadow City's. All kinds of disarmed single-pilot fighters and light Xiling Transport Ships darted through the air, while beacon lights and guidance beams formed an ever-changing grid beneath the darkening sky. Though this network looked quite disorganized compared with Shadow City's high-altitude traffic system, and every little ship buzzing around looked like it had been dug out of a garbage heap, this scene was already good enough to win a little golden man in a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster.
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