Ronan admitted that bringing up the Anxia Line was, to some extent, a case of tailoring the topic to the person.
That was entirely because the person speaking with him was An Dongsheng, an Extraordinary Species with the richest experience fighting Aberrant Species, the Light of the Northern Border stationed in An City and resisting the waves of Aberrant Species sweeping down from the northern and northwestern regions of the East Asia Continent; he was also supposedly one of the key leaders of the Bamboo Dragonfly.
Compared with collecting physical specimens from the Jin Buhuan Battlefield, establishing deeper communication with An Dongsheng and even the Bamboo Dragonfly was more important. Naturally, he needed a good topic to start with.
Ronan did not actually know much about the Anxia Line. He only knew it was an intercity railway trunk line, one still confined to blueprints... or even merely to the minds of a few individuals, capable of carrying heavily armed trains. Its construction was being attempted according to the route plans of the developed railway network from before the Third War.
The route had two endpoints: An City at one end and Xia City at the other, passing through Huai City in between.
In the Aberration Era, the Wilderness surrounded the cities. When people spoke of "rail transit," they basically assumed it meant superconducting maglev tracks operating only within city limits. An intercity railway more than 1,200 kilometers long was truly a fantasy—were they planning to fight battles along the line every day?
Besides, this route ran completely counter to the strategy since the Great Infrastructure Era of concentrating all resources in the major megacities. It did not fit people's usual way of thinking either.
By comparison, Vagrant Return to City was a positive example.
That was why, even though this