At around nine in the morning, Di City time, Yan Yongbo hurriedly changed locations, carrying his poor impression and foul mood toward incompetent researchers and so-called experts with him as he traveled from Bitter Reef Laboratory to Di City's central CBD.
It was the morning rush hour. Crowds and traffic streamed back and forth across the city's streets, skies, and buildings like colonies of bacteria breeding inside a giant can, their uniform patterns of survival concealing a restless force that could erupt and multiply again at any moment.
Yan Yongbo stood among them, yet quickly detached himself from it all.
He shut off the livestream, got out of the car, and entered a skyscraper. Guided by the secretary who had been waiting at the entrance, he took a private elevator swiftly upward into the best-lit room on the building's top floor.
Even in the central CBD, this was one of the highest points. Terrain, money, and power shut out most of the clamor. Yan Yongbo felt as if he had crawled out of a rotten can, as though one more step would let him escape completely... then casually toss that can into a trash bin.
Unfortunately, that was only an illusion born of agitation.
Setting aside psychological factors, the view here was indeed exceptional. From this height, he could look out over the nearby Coastline, across the seascape at the edge of the city's bustling district, until the limits of his vision melted into that distant smear of gray-blue.
But if one wished to seek out the most valuable target currently on Di City's Coastline, even the vision of an Extraordinary Species might not penetrate the atmosphere's distortion of light to see the actual scene.
Still...
Yan Yongbo's eyeballs slowly turned. Two Projection Areas had also been set up in