"This is my budget proposal. With just a small expenditure from the Municipal Government, we can install twenty-four-hour cameras on major streets, in high-crime areas, and at official facilities."
When a fiscal application form went from Special Task Force Three to the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, then from the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs to the Municipal Government, everyone it passed through went completely mad.
"Is this guy insane? Installing cameras across the entire city? Does he know how much that would cost? Huh, it's not that expensive? Is it because camera technology has improved, and because we can manufacture them ourselves? No, this isn't about money. This isn't about money at all!!"
The progress of the times had made many impossibilities possible.
On another timeline, cameras had only begun seeing limited domestic use around 2000, and did not become widespread until around 2004.
Ancient City was now at the starting line of the New Era in 2001. Not only had domestic and foreign technological innovation brought enormous benefits, making all kinds of once-unimaginable "advanced appliances" cheaper, smaller, and accessible to ordinary citizens, but the influx of alien technology had also produced countless era-spanning creations.
Once even spaceships had been successfully analyzed, Earth's technology had entered a remarkably strange transitional period. Medieval carriages and single-person rockets capable of sending someone into space both existed. So long as you had money and connections, you could buy just about anything.
And with freakishly overpowered things like craftsmen around, modified devices and handmade products surpassing industrial goods were commonplace. There was no need to be too surprised by anything you saw.
Lu PingAn had not gone through the administrative process. He had not submitted this as a formal proposal.
Because he knew that once the decision-making process began, an internal proposal would have to