When Angel arrived near the old residence of the First Pioneer, he was surprised to find that a silvery-white steel wall had appeared nearby.
The wall stood around five meters tall, enclosing the old residence layer upon layer.
Only a single gate had been left.
But the gate was sealed as well, with two burly, fully armed men standing before it, seemingly guarding the entrance.
Several mechanical patrol dogs prowled around the steel wall too. Their eyes glowed a dim red as they keenly scanned every stir of wind and grass around them.
Such solemn, armed-to-the-teeth security had set the nearby residents buzzing with discussion.
Angel listened briefly and roughly grasped the situation.
The steel wall had suddenly been erected yesterday.
It was said that two people had come at noon yesterday: a mutant girl with an eye on her forehead, and an elegant old man in a suit.
Not long after the wall was raised, the guards arrived with the mechanical dogs.
At first, the people nearby had guessed that something incredible had been discovered within the enclosure, perhaps treasure... But later, a resident representative went to ask the guards.
The answer they received was: the First Pioneer's former residence was being restored and would later be turned into a tourist attraction centered on its cultural value.
When the residents heard that, the interest they had just developed vanished like smoke in the wind.
What cultural value? What former-residence attraction? Those were not the point. The point was selling tickets to make money.
Some consortium had probably suddenly realized that "culture" could be used as a selling point too, so they had come to stake out land and rake in profits.
The residents could only sneer at this.
They knew that once the attraction began making money, the surrounding