"Wow..." Elorie cried. "This... this is incredible!"
Shock showed on Liu Shuyue's face too.
She had never imagined humans could turn a pitch-black underground cavern into a place to live. She had thought the skyscrapers of Jiangcheng were astonishing enough, but this was on another level.
Chen Xuan gazed at the glittering city, momentarily lost in thought.
The technical achievement behind a city built underground spoke for itself.
Light, energy, food, water recycling... Almost everything needed to sustain life could no longer be readily drawn from nature. It had to be produced artificially.
In a sense, this was already a semi-enclosed artificial ecosystem.
Jiangcheng in 2025 could not have pulled it off, even with the entire world's resources behind it.
Compared with the abandoned city above, this place deserved to be called the future!
There was no mistake. The secret Erosion incident Lin Qing had mentioned had to be what was happening today. New Paris City truly did have the potential to drive a major leap in the Dimensional Limit Organization's technology. And perhaps he could find somewhere here to repair the Scanner Gun.
"You don't look very surprised," Raphael said, studying Chen Xuan with interest.
"I am. I'm so surprised I'm stunned." Chen Xuan shook his head. "This city must be at least as big as one of Paris's districts, right? A project this enormous... How long did it take you to build?"
He was not merely humoring Raphael.
He genuinely admired the underground city and wanted to know more about it.
"The original plans were nowhere near this ambitious," Raphael replied. "It was designed for five million people and was basically finished in just fifteen years. The New Paris you see now is the result of several expansions. Construction still hasn't stopped."
"Is it because of those monsters