"Xiao Ji!"
"Understood. Importing the Western Ring Line map!"
As Xiao Ji rapidly worked on the back of her hand, a three-dimensional boundary map of Jiangcheng appeared above the panoramic projector. Compared with the twenty-first century, there were many more elevated bridges beyond the Third Ring Road. Some were even covered by fully enclosed glass domes, clearly built for vacuum maglev trains.
But most of them had now been abandoned. Rusted rails, corroded transmission towers, and snapped power lines were minor problems; parts of some elevated bridges had collapsed entirely, while wreckage from derailed trains lay scattered across the ground.
"This is real-time footage we scanned the last time we approached the outskirts," Lin Qing said. "See those drones? They are the Sky Patroller's eyes, monitoring every inch of the boundary."
Chen Xuan could see them clearly. There were all kinds—quadcopters, flapping-wing drones, fixed-wing drones, and even biomimetic models. They clearly were not civilian products. They looked more like weapons made for war.
He simply did not understand how a bunch of drones could seal off an entire city.
The boundary zone was only around ten kilometers wide. With the accelerator floored, a vehicle could blast through it in minutes.
Even if there were attack drones among them, the stronghold should have plenty of countermeasures.
"How do you think the Sky Patroller appeared?" Lin Qing seemed to have seen through his confusion. "Did it just stride over here on foot? No. We have never captured it traveling from the east side of the city to the west. Every time it appeared, it did so suddenly, like a ghost emerging from a sandstorm."
"It can teleport?" Chen Xuan asked in surprise.
"Yes, it is almost no different from teleportation. So once the drones spot someone, the Sky Patroller arrives the very