Of course they were afraid, which was why the higher-ups had never approved the surrounding cities' requests to merge.
It wasn't that the nearby cities weren't afraid either; they simply wanted to take a more roundabout approach. For instance, national-level documents could state that they belonged to Ting City, while actual administration remained separate. Their new urban districts absolutely would not border Ting City's city limits either. Well, didn't a river ditch count as separation? If they faced one another across a dirt road, they could still count as neighboring residents kept apart.
But whether this carried risks, and how great those risks might be, was still unclear. The District Government was currently searching everywhere for relevant records, hoping to obtain supporting data from previous experience.
Team Leader Wu knew that among the District Government's upper ranks, most people believed that merging cities carried little risk. After all, other districts had plenty of super-metropolises built later on, and those cities had not subsequently developed any problems. Even when new Dungeons emerged, they were usually open-area Dungeons. Such Dungeons could exist in any city and were nothing unusual.
Besides, District 014 would certainly build more super-metropolises like this in the future, and Dungeons would inevitably appear. Ting City currently had many Players around it, as well as many Outer District Players. If a Dungeon really did appear, they could instead use it to test the waters first.
"Do you disagree with this?" Team Leader Wu asked tentatively. After all, Xu Huo now possessed veto power.
Xu Huo considered it for a moment. "For now, proceed at your own pace."
If merging the cities really resulted in a Dungeon, Lichun would be an advantageous factor. Using Ting City as a test site was indeed better than using another city.
Seeing that he