Friday, August 16, 6:35 p.m.
At the entrance to the South City Police Department.
Given witches' high mobility, their police structure was extremely simple. Each district in every city had a local precinct, larger regions had regional public security bureaus, and the highest authority within a city was called the City Police Headquarters. A Police Department referred to the provincial level, overseeing all precincts, public security bureaus, and City Police Headquarters throughout the southern cities—including South City—as well as their nearby territorial waters, folded spaces, island chains, and everything else.
It had been built in the territorial waters near South City: a colossal fortress-like Sky Island above the clouds. Like a vast network node, it connected satellites and the witch network. It contained residential districts, work districts, and farming districts, with high-tech skyscrapers spread throughout. It could practically be called a city packed full of witch police officers. Countless aerial roadways within the city linked to the core of this sensitive police metropolis: the cluster command hub.
Its defense systems could hold out for years under siege by millions of witches.
It could supply four million witches and was self-sufficient in food and basic materials, including water.
Its entrance was especially breathtaking: a vast circular lobby with an elevator rising toward the sky at its center. Witches had to collect a number from the front desk, walk to the elevator, and insert their number token. The elevator would then directly launch them into different areas—for witches, it might be a little frightening. After all, witches were land-dwellers, and they often screamed when launched into the air.
Every country's police uniforms were somewhat different. Domestic police uniforms leaned a little British, perhaps because this country and Britain belonged to the Iron Alliance in this world. Combined with the country's somewhat obsessive