Due to the City of Immortals' demand for supplies, Stephanie had established a trading company in Rome as a cover. Materials were transported through the City of Immortals' undersea train tunnel and its expanded elevator shaft. Large quantities of daily necessities were shipped into the company, while identically packaged gravel was loaded onto cargo ships bound for the coast, where it was dumped into the land reclamation project for the offshore amusement park, merely to put on a show for the Italian government. At this rate, the offshore amusement park called the "City of Immortals" would probably need another two hundred years before it officially opened.
Stephanie was not worried in the slightest. In about ten years, those civil servants the Italian government had produced from grammar schools would probably forget why they had approved the project in the first place. They might not even be able to find the files. Then all she had to do was slip them some more money, promise that it would definitely open within the next ten years, and ensure there would be no Hawaiian pizza in the amusement park.
Another ten years, and the cycle would repeat.
This time, Natasha Romanoff had not intended to use the fixed portal to leave the City of Immortals. Instead, she took the expanded elevator shaft, because her mission was in Rome. The shaft was under tight surveillance. Every few meters along the rock walls carved upward from below stood an automated heavy bolter machine gun. If a passenger failed identity verification, they would be directly exposed to the firing arcs of hundreds of heavy bolter machine guns and face an inescapable barrage. Natasha Romanoff possessed a Gene Code-customized access pass that allowed her to use the elevator freely without suffering such insane attacks.
According to her