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As Song Ren continued progressing through the game, the story of City of Rapture, along with the questions that had previously baffled him, began to receive answers.

For example, why City of Rapture had become like this, and what exactly Little Sisters and Big Daddies were.

The early City of Rapture had been built by a wealthy man named Andrew Ryan—the man who had promoted City of Rapture through the bathysphere at the beginning.

Andrew Ryan had always championed absolute capitalist freedom. He believed that capable people should enjoy the fruits of their own labor.

He also believed that humanity's moral values hindered technological and social progress. Thus, City of Rapture's system prioritized the market economy, making moral boundaries exceptionally blurred.

Thanks to its immense capital, City of Rapture quickly became an incredibly advanced city, attracting countless elites and wealthy people to settle there.

But before long, the flaws of this society began to emerge.

In City of Rapture, which was entirely dominated by the market economy, every public service had become privately owned, and everything required payment.

Public institutions simply did not exist. Even calling the police cost money. If you wanted to rest on a bench in a roadside park, you had to pay as well. Even every breath of air you took had to be paid for.

That was City of Rapture. The gap between rich and poor had been stretched without limit.

And more importantly, once someone arrived in City of Rapture, they could never leave.

Thus, the conflicts within City of Rapture began to intensify.

However, at this point, a genius female scientist named Tenenbaum discovered a mysterious sea slug and extracted a substance called Adam from it.

Adam could rewrite human genes, and Fontaine, the gang boss of City of Rapture, immediately saw its