Meanwhile, Lin Cuo had certainly not been resting as instructed.
Regeneration gel held his left arm in a cooling brace, and the Imperial Physician had forbidden him from moving it for seven days. The system, however, had never said he could not tap the interface with his right hand. Less than fifteen minutes after Chifuyu and Tabane left the Medical Pod, the newly unlocked city-building map filled his vision again.
On the ordinary map, Luoyang was a golden region symbolizing the heart of the empire. Once he switched to the disaster and municipal services view, its colors immediately became much less auspicious. The old city's population density was too high, the new industrial belt outside the southern market lacked sufficient buffer space between it and the residential districts, and the Arms Factory shared several major substations with the civilian power grid. Backup water supplies existed only in a planning report from thirty years ago. Worse still, the railway hub in the western suburbs served four separate systems: military transport, civilian transport, coal, and food.
Lin Cuo placed backup power stations, underground reservoirs, a ring freight line, medical zones, and wartime shelters onto the planning layer one by one, then drew mandatory separation zones between the water supply and sewage networks. The city module's technology was by no means primitive. Some of its infrastructure even far exceeded Great Han's existing standards. The problem was that this was not an unlimited-funds sandbox. He could draw the plans now, but factories would not spring up on the spot.
Upgrading the water supply technology required engineering schools, equipment factories, and a budget; a backup power grid required copper, sakuradite conductors, transformers, and construction workers; wartime shelters did not materialize with a click on the map. They also required land acquisition, access roads, and connections