Los Angeles was a special city, at least to Zhong Yi.
Hollywood was located here, making it an important city in the global entertainment industry, which was why they had set up their entertainment company here...
But it wasn't as though the company couldn't be based elsewhere. Naturally, there was a more important reason for choosing this place.
California, where Los Angeles was located, was often known back home for once having had the Terminator as its governor. But to Zhong Yi, its most distinctive feature was its geographical location.
The state bordered the ocean to the west, with deserts to both its north and south. To the east lay the Cordillera Mountain System, which ran through the Americas. Nearby were Mount Whitney, over 4,400 meters above sea level, the Coast Ranges, and the Sierra Nevada. Farther away were the famous Rocky Mountains.
This was an enormous mountain system, its sheer breadth and scale no joke. Even in a book, creating a mountain system this vast would be difficult to work into the setting. Perhaps only the Ten Thousand Great Mountains could compare.
Naturally, among those countless mountains were volcanoes, and quite a few of the active ones had erupted.
Besides the mountains and deserts, there was also the eerie Death Valley, with its treacherous terrain, scorching heat, aridity, and raging mudslides. Every harsh condition was as hair-raising as its name, and it was considered one of the least suitable areas for human habitation in the world.
Ocean, mountains, deserts, Death Valley, volcanoes... with habitable plains and basins nestled within. Almost every kind of environment in the world could actually be found within this one state.
If someone were looking for the Vermilion Bird, wouldn't a place like this be one of the key areas to search?
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