"Yes!"
Just one word.
But that single word put Yang Yong's anxious heart at ease.
In the distance, Wang Ying, who had been waiting there all along, heard it too.
She turned and left, running quickly toward the Core Area.
When the Mechanical City began its jump, the Core Area would be completely sealed off.
It was, in itself, the largest shelter in the Mechanical City.
She ran fast, her long legs moving in alternating strides as she darted through the ruins.
Thirty seconds.
Twenty seconds.
Ten seconds.
She saw the entrance to the Core Area.
At that moment, countless currents of electricity were surging up from deep beneath the Mechanical City.
Those currents were as thick as giant pythons.
They gushed from the underground energy core, racing along designated energy conduits.
Finally...
They converged on the Electric Arc Shield enveloping the entire city.
On the shield, numerous points of light lit up, one after another.
One.
Three.
Seven.
Twenty-one.
More and more points of light appeared, densely covering the shield's entire surface.
The sight... was breathtakingly magnificent.
The Electric Arc Shield enveloping the entire Mechanical City now resembled a star chart in the night sky.
Inside the conference room in the Core Area, Cao Xianming used the access Yang Yong had given him to observe everything around the Mechanical City.
He keenly noticed...
The positions, arrangements, and spacing of those glowing points were not random.
They looked like constellations.
No, they did not merely look like them.
They were constellations.
The patterns formed by those points of light corresponded to some kind of star chart.
Cao Xianming tried making a calculation based on that conjecture.
He wanted to know just what the star chart formed by those points of light meant.
He only made a tentative attempt.
Yet