The empire's sky was shrouded in thick fog all year round, and perhaps because of the darkness that pervaded much of the time, people gradually developed a frenzied love for vivid colors. Nowadays, all light was artificial.
More than two hundred kilometers from the urban district, floating above the grey mist at a higher altitude than the city, was a gigantic City in the Sky.
The City in the Sky was circular in its entirety, resembling a small asteroid, with mechanical buildings floating around it like a planetary ring, encircling the triangular silver tower in the middle.
There were two layers to the mechanical ring, but the outer structures and the triangular tower did not have connecting bridges; they were even separated by at least a hundred meters.
Inside the triangular tower, a woman in a white lab coat sat in the control room, listening to the alarm sounding in her ear, her gaze flickering.
