Inside the second Aurora City.
Xin Zhilei and four other members of the Joint Military Commission each stood at one of the five corners of the venue.
They were each protected by individual fences, and further outside were multiple circles of guards.
This was the Life Venue, the place where leaders of the joint military and representatives of the lower and middle classes communicated face to face and listened to the opinions of the populace after the outbreak of the Black Disaster.
In the East River, this was a unique mode of communication, also known as the Mobile Conference.
