Chapter 155: When the System Pushes Back
The tenth morning began with rain.
Not the gentle kind that softened the city streets, but a steady, relentless downpour that blurred the skyline and turned construction sites into fields of mud. Water collected in the gutters and flowed down the asphalt roads in thin rivers, carrying dust and debris toward the drainage channels.
Rain had always been part of the city's rhythm.
But during a period of accelerated reform, even ordinary weather could become an obstacle.
Inside the operations center, Marcus stared at the environmental monitoring dashboard as the rainfall indicators flashed yellow across multiple districts.
He tapped a command and pulled up the infrastructure sensitivity overlay.
Several construction zones turned orange.
One turned red.
He leaned back slowly.
"Not today," he murmured under his breath.
But the system didn't care about personal wishes.
It only responded to conditions.
