Chapter 158: The Signal No One Expected
The city had finally begun to breathe again.
For two full days, the rotational recovery schedule held the system in balance. Construction slowed slightly but remained steady. Infrastructure inspections returned to safer pacing. Logistics routes moved without major delays.
From the outside, everything looked stable.
Even the numbers in the operations center confirmed it.
Workforce strain held at seventy-four percent.
Supply delivery reliability climbed back above ninety percent.
Housing construction progress remained ahead of the original timeline.
For the first time in nearly two weeks, the system looked healthy.
And that was exactly why Marcus felt uneasy.
He sat in front of the main system console early that morning, staring at the smooth trend lines flowing across the display.
Smooth graphs made people comfortable.
But Marcus knew better.
