Should we expand on at the first coordinate, or
The scanner hadn't found metal. It had found the "Aquifer Prime"—a legendary underground river rumored to have dried up a century ago. Each "resource" was a natural filtration vent, a place where the earth was still breathing, still sweating, still holding onto the one thing more valuable than credits. We found 233 resources for you..
The notification blinked on Elias’s cracked screen: Should we expand on at the first coordinate,
He grabbed his pack and started walking toward the nearest blue dot. He had 233 reasons to believe the world wasn't dead yet. glowing a deep
"Twenty-one... twenty-two..." he whispered, his heart hammering against his ribs.
The list didn’t show scrap. It showed coordinates. 233 individual markers bloomed across his holographic map, glowing a deep, impossible blue.