The clockwork grinding inside the round hall walls grew louder, cycling in deep ringing hum with the a deep hum world clock.
Lin Tao didn’t waver. His fingers, bound in sterile linen bandages and smeared with sheep fat, held the star-white-gold land-mapper metal pen with total, rigid care against the moving bus track of the spinning green jade ring. His left eye streamed with cascading green hex addresses as he targeted the leftover four country nodes.
Province 04: 0x7FFF0050—the coastal salt pans and fishing fleets of the Southern Sea.
Sever.
Province 05: 0x7FFF0054—the high western plateau and herding grasslands.
Sever.
Province 06: 0x7FFF0058—the river junctions and merchant towns of the central basin.
Sever.
