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After the uneventful trip ended and I stepped onto the mainland, I felt dumbfounded as I looked at Fuzhou, which had become even more of a mess than I had expected.

China, too, had lost much of its land to barrenness, so people had flocked to the few regions that still had infrastructure capable of supporting a population, forming great cities that boasted countless people.

Those facilities had been established, and the situation had continued well enough that people could somehow maintain their lives, providing a fairly decent living environment.

And with the competitiveness that came from such facilities, the...