The support mission to Snake Island wasn't going well, which had Zhou Yi furrowing his brows with worry.
Da Vinci needed a strong anesthetic for surgery, but purchasing such controlled substances required a licensed doctor to go through face-to-face validation and registration, with no allowance for proxies or delegated collections.
It was only thanks to the Wasteland Development Company's latest upgraded B-level credit rating that they managed to get a small amount of ordinary anesthesia from Chuneng City.
Cities like Little Smoke Ridge, within the New Human City, were too laxly regulated, allowing banned smoke pills to circulate openly within the city.
Mechanical City, on the other hand, had swung to another extreme, emphasizing strict procedural adherence.
For this reason, Red Kestrel had no choice but to travel to the more distant Recursive City to continue their procurement attempts.