They Were Not Yet Broken in the Shadows

The air was thick with tension, a palpable weight that pressed down on the occupants of the shadowy, high-tech underground facility. Nestled deep within the mountains, far from the prying eyes of the broken world above, the facility was a stark contrast to the chaos and ruin that had become the norm. Here, amidst the hum of state-of-the-art technology and the glow of holographic maps, the Jade Dragon plotted in secrecy.

The room was dimly lit, the only light coming from the flickering screens and the soft glow of encrypted communication terminals. The walls were lined with monitors displaying streams of data, maps of the world with highlighted regions, and feeds from surveillance cameras. The atmosphere was one of calculated precision, every movement deliberate, every action measured.