The last light spot that was floating at the center of the sky of Fish Dragon City as beautifully as a firefly finally died down, replaced by certain bluish clusters of light that were hazier and more unpredictable. They congregated into deep blue rivers in the sky like flowing moonlight.
Although it had been a long time since human beings got rid of the planets and stepped into space, people who had spent their entire life on starships were still used to measuring the time with 'days'. It was their tradition to simulate 'daylight' and 'night' in the man-made environment.
It was also a tradition to do clandestine, bloody business at night.
When the night was dark, it was the time for the murders and arsonists.
Fish Dragon City was an enormous metropolis in space built by the most powerful refugees of the four new worlds.
But the refugees from the four new worlds were not unified. They had all kinds of conflicts and contradictions among themselves.