"How long has it been raining? Forever. Not forever, no! For a hundred years. They say billions of people once lived on the Earth. When the temperatures rose, the great cities fell, and this rain came, this terrible toxic rain. Our ancestors saw it coming, the catastrophe. They built Ecoban, the first living city, genetically engineered to survive in a poisonous environment.…
Yamadera Kouichi
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