The Yanning Islands was made up of over a hundred islands and large and small stars. In the darkness of the night, only a dozen or so islands had light on their buttons. Among them, the biggest, narrow crescent moon-shaped island was called Liudao. After the Cataclysm, Japan's original population of over a hundred million had shrunk by less than a million. For the better part of a century after that, countless more people died.

Right now, there were less than a hundred thousand ...