They came to the end of the walkway. X pushed open the door and they entered a black room. They couldn’t see anything, but they could hear the sounds of a forest all around them.
The narrator picked up again. “We won’t go into the barren period, the time when humanity lived without robotics and dialed back the historical clock of civilization at least one hundred years. We were too scared of robotics. But as we failed to progress as a species, we learned that we couldn’t live without them, either.”
The darkness gave way, revealing the modern-day UEA ahead of them. They saw the entire man-made island stretching across the Atlantic under a clear blue sky. Skyscrapers rose all around the city, and flying cars zipped through the skies. X and Shortcut descended the guided walkway into a stree
