As the squad stepped outside, they were met with the rather chilly predawn air of Beta City.
The metropolis was a shiny mixture of 21st-century lifestyle and modern AI, as well as tech advancements, proven through the towering skyscrapers with glass exteriors that shimmered under the neon glow of digital billboards.
The streets, though not overly congested at this hour, were alive with automated electric vehicles, sleek medium-range taxis that would have been high-range cars 20 years ago, and a few early risers making their way to their destinations while walking briskly to take the sky metro.
Streetlights cast a bluish hue over the pavement, flickering occasionally as a mixture of privately owned and government drones zipped overhead, the private ones delivering messages and packages while the government ones monitored the city strictly.
