The Heartbeat of the City of Brass

Ember Iron City is suspended above the clouds, and thirty-two steam cores drive every breath of this mechanical city. The sound of gears clenching was its never-ending heartbeat - until someone found a gear pendant in the hands of the deceased that shouldn't exist. Sheriff's Department Investigator Rex Moccia believes in order. He believes that everyone is equal before the law and that abiding by the rules will lead to justice. Then he discovered: The city was able to float in the air thanks to human sacrifice. The workers who disappeared were not fired, but sent underground. The city lord who has ruled the city for three hundred years doesn't even know how long the seal can last. ——The ceremony is missing three steps? Improvise. ——The law is written into waste paper? Improvise. ——The world is a huge grass-roots team? Improvise. But he decided to continue walking down on the rotten foundation.