Chapter Nineteen
January 23, 2229, Neo Southern California Metroplex, Police Enforcement Zone 122 Station, Office of Detectives Jia Lin and Erik Blackwell
Erik chuckled as he perused a data window filled with employment records for 46 Helix’s cafeteria staff. The size of the file was sobering. If every single person involved in feeding the other employees was given a gun, they could form a decent-sized attack force.
After all these months back on Earth, he’d still not fully accepted the sheer size of the population of either the planet or Neo SoCal.
He’d spent the bulk of his life far away from the home planet and had gotten far too used to modest gatherings of humanity. Even if most colonies weren’t as tiny as Molino, they couldn’t compare with Earth.
Over half of all humans in the U
