?After the Cockroaches were created, the city used the metal to produce grips and uniform steel plates.
These new plates would become relevant a couple months later.
Four months after the beginning of Roaching, Roaching was changed.
There were no more places close to the city center without any grips, and every single Roacher, the name of the people working on the city's underside, needed to travel at least 50 meters into the red mist.
Weak Johns with horrible Barriers would need to turn around just when they got to the place where they needed to put their grips.
Because of that, all Initial, Early, and Mid Johns were no longer required to work as Roachers.
Sadly, that also meant that the hours for the Late and Peak Johns increased, but there was nothing they could do about it.
After around ten months, a bit over half the underside of the city was covered in grips.
The Crimson Sea had already been below the city for almost a year by now.
By now, almost all luxury goods from outside the city had been used up.
The price of coffee skyrocketed.
Certain kinds of expensive meat were no longer available.
Salt was getting rationed.
However, the city could survive.
The Inner City produced enough food for everyone, and water wasn't an issue since it rained regularly.
But now, even the people in the Inner City felt the effects.
Many of them were even willing to spend some of their money to expedite the construction of the city's underside.
The governor accepted their proposition and made use of it.
Extractors could now volunteer for Roaching in exchange for competitive pay.
Every hour of Roaching was a thousand credits.
While most of the Extractors were not interested in the offer, quite a few of them actually jumped at the opportunity.
Anatomy and Ghosty's Lab had the most Johns, but they didn't have that many Adolescents.
The floor was made of exceedingly hard metal of unknown origin, and the governor needed to use almost all of his power to create the small holes needed to fix the huge pillar of metal to the floor.
Eventually, he succeeded, and the pillar was created.
This central support was used to keep the bridge and this part of the city's edge stable.
Construction resumed.
By using more steel beams diagonally going from the pillar to the city, the builders made another 500 meters of bridge.
Then, it became problematic again.
Luckily, they were close enough to the outside world that the builders, who were Veterans and Experts, could safely jump to the outside world.
From there, they resumed the construction, jumping back and forth for materials.
Fortunately, the walls of the huge crater were made of durable metal from the ruins below them, making it easy to create more support for the bridge.
Sadly, the construction needed six months instead of the projected four.
The reason was that one of the supervising builders had mysteriously vanished.
Albert Eibrecht had simply vanished when no one was looking.
Since no one had heard him laughing, it probably meant that he didn't jump into the Crimson Sea.
This meant that something extremely dangerous was lurking in the surroundings.
Because of that, security had been bumped up several notches, and construction only continued under the supervision of a Specialist.
Luckily, no more incidents occurred, and the bridge was finally constructed.
Crimson City had been isolated for almost two years.
Finally, it was connected to the outside world again.
The people from inside the city could finally see the other end of the red mist.
The bridge was 1,200 meters long, and it led through a long corridor surrounded by thick walls of red mist.
Since no one was traveling through it yet, it seemed eerie.
A big gate was placed on the edges of the bridge so that passing caravans could see that Crimson City actually still existed.
Over the years, the caravans would also give names to the gates.
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