200: Chapter 201 Location is not ownership; even the ground spikes must be able to be pulled out.

[Relocate all locations not recognized by God back to the Maternal Delivery Room]

The moment the golden positioning points lit up, the ground in Jiang City began to slide.

It wasn't an earthquake.

It was the coordinates moving.

The floor tiles beneath the No. 3 incubator at First Hospital were clearly still in place, yet in everyone's system interface, they were labeled: [No. 9 Forbidden Zone Maternal Delivery Room Auxiliary Bed]

The next second, the bed wheels unlocked on their own.

The incubator slid toward the door along the golden delivery bed tracks.

Xiao Man's mother lunged forward, her hands gripping the edge of the incubator tightly.

"Xiao Man is here!"

But a positioning point lit up beneath her feet as well.

[Relative Location: Relocatable with infant]

Her entire body was dragged forward.

Fang Ning grabbed the medical Record cart, trying to jam the tracks, but the cart was re-labeled as: [Delivery Room Transport Auxiliary Equipment]

The wheels reversed, pushing them outward instead.

At the same time, the chairs in the rest station slid in rows toward the No. 9 Forbidden Zone.

People who had just fallen asleep were shaken awake, grabbing the back of their chairs in a daze.

[Exhausted individuals should be relocated back to the Maternal Embrace]

The circle of the Temporary Classroom was dragged toward the Sky Gate by a golden thread, leaving long white marks of chalk on the ground.

Qin Shanhe stepped on the edge of the circle, his whole body dragged backward.

"Nobody stand inside the circle!"

But the golden thread didn't drag people.

It dragged the "class."

As long as this temporary class existed, it had to be relocated back to a "location visible to the Mother."

No. 1 Bypass Station was even more dangerous.

The hand-off ring was snared by a positioning point, and the entire station was pulled up as if by an invisible hand.

Meng Huai had just finished a rotation and hadn't fully evacuated when the golden light on the ring yanked him into a half-kneel.

[Bypass Station location not recognized by God]

[Relocate back to Maternal Main Loop]

In the Main Control Room, the map of Jiang City looked like a crumpled piece of paper.

The Hospital, Temporary Classroom, rest stations, No. 1 Bypass Station, return application counters, and the Awakening Hall—each node was being dragged by golden threads toward the center of the No. 9 Forbidden Zone.

It wasn't that people were being taken away.

It was that the "places" they had worked so hard to build were being changed into God's places.

Cheng Du's face turned pale.

"It's changing the location ownership."

"If you're in The Hospital, you become in the Delivery Room."

"If you're sitting in a rest station, you become sitting in the Maternal Embrace."

"Wherever you stand, you're considered to be standing in its domain."

Chen Ye looked down at his feet.

His positioning point was flashing.

[Pressure-bearing unit current location: Relocatable to Maternal Valve]

He cursed and lifted his foot, wanting to crush the golden dot.

He stomped down, but the ground was fine.

The positioning point simply floated under his other foot.

Lin Jin stared at the Mainframe map.

This wasn't transport.

It was renaming.

Changing "First Hospital No. 3 Incubator" to "Maternal Delivery Bed No. 3."

Changing "Jiang City rest station chair" to "Maternal Embrace Seat."

Changing "Temporary Classroom" to "Maternal Observation Area."

Once the names were changed, even if people were still in the same place, they would be brought under God's line of sight and jurisdiction.

"Location is not ownership."

Lin Jin grabbed a new tool, his voice as heavy as iron.

"Standing in The Hospital doesn't mean you belong to The Hospital."

"Sitting on a chair doesn't mean you belong to the chair."

"And you certainly don't belong to God."

Cheng Du roared: "I get the logic, but how do we nail it down?"

Lin Jin looked down at his feet.

During the visual round, they had learned to see gray shadows.

During the auditory round, they had learned to wait for echoes.

During the manual round, they had left palm prints.

This time, they couldn't nail people down.

Because nailing them down would just turn into another kind of prison.

What they needed were ground spikes.

But they had to be living ones.

They needed to be able to confirm the current location, while also allowing for departure, transfer, and hand-off.

Lin Jin wrote four characters on the Mainframe board: [Currently Present]

He added: [Not permanent ownership]

[Transfer requires specifying destination, reason, and receiving point]

[Emergency transfers can proceed first, with Records filed later]

[No location may claim ownership of a person based on the reason "was once here"]

Luo Wensheng recorded it immediately.

Ye Guizhou stamped it: [Presence received] [Does not constitute ownership]

He Zhibai added the accounting: [Costs for maintaining location, transfer, receiving, and review are publicly borne]

Qin Shanhe pushed these sentences onto all screens.

The broadcast also rang out simultaneously: "All nodes, don't shout 'This is ours'!"

"Say: 'We are currently here'!"

"If you need to move, write clearly where you are going, why, and who is receiving you!"

"Those who can leave may leave; those who cannot must have a transfer explanation!"

In First Hospital, Fang Ning suddenly realized what to do.

She no longer hugged the incubator to death.

She slapped the medical Record clipboard onto the side of the incubator and taped it to the headboard sign.

[Xiao Man, currently in First Hospital No. 3 Incubator]

[Reason: Blood oxygen monitoring in progress]

[Receiving point: First Hospital Pediatric Nurse Station]

[Transfer conditions: Doctor confirmation, clear receiving bed, relative or public care witness]

[Cannot be relocated back to unconfirmed Maternal Delivery Room]

Xiao Man's mother tremblingly pressed her palm print.

The Nurse pressed the duty stamp.

Fang Ning smoothed the tape down with the back of her hand.

The golden delivery bed track stalled abruptly.

The incubator wasn't nailed down.

The wheels could still move.

But it could no longer be dragged away directly by the name "Maternal Delivery Room."

It had to answer a question: Where to? Why? Who is receiving it?

The No. 9 Forbidden Zone couldn't answer.

The golden light on the track receded by half an inch.

Fang Ning immediately shouted: "All hospital beds, post 'Currently Present'!"

"Empty beds too!"

"Write 'Empty' for empty beds; do not allow them to be treated as delivery preparation spots!"

In the rest station, Old Liu had just been dragged by his chair and nearly fell.

After hearing the broadcast, he grabbed a wooden board and wrote: [No. 2 Rest Station, Row 7 Chair]

[Current usage: Wang Dahai resting for fifteen minutes]

[Chair can be used by others, but must not be relocated with the person]

Wang Dahai added a sentence on the side: "Wake me up in fifteen minutes; if you don't, I'll really oversleep."

The Record-keeper wrote: [Can be awakened, requires response]

The chair stopped.

Old Liu drew a slip-knot arrow on the ground: [Departure direction: Walk on your own] [Not dragged]

The golden thread of the rest station snapped into several pieces.

Over at the Temporary Classroom, Qin Shanhe did not announce "The classroom belongs to Jiang City."

He knew that sentence would turn into another form of possession.

He crouched down and wrote beside the chalk circle: [Current class location: Wasteland ruins on the east side of Jiang City]

[Class objective: Learn not to be relocated back to the Maternal Delivery Room]

[Students may leave, return, and temporarily not answer]

[Classroom may not relocate students, and students do not belong to the classroom]

The old students placed their name tags on the ground one by one.

Not to give them to Qin Shanhe.

Just to anchor the spot where they were standing.

A child asked: "Teacher, what if I want to go to the bathroom?"

Qin Shanhe paused for a moment, then said loudly: "Then write 'Temporarily Leaving'!"

The child seriously wrote beside the name tag: [Going to the bathroom, may or may not come back.]

The golden thread was pulled askew by these absurd yet true words.

The classroom no longer rose as a whole.

It stayed in place.

But a white line indicating a path to leave appeared at the door.

At No. 1 Bypass Station, Meng Huai's wrists were purple from being dragged by the hand-off ring.

His first thought was still to pin it down.

But he saw the phrase "Ground spikes must also be removable" on the Jiang City screen and forced himself to change his action.

He bit the pen cap open and wrote on the outside of the hand-off ring: [No. 1 Bypass Station currently beside the old drainage channel on the east side of Jiang City]

[Function: Local load reduction]

[Duty personnel can hand off]

[Station can be repaired and relocated, but must not be relocated into the Maternal Main Loop]

[Relocation requires two-person consent, three-party witness, and clear route]

Ye Guizhou stamped it remotely.

Luo Wensheng recorded it.

He Zhibai added the costs.

The hand-off ring dropped back to the ground with a thud.

Meng Huai sprawled on the ground, panting like a broken bellows.

"Can I leave now?"

The person beside him immediately wrote: [Yes, hand-off complete.]

Only then did he pull his hand out.

Global work order no. 002 also began receiving location receipts from all over.

Intern Liang Yu wrote by the drainage channel in Hai City: [Hai City No. 1 Temporary Maintenance Point currently at the drainage channel south of the No. 3 Awakening Tower]

[Umbilical cord diversion direction: Into empty ditch, not into Mother]

[Maintenance point can be withdrawn, leave mark before withdrawal]

Beiyuan Mining Area wrote: [No. 7 Mine three-way turntable currently underground, not inside God Bone]

[List of the dead is on the memorial wall, not at the duty station]

Nanling Hospital wrote: [Each bed's current medical location is independent, not merged into Delivery Room]

In Qinghe County, Teacher Song Qing wrote with chalk: [Classroom is on the second floor of the Qinghe County Training Station]

[Blackboard is not going to God]

A student added on the side: [My seat isn't going either.]

Teacher Song Qing took a look and didn't erase it.

"Accepted."

More and more location receipts returned to work order no. 002.

The God Head's golden coordinate map was thrown into chaos by these non-standard locations.

Some were latitude and longitude.

Some were "beside the drainage channel."

Some were "the chair Uncle Wang sleeps on."

Some were "the third desk to the left of the blackboard."

Some were "the wobbly rock beside the mine cart turntable."

God wanted to uniformly fold them back into the Delivery Room.

But every location came with current usage, departure methods, receiving conditions, and local witnesses.

It couldn't be unified.

[Location ownership rewrite blocked]

[Currently Present cannot be converted to permanent ownership]

But the God Head did not stop.

The golden threads in the sky suddenly contracted.

It no longer pulled all places.

Instead, it locked onto the weakest location.

On the outskirts of Jiang City, there was a temporary resettlement shed.

It was crowded there, with few Records.

Many outside refugees had just been settled in and hadn't had time to register their names; they had only laid down a few plastic sheets on the ground.

A golden positioning point fell instantly.

[Temporary ownerless location]

[Relocatable to Maternal Resettlement Area]

The entire shed began to slide.

The people inside the shed were in a panic.

"We haven't registered yet!"

"We aren't from Jiang City!"

"We're just passing through!"

As soon as those words were spoken, the golden light became even brighter.

[No local location relationship]

[Relocation to Mother is optimal]

Lin Jin's expression changed, and he grabbed a new tool and rushed out of the Mainframe.

"To the resettlement shed!"

Chen Ye, Shen Tingxue, Zhou Heng, and Thirteen followed.

When they arrived, the shed had already slid five meters.

The plastic sheets tore on the ground, and an old man inside, clutching a bundle, was dragged and rolled twice.

Lin Jin rushed over and jammed the new tool into the crack in the ground in front of the shed.

"Who says people passing through don't have a location?"

He turned his head to look at the people inside the shed.

"Where are you right now?"

A woman cried and said: "I don't know!"

"Then say where your feet are!"

The woman looked down, her voice trembling: "My feet... are at the Jiang City West Gate resettlement shed."

"There's a torn blue cloth next to me."

Another man immediately added: "I'm to her right, near the hot water bucket."

The old man, clutching his bundle, panted: "I'm at the door, there's medicine in the bag."

Chen Ye slammed his broken shield onto the ground: "Good, there's someone at the door, someone by the hot water bucket, someone under the blue cloth!"

"That counts!"

Shen Tingxue used ice to freeze a dotted line outside the shed, not to seal the door, but just to mark the boundary.

Zhou Heng stabbed his Thunder Spear into the outer side, marking the temporary evacuation direction.

Thirteen crouched down and wrote on the plastic sheet: [Passing through also counts as Currently Present.]

Lin Jin added: [Resettlement shed is a temporary location]

[Does not generate ownership]

[Cannot be relocated back to Mother due to lack of registration]

[Can register, can leave, can transfer to other resettlement points]

The shed stopped.

Those who called themselves "passing through" lit up as gray-white points on the Jiang City map for the first time.

Not Jiang City property.

Not God's children.

Just people who were here at this moment.

The God Head's coordinate map vibrated violently.

[Ownerless location temporarily confirmed]

[Relocation failed]

Just as Lin Jin was about to pull out the new tool, he discovered the tool handle was bitten by the crack in the ground.

No.

This wasn't the God Head pulling people.

It was the backlash of the ground spikes.

[Currently Present confirmation overloaded]

[Main maintainer acting as location anchor]

[Lin Jin: Fixing in progress]

Chen Ye's expression changed drastically.

"You're nailed down!"

Lin Jin looked down and saw his shadow being pressed into the ground by the golden thread.

The God Head spoke coldly: "Since the location cannot belong to me."

"Then let the person who confirmed the location remain at the confirmed place forever."

[Location anchoring started]

[Target: Lin Jin]

[Purpose: Master ground spike for all temporary locations in Jiang City]