It wasn't a long walk down to the site, but the changes were pretty significant. Several pallets were set up next to the playground. Bagel would have time to go down the slide again.

"You came at a bad time!" Vince yelled.

There were several flying mobs harassing his men. Bagel immediately summoned his deck. He pulled out every summon he could, dropping a possum dragon and a pizza rat. These were mobs from across the river. Something was going on with them.

Next to him, Khaleesi summoned all four of her mobs. "We should have seen this on the drones!"

"They came up unexpectedly. There's no way that l would have seen this coming."

Vince was doing his best to direct roughly ten humans around the area.

It looked like each of them had a deck at the very least. It was almost necessary to have one even to be outside. The groups that had been hunkering down for two months were going to be in for a rude awakening if they wanted to leave the house. If they had even survived this long.

The long-term survivability of the human race dependent on them. Having decks was now one of the more pressing issues that Bagel was trying to sort out. He couldn't force people to buy his decks, but he could give them away for free and get these people to sign something saying that they would return the money if they could.

But that was easy that came out there as he rented several of his summons to attack. One of the new things of the Omega rats had that he'd realized was special about them was the ability to get a ranged attack within a short area. It was only about ten feet but the electricity that it generated meant that they could hit an aerial target that was on the approach.

This was the main reason he kept them in his deck.

He played in the omega rat card on one of his pizza rats and it gave them that little bit of security that none of the aerial attackers would be able to bring them down just because they could swoop in fast.

He could see the time of battle turning as the construction worker? And all this was a little bit distracting him from his real question. Where had these flyers even come from so he hadn't recognized any of them? And if they were migrating from another area did that mean the other area was dead or did that mean that...

He ducked and dived away from one of the ranged attacks.

His possum dragon flew in a nest circle over them, conserving momentum so that it can make a lot of quick turns and defend them if needed.

The combination that brings attacks with attacking mobs that flew meant that he was now on edge. I didn't want to advance. He just wanted to hold up and stay in the zone of protection that they were creating.

"There ain't no point in avoiding it. This is how it's done," Khaleesi said.

One of her construction mops flipped another one into the air. It landed roughly onto a large golden eagle mob. Bagel never seen one of those before. It looked like it was not from around here.

In fact, it looked like a boss monster and you wanted it to be someone who could sell it is Bodega. He considered where it was and redirected his possum dragon towards it.

It would just be his luck to have the opportunity to get a boss level monster out of this and then not take it. Nobody else will take attention as his summon collided bodily with the golden eagle. It even sent a spray of electricity as his Omega rat, finally on board, hit it.

It took two more hits before the golden mob went down. It looks like it was definitely a boss monster that had escaped a dungeon. Either that or third stage upgraded mob. He was prepared for either.

Without one taken care of he approached the other ones with care. His Omega right would protect them.

He started taking attacks of opportunity at the remainder of the flying mobs, most of which looked like yellow pigeons.

Based off of that relationship, he believed that the large one was able to control the others. Once it hit the ground and disappeared, the rest of them scattered as if someone had began unloading a shotgun in the air.

Bagel took a breather, and then looked around in all directions.

He didn't see anything.

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Maybe it was something about how they flew. They flew like pigeons and were the same size.

They were clearly mobs.

It just meant that he was going to have to dig into what else was going on in city around him. Janet needed to catalog all the burrows neighborhoods for him. He had a suspicion that this was coming from Brooklyn or Queens, but it might as well have come from Roosevelt Island or another area where he hadn't even paid attention. Even so, it was a tenancy of mobs to just go towards the closest human which meant that something had gone awry if they were going across the entire East River.

As I went off, some of the workers sent flyers. After them. They will be able to clean them up but they decided to form a tight circle around the load of construction supplies and pipes.

"I suppose you're wondering why I called you all here today?" Vince said, once things had quieted down.

"We just had some questions and Khaleesi wanted to follow up on what the heck was going on down here." Bagel finally relaxed and in the 5 minutes it had taken them to destroy them all, his summons finally dissipated.

He needed Janet out there or another AI that was persistent. The persistence thing that the mantle card gave him with a companion that always existed was so clutch in so many ways.

That five minute time limit? It was destroying him. It made him not want to go into dungeons.

He was powerful as heck but in the long run, if he wasn't able to keep something summoned he would have to keep shuffling through his deck until he got something out. This was going to make the long term prospects difficult if they didn't find a way to get people more companion cards.

But that was a problem with humans. He had enough companion cards for himself and for a select group of people that were showing up. If they didn't want to buy from him? He would not be offended. He just wanted to make more money buying and selling cards.

"All right so talk to me about what's going on here. You've got some pipes you've got some concrete mix. Is that what this says? It looks like you got enough people here to build something really quickly."

Vince put his hands on his hips. "We've gone to several iterations of the design. It's possible that we are going to need to install more of a physical plants somewhere, but right now? All we're doing is testing the water that we're getting using the pipes. Using water pressure, we just get it up to here..."

He could do this. Over the divider and past the barriers between someone who wanted to walk into traffic and the river, he could see three or four pipes poking up where there shouldn't be pipes. They were clearly in the water, and they were all dripping into one of three bathtub-sized containers.

Bagel was surprised at the complete lack of cars traveling down the Henry Hudson parkway as they crossed over to examine the work. A continual trickle of water from the pipes into the three chambers was then pushed out and down, back into the water, through a single larger pipe, twice the size of the first three.

Then they was someone going south bound, further away from their group. Several honks later and he felt at peace. It was strange how much he missed that constant noise and chatter.

"Get off the damn Road!" Someone yelled as they passed at what had to be a top speed of ten miles per hour.

A human could have ran that faster. In fact, he might be able to run faster than the car was going, but they needed to make sure that they weren't going to run into a mob to destroy their electric energy vehicle.

"Huh, another Edison car. Nice," Khaleesi said.

"Edison car?" Bagel said.

"Someone stole and modified a Tesla."

Vince chuckled. "That explains the solar panels at the very least."

Bagel did not see any solar panels but was sure that he hadn't looked too closely. It was wonderful that people were stealing cars or panels or whatever Vince went on about briefly.

"Alright I see that things are happening. I don't understand what's going on," Bagel said. "Can you explain it like I'm a kitten?"

Vince shrugged. "Well we're thinking of doing a short term solution here and testing the water but long term? This is salt water. We're going to need to make a desalination plant. I can get the plans for that together but I think it might be better if we start working on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island."

"Just the tip? What are you going to do with that?" Khaleesi said.

Vince gasped. He had to have been just getting over something.

"Regardless, you're the expert. If we can get the thing you want, we'll get it for you."

Vince kept wheezing for a minute. Perhaps it was something that Bagel could catch? He padded backwards.

"Damn generation z really got it, huh?" Vince said, offering a fist to Khaleesi.

She in turn hit his fist with hers. Because of course she did. Humans were so strange and it hadn't gotten better with time. Maybe one day he might see none unless he wanted to. That day felt far away.

"Explain it like you're a kitten; hold up I got this. We need to separate the salt from the water so we're going to do something about that we just need to make sure that we have a place for it to go. It's going to distill the water- boil it up and then..."

Bagel tuned him out several times before the man got to his point. He was going to have to get Khaleesi to really understand this because there was no way in heck that it was going to make sense to him. He was the handsomest boy on the block, not everyone's favourite engineer. That crucial distinction was going to make him make sure that he had someone smart with him to parse it.

He didn't need everything. He just needed to know if he needed to take any action or get some more help.

By the time that Vince had fully explored his next steps, Khaleesi looked ready to go.

Bagel was torn. He could take the time to learn everything that then humans were trying to do here or he could just hire someone to do it. Eventually he was going to want cats to be able to stand on their own but this?

This was far beyond his wildest dreams.

The humans were literally harnessing nature to create clean water. They were testing it out with a small batch but they were doing it slow and methodically, like how he bought up buildings and land plots.

At the very least, Khaleesi reassured him. "Bagel, I understand if you're not getting all of this. I understand most of what he is saying."

"You think that this is a good idea?"

"Short of us sending regular patrols through the aqueducts this is the thing that's going to save tons of lives."

That was really all he needed to hear.

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