Residential Areas
Category：Geography
The everyday living space of ordinary citizens that the ACD exists to protect.
One of Nova City’s surface-layer districts, distributed in all directions of the city, is the main space where ordinary citizens live. Unlike the prosperity of the Central Business District and the chaos of the Old Town, daily life dominates here—on the streets are housewives buying groceries, schoolchildren and elderly people walking dogs. However, Chaos threats do not distinguish between areas—residential areas are equally affected by rifts and Chaos Manifestations, and protecting the daily lives of ordinary citizens is precisely the meaning of the Anti-Chaos Directorate’s existence.
Regional Distribution
Nova City’s residential areas are not a continuous region, but multiple residential片区 scattered throughout the city:
Apartments Around the Central Business District
High-rise apartment buildings located at the edge of the Central Business District, with residents mostly white-collar workers working in the business district. The apartments have complete supporting facilities, with 24-hour security and property services, and are one of the residential areas with the best living conditions in Nova City.
Old Town Residences
Old-style residential buildings in the Old Town, with old building ages, small unit sizes and high residential density. Residents here are mostly long-term residents and low-income groups, with close neighborhood relationships. The Chaos risk in Old Town residences is relatively high, but residents have already formed an informal mutual-aid避险 mechanism.
Binhai Seaside Residences
High-end residential communities in the Binhai Coastal District, with sea views and complete leisure facilities. Residents are mostly high-income groups, and community security is strict. After the meteor fall, some offshore residences were damaged and residents were temporarily relocated.
City Perimeter Affordable Housing
Affordable housing communities located on the fringe of Nova City, with relatively new buildings and unified unit layouts. Residents are mostly young families and migrant workers. These areas are far from the city center, and Chaos incidents are relatively few, but the Directorate’s response speed is also slower.
Daily Life
Residential areas are the most “daily” areas of Nova City:
- Morning: Schoolchildren, commuters rushing to the subway, and elderly people doing morning exercises构成 the scenery of residential area mornings
- Daytime: Housewives buying groceries, retired elderly playing chess and chatting in parks, streets relatively quiet
- Evening: Rush hour, school gates crowded with parents picking up children,菜市场 and supermarkets busiest
- Night: Residential areas gradually quiet down, only convenience stores and snack shops still lit
This daily peace contrasts sharply with the suddenness of Chaos incidents, and is also the concretization of the “protecting daily life” theme in the story.
Chaos Situation
The overall Chaos concentration in residential areas is low, and the frequency of rifts is far lower than in the Old Town and Underground Layer. But because residential areas are densely populated, and residents are mostly ordinary people (non-Espers), once a Chaos incident occurs, the casualty risk is反而 higher. The Directorate lists residential areas as key protection areas, and the NCCA has patrol points in various residential areas.
Chaos incidents in residential areas are mostly low-order Chaos Manifestations surging from small rifts, which can usually be quickly controlled. But occasionally large Chaos Manifestations break into residential areas, causing serious damage.
Story Connections
- Residential areas are spaces where ordinary citizens live, and protecting the daily life here is the core mission of the Directorate
- Volume 1 Prologue: The Maniac级 Chaos wreaks havoc on the main road of the Central Business District, and the traffic paralysis affects the normal life of surrounding residential areas
- Volume 1 Chapter 5: When the Black Metal Crew launches a large-scale attack, residential areas are also affected, and the Yeet Squad’s combat protects countless ordinary citizens
- Bansy activities in Old Town residential areas, called the “Street Guardian Angel” by local residents
- Lykaia, as Governor, is responsible for coordinating Chaos incident response and resident relocation in residential areas
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