FOCSA's base is an open-air commercial ring filled with oblivious memory ghosts and a locked residential entrance.
The assault team crosses the melting demon field and discovers that the skyscraper's ground level is an open-air mall. Grocery stores, electronics shops, and bakeries ring the perimeter while early-morning shopper ghosts repeat their routines.
Li Na spots the locked glass entrance to the residential tower. Carl kicks it open, revealing a bright lobby, reception desk, elevators, and the stairwell used for the climb.
A colorful open-air mall beneath a tower, ghost shoppers moving through ordinary stores despite the inferno.
The mall is the strike team's unexpectedly mundane entry layer into FOCSA.