Chapter 98: Major Change!_3

The blue sun maintained its largest state for about half a minute, during which it was very stable. Combined with the eerie calm that enveloped everything, it actually gave people a sense of eternity in this brief period, as if it had been there since the beginning of the world.

The sky became transparent as the grand fusion was silent, and the entire port was submerged in its blue light, making the world seem strange and alien.

This was a cold sun; people could not feel any of its heat.

Finally, a sound broke the silence, a faint crackling that came from the bodies of the people, the sound of the internal electronic chips in their cell phones being destroyed.

Someone looked up at the sky and screamed, as they saw a large passenger plane fall from the sky like a bird that had lost its power, its electronic chips destroyed, causing both the electronic control systems and the engines to fail.

An elderly man glanced at the plane plummeting into the city and sighed,

"The world is about to change."

At that moment, the blue sun vanished in the blink of an eye, as if it had never existed, and people saw that everything at the fusion point had disappeared without a trace. A semicircular gap with a radius of two hundred meters appeared at the Port of Barcelona, filled by seawater, with a very smooth perimeter, reflecting the blue shade of the water.

Meanwhile, the surging energy of the grand fusion radiated in all directions, first affecting Spain, then Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, and finally spreading over to reach Asia, India, and the Huaxia-Lasah border, where the tremendous amount of chips along the way consumed the energy until it was extinguished.

This grand fusion, targeting chips for energy release, brought back most of the Earth, including hundreds of countries such as the UK, America, France, and Germany, to the agricultural era.

Only Northeastern Australia and Asian countries led by Huaxia, along with Japan, Korea, Laos, and Myanmar, were fortunate to survive.

The more advanced a country was, the greater the impact it suffered; the world order was about to undergo a massive reshuffle!

With the chips destroyed, the first consequence was that all sorts of modern facilities suddenly ground to a halt: power generation systems and electrical supply systems completely collapsed, and water and gas supplies also ceased.

Those who were cooking discovered that not only was the gas gone, but the electricity and water had ceased as well.

Those who were in the middle of bathing or shampooing, just having applied shower gel and shampoo, also cried.

Doctors and patients in hospitals descended into panic as all medical devices went dark, including life-supporting ventilators and vital signs monitors, turning ICUs instantaneously into the realm of the God of Death.

The hospital initially thought it was just a simple power outage, prepared to start the diesel engines, but found they couldn't be started at all. When they tried to call for help, they found that the phones and cell phones were also dead.

The most tragic were those halfway through a surgery; many died on the spot from the loss of life-supporting equipment, and those who didn't die immediately were barely hanging on. The doctors wanted to perform resuscitation, but the operating rooms were pitch-dark; they couldn't see a thing. They tried all possible light sources—flashlights, emergency lights—but all electronic products had failed. Continuing the surgery meant moving patients outdoors, which almost claimed the lives they had left, and being unable to use any electronic medical equipment made them feel like they were back in ancient times.

There were also people who were using transportation; those who were driving were slightly better off, not like the cars of the future with electronic throttles and brakes—they could still stop the vehicles.

But those who were on planes were doomed. High above, they fell freely with their planes.

In the large office buildings, computer screens went black, and the office workers were shocked, thinking it was a virus, only to find that everyone around them had black screens as well.

The students in the school cheered and jumped for joy, unaware that what they were facing was not a power outage but a great upheaval.

The government departments of various countries wanted to react immediately, but they found that all communication devices had failed, even the satellite phones were broken. Central and local governments, local authorities and their departments, and departments and their subordinate agencies were completely cut off from each other; they were divided into isolated islands, district by district.

The military also experienced brief chaos, but thanks to their routine training and discipline, they soon settled down.

They faced the same problem: unable to contact any department, and even within their own units, they could only communicate by walking or shouting. They wanted to drive, but found that the vehicles could not be started. The electronic chips controlling the engines had turned to ash; fighter jets and aircraft carriers had become piles of scrap metal, and the air and naval forces had lost all combat capabilities.

Not only that, various modern high-tech weapons of the information age that relied on satellite systems and electronic chips, such as missiles, nuclear bombs, radars, etc., were all paralyzed; only firearms could still be used.

The social financial system was paralyzed; the numbers in people's bank accounts became a mystery, and virtual assets such as stocks were incalculable. Banks didn't know how much wealth you actually had, nor how much was in your account.

The good news was that loans no longer had to be repaid; the bad news was that the money in the banks was gone.

The transportation supply system was paralyzed; various vehicles were placed throughout the city but could not be started, leading to a direct halt in logistics.

All modern urban facilities in the city were destroyed, and refrigerators, televisions, and various household appliances could only be recycled as scrap.

This was not a return to the days before liberation overnight; it was an instant return to ancient times when travel depended entirely on walking, communication relied on shouting, security essentially depended on dogs, and entertainment was mostly do-it-yourself.

But humanity was no longer the same as it was then; modern technology had given birth to modern cities, and when technology regressed in an instant, cities began to plunge into madness.

In the joyful America, guns were fired all day long.

Looting food, robbing money, killing on the spot, and rampant crimes of violence—the evils were sprouting everywhere.

Cities lost their former order, falling into unprecedented turmoil and chaos, a scene resembling the arrival of the end of the world, while the countryside became the only paradise.

Chaos, utter chaos; nothing but chaos.

At this time, an organization called ETO rose up in various countries, seemingly well-prepared, well-equipped, spreading their doctrine in the name of the Lord, and, in the soil of great catastrophe, their numbers swelled rapidly.

As the only one of the Five Permanent Member States to retain most of its strength, Huaxia entered a state of emergency combat readiness within one day. Detecting the true situation of the global disaster through various channels and the remaining military satellites, the central government's major plans were unveiled. A million troops were urgently mobilized; on one hand, they instructed nearby government departments and troops to head to the Lasah disaster area to stabilize the situation, and on the other hand, they dispatched a large number of air and naval forces to "investigate the situation" in each major region and country.

The Air Force took off, with major military airports in a busy state. Transport and fighter planes were the first batch to head to the capitals of various countries. Other nations' airspace, like young ladies on the sides of streets at night, allowed them free entry, which validated their suspicions: these countries had indeed suffered from magnetic fusion strikes.

The only factory in the world that could still produce electronic chips was TSMC in Bay Bay, which was an excellent opportunity for Huaxia. Not only could they reunify Bay Bay, but they could also seize control of the TSMC chip factory. The Air Force and aircraft carriers set sail, invading Bay Bay on a grand scale.

The Third Fleet of the Navy also received an urgent mission to search for Grand Historian Yi and others at the Port of Barcelona and to assist them in bringing back important data.

Aboard the Chang'an battleship of the Third Fleet, Political Commissar Zhang Beihai and Captain Wu Yue were very excited, discussing the earth-shaking events of the past two days.