Chapter 98: Major Change!_1

A blue sun rose from the sea, initially small, but it quickly expanded and grew larger, and its brightness even briefly surpassed that of the real sun.

The little girl near the harbour road looked curiously at the blue sun.

"Mommy, why is there another sun there? And it's blue," she asked.

The woman looked up, her face filled with surprise and doubt.

People at the harbour stared at the strange sight on the ocean, their faces filled with astonishment, looking at each other, not understanding what had happened.

The massive ship emitted blue light, and soon people could see the still-small blue sphere because, at that moment, the ship was turning transparent, seeming like a clear model suspended over the sphere, and it rapidly collapsed as if melting. Strangely, as it collapsed, the parts of the ship all moved toward the center of fusion, the entire vessel being sucked into the sphere like into a vortex, leaving no trace or debris behind.

Following the disappearance of the massive ship, the sphere continued to expand and soon appeared above the harbour as a blue sun. When it stopped expanding, it had a radius of two hundred metres, and only beyond this distance did the massive fusion energy become selective. Within that range, due to an extremely high energy density, everything would be destroyed.

The blue sun maintained its largest form for about half a minute. During this time, it was very stable and, coupled with the eerie calm that enveloped everything, it gave off a sense of eternity, as if it had been there since the birth of the world.

The sky became transparent; the massive fusion was silent, and the entire harbour was submerged in its blue light, making the world seem unfamiliar and bizarre.

This was a cold sun, and people could not feel any heat from it.

Finally, sound shattered the silence, a faint popping noise issued from the people's bodies, the sound of internal electronic chips in phones being destroyed.

Some raised their heads to the sky and screamed; they looked up to see a large passenger plane falling from the sky like a bird that had lost its power, with the destruction of its electronic chips, its electronic control systems and engines had all failed.

An old man glanced at the plane crashing 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. People saw that everything at the fusion point had disappeared without a trace, leaving a hemispherical gap with a radius of two hundred metres at the Port of Barcelona, now filled with water, its edges very smooth, reflecting the blue of the sea.

At the same time, the raging energy from the massive fusion spread in all directions, first affecting Spain, then Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and finally reaching Asia, India, before being stopped by the enormous amount of chips that had consumed its energy along the way.

This chip-targeted massive fusion pulled more than half of the Earth, including hundreds of countries like the United Kingdom, America, France, and Germany, back to the agricultural era.

Only Northeastern Australia and Asia, led by Huaxia, survived.

The more advanced the country, the greater the blow it suffered. The world's landscape was about to undergo a major reshuffle!

The destruction of chips first caused all modern facilities to suddenly come to a halt, with power and water supply systems completely paralyzed.

Those cooking found that not only was the gas gone, but the electricity and water were gone as well.

Those in the midst of taking a shower or shampooing, just after applying body wash and shampoo, also cried.

Doctors and patients in hospitals fell into panic as all medical instruments went dark, including life-sustaining ventilators and life detection monitors; ICU rooms turned instantly into realms of the God of Death.

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

The unluckiest were those in the middle of surgeries; many passed away on the spot without life support, and those not yet dead were left with half a breath. Doctors wanted to rescue them, but the operating rooms were pitch black; they couldn't see anything. They tried every possible light source, flashlights, emergency lights, but all electronics had failed. The doctors wanted to continue the surgeries but could only move the patients outdoors, and in doing so, those half-lives were nearly extinguished. Furthermore, none of the electronic medical devices could be used, giving them the sensation of having been thrown back into ancient times.

There were also those traveling in vehicles; those driving were slightly better off, unlike future cars that were all electronic throttles and brakes, they were still able to come to a halt.

But those on planes were doomed, falling freely with the aircraft from the sky.

In skyscrapers countrywide, computer screens darkened, office workers were taken aback, thinking their systems were infected by a virus, only to find that everyone's computer in the vicinity had also blacked out.

Students in schools cheered, oblivious to the fact that they faced not just a power outage but a major upheaval.

Emergency governmental departments attempted to respond immediately, only to realize all communication devices had failed; even satellite phones were broken. Yangtze with the local level, local with the departments, departments with the subordinate agencies—all were completely isolated. They were divided into isolated islands, each restricted to their own district.

The military also experienced a brief confusion, but thanks to regular training and discipline, it soon stabilized.

They faced the same issue; unable to contact any department. Even within their own troops, they could only communicate by walking over or shouting, desiring to drive but finding the vehicles inoperable, the electronic chips controlling the engines were reduced to dust, and fighters and aircraft carriers became piles of scrap metal, the air force and the navy losing all combat capability.

Moreover, all sorts of modern high-tech weapons from the information era that relied on satellite systems and electronic chips, such as missiles, nuclear weapons, radars, etc., were all paralyzed. Only firearms remained functional.

The social and financial systems collapsed, the numbers in people's bank cards became a mystery, and the state of virtual assets like stocks became unknowable, as banks no longer knew how much wealth one had or the balance within their accounts.

The good news was loans no longer needed to be repaid, the bad news was the money in the banks was gone.

The transportation supply system collapsed, vehicles laid scattered throughout the city, immovable, and logistics ground to a halt.

All modernized city facilities became defunct, fridges, TVs, and various household appliances were only good for scrap recycling.

This was not a return to pre-feudal times overnight, but an instantaneous fall back to ancient times, when all travel relied on walking, communication on yelling, order on dogs, and entertainment on manual labor.

But humanity was no longer that of those times; modern technology had fostered modern cities, and as technology regressed in an instant, cities began to plunge into madness.

Happiness in America, gunfire all day long.

Looting for food, robbing wealth, murder on the spot—sin proliferated everywhere.

Cities lost their past order and descended into unprecedented turmoil and chaos, resembling the arrival of the end of the world, while the countryside became the only paradise.

Chaos, utter chaos; beyond chaos, still chaos.

At this time, an organization named ETO arose across the world, seemingly well-prepared with sophisticated equipment, spreading doctrine under the guise of a higher power. In the soil of this great disaster, their ranks swelled rapidly.

As the only significant power to retain most of its strength, Huaxia, within a day, discerned the real global catastrophe through various channels and the remaining military satellites. It entered a state of emergency readiness; plans were devised, with a million troops urgently mobilized. While directing nearby governmental departments and military units to stabilize the situation in the disaster-stricken areas, they dispatched a large number of air and naval forces to "investigate" in regions around the world.

The air force took off; military airports were bustling as transport and fighter planes were the first to head to various national capitals. Allowing free entrance into their airspace confirmed their suspicions.

The only factory in the world still capable of producing electronic chips was in the Bay Bay region of Taiwan's machine electricity. For Huaxia, this was an excellent opportunity not only to reclaim Bay Bay but to also take control of the Taiwan electric chip factory. Air forces and aircraft carriers set sail, invading Bay Bay on a grand scale.

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

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