The moment the red meteor streaked across the sky, the world seemed to be grasped by an invisible giant hand, and the wheel of human civilization came to an abrupt halt. Since then, the assembly lines of factories have stopped roaring, and the lights of scientific research institutes have been extinguished one by one. People are horrified to find that they can no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, or even a simple car. The pyramid of civilization built up by modern science suddenly collapsed in the aftermath of the red meteor.
