The “Lattice War” at the end of the century ended when an out-of-control crustal resonance bomb detonated.
The Earth's magnetic field reversed, volcanoes erupted in a chain reaction, and radioactive dust shrouded the sky.
Sunlight filtered through a gray veil, turning the world a dull yellow. The oceans acidified, plants disappeared, and the old world collapsed.
After a century of catastrophe, civilization became a wasteland.
Technology regressed to a primitive state, and faith and violence became the new order.
Cheng Yuan, once a PhD in materials science, woke up in this irradiated wasteland.
With an infant daughter and an oxygen cart, he searched for a chance to survive across the endless ash-covered plains.
He was neither a savior nor a hero.
He was calm, calculating, and obsessive, and believed only in knowledge and logic.
But for his daughter, and for the tiny fragment of “humanity” not yet buried beneath the ashes,
he began using discarded technological wreckage, corroded instruments, and decommissioned nuclear cores...
to rebuild the magnetic field, purify the air, and grow the first edible fungus.
He would raise a monument to reason in this wasteland.
Catastrophe can destroy civilization, but it cannot destroy thought.
Reason is humanity’s last faith.
