The Rust Age: Humanity's Final Code

In 2049, after the "Silent Calamity," the entire world fell into a state of "data rust." All digital storage devices were set to fail on their own within three years. The internet collapsed, and the modern technological system disintegrated. Humanity was forced back into an age of machinery and paper. But an abnormal phenomenon known as "living memory" emerged: the brains of a tiny number of people could store and retrieve digital information from the past, turning them into "walking databases."