Civilization’s Collapse: I Rebuild the Flame of Humanity

Seventeen years ago, a “Day of Silence” made humanity forget the most essential knowledge of civilization.

The cities remained. The nations remained. The machines remained. But no one knew how to repair a power station, manufacture medicine, cultivate seeds, or build a bridge.

Chen Jianchuan was only a temporary archivist in an abandoned records depot. Then the whole city lost power, the hospitals reached a crisis point, and he opened an iron box among his father's belongings.

Inside was just one sentence:

“If future generations have forgotten how to make fire, open Volume One.”

From that night onward, he discovered that the so-called disaster was no natural calamity. Someone had deliberately extinguished the sparks of human civilization.

When the White Tower struck again, trying to keep the world in darkness forever, Chen Jianchuan had no choice but to lead a group of people who refused to give up, armed with incomplete blueprints and archives from the old world. Together, they would relight the city, revive crops, recreate blood medicine, repair the broken bridge, and restart the sky.

Someone asked him, “Civilization has fallen apart. What makes you think you can rebuild it?”

Chen Jianchuan replied:

“As long as even one person remembers, humanity hasn't lost.”