The Bad Chess Player

The name "Lan Ke" comes from an ancient legend. The woodcutter Wang Zhi went into the mountain to cut wood and watch the immortals playing chess. Before the game was over, he found that the ax handle (Ke) in his hand was rotten. When he returned to the village, he realized that a hundred years had passed and the world had changed. Ke Lin sometimes wondered if he was the unlucky woodcutter, but what he watched was a chess game that caused the world to rot. When he "woke up", the ax handle and the whole world were rotten. The disaster known as the "Great Silence" was not an instant catastrophe. There was no fireball from a nuclear explosion, no meteorite impact, but a more bizarre and complete "failure". One day, the world's most cutting-edge intelligent systems and devices that relied on complex chips stopped working one after another. At first, the network was interrupted, global navigation failed, and then smart homes were locked, the transportation system was paralyzed, and medical equipment was shut down... Panic spread like a plague, but what was more deadly than panic was the collapse of order. When the precision gears that maintain the operation of modern society rust away one by one, the behemoth body of civilization begins to decay at an unimaginable speed.