Wasteland Signal Station

In 2031, the Silent Incident broke out. 99% Of the world's electronic equipment will be scrapped in the same second, and all digital information will evaporate instantly. Satellites crashed, power grids collapsed, and nuclear power plants went out of control. Civilization regresses back to the age of steam in 72 hours. Sixteen years. No one knows how the Silent Incident happened. Lu Chen picked up a signal receiver from the old world in the ruins. He thought it was a rag—until he started hearing noises. Intermittent, like fragments of old world radio. There are drawings, data, and technology that have been lost for sixteen years in the broadcast. Design drawing of a hand-cranked generator. Parameters of a device for purifying water sources. A relic of the coordinates of an old world civil defense station. He thought he had picked up the key to rebuilding civilization. Until he discovered that every time he interpreted the signal, the silent zone expanded one step outward. Until he discovered that his number appeared in the broadcast archives of the old world. He's not picking up a signal. He is part of the signal.