Civilization Has Not Been Delivered

When the disaster began, the world was not immediately destroyed. The power grid is still running, the railways are still running, and hospitals are still treating patients. The country has repeatedly activated backup teams, mobilized personnel and materials, and repaired problems that occurred. It was not until later that people discovered that it was not the machines that were really consumed, but the people who kept it all running. Lu Heng was originally just an ordinary engineer on the city's digital infrastructure platform. After the epidemic, he began to record which roads were still open, which hospitals were still accepting people, where there were signals, and when a piece of news was true. A private map that became a network of messengers, cross-town routes, and then an information infrastructure that reconnected countless siled islands. This is an apocalyptic story where there is no collapse overnight and no weapons everywhere. Civilization does not suddenly die out. It would be degraded, shrunk, partitioned, and then reconnected over the course of more than two decades.