The golden age of the information explosion seemed to have ended!
For nearly a century, the ubiquitous radio signals had faded into silence and convenient communications had paused; the internet collapsed, and the speed at which messages spread seemed to have been thrust back to several hundred years ago.
There were also railways, maritime transport, aviation, and highways...
Geographical barriers began to arise, and the vast state machinery ground to a halt. Apart from some spiritual energy technology that was developed and utilized early on, modern civilization had lost its very foundation!
The post-disaster rescue and recovery work was tremendously slow.
When the building was about to collapse, even if deities appeared en masse or a tide of cultivators returned, nothing was as urgent and desperate as restoring communications as soon as possible.
