Chapter 10: Those Left BehindThe children at the orphanage were miraculously untouched by the gruesome things that happened literally on their doorstep. The worldwide announcement to get rid of any motorized vehicle, and the sudden and complete uninstall of the internet, which rendered about ninety percent of phones, computers, and personal electronics useless overnight, caused massive outrages in the streets. The Pharaoh of North Africa had to issue a nationwide curfew to prevent people from attacking government buildings at random. The Combined Conquered Empire of Qin documented a sudden surge in their number of arrests: The Correctional Facility in Shanghai reached its maximum number of inmates, all of them engineers. Even though it was not even a third of the population who were truly
