The night passed, and the apocalypse entered its fourth day—the most despair‑filled day of all.

Today, the power would go out.

Outside, the temperature had plunged to well below freezing. Without air‑conditioning or heating, how were people supposed to survive?

If someone had prepared in advance, they might have built a heated brick bed or improvised a stove. But this disaster had arrived without warning. For city dwellers, it was a sentence of pure despair.

Starting today, civilization, ord