Chapter 0: The World
The world changed.
If one were to ask what changed, it was that all the things that could pose international political risks had erupted.
Russia-Ukraine, Taiwan-China, Korea-North, the Middle East, and so on — wars broke out in every region where war had been suppressed.
At first, it was the mainstream opinion of international political scientists that humanity, suffering from the price surge pressure due to the pandemic situation, would not wage war.
But human madness always exceeded human expectations.
The political reasons and the eastward advance of NATO and the EU caused the initial Russian invasion of Ukraine, which ended with a Ukrainian victory thanks to Western support, and the aftermath was global price inflation, which created the Arab Spring for the authoritarian and impoverished countries in Central Asia and Africa.
As this international social turmoil grew, China invaded Taiwan.
Seeing that, Japan, having poured its soul into homeland defense, regional hegemony, and economic revival effects, directly militarily intervened to block it, and the alliance of China, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan clashed in Northeast Asia.
Then what about Korea?
Didn't we participate?
We didn't.
After four countries clashed and mobilized all their troops for total war, our upper neighborhood leader mobilized 5 million military personnel to China, taking advantage of that to advance north.
North Korea, whose majority of combatable population had disappeared, was an empty house, and thanks to that, South Korea achieved unification, the dream of the nation.
After that, in the war named World War 3, it played the role of factory for supply, but didn't take direct blows.
The Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces of China, which were the main battlefields, were razed to the ground.
Taiwan, which successfully occupied the southern part of the mainland, actively executed splitting the Chinese people through propaganda, and it was quite successful.
And at that time, a global disease occurred.
A disease spread through the war.
It was not a zoonotic infection disease, but a sleeping sickness that solely targeted males.
The code number Misery 1 designated by the World Health Organization.
At first, it was thought to be a rare disease where sleep duration was longer.
From 8 hours to 12 hours, 12 to 16 hours, and 16 to 24 hours, the sleep just kept increasing, and the disease where one couldn't wake up.
However, when this disease fused with the pandemic, its danger suddenly skyrocketed.
And when humanity recognized this disease, it was already after it had spread throughout all of humanity.
38 billion out of the world's approximately 39 billion male population died.
At that moment, the war ended.
Even the 100 million men who dramatically woke up from the sleeping sickness eventually died.
Society collapsed and the economic structure began to collapse.
In this situation, the extremely few healthy males worldwide who didn't catch the sleeping sickness, about 10,000.
UN total 10927.
Only 10927 have the ability to reproduce.
And among them, I am one.