Everyone but Wonder Woman looked grim at the situation mentioned in the letter. Once they realized what would happen if existing technology suddenly vanished, they could imagine how many people might die because of it.
For example, if someone had been undergoing treatment in a hospital when it happened, a power outage alone could have had a huge impact on them. But an experienced doctor could still perform surgery with nothing more than an oil lamp and a scalpel.
Yet if technology regressed across the board—if there were no antibiotics and even metallurgy disappeared—then flint knives and boiling water would likely be unable to save many lives.
Not to mention a more obvious example: cement. Modern human society depended heavily on steel structures and concrete. Anyone living in a high-rise was probably in trouble now.
Unlike the others, Diana was relatively optimistic, because Paradise Island had never possessed anything like technology in the past.
They used fire for light, built houses from piled stone, hunted with wooden bows and arrows, and wore thick Beast Hide when they had no armor.
Besides, even if they had to fight with wooden clubs, the Amazons were still the finest warriors. As long as they defeated their enemies, everything they once had would return, right?
But those were not their first priority right now. The urgent matter was to secure a chance for everyone to rest. Constantly running in the Speed Force Plane was enormously draining; even Barry, while dragging two people along, could not possibly match his own past records.
As for Deadpool, he seemed to be the least worrying one. In the past, nearly every user of Speed 9 had died suddenly within half an hour. Yet not only was he fine, he even looked quite comfortable. Sure enough, cancerous cells truly