Across the world, people rejected all of Qin Yiwei's policies outright. The death of the "tyrant" sparked revelry among the lower classes, and all manner of marches and demonstrations continued for an entire year.
Without the Unified Government, the Gaia Consciousness naturally no longer took orders from humanity.
Research into unique technologies once again ground to a halt.
"Old Qin, Old Qin, you really left us a difficult problem. What was the point of everything you did?" The young man merely watched from a god's-eye perspective. He had no solution, and wrote a line in his notebook: [Why do so many people cling to their own culture? The cognitive revolution began with Homo sapiens' ability to associate ideas. Its underlying principle was that Homo sapiens no longer remained at the level of animals, merely describing phenomena, but could describe imaginary entities through imagination.]
[Traditional culture is the entirety of what they can imagine.]
What followed was the "Great Release Era," which lasted only one year. Much of the basic defensive infrastructure was deliberately destroyed.
Diverse cultures began to revive. Simply to let loose and rebel, people did many irrational things.
The mob mentality of crowds was incomprehensible, yet extremely widespread.
Then humanity entered the surreal, turbulent "Dark Age," which lasted a full twenty-two years.
A World Hunter had appeared on the Western Continent, a species called the "Shadow Weaver," which killed 1.4 billion people in twenty-two years.
It was difficult to describe how this disaster had arisen or where its source lay. All people knew was that ending it had been difficult and painful. Certain mistakes of the "Great Release Era" had triggered a series of chain reactions.
Twenty-two years later, with the "Shadow Weaver" disaster completely eradicated, a new united government was established. Comrade "Li Xianfeng," now a