Busan might have become world-famous through a zombie movie, but it was actually South Korea's second-largest city after Seoul.
With a permanent population of around 3.5 million and an annual GDP of 78 billion dollars, it ranked among the top eighty modern cities worldwide.
Its machinery industry was well developed, and it led South Korea in shipbuilding and tire production. Even South Korea's only stock exchange was located in this city.
For a city in a developed country like this, electricity had become the lifeblood of its entire operation after it entered the information age of the twenty-first century.
With two-thirds of the electricity produced by the Kori Nuclear Power Plant diverted by Chen Jue, the first thing to run into trouble was Busan's public transportation system!
Since it was daytime, there were plenty of white-collar workers commuting to work. The four subway lines operating underground suddenly lost power mid-journey as their circuits tripped.
The lights flickered, and the carriages instantly plunged into darkness. Some of the more timid passengers were already screaming.
Anyone who did not know what was happening might have thought zombies really had appeared!
"Fuck!"
"Why did the power go out?"
"This is fucking ridiculous! Did all the taxes we pay every year go to the dogs? Even basic infrastructure can break down! Fuck!"
Passengers throughout the carriages cursed, and some even picked up their phones to call in complaints.
The train attendants at the front were equally flustered and hurriedly picked up their microphones to calm the passengers in the carriages.
Fortunately, the subway carriages all had backup power supplies, and a few dozen seconds after the outage, the lights inside came back on.
But there was clearly not enough electricity to drive the trains. With two-thirds of it siphoned off by Chen Jue, the