Contrarily, the residential areas in the city were bursting with an unprecedented vitality.
Deprived of computers, televisions, and mobile phones, people opened their windows and stepped out of their homes.
Some began playing musical instruments, others shouted slogans, while some dusted off ancestral radios to broadcast the latest news.
It was as if everything had suddenly returned to fifty years ago on a power-cut summer night, when everyone focused on a major event together, gathering to listen to the radio or simply moving tables outside to play a long-lost game of mahjong.
The electronic signals were cut off.
People reconnected with each other.
This kind of connection might be inefficient.
But this feeling...
It's not bad.
This fact was indeed beyond the expectations of the authorities.
