January 17th, 2021, rain
Today was a rainy day.
Even though it had been almost half a year, I was still not used to the rain.
It had an unfamiliar taste and it tasted sour in the mouth. For those who were slightly weaker, this rain was enough to take their lives. Fortunately, I wasn't afraid because I had become a superman that even I couldn't imagine.
People like us were known as hope.
It was also today that the last trace of the previous civilization, a radio station that had been persisting, lost its last signal.
However, as if to prove the theory that an end was a new beginning, the city walls of our refuge were officially completed.
Never doubt the power of humans. As long as humans existed, miracles could happen at any time.
I looked at the completed city walls and felt emotional. I thought that the sudden disaster that night would destroy everything, but the spark didn't extinguish in the end.
Thinking of this, I felt like crying. How long had it been since I last cried?
Last August, I cried day and night. I suspected that I had cried my entire life's worth of tears at that time.
Yeah, how could I bear it?
In one night, my dear parents were separated by life and death. Our budding love was killed by the disaster. I saw her, who had given me her first hug, die in front of me.
What about my other relatives? My friends? No, you could only search for traces of them in your memory. If you could meet someone you were slightly familiar with, it would be a great fortune.
This fortune made me understand that a person could have nothing in their life. A meal, a simple place to stay, and the ability to do meaningful things would be enough.
Because, the most precious treasure was everyone who had left a trace in your memory. If there wasn't a disaster, you wouldn't have realized that the time you spent alone and everyone you had in your life was the true composition of your life.
I grew up and matured very quickly. In just a few short months, it felt like a few lifetimes had passed.
It was this maturity that gave me the courage to face my wounds and write down some memories that I thought I would never be able to recall again in my life.
My life is in the sweetest moment, the upheaval occurred.
Before that, although my family wasn't rich, it was enough. My studies couldn't be considered successful, but I could still continue to study and lay a solid foundation for the ordinary me in the future. My love life had just begun.
I couldn't forget every detail of that day, such as her every smile, every look in her eyes, and every word we said.
Those words were filled with longing and hope. No one could predict that in the short span of seven or eight minutes, everything would change drastically.
At that moment, we were holding hands as we returned from a busy street. We were walking on a quiet street not far from her neighborhood.
"We're almost home." She let go of my hand shyly. It wasn't good to be seen by familiar people.
But how could they bear to part with the love that had just begun? Just as they let go, they couldn't help but hug each other again.
That was the first hug of love in my life. The feeling of my heartbeat felt so real when I recalled it.
But the moment she lifted her head in my arms, she saw Purple Moon.
Yes, a purple moon. It subverts our understanding. Isn't the moon supposed to be a warm yellow? Although it would occasionally have a mysterious blood-red color, it would never become purple.
So, when she told me that the moon had suddenly turned purple, I didn't believe her. It wasn't until I turned around and saw the Purple Moon that I realized she was telling the truth.
Maybe it was because I was naturally sensitive, but the moment I saw the Purple Moon, I had a bad feeling.
When the purple moonlight shone on my body, I had a strange sticky feeling. It was just like the strange fog that had appeared at night for many days.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there was no fog that night.
I thought it was a kind of luck. It happened to be used to commemorate our love. 'Look, on the first day of our love, even God celebrated for us. For the first time, there was no fog.'
Yeah, the fog that had shrouded the entire world was gone that night.
But the Purple Moon appeared!
No one knew that this mysterious and even slightly beautiful purple moon would bring disaster. Its appearance caused an uproar in the entire city.
In less than five minutes, a lot of people swarmed the streets to admire the mysterious Purple Moon.
She leaned against me and looked at the Purple Moon in silence. Back then, I still remembered that she was a little excited. Because of the Purple Moon, she thought of many unsolved mysteries of the world, the universe, and our lives …
However, everything she thought of was beautiful, including how our lives would move towards a more desirable future. How could she have known that most lives would come to an end that night?
The Purple Moon appeared for less than seven minutes. I wasn't sure about the time.
A meteor shower appeared. The meteor shower was so strange that it looked like it had appeared from the moon.
How should I describe what I saw? No matter how hard I tried, I could only describe the moon as a giant cannon that fired the meteors!
It was strange, wasn't it?
Something even stranger was about to happen. While everyone was excited by the dense purple meteors, no one noticed that a huge disaster had already occurred at this time.
It had been almost half a year, and no one could explain what kind of power it was. It had silently destroyed the achievements that humans had accumulated for thousands of years in an instant.
First, all the satellites that humans had launched had lost their effectiveness.
The communication network that humans had spent decades building was cut off in an instant.
Then, all kinds of silent destruction followed. Humans' ultimate weapons, missiles, fighter jets, aircraft carriers … In short, my knowledge was limited. After all, I was a guy who hadn't even gone to college. All I could say was that the ultimate weapons had lost their effectiveness.
Do you think that's the scary part? No, after the cataclysmic disaster struck, humans discovered that all the more powerful firearms had lost their effectiveness when all sorts of weapons were urgently mobilized.
It was as if they were being sucked in by a huge magnetic force, unable to operate at all.
Later on, I met a surviving soldier. He was a commander. He told me, "I used to think that humans were strong and the next step was to march into the universe. In the end, I realized that humans were actually very fragile. As long as our communication network was destroyed, many of our ultimate weapons would become 'blind' and they wouldn't be able to react in time.
This kind of destruction could be done silently with a power that we don't even understand. "
Yes, silently and without any signs, everything would be paralyzed in an instant.
However, at that moment, I was still happily with her. Looking at the purple moon and the purple meteor shower in the sky, I felt uneasy and strangely excited. I felt like I had witnessed a new era.
Yes, I had indeed witnessed a new era.
I had also witnessed my own ignorance.
Since when could a meteor shower bring real danger? It didn't matter where they landed. After all, I had never heard of any meteor shower that caused great damage.
However, this time, the meteor shower fell randomly.
The people's cheers were still lingering in my ears when a huge purple meteor fell from the city and destroyed a few large buildings.
I saw everything with my own eyes, and I also saw the people screaming.
"Call the police."
"Where's the ambulance? Call the city hospital's ambulance. "
"Hide! Another meteor is falling."
Subconsciously, I pulled her, or maybe she was the one pulling me. We started to run. Although we had no direction, running gave us a sense of security. After all, who could guarantee where the next meteor would land?
What did I feel back then? Now that I think about it, it's a little blurry. Only one thought was exceptionally clear. Did we just encounter a meteor shower? How many cities would be affected by the disaster tomorrow?
But was it just a meteor shower? No, definitely not.
What happened next was what it meant to be turned upside down! Rats. Countless rats appeared.
Every single one of them wasn't the usual rats. They were huge, as big as a dog. They were strong and fast, and they kept surging out from the ground.
I even saw with my own eyes that when the purple moonlight shrouded the rats, some of the rats that were originally within the acceptable range immediately grew bigger.
It was as if this incident had been happening for a long time, so it was natural for them to grow bigger under the moonlight.
Then, the stray cats and dogs …
The mosquitoes that we usually didn't care about …
At that moment, everything became a foreign existence to the humans, an existence that was hostile to them.
They seemed to be organized and premeditated as they started to attack the humans in a frenzy.
It wasn't the end though. All kinds of strange creatures started to swarm into the city, just like the snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the city.
They attacked the humans in a frenzy as well.
An even bigger disaster started.
Maybe I shouldn't call it a disaster because it gave a small portion of the humans a chance to catch their breath.
What was this disaster? It was a natural disaster.
Earthquakes, strong winds, thunder, and torrential rain all happened at the same time! All I noticed was that the Purple Moon in the sky was strangely there.
What is this? Is this a desperate situation? Is this the apocalypse? At that time, I finally realized that this was a disaster so great that it was impossible for human power to stop it.
The apocalypse had arrived, but it might not be the final desperate situation!
Because of the changes! At that moment, I was the first person to experience the drastic changes!
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