"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the epoch of wisdom, it was the epoch of foolishness; it was the epoch of faith, it was the epoch of doubt; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ; it is the spring of hope, it is the winter of despair; there is everything before men, and nothing before them; men are going straight to heaven, and they are going straight to hell." - A Tale of Two Cities
In 2012, Sanya, Hainan.
"Dad, Dad, look what I found?" The boy in the straw hat excitedly raised the conch in his hand, as if he had discovered a great treasure. There was a light of excitement on the immature face. The shiny black eyes under the brim of the hat have no impurities, like the brightest stars shining on this world.
A big hand landed on the straw hat. Due to the backlight, people couldn't see his appearance clearly, leaving only a tall figure.
Hearty laughter sounded: "My good boy, you have found an incredible treasure, why don't you show it to your mother quickly."
"Yeah!" The boy nodded vigorously, laughed and ran towards a parasol on the beach.
Laughter echoed on the beach in Sanya, simple and happy.
Suddenly, the wind picked up.
Without warning, a strong wind blew from the distant sky, and the boy's straw hat was blown away.
"Ah, my hat... son..." The boy raised his head and watched the straw hat fly into the sky.
For some reason, the originally blue sky was filled with gray clouds that kept circling over. The wind is churning, the sky and the earth are changing color, and it seems that a storm is coming.
The boy's father, a tall middle-aged man, rushed to him, took the boy's hand, and shouted in the direction of the parasol: "Honey, we're going back to the hotel, it's going to rain... … "
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the anxious voice of the young man: "Dad, look at the top, what is that?"
The middle-aged man raised his head, and in his sight, there seemed to be something passing by above the gray clouds in the sky, and a scarlet trail appeared unexpectedly.
The red trace became redder and more intense, as if blood was oozing from the gray cloud, which made people feel very uneasy.
Just as the middle-aged man wanted to comfort the child, at this moment, the sky was glowing red, but a big fireball fell from the gray cloud. The clouds rolled and a huge hole was burned by the fireball. So people on the beach can clearly see that behind the cloud cave, there are fireballs passing across the blue sky.
"Is that a shooting star? Dad?" The boy's face was full of doubts. He has never seen a meteor, but he has never seen a burning fireball of such a huge size.
The middle-aged man had already forgotten how to answer the child's question. His eyes followed the fireball that skimmed out of the clouds, and watched it fall into the distant sea. After a while, there was a deafening sound coming from a distance. The sound is like muffled thunder, rolling in. Accompanied by the loud noise, the ground also shook violently, so there were screams everywhere on the beach, and people's figures were knocked to the ground by the strong earthquake.
"Go!" The middle-aged man yelled, pulled the child and ran back, but heard the sound of rolling waves and people screaming behind him.
"Tsunami!"
I don't know who yelled, but it spread like a plague among the crowd. People panicked, terror spread like waves, and the whole beach was in a mess.
The boy was caught by his father and ran wildly, but looked back curiously. His eyes passed through his father's strong arm and fell to the sea behind him. However, it was discovered that the originally calm sea surface now had a wave tens of meters high, pressing towards the beach like a giant wall.
And behind this sea wall, in the eyes of the young man, a group of dazzing glare slowly rose.
The next moment, strong light bloomed and swept across the beach faster than a tsunami.
The boy flew up, he had never felt so light, so... hot!
Yes, the unimaginable high fever swept across the body surface, and the innocent child didn't even say a word, and his soul had already gone to heaven. At the moment of his death, all he saw in those eyes was flames.
An overwhelming flame came from the other side of the sea, igniting the beach, tourists, and buildings in an instant, and burning them to ashes.
Looking down from the sky, I can see that the sea surface in the distance is occupied by strong light. Waves of flames came across the sea and swept across the entire Sanya, turning this famous tourist city, which was famous both at home and abroad, into ruins in a blink of an eye, causing countless casualties!
On the same day, countless meteorites broke through the sky, and they attacked important cities in China, Japan, Africa, the United States, Germany, France and many other countries. The impact of the meteorite changed the plates of the continent, triggered a tsunami, and the monstrous flood swept the world, and the doomsday prophesied in the Bible began to unfold.
This day was called the "Day of Cataclysm" by later generations!
After being baptized by the meteorite rain, the earth is riddled with holes, the dust produced by the explosion covers the sky, and countless lives continue to wither. What was even more deadly was the radiation from the explosion, which turned the once prosperous surface into a hell-like existence even after the flood receded.
The shadow of death hangs over the entire earth, and the surviving lives after the cataclysm are subjected to the cruelest test of nature.
Countless lives are dying, but a small number of lives are surviving in hell. Fifty years passed quietly, and the surviving lives, they, or their genes, have undergone earth-shaking changes.
The earth has ushered in a new era, but no one knows what kind of era it will be.