Chapter 1: Are You Ready for the Meteor Strike?
A day that was supposed to be Christmas, after experiencing a year of disasters, people desperately hoped this year would pass quickly, and the disasters would subside.
After all, this year has been a painful one for all of humanity.
Pestilence, famine, war, death—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as recorded in the Bible wreaked havoc all over the world. Humanity clearly seems so fragile in the face of natural disasters.
However, people have not given up hope. Even in the face of calamity, we still strive to fight against these disasters, demonstrating the most precious golden spirit of humanity—filled with hope, never bowing to disaster.
Yet, as if God played a massive joke on humanity, on this day, astronomers discovered a giant meteor over ten kilometers in diameter, and after calculations, they confirmed that the meteor’s orbit would intersect with the orbit of the Blue Planet and would collide within a few months.
Upon receiving this news, the governments of various countries immediately blocked the information. To avoid causing social panic, almost all astronomers were put under a gag order.
But this kind of news is hard to block.
After all, the meteor hangs in the sky, and as it gets closer to the Blue Planet, astronomy enthusiasts worldwide can spot the increasingly bright and large comet through their telescopes in the night sky.
Moreover, the space missions and various countermeasures that the governments launched subsequently were hard to miss in this internet-savvy era.
These traces naturally spread online, sparking heated discussions. Simultaneously, some foresighted individuals, smelling the clues, also began hoarding supplies.