Chapter 29

Over the past few decades, rain had gone from being a blessing that nourished the earth to a catastrophe that struck fear in people's hearts. Mankind had gone from wanting to conquer Mother Nature to being conquered by her. Everything was heading in an unpredictable and uncontrollable direction; no one knew what awaited humans in the future. Would it be the judgment of a new species or victory in a battle between survival and destiny? On a stormy night when the rain poured relentlessly, someone looked at the latest data from meteorological and hydrological sensors before sighing. "The average sea level has risen again. Who knows how long this rain will last?" The sky seemed to have been ripped apart, allowing floods from another world to enter theirs. It was far beyond what the planet could withstand. Along the long coastline, scattered piles of marine carcasses washed ashore. They'd met their end in different ways—some torn apart, some rotting, some with missing organs. Others had