It was past dinner time and Grace was once again sitting on the plush couch near the huge floor-to-ceiling window in her living room.
After all the hardwork she had put into installing the bulletproof glass on the big window in the living room of her apartment. It wasn’t an easy job, but it did work out when Davian showed up at her doorstep and offered his help. There were also two men in his team who were good with these kind of works.
She had previously installed metal grates on all the windows of her apartment, but doing so made it hard for her to get a view of the outside area. Hence, she decided to switch the metal grates with a bulletproof glass for the window of her living room that was taking place of half of south wall.
With the new glass installed, she had access to the outside view. She sipped the herbal tea while opening the news portal on the tablet that was sitting on her lap.
As usual, there were articles about how the rain had been relentless for weeks and it had left many areas submerged and in complete chaos. The nation was battling continous downpour, storms, floods, mudslides, giant sinkholes, and the occasional tremors.
Then there were articles about the number of deaths that had been reported over the past few days, the number of injured people who were rescued.
But what really caught her attention was the breaking news that was catching attention with each passing second. It left her stunned. A super typhoon was on its way and it was expected to strike the northern regions of Starship Country within next ten hours.
Grace felt her heart sinking as she realized that Sunspire City was uncomfortably close to the northern end of the country. While the typhoon’s direct impact might miss the city, she knew that the outskirts would not escape its wrath.
She chose Sunspire City for its safety. Perched on higher ground, it had withstood the apocalyptic rain and floods better than most places in the previous timeline. Though there were some landslides and mudslides, the damages had been minimal compared to the havoc in other regions. There was also no danger of earthquakes.
But she didn’t anticipate a super typhoon to suddenly active out of nowhere. In the previous timeline, it had rained for a month straight, causing devastating floods and other disasters like landslides and sinkholes, but no typhoon had come until much later, not until the appearance of the Shadow Rain. This anomaly was unsettling. The timeline was changing, and not in subtle ways.
Letting out a deep sigh, she picked up her phone and dropped a message in the group chat, informing others about the upcoming typhoon since she knew no one had noticed this news yet.
Though there had been no power supply for nearly ten days, the phones of all the residents living on the top three floors were working just fine thanks to Grace, except for the person living in Unit 2102. She had been charging the power banks in her space and then handing them over to the teams for them to charge their phones. It helped them in staying connected.
After she was done sending the message, she headed to the bedroom to get some sleep.
When the typhoon arrived, it unleashed its fury with terrifying force.
As expected, northern cities faced the worst, with roaring winds tearing roofs off houses and hurling debris through the air. Water flowed down the streets with force, carrying vehicles and wreckage with it. Trees were uprooted, crashing into buildings and blocking escape routes. Power lines snapped like fragile threads, plunging more cities into a deadly darkness. In some areas, the already saturated ground gave way, triggering more massive mudslides that swallowed homes and lives in their path.
The typhoon’s outer bands reached Sunspire City by evening. Though it wasn’t as destructive as the northern regions, it still brought torrential rain and fierce winds.
Grace was standing by the window in her living room, watching the storm’s rage from the safety of her apartment. The sturdy Greenstone Residential Area was designed to withstand severe weather, but even so, the howling wind and pounding rain were a grim reminder of the chaos outside.
[Days until Doomsday: 59 Days, 19 Hours]
The timer was slowly, but steadily ticking, pulling the inevitable closer. Everything she looked at the timer set inside the system, she found herself recalling that dreadful day from the previous timeline. It was a pure miracle that she survived the great day of doom in her previous life. She just hoped that she could be lucky enough to survive it again.
But with every new change in the happenings of the current timeline, she found herself wondering if she was indeed prepared for what was coming. Supplies and strength alone couldn’t confirm her survival. One of her biggest weapons for survival was undoubtedly her knowledge of the apocalypse from the previous timeline, but she was realizing that it might not be that strong of a weapon.
Stepping away from the window, she headed out of her apartment and toward the upper floor to join the two teams for the training session. While the world outside continued to sybmerge in water and death, she and her people continued to train within the safety of their apartments to increase their physical health.
The stronger they would be physically, the easier it would be for them to handle the Shadow Rain and gain access to the superpowers instead of the disease. That was why she had been forcing her team to practice everyday while feeding them with healthy and a balanced-diet food.
Ever since Davian joined her, she did the same with his men as well. And since a few days ago, she had started doing this with Dr. Kian as well. While he couldn’t train because of his injuries, she still made him exercise a little and fed him a lot of food.
The only person who wanted her attention but wasn’t getting any, belonged to Unit 2102.