"How did the world end?" Sitting on the shaking roof of the pickup, Lin Chichi looked at He Ao opposite her, shrugged, and spoke slowly, "About a month ago, we just woke up and it was gone."
That did leave He Ao a bit dumbfounded.
"It wasn't actually that simple," the long-haired girl beside them said quietly, "That night I was sleeping when I suddenly felt the earth shaking, and then my brother burst in and shoved me into an off‑road vehicle."
At this point, her tone paused slightly; she wrapped her arms around her knees, as if recalling something terrifying. "I sat in the car and saw the high‑rises behind us collapsing like piles of sand. There were screams everywhere. Sparrows in the sky flew over our heads, and then they fell like a torrential downpour, pattering against us."
