The sky was overcast, without even the slightest glimmer of light.
As Wang Houde looked at the orange streetlights glowing in the distance and the dense line of cars parked along the roadside, a trace of worry involuntarily arose in his heart.
It was already past ten in the morning, yet the sky was as gloomy as it was at night... This was very abnormal.
But after these past few days, he had actually grown somewhat used to this abnormality.
Although the global downpour that had swept across the world that day sounded horrifying, he had not felt much about it. After all, the rain had only lasted for about half a day. Even all that talk online about the end of the world and an apocalyptic Great Flood had left him personally unmoved.
No matter what, life still had to go on.
He was neither a player nor some powerful and influential figure. As an honest, dutiful taxi driver, with a daughter who had just started elementary school and a gentle, virtuous wife at home, his life had been fairly ordinary and peaceful.
Yet that peace seemed exceedingly fragile in this day and age.
Every speck of dust from the tides of history became a mountain when it fell upon an individual.
In an era where even personal safety could not be guaranteed from one day to the next, there was actually very little that a common person could do.
Stockpile as many supplies as possible at home, tell his family not to go out unless necessary, never approach anything abnormal, withdraw all the savings from the bank and exchange them for portable gold bars... As a common person, these were the only things he could do.
But no matter how much he prepared, before those unreasonable things, his