The Death of the Prophet

The changes on Earth had begun twenty days ago.

Speaking of the past twenty days,

Zhou Jianming looked utterly dazed. "I've never experienced such a long twenty days."

Li Yao, Old Man Lu, and the others fell silent.

Twenty days...

Earth had undergone such enormous changes? That was a little unscientific.

However,

Tom Clancy's military thrillers had described something similar—given the right timing, destroying the civilization humanity had built might take only a single week.

Although this author was only an author, with neither actual military service nor experience working in any special department, his debut work, The Hunt for Red October, had caused a tremendous sensation upon release. It had even earned praise from Reagan, who called it "a technically near-perfect story."

Who was Reagan?

He was the president of the American Federation.

After that, Tom Clancy was recommended for a position in the American Federation's Department of Homeland Defense and Counterattack Security. With access to more information afterward, he went on to create even more bestselling novels.

For example:

Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, The Division, and so on...

The content of his works had inevitably taken on elements that seemed somewhat science-fictional to people at the time.

In fact, many renowned writers in related fields had voiced similar concerns. They said human civilization was like a sandcastle built on a beach, liable to be toppled by a wave if one was not careful.

A more vivid and pessimistic comparison was this:

Human civilization was like a house of cards.

It looked gorgeous, intricate, and astonishing, but a slightly stronger gust of wind could bring down that elaborate, magnificent creation.

Now, it seemed

those pessimists had been right.

And through Zhou Jianming's account, Li Yao and the others gradually learned that the changes on Earth had begun with the