With his back against the wall, Zhao Nan slid down it and collapsed to the floor, his mind a blank.
Five days—or, to be exact, 119 hours and 43 minutes—until that celestial body reached Earth. It would destroy the moon first. A little over ten seconds later, it would plunge down from the sky and strike the planet.
Then—boom!—everything would be over!
If the people on Earth reacted quickly enough, they might first see the moon explode, blazing like a giant fireball in the sky. Then they would watch helplessly as an enormous celestial body filled their entire field of vision, before darkness swallowed them forever...
Five thousand kilometers in diameter, moving at thirty thousand kilometers per second—one-tenth the speed of light. Zhao Nan couldn't even begin to calculate how much terrifying energy it would unleash. In the face of that celestial body, everything seemed so pale and powerless.
What would it accomplish to report this? Who could change what was coming? Who could stop that celestial body from arriving?
It was all meaningless now...
Earth had less than five days left.
In five days, this Earth, humanity's home, this planet that had given birth to countless glorious civilizations, this place where countless stories had unfolded, would become dust drifting through the stars!
Zhao Nan's mind was a complete blank. He was nearly catatonic, trying desperately to think of something, but his thoughts wouldn't come. His mind seemed to have ground to a halt.
The security guard who'd been smoking nearby crouched down and pressed his cigarette butt against Zhao Nan, but he didn't react at all.
Then the guard said, "What's wrong with you? If Earth's going to be destroyed, isn't that a good thing? Think about it. Once Earth's gone, you won't have to hide away in this