The blinding light flashed in the pitch-black night for several full minutes before finally fading away.
Everyone inside Heavenly Gate Palace stared at the mushroom cloud slowly rising in the darkness, stunned and speechless.
Zhonghai City, the first-tier city that had once stood at the pinnacle of China, vanished completely at that moment.
No one knew how powerful the nuclear bomb was, nor how many lives it had claimed.
The shock it had brought them went far beyond numbers, or even life itself.
Seeing Chen Hao kneeling on the ground, silent for a long time, Qin Yumo slowly walked over and gently hugged him from behind. "It's all right. Once tonight is over, everything will be fine."
The rain fell all night, making the already devastated Heavenly Gate Island look even more desolate.
In the rain, countless dead birds fell to the ground.
Out in the sea, countless unidentified floating corpses crowded the entire beach.
Everywhere they looked, everything was steeped in death.
Chen Hao stared blankly at the scene outside. He was about to open the barrier and go out for a look when Qin Yumo stopped him. "Let me go. There might still be nuclear radiation outside."
Chen Hao did not stop her. He simply opened the barrier and let Qin Yumo out.
She felt something different in the air outside. Even the rain seemed especially cold, sending a chill through her.
She took a deep breath and found that the air was filled with a strange smell that made her lungs feel uncomfortable.
Qin Yumo slowly raised her arm and discovered that the rain caused a faint stinging sensation when it touched her skin, though it was barely noticeable.
It seemed that low levels of nuclear radiation, extremely harmful to the human body, still lingered throughout the