Chapter 234
Nuclear Explosion
May 2023.
Flash, flaaash!
Two flashes of light erupted in the heart of Budapest.
As if a small sun had manifested on Earth, an immense light illuminated the world.
That eerie flash instantly covered a radius of 1,000 km.
Simultaneously.
In an instant, forests and cities vanished without a trace.
They evaporated like moisture under solar heat.
Bzzt-bzzzt!
Thousands of lightning bolts flashed across the sky.
Whoooosh……
Two mushroom-shaped nuclear clouds surged from the ground toward the sky.
Beneath the billowing mushroom clouds lay only desertified dust.
……
After that, a brief silence.
Truly, an explosion of this magnitude would produce decibels beyond human perception… A moment so quiet it prompted such thoughts passed, and then—
Kwa-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga!
With a tremendous roar, the ground shook violently.
It vibrated madly, as if a giant were grabbing the world and shaking it.
Kwaaaaah!
Next.
The explosion that erupted from the center began rapidly expanding its area.
It was the aftershock that would turn everything into ruins.
Pzzzt, pzzzzt!
The camera broadcasting from HNN eventually produced static before turning black.
The screen had gone dark.
└ ???
└ Did a nuke really go off? For real?
└ Fuck, I can feel the vibrations here.
└ The sky flashed here too just now.
└ Is this for real? Was it really a nuke?
└ Then it was a nuke. What have you been hearing? The US military confirmed it.
└ What happened to the reporter?
└ David? Dunno… Did he survive? Might be tough. Escaping the blast radius at helicopter speed…
