To the naked eye, the scorching sun hanging high in the sky seemed no different from any other summer. Dazzling sunlight poured down from the blue heavens. Only when it reached the earth did it reveal its shocking malevolence.
Every street was littered with human corpses, covered in burns, shriveled and curled into balls. Buildings had cracked under the extreme heat. Some poorly constructed houses had long since collapsed into mountain-like piles of rubble. The ground was fissured, and occasionally, a relatively robust duoluozhong could be seen prowling among the ruins.
Over the past two short months, the temperature had climbed relentlessly each day. By now, all traces of humanity had melted away in the high heat, making it hard to believe this was once a highly developed human civilization.
