Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 138

Chapter 138: New Disaster

[Time left until BLOOD RAIN: 10 Days]

Blood Rain?

Grace was clearly confused as there was no such thing as Blood Rain in the previous timeline. After the rain disaster, the world only witnessed the Shadow Rain and occasional acid rains, there was no such thing as a Blood Rain.

She immediately entered her space to find some information about this new rain. It was as if 2025 knew she would be coming because it was already awaiting her with the digital screen of the system opened in front of it.

“What is this Blood Rain?” She demanded the moment her gaze landed on 2025.

“It’s an upcoming rain that will begin exactly at 3:13 PM ten days from now and will last for over an hour. The rain is going to look like blood and it’s going to me more fatal than the Shadow Rain.” The creature began revealing all the information that the system had been able to gather about the upcoming Blood Rain so far.

Over time, the system had become more accustomed to fortelling the upcoming disasters. While it couldn’t forsee the disasters that were still months away, it could identify those disasters that were about to hit within next two or three weeks. After studying the changes in the environment as well as the amount of unlimited data preserved in it, the system could also produce further details about these disasters – like what kind of pros and cons they had.

Same happened with the upcoming Blood Rain. The system had been noticing the slow changes in the atmosphere for past two days, and after studying all the available hints, it realized that the upcoming disaster was a Blood Rain.

“This blood rain will carry some harmful actives in it. Coming in contact with these actives could be lethal.” 2025 warned in a serious tone.

The two discussed the matter for a few more minutes before Grace finally stepped out of the space and immediately messaged Davian and Dr. Kian. She needed to tell them about this matter first before revealing it to the rest of the team. Besides, since they just ended one meeting this afternoon, she didn’t want to call them for another meeting this quickly.

After thinking about for a while, she also ended up messaging Rune to join her and the other two men.

It didn’t take long before all three arrived at her doorstep. She let them in before filling them on the matter. It turned out her decision of asking Rune to join them was a good one because he knew about the Blood Rain.

“I remember once hearing about a very small planet ending because of a Blood Rain.” Rune confessed, surprising the other three.

“It’s that lethal?” Dr. Kian asked as he was taken aback by the fact that the life on a planet came to an end just from a rain.

As if Rune read the other man’s thoughts, he decided to elaborate. “I’m talking about Planet A91. It’s a very small planet, barely the size of this city. So, you can already imagine the population of that planet.”

When said in this way, it indeed made more sense. But as Rune continued, it became clear that Blood Rain could be taken lightly.

“About a decade ago, the incident of planet A91 took place. In the official file, it was documented that a mutated pathogen ended up infecting the atmosphere of the planet and it caused precipitation to mix with blood-like bio-contaminants from decaying life forms. The rain ended up making the situation worse as it spread the infection, and turned the residents of the planets into mindless, violent creatures. Whether it was getting drenched entirely or coming in contact with just a drop or two of that rain, it was enough.”

Grace was surprised to hear about the Blood Rain. “Are you saying that just like Shadow Rain, Blood Rain will also convert people into zombies?”

In response to her question, Rune gave a positive nod of his head before adding, “You can actually say that the Shadow Rain was a slightly better version of the Blood Rain. While coming in contact with the Shadow Rain did turn some people into zombies, it didn’t happen overnight, and there’s also the fact that when used correctly, the Shadow Rain can even used for advantage. But the Blood Rain, its not going to wait and neither will it let anyone take advantage of it.”

“It almost feels like you got impressed with this Blood Rain.” Davian pointed out.

Rune didn’t defend himself. Instead, he just accepted the truth. “I won’t deny that. When I was doing my study on this case back in my academy days, I was amazed at the idea of a single rain ending the life of an entire planet.”

There was silence following his words and for a while, no one spoke. It was actually Dr. Kian who broke the silence first. “Do you think this winter period will end with this rain?”

All three remaining people shook their heads negatively. “I know that there are so many things that aren’t going as per the previous timeline, but most of these things had been on the smaller scale. As for the big events, they have been going as per the previous time just with some minor changes. If we keep this in mind, then the volcanic winter will not be lasting for at least next fifteen months. The only change I can think of is the time period for which it will last. That period can either shorten or become longer.” Grace answered.

The thought of this chilly winter lasting for that long was terrifying. But at least they all were living in the warmth unlike those who were on the verge of freezing to death.

But this terror of winter was about to end soon. Because once the DNA alterations would be over, people would stop feeling cold either way – by turning into zombies or by unlocking superpowers.