Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 282

Chapter 282: Return of Sun, Moon, and Stars
After learning about the pregnancy news, Grace actually decided to put some real work in this particular direction.

Considering the world they had been living in for the past three and a half years, not every couple was keen on iving birth to babies just to make them experience the horror of apocalypse.

And yet, it didn’t mean there were no pregnancies at all. Millions of pregnancies were still recorded around the world, but the real horror soon settled in when everyone realized that it wasn’t easy for the mothers to keep the babies when they were barely getting proper food, medicines, living in cold, and facing extreme stress.

Hence, most pregnancies resulted in miscarriages.

And even if some mothers made it to the point of giving birth, the babies were too weak to survive the unhealthy environment.

Though the government around the world had been trying to find a way for solving this issue, as death of these new borns meant the real end of humanity, they hadn’t been successful.

Not only this, but children under the age of ten were also too weak to survive the unhealthy environment. Before the apocalypse, there were hundreds of millions of children walking around the Earth who were under the age of ten, but now, these numbers had decreased to just a few hundreds of thousands.

And as more time passed and the situation of the planet kept worsening, these numbers were decreasing even more rapidly. If these children survived the disasters, infected, and the Shadow Beasts, they ended yp succumbing to the harsh environment.

It was only after the Great Alliance came into existence that some hope finally returned. The Alliance set up a big underground military base as a makeshift residential place for pregnant couples.

The base provided everything that the babies needed to survive, both during pregnancy period and after birth. Food, medicines, safety, warmth, expert doctors, and company of their loved ones, especially fathers’ as not the netire families could be allowed to live in the base.

However, there had been only one such base where about a thousand pregnant woman were living. The rest of the world was still losing these angels every other hour of the day.

The Alliance was also trying to set up hospitals that could help the children under the age of fifteen to grow up healthy, but this particular mission was even harder than the mission of saving the unborn or newborn babies.

Both the Great Alliance and Grace understood just how important it was for babies to keep being born, and children to survive, if humanity needed to survive.

So while the former continued to work on this matter, Grace did the same with the help of 2025 and Dr. Kian.

The island had almost become a paradise in this new horrific world. The barrier not only kept the place safe from monsters, but it was also keeping the volcanic winter and its cold away.

While the rest of the northern hemisphere was covered in snow, Starfall Isle was the only place where not a single particle of snow could be seen. Instead, the city was clean with greenery and fresh air.

This allowed the children under the age of fifteen, hundred and twelve out of the 3000 people living on the island, to start their healthy growth.

Dr. Kian and a team of expert doctors also diagnosed all these children to make sure that they were healthy and not struggling with any sort of disorders, illness, or other problems.

2025 was even working on creating a realistic image of sky that could be inserted in the barrier to give a fake impression of the sky that the world used to see before the rain disaster happened.

This program was not only to provide the replica of the clear sky, but it would also allow the replica of the sun, moon, and the stars to appear at their respective time in the sky (barrier covering the island).

While this fake impression wouldn’t be able to give the warmth of the sun, or the serenity of the moon, that humans used to enjoy, it was still much better than looking up at the dark, gloomy, and ash-filled sky.

This program was still in its initial stage of making, and there was no telling how long it would take, but 2025 was confident that it could complete it quickly, maybe within next couple of weeks.

Sometimes, as Grace took a look at the progress of ongoing projects that 2025 was working on, she felt guilty for overworking the little creature. But then she ended up recalling that it was just a real-life depiction of the AI running the system and not a real living creature, only then could she shake away the guilty feeling.

So, after a thorough talk with 2025 and Dr. Kian, Grace personally visited the couple that were having the baby.

The first thing she did was to relocate them to an apartment complex in the Maple Street. The street was named so because there was a maple orchard there, as well as a small park. There was even a pond there, all man-made.

The second thing she did was to bring the mother for a thorough examination at the hospital that recently opened in the city. It was also located right next to Maple street, making it more convenient for the couple.

Once the doctors did their routine checkup, 2025 also did some scanning and suggested the kind of nourishment, safety precautions, and exercises the mother needed to do in order for a safe delivery of a healthy child.

The little creature even advised that if the mother could take a spirit stone, even a Level Two one, it could make the baby stronger and increase the chances of him/her gaining elemental powers from the time of birth.

It took a couple of weeks of thorough study, research, and planning before Grace finally paid a second visit to the couple, and this time, she personally used her powers to help the mother take a Level Two Blue Spirit Stone.

It wasn’t an easy task as even the slightest of mistake could have resulted in miscarriage. But it was a necessary task nonetheless. Thus, Grace had to do it even though she felt so nervous… to the point that her palms were sweating as she entered their apartment.

What surpised her the most was the trust the couple showed in her. They were vocal about not blaming her even if anything went wrong, as they trusted her not never harm their baby on purpose.

Fortunately, the weeks of preparation didn’t go to waste and Grace succeeded in successfully infusing the stone in the mother, allowing the fetus to immediately absorb its pure elemental energy.

When the rest of city got to know about the special treatments the couple was receiving, it finally motivated them to work on making their own babies.

Within next two months, about fifteen more pregnancies were recorded within the city.

This made Grace extremely busy as she was busy making sure that the city was well prepared to welcome these babies. Within these two months, she set up an entire sector just for maternity.

And at this very point, 2025 also completed the program of the sky replica. One Saturday night, Grace took a break from her daily schedule just to join 2025 as it added the program into the barrier.

The program was set to start functional dawn. It was almost like a big surpise that was prepared for the citizens, allowing all of them to wake up with the first rays of sunlight after a very long time.

And to make sure that no one would feel disappointed to learn that the sky and sun were fake, an announcement had already been made a while ago to let the citizens know about the program.

She just didn’t disclose the exact time of setting up the program.

Thus, as the dawn arrived and a bright sun emerged in the clear sky, the netire city was in absolute shock, one that soon turned into celebration and happiness once everyone realized that, even though fake, they would be enjoying the luxury of nature once again.

“If I can focus properly, I can almost feel the warmth of the sunlight touching my skin.” Aleena whispered as she inhaled deeply and closed her eyes to enjoy the evening sunlight that was currently bathing the entire Starfall Isle.

“I know exactly what you are talking about.” Kevin spoke as he joined her with a cup of coffee that Grace brewed for the team. “This… almost feels like everything’s normal… everything’s still the way it used to be years ago.”

Grace was listening to their exchange, and hearing Kevin’s words almost made her sigh. When she returned to this timeline, she immediately got busy with preparations for the survival of the apocalypse.

And while she did make sure to enjoy the beauty of the safe world back then, now it felt like she didn’t enjoy it enough. There was a sense of regret in her heart, making her feel that she should have spent more time bathing in the warm sun, enjoying the moonlight and stars-filled sky, and inhaling the fresh air.

Maybe… one day in future… the world might go back the way it used to be, with real sun, moon, and stars filling the sky.