Grace was unable to stop herself from sneaking another glance at the wall clock which was showing very clearly that it was already ten minutes past midnight.
She let out a deep sigh and closed her eyes. A moment later, she finally stood up from the couch, where she had been curled up for past four hours, and headed inside the bedroom.
It was way past the time limit she gave Dr. Kian two nights ago. Just like she said to him, his absence meant that he had made his choice and she needed to keep her words. It was time for her to stop meddling in his affairs and let him live his life the way he wanted.
Entering the bedroom, she headed straight toward the bed and climbed under the sheets. Still, she decided to do one last thing before finally going to sleep. Her fingers moved over the screen of her phone swiftly, hesitating for just a moment before she clicked on the ’block’ option and closed her phone.
Putting the phone on the bedside table, she switched off the lamp and went to sleep. Considering how much she worked throughout the day and that it was way past her recent bedtime, she was extremely tired and fell asleep immediately.
On the other hand, outside the comfort of her apartment, chaos was growing both in the outside world and inside people’s hearts. The water level was rising with each passing day while more and more issues were arising.
Though Sunspire City was located on elevation, it had been over four days of continuous, extreme rain, and at this point, even this city was no longer safe from the issue of rising water level.
The underground water tunnels were overflowing and the streets were starting to flood as the rainwater wasn’t getting enough space to pass. All the underground parking lots, basements, and other such places were being affected the most as the water was rushing inside.
The roads were no longer safe for driving and the authorities were constantly sending alerts for people to stay inside their houses and not step outside.
Since there were no former notifications about such a severe rain, no precautionary steps were taken by the local residents, and now, people were facing several issues.
Some people were stuck at places away from their homes. Some people no longer had any food left at their homes while deliveries had also stopped, forcing them to step out of their houses to go and buy rations despite the dangerous rain.
Those people who lived in basements were most affected, and those who lived on the ground floors had started to panic in fear of what might happen if the rain continued for several more days.
Another bad news for Sunspire City was the sinkhole that suddenly appeared in a public park earlier that day. At first, it was just a small sinkhole, but within just twelve hours, it had grown to the size of a small car. There were also speculations that it could grow even bigger since the rain wasn’t going to stop anytime soon.
Yet, compared to other places in Starship Country, Sunspire City was among those few places that was doing much better. Several cities had been flooded and giant sinkholes had appeared all over the places. Several lives had been lost, people had gone missing, and rescue was impossible because of the continuous rain.
There were landslides and mudslides, resulting in casualties, and several earthquakes had pulled buildings to the ground in rumbles.
While Starship Country was mostly struggling with rain and flooding, Country A was seeing a completely different story. According to the news reports, there had been several heat waves hitting Country A. The temperature had went as high as 55°C for last two days straight.
There were alerts throughout Country A that the heat waves would continue for next several days, and people were advised to stay inside. Not only that, but a forest also caught fire earlier that day, burning miles and miles of not only the woods but also the nearby fields of crops, resulting in severe damages.
Then there was a volcano in Country X. Though it had been dormant for hundreds of years, there had been some activities noticed in it recently and there had been several speculations about whether these small activities could turn into something disastrous or if it was just a false alarm.
Overall, such disasters were being seen not only in these three countries, but all around the world. Both the authorities and scientists around the world were left completely stunned at these unexpected arrival of natural disasters out of nowhere.
Some people had started spreading rumors on internet about how they believed the end of the world was near. While most netizens called out such people for spreading fear among general public, there was still a small fraction of people who believed in these rumors after seeing everything that was happening around the world.
The irony was, it hadn’t been even a week since these disasters started appearing one after the other, and people were already scared.
But despite all this mess, the residents of the top three floor of Building K12 were sleeping peacefully. Most of these residents were tension free because they trusted their Bosses, and their Bosses were carefree because unlike the rest of the world, they knew what they would be facing in the coming future.
But among all these people, there was one resident on the 21st floor who was neither a part of these two teams, nor a reborner, and yet, he was probably the most carefree among all of them.
The night continued to pass and the rain didn’t slow down even for a second. Instead, it seemed to only become more powerful with each passing hour.
It was around two in the morning when Grace was jerked out of her sleep by the sound of her phone ringing. She reached out for her phone and picked up the call.
"Hello?"
[Boss, you need to come down right now!]