The typing on the keyboard stopped abruptly at three in the morning. Chen Mo stared at the 37th error code on the screen, and the hairs on the back of his neck suddenly stood up - this moment was too familiar. Last night, the night before, and the night before New Year's Eve, the same firewall vulnerability appeared exactly at 03:15, with an error of no more than two seconds. "Mr. Chen?" The intern poked her head in, "The server crashed again?" The glass door reflected the meteorite pendant in her hand, which was a souvenir given by the planetarium last week. "It's not a server." Chen Mo turned off the surveillance screen and smelled a rusty smell on the tip of his nose. Seventy-two hours before the rebirth, the substation also had this smell before the explosion. "Check the backup power supply in area B." When the intern turned around, he suddenly grabbed her wrist: "Where did the pendant come from?" "Ah? It's just... The meteor shower observation activity." The tips of her ears turned red, "The TV said there will be... Tonight..." The TV was playing weather news, and an unnatural blue light flashed in the clouds behind the female anchor. Chen Mo's pupils shrank suddenly, which was the color of the ionized layer being penetrated by meteorites. He grabbed his suit jacket and rushed out the door, and the intern's surprised call came from behind him. The cables groaned sickly as the elevator descended. Chen Mo stared at the floor numbers, memory and reality overlapping on his retina: In the past life, the power distribution room of the office building should have started to leak electricity. On the second floor, the metal door handle was indeed flashing with static blue light. "Fuck!" He retracted his hand, took out a coin and threw it at the fire door. The moment the arc exploded, the entire building fell into darkness. When the emergency lights came on, drops of water oozed from the walls, and the liquid sluggishly resembled some kind of biological slime under the pale green light.
