My Animal Family [Apocalypse]

On an utterly ordinary day, the monsters came.

They appeared out of nowhere in every corner of the world, each the size of a car, like locusts or hornets. They devoured every living thing in sight, taking humans and animals alike completely by surprise.

Humanity was routed across the board.

One country mistakenly used highly destructive weapons, severely damaging its own environment. Plants withered, species neared extinction, and starving people and animals slaughtered one another. Monsters hunted freely in the skies. In no time, the land was strewn with bones, and the carnage was beyond words.

Nobody knew what had caused the disaster, and nobody could stop it.

All people knew was that the monsters kept appearing. They could never be killed off or wiped out.

The age of human civilization on Earth was over.

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Wang Lu witnessed it all with her own eyes when she was twelve.

That day, she had just finished school. On her way home, she bought a creamy ice cream bar and strolled along, eating it while talking to her mother, who was working overtime.

Then she watched as a beautiful butterfly, dark blue with yellow edges, resting by the roadside greenery, transformed in the blink of an eye into a monster the size of a motorcycle. Its coiled proboscis, once used to suck nectar from flowers, became slippery, sharp, flesh-colored tentacles. They stabbed into an adult's head and began feeding. In less than five seconds, the plump adult had become a skeleton wrapped in wrinkled human skin, scattered across the ground.

That day, the worldview of a twelve-year-old girl was shattered and rebuilt.

That day, she gained extraordinary abilities.

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P.S. A survival story about fighting monsters and farming with cats and dogs.

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