Age of Gray Rain

As the last acid rain corrodes the earth, humans crawl in the poisonous mud. This is not a natural disaster, but a bitter fruit brewed by civilization. Meteorologist Cheng Chen read the countdown to the doomsday in the data. When the first scarlet acid rain fell, he rescued nurse Xu Miaomiao, and the two strangers became each other's anchor in a rotting world. As survivors gather, they discover that the disaster holds a secret darker than death. In the fifth year when radiation clouds blocked the sun, Cheng Chen's notebook recorded: We have lost electricity, purified water, and medicine, but we have not lost our humanity. When the iron hooves of predators roll over the walls of the shelter, and when the last green leaf withers in the petri dish, this group of ordinary people will use the glimmer of science to confront the flames of the mob, proving that mankind is worth saving. This is not a heroic epic, but a survival memo written by a group of scarred people on the ruins of civilization. (The full text is more than 20,000 words)