Civilization Finale: Candy of the End of the World

A historic sandstorm with a hasty warning swept across the earth. The yellow sand in the sky enveloped invisible colloidal dust, quietly rewriting the metabolic rules of all living things on the earth. The city was sealed off by wind and sand for seven days, birds and animals died quietly, and hidden wounds lurked in human bodies. No one knew that the end had come. After the disaster, the country implemented grid-based disaster relief, distributed limited quantities of special masks that could filter poison gas, and then built contiguous safe houses to accommodate survivors. But as time goes by, weird and strange diseases break out one after another: everyone must consume active real sugar every twenty-four hours. Without sugar, the skin will dry up and become uncontrollably deformed. A very small number of people who are born with special genes awaken to the X blood type under the stimulation of colloid. The blood can produce real sugar that can extend life, but every bloodletting is overdrawing their own lifespan. Shan Ye, an ordinary person, is a member of the rare X blood type. After being accidentally injured, she discovers her secret. While avoiding military recruitment and criminal arrests, she struggles to survive with the obsession of going to the county to find her grandmother. Artificial pseudo-sugar was born, aberrant beasts besieged the city, life-saving X blood types were depleted and extinct one after another, and intermittent satellite broadcasts from the radio revealed the cruel truth of the cliff-like decline in the global population. For a whole year, from the prosperous city to the dead wasteland, I watched my companions and creatures die one by one. The anniversary dust returns, human civilization burns out the last sweet embers, and everything returns to desolation.