39 The Origin (1/2)

3:57 PM – City Mall Bacoor West Wing, TechZone

Mark sighed in relief as he finally finished adding most of the things he wanted to download in the queue.He could now get on the other business.

It was to gather information about the outbreak.

Actually, he already opened a separate browser and searched for some information before he started downloading all those things. He just had not started checking his search results.

He switched into the tab where a video sharing site was displayed. Of course, the current trending videos were about the outbreak. But there was a video that took his interest. The video was titled ”The Sight on Doomsday” and the thumbnail of the video was a skyline view of a certain metropolitan city. He checked the comments and found out that it was a certain area in New York.

He then decided to watch the video.

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The quality of the video was not high but it was not bad either, it seemed that a smartphone was used in recording it.

The video panned across the orange colored sky, it was almost sun down.

A group of teenagers were on the rooftop of a certain tall building. They seemed to be recording for fun as they were laughing and shouting at the camera. They were also pointing at the amazing sight of the city skyline.

Then, a bright light enveloped the area. The teenagers had a look of surprise and amazement on their faces as they looked at the sky. The camera then was shifted towards the sky and several circular bright masses of light flashed.

The flashes of light were similar to something that happened in Russia years ago.

Everyone in the know would realize that the flashes of light were actually meteoroids exploding after entering the earth's atmosphere.

A single meteoroid exploding was already a spectacular sight but the sight in the video was several times more remarkable. The video focused on the sky until the flashes of light disappeared. It was then that they started screaming.

After the explosions, the shockwaves followed.

The teenagers were knocked back as they were high from the ground and received the brunt of the shockwaves. Even the video rotated several times. It seemed that the person taking the video also fell and rolled on the floor.

Sounds of glass breaking and alarms of parked cars filled the background.

The shockwave passed and the situation seemed to calm down. Even the teenagers who were screaming just a few seconds ago were now laughing at their antics.

It was then that one of the teenagers pointed somewhere behind the person holding the camera. The video turned around and followed what that guy was pointing at. What they saw shocked them. Along the outline of the city, a passenger airplane was flying at a dangerous angle. The airplane was still high in the sky but it was no doubt that it would crash if it continued flying like that.

Then, a zooming sound echoed from the background. The camera turned again and the backs of the teenagers who were looking at what the sound was coming from could be seen.

The video panned above the teenagers and there was another passenger airplane flying over them at a very low height. The camera followed the airplane as it flew over their heads and headed towards the city.

The airplane flew lower and lower, until they saw the wings of the airplane crash unto the high rise buildings in the area. In the background, the first plane could be seen already falling on a nosedive.

After several seconds within the video, a large orange mushroom rose into the sky as the first plane crashed into the middle of the city.

The second plane did not explode like the first one but it demolished several buildings before crashing onto the highway.

Multitudes of screams and shouting could be heard in the background.