Infinity: Kill your way through the movie world.

At the moment of impact, a blue-white energy ring with a diameter of over 100 meters exploded from the point of impact, instantly tearing through the air, creating a sonic boom, and then slamming into the water below.

The first vessel hit was a small oil tanker.

Its steel hull wasn't blown away; instead, it was as if it had been swept by a super-enlarged laser cutter, with a three-meter-wide strip of land disappearing smoothly from the middle section.

The two sections of the hull lost their support, and water immediately entered the cabin. In less than a minute, the ship sank into the canal amid the desperate cries of the crew.

Then there's the Scorpio.

Captain Amir only saw a dazzling blue light surge in, and then the front half of the cockpit window, the radar, the cup of tea he had just poured, and his own left forearm all disappeared.

He didn't even feel the pain; he just stared blankly at his severed limb, which was broken off at the wrist and spurting blood.

Next came more boats and facilities along the canal banks, the unfortunate Egyptian naval patrol boat stranded on the shore, and the canal authority's dispatch building.

When the rescue helicopters were finally cleared to take off from Cairo three hours later due to a communications blackout, they arrived at the scene to find a devastation unlike anything they had ever witnessed in the history of human shipping:

Forty-seven cargo ships, oil tankers, and fishing boats of various tonnages sank or were severely damaged, more than six hundred crew members died or went missing, the Suez Canal was completely blocked by wreckage and leaked oil, and more than one kilometer of facilities on both sides of the canal were damaged.

More importantly, after the collision, four of the five mad angels instantly turned into dust and vanished, while the remaining one, dragging its almost shattered body, drifted south towards the Red Sea and disappeared without a trace.

The Suez Canal Authority immediately announced that the canal would be closed indefinitely.

One of the world's trade arteries has been severed.

Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 8 PM.

There used to be a nuclear power plant here, which was severely damaged in a major earthquake and tsunami many years ago. After a long and arduous cleanup, the remaining facilities are in a state of long-term shutdown and stable monitoring.

A new town has been built around it, young families have moved in, schools have reopened, and supermarkets, convenience stores, and parks are all available.

People are trying to forget the disaster and start their lives anew.

At 8:12 PM,
A mad angel engulfed in blue-white flames descended from the sky like a meteorite, crashing precisely into the abandoned reactor building of the nuclear power plant.

It crashed through more than just the roof.

The reactor pressure vessel, internal structure, and the protective layer of the remaining spent fuel pool below all failed instantly under the impact of the holy light energy.

Holy light and nuclear radiation, two completely different yet equally deadly energies, reacted in a complex way that was completely incomprehensible to humankind at that moment.

No nuclear explosion occurred; the fission explosion based on a chain reaction did not take place.

But something even more terrible happened.

The nuclear reactor's protective barrier has melted!

Under the catalysis of the holy light energy, a large amount of highly radioactive material was no longer leaking slowly, but was directly thrown into the atmosphere with a range of hundreds of kilometers through the huge gap with extremely high efficiency, and then spread with the wind.

The alarm didn't sound until seventeen minutes after the accident, because all the staff on duty died immediately.

Residents of the surrounding new towns ran out of their homes and saw that what was rising into the sky from the direction of the nuclear power plant was no longer the familiar steam, but an ominous gray column of smoke mixed with an eerie blue light.

The official evacuation order was not issued until five hours after the incident, because all initial communications were cut off, and messages could only be relayed through a few satellite phones that were fortunate enough to survive.

But it's too late.

At that time, the wind was blowing from the northwest. The radiation cloud began to cover the first community two hours after the incident and reached the nearest urban edge four hours later.

Residents didn't even have time to pack their belongings; they simply carried their children, led their elderly relatives, squeezed into any moving vehicle, and slowly crawled along the already chaotic highway, with the unseen Grim Reaper closing in behind them.

A week later, the Japanese government declared a 50-kilometer radius around the Fukushima nuclear power plant a 'permanent no-man's-land'.

This is nearly double the size of what it was ten years ago.

A month later, trace amounts of radioactive isotopes from Fukushima were detected in the air even on the west coast of North America.

Of course, that's a story for another time.

At this moment, only tens of thousands of Fukushima residents who have lost their homes and are crammed into temporary shelters are looking out the window in the direction where their homes used to be, not knowing where their future lies.

The children were crying because their favorite toys and comic books were left behind in that land that was about to be closed off forever. The old people were silent because they knew that this time they might never be able to go home again.

Similar events are unfolding simultaneously in dozens of locations around the world.

Not every angelic disaster causes such enormous damage.

Some burned down an apartment building, some caused a block to lose power for three days, and some simply blasted a deep crater in a wilderness before the angel itself burned to ashes.

But accumulated over time, these small disasters, like those large ones, pushed human civilization to the brink of collapse within 24 hours.

Manhattan, New York, once the world's financial center, now has more than a third of its buildings severely damaged by the direct impact of the Fallen Angels or subsequent battles.

Times Square was deserted, the billboards were long gone, and the neon lights of Broadway would never light up again.

On the banks of the Thames in London, the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament tilts fifteen degrees, and Big Ben remains silent.

The stained glass windows of Westminster Abbey were all shattered, and the choir seats were covered with dust and blue remnants of angel's blood.

The luxury shops in Tokyo's Ginza district that once captivated tourists are now either burned to the ground or corroded into distorted sculptures by the holy light.

The Shibuya Crossing was deserted, with only abandoned strollers and scattered shopping bags rolling in the wind.

Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Rio, Sydney, Cape Town...

More than 30 major cities around the world were reduced to ruins to varying degrees in those few devastating hours.

Although not all of them were razed to the ground, they all lost their ability to function normally as modern cities.

Traffic was disrupted, communications were paralyzed, power systems collapsed in large parts, tap water was cut off due to water pollution or pump station damage, hospitals were overwhelmed by the wounded and panicked, and then medicines ran out.

Medical resources were completely exhausted within a week.

It's not just a matter of insufficient medicine.

Even doctors and nurses themselves became refugees. Hospital buildings were contaminated by holy light and could not be entered. The entire social support system, such as electricity, water supply, logistics, and communications, was collapsing. Any medical procedures that required continuous external support could not be sustained.

The surgery was performed by candlelight, and instruments were sterilized with boiled well water.

The seriously wounded died in excruciating pain because there was no anesthesia. (End of Chapter)