2020, a truly terrifying year. If one had describe what humanity had been through, it would be a mild hell.
When someone heard the world hell, fire and very fiendish image would appear on anyone's mind. Although it differ with each person. However, in majority, it will be associated with a land of flames created to roast people who had sinned or a very chaotic atmosphere that will either slaughter millions of souls or destroy the whole world.
But unfortunately, the hell the humanity had been was neither a thousand ball of flames raining from the sky, nor an infectious virus that turn humans into flesh craving monsters. It was the appearance of several large, dark cubes. Though it had neon lights on its edge, it was still pitch black that will creep the mind of every person on a broad day light.
The cube appeared very randomly that no one had expected, even the specialists who believed that extra terrestrial beings are real, had been shocked from the arrival of such thing, or creature. And it bring a major confusion among citizens of each country, putting the world into a major outrage.
Things like nuclear bombardment had been considered by many political leaders, but was naturally rejected from fear of making a great mistake, that might turn into a bloody war with an unknown foe.
So, instead of panicking, and doing such stupid action towards the floating cubes, the government had done perceptive observation, sending different people in field of expertise that might be associated with the thing. For the anxious citizens, they were under general quarantine. And for the past 6 months, everyone had been updated from time to time about the current situation and discoveries from the cube.
Aside from the million numbers, and its appearance, nothing major had been explained. For example was it ability to eternally float exactly above a certain height. Some spammers at countless threads on the internet, sputtered some opinions that it was possible from magnetic field. But was later proven to be wrong. Even its outside material was undeterminable.
In the past 6 months, despite the bad news of never finding anything, there were still some very good news. The government had received clear messages, like the purpose of the box, and the reason why it had been sent into the earth.
The message go like this.
"Dear to the citizens of that Earth, take this gift from us, whom very distant to what you call your modern times. Although it may take six months before you receive this letter, but in any way, I ensure that its not dangerous. Yes, even if you tried destroying it with every armaments in your possession, you will never be able to leave any scrape or even scratch at the covering of our dearly item. You might call it a cube, or near of some term, but to us, we had named it as " Pandora's Server." Its just a box that will need a whole year for calibration, and for those that had received a "key", I will tell it now, you are very lucky. But hold your horse, no, your horse might have been extinct, so whatever it might be, just stay put. There will be a game advertisement that will be played on every device of human possessions after the calibration, and I bet everyone would be hype for that."
--Dearly, from the unknown.
It was somewhat similar to a piece of metal that was found floating near Pandora's Server, and it was somewhat similar to its material, and was written at the language of the respective country where the cube was floating. Like anyone would, the government did tried destroying the dark piece of metal, but no matter what weapon they had used, it didn't leave any scrape or scratch, meant the letter wasn't fraud.
But the main question everyone had was, why?
However, no one would explain any further conclusion regarding the question, but for now, the government declared that everyone would be safe, for now. And in doing so, they freed everyone from general quarantine, and in no time, everyone was back on their normal lives, 2 weeks before the 2021.
Even though it might really did damage on earth, it still affected everyone, especially how human nature tend to act at situations like this. In that year, many titles scattered among the nets, and jokes that was taken seriously by other people, dread theories that meant despair to someone who had received and read that threads.
Stories like a family doing suicide from his husband losing job because of large community quarantine, was something unheard off. And a lot of people was emotionally unstable into such thing, there even had rallies of defiant crowds rowing on a road, declaring that it was the end of the world. All in all, there were a lot of stories to cover, but diving deeper will just make things distasteful and dark. And ultimately pointless.
After all, it will be the opening of 2021, a sign of a new start to recover from the dark age of the previous year.
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