Countless people were directly hit by the burning iron fists. In the blink of an eye, they were vaporized. Even their ashes were not left.
Some of them were swallowed by the airwaves and turned into part of them, too. The surging airwaves turned into wriggling, expanding beasts.
Even the earth had been blown away by the meteor shower, revealing cracks that extended to the center of the planet. What was surging in the deepest part of the cracks was not the fire but the data streams that were as rapid as swirls.
The camouflage of this world was peeling off inch by inch, revealing its virtual nature.
The torrent of data spurted out of the endless abyss like a volcanic eruption and lunged at the people.
Those touched by the torrent of data were all shattered into countless translucent, deep blue digits before they collapsed and perished.