
Thirteen years before The Maze Runner, witness the apocalypse unfold. Dashner's dark prequel reveals why "WICKED is good" through heart-pounding desperation and twisted minds. What caused humanity's downfall? The answer lurks in this crucial origin story fans couldn't stop discussing.
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Imagine surviving the end of the world, only to discover that was just the beginning. In James Dashner's "The Kill Order," we're thrust into a landscape already devastated by catastrophic solar flares that scorched Earth, melted ice caps, and drowned coastal cities. Thirteen years before the events of "The Maze Runner," Mark and Trina have somehow carved out a fragile existence in the Appalachian Mountains alongside their makeshift family-gruff ex-soldier Alec, nurse Lana, joking teenager Darnell, redheaded Misty, and the muscular but short man everyone calls "the Toad." Despite living in crude shelters under a perpetually burnt-orange sky, they've found moments of normalcy, even laughter. Then one morning, as Mark watches Trina reading by a stream and declares it will be a "perfect day," the sky fills with the roar of engines-a sound not heard since civilization collapsed. Throughout their desperate journey, Mark experiences vivid flashbacks to the day the sun flares hit Earth-memories he desperately tries to suppress. He and Trina were riding a subtrans beneath New York City when the catastrophe struck. The power failed, plunging them into darkness. Emergency lights activated as panicked passengers fled. Rather than follow the crowd, they walked in the opposite direction, eventually reaching a substation where they encountered a horrific scene-burned bodies, screaming victims with melted faces, and overwhelming heat. As tsunamis caused by the melting polar ice caps flooded Manhattan, Mark, Trina, and others fought to survive in the rapidly flooding tunnels. A massive wall of water pursued them until they were saved by Alec, who helped them navigate to safety in the Lincoln Building. They spent weeks there, surviving on vending machine food, surrounded by the stench of rotting bodies, before eventually escaping the flooded city on a commandeered yacht. These memories serve as a stark reminder-the sun flares were a natural disaster, but what they face now is something far more sinister: a man-made plague deliberately unleashed.
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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