Scary green attack

Author: Jin Qiangyun
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: In the scorching July, the citizens of H City in southern China were enduring the torment of near-consistent high temperatures around 38 degrees Celsius. There was no wind, and the air felt so hot that it seemed a match could ignite it. The sweltering heat had lasted for nearly a month with no signs of abating, leaving people utterly exhausted and spiritually drained. In an eighteenth-floor apartment near the city center, at Xingyue Square, 12-year-old Jin Xiaowei lay on the air-conditioned living room floor, lost in the recurring dreams he had been having lately.