no employees after shouting out for someone multiple times with no response i began to panic i rushed back outside through the parking lot and into the street i spun around looking in all directions the streets now almost fogged over with the haze i hadn't noticed before were completely empty i took off running looking into cars stores restaurants and any other buildings i passed checking inside the ones that were open for some reason i yelled out pleading for anyone but no one was anywhere to be found i soon came to the conclusion that something must have happened that this part of the city must have been evacuated or cleared out for some reason i checked my phone for information but it seemed to have no service i rushed back to my apartment to check my computer but the internet was also down the tv and radio networks weren't live broadcasting anything either the only things on were a few stations playing repeats of really old shows and movies from maybe around NUMBER_TOKEN years ago after briefly collecting myself i drove into different parts of the city different towns other cities and other states looking for people for signs of people for any indication or clues as to what had happened i found nothing and with each new place in each new day things seem to only get stranger and stranger colors seem to become less and less saturated almost like the world was dying at first it was as if there was a hue of a gloomy overcast day even while the sun was out but then certain areas appeared to almost become monochrome and even stranger by this point i barely even reacted to this the colors of my emotions and sensations seem to begin to dampen reflecting the form of the monochrome dying world around me i was becoming numb my paranoia and concern seemed to decrease as the strangeness of the situation increased pretty soon i just gave up looking for answers turned around and drove back home by the time i was on my drive back entire areas and once cities off the highway seemed to be transformed into just massive white blocks void of any color and texture like early stage digital NUMBER_TOKENd renderings of architectural designs before any of the details and colors are added once i returned to my apartment i stocked up on as much food and water as i could and stored everything in some of the other units in my apartment building i don't know the last time i ate or drank anything though i don't really feel the need to anymore and the need seems to no longer really even be a need right now i sit looking out my window watching the world continue to fade deforming down into white textureless blocks and more recently into a flat white landscape lacking increasing amounts of three-dimensional depth it appears to be encroaching closer and closer on me i feel so numb it's strange because i think the same thoughts i've always thought but they don't feel like thoughts it's as if my feelings no longer understand the language i am thinking in and it's like hearing someone say something plainly in another language it means it feels like nothing the only thing i can seem to feel is a strange sort of longing an almost rationalized desire to feel again in my current state of emotionless candor i have thought about and realized a lot before i woke up on that concrete sidewalk i don't know how many times i had thought about ending it i was ready to let go of everything i despised most of it the people the things the
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