It's a fictional story from amateur writer Julian Frank that describes an event in which a fly triggers the destruction of human civilization.
While we don't know if these things will actually happen, if we can trace our roots to the smallest details, who can guarantee that World War II did not originate from the wings of a butterfly?
This is one of the most famous flies in the "future history" of the United States, or humanity.
As Jim walked down the street, the fly kept buzzing in front of him, flying around.
Jim was overwhelmed, and after shooting a few times, he finally seized the opportunity to kill it.
Meanwhile, John was hurrying across the street and noticed Jim constantly waving, feeling strange, what the hell was that guy doing?
Just as he was distracted, he bumped into a woman named Susan, whose bag fell to the ground and something was scattered on the ground.
John hurried to apologize and help Susan pick up her things.
Susan was going to the bakery in front of her to buy bread, and the delay left her behind another person who had just arrived, and when it was Susan's turn, the newly made bread was sold out, and she had to buy a discounted bread from three days ago.
Susan suffered from food poisoning because the bread expired and vomited and diarrhea all night.
The next morning, she had to drive to the drugstore to buy medicine, but her stomach was so bad on the way that she was distracted while driving and crashed into the car coming from opposite, killing her and four other people.
Susan's husband, Bob, who believed the bakery owner was responsible for Susan's death, became so angry that he killed the bakery owner and was sentenced to life in prison.
In prison, Bob gets into an argument with another inmate, James, and in anger he strangles James to death.
However, James, the son of a Senator Dan, filed charges against the guards on duty, saying that if he intervened in time, he could have prevented the fight between Bob and James and would not have led to the death of his son.
The case caused a sensation throughout the United States, and although many people sided with the guards on duty, the guards were convicted of manslaughter.
The president then announced in his speech that he would pardon the prison guards because he was not at fault.
Some were outraged by the president's decision, and a fanatic shot the president.
Riots broke out across the United States, with the vice president taking over as president, trying to stop the unrest, but the situation remained uncontrolled, and eventually the military stepped in, and in the violent clashes that broke out everywhere, more and more soldiers and civilians died, leading to the near collapse of the government.
Other countries began to intervene in the civil strife in the United States in an attempt to end the chaos, but the conflict intensified, and several countries and the United States entered a state of war.
The United States threatened to use nuclear weapons and launched a missile;
Russia intercepted missiles and launched a large number of nuclear weapons to the United States, the nuclear weapons of the world's nuclear powers have been launched, the nuclear war has broken out in full swing, the earth has entered a nuclear winter, a large number of animals and plants have died, billions of people have been killed, and the sixth mass extinction of life has erupted on the earth.
None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for the fly buzzing in front of Jim.
This is an upgraded version of the butterfly effect, which can be compared to a butterfly flapping its wings in Beijing, which will cause a tornado in the United States after a few months, and even the smallest thing may have a huge impact on the future.
For example, when the human ancestor and the chimpanzee parted ways 7 million years ago, if they fell ill and died or were hunted, perhaps there would be no more intelligent life on this earth, and there would be no more flies buzzing in front of Jim, and everything that happened afterwards.
You thought you came into this world naturally, of course you should, but the hundreds of millions of brothers and sisters who came out of your father's body at that time probably thought the same.
You run a little slower and there is no longer you in this world.
But this is a fictional story after all, and no matter how elaborately arranged, it is impossible to develop exactly according to the plot.
So are there real big events in real life that are triggered by trivial things? Discussion is welcome.
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