The Great War Syndicate
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第10章 THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE(10)

The great brown cloud quickly began to lose its spherical form, part of it descending heavily to the earth, and part floating away in vast dust- clouds borne inland by the breeze, settling downward as they moved, and depositing on land, water, ships, houses, domes, and trees an almost impalpable powder.

When the cloud had cleared away there were no fortifications, and the bluff on which they had stood had disappeared.Part of this bluff had floated away on the wind, and part of it lay piled in great heaps of sand on the spot where its rocks were to have upheld a fort.