Explorers Encounter Radiant Entity in Post-Apocalyptic Desert – AI Generated Video | Hailuo AI

Generate & Play Hailuo AI video：# Chapter 1: New World The sun barely pierced through the dense curtain of gray clouds, illuminating the desert with a dim light. **Arion** was the first to emerge, his shadow stretching across the cracked slabs of the road that once led to the megapolis. Now it was just a heap of stones, covered in dust and bones. He took a deep breath—the air smelled of sulfur and something electric, as if lightning had frozen in the atmosphere. — **Moving south**, he said without turning around. — There, where the mountains are. The group stretched out into a thin line. **Darina** walked at the back, her fingers involuntarily touching the scanner on her neck. The screen flickered red: the radiation outside the shelter was unstable, but there was no choice. The supplies were running out, and the children's cries in the underground tunnels were becoming quieter, as if echoes of the past. **Lira** clutched the plush bear to her chest, its frayed threads of paws touching her fingers. She remembered how her mother gave her the toy before closing the shelter's hatch. "Hold onto it when you're scared", she had said then. It was the only color in this gray world, a symbol of hope in times of despair. — **Listen!** — suddenly stopped **Tark**, his rough voice cutting through the silence. Everyone froze. The wind howled, bringing with it a sound like metal scraping against stone. **Arion** instantly drew his knife, his body tensing like a taut string. Something was moving from behind the landslide. — **It's not wolves**, — Darina whispered, lifting the scanner. — Energy readings... like a living plant. The first to appear from behind the stone was she. The entity resembled a human made of branches and moonlight. Its body pulsed with a blue glow, and instead of eyes, two stars burned. **Lumira** stretched out her hand—or was it a hand?—towards the group. Thin tendrils hung from her palm, as if inviting. — **Don't approach!** — Arion blocked Lira's path, but Darina was already stepping forward. — **Look,** — she showed the scanner. — Radiation is dropping. It... it's absorbing it. Lumira made a sound like the ringing of glasses. A wave of warmth emanated from her, and suddenly the ground