Since 1940, humans living in different ages have mysteriously disappeared, just like meteorites sliding down the scattered edges and corners of the atmosphere under friction, so slight that no one can observe. Their names will only remain in a dust-covered file in a place called NTAC.
Until July 2004, a ball of light landed on a lake in Seattle. After the ball of light disappeared, the reappearance of these disappeared people was as mysterious as the misty smoke on the lake.
So they had a common name, 4400, representing the 4,400 people from different ages who were taken by mysterious forces on Earth. Since then, the most important information after their names is not their birthday, but the date they disappeared.
This is a modern version of the legend of "Viewing Chess and Rotten Ke". The 4400 is like a loose-leaf index card in a library, pulled out from different grid drawers, and then carefully put back together on the shore of Seattle Lake in July 2004. Since then, they have changed the world.
Who is the top man in control of fate, there seems to be no in 4400. Modern people push the future man to death, and the future man made 4400, giving them supernatural ability to change the modern man and save themselves. This seems to be a reincarnation without a beginning, no one is in charge, but everything is under control. It's like a schizophrenic girl who disappeared in 1955. She came to 2004 and lived in a lunatic asylum, but she wanted to make a metal tower. Her special ability allows her to spread her will to the surrounding patients, doctors and even NTAC agents like a queen or a chemical ant. So everyone started to build towers, and they all believed that this was a radar linking the future world. After the tower was built, a strong pulse signal was sent out, but the signal disappeared without even rushing through the atmosphere. The front line of life was finally reduced to the self-talk of the mentally ill. When everyone felt deceived, one patient was cured by the impulse power. This person, originally a professor of neurochemistry, will become the creator of 4400 superpowers after recovery.
Among the 4400, there are real estate owners, students, soldiers, salesmen, and even serial killers. Everyone came to 2004 with a mission. They were ignorant of the arrangement and waited with fear and confusion, but they deceived one by one in a subtle way. The mechanism that moves destiny, trying to change, or reach the end that has long been destined. They are the same as modern people in the future. The only difference is that they are given a specific meaning of life.
Maia, the girl standing in front of the 4400 group of images, is a special one. She has the ability to predict the future. Under her prophecy, the godfather Collier escaped. The bullet that can't pass through the chest. And is the future predictable? People in the future are facing extinction, this is the end, but through modern times, the future can be rewritten. Assuming that the 4400 fails, there can be a second and third rewriting. This may realize Nietzsche's "return of eternal calamity". History and the future are like scripts until we adjust to a satisfactory version. And for this ending, how will Maia predict?
In fact, time is only a dimension. When humans can manipulate it, destiny is just a simplified movement. For us, it is unpredictable, but for the future, it has no suspense.
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