[ WP ] The world is rapidly changing as the plague of our era is spreading fast . But it does n't affect humans . It eats plastic .

`` Are you sure?'' asked the politician, barely masking his skepticism. It was simply too unlikely. Anyone who had the necessary technology to come up with this was among those who stood the worst to lose from it. `` I'm positive'', replied the young engineer, `` it's definitely been designed on purpose. Whoever created this plague, knew what they were doing''. 
 
 For last nine months they had tried. They tried to stop it, they tried to slow it down, they tried to create immune plastic variations. None of it worked. Slowly but surely the world's plastic was disappearing. 
 
 Some places had managed to create safe zones in the form of airtight underground facilities. Slowly the people followed the plastic under the earth. In small batches the population was screened for contamination and moved into the safe zones. What started out as military and high tech enclaves soon became entire cities. Unwilling to give up plastic, mankind was forced to give up everything else instead. 
 
 The grey-clad figure who walked into study room did n't display any urgency. He obviously had come to talk, assured in that it had all the time in the world. An unwitting observer might have ascribed the relaxed demeanor to its conversation partner being not terribly swift-footed either: The only other person in the room was sitting in a wheelchair, leafing through a book. 
 
 `` In spite of all that power, creativity and self-assurance, you never even considered me in this. Why?'' The question was directed at the wheelchair-bound reader. Sighing, the reader put the book aside, before answering. `` This is probably where I should say that I thought of you better than this, that I still had hope. But the truth is, I simply did n't see it coming. It did n't seem to have your handwriting and your personal involvement, Magneto.'' 
 

