A giant machine rose up with 3 legs or a tripod and he runs away again and the machine doesn’t notice him after the narrator crashes into a pool of water.
He manages to find a place to hide where he finds a soldier who explains that the Martians had completely killed everyone in his group.
As they head towards london to help the soldier rejoin his troop they come across other soldiers preparing for battle. The Troops temporarily beat the Martians but later they return to kill them off. The Narrator then finds a hiding place with a Clergyman or Curate. Who believes Judgement Day has arrived and all of mankind is being punished for their sins. During a moment where he bursts into histaria after seeing the Martians the Narrator knocks him out and later the aliens take his body. After the Martians had Gone the Narrator began to head towards London.
In London he finds the city completely abandoned and in ruins. He couldn’t find anyone anywhere.
Then he saw one of the Martian Tripods and it made an unnatural noise then stopped and fell. He Climbed it and found a pit with other martians and they mysteriously died.
The Narrator later reveals that the Martians in fact died after being exposed to bacteria and the Aliens had in fact doomed themselves the second they started to breath our air, drank our water, and ate our food.
He finds his wife and life returned to normal and man later aimed to go to the stars.