"It's finally here." Looking down at the sand table, Lin Tuo murmured softly, his expression serious and serious.

At this moment, in his field of vision, the time ratio had been adjusted to 1:1.

As a result, many of the images became clearer, especially the poles, which were rapidly dyeing white.

Probably due to the need to simulate the weather, from the beginning of the birth of this continent, there were polar regions at opposite ends of the north and south directions that provided magnetic fields, similar to the real north and south poles.

Cold, lonely, inaccessible, covered in pure white ice fields, and in the depths, near the Containment Hood, there was an eternal blizzard.

It's just that in the long years before, including the past 100 years, although it has also expanded slowly, the magnitude is not amazing, and it still maintains the climate and ecology of the world.

But at this moment, Lin Tuo clearly saw that a huge, pure white storm vortex suddenly appeared at the two poles, and it was expanding rapidly, the North Pole was larger, and the South Pole was smaller.

Along with this, the temperature of the whole world also began to fall slowly but firmly.

"The Great Ice Age will cover the whole world as the poles expand and spread." Lin Tuo's heart gave birth to a burst of enlightenment.

After a slight hesitation, he immediately raised his hand and probed towards the ice field where the North Pole was located, and at the same time precipitated the clone.

He prepares to feel the power of the cold wave first.

"Consciousness switch!"

……

There was a brief moment of vertigo, and then the vision became clear.

At this moment, in the sky in the extreme north of Sandbox 2, the air distorted, and a cloaked figure immediately appeared.

"It's so cold...... When Lin Tuo arrived, the first thought he had was only this.

With the help of his body, slowly flying over the entire ice field, Lin Tuo subconsciously operated the ether, using the method of transforming the soldier fist to urge qi and blood and warm his body.

"It's at least minus 50 degrees Celsius!" Relying on qi and blood to resist the cold, Lin Tuo judged.

All around, there was a howling, knife-like cold wind, and the place where he landed was still some distance away from the storm, so the wind and snow around him were not large.

Leaning down to observe, under your feet, there is a pure white ice field, uneven, with peaks and valleys, the only thing that is the same is cold and silence.

There are no human structures in sight.

In mid-air, even the birds couldn't see a single one, only a round of sun, relentlessly shining on this snowfield, raising his head, Lin Tuo looked into the distance, his face gradually solemn.

I saw that far ahead, the whole world was dim, and the huge blizzard vortex was spreading rapidly, and the blizzard it rolled up covered the sky and the sun, which was daunting.

At the moment, it is growing at a terrifying rate.

"At this rate, I'm afraid that in ten days at most, it will freeze the northern part of the Storm Sea, land on the northern continent, and destroy everything."

Lin Tuo thought, turned around, facing south, far away, he could vaguely see the black horizon, which was the outline of the northern continent.

……

……

Northern Continent, in the Kingdom of Aspen, Wintershire.

When people wake up in the morning, wear thick cotton clothes, and go outside, they look up to see the clouds rolling southward.

As the northernmost city in the world, the people here are rough, slow to live, and resilient to the cold.

However, since the beginning of the year, Rao is the strongest person here, and he has also begun to wrap all the down cotton clothes in the house, covering his head and face, tightly, and never going out unless necessary.

"This year's winter is colder and longer." People say.

And some of the news that has come out of the radio and television programs recently is even more disturbing.

……

"Thorn-sting--according to meteorologists' forecasts, temperatures around the world will reach their lowest ever time this year, and the thinning of polar clouds will cause ocean heat to be lost, which will be direct-

Coal imports continue to increase, and this year, the number of people crossing the sea to spend the winter on the southern continent has increased again.

Far from the people, in a pine-covered mountain closest to the north, in a humble wooden house.

The radio on the bedside table was playing news from Radio Wangdu.

It's just that because it's so remote, the signal is always intermittent and irritating.

But, just like the furnishings of this simple and old wooden house, the figure sitting on the bed has enough patience.

"Sting, stinging—" It wasn't until the radio completely lost its signal and made a persistent noise that the owner of the house reached out with a slender hand, clicked, and turned off the switch.

Then she lifted the quilt and began to put the overly thin suit on her body, and when she had done all this, she got up again, lifted the thermos, and poured the cold water into the basin to clean her face......

Probably similar steps have been repeated too many times, and in the same way, there may be a character factor in her excellence, in short, the whole step is not superfluous.

When I picked up the towel and stood in front of the mirror on the wall, I immediately reflected a face that had passed many years, but still did not look old.

Anne Hathaway looked at herself in the mirror for a moment, then wiped it dry, then accurately reached out a ballpoint pen, pressed the tip of the pen, put it to her mouth before using it, and then drew a circle of the calendar on the wall that belonged to today's date.

Tuesday the 25th.

"I hate Tuesday." Hathaway muttered, then put down her pen, took her wallet, pushed open the door of the cabin, which did not block the cold, but at least kept out the wind, and went outside.

Step out the door and you'll see the sea.

When Hathaway first arrived, she was surprised to find the abandoned ranger's hut with a south-facing door and a dilapidated state.

So she simply modified it, and cleared the trees in front of the door to the north, so that she could see the storm sea in the north without hindrance.

Although her purpose was not just to see the sea.

Because of the deliberate concealment of his whereabouts, and the fact that this place is indeed remote enough, so far, no one seems to have noticed such an uninvited guest living here.

Occasionally, when she went to a nearby town for dinner, people would only treat her as a stranger, and occasionally someone would talk to her and ask if she had something to offer.

In this regard, her unified statement is that she is a travelogue writer, living around, occasionally writing for magazines, and making little money, but it is good to support herself.

The second half of this statement is false, but the first half is true.

Traveling has indeed been her norm in the past ten years, and writers are her tools to relieve boredom in her boring times.

Yes, it's been ten years since Hathaway woke up.

That's a very different figure than expected.

In the original plan, she should have been awakened around the seventieth year of the Centennial Project to succeed Orrod, but the real time was delayed by twenty years.

It wasn't that there was any accident, it could only be said that the initiator of her hibernation plan underestimated the lifespan of the old guy Nevtu, and also underestimated the careful eye of Olrod's big man......

In short, when Hathaway stepped out of the snow and became the new ghost, cruising the continent, she was greeted by a new world.

It took her a year to figure out the history of the past few decades, to understand, to adapt, and to integrate into the world.

In another year, from south to north, I traveled through four countries and eight directions.

It is gratifying to find that although many details of the original plan have inevitably changed, the overall direction has not deviated.

The successors of the four countries took over the authority from the elders, and also took over the secret mission.

Of course, there were accidents, but they were all corrected in time under Olrod's decisive actions...... This should certainly be a comforting thing, but Hathaway has a bit of a regret.

In that year, every time she quietly ran to a royal capital and hid in the dark to watch the new ruling king, she would always think depressedly, how could these filial sons and grandsons be so obedient, at least a rebel who affected the plan and let her kill them......

It's a joke, of course.

When the Doomsday Clock reached its final decade, the whole plan was gradually impossible to hide.

For decades, the countries of the Northern Continent have consciously transferred their wealth to the south, and this general trend can be clearly judged by anyone who has read the relevant materials a little, and even ordinary people can perceive it.

In the past few decades, the economic development of the countries of the northern continent has declined rapidly, and the old country can no longer maintain the glory and glory of the first power, on the contrary, the southern continent has risen and become the center of the world today.

Correspondingly, it is a series of "mediocre" behaviors of the southern royal family, borrowing debts from the whole country, opening the country, and opening all kinds of "whimsical" projects.

The old king was keen to pave the entire avenue with the altar.

After his death, the next generation of successors showed no repentance and went on an almost frenzied basis to dig for minerals, starting with metal deposits and later simply digging up stones.

It is claimed that in order to solve the problem of the growing population and land shortage in the southern continent, the city underneath is artificially excavated to alleviate the housing shortage......

Naturally, such an absurd plan met with opposition from many people, but authoritarian politics and rapid economic growth and development forcibly covered it up.

When the third successor came to power, he put forward the "whole territory subway" plan, introduced foreign capital, frantically laid underground railways, undersea tunnels, and claimed to connect the entire country with railways......

In the last ten years, I don't know whether it was finally impossible to hide it, or the rumors that were deliberately released in advance, a theory gradually began to circulate in the four countries.

The so-called ancient prophecy of the royal family, the world will come to an end at the end of this epoch...... The emperors of the past frantically drilled into the ground in order to avoid the catastrophe of the extinction......

This kind of "prophecy" that has no logic at all has naturally been ridiculed and ridiculed by countless people.

The Emperor of the Southern Kingdom bore the brunt of the incident, which became a common joke among the people of the four countries, and this year's cooling of the whole territory was blamed on the gas released by a large number of subways......

"Justifiably stupid." Whenever Hathaway is in the newspaper, on TV, on the radio...... Seeing similar ridicule and criticism of the "underground city", she always said so calmly in her heart.

Is it stupid? Yes and no.

Like most of the stupid things in the world, they are only created because they don't know enough information.

Hathaway sometimes wondered if she hadn't been drawn into that roundtable and wouldn't have known all of this.

Will you also be immersed in the afterglow of the past, sitting in a café in the Winton metropolis, watching the news in the newspaper and sneering?

The vast majority of people in this world are ignorant of the impending danger, they are not pitiful, they are enjoying the happiness that comes with ignorance.

On the other hand, this "wise man" who is a cold bystander can only carry a heavy mission, cruising around the northern and southern continents year after year, observing, recording, and writing.

This kind of life is dull and boring, but she has finally adapted to it.

It wasn't until more than two months ago that she ended her trip and made it straight to the northernmost tip of Espenwintershire.

In order to meet the coming cold plague, and also to wait for the awakening of the observing angel to call again.

With this in mind, standing on a hill full of dark green larch forests, Hathaway stared north, her right hand rubbing for the umpteenth time against the sterling silver tag that hung on her wrist, and the intricate patterns on it.

Suddenly, a northerly wind swept from the sea, blowing Hathaway's hair and clothes, and causing the entire dark green mountain forest behind her to tremble like waves of wheat.

It also blew the huge white windmill that stood on the top of the mountain in the distance to turn even faster.

Feeling some kind of unsettling signal from the wind, this ghost, which had been wandering on the continent for ten years, suddenly widened its eyes, and its body was surging with magical power.

The original plain clothes were transformed into crimson robes full of ancient atmosphere.

Her blue eyes stared at the north, as if she had seen a ...... Storm.

……

……

"A drastic change in the weather ahead has been detected! A giant eye of the storm is suspected! ”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, at Antarctica, the southernmost point of the Storm Sea.

In the silence of the sea, floating glaciers, an icebreaker from the southern continent was slowly moving.

In the cabin, there was a sudden chaos.

Instruments bounced unsettling signals, simulating the sudden appearance of a massive, terrifying cyclone in the distance.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know...... It...... It seemed to appear out of nowhere, without any warning! ”

"Not good! It's spreading so fast! How so? This is not in line with ......"

"We must change course and get out of the storm, or we'll be in big trouble!"

Inside, everyone on the icebreaker tensed.

Staring at the fast-beating numbers on the instrument, the air of panic permeated, and one after another eyes fell on the captain in the navy uniform.

The latter's face turned pale, and he immediately gave the order to change the voyage, and used a special channel to transmit the news back to land, and then pulled over a set of winter suits, put them on his body, and led a group of crew members to push the door and come to the ship's side deck.

Immediately, he looked ahead with the violent, rumbling sound of the propeller.

His face sank, and at this moment, he saw the biggest storm he had ever witnessed in his life.

……

On February 25, a super snowstorm suddenly appeared in the North and South Poles, and the "Alarm Bell" icebreaker was lost, sank, and disappeared, 45 minutes before the loss of contact, the last encrypted message was sent back, only four words:

"'Death', here."