Chapter 247: The Storm and the Rose
The laughter of young men and women still echoed in the ears, but snow suddenly fell in the silent night sky.
The snow was enormous.
Like goose feathers, it came without warning, and the flying snow swirled and fell from the silent depths, enveloping the whole city, and the Eiffel Tower, which was lit up for the hourly ceremony, stood proudly in the ice and snow like a noblewoman dressed in a dazzling glow.
At first, the people under the tower were just surprised, but not very surprised.
After all, it is winter, and young men and women even show unusual joy, Valentine's Day, holding their loved ones, hugging red roses in the snow, no matter how you look at it, it is a pretty good thing.
"Behold, it's snowing."
"That's good."
"It's beautiful."
The couples held hands tightly and leaned against each other, watching with happiness on their faces as the cold wind blew and the snow was full of flowers.
Only a few people couldn't help but shrink their necks and said in a joking tone: "This day, why is it so cold all of a sudden." ”
……
Cheng Lin stood outside the crowd and stared at the sky quietly.
In physics, as we all know, the temperature is not very low when it snows, but it is not so bad when there is a cold wind.
"The wind is blowing."
Cheng Lin muttered.
He was keenly aware of the approaching cold wind, and soon he could feel it, an extremely cold wind coming from nowhere along the streets of the city.
The cold wind was extremely cold, blowing the goose feather snow, and it became a blizzard, and the wind whimpered, and suddenly rose, and became stronger and stronger, and the temperature was falling rapidly at a clear and perceptible rate.
Finally, couples who are looking for romance feel that something is wrong.
"It's so cold......"
"Honey, hug me, how did this hell weather get so cold."
"Let's go back to the hotel, the room has already been opened, well, it's too cold outside, I don't ...... Yes...... ......"
People said, gradually, the lovers began to lean closer and closer, not because of intimacy, but because of the cold, they began to tremble, and their faces, which were originally full of laughter, were blown by the biting cold wind, turning pale blue.
People huddled together, thick down jackets seemed to become decorations, and the cold licked their bodies like an all-pervasive devil.
"Let's go! Leave...... Leave...... This...... Over here. ”
The people dispersed, at first in order, but gradually they began to lose their manners and push, and there were so many people here, and it was dark, and it was difficult for people to pass smoothly for a while, and the cold and barbed whip whipped behind them.
After a while, there was chaos in the crowd under the tower, some people fell, some screamed, some scolded angrily, and some cried......
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”
"Ah, it hurts! Bastard, die! ”
"That's my car! Get lost! Get the hell out of here! ”
"Help...... Help me......"
The voices of the men and women were no longer gentle, but sharp, irritable, foul-mouthed and unbelievable, just a few minutes ago, it had been a different scene.
……
Stampede? Or something else?
Cheng Lin didn't know much, and he didn't care, when people fled quickly and wanted to return to the warm room, he didn't move, still standing in place, looking up, staring at the glorious Eiffel Tower.
"Click, click, click......"
His extraordinary hearing made him aware of the subtle sounds.
That's the tower frozen!
Yes, icing!
From the top to the top, in the snowstorm, the metal skeleton of the Eiffel Tower was covered with a layer of crystal frost, from top to bottom, the extreme cold caused the metal to emit fine twists and contractions, and the lights that covered the surface of the tower were also shattered and extinguished by the cold.
Click, click......
Cheng Lin witnessed the metal tower freeze from top to bottom, extinguished, in just ten minutes, the dazzling lights all disappeared, the tower fell into the arms of the blizzard, the people at the bottom of the tower have disappeared, and the sound of noisy beating and scolding has been drowned in the wind and snow.
Cheng Lin retracted his gaze, lowered his head, and saw that his whole body had also been covered by flying snow, under his feet, the snow had already covered his shoes, and the biting cold penetrated through the black windbreaker, through the pores, and drilled into his body, and the aura in his body had automatically operated, swimming in the meridians to resist the cold.
The cultivation of the peak of the second grade made his physique enough to withstand the ordinary cold, but at this moment, what he was facing was not "ordinary".
As he was hesitating whether to go back to the safe house to escape the cold, a message came to his mind again:
[Get the temporary attribute "Chill Wardring": Equipping this attribute can greatly resist the cold, is it equipped?] 】
There was no hesitation.
"Yes."
The next moment, a warm current poured into his body, Cheng Lin only felt that his hands and feet, which were numb and tingling, instantly warmed up, and stretched out his hand to grasp it in the cold wind, the chill he felt was about equivalent to the ordinary winter temperature, which he could bear.
The program is still so sweet.
He thought to himself.
[Just as no one knows what will happen in the next moment, no one knows when the unknown blow will be suffered by the world, and at a certain moment, since the emergence of human civilization, an unprecedented cold wave has descended on this world]
[The blizzard covered the city in an instant, countless people immersed in joy were troubled by this unexpected cold, the blizzard became bigger and bigger, the temperature fell more and more, and finally, the river began to freeze, the buildings were covered with frost, and all over the world, people rushed to the warm buildings like running for their lives, trying to escape the blizzard, which caused many fights, the blizzard blocked traffic, and countless people were trapped on the road, panicked in the face of the biting, deadly cold]
[You stand quietly in the wind and snow, like a spectator, with no fluctuation in your heart]
The information in my mind came to mind, as calm as ever, as if telling a story on paper, or reciting a newsletter press release, steady, determined, and indifferent.
Cheng Lin was silent and began to walk slowly against the blizzard.
The wind and snow were so extreme that he had to turn on the "body control" to successfully stabilize his body and move forward smoothly, and the ground near him was completely covered with a thick layer of snow, which was unbelievable that it was formed in ten minutes.
The lights of the urban buildings in the distance are dim and faint, like faded old oil paintings, and there is a sense of unreality through the snow.
Cheng Lin walked a few steps, suddenly faintly realized, and looked up ahead.
Far away, in the snowstorm, there was a faint firelight rising up, like a candle in the wind, obscure and inexplicable, illuminating the bleak world.
[You look far away, you see a fire, you guess what it is, and after a moment you realize that it is the famous Notre Dame Cathedral, the staff hurriedly overturned the stove in order to resist the cold, causing a fire, so this long-history, world-famous building began to burn in the dark night, like a blooming rose, blooming in the wind and snow]
Cheng Lin was silent.
After watching quietly for a while, he continued on his way, and when he came to the parking lot near the tower, he found that there were several cars crowded here, perhaps because of the wind, the snow here was so thick that half of the tires were already submerged in the snow.
The glass windows of the car were also covered with a thick layer of frost, through which the humans who had frozen to death could be faintly seen.
Cheng Lin was a little surprised, he had already frozen to death? Is it so cold?
He tried to take a closer look, took a few steps forward, and suddenly seemed to have kicked something hard.
The snow had reached his calves, completely submerging his shoes.
"What did I kick?"
He squatted down with some curiosity, peeled off the snow in front of him, and gradually, a hard body in a white cotton coat emerged from the snow.
She wore a pink hat, her chestnut hair was disheveled, and her face was blue and purple with a few freckles, and her eyes widened, perhaps because they had frozen too quickly, and there was no time to show pain in her eyes, but only panic.
Beside her, there was a flattened flower basket, tightly held in her arms, and in the flower basket, the roses wrapped in cellophane fell into the snow, which was particularly beautiful.
Cheng Lin was silent for a few seconds, looked at the flower girl who was completely lifeless, stretched out his hand, helped her close her eyes, and then picked up a bright red rose, stuck it to her chest, got up, and continued to move forward.
Along the way, more and more cars were paralyzed on the road, and more and more people froze to death in the cars.
Cheng Lin was alone, wearing a black trench coat and holding a rose, walking on the deserted, snowstorm-filled street, this bustling and fashionable city has become a dead silence.
It seemed that a long time had passed, and it seemed that it had only been a few minutes, and suddenly he felt that the night had dispersed, and the blizzard had begun to decrease, and when the next morning came, the wind and snow had ceased to be so irritable, and the temperature had risen to a barely acceptable level.
[The day dawned, the blizzard was temporarily extinguished, and human society got a brief respite]
The narrator spoke in an emotionless tone.
"Boom ......"
When the sky was bright, Cheng Lin was standing in the city in the early morning, and heard a voice coming from behind him.
When he turned around, he saw a huge, hideous snowplow truck pumping its motors to push away the snow and drive towards him.
Behind the snow plough are municipal staff wrapped up like brown bears.
"Front, who are you?"
Someone shouted at him.
Cheng Lin glanced at the other party silently and said in "pure French":
"I'm ...... A traveler. ”