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Human affection is like a soft bone file.

Sharpened the grandeur and smoothed the proud bones.

All living beings are born ordinary.

The cuckoo cries blood, sings through the throat, and the bonus is just a flash in the eye.

The tiger is standing on the cliff, the wolves are surrounded and suppressed, and the arrogance is difficult to escape after all.

The heart is higher than the sky, and life is thinner than paper.

There are very few people who can finally stand out.

Being in the red dust, since you have enjoyed the joy of the red dust, you will have to suffer from the red dust.

If you want to get out, but you don't give up the joy of red dust, the so-called escape is just a joke.

Broken memories, like a torrent that opens the floodgates, are surging out.

Li Boyang only felt cold all over his body, and his headache was splitting.

Not a single finger could move, there was only a sharp buzz in his ears, and his eyes seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't open them at all.

There was a loud bang, and a bright light streaked across the gloomy sky.

The snow-capped mountains, which do not melt all year round, were directly struck by this unprecedented thick electric light.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

The glacier burst open, enveloping thousands of troops and horses, and crashed down.

This is an unprecedented avalanche!

A huge ice crystal looms in the snow tide like a wave, and you can vaguely see a figure in the ice crystal.

It's just that this is like a great avalanche that destroys the world, in this extremely cold region, all living beings are not there, no one can see it, not even a living thing.

The roar and droop lower, until the snow and ice poured into the river below, the avalanche stopped leisurely, and the picture was silent.

The ice and snow melted, and the ice crystals mixed with the ice and snow slid downward, submerged into the water, and disappeared without a trace.

The meandering river continues to descend, rushing down the mountain, crossing the plateau, and gradually converging into a wide river like a thousand horses galloping.

In the rugged place, the river falls from a high place, smashing thousands of flowers, day and night.

The further down the river, the wider the river, and the widest point is even difficult to see the opposite bank, and the rushing water gradually calms down.

Only the waves set off by the undercurrent, slamming the boulders on both sides of the river, show the deep surging of the endless river.

The vast river bypassed several mountains and gradually separated.

A diverted river twists and turns, enters a low-lying area, converges into a lake, turbidity and precipitation, and the water waves are clear.

It is clearly distinguished from the river water that enters the lake, and it is a wonder.

It was a wide, deep lake.

The smoke curls by the lake, the weeping willows are there, and there seems to be a small village nearby.

With a few barking dogs and roosters, the night faded and a glimmer emerged.

A hazy mist emerged from nowhere, like a veil over the lake.

As the sun rose, a few beams pierced through the jungle on the other side of the lake and through the mist.

The light changed in the mist, becoming fine and hazy, like golden sand, sprinkled on the lake water finely and densely.

I only listen to the chirping of birds, the willow branches swaying, the water sparkling, the breeze whistling, and seeing the mist filled, light and elegant, up and down, like a fairyland.

But there was a strange click, breaking the tranquility of this fairyland.

The fishermen, who were pushing the wooden boats to catch fish, let out a scream and staggered backwards.

The surface of the body was covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost, and his face was pale and trembling.

The fog is getting heavier and the temperature around is getting colder.

………………

"Evacuated?" Nierdo clenched his right hand into a fist, pressed it against his mouth and nose, resisted the urge to snort, and asked the person next to him sideways.

"Report to the sir, the evacuation has been completed." The hairy young man in his twenties, standing straight, saluted Nierdo and replied.

The corners of Nildo's mouth twitched, "Xu Dong, our side is not an army, you don't need to be so serious." ”

"Got it, sir." Xu Dong still stood upright.

Nildo shook his head, "Forget it, you won't listen to what I said." ”

Somewhat bored, he shrugged his shoulders and walked towards the lake.

Tall and thin, slightly messy hair, embarrassed stubble, lazy tone, pale face, and light cyan circles under the eyes that seem to be overindulged, but there is a sense of decadence.

It's a pity that the people standing around him turn a blind eye to his beauty.

When was the last girlfriend broke up?

It seems like it's been a lifetime ago...... Thinking that my jade-faced little dragon would have such a crying and tweeting day.

This is completely different from what I thought of in the future!

The money is enough, but the time is ...... You can't be a fast gunner, I'm going to lose face.

Nierdo was cranky, and his expression changed back and forth, Xu Dong, who had been following him, didn't seem to see the strange change of face of his own head official at all, and silently followed the side.

As the two of them approached the lake, the pale mist grew thicker and the temperature plummeted.

Nildo stopped, his face changing back and forth, as if affected by the outside temperature, and it also cooled down.

"Ten meters away from the lake, the white fog is slightly lighter, the temperature is about three degrees, and after the limit of ten meters, the white fog becomes thicker, and the temperature drops directly beyond the zero degree line."

"Approaching five meters, the temperature has dropped to minus twenty degrees."

"But the strange thing is that the lake is not affected by the fog and has never frozen."

When Nierdo stopped, Xu Dong was prepared and explained the information unhurriedly.

"Dead?" Nildo touched his stubble and asked suddenly.

Xu Dong paused, "That's not true, but a few people have frozen their toes to death and must have their limbs amputated." ”

He turned his head and looked down at the lake under the white mist, "According to the comprehensive description of several victims, in the early hours of the morning, the cold fog on the lake was not so big, and the cooling area was not so obvious, but as soon as they got close to the lake, the temperature still dropped very significantly, which gave them enough time to react. ”

"A blessing in misfortune." Nildo sighed.

Immediately, his expression was solemn, "This incident is developing slowly, and although the impact on the surrounding area is huge, the harm is not difficult to prevent." ”

After a pause, "Let's make it a B-class event first." ”

Xu Dong turned his head to look at the misty lake, frowned, and then looked back at the lazy and lazy Nierdo, "Sir, is this a bit too much?" ”

"After the incident, there were no dead people, although the affected area was large, it was relatively remote, and the solution was not difficult, it was nothing more than to move people away."

“…… I don't think this incident will be B-grade. ”

Nildo rolled his eyes, why on earth did he want such a brainless assistant?

"You're right, the influence of this matter is only C-level at most, and with a little sweeping, it can even be downgraded to D-level."

"On the surface, it doesn't seem to match the B class."

"But ......"

He looked at the misty lake and squinted, "Where we are now, it's already zero, and then it's minus twenty degrees, so have you ever thought that as the lake deepens...... Will it be close to absolute zero? ”

Xu Dong was silent for a while, "If it's really so cold, isn't it another forbidden place?" ”

Nildo shrugged, "There are already two forbidden places around the Empire, and one more seems to be nothing unusual." ”

"Besides, if it's just cold in the actual sense, even if it's infinitely close to absolute zero, it's still not a forbidden place."

Xu Dong instantly understood what his chief meant, the cold in the actual sense needs to be transmitted by the medium, and the medium only needs to be isolated, so no matter how cold it is, it cannot be transmitted through the medium, then it is not a real forbidden place.

To be afraid of the cold here is not a practical meaning, but a conceptual meaning.

No medium is required, everything is cold.

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The sky was blue.

A few birds flew past the building.

The sun has risen, and the breeze is caressing.

The sun shines gently and warmly.

It's so comfortable that you can almost forget that this is the cold capital of Tiphon.

Every few months, a cold realm erupts in an icy mist.

Maybe it's because of the unpredictable cold fog -

Although the temperature is not cold at this time, the pedestrians on the road are still dressed too roundly.

Around the corner of the street, a young man in slightly thin clothes walked out.

He stretched, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and tossed his messy hair.

Shaking his head to try to sober himself up, he staggered towards the early shop.

"Oh, it's rare today, you got up so early?" The business of the early shop was coming to an end, and the shopkeeper was sitting in the sun at the door of the shop, looking a little idle, and when he raised his eyes and saw the young man coming over, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Boss, don't laugh at me, don't you know when I got up?" A wry smile crossed the young man's somewhat pale face, and he shrugged his shoulders in reply.

"No, I'll help you prepare five buns, and I'll give you a bag of clear milk." Getting up and taking something, the shopkeeper said while handing the thing to the young man, "I see that your face is not good, you are young, you should pay attention to your body." ”

The young man took the things, listened to the misunderstood words of the shopkeeper, rolled his eyes, ignored them, paid and left.

The clear milk is still warm, and the taste is still the same, so the owner of this shop is good...... It's just a little broken.

The young man drinking clear milk and carrying a plastic bag walked alone in the slightly sparse crowd, which looked a little out of place.

Weekdays, 9:40 a.m.

At this time period, even if there are people coming and going, they are all in a hurry, how can he be so casual.

So, what was projected onto the wall by the surveillance was such a picture -

The dilapidated old street is filled with smoke and mist.

The towers on both sides pulled dense and thick round wires, dividing the clear blue sky into pieces.

The pedestrians in a hurry are sparse.

A young man in home clothes, almost lazily walking on the sun-drenched road.

Although the young man did not walk in the middle of the road, the focus of the whole picture undoubtedly fell on the young man.

Flicked the cigarette butt in his hand, Xu Dong gently buckled the table top of the round table with his fingers.

Several people who were immersed in the picture couldn't help but shake their bodies and woke up from their inexplicable emotions.

"Does it feel like something is wrong?" Xu Dong was expressionless, and asked in an extremely flat tone.

"Didn't feel anything wrong...... But nothing unusual in itself is a kind of ...... wrong."

"Also, my gut tells me that I have forgotten a moment."

A bald man, frowning, said with some hesitation.

Sitting next to the bald man was an old man with a wrinkled face.

For some reason, the bald man was three seats away from the old man.

He or she, too old to tell the gender at a glance.

Pale hair scattered haphazardly, down to the shoulders.

A thorny headband stuck on the old man's head, golden in color and sharp at sharp corners, like metal.

Scarlet blood oozed from the forehead where the sharp horns of the thorns met.

It fell into the eye socket of the old man, and then dripped down like blood and tears.

Reaching out and wiping the blood that had slipped onto his chin, the old man suddenly began to cough violently.

The cough is so intense that anyone who hears it will have a heart-rending feeling.

It took a while for the coughing sound to subside.

Taking out the handkerchief from his pocket, the old man's face turned pale, but he pretended to be nothing, wiped the blood from his face, and then shook his head gently.

“…… No peeps. ”

The voice is dry, but with a certain indescribable magnetism, it is still difficult to distinguish between men and women.

The rest of the people sitting around the round table had the same strange expressions, but they didn't say anything more.

Xu Dong glanced at the old man, looked up at the projected picture opposite, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Even my mother-in-law said that...... Looks like he's the guy we're looking for. ”

Eighteen years ago—

The misty Lake of Permafrost has inexplicably appeared.

The initial condition is not severe, and the event level is C at most.

But what happened next caught Xu Dong and the others off guard.

Cold Mist...... Spread.

Spread without warning.

Several natural villages living near the lake have been affected.

No one died, but it was worse than a dead man.

Hundreds of kilometers shrouded in cold fog, all life forms except humans were annihilated.

The external manifestation is a sculpture that is frozen into pure white, and when the wind blows, it turns into countless ice crystals and collapses.

With the Lake of Permafrost as the central point, the area of 300 square kilometers has all been reduced to death!

It was later known as the Permafrost Jedi.

This is the real place of death, a place where life is more desperate than the desert, the Gobi, and the ice fields.

The strange thing is that human beings did not die in this mortal cold fog, at most they were frostbitten, fainted, and comatose.

In addition, the cold fog dispersed for a very short time, and the rescue work was not hindered by this-

It's like a miracle, after the incident, no one died.

But......

However, 24 men, women and children disappeared in the incident.

Just as Xu Dong was anxious about this, three days after the incident, the missing men, women and children inexplicably appeared in the natural village closest to the permafrost lake.

Everyone was unconscious, and their vital signs were at their lowest point, as if they would die in the next second.

This is a puzzling situation, not to mention that Xu Dong can't figure it out, even those big people can't figure it out.

In the Handu Central Hospital, there are twenty-four more vegetative people so far.

At that time, Typhon was still the city that never sleeps, and the cold white fog that erupted from time to time had not yet appeared.

A year later, three of the twenty-four vegetative people woke up, and two were completely brain dead.

Two years later, the remaining nineteen plants woke up one and hung one.

Five years later, seventeen vegetative people woke up four and hung three more.

Ten years later, three more woke up, and no one died.

Until two years ago, everyone woke up.

Judging purely from the data, it is random to die and wake up randomly, and there is no pattern at all.

But it is this randomness that makes Xu Dong, who is rigorous by nature, feel that something is wrong.

In the event of the dispersion of the cold fog, all life is annihilated.

According to a certain big man, life in the cold fog was not frozen to death, but plundered by some force.

To put it simply, it is the vitality that has been plundered.

Deeper, it is the existence itself that has been plundered.

Xu Dong didn't care too much about the big man's sigh, what he cared about was-

In the scalp-tingling plundering of life, only humans are fine...... On the surface, are humans treated specially?

So go down this line of thought.

Twenty-four missing...... Is it the special of special treatment?

And the eighteen people who can wake up from the vegetative state are not the special of the special?

According to common sense, the state apparatus will surely stare at the eighteen people who wake up twenty-four hours a day, trying to find something.

Even if nothing is found, this is normal operation and there is no blame.

As for the thousands of people who were unconscious in the cold fog dispersing event, it was probably a hasty matter.

Because of these thousands...... Not special enough.

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What's the best way to hide something?

Instead of hiding it, it is thrown into the most complicated place and blended into the environment.

It's like a grain of golden sand, thrown into the desert.

A drop of water melts into the sea.

There is no trace of that.

The wake up of a vegetative person is undoubtedly a special case.

The dozen or so people in the central hospital are even more special circumstances within special circumstances.

Anyway, those people are watched by special people from the state, but there is no need for Xu Dong to bother.

He could have let go and go and sift through the thousands of people carefully.

The neglected majority.

Xu Dong thinks that he is not smart, and he relies purely on intuition.

I vaguely feel that there is something wrong in the neglected crowd.

He could imagine it, and it must have been clear to him.

It's just that the focus of the above investigation has always been on those special people who have woken up.

Well, if you think about it, maybe it's not the majority that has been overlooked, but the possibility has been killed by think tanks.

But the strange place is here-

Since most of the anomalies may have been vetoed by the above, it stands to reason that after Xu Dong raised an objection, he should be directly vetoed......

No, I didn't.

Xu Dong raised an objection, his heart was entangled, and he didn't know whether it was feasible or not, after all, it was just pure intuition, and there was no actual evidence.

Before he could think about it, the computer sent a message and received dense encrypted information.

Fortunately, the Special Affairs Bureau has gradually become paperless, and if it was paper, eighty percent would have to bury him.

The details of thousands of people that lasted for years are so much.

Xu Dong regretted it at the time, why did he mention such a play?

He figured it out at once.

Most of the overlooked ones may also have some anomalies.

It's just that these anomalies are obviously very weak compared to those who wake up from a vegetative state.

I want to get it above, but there are not enough people.

After all, the detailed information of thousands of people is not something that can be done simply by carefully filtering it.

Since someone is willing to take this head, of course, the above is happy to allow it.

The more Xu Dong thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had jumped into the pit.

But when the task came down, I still applied for it myself, and I had to finish it on my knees.

Not to mention, more than a month of reading, querying, and sorting really made Xu Dong see a little way-

【Foggy Event】

[Location: Outer {Frozen Jedi} (1)]

[Event Impact Index: Grade B (2)]

[This incident affected 7,836 people (including 8 staff members of the Special Affairs Bureau)]

[No direct deaths]

[The cold fog spreads for 300 kilometers, and all living things in it are extinct (including microorganisms) except for humans)]

[Number of missing persons: 24 (later inexplicably reappeared, showing a vegetative state)]

[Not missing but also in a vegetative state: 10 people]

[Number of people in a deep coma: 3,621 (after being sent to the hospital, waking up 24 hours later)]

[Number of fainters: 2,844 (after being sent to the hospital, wake up within three hours)]

[Number of transient syncope: 1,241]

[Number of awake people: 96 people]

[Note that in this incident, both the awake and the deeply unconscious suffered frostbite ★ to varying degrees]

[Note (1): The Cold Forbidden Land is composed of three parts, the outermost surging cold mist, then the Permafrost Jedi, and finally the core Permafrost Lake]

[Permafrost Jedi is caused by a cold fog event, and cold fog appears on its periphery from time to time, spreading to the surrounding area]

[The cold mist that gushes out no longer has the extinction power of the Cold Mist event, but it has had a drastic impact on Typhon, the city that never sleeps, which is closest to the Cold Forbidden Land]

[Today, the city that never sleeps, Typhon, has become a city of white mist, a cold capital, a winter town, and no longer has the title of the city that never sleeps back then]

[Note (2): The incident impact index is determined by the scope of the impact and the casualties caused.] 】

[Note: This cold fog pervasive event has a sufficient area of impact and caused enough property damage, but the casualties caused are very low, so it has been downgraded by two levels.] 】

Of course, the original information was not so detailed, and it was all gnawed out by Xu Dong little by little.

In this process of gnawing on information, Xu Dong's gaze gradually shifted from those obvious chains of evidence to frostbite.

If this information is not specifically marked, anyone who reads it will inevitably notice the number of missing people, followed by the number of awake people, or the ten people who are also in a vegetative state, and finally notice deep coma, syncope, and so on.

Frostbite?

I don't care at all.

It's like a group of men shirtless on a hot day, and it's really hard to attract people's attention.

It's hot, and it's not sightly to be bare-shouldered, but it's very logical, and because of this, no one will question what's wrong with bare-shouldered.

Follow this logic...... Frostbite in the cold mist...... Naturally, it doesn't make people suspicious.

But Xu Dong is suspicious-

[★ Additional Cryptographic Annotation: Accidental Discovery of Frostbite Sequences]

[In the Cold Fog event, frostbite is extremely common and random, and it is difficult to make it a priority]

[Roughly statistically, it is not linked to whether you are awake, comatose, or faint]

[But if you import age, gender, weight, appearance, and severe frostbite all over the body into the statistics, you will get a very strange conclusion——]

[Severe frostbite all over the body: 188 males, 81 females]

[Among them, 108 are males between the ages of 16 and 25 and 54 are females]

[The ratio of the two is more than 60%]

[Among them, those with good physical appearance account for most of them, and those with ugly and defective appearances are even more not]

[Every young person who reaches the standard in weight, appearance, and age suffers from frostbite, which either heals very quickly or recovers extremely slowly, without exception]

This data is hidden behind the big data of thousands of people, and the amount of data is not too big or small.

In addition, frostbite is extremely common, and the disappearance is a strange situation, a vegetative person who cannot wake up, and a sober person in the cold fog...... The intersection of various information, this seemingly insignificant data, the possibility of being found is infinitely tending to zero.

If it weren't for Xu Dong's old boss Nierdo, he inadvertently said a flowery sentence -

"They are all beautiful women, all of them are on time, can I go to them and ask for contact information?"

No matter how strong Xu Dong's intuition is, he probably won't notice his appearance or figure.

Severe frostbite all over the body, wrapped in layers of bandages all over the body, and the face is not visible...... In this case, normal people will at most notice the awakening time of these people, who will look at whether others are good-looking or not, and whether their body curves are enough or not?!

Xu Dong "......"

Your boss is really a pervert, right?

But Nierdo has been proud of this for a long time, and it is a man's instinct to say that he is lustful and unashamed.

Xu Dong can only hehe.

The volume of investigations involving thousands of people was directly reduced to hundreds.

Xu Dong's workload seems to have decreased sharply, but in fact it has increased.

As long as you are not an idiot, as long as you can understand the hidden meaning of that data......

There will be a vague speculation - perhaps some being, picking its own container, caused the occurrence of the ice fog event.

In other words, ten out of ten of the objects that Xu Dong wants to investigate are not people.

It is the mastermind behind the creation of the cold forbidden land.

It is a terrifying existence that can easily annihilate all life within a radius of 300 kilometers.

The fortunate thing in the misfortune is that in the 300 kilometers of annihilation, all human beings are still alive.

Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that this person has a certain affection for human beings.

Of course, it can not be ruled out that this person is just to choose a container, and he does it casually.

This is something Xu Dong determined a year ago.

It's just that he never thought that it would be difficult to find that person's human form, but after actually starting it, it was extremely smooth.

Squinting at the picture projected on the wall, Xu Dong shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The most advanced shooting methods were used, but the area occupied by the person on the screen was still small, and he couldn't even see his face clearly-

No way, before he didn't know what kind of attitude that person had towards humans, Xu Dong felt that it was better to keep a distance as much as possible.

But if you think about it deeply, does that person really not know that he was being filmed?

Xu Dong didn't believe that the other party didn't know.

So......

I was able to find the other party so smoothly, and it is more likely that it is because the other party doesn't care.

Whether it is human hatred or love, or faith obsession......

God...... None of them care.