[Non-Horror, Nontraditional Infinite-Flow × Frozen Apocalypse × Dark Fairy Tales × Powerful Duo]
Supernatural folklorist Wen Feiyu, whose intellect is second to none, × Lu Xiao, a secretive former commander, whose combat skills are unmatched
December 21, 2089, the winter solstice.
Footage from the United Nations Climate Council's final public meeting spread across screens around the world in the last moment before the internet went down.
The white-haired chief scientist pointed at the satellite weather map, his lips trembling:
"The North Atlantic Current has stopped completely. The chain reaction will sweep across the Northern Hemisphere within seventy-two hours... Humanity has no next winter."
He was wrong.
Because winter never left again.
Three months later, a clock tower rose from the sky.
A Gothic spire, black stone, and a massive clock face without hands, bearing only twelve twisted fairy-tale reliefs: Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf, the frog, the glass slipper, the poisoned apple...
It hung silently five hundred meters in the air, its base three hundred meters above the ground. No support, no antigravity device, just defying every law of physics.
And it wasn't the only one.
A second tower appeared on the eastern horizon.
A third in the west.
Farther away, countless black specks floated densely above cities frozen around the globe, like tombstones turned upside down.
"Ding-dong! Target emotional fluctuation detected: fear, intensity 7.2."
A clear child's voice rang out from the clock tower, echoing across the entire city.
"Humanity's collective emotional threshold has been reached. Fairy-tale game loading complete."
[The sci-fi apocalypse is the main focus, everyone! There are some non-horror instances along the way. Please give the book a little time!]
