The Ice Age arrived without warning. In a single night, civilization froze. The bitter cold of minus eighty degrees devoured most life, and survivors struggled to stay alive in battered shelters and across the merciless frozen wasteland. Humanity and hope were both shattered by the cold.
Chen Mo was an ordinary young man, but just as the apocalypse struck, he unexpectedly awakened an ability to control temperature absolutely. No longer an ant driven before the cold, he became a god who could walk through a frozen hell.
He traveled to Earth's last refuge from the cold, Antarctica. Beneath an ice sheet thousands of meters thick, he poured his heart and soul into building, brick by brick, a miraculous city. Built on ice, with steel for its bones and constant warmth at its core, it was untouched by the bitter cold outside, rich in energy and abundant in food. It was called the Deep Eye Sanctuary.
Here, there was simulated sunlight, flowing water, lush greenery, and sturdy defenses. The powerful, the strong, and the beautiful of old humbled themselves for a chance to enter. Deep Eye was the only legend in the wasteland of the apocalypse, the only light in an abyss of despair.
However, just as Chen Mo thought he had preserved humanity's last spark and could plan for the future in this subterranean utopia, a colossal spacecraft silently descended, blotting out the Antarctic sky. Its technology surpassed anything humanity could imagine.
A cold, inhuman mechanical voice rang throughout Deep Eye and echoed in Chen Mo's mind:
"Titan civilization trial site detected: Orion Arm of the Milky Way, Solar System sector. Successor No. 0001."
"Phase One, 'Survival,' trial completion assessment: Excellent."
"Phase Two"
