After a super El Niño swept across the world, everyone thought the worst was over.
Until, it snowed in midsummer, the rivers froze, and the temperature in the Northeast dropped below minus 60 degrees.
The power grid was paralyzed, heating stopped, cities froze, hospitals lost contact, and tens of millions of people were trapped in dying steel ruins.
What's even more frightening is that people gradually discovered:
It's not just the weather that's getting colder.
The wolves on the snowfield began to learn to observe human patrol patterns. Huge creatures that had never been seen before appeared at the bottom of the river. The forest was re-dividing its territory. An ancient ecological mechanism that had been dormant for countless years was forcing all life on the Blue Star to adapt to the world again.
Those who adapt successfully survive.
Those who failed to adapt - even the corpse may not be the same as before.
Yang Jie, a safety inspection engineer who specialized in finding faults in buildings before the disaster, never wanted to be a hero.
At first, he just wanted to leave Ice City alive.
Later, dozens of people followed him.
Hundreds of people.
Thousands of people.
Someone asked him:
"There is not enough food. Can we still feed the elderly and children?"
Someone told him:
"Seventeen lives are exchanged for hundreds of lives. Someone must settle this account."
Others put the entire civilization before him:
"What if one generation of death can keep humanity alive?"
Only then did Yang Jie discover——
The real difficulty in the end of the world is never killing monsters.
But when you really hold thousands or tens of thousands of lives in your hands,
Can you still remember that they are human beings first?
Blizzard closed the city, giant beasts moved north, and order collapsed.
The old world is dead.
