El Niño

On June 15, 2026, human civilization reaches a tipping point. This isn’t the opening of a disaster movie. It’s why Lu Li, a meteorology graduate student at Fudan University, has been waking at exactly 3:17 a.m. for two weeks straight. He dreams of everything: cities burning, skylines collapsing, and ice-like cracks spreading across his arm. He thinks it’s just a nightmare. Until climate models show that the Northern Hemisphere’s average summer temperature will break historical records in June. Until El Niño sets its strongest record in 140 years. Until he uses his expertise to calculate the truth: it’s already too late. On the day disaster strikes, Lu Li is standing by a window in the physics building at Fudan University in Shanghai. Temperatures soar. The city loses power. Society collapses. And in a hellscape without water or food, he discovers he has awakened an unprecedented ability: temperature control. Ice. Fire. Life. Death. Everything depends on how he calculates temperature. But he doesn’t know that this disaster isn’t a natural calamity. Someone knew the outcome as far back as 2019. Someone chose to stay silent from the very beginning. Absolute Zero: When temperature becomes a weapon and the apocalypse becomes a conspiracy, a meteorology student’s awakening is a fight not only against disaster, but against the lies behind the entire world.