"Finally here." Lin Tuo murmured softly, looking down at the sand table with a serious and solemn expression.

At this moment, in his field of vision, the time ratio has been adjusted to 1:1.

As a result, many images became clearer, especially the two poles that were rapidly turning white.

Probably out of the need to simulate weather, since the birth of this continent, there have been poles providing magnetic fields at both ends of the north and south directions, similar to the real North and South Pole.

Cold, lonely, inaccessible, covered with pure white ice fields, deeper and closer to the isolation cover, there is an eternal blizzard.

It's just that in the long years before, including the past hundred years, although it was slowly expanding, the magnitude was not alarming, and it still maintained the climate and ecology of the world.

But at this moment, Lin Tuo could clearly see that huge, pure white storm vortices suddenly appeared at the two poles, and they were expanding rapidly. The North Pole was larger and the South Pole was smaller.

Along with this, the temperature of the entire world also began to slowly but surely drop.

"The Great Ice Age will expand and cover the entire world as the two poles expand." Lin Tuo had a sudden realization in his heart.

After a slight hesitation, he immediately raised his hand and explored the ice sheet where the North Pole was located, while simultaneously forming a clone.

He was prepared to feel the power of the cold wave first.

"Consciousness switch!"

…

I felt dizzy briefly, and then my vision became clear.

At this moment, in the sky in the far north of Sandbox No. 2, the air twisted, and a figure wearing a cloak immediately appeared.

"It's so cold..." When Lin Tuo arrived, this was the first thought he had.

With the help of his body, he slowly flew over the entire ice field. Lin Tuo subconsciously circulated the ether, using the weapon-forming fist technique to activate his qi and blood and warm his body.

"The temperature here is at least minus 50 degrees Celsius!" Lin Tuo judged, relying on his blood to resist the cold.

There was a howling, knife-like cold wind all around. The location where he landed was still some distance away from the storm, so the wind and snow around him was not that big.

When I leaned over and observed, I saw a pure white ice field under my feet. It was rugged, with peaks and valleys. The only thing in common was the cold and silence.

No human structures are visible.

In the mid-air, not even a single bird could be seen, only a sun, shining ruthlessly on the snowy field. Lin Tuo raised his head and looked into the distance, his face gradually becoming serious.

I saw that far ahead, the entire world was dark, and the huge whirlpool of blizzard was spreading rapidly. The blizzard it rolled up covered the sky and the sun, which was daunting.

At this moment, it is growing at a terrifying speed.

"At this rate, I'm afraid it will freeze the northern part of the Sea of ​​Storms in ten days at most, land on the Northern Continent, and destroy everything."

Lin Tuo thought, turned around, and faced the south. In the distance, he could vaguely see the black horizon, which was the outline of the northern continent.

…

…

Northern Continent, within the Kingdom of Aspen, Winter County.

When people wake up in the morning, put on thick cotton clothes and go outside, what they see when they look up is the clouds in the sky that are quickly rolling southward.

As the northernmost city in the world, the people here have rough personalities, a slow pace of life, and strong adaptability to severe cold.

However, since the beginning of the year, Rao, who is the strongest person here, has also begun to wrap up all the down and cotton clothes at home around his body, covering his head and face tightly, and will never go out unless necessary.

"This year's winter is colder and longer." People said.

And some of the news coming out of radio and television programs recently is even more disturbing.

…

"It's stinging—it's stinging—according to meteorologists' predictions, the temperature around the world will reach its lowest point in history this year. The thinning of polar clouds will cause the ocean to lose heat, which will directly—"

Ci La - Ci La - Coal imports continue to increase. In addition, the number of people crossing the sea to spend the winter in the Southern Continent has increased this year - Ci La - "

In Winter County, far away from human habitation, in a mountain covered with pine trees in the north, there is an inconspicuous wooden house.

The radio placed on the bedside table was playing news from Wangdu Radio.

Just because it's so remote, the signal is always intermittent, which is annoying.

However, just like the furnishings in this simple and old wooden house that have remained unchanged for many years, the figure sitting on the bed has enough patience.

"Prick, prick, prick-" It wasn't until the radio completely lost its signal and made a persistent noise that the owner of the house reached out with a slender hand and turned off the switch with a snap.

Then, she lifted the quilt and started to put on the too-thin clothes. After doing all this, she stood up again, picked up the thermos, poured the cold water in the basin, and cleaned her face...

It may be that similar steps have been repeated too many times. Similarly, it may also be due to her personality of striving for excellence in everything she does. In short, the whole step is not redundant in the slightest.

After picking up the towel and standing in front of the mirror on the wall, the mirror immediately reflected a face that still didn't look old even though it had been many years.

Anne Hathaway looked at herself in the mirror for a while, then wiped it dry, then accurately took out a ballpoint pen, pressed out the tip of the pen, put it in front of her mouth and took a breath before using it, and then placed the calendar on the wall that belonged to today.

The date is circled.

Tuesday the 25th.

"I hate Tuesdays." Hathaway muttered, then put down the pen, picked up her wallet, opened the door of the wooden house that could not block the cold, but could at least block the wind, and came outside.

When you walk out the door, you will see the sea.

When Hathaway first came here, she accidentally discovered this abandoned ranger's hut. Its door still faced south and it was dilapidated.

So she simply made some simple modifications and cleared away the unsightly trees in front of the door on the north side so that she could see the stormy sea in the north without any hindrance.

Although her purpose is not just to see the sea.

Because the whereabouts were deliberately hidden, and because this place is indeed remote enough, so far, no one seems to have noticed that such an uninvited guest has lived here.

Occasionally when she went to eat in a nearby town, people would just treat her as a strange outsider, and occasionally someone would strike up a conversation and ask about what she had.

In this regard, her unified statement is that she is a travel writer who travels around and occasionally writes articles for magazines. She does not make much money, but she can support herself well.

The second half of this statement is false, but the first half is true.

Traveling has indeed been her norm for the past ten years, and writers are her tool to relieve boredom during her boring time.

Yes, it has been ten years since Hathaway woke up.

This is a number that is far from expected.

In the original plan, she was supposed to be awakened around the 70th year of the Centennial Plan and take over as Alrod, but the real time was delayed by a full twenty years.

It's not that there was an accident. It can only be said that she, the initiator of the hibernation plan, underestimated the lifespan of the old guy Neftu, and also underestimated the small-mindedness of the big man Alrod...

In short, when Hathaway walked out of the snowfield and became the new shadow patrolling the continent, what greeted her was a brand new world.

It took her a year to understand the history of the past few decades, understand, adapt, and integrate into this world.

It took another year to travel from south to north, traveling through four countries and all directions.

I was pleased to find that although many details of the original plan had inevitably changed, the overall direction had not shifted.

The successors of the Four Kingdoms took over the authority from their elders and also took over the secret mission.

Of course there were accidents, but they were all corrected in time with Alrod's decisive actions... This should of course be a gratifying thing, but Hathaway was a little regretful.

During that year, every time she quietly ran to a royal capital and watched the new king in power from secret, she would always think depressedly, how could these filial sons and grandsons be so obedient, and at least one traitor would affect the plan and let her kill him?

kill……

Of course this is a joke.

When the doomsday clock reaches its last ten years, the entire plan can no longer be hidden.

Over the past few decades, the countries in the Northern Continent have consciously transferred their wealth to the south. This general trend can be clearly judged by anyone who has read a little relevant information. Even ordinary people can sense it.

In the past few decades, the economic development of the countries in the northern continent has declined rapidly, and the old country can no longer maintain the glory and glory of the largest country. On the contrary, the southern continent has risen and become the current center of the world.

Correspondingly, there was a series of "foolish" behaviors by the southern royal family, which involved borrowing money, opening up the country, and launching various "wacky" projects.

The old king was keen on paving the entire road with altars.

After his death, the next round of successors showed no remorse and went almost crazy in drilling and mining, starting with metal deposits and later simply digging out rocks.

It is claimed that in order to solve the problem of increasing population and land shortage in the Southern Continent, underground cities will be manually excavated to alleviate the housing shortage...

Such an absurd plan naturally encountered opposition from many people, but centralized politics and rapid economic growth and development forcibly covered up these.

When the third successor came to power, he even proposed a "territory subway" plan, introduced foreign investment, frantically laid underground railways and undersea tunnels, and claimed to use railways to connect the entire country...

In the past ten years, whether it was finally impossible to hide it or whether it was deliberately released in advance, a theory gradually began to spread in the four countries.

It is the so-called ancient prophecy circulated in the royal family that the world will come to an end at the end of this century...Emperors of all dynasties went crazy underground to avoid the disaster of annihilation...

This kind of "prophecy" that has no logic at all has naturally been ridiculed and ridiculed by countless people.

The Emperor of the Southern Kingdom was the first to bear the brunt and became a common joke among the four countries. As for the cooling of the entire territory this year, it was accused of being caused by the gas released by a large number of subways...

"Reasonable stupidity." Whenever Hathaway saw similar ridicule and criticism of "underground cities" in newspapers, on TV, on the radio, she would always say this calmly in her heart.

Stupid? Yes and no.

Just like most of the stupid words in this world, they are only made because there is not enough information.

Hathaway sometimes thinks that if she had not been involved in that roundtable meeting, she would not have known all of this.
To be continued...