Creating a Sandbox World Chapter 108: I saw the storm and I was terrified like the sea (4000 words)
"Finally here." Looking down at the sand table, Lin Tuo murmured softly, earnestly and solemnly.
At this moment, in his field of vision, the time ratio has been adjusted to 1:1.
So many pictures and shadows became clearer, especially the poles that were rapidly whitening.
Probably because of the need to simulate the weather, since the birth of this continent, there have been poles that provide magnetic fields at both ends of the north-south direction, similar to the north and south poles in reality.
It's cold, lonely, and inaccessible, covered with pure white ice, and in the depths, there is an eternal snowstorm near the barrier.
It's just that in the previous long years, including this one hundred years, although it has been slowly expanding, but the magnitude is not amazing, and it still maintains the world's climate and ecology.
At this moment, Lin Tuo clearly saw that huge, pure white storm vortices suddenly appeared at the poles, and they were rapidly expanding, with the North Pole being larger and the South Pole being smaller.
Along with this, the temperature of the whole world also began to fall slowly and firmly.
"The Great Ice Age will expand and spread to cover the entire world with the expansion of the two poles." Lin Tuo felt a burst of enlightenment in his heart.
After hesitating a little, he immediately raised his hand and explored the ice sheet where the North Pole was, and at the same time, he separated out the clone.
He is ready to feel the power of the cold wave first.
"Switching consciousness!"
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Shortly dizzy, then his vision cleared.
At this moment, in the sky at the extreme north of Sandbox No. 2, the air was distorted, and a figure in a cloak appeared immediately.
"It's cold..." When Lin Tuo descended, the first thought he had was this.
With the help of the body, slowly flying over the entire ice sheet, Lin Tuo subconsciously operated the ether, using the method of Huabingquan to stimulate the blood and warm the body.
"The temperature here is at least minus fifty degrees Celsius!" Relying on blood to resist the cold, Lin Tuo judged.
There was a howling, cold wind like a knife. The location where he came was still some distance away from the storm. Therefore, the surrounding wind and snow were not big.
Looking down and observing, under my feet, there is a pure white icefield, uneven, with peaks and valleys. The only thing in common is cold and silence.
No human buildings can be seen.
In the middle of the sky, not even a bird could be seen, only a round of the sun shining mercilessly on the snowy field, raising his head, Lin Tuo looked into the distance, his face gradually dignified.
I saw that far ahead, the whole world was dim, and the huge blizzard vortex was spreading rapidly, and the snowstorm it rolled up covered the sky and the sun, which was daunting.
At this moment, it is growing at a terrifying rate.
"At this rate, I am afraid that in ten days at most, it will freeze the northern part of the storm sea, land on the northern continent, and destroy everything."
Lin Tuo thought, turning around, facing the south, and from a distance, the black horizon can be vaguely seen, which is the outline of the northern continent.
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Northern Continent, within the Aspen Kingdom, Wintery County.
When people woke up early in the morning, dressed in thick cotton-padded clothes, and walked outside, they looked up and saw the clouds that were rolling southward.
As the northernmost city in the entire world, the people here have a rough personality, a slow pace of life, and a strong adaptability to severe cold.
However, since the beginning of the year to the present, Rao, the strongest person here, has also begun to wrap all the down-padded coats in the family, covering his head and face, and strictly, unless necessary, never go out.
"This winter is colder and longer." People said.
Some news from recent radio and television programs is even more disturbing.
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"Prickly—thorny—according to meteorologists, the world’s temperature this year will reach the lowest point ever, and the thinning of polar clouds will cause ocean heat to dissipate, which will directly--
Stab — stab — coal imports continue to increase. In addition, this year the number of people crossing the sea to spend the winter in the southern mainland has increased — stab —"
Winter County, far away from the people, in a mountain full of pine trees closest to the north, in a humble wooden house.
The radio on the bedside table is broadcasting news from Radio Royale.
Just because it is too remote, the signal is always intermittent and annoying.
However, just like the furnishings that have remained unchanged for many years in this simple and old wooden house, the figure sitting on the bed has enough patience.
"Prick, prick—"Until the radio completely lost its signal and made a persistent noise, the owner of the house reached out a slender hand, clicked it, and turned off the switch.
Then she lifted the quilt and began to put the too thin clothes on her body. After all this, she got up again, raised the kettle, poured the cold water into the basin, and cleaned her face...
Probably similar steps have been repeated too many times. Similarly, there may be a personality factor that she strives for excellence. In short, the whole step is not superfluous.
When I picked up the towel, I stood in front of the mirror on the wall. In the mirror, there was a face that, although many years had passed, was still not old.
Anne Hathaway looked at herself in the mirror for a while, then wiped it dry, and then accurately took out a ballpoint pen, pressed the tip of the pen, put it in front of her mouth before using it, and huffed, then put the wall calendar on the wall The date belonging to today is circled.
On the 25th, Tuesday.
"I hate Tuesday." Hathaway murmured, then put down the pen, took the wallet, and opened the door of the wooden house that could not block the cold, but at least it could block the wind, and went outside.
Out the door, it is the sea.
When Hathaway came here at first, when she accidentally found this abandoned forest ranger hut, its door was still facing south and it was dilapidated.
So she simply modified it and removed the obstructive trees in the north, so that she could see the storm sea in the north without any hindrance.
Although her purpose is not just to watch the sea.
Because of deliberately hiding the whereabouts, and because it is really remote enough, as of now, no one seems to have noticed such an uninvited guest.
Occasionally when I went to eat in a nearby town, people would only treat her as a stranger, and occasionally someone would strike up a conversation and inquire about something.
In this regard, her unified statement is that she is a travel writer who lives around and occasionally writes for magazines. She doesn't make much money, but it's good to support herself.
The second half of this statement is false, but the first half is true.
Traveling is indeed the norm for her over the past ten years, and the writer is a tool for her to relieve her boredom.
Yes, it has been ten years since Hathaway awakened.
This is a large number that differs from expectations.
In the original plan, she should be awakened around the 70th year of the implementation of the Hundred-Year Plan and take over as Austria
Errod, but the real time has been delayed for twenty years.
It’s not that there was an accident. It can only be said that the initiator of her hibernation plan underestimated the lifespan of the old fellow Neftu, and also underestimated the careful eye of the big man Orrod...
In short, when Hathaway walked out of the snowy field, she became the new one, cruising the shadow of the mainland, and the one who 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 the world.
It took another year to travel through the four countries and all directions from south to north.
I am pleased to find that although many details of the original plan have inevitably changed, the overall direction has not shifted.
The successors of the Four Kingdoms have taken over the authority from the elders, and have also taken over the secret mission.
Of course there were accidents, but all of them were corrected in time under Orrod's decisive action...Of course this should be a comforting thing, but Hathaway was a bit regretful.
In that year, every time she quietly went to a royal capital and kept secretly watching the ruling new king, she always wondered depressedly, how could these filial sons and grandsons be so obedient? She kills...
Of course this is a joke.
When the big clock of the doomsday reached the last ten years, the whole plan was gradually unable to hide.
For decades, the countries of the Northern Continent have consciously transferred their wealth to the south. This trend can be clearly judged by anyone who has read the relevant information a little bit. Even ordinary people can perceive it.
In the past few decades, the economic development of the countries of the Northern Continent declined rapidly, and the old country could no longer maintain the glory and glory of the largest country. On the contrary, the Southern Continent rose to become the current world center.
The counterpart is a series of "stupid" behaviors of the southern royal family, borrowing debts across the country, opening the country, and opening various "fantastic" projects.
The old king was keen to pave the entire road to the altar.
After death, the next round of successors had no repentance and was almost frantically drilling and mining, from the initial metal deposits to later, simply digging out stones.
It is claimed that in order to solve the problem of the growing population and shortage of land in the southern mainland, artificial excavation of the city underneath to relieve housing tension...
Such an absurd plan has naturally encountered opposition from many people, but centralized politics and rapid economic growth and development have forcibly concealed these.
By the time the third successor came to power, he also proposed the "Entire Metro" plan, introducing foreign investment, madly laying underground railways, undersea tunnels, and claiming to connect the entire country by rail...
In the past ten years, I don't know if it is finally impossible to conceal it, or if it is deliberately released in advance, a saying has gradually spread in the four countries.
The so-called ancient prophecy circulating in the royal family, the world will come to an end at the end of this epoch... The emperors of the past dynasty went to the ground to avoid the disasters of extinction...
This kind of "prophecy" without any logic at all has naturally been ridiculed by countless people.
The emperor of the southern kingdom bears the brunt, becoming a common joke among the people of the four countries. As for this year’s coldness in the whole territory, it is said that it was caused by a large amount of gas released by the subway...
"Reasonably stupid." Whenever Hathaway saw similar ridicules and attacks on "underground cities" in the newspaper, on TV, on the radio, she always said so calmly in her heart.
Are you stupid? Yes, it is not.
Like most stupid things in this world, they are made only because they don’t know enough information.
Hathaway sometimes thinks, if she hadn't been drawn into the round table, she didn't know all this.
Will you be immersed in the afterglow of the past, sitting in a coffee shop in the Metropolis of Winton, looking at the news in the newspaper and sneering at it?
The vast majority of people in this world are ignorant of the imminent crisis, they are not pitiful, they are enjoying the happiness brought by ignorance.
On the contrary, this cold-eyed "wise man" can only carry a heavy mission, cruising, observing, recording, and writing on the northern and southern continents year after year.
This kind of life is plain and boring, but she has adapted to it after all.
Until more than two months ago, she finished her trip and went straight to the northernmost point of Aspen Wintershire.
In order to welcome the coming cold disaster, and to wait for the awakening observation angel to call again.
Thinking about this, standing on a mountain full of dark green larch forests, Hathaway stared north, rubbing the sterling silver tag hanging on her wrist for countless times with her right hand, and the complicated patterns on it.
Suddenly, a north wind came from the sea, blowing Hathaway's hair and clothes, causing the dark green mountains behind her to shake like waves of wheat.
It also made the huge white windmill standing on the top of the distant mountain spin faster.
Feeling a disturbing signal from the wind, the ghost who had been wandering on the mainland for ten years suddenly widened his eyes, and his body was filled with magical power.
The original plain clothes were transformed into a dark red robe full of ancient flavor.
Her clear eyes stared at the north, as if seeing a...storm.
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"A dramatic change in the weather ahead was detected! A giant storm eye is suspected!"
At the same time, on the other side of the continent, Antarctica, the southernmost point of the Storm Sea.
A quiet, floating sea of glaciers, an icebreaker from the southern continent is moving slowly.
In the cabin, there was a sudden chaos.
An instrument was beating with disturbing signals, simulating the sudden appearance of a huge, terrifying cyclone in the distance.
"What's the matter?"
"I don't know... it... it seems to have appeared suddenly, without any warning!"
"Not good! It spreads too fast! How could this happen? This does not meet..."
"We must change course~IndoMTL.com~ to escape from the storm, otherwise we will be in trouble!"
In the cabin, everyone on the icebreaker became nervous.
Staring at the rapidly beating numbers on the instrument, a panic filled the air, eyes one after another at the captain in the navy uniform.
The latter's face was pale, and immediately issued a diversion order, and used a special channel to transmit the news back to land, then pulled over a set of winter clothes, put it on his body, and brought a group of crew members to the ship's side deck.
Immediately, looking forward amid the violent and rumbling sound of the propeller.
His face sank. At this moment, he saw the biggest storm he had witnessed in his life.
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On February 25, a super blizzard suddenly appeared in the north and south poles. The "Alarm Bell" icebreaker lost, sank, and disappeared. 45 minutes before losing contact, the last encrypted message was sent back with only four words:
""Reaper", here comes."