「Day ten of the competition, 11:59 PM.」
Night shrouded the vast, white glacial field. The world was desolate and silent, without a single sound to be heard.
But the very instant the clock struck midnight, a piercingly cold wind howled in from the ends of the earth, plunging the world into darkness and stripping the white snow from the majestic, sprawling mountain ranges.
A colossal roar, like muffled thunder, boomed through the night. The cruel ice and snow transformed into a titanic avalanche, a churning, sweeping tide like a ghastly white tsunami. In just half a minute, it had completely buried the plains at the foot of the mountains.
The wind raged, the driving snow was like knives, and the blizzard that blotted out the sky seemed poised to devour the entire World.
The blizzard had arrived.
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"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!"
The piercing alarm jolted Zhou Chen and the others from their Meditation.
"It's an alert from the drones!"
