「July 1st, Yunhua City.」
The city proper was a deathly silence, frozen solid. Ice walls, dozens of meters high, stood everywhere, linking together as if they had transformed this place into a kingdom of snow and ice.
Only a few main roads remained passable thanks to round-the-clock snow removal. But for everyone who traveled these roads, the sight of the towering ice walls on either side brought an intense feeling of oppression and suffocation.
Because of this, several drivers had succumbed to the psychological pressure in recent days, quitting their snow-plowing jobs and letting others take over.
These interconnected ice walls had sealed off the entrances and exits of most Gathering Points. Schools, shopping malls, hospitals, libraries... all of them were blocked.
The Department of Life Support and the Emergency Management Bureau had to frequently deploy boring vehicles to drill holes through the ice walls blocking the entrances, just to deliver emergency supplies.
