After resting for the night, everyone prepared to set off again and leave this world. Needless to say, Yuri and Chiharu had agreed to leave with them. Neither of them had any particular objections. Yuri was happy to continue traveling and see what other places had to offer, while Chiharu seemed reassured and let out a sigh of relief.
Soon afterward, Fang Zheng opened the Teleportation Gate once more, and the Lightning Warship turned into a flash of light before swiftly vanishing into it.
The next few teleportations did not improve. Instead, they only got worse and worse.
Everywhere White Frost passed was almost invariably a world devastated by apocalyptic disasters. Although White Frost was regarded as an extreme cold weather phenomenon in Ciri's world, its true nature was a large-scale extreme-disaster generator. Thus, besides ice ages, it also brought calamities such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tornadoes.
Most worlds had nearly been destroyed because of it, and there was nothing to be done about that. After all, these natural disasters were part of a civilization bottleneck test. If things proceeded step by step, they might have been manageable, but for the civilizations of these worlds, this was practically a surprise exam—like being forced to take a junior-year college exam right after entering high school.
So failure was only natural.
Fortunately, some civilizations had managed to cling to life. During their travels, Fang Zheng and the others discovered survivors from quite a few worlds. There were trains speeding across snowbound icefields, communities preserving the sparks of civilization through subway tunnels, and even worlds that had poured the strength of the whole world into building enormous ships to escape the floods...
No matter what, they had survived.
Having witnessed so many tragedies firsthand, Ling, Tio, and the others naturally made up