Of course, this man was Adams. He gave Kublai Khan a tremendous headache.
He could neither be caught nor driven away. Every night, he came over to disturb Kublai Khan's sleep, leaving him utterly helpless. In the end, Kublai Khan simply listened to his stories every day.
Usually, Adams only talked about things that had already happened, or made up bizarre apocalypses.
He kept Kublai Khan listening all night, to the point that he barely even attended court anymore.
There were no apocalyptic novels in this era. Just one biochemical apocalypse—a crisis of living-dead zombies—was enough to enthrall him. Not to mention apocalypses involving "clones," machines, insectoid races, and so on. They sent his imagination soaring and left him unable to stop.
Recently, Adams had begun talking about apocalypses caused by the collapse of natural laws.
For example, the freezing point of water dropping dramatically, to the same level as that of some kind of air.
At first, when Adams explained the meaning of the freezing point and said that this would make it much harder for water to freeze, so that snowfall would almost never occur in the world, Kublai Khan was delighted.
"Wouldn't that be even better? From now on, my northern lands won't be sealed beneath snow and ice for a thousand li. Instead, they'll enjoy the mild and pleasant scenery of Jiangnan."
But Adams said, "It doesn't work that way. Lowering water's freezing point doesn't mean its heat has vanished. The north won't become warmer; it will become even colder. A kind of extremely frigid water will appear in the world, and merely touching it will cause frostbite."
"Because ice can only absorb the heat on the surface of the human body, while water can seep into it."
"When rivers and lakes freeze, this is actually