The blizzard lasted several days. Although the snowfall eased considerably toward the end, it was still terrifying.
Days later, the snow stopped. Heaven and earth lay silver-white, as though sunk in slumber.
The blizzard kept most people from going out. They could only "hibernate" at home.
Cars and trains had long since stopped running, ships had ceased sailing, and planes had been grounded. The world fell quiet.
The Real World was calm, but the internet was anything but.
Discussion of the blizzard never stopped. Many people already knew it heralded the second upheaval of heaven and earth.
Once this upheaval ended, Earth would once again turn more living beings into evolved humans and creatures.
That was the most immediate change, and people eagerly awaited it.
But one question about the blizzard drew even more discussion than the coming upheaval.
Across the East and the West, people in every nation were asking the same thing:
Why had so much snow fallen without it getting especially cold?
Anyone caught in the blizzard would have wondered the same thing.
The snowfall was heavy enough to count as a disaster, yet no one had heard of anyone freezing to death anywhere.
There was a report of someone wrestling with a tree and being crushed to death by snow falling from its branches, but there was little to be done about that.
Even pet dogs survived without blankets. None froze to death.
Temperatures had fallen during this snowy disaster, but they remained within what living beings could endure.
Even the Communicator signal towers had held up, and reception was good everywhere.
Without question, it was a miracle, one acknowledged by everyone and by every nation.
Scholars, scientists, Evolutionaries, and others investigated the cause, but their efforts came to nothing. They found no answers.
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