Chapter 624: Endless Winter

Starting from October, an abnormal cold front swept across the world. The northern wind brought a lethally cold sensation, leading to a migration wave of more than one billion people from high-latitude regions.

It was as if we had returned to primitive society; habitable areas and food became the main sources of human conflict, igniting a series of border disputes and large-scale wars.

Unable to ensure their own survival and knowing that opening borders would lead to an influx of tens of millions, various economic entities erected high walls at their borders, equipped with professional killing squads, forbade southward migration, and the frozen corpses piled up like mountains beyond their borders.

The Northern Archipelago was completely covered by frost, port waters turned to solid ice, and even the bustling Shangjing Bay could barely maintain 75% of its normal shipping capacity; smaller ports and towns lost their maritime transport capabilities entirely.