Chapter 2118: World in Crisis! (2/2)
Rumble!
Suddenly, the ground shuddered, and a great turmoil arose from the distant north.
An old shepherd with a wrinkled forehead and wearing a cotton jacket, holding a long pole that he used to drive livestock, turned to a youth behind him and shouted.
”Wuluhache! Guhama!” (”What happened? Go and take a look!”)
The youth of twenty-some years of age hesitated a moment before urging his horse into a gallop. Suddenly—
Whoosh!
With a howl like the wailing of ten thousand ghosts, a storm erupted from the northern horizon and began to rush toward Chita.
The storm came with all the sound and fury of a stampede, the earth shuddering more and more as it approached.
The livestock seemed to sense something, and raised their heads to the north.
”Suolalu! Sayema!” (”A demon storm! Run!”)
The old shepherd turned ghastly pale, his lips trembling.
The other shepherds also turned pale, and they began to ride forward and try to herd the livestock and horses to the south. But how could moving such a large herd away from the storm be an easy task?
A few moments later, with a great rumble and deafening howl, the storm arrived. All the herds of Chita were engulfed in snow and hail.
The only thing that could be heard was the howling of the wind, and the vast whiteness robbed even the most experienced shepherds of their sense of direction, causing them to panic.
Baaa!
Mooo!
The sheep and cows cried out in the raging snowstorm as the temperature on the plains rapidly plunged to minus thirty degrees.
Hailstones as tough as rocks pelted down from the clouds.
The smallest of the hailstones was the size of a thumb, and the larger ones were the size of fists. One of the hailstones struck a horse, instantly caving in its skull.
Meanwhile, the fierce winds swept up several dozen sheep and hurled them into the sky!
After some time, the cold winds finally passed, moving farther south. Calm was finally restored to Chita, leaving only the bodies of livestock and an unending field of white.
At the same time…
On the Tibetan Plateau, tens of thousands of tents were flattened and buried by a blizzard.
In Arabia, crystalline sculptures of people in movement lined the streets, the bodies of those frozen to death.
And in the Western Turkic Khaganate…
From east to west, north to south, the entire continent was engulfed in ice and snow.
Meanwhile, in Youzhou…
Atop a high mountain post, thin flakes drifted down from the sky like goose feathers. Atop the mountain, a chubby figure extended a hand and watched as a thin snowflake drifted onto their palm. Crack! The fingers closed together, and a sinister smile slowly appeared on that seemingly kind and plump face.
”Congratulations, Your Excellency! Congratulations! The men in black have finally begun to move, and the cold wave has come early.”
Baizhen Tuoluo, his long eyebrows trembling, suddenly stepped forward and bowed to An Yaluoshan.
Zhao Kan bowed and excitedly said, ”The cold wave has already moved south, and now, ice can be seen from Whitehead Mountain all the way to Ü-Tsang, and the temperature has plunged. In the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, several million livestock have already frozen to death! To deal with this cold wave, Ozmish Khagan has been in council with his advisors for five days straight!
”The opportunity Your Excellency has been waiting for has finally arrived.”
There was no faction that was not alarmed by this frozen calamity. At this moment, the only ones excited about all this were the people of Youzhou.
An Yaluoshan faintly smiled and asked, ”What has Yeon Gaesomun said?”
”The three rivers of Goguryeo have all frozen. Earlier, Your Excellency told him that the end of days was coming and that a cold wave was imminent, and though he nodded along, in truth, he did not believe you. But now, he has no other choice but to believe. Never in the history of Goguryeo has the Hochon River frozen!
”Yeon Gaesomun has already sent a letter asking about an alliance and when our soldiers will deploy.”