44: This is a slap in the face for the internet celebrity! You promised to eat your phone when it snowed, but you shut down the broadcast at lightning speed?

Yuzhang City, Tengwang Pavilion Scenic Area.

Exactly twelve o'clock noon.

Hundreds of millions of eyes worldwide were locked onto this spot through countless screens.

CNN's high-definition camera lenses were pointed directly at the cloudless, azure sky.

Suddenly.

A tiny, crystalline white object drifted leisurely down from the lead-gray clouds.

It was very small, yet captured by the 4K ultra-high-definition lens, it revealed a perfect hexagonal ice crystal structure.

Just like that, under the gaze of the entire world, it slowly drifted toward the ground.

"What... what is that?" the host in the studio asked subconsciously.

The CNN reporter on the scene, a senior media professional named Tom, subconsciously reached out his hand.

That ice crystal landed precisely on the back of his hand, which was hot and sweaty from nervousness.

The icy sensation was fleeting.

It instantly melted into an insignificant droplet of water.

Tom's body froze.

His pupils dilated, his lips trembled, and his mind went blank.

It took a full three seconds before he squeezed out two words toward the camera in a trembling voice mixed with extreme horror and madness.

"It's... snowing."

The words had just fallen.

A second flake, a third, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of snowflakes poured down from those heavy clouds, scrambling to be first!

At first, it was just scattered bits of fine snow, like willow catkins.

But within a mere thirty seconds, the fine snow turned into a blizzard of goose-feather flakes sweeping across the entire city!

The snowflakes were as large as palms, so dense they made it hard to keep one's eyes open, blanketing this early autumn city.

The temperature began a cliff-like plunge!

On the data screens of the Ninth Bureau command center, the numbers representing the temperature were scrolling frantically.

22 degrees Celsius... 15 degrees... 8 degrees... in just ten minutes, the temperature plummeted to 1 degree Celsius!

On the streets, people wearing short sleeves and skirts let out terrified screams as the icy snowflakes landed on their bare skin, raising patches of goosebumps.

The cold wind howled, and everyone subconsciously hugged their arms, shivering in the swirling snow, searching for any place to escape the cold.

Bayi Square.

The influencer streamer who had previously vowed and claimed he would "eat his phone if it snowed" was holding his phone high, his face blank with shock.

A snowflake landed precisely on his phone screen, then a second, a third... a thin layer of white quickly accumulated on the screen.

The muscles on his face twitched violently, turning from flushed red to iron blue, and then to deathly pale.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of viewers in the livestream, he silently lowered his head.

Then, with trembling fingers, he pressed the button to close the stream.

"Holy crap! Don't close it! Start eating!"

"Where's the streamer? Going back on your word?"

"LMAO, a scene of social death."

"Even if you eat shit today, I'll still gift you a Rocket!"

...The bullet chat scrolled frantically, but that black screen never lit up again.

At the same time.

All major global news media, from the BBC to Reuters, from NHK to AFP, interrupted their regular programming.

Without exception, the screens switched to the incredible blizzard in Yuzhang City.

"Breaking news! A sudden blizzard has hit Yuzhang City, China, amid temperatures of twenty-two degrees Celsius!"

"A miracle or divine punishment? The Crow God's prophecy has come true!"

"Physics has been declared dead today!"

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube... #YuzhangSnowsInAutumn#

In just three minutes, this hashtag reached the top of the trending lists on all global social media platforms with an unstoppable momentum!

Billions of people, at the same moment, witnessed this grand performance that openly defied the laws of Nature.

In the United States, inside a luxury villa in the suburbs.

Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Robert Wilson, was slumped on the sofa in his living room.

The 85-inch LCD TV in front of him was playing CNN's live broadcast.

That familiar silhouette of the Tengwang Pavilion was completely submerged by the swirling snow.

He stared fixedly at the screen, his lips twitching constantly, murmuring to himself over and over again.

"No... this is impossible..."

"Where did the energy come from? Where did the condensation nuclei come from?"

"This violates everything..."

His scientific faith, the edifice of physics he had built over a lifetime, was crushed to pieces at this moment by this blizzard from the East.

The snow lasted for exactly one hour.

One o'clock in the afternoon.

The moment the clock's hour hand pointed to '1', the swirling snow stopped abruptly.

There was no lingering whatsoever.

It was as if someone had flipped a switch.

One second it was an apocalyptic world of wind and snow, the next it was calm, and the snowflakes vanished without a trace.

Immediately after, the heavy leaden clouds that had shrouded the entire city began to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fifteen minutes later.

The sky cleared again, and warm sunlight once more shone upon the earth.

A thin layer of snow had accumulated on the ground, melting rapidly under the sunlight and giving off plumes of white water vapor, like a fairyland.

One hour after the event ended.

The China Meteorological Administration urgently held a press conference.

The spokesperson stood on the stage, facing the cameras and microphones from all over the world, and read the prepared script with a solemn expression.

"Regarding the snowfall event that occurred in Yuzhang City at twelve o'clock noon today, after urgent assessment by our bureau's expert group..."

He paused and took a deep breath.

"We define it as: a highly accidental and localized extreme weather mutation event that cannot be explained by existing meteorological science theories."

The entire room broke into an uproar.

Three hours after the event.

On the official website of the world's most authoritative scientific journal, Nature, an open letter was quietly posted.

The author was none other than the Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Robert Wilson.

The title was concise and to the point.

"I Was Wrong, Physics Needs Humility Before the Unknown Fields"... Xishan Nursing Center, Villa No. 7.

Jiang Ming leaned leisurely on a lounge chair on the terrace, looking at the tumultuous news on his tablet with a faint smile on his lips.

His parents had long been shocked into silence by these scenes that exceeded their understanding, and they just sat blankly to the side.

Jiang Ming ignored the noise from the outside world.

In his mind, he opened the system panel that only he could see.

[Ding! Detected a massive amount of emotional fluctuations from a global scale...]

[emotion points +1,245,780!]

[emotion points +2,110,450!]

[emotion points +3,578,120!]

...The numbers continued to jump for a full half-hour before slowly stopping.

Jiang Ming glanced at the final settlement.

The "Yuzhang First Snow" event, from the announcement to the end, and then to the subsequent global online fermentation, had brought him a total of 9,150,000 emotion points points.

A figure that could be called terrifying.

In the system backend, his current total balance of emotion points was clearly displayed.

2,300,545 + 9,150,000 = 11,450,545 points.

Eleven million four hundred and fifty thousand!

Jiang Ming's gaze fell on the system's prompt regarding the next choice.

[Condition to unlock the sixth 'Destinys Triple Choice': Consume 10,000,000 emotion points points.]

It was enough.