Chapter 1948

"Oh, this sleep... how did I fall asleep last night?"

After waking up dazed early Saturday morning, Xia De realized that he was curled up on the bed with a blanket casually draped over him.

He climbed out of bed with a dazed head, and finally recalled closing his eyes leaning against the head of the bed last night, and then suddenly falling asleep for some reason:

"What's wrong with this, ha~"

He yawned, feeling his head finally clear. Looking down at Little Mia beside him, this cat didn't lie on the pillow, but rarely leaned against Xia De's side. The blanket on Xia De's body was probably a small corner he pulled over himself when he felt cold at night, and it was draped over the cat.

Little Mia's size is not large to begin with, and the corner of the blanket draped over her can cover half of her body. It was just Xia De's movement of getting up that exposed a small part of the cat's body from under the blanket. She meowed at Xia De with dissatisfaction, and then stood up, clearly realizing that it was time for breakfast again.

"The temperature is really low this morning; did it rain last night?"

Xia De muttered, looked up at the silver-white city morning scene outside the window, and saw snow flying in the morning sunlight, and then understood the reason for the temperature drop:

"So it snowed... hmm? Snow?"

He was startled, picked up the cat and came to the window, and even opened the window because he was worried it was a hallucination. The cold wind poured into the warm bedroom, making Little Mia meow with more dissatisfaction.

He was still wearing a shirt before going to bed, so he immediately felt the low temperature in the wind. Xia De reached his hand out of the window again, and the snowflakes fell on his palm with blood color and temperature, and the cold snowflakes melted in his palm:

"Did it really snow? Did I sleep through the entire summer and autumn?"

He was terrified.

【You fell asleep at 8:03 last night, and now it is 5:33 on Saturday morning. Your sleep time is 9 hours and 30 minutes.】

"She" reminded him very thoughtfully and gently.

"Then let me confirm again, what is the date and season now..."

He looked at the city outside the window that had already been covered in silver, the roofs of the neighbors across the square had been completely dyed white, soft snow was laid on St. Theresa Square below, and because it was too early and there were no pedestrians, it was so neat that he really wanted to go down and step on a row of footprints.

The fountain of the statue of the girl holding a water bottle in the center of the square, the top of the girl's head, shoulders, and the top of the water bottle had also been covered by snowflakes, while the statue's two feet were completely buried in the snow. This snow must have fallen in the first half of the night.

【The current time is: Present World, Sixth Era, General Calendar 1854, late spring, 24th day of the Month of Rain Prayer, Saturday.】

"She" told Xia De the time, and according to Tobesk's climate characteristics, it would never snow this heavily in this season.

"Wait, the thing the Guardian of the Earth wants to talk to me about, wouldn't it be this?"

Not only is Tobesk's climate abnormal, but after eating breakfast with Mia, Xia De went to other locations in the Old Continent to confirm the situation.

Swimming out from the cave under the sea cliff of Cold Water Port, after surfacing from under the water, he saw snowflakes falling loosely toward the sea surface, and the Cold Water Port not far away had also been covered in silver;

Walking out of the old tower in the mountains of the Xikar Mountains, the snowflakes had dyed the mountains and forests white, reflecting the deep green of the tree crowns;

Pushing the door from the underground wine cellar of the White River Valley Vineyard in Huntington City to the courtyard, it didn't snow here, but the gloomy sky and the slightly cold wind were clearly not the scene of normal late spring;

Walking out of the lighthouse basement on the island in the center of the lake in the heart of the Pantanal Great Swamp, which was still covered with the curse of evil things, without leaving the lighthouse that was damp and diffused with the smell of decay, he could see that it was pouring rain mixed with hail like stones outside;

Walking out of the secret passage under the Night Temple and coming to the ancient sacrificial site on the cliff, looking down at the woods in the Randall Valley, the white woodland made Xia De feel as if he had returned to the adventure in early spring this year;

Coming to the basement of the Green Lake Inn he was familiar with, he could hear the chefs in the kitchen discussing the light snow floating outside through the wall;

Finally, he brought Little Mia to Randall Valley, and the daylight shot into the church from the hole in the roof of the Forgotten Church, and the snowflakes danced around the beam of light like spinning.

The church was still empty, and pushing open the church door, the courtyard outside the church was indeed already covered with snowflakes.

The Guardian of the Earth, who looked like Mr. Lasers, was standing in the courtyard looking up at the sky. He only turned around after hearing the sound of the door opening behind him, and then signaled Xia De, who was wearing a thick coat, to go inside the church with him to talk.

"What's going on? Why is it snowing all over the Old Continent?"

Xia De sat on the bench beside the carpet illuminated by daylight, and the Guardian of the Earth stood beside the beam of daylight:

"It is not snowing everywhere; snowfall weather has appeared in about 53% of the areas. Among them, only a small part has experienced moderate or heavy snow like here, and only a very small part of the northern Old Continent has experienced blizzards; the others are all light snow."

He corrected, and Xia De shook his head to show he didn't care about this:

"Is this what you meant when you said other situations appeared on Thursday?"

"Yes."

The Guardian nodded:

"The climate has experienced abnormal phenomena, and its root cause is the mutation of the four seasons. This snow is just the beginning of everything; the weather this summer will be very abnormal. I have already stabilized the four seasons of the material world by relying on the 'Heart of the Earth', but this year will still be a 'Year Without Summer'."

The ancient god of the earth, the "Mother of the Earth," has the power of the earth and the four seasons, so the Heart of the Earth can also regulate the climate.

"Year Without Summer?"

The Guardian explained in more detail:

"Although it won't snow often, it won't have the temperature that summer should have."

Xia De frowned deeply:

"But why is this? This is not right, haven't we already successfully solved the spatial mutation in the Green Lake area?"

"This has nothing to do with the Battle of Green Lake, or rather, this is not something you failed to prevent."

The middle-aged man shook his head gently and reached out to catch the snow in the beam of light:

"Disasters and collapses that symbolize the loss of world order cannot be completely eliminated. Just like the mutation of the earth, even if we prevented the complete distortion of the earth in early spring, we did not completely eliminate the filth produced by the earth.

The first Chosen One appeared last summer, and the world was still peaceful at that time, so there were no signs of disaster. Now more and more tiny changes have been superimposed together; even if you prevented every disaster, the world has still been affected. It's not that you failed to do anything, it's just that this is something that must happen."

Last summer, when Xia De and Luweiya were preparing for Iluna's Chosen One ritual, there were indeed no other situations; what they had to do was just help Iluna take revenge and defeat the "Silver-Eyed One." And when the Chosen One of Darkness appeared, the "Dark Turmoil" event that affected Tobesk City occurred; later, when the Chosen One of Death appeared, the loss of control in the narrow space between life and death would endanger the entire region; the Chosen One of Knowledge corresponded to the disaster in the Pantanal region, and the scope of that impact was even larger; when it came to the Randall Valley and Green Lake regions, it further evolved into an accident that would affect the entire world.

He had experienced so many things in a trance, and the escalation of events time and time again finally became like this:

"How to stop it?"

"Cannot stop it, this is a natural phenomenon. And, why stop it?"

He asked Xia De, who was sitting there:

"The earth is the cornerstone, and the cornerstone affects the four seasons. Now the collapse of the earth has been calmed by me again, and the abnormality of the four seasons is just causing the temperature this summer to become abnormal. This is not a disaster, just a natural phenomenon. Even without the various disasters that lead the world step by step toward abnormality, couldn't a Year Without Summer appear in ordinary years? For example, General Calendar 369 and General Calendar 1244."

Xia De looked at him and opened his mouth, only then remembering that the other party's way of thinking was indeed different from his own.

Looking at the cat lying on his lap again, he also knew that what the other party said made sense:

"So, actually this is a good thing, representing that the accumulation of world abnormalities is just slightly affecting the climate, rather than causing more terrible things? But will this kind of thing become more and more frequent?"

"Judging from the current situation, yes. The Year Without Summer is just the beginning of everything; more and more other strange natural phenomena will happen one after another, just like now, very surprising, but not enough to directly push the world toward destruction. That's all, but it's not just that. This is a destined thing; no matter what you stop, it will come. It's just that you made its impact smaller. Civilization will thank you, Xia De Hamilton."

He stopped talking, leaving time for Xia De to think about everything. Xia De's thoughts spread outward, thinking of the past, thinking of everything he had experienced:

"Cannot stop it, can it be contained?"

"The power of the Chosen One can contain those abnormalities to a certain extent. Just like if I weren't here, sorry, I'm not bragging."

He smiled at Xia De, and only then could it be seen that although the "Guardian of the Earth" is hundreds of souls, he can actually express his emotions:

"If the Chosen One of the Earth weren't here, what we would see today would be more than just heavy snow."

"Do the Chosen Ones have the ability to maintain the world's normality?"

"If there were no such ability, wouldn't that be even stranger?"

The middle-aged man beside the hole in the roof asked rhetorically:

"At least, before all thirteen Chosen Ones appear, each Chosen One has his own role."

Xia De immediately thought of the dead Chosen One of Darkness, Ivan Darkness, thought of the Chosen One of Knowledge and Wisdom who had not yet appeared, and thought of the Chosen One of Space who could not appear at will:

"But..."

"It doesn't matter, the most important Chosen One is still here, so it doesn't matter."