Fate's Choice: Livestream at the Start Summoning Billions of Ravens

Yuzhang City, Tengwang Pavilion Scenic Area.

It was exactly noon.

Hundreds of millions of eyes around the world are glued to this place through countless screens.

CNN's high-definition camera lens was pointed directly at that cloudless, azure sky.

Sudden.

A tiny, crystalline white object drifted slowly down from the leaden-gray clouds.

It is small, yet it presents a perfect hexagonal ice crystal structure when captured by a 4K ultra-high-definition lens.

And so, under the watchful eyes of the whole world, it slowly drifted toward the ground.

"Then... what is that?" the host in the studio asked instinctively.

Tom, a veteran media professional and a CNN reporter at the scene, instinctively reached out his hand.

The ice crystal landed precisely on the back of his hand, which was sweating and burning hot from nervousness.

The cool touch was fleeting.

It instantly melted into a tiny droplet of water.

Tom's body stiffened.

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

After a full three seconds, he finally managed to squeeze out two words into the camera in a trembling voice that was a mixture of extreme horror and madness.

"It's snowing."

The voice just fell.

The second, the third, hundreds and thousands, tens of thousands of snowflakes poured down from the thick clouds, vying to be the first!

At first, it was just a light, scattered snowflake, like willow catkins.

But in just thirty seconds, the light snow turned into a heavy snowfall that swept across the entire city!

The snowflakes, as large as the palm of a hand, were so dense that it was impossible to open one's eyes, and they rained down on the city in early autumn.

Temperatures have started to plummet!

On the data screen of the Ninth Bureau Command Center, the numbers representing temperature were scrolling wildly.

22 degrees Celsius...

15 degrees Celsius...

8 degrees Celsius...

In just ten minutes, the temperature plummeted to 1 degree Celsius!

On the street, people wearing short sleeves and skirts screamed in terror as the cold snowflakes fell on their exposed skin, raising goosebumps.

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

August 1st Square.

The internet celebrity who had previously vowed to "eat his phone if it snowed" was now holding his phone high, looking completely dazed.

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 in his face twitched violently, turning from flushed red to ashen, and then to deathly pale.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room, he silently lowered his head.

Then, with trembling fingers, he pressed the button to turn off the live stream.

"Holy crap! Don't turn it off! Let's eat!"

"Where is the streamer? Did he go back on his word?"

"Hilarious, this is a socially disastrous scene."

"Even if you eat shit today, I'll still send you rockets!"

.....

The comments scrolled wildly, but the black screen never lit up again.

At the same time.

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

On the screen, without exception, the scene switched to the incredible, snow-covered landscape of Yuzhang City.

Breaking news! A sudden blizzard has struck Yuzhang City, China, where temperatures were already at 22 degrees Celsius!

"Miracle or divine punishment? The Raven God's prophecy comes true!"

"Physics is dead today!"

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube...

#YuzhangSnowsInAutumn (豫章秋雪)#

This term, in just three minutes, swept to the top of the trending topics list on all social media platforms around the world!

Billions of people witnessed this grand performance, which blatantly defied the laws of nature, all at the same time.

Inside a luxury villa in the suburbs of the United States.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Wilson is slumped on the sofa in his living room.

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

The familiar outline of the Tengwang Pavilion was completely swallowed up by the swirling snow.

He stared intently at the screen, his lips moving constantly as he muttered to himself over and over again.

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

"Where does the energy come from? Where do condensation nuclei come from?"

"This violates everything..."

His scientific beliefs, the edifice of physics he built throughout his life, were shattered at this moment by the blizzard from the East.

The snow fell for a full hour.

It was exactly 1 p.m.

The moment the clock hand pointed to "1", the blizzard came to an abrupt halt.

Without any hesitation or delay.

It was as if someone had pressed a switch.

One second it was a snowstorm and the end of the world, the next it was calm and the snowflakes had disappeared without a trace.

Immediately afterwards, the thick, leaden clouds that had enveloped the entire city began to dissipate at a visible rate.

Fifteen minutes later.

The sky cleared up again, and the warm sunshine shone on the earth once more.

A thin layer of snow had accumulated on the ground, melting rapidly under the sunlight and rising in wisps of white steam, creating a scene resembling a fairyland.

One hour after the incident ended.

The China Meteorological Administration held an emergency press conference.

The spokesperson stood on the stage, facing a barrage of cameras from all over the world, and solemnly read out the prepared statement.

"Regarding the snowfall that occurred in Yuzhang City at noon today, after an emergency assessment by our bureau's expert team..."

He paused for a moment and took a deep breath.

"We define it as: an extreme weather event that is highly random and localized and cannot be explained by existing meteorological science theories."

The entire audience erupted in uproar.

Three hours after the incident.

An open letter has been quietly posted on the official website of Nature, the world's most authoritative scientific journal.

The author is none other than Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Robert Wilson.

The title is concise and to the point.

I was wrong; physics needs to be humble in the face of the unknown.

……

Xishan Senior Care Center, Villa No. 7.

Jiang Ming leaned back leisurely on the deck chair on the terrace, looking at the uproarious news on his tablet, a faint smile on his lips.

His parents were so shocked by these scenes that they were beyond comprehension that they were speechless and just sat there blankly.

Jiang Ming ignored the commotion outside.

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

[Ding! Massive emotional fluctuations detected from around the world...]

[Emotional value +1,245,780!]

[Emotional value +2,110,450!]

[Emotional value +3,578,120!]

……

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

Jiang Ming glanced at the final settlement.

The "First Snow in Yuzhang" event, from its announcement to its conclusion and subsequent widespread online buzz, generated a total of 9,150,000 emotional points for him.

A truly terrifying number.

His current total emotional value balance is clearly displayed in the system backend.

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

11.45 million!

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

[The sixth "Choose One of Three Destinies" event requires 10,000,000 Emotion Points to activate.]

enough.