The Only Path on the Doomsday Icefield

Year 2116.

Since the unforeseen nuclear war of 2066, many countries have vanished from the world map. The Arctic Circle has nearly doubled in size, and most of what was once Russia is now a frozen wasteland, part of the present-day polar ice fields.

Earth’s climate has undergone violent transformation. The once distinct four seasons have dissolved into erratic summers and winters. Sometimes the summer lasts five months and the winter seven; at other times, winter stretches eight or nine months, leaving summer with only four or five. Perhaps the only remaining pattern is that summer seems perpetually shorter than winter. Thankfully, the atmosphere did not sustain severe damage; otherwise, the extreme temperature shifts between day and night might have reduced the post-war human population—now only three hundred million—even further.

A global cooling akin to a new Ice Age has slowly begun.

Historians call it: The Age of the Polar Wastes.

The ever-scarcer resources on Earth have become the trigger for wars among the surviving world powers. People now refer to this era as the Last Night.

But the greatest threat is no longer any nation on this planet. At some indistinct point, extraterrestrial beings descended upon Earth, and the menace they pose far surpasses that of humankind itself. Even the alien invaders cannot resist the struggle for survival and energy.

Human genes, too, have mutated to adapt to the new environment. At a certain moment, the spacetime in which Hua Feng lived became extremely unstable—a collapse from another dime