Chapter 117 The First Seedling

• Two months after the phenomenon they had named the Solar Freeze began, humanity learned an unexpected truth.
• The sun had returned—but it was no longer a giver of life.
• It hung in the sky like a pale, watchful eye, fully visible yet stripped of warmth. Its light carried a killing chill, a penetrating cold that seeped into skin and bone when exposed for too long. Early casualties taught the lesson quickly: it was not darkness they needed to fear now, but direct sunlight.