Frozen flying snow brings not only despair but also hope.
It gives the people huddled in small hills a chance to escape from the maddening places, where the few hills can't accommodate the many people. Digging tunnels underground doesn't allow anyone to truly sleep with both eyes shut, fearing they might accidentally become someone else's food for survival.
Many people, once slightly adapted, wrap themselves in everything they can find to keep warm, and flee collectively with their families and children from the places that scare them.
Though many ultimately fall during their escape, covered by snow and ice, it still doesn't stop the people behind from seeking the hope to survive.
Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, it is now the eighth month of extreme cold, and Hua Jin has welcomed her fourteenth birthday.
Hua Chengtian, who stayed intermittently in the valley for more than half a year, returned home the day before his daughter's survival.
