The Witch (Lisrene)

Chapter 135

Had anyone ever gotten a feeling that bizarre incidents always occurred whenever the end of the year drew near? For example, a certain celebrity would be found to be involved in a surrogacy scandal, another celebrity would be found giving birth, or a famous singer would be announcing the release of new songs. It was as if everyone had been suffering from procrastination syndrome and came out to rush for their respective KPIs[1] as they noticed that the year was about to end. Not only did this syndrome apply to humans, it even applied to the weather. Last night, Y City suddenly experienced an entire night of huge snowfall without any warning. The entire city was blanketed in snow.

It was as though a spring breeze blanketed countless trees with pear blossoms overnight.

Y City was a city located in the south. Even though it grew pretty cold during winter, the lowest temperature recorded in the city was just about 5 degrees celsius. It had been decades since the last snowfall in the city, not to mention a thick blanket of snow covering the entire city in a single night. Naturally, this particular phenomenon took the entire internet by storm. The national news even reported about it.

Differing opinions and theories were thrown everywhere. In the end, specialists accounted for this as a weather abnormality resulting from environmental degradation in recent years. They continued to emphasize the importance of protecting the environment. The majority of the population also believed the specialists' explanation. However, there were also a handful of aged elderly, who would warn their kin with grave expressions on their faces. "It's better not to go out during this period. Heavy snowfall from the skies means that it is the doing of either the demons or the ghosts."

"Lady boss, do you think that this sudden snowfall is due to weather abnormalities or the emergence of demons and devils?" Seulgi was reading the comments on the video and could not resist asking Irene.

If it were before, he would definitely put confidence in the explanation of the specialists without any hesitation. He would have seriously believed that earth was giving humans a stern warning to start protecting the environment. However, ever since he came to know of Winter-which shook and reconstructed his beliefs and values-he had become uncertain of what to make of such situations. This was a world shared by both scientific theories and metaphysical studies but he had zero ability on differentiating the differences between them.

"How could I tell when I'm miles away from that city?" If she was in Y City, she could have perhaps sensed something. However, since she was currently thousands of miles away from the city, it was impossible for her senses to pick up any anomaly.

"Does that mean that it could really possibly be the works of demons and devils?" Wendy exclaimed in disbelief.

"Wendy, did you forget about boss' and lady boss' incident in the amusement park on New Year Eve's night? At that time, it snowed too." Yeri walked over to join the conversation with a cup of coffee in his hand.

"But that was just a tiny amusement park. Now this is actually an entire city. Besides, the snowfall over at the amusement park ended quickly that night. But look at the snow being shown in this video, one could have assumed that the video was taken in the northeastern region instead if they do not know the context." Even though Wendy's beliefs and values were reconstructed too and he could not refute the fact that there were ghosts in this world, he was hesitant to believe that ghosts had such tremendous powers that they could even reform nature.

"If this snowfall was truly caused by evil demons...." Irene did not continue her sentence.

"What will happen?" The 4 studio employees looked at her.

"I would surely not be able to defeat this being." Irene said with certainty.

"Tsk." Besides Jisoo, the 3 other employees let out a sound of disappointment as expressions of 'I have nothing to say to you' surfaced on their faces.