The old man with a black heart stealthily escaped and entered the Arctic Tundra. This is the vast permafrost swamp zone between the Arctic Ocean Coast and the Taiga Forest, with a total area of 13 million square kilometers—about one and a half times the size of the Huaxia Empire.
In the summer, the permafrost layer was somewhat manageable, with a network of waterways intermingling and dense with lakes and swamps. On the water's surface, water birds played, and on the land, a multitude of flowers bloomed—a picturesque landscape of a water country. However, when winter came, the entire tundra would be blanketed in snow and ice, leaving nothing but desolation as far as the eye could see.
The old man with a black heart leapt onto a protruding Iceberg and, according to the height of the sun, discerned the direction.
