Beneath the biting grip of winter, crops had suffered total failure, and what little food remained was buried deep beneath thick layers of ice and snow, nearly impossible to find.
Driven by maddening hunger, many people resorted to eating snow, chewing until their mouths bled, only to freeze to death right where they lay.
Desperate for sustenance, others tried tunneling through dozens of meters of ice and snow to reach the frozen supermarkets below, only to be buried alive along with their ambitions.
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