This is a rich country. It is said to be rich. In fact, it is just a beautiful long cherished wish of the rich royal family. Because more than three-quarters of the land area of the fertile country is desert, with extremely high sunshine and temperature. It is not a simple thing to build an ideal fertile country in the desert.
On this day, on the northeast border of the fertile country.
The scorching sun scorched the oasis town. Even the residents who have lived here for generations dare not expose themselves to the midday sun... Except those refugees.
The northeast of the fertile country is next to the eternal night country.
Now there are changes in Yongye country, and several huge cities with a population of more than one million have fallen, resulting in countless refugees. The state power has been overturned in almost a short time, and the displaced people have no home.
The refugees in the border center are the most sad. They have no means of transportation and may not be able to escape the eternal night country all their life.
The border refugees are better. They can cross the border and seek vitality in other countries.
Arthur and Merlin were refugees who fled from the kingdom of eternal night to the kingdom of abundance. They have been friends since childhood. They have always had a good relationship. They are not brothers, but they are better than brothers.
They have been in this oasis town for a month, but just two hours ago, they were fired by the owner of a bar. The reason is... Merlin, as a blind man, accidentally knocked over a wine barrel.
Before, they worked almost for nothing in the bar, just to eat and have a foothold at night and noon. Therefore, there is no wine money to pay for the lost wine money.
The boss was so angry that he drove Merlin out. Arthur saw that his best friend was humiliated, and his words became a little fierce. He was also kicked out by the bar owner.
They were hiding under a dead tree just to avoid the poisonous sunshine.
However, the effect is not great.
The night here is very cold and the noon is very hot. Cold can cool the dead, and heat can steam life dry.
In such extreme temperatures, they were a little desperate.
"It's all my fault. It's bothering you." Merlin murmured silently, with a look of despair and remorse.
Arthur had a moment of regret when he was kicked out of the bar, but he was more concerned about the trampled dignity of his best friend than this trace of regret.
"You are not wrong. What is wrong is that we were born in such an era." Arthur reached out his dry hand and patted Merlin on the shoulder, his mouth dry.
"Maybe we shouldn't leave our hometown." Merlin regretted leaving his hometown. Although there were changes in his hometown, the huge dome shrouded the city and continued to spread. But no one knows what happens under the dome. Maybe there is no evil under the dome, and madness is another relief.
Arthur: "I also have some regrets. Dying in my hometown is at least closer to my parents. Dying here is estimated to be in its stomach..."
On the dead tree with their backs, a scavenging vulture is watching them silently. When they die, they will start their own meal.
The sun was getting hotter and hotter. Arthur and Merlin were already thirsty and dizzy.
In fact, the lake in oasis town is separated by one.
However, they can't go to the lake, not to mention the sharp thorn fence by the lake. The lake guard on the road alone is enough to kill them in an instant.
They became weaker and weaker, and their eyes gradually turned white and hallucinated.
Arthur whispered, "at least before I die, I'm not alone..."
Merlin wanted to respond, but she was speechless and could only nod with all her strength.
As they gradually fell into dying, a cool wind suddenly rolled in from a distance. At the same time, scattered water droplets fell from the sky.
Drops of water fell on their mouths and moistened their dry lips. The cool wind also dissipated the heat around the side.
Merlin: "suddenly it's not hot, so cool... And the water, so ice. Am I dead? This is the world after death? But why can't I see it?"
Merlin's murmur gave Arthur more strength. He looked up at the sky: "you're not dead, dark clouds are coming, it seems that..."
Arthur was just about to say the word "rain", but suddenly he was stunned.
There were no dark clouds in the sky, and there was no "rain", but a huge shadow shining with crystal brilliance.
"What's that?" Arthur whispered to himself.
Merlin: "Arthur... What are you talking about?"
Arthur was a little stunned and said, "it's not dark clouds or rain. A huge... Eh, is that an iceberg? No, why do you have wings? Is this an illusion?"
Broad, elongated, with frost colored wings of 100 meters.
Every time the wings flutter, a little luminous ice crystals fall. Previously, the rain they felt was the water droplets melted by these ice crystals.
"What kind of monster is this?" Arthur frowned and continued to look up. Suddenly his pupils shrank: "there are people up there! And, a lot of people..."
"Who?" Merlin also asked curiously.
"I can't see the specific situation clearly, but I found that they all seem to be wearing white cloaks. There are patterns on the cloaks, which seems to be a crescent moon. I can't see clearly..."
When Arthur exclaimed, the scavenging vultures on the dead trees behind them were also curious about the iceberg in the sky. They couldn't help fluttering their wings and flying to the iceberg.
However, as soon as the scavenger Eagle approached the iceberg, it was knocked by the frost colored wing fan. Before it could find the right direction, it was frozen into an ice sculpture and fell from the sky.
The iceberg passed by and soon disappeared in the northeast. According to common sense, even if the iceberg melts in the oasis town, it doesn't bring much coolness, let alone it just flashes away.
But strangely enough, after the iceberg swept, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped.
It will not rise for a long time.
Arthur witnessed this magical scene, turned to Merlin and said, "why do these people sit on icebergs and why do icebergs fly?"
Merlin's expression was slightly strange. After a while, he suddenly said, "those people should be the legendary wizards."
"Wizard?" Arthur looked at Merlin suspiciously.
Merlin: "Wizards are a group of very evil people. They have the power to resist everything. They can even calculate the nature of heaven and earth and pry the mountains and sea..."
Merlin slowly explained the wizard, but he didn't know. With his words, Arthur's eyes on the other side were brighter and brighter.
"The wizard is so powerful! If I become a wizard, will no one dare to bully us again?" Arthur exclaimed several times, his eyes shining: "do you know how to become a wizard?"
Merlin's face was a little dark and shook her head: "I don't know. Don't think about it. We don't even know how to live now..."
Arthur smiled cunningly: "before, he might really die, but now, it's not necessarily."
Arthur found the rotting vulture that had been frozen into a statue on the sand dune not far away and dragged it to Merlin excitedly: "we will have money if we sell the rotting vulture! The head crown of the rotting vulture is worth a gold coin last time I heard from the people of the camel bell caravan! Then our life will be better..."
Although Merlin couldn't see it, he could feel the cold air emitted by the scavenger Eagle ice sculpture.
He smiled, "that's great. Living is better than anything."
Arthur was also a little silly. He thought today was their death day, but he didn't expect such ups and downs... Moreover, he also heard the rumors of wizards. If he could become a wizard one day, it would be great.
Arthur thought of beauty and his smiling eyes narrowed between his teeth.
Suddenly, Arthur thought of a question: "by the way, I haven't asked you just now. How can you know about the wizard?"
Merlin was stunned and frowned.
After a long time, he whispered, "I've seen a wizard before."
"Have you seen a wizard?" Arthur came up to Merlin in surprise: "can you tell me what the wizard looks like? Where is he? Can we still find him?"
Merlin: "he is a rickety old man with many eyes."
"An old man with many eyes? It sounds a little seeping." After Arthur finished, he said, "eh? How do you know he has many eyes? Your eyes are not..."
Merlin smiled bitterly, stretched out a trembling hand and gently touched his eyes: "you didn't ask me what happened five years ago and why my eyes were suddenly blind."
Arthur listened to Merlin and seemed to guess something. Merlin disappeared for more than half a month five years ago and lost his eyes when he came back. No matter who asked him, Merlin didn't answer why, which was Arthur's question all the time.
"Don't you say?"
Merlin: "yes, my eyes were gouged out by the old man... I clearly remember that he dug out my left eye first, then put it in the center of his eyebrow, and then dug out my right eye. I don't know where ANN is, but he told me that Ann is in front of his chest."
Seeing Merlin going on, Arthur interrupted him.
"Stop talking. It's all over. It's all over." Arthur wanted to slap himself in the face. Why did he ask this question? Why is he so blind.
Merlin: "it doesn't matter. As you said, it's all over."
Arthur squeezed his fist and said angrily, "if I hadn't followed my father to the countryside with you five years ago, I wouldn't have happened."
Merlin: "it's fate. It can't be changed."
Arthur also wanted to argue. Suddenly, a charming female voice inserted into the conversation: "yes, the child is right. It's life and can't be changed."
Arthur suddenly turned back and saw a woman in a thick leather windbreaker behind them.
A woman's figure is extremely graceful, and her appearance is also an indispensable thing of beauty. But the only strange thing is that I wear a thick leather windbreaker on such a hot day.
On the side of the woman's body, there was a boy of 16 or 7 years old, wearing a brown and black checked hat, thick black circles under his eyes, and his lips were pink to pale.
"Who are you?" Asked Arthur warily.
The woman lifted her long brown hair and said, "I'm a passer-by walking with my master. Don't care about me."
After that, the woman threw a wink at the boy on her side.
But the young man's forehead was blue and his veins were beating, "in exchange for your true face."
"No, don't you like it best?" The woman is a little unwilling.
"I don't. You talk nonsense. I don't like it!" The boy scolded angrily.
The woman smiled, stretched out her hand and waved it gently. A long pipe appeared in her hand out of thin air. She made a gesture of smoking, and then lost a wink again: "this pipe is the same type as her."
The young man angrily scolded: "if you keep this attitude, I'll burn you!"
Seeing that her master was really angry, the woman changed into a refined man wearing a thick leather windbreaker.
When the boy talked to his servants, Arthur's mood was unspeakable. He summoned pipes out of thin air and changed women into men... All these seemed to show the identity of the two in front of him.
"Are you witches?" Asked Arthur suspiciously.
The refined man shook his head: "my master is a wizard apprentice, and I am just a spirit."
Arthur's throat was a little dry and he was speechless for a moment.
"You..." Atherton said, "you said before that Merlin's eyes were gouged out. Why?"
The refined man smiled: "it's very simple, because he is a natural talent, and his eyes are the source of his vision. It's doomed to be stared at by other extraordinary people. After all, the exclusion of transplanted human eyes is much smaller than that of other species."