This is the country of abundance, and it is said to be fertile, but it is actually just a long-cherished wish of the fertile royal family. Because more than three-quarters of the land area of the rich country is desert, the sunshine temperature is extremely high. It is not an easy thing to build an ideal rich country in the desert.
On this day, on the northeastern frontier of the Plenty Country.
The scorching scorching sun is scorching the oasis town. Even the residents who have lived here for generations, no one dares to be exposed to the noon sun... Except for those refugees.
The northeast of the rich country is next to the eternal night country.
Now that the Evernight Kingdom has changed, several giant cities with a population of more than one million have fallen, resulting in the appearance of countless refugees. State power was overthrown almost in a short period of time, and the refugees were all displaced and homeless.
The refugees in the center of the border are the saddest. They have no means of transportation and may not be able to escape the Evernight Kingdom for the rest of their lives.
The refugees at the border are slightly better, and they can cross the border and go to other countries to seek life.
Arthur and Merlin were refugees who fled from the Evernight Kingdom to the Plenty Country. They have been friends since childhood, and their relationship has always been very good. 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, being blind, accidentally knocked over a wine barrel.
They used to work almost freelance in bars, just to feed their stomachs and have a place to stay at night and at noon. So, there is simply no wine money to pay for the lost wine money.
In a fit of anger, the boss drove Merlin out. Arthur saw his best friend being humiliated, and his words were a little more intense, and he was also kicked out by the bar owner.
The two were hiding under a dead tree at this time, just to avoid the poisonous sunlight.
However, the effect is not large.
The nights here are extremely cold, and the middays are sweltering. Cold can chill people to death, and heat can evaporate life to dryness.
At such extreme temperatures, they were a little desperate.
"It's all my fault, it's hurting you." Merlin murmured silently, his expression desperate and self-blaming.
When he was kicked out of the bar, Arthur had a moment of regret in his heart, but he cared more about the dignity of his best friend being trampled on.
"You're not wrong, it's just that we were born in such an era." Arthur stretched out his dry hand, patted Merlin on the shoulder, and said with a dry mouth.
"Perhaps, we shouldn't have left our hometown." Merlin regretted leaving his hometown. Although there were changes in his hometown, a huge dome enveloped the city and continued to spread. But no one knew what was going on under that dome. Maybe there is no evil under the dome, and madness is another kind of relief.
Arthur: "I also regret it a little bit. Dying in my homeland is at least closer to my parents. If I die here, I'm going to enter its belly..."
On the dead tree they were backing, there was a carrion vulture watching them silently. As soon as they die, they will start their own meal.
The sun is getting more and more vicious, Arthur and Merlin are already dry and their eyes are dim.
In fact, across the road is the lake of the oasis town.
However, they cannot go to the lake, not to mention the spiked fence by the lake, the lake guards on the road alone are enough to kill them instantly.
They became weaker and weaker, their eyes gradually turned white, and they had hallucinations.
Arthur whispered: "At least until I die, I'm not alone..."
Merlin wanted to respond, but he was speechless, so he could only nod his head with all his strength.
Just as they were gradually dying, a cool wind suddenly came from a distance. At the same time, sparse water droplets fell from the sky.
Drops of water fell in their mouths, moisturizing their parched lips. The cool wind also dissipated the heat that lingered on the side.
Merlin: "Suddenly it's not hot anymore, so cool... And this water, so icy. Could it be that I'm already dead? This is the world after death? Why can't I still see it?"
Merlin's muttering gave Arthur some more strength. He raised his head and looked at the sky: "You are not dead, the dark clouds are coming, it seems to be coming down..."
Arthur was about to say the word "rain", but was suddenly stunned.
There are no dark clouds in the sky, and there is no "rain", but a huge shadow that shines with crystal brilliance.
"What's that?" Arthur asked in a low voice.
Merlin: "Arthur... what are you talking about?"
Arthur was a little stunned, and he said with a loud voice: "It's not a dark cloud, nor is it rain. There is a huge... Hey, is that an iceberg? No, why does it have wings? Is this an illusion?"
It has wide, frost-colored wings with a length of 100 meters.
Every time the wings flapped, a little bit of glowing ice crystals fell. Previously, the rain they felt was the water droplets that had melted into ice crystals.
"What kind of monster is this?" Arthur frowned and continued to look up, suddenly his pupils shrank: "There are people above! Besides, a lot of people..."
"Who?" Merlin asked curiously.
"I can't see the specific situation, but I found that they seem to be wearing white cloaks with patterns on the cloaks, like a crescent moon. I can't see clearly..."
When Arthur exclaimed, the carrion vultures on the dead trees behind them were also curious about the icebergs in the sky, so they flapped their wings and flew towards the icebergs.
However, as soon as the Carrion Vulture approached the iceberg, it was hit by the frost-colored wing fan, and before it could find a sense of direction, it was frozen into an ice sculpture and fell from the sky.
The iceberg swept past and soon disappeared in the northeast. According to common sense, even if the iceberg melts in the oasis town, it will not bring much coolness, let alone it is only fleeting.
But strangely, after the iceberg passed by, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped.
Not rising for a long time.
Arthur witnessed this magical scene, turned to look at Merlin and said, "Why do these people sit on the iceberg, and why do the icebergs fly?"
Merlin's expression was a little strange. After a while, he suddenly said, "That group of 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 the world and move the mountains and the sea..."
Merlin explained the wizard slowly, but he didn't know that, with his words, Arthur's eyes on the opposite side became brighter.
"Wizards are amazing! If I become a wizard, will no one dare to bully us again?" Arthur exclaimed a few times, his eyes twinkling: "Do you know how to become a wizard?"
Merlin's face was a little gloomy, and he shook his head: "I don't know, don't think about this, we don't even know how to live now..."
Arthur smiled slyly: "It may have been true before, but now, not necessarily."
Arthur found the carrion vulture that had been frozen into a statue from a sand dune not far away, and dragged it to Merlin excitedly: "We sold this carrion vulture, and we'll have money! The head of this carrion vulture Guan, the last time I heard someone from the camel bell caravan say that it is worth a gold coin! When the time comes, our life will be better... "
Although Merlin couldn't see it, he could feel the cold air emanating from the Carrion Vulture Ice Sculpture.
He laughed: "That's great, it's better to live than anything else."
Arthur was also a little silly. He originally thought that today was their death anniversary, but he didn't expect such a twist... Moreover, he also heard rumors of wizards, if one day, he could become a wizard, that would be great.
Arthur's eyes narrowed into crescents when he thought of beauty.
Suddenly, Arthur remembered a question: "By the way, I didn't ask you just now, how did you know about the wizard?"
Merlin was startled, his brows lowered.
After a while, he said softly, "I've seen a wizard before."
"Have you seen a wizard?" Arthur approached Merlin in surprise: "Then can you tell me what that wizard looks like? Where does he come from? Can we still find him?"
Merlin: "He's a hunched old man with a lot of eyes."
"The old man with a lot of eyes? It sounds a bit intimidating." After Arthur finished speaking, he said with hindsight: "Huh? How do you know he has a lot of eyes? Your eyes are not... "
Merlin smiled wryly, stretched out his trembling hand, and touched his eye socket lightly: "You didn't ask me what happened five years ago, why my eyes suddenly went blind."
Listening to Merlin's words, Arthur seemed to have guessed something. Five years ago, Merlin disappeared for more than half a month, and when he came back, he lost his eyes. No matter who asked him, Merlin didn't answer why, which was Arthur's question all along.
"Could it be that?"
Merlin: "Yes, my eye was gouged out by the old man... I clearly remember that he first gouged out my left eye, then placed it between his brows, and then gouged out my right eye. He knew where Ann was, but he told me it was on his chest."
Seeing that Merlin was going to continue, Arthur interrupted him.
"Stop talking, it's over, everything is over." Arthur wanted to slap himself, why did he ask this question? How could he be so blind.
Merlin: "It doesn't matter, as you said, it's all over."
Arthur clenched his fists and said angrily, "If I didn't go to the suburbs with my father on that day five years ago, but with you, this kind of thing probably wouldn't have happened."
Merlin: "It's life, it can't be changed."
Arthur still wanted to argue, but suddenly, a charming female voice broke into the conversation between the two: "Yes, this kid is right, this is life, and it can't be changed."
Arthur turned back suddenly, but saw a woman in a thick leather trench coat appearing behind them.
The woman's figure is extremely graceful, and her appearance is also inexhaustible. But the only strange thing is that he was wearing a thick leather trench coat on such a hot day.
Beside the woman, there is also a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a brown and black checkered hat, with thick dark circles under his eyes, and lips that are pink to pale.
"Who are you?" Arthur asked cautiously.
The woman fluttered her long brown hair, and said in a charming manner: "I'm just a passerby who accompanies the master for a walk, don't worry about me."
After saying that, the woman threw a wink at the boy beside her.
However, the young man's forehead was throbbing, "Return to your true face."
"No, don't you like it the most?" The woman was a little unwilling.
"I didn't, you talk nonsense, I don't like it!" The boy scolded angrily.
The woman chuckled lightly, stretched out her hand and waved it lightly, and a long pipe appeared out of thin air. She made a smoking motion, and then winked again: "This pipe is of the same style as hers."
The boy scolded angrily: "If you have this attitude again, I will burn you!"
Seeing that her master was really annoyed, the woman turned into an elegant man wearing a thick leather trench coat.
When the boy was talking with his servant, Arthur's mood was indescribable at this time, summoning a pipe out of thin air, turning a woman into a man... These kinds of things seem to be revealing the identities of the two in front of him.
"Are you, wizards?" Arthur asked suspiciously.
The elegant 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 while.
"You..." Arthur paused: "You said before that Merlin's eyes were gouged out by fate? Why?"
The elegant man smiled slightly: "It's very simple, because he is born with talent, his eyes are the source of his vision, and he is destined to be stared at by other extraordinary people. After all, transplanting human eyes is less repelling than other species. a lot of."