041, Annual Rings
The sun is high in the sky, like a rotating wheel. Google search reading
The scorching sun shines on the earth, and layer after layer of heat waves burns the countries and people of this continent of Africa.
Ethiopia, Alpha State.
In an ancient town that has existed for hundreds of years.
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The streets paved with bluestone bricks are full of buildings in the cultural style of this place, the half-slope town formed by the steep terrain, various tropical flowers, plants and trees, etc., all of which constitute this town called "Guman".
The population of Guman Town is not large, and most of them are already elderly. Because Ethiopia is located in a relatively steep area in Africa, many towns in Ethiopia are built on uneven terrain. With the development of the times, most young people have moved to cities with relatively flat terrain and convenient public facilities. Only some elderly people are still in their hometown towns.
Guman Town is just like this. Many young people have gone to cities with flat terrain and convenient life. Most of those who stay in this town are already over 50 or 60 years old.
A white-skinned, blond-haired Western youth slowly walked in from outside Guman Town. His face was expressionless, his eyes were indifferent, and he walked slowly in the town step by step, attracting the attention of almost everyone in the town.
"Young man, are you looking for someone here?"
An old man with brown skin and gray hair walked out of a small house in a courtyard with a watering bucket, stood in front of the fence door, and asked the blond young man in a friendly manner.
The blond young man paused slightly, looked at the old man sideways, and did not speak, but a circle of transparent ripples suddenly spread out around him with him as the center.
The old man holding the watering bucket was swept by this circle of ripples, and the whole person suddenly aged at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The skin became looser and looser, the gray hair fell off one after another, and the teeth fell one by one. After a moment, the old man fell to the ground with a "bang", and there was no life anymore.
However, the blond young man had an indifferent face, and the transparent ripples around him continued to spread and radiate to the whole town.
When the old man holding the flower bucket nearby asked, other town residents who noticed the situation here were startled when they saw the old man holding the flower bucket aging rapidly and falling to the ground and dying. Then someone screamed in horror!
"Here it comes! The prophecy left by the ancestors has come true! The demon who can control time has appeared in the world! He wants to turn the world into purgatory! Hurry up and notify the high priest of Kabul!"
Soon after these words were heard, suddenly, the whole town rang with the sound of "ding ding dong dong", one after another, spreading throughout the town.
The town became chaotic in an instant. The remaining people hurried home, closed their doors, and headed for the underground passage that was dug when the town was first established, preparing to go to the ancient castle where the high priest lived.
The blond young man on the street did not pay attention to the chaotic crowd, but stood there indifferently. The transparent ripples that spread around him became faster and more frequent.
The people around him, who were still outside, still in the house, or in the underground passage, aged rapidly as these transparent ripples continued to spread.
They were all elderly people over 50 or 60 years old. As they aged, their mobility was greatly hindered. Many of them stopped while running and hiding, coughing constantly, and coughing more and more violently, and finally coughing up blood!
In this process, the age spots on these people's bodies continued to grow from nothing to more and more, and covered their bodies.
In such aging changes, people in the town fell one by one, either on the street, at home, or in the underground passage.
The town, which was already not very populous, welcomed a large number of deaths.
"Stop!"
An angry shout suddenly came from a distance.
The blond young man looked up indifferently towards the place where the voice came from.
I saw an old man with brown skin, whose hair and beard were so white that they were withered and a little black, and whose body was like a withered tree bark, wearing a very distinctive priest robe, flying towards this side quickly. It should be the high priest mentioned by those people just now.
And the one that carried the high priest was a golden disc!
I saw that this golden disc was divided into two parts. One part was the solid disc in the middle, which was engraved with dense but orderly black runes. At a glance, it made people feel inexplicably palpitating.
And the second part was the outermost ring of the disc!
The space between this ring and the middle disc was hollow, but the hollow part was filled with a burst of electric current, connecting the ring and the middle disc together.
Driven by the electric current, the outermost ring spun wildly, making a "buzzing" sound.
The golden disc held the high priest in the air. The high priest seemed to be suspended in the air, separated from the golden disc by a distance, supported by an inexplicable force.
As the high priest flew over with the golden disc, he said in a deep voice: "If you want the 'Wheel of Year', you can tell me directly, don't hurt the people in our town!"
However, facing his words, the blond youth with an indifferent expression remained indifferent, but the circles of transparent ripples spreading on his body suddenly condensed and turned into a huge torrent, instantly impacting the high priest who was flying over!
Boomββ
Unexpectedly, the high priest, who was already on the verge of death, was hit by the huge torrent. His skin and flesh rotted instantly and turned into a skeleton, and he died just like that!
The golden disc under his feet lost its support and fell directly to the ground with a bang.
The current between the ring and the middle disc was lost, and the entire golden disc instantly dimmed and became like scrap iron coated with a layer of gold paint.
Looking at the "Wheel of Year" that fell on the ground, the blond youth's indifferent face finally changed.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at the "Wheel of Year" on the ground for a long time, then shifted his gaze, stopped looking at it, turned around and sat down on the spot.
Just like that, he sat down and looked at the horizon, watching the day turn into dusk, dusk turn into night, the night dotted with stars, gradually dawn, hazy morning light, the rising sun, a new day came.
He sat there motionless until noon, when suddenlyββ
His eyes suddenly blurred, and he had arrived at the entrance of the town without knowing when, walking on the road paved with bluestone bricks, and the old people in the town along the way looked at him in surprise.
An old man holding a flower bucket walked out of his own courtyard and asked him in a friendly manner:
"Young man, are you looking for someone here?"
The blond young man was Saye!
He had been trapped in this town by the "Wheel of Year", and it had been repeated three or four hundred times in this day!