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041. Annual rings

The sun hangs high like a rotating round wheel.

The scorching sun shines on the earth, and layer by layer of heat waves burn various countries and people on this land of Africa.

Ethiopia, Alfa State.

In an ancient town that has existed for hundreds of years.

The streets paved with bluestone bricks are filled with cultural buildings here, a half-slope town formed by steep terrain, various tropical flowers, plants and trees, etc. All of this has created this town called "Guman".

The small town of Guman is not very large, and most of them are already old people, because Ethiopia is located in a relatively steeper area in Africa. Many towns in Ethiopia are built on terrain of varying heights. With the development of the times, most young people have moved to cities with relatively flat terrain and convenient public facilities, and only some elderly people still stay in small towns in their hometowns.

This is exactly the case in Guman Town. Many young people have gone to cities with flat terrain and convenient living. When they stay in this town, most of them are already over fifty or sixty years old.

A fair-skinned and blonde Western young man slowly walked in from outside the town of Guman. His face was expressionless and his eyes were indifferent. He walked slowly along the town step by step, attracting the attention of almost everyone in the town.

"Young man, who are you looking for when you come here?"

A brown-skinned, gray-haired old man walked out of a villa with a watering bucket, stood in front of the fence door, and asked the blonde young man kindly.

The blonde young man paused slightly, looked at the old man with his head tilted, but he didn't say anything, but a circle of transparent ripples suddenly spread around him as the center.

The old man holding the watering bucket was swept by this circle of ripples, and his whole body suddenly aged at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Her skin became looser and looser, her gray hair fell off one after another, and her teeth fell off one after another. In just a moment, the old man fell to the ground with a "bang" and fell to the ground, and no longer became angry.

However, the blond young man was indifferent on his indifferent face, and transparent ripples around him continued to spread, radiating towards the entire town.

When the old man who was holding a watering bucket nearby asked, he noticed the situation here. When he saw the old man holding a watering bucket quickly aging and lying to the ground and dying, he was stunned at first, and then someone screamed in horror!

"Here you come! The prophecy left by the ancestors has come true! The demon who can control time appears on earth! To turn the earth into purgatory! Hurry up and notify the Kabul High Priest!"

Shortly after these words rang, suddenly, the "ding ding dong dong" bells rang out in the entire town, one after another, spreading throughout the town.

The town became riots in an instant, and the remaining towns people hurried home, closed their doors, and went to the underground passage dug out when the town was first established, preparing to go from here to the ancient castle where the high priest lived.

The blonde young men on the street ignored these riots, but stood there indifferently, and the transparent ripples spreading around them became faster and faster and more frequent.

People near him, whether outside, inside the house, or inside the underground passage, aging rapidly as these transparent ripples continued to spread.

They were originally all over the age of fifty or sixty. As their aging worsened, their mobility was greatly hindered. Many of them stopped on the way to escape, coughed constantly, and became more and more intense, and eventually they coughed out blood!

During this process, the age spots on these people's bodies continued to appear from scratch, becoming more and more, crawling all over their bodies.

In such aging changes, people in the town fell down one by one, either on the street, at home, or in underground passages.

A small town, which originally had a small population, ushered in a large number of deaths.

"stop!"

An angry shout suddenly came from a distance.

The blonde young man looked up indifferently and looked at the place where the sound came.

I saw an old man with brown-skinned hair that was so white that he had withered a little black, and his body was like withered bark. He was wearing a distinctive priest robe and quickly flew towards him. It should be the high priest mentioned by those people just now.

And what flew over with the high priest was a golden disc!

I saw that this golden disc was divided into two parts, one part was a solid disc in the middle, with dense but ordered black runes engraved on it. At first glance, it made people feel inexplicably palpitations.

The second part is the ring on the outermost side of the plate!

There is hollow between this ring and the middle disc, but the hollow part is filled with an electric current, connecting the ring and the middle disc together.

Driven by that layer of current, the outermost ring rotates wildly, making a "buzzing" sound.

The golden disk was holding the high priest in the air. The high priest seemed to be guessing it was in the air, separated from the golden disk by a distance, and was supported by an inexplicable force and suspended in the air.

While the high priest flew over with a 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 young man with an indifferent expression was still indifferent, but the transparent ripples spreading on his body suddenly condensed and turned into a huge torrent, instantly rushing towards the flying high priest!

boom--

Caught off guard, the high priest who was already about to end his life was hit by a huge torrent. His flesh and blood instantly corroded into a white bone, and he passed away like that!

The golden disc trampled under his feet lost its support and fell directly to the ground with a bang.

The current was lost between the ring and the middle disc, and the entire golden disc instantly dim and became like a layer of scrap iron coated with gold paint.

Looking at the "Wheel of the Year" falling to the ground, the blonde young man's indifferent face finally changed.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at the "Wheel of the Year" on the ground for a long time, then changed his eyes, stopped looking at it, turned around and sat down on the spot.

Just like that, sit down and look at the horizon, watch the day turns into dusk, dusk turns into night, the night is full of stars, gradually dawn, the hazy morning light, the rising sun, and a new day comes.

He sat quietly until noon, suddenly—

A sudden burst of eyes appeared before his eyes. People had arrived at the entrance of the town at some point, walking on the road paved with bluestone bricks. The elderly people in the town along the way looked at him in surprise.

An old man holding a watering bucket walked from his yard to the fence door and asked him kindly:

"Young man, who are you looking for when you come here?"

The blonde young man is Saye!
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