PS: (Written before the story: This wedge is used to connect with the plot of the first two books, and is suitable for old readers who have chased all the way down.)New readers may be a little confused, but that's okay, and it's okay to skip the wedge and read the first chapter directly...
The story of the wedge does not affect the rhythm of the whole text.Oh, by the way, I buried a lot of clues in the plot of the first volume, you can try to find it...
If I can find them all, then when I put them on the shelves, I will add 5 more chapters ~ that is, 105 chapters!
Alright, let's start the story!
）The world under the sun is always too straightforward, with a lot less twists and turns, no sensuality, no darkness, and no trace of mystery.Therefore, the starting point of most good stories takes place in a more inclusive night.Under the darkness, the hands writing the story fell for the first time, and the tip of the pen rustled in the dark, outlining the prototype of the story little by little.It's like, the first light that illuminates the night..."
Boom" Under the calm night, accompanied by a sharp hiss, the terrifying sound wave exploded, and all the glass in the room shattered at this moment, as if it had been hit hard by an invisible fist.Amid the screams of men and women, a terrifying chaos descended.The explosion was followed by flames.The scorching flames tumbled wildly in the shaking of the ground, like unleashed hell goblins.It howled and flooded the country house, drawing the unwary into the fire, and the poor wailed in the flames, praying to all the gods they could find, but to no avail.Despair is spreading in the midst of fire."
Wilton, get up, get up."
In the light of the scorching fire, a woman with a baby in her arms and a face in her pajamas was kneeling on the ground, trying to get her fallen husband back up.But the collapsed masonry weighed down on the man, and the flames expanded rapidly behind him, his face covered with sweat, his eyes filled with fear, and he struggled frantically to escape from this mortal doom.He couldn't.He's just an ordinary man, just a mortal."
Let's go!
May, go!
”The man propped himself up on the ground with his hands, and the heavy masonry pressed down on him, getting heavier and heavier, as if hell was falling.In the increasingly scorching room, with the beating of the firelight, he already had a premonition of his fate.In the face of disaster, it is difficult for him to save himself, but he does not want to affect his relatives.The man felt the rapidly spreading fire behind him, his sweaty face became distorted, a hint of determination flashed in his eyes, and he shouted to his crying and helpless wife in front of him: "Get out of here with the child!"
Quick, I'm hopeless...""
I—" The woman looked at her husband in despair, she wanted to help him, but the baby in her arms was crying.This newborn life also seemed to feel the danger, and the child instinctively called for help.The baby's cry woke the woman, who looked at her husband one last time, then gritted her teeth, wiped the tears from her face, and staggered away.She wrapped her arms around the baby in her arms and rushed into the aisle with her head down.Behind her back, her lover, the father of the child, Wilton.
Riley, who watched his wife and son leave the desperate situation, was engulfed in flames in the last moments of his life, the man who had fulfilled his duties as husband and father.There was another bang, the wooden house was almost defenseless under the raging flames, and at the moment when the woman was about to burst out of the flames, the second floor of the room almost completely collapsed, crushing the running woman in the burning sparks.But even at the moment of falling, maternal instinct still drove the woman to hold the baby in her arms tightly.Even if the flames had set her clothes on fire, even if the blood had oozed from the wounds."
No!"
The woman shook the sparks on her body, she screamed, her face full of panic, but everywhere she looked, everything had turned into a sea of fire.There is no hope.She and her children had no way to escape."
Who's going to save us!
Please, save us. ”She cried helplessly, she couldn't imagine why such a nightmare could happen to them, but the haughty fate never bothered to explain anything to mortals.But pray...
Perhaps in times of despair, prayer is still useful.In the midst of the fire, Mrs.
Riley's helpless prayer was finally answered at the moment when her consciousness was blurred.A response from a higher will.Mrs.
Riley felt hallucinated, and before her eyes, the burning flames were parting little by little, as if the curtain had been opened.An illusory shadow, stepping on the flames, walked in front of her step by step.The man was dressed in a crisp black suit with a white shirt with a collar underneath, and he wore a blue and black-trimmed gentleman's hat, and behind him, a wide blue cloak fluttering.The flames danced around him, but they couldn't hurt him, not even get closer.An invisible force suppressed the flames, causing them to retreat, forming a blank arc around the two of them, like a shelter in the midst of disaster.The mysterious visitor stood in front of the wounded woman, who looked at him condescendingly, and the woman looked at the mysterious man, and under the broad brim of her hat she could see a face obscured by darkness, and sideburns on either side of her cheeks like white hair."
You...
Are you here to save us?
”The joy of being in a desperate place makes women cry out loud.But the mysterious man shook his head at her hopeful inquiry, and said in a magnetic voice, "I can't save you, Mrs.
Riley." ”The mysterious man paused, he crouched down, stretched out his black-gloved hand, wiped the ashes from the face of the weak and painful woman in front of him, and explained softly to the baby's cry: "You and your husband died in an accidental fire, this is fate, I can't change it."
But—" The mysterious man's gaze fell on the weeping baby in Mrs.
Riley's arms, and a twinkle flashed in his eyes, and he said, "Your child, Merlin.
Riley, who is destined to play an important role in the future, will not end his life tonight. ”The mysterious man's words made Mrs.
Riley's eyes flash with surprise.At this moment, she didn't care about her fate, she stretched out her hands with difficulty, with the hands that were badly burned by the flames, endured the torture of the flames, her cheeks were twitching, but she still handed the child in her arms to the mysterious person in front of her, she prayed: "It's okay...
It doesn't matter, that's enough.Please, take my child away, just take him away...
Save him. ”The mysterious man looked at the hands covered with burn marks, and he could imagine what kind of pain the woman was under, but he didn't express much emotion.He took the swaddling clothes with the blood on them.Strange to say, the baby who had been crying, the moment he was held in the arms of the mysterious man, his crying stopped, and he seemed to feel that the danger had passed."
Don't worry, Mrs.
Riley."
Holding the baby in one hand, the mystery man looked down at Mrs.
Riley at his feet, he stretched out his fingers, and a blue halo swayed on Mrs.
Riley, isolating all the senses of pain.He couldn't save her, but he could at least bring her back to death in peace.The mysterious man shook his arm slightly to make the baby in his arms more comfortable, and he whispered, "I am here for him, and I can guarantee that he will live to be at least 18 years old...""
Me and Wilton's kid, he, will he be a great man?"
Mrs.
Riley felt no more pain, she was tired, she desperately wanted to sleep, and a moment before the sleepiness hit, she struggled to ask the last question.But then, as if asking herself, she said to herself with a tired face: "Yes, he will definitely be a great man."
Otherwise, how could an angel come out of his way to save him...
Merlin, my son, how Mom and Dad want to be by your side...""
But, it's time to say goodbye."
The mysterious man stood in the flames, watching the mother in front of her close her eyes and fall into her final sleep.He didn't puncture the poor woman's last dreams.In fact, the moment the child was born, the Rileys' mission was accomplished.The mysterious man looked down at the baby in his arms, who had also fallen asleep."
I'm not an angel."
The mysterious man looked left and right, waved his fingers, completely extinguished the flames around him, and then crouched down and put the child in his arms back into Mrs.
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Riley's arms.He stretched out his finger and touched the child's head as if he were saying goodbye.He looked up at the starry sky above him, and between the twinkling stars, there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes looking here, looking at the baby in his arms.And his face shrouded in darkness also showed a strange smile."
As for you, Merlin, you...
Will you be a great person?
”"So many big people watched you be born, so many big people bet on you, what a magnificent life.But, what will you choose?
I'm curious..."
Of course, the sleeping child could not answer him, but the mysterious man did not need to answer either, he stood up, took a step back, and in the ruins of Riley Manor, which had been destroyed by fire, he quietly dissipated into the darkness like ink melted into water.In the process of returning to darkness, in the flutter of his blue cloak, he whispered, "Let's wait and see." ”In the moment before it completely dissipated, he looked at the watch on his wrist, and he coughed lightly: "It is now midnight on August 17, 1971, and as an observer on both sides, I announce...""
The game...""
It's about to start!"
Days later —————————————————, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, the former home of the Riley family.A little girl in a floral dress carefully hugged her cousin, and the little girl winked at the baby in her arms, making the baby stretch out her hands and smile.On the sofa beside the little girl, a middle-aged woman with a black veil sat there, looking at the furniture and the house around her with sadness and nostalgia.She is a distant branch of the Riley family and the one who died in the fire a few days ago.
Riley's cousin, who married in New York a few years ago, is the last of the depopulated Riley family to be able to find.And after hearing about her cousin's tragedy, she took her daughter to her hometown from New York as soon as possible."
Mommy, Mommy."
The little girl holding Little Merlin turned her head to look at her mother, and while stroking her cousin's head, she begged in a low voice, "Can't we really take Little Merlin home?"
I've always wanted a brother, please. ”"Be nice."
Ms.
Riley reached out and stroked her daughter's hair, and she said to the little girl, "May, I know you like Merlin very much, but we can't take him away."
The situation in our family does not allow for another child, I have to go to work, you have to go to school, and no one can take care of him.If you really like Merlin, I can allow you to come back once a year and see him. ”"What about Merlin?"
The little girl Mei pursed her mouth and looked at her mother: "Are we going to send him to an orphanage?"
”"No, it won't."
Ms.
Riley shook her head with a smile, she looked at the time, and said to her daughter, "I have found a new home for Little Merlin, I have contacted James, an old friend who grew up with me and Wilton, a true gentleman, he is the best friend of Verton and May, and I am sure that he will be willing to help take care of Little Merlin." ”After saying that, Ms.
Riley looked up, and saw a red Chevrolet sports car slowly driving into the gate of Riley Manor, she stood up, straightened her clothes and the black veil on her arms, and said to her daughter, "Look, here they are." ”"May, you have to be polite, call him Uncle Coulson, understand?"
The little girl saw a kind-looking couple get out of the car and walk towards the house, she couldn't help but hug the baby in her arms tightly, she didn't want to give her only cousin to someone else's family to raise.But what Mom said also made sense, Little Merlin really couldn't go back to New York with them.The little girl Mei looked down at her cousin in her arms, although she was reluctant, she knew that maybe it was the best choice to put Merlin in Mr.
Coulson's house.She lowered her head and kissed her brother's forehead, and she said, "Merlin, I will definitely come back to see you often." ”"You little scoundrel, you can't forget me!"
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