Dharma Ring: Selling dung beetles at the border

Mikaela stared blankly at the arrogant figure in front of the flame cauldron. The sky-high flames were reflected in Mikaela's eyes, and the warm heat wave seemed to melt him.

It has indeed melted, and Michaela's lower body is limp at a very fast speed, returning to its original silvery appearance.

It's burning, it's burning! Ashmi shouted, completely out of Mikaela's control, shouting, Boss, I'm going to be burned to death!

As the huge flame pillar climbed, stormy winds surged, heat waves exploded, and a huge tornado storm formed from around the fire pillar, sweeping towards the people around it.

Lani reacted the fastest. She opened her four hands, and the four staffs lit up. Using the four staffs as points of pyroxene, she weaved an ice wall that extended from in front of her, blocking her husband and Melina Mikael. pull. But if he continued to extend outwards and tried to block the unknown customers and colleagues further away, it was too late.

A bald man patted his head, sighed, and held up a disk with the magic circle engraved on it. The golden light spread out, blocking the flames.

After a while, the storm disappeared, the surrounding air returned to calm, and the ice wall and light shield were removed.

Lani breathed a sigh of relief and looked towards the light shield:

Not bad, Tops, long time no see, your skills have become stronger.

What's Topps? I'm Patch. The bald man raised his head and rolled his eyes at Lani, But the last sentence is true. Topps's results are indeed getting better and better. That guy and the perfumer are working together. The Star Caller cooperated and developed a real closed protective shield, which completely eliminates blind spots.

Patch looked at the crazy Wuming and laughed angrily: This guy is indeed that crazy, but now he is normal. I really don't know whether to call it a good thing or a bad thing.

Fortunately, the first wave of people who came to visit included many old employees like Paqiselian, and the customers also trusted Wuming. When they saw the pillar of fire suddenly rising into the sky, they were not frightened and parted ways with Wuming on the spot.

Patch walked up behind Wuming and gave him a tap on the back of his head. There was a crisp sound:

Be normal.

Wuming covered the back of his head: I can't help it, I can't help it. I'm doing this to leave an unforgettable good impression on our partners.

“I don’t know if it’s a good impression or not, but it’s really unforgettable,” Patch said.

You can't blame me entirely. Wuming glanced at Melina, The main reason is that this unlucky child is so unlucky. Where is this place? This is the border area. I feel that the vitality is at least five times that of my hometown, but you see The fire she lit is not much stronger than the fire that burned me to ashes.

Wuming rolled his eyes at Melina in disgust:

I was looking forward to it for nothing.

Although Melina still didn't quite understand the situation, her mission was hindered again, and Wuming's heartfelt contemptuous look still made Melina immediately get excited and jump up from the ground:

I am fire, not firewood!

Melina wanted to grab a handful of ash and throw it at Wuming, but she grabbed it too hard and the ash was thrown out and fell on her head. Her pink-brown hair was dyed gray, which made her cough several times.

Melina couldn't bear it anymore, screamed, messed up her hair, and ran away along the floating corridor.

Wuming shook his head and said to Michaela:

I just said a few words to her and she found me annoying. I just hope she can study hard and order a big one in the future.

Michaela looked at Wuming and suddenly laughed. She sat on the ground, covered in ashes, and started laughing without any image.

Michaela wiped the tears from her eyes:

Thank you for saving her.

You're welcome. Wuming waved his hand grandly, It's a waste of money to say thank you. What I want is a more sincere 'thank you'.

What do you think of Blood Dynasty? Michaela smiled, Referring to the economic situation there.

The Blood Dynasty is very rich, but hasn't it been eaten up by fecal eaters? Wuming said, I remember when I went there, even the excrement had dried up.

Michaela said: My sacred tree is richer than the Blood Dynasty. Do you want to do business with me? If you encounter any difficulties, just tell me directly.

Really? Wuming's eyes lit up.

Of course, I don't think there is a richer place than mine in the border area. You can do business as you like. Michaela said, When you are tired from doing business, just go to bed, no problem. I will personally help you relieve your fatigue, guarantee Refined sleep, deep rest.”

How is it? Wuming asked Patch.

The Holy Tree is indeed very rich. Patch said, You can also see this from their equipment.

Wuming remembered that in order to deceive people, they even modified some of the armors of the Rotten Knights. Really well made and expensive.

Then let's go. Wuming immediately agreed, Let's go, I'll go prepare the convoy.

Wait a minute. Lani finally spoke up and raised her hands, Doesn't anyone care about us?

Michaela held Wuming’s hand:

Brother Wuming obviously cares about Rune. Blue-skinned women and other things will only hinder the speed of making money, right?

After speaking, Michaela made a face at Lani, retaliating for Lani's previous behavior of extinguishing the flames.

Huh, you're a little brat who's not married yet. Lani raised her head proudly, I don't have the same experience as you.

I would have gotten married long ago without you disrupting it, Michaela said. What do you call someone who prevents other people from getting married?

Maybe call her Malika, Lani said.

The heads of the two gods, both of whom were not very tall, were pressed together, and their blond hair and blue hair were almost entangled.

What are they doing? Wuming was dumbfounded and asked Tuifu.

I don't know. Tuifu said.

Wuming winked at Tuifu, and the two of them pulled each other aside. Wuming pulled Mikaela, and Tuifu pulled Lani, separating the two:

let's go.

Lani gouged out Michaela and looked at Wuming:

Don't you want to hear what we saw in the night sky?

Why don't I ask about your honeymoon? Wuming hesitated, After all, you were so desperate to have your privacy heard last time - why are you willing to take the initiative to talk about it now?

What a honeymoon, I'm going to where my law is. Lani said, The night sky, the dark moon, do you understand?

The night sky, the dark moon... Wuming nodded, What does that have to do with me? I'm leaving.

Don't you care about the sun? Lani said, I don't know if you have ever observed the sun, but the brightness of the sun has dropped by more than half.

Wuming paused, put Mikaela down, and looked at Lani with a serious look:

Do you know the reason?

Do you know the reason? Se Lian also came over, eyes shining with stars, What happened?

Lani looked at the giant fire pillar next to her:

Let's talk about it when we get back. There's a lot to say.

What Lani revealed was very important, and Michaela also calmed down, and followed the others, teleporting directly from the snowy mountains to the Kaliya Walled City, and together with the Queen of the Full Moon, prepared to listen carefully to Lani's story about her husband.

Everyone gathered at the royal moon viewing area and sat in a circle on chairs.

Lani sat on the chair in front of the observatory, thought for a while, and said:

It's very dangerous in the night sky.

What kind of dangerous method? Wuming asked.

Lani started from the beginning:

Borrowing our Kallia's magic, I can rely on teleportation to go to the night sky, ignoring the span of time and space, and go directly to far away places. At the beginning, Taifu and I did exactly that. We saw many things in the night sky. Wonderful scenery, learned a lot. Until——

Lani put her hand on her forehead, as if she still couldn't believe what she saw:

We saw two fingers.

There are also two fingers in the night sky. Wuming said that he had learned it.

It's not just two fingers. Tuifu raised his hands in a bluffing manner, It's two very big fingers!

How old? Wuming was curious.

I don't know, Lani said. In the night sky, there is no reference object and it is very dark. It is difficult for us to judge by visual inspection.

Lani raised her head and glanced at the golden tree trunk: It may be as big as a golden tree.

Everyone was stunned: Is it that big?

Only the visible part. Tuifu made a yeah gesture, We only saw the fingers, not the palm part yet.

Two fingers can't be so big. Patch frowned.

We wanted to get closer, but we were discovered, Lani said. Countless rubble rushed towards us, so we quickly opened the portal and left.

What does this have to do with the sun? Wuming asked.

Lani said: We escaped back to the sky above the junction, and then discovered...there are countless Esti in the starry sky.

Latan nodded, ready to wait for what Lani would say next.

There are countless Two Fingers. Lani said, Not that big, normal size, but a lot. We fought with those Two Fingers and Esti, and with the help of the surrounding gravel, we were able to defeat each other at first. Negative, we also broke a lot of Esti and Two Fingers into pieces. But we soon found that we couldn’t hold on - the gap was too big and we couldn’t afford to consume it, so we were ready to return to the junction.”

Lani took a deep breath: When I came back, another portal opened, and those huge two fingers also came over, blocking the sky and the sun, blocking the stars.

So the sun has become smaller? Wuming asked.

Lani shook her head: When those fingers passed by the sun, you could clearly see the fire being sucked out of the sun. When it passed by the sun, the sun shrank by half. The sun is also a star, and I witnessed the stars in the night sky. The greatness of the world, but this is the first time that I have encountered something that can absorb the power of the stars.

After Lani finished speaking, everyone fell into silence. What Lani said was not only the first time she had seen it, but it was also beyond other people's knowledge. People are thinking about what this means.

Wuming said: So there is a pair of fingers that can swallow the sun, and it is above the junction?

Seeing Him sucking up the sun, we fell into the clouds at the junction. Lani said, At least when we looked at it, the other party was heading towards the junction, but he might have already left.

Wuming asked Selian:

How is the reconstruction of the Snow Mountain Observatory going?

Only some small observatories have been built, so you can't see them. Se Lian shook his head, It's too bright. Did you forget to add a light bulb to the sky just now?

Ah... Wuming looked at the fire pillar next to the golden tree trunk.

After watching for a while, Wuming seriously reflected:

It seems that Melina was wrongly blamed...

Wuming asked Selian: When the large observatory is built, will we be able to observe it?

It should be no problem. If you allocate more money to me, I will personally supervise the work and build the best observatory. Se Lian whispered to Wuming.

But except for Se Lian and Wuming, everyone else paid no attention to the huge two fingers. Wuming and Selian are also mainly caused by curiosity.

Everyone's mentality is very stable - it doesn't matter whether that kind of thing is over the border, whether it will land and attack them - it can't be defeated anyway, so everyone thinks there is no need to worry.

Although Lani's experience and journey in the night sky expanded everyone's knowledge, if you think about it carefully, it won't have any impact on the current situation.

Whether it's the stars above the junction or the two fingers obeying the supreme will, this is information that has been known for a long time.

Even if you know there is a nasty guy above your head that eats the sun, you can't go up and slap him.

After experiencing all the previous things, Wuming's mentality has become much calmer, and he no longer pays too much attention to things that he cannot change.

Compared to the two empty fingers in the sky, Wuming still cares more about the holy tree, thinking about the place that is said to be richer than the Blood Dynasty.

Wuming turned his face sideways and asked Mikaela who was sitting next to him: When will we go to the Holy Tree?

You can do it at any time, but the road to my hometown is not easy to walk, and the wind and snow are very heavy. Michaela said.

It's not a big problem. I'll build the road directly from the lift exit to your door. Wuming said.

Thank you very much. Michaela said, The passenger capacity can be larger. I estimate that a large number of people will pass by in the future. The golden tree has become like this. As long as traffic permits, more people will flock to the holy tree. .”

Lani glared at the nameless Michaela. She had never experienced the major events that happened at the junction before. She didn't know that the junction now needed to recuperate, so she acted very bravely:

Is there any way to kill those huge two fingers?

Where is your finger knife? Wuming asked.

I'm afraid it can't even cut the skin. Lani replied, thinking deeply, The finger knife is the legacy of the lost Eternal Race. Perhaps this technology can be reproduced by digging up their legacy.

Michaela said: I heard that the Knox people suffered a disaster because they studied finger knives and offended the Supreme Will.

I can just find a place where no one is and study it. Lani said, I can't kill you.

That's a good relationship. Wuming said, That's it, you go and study it. As long as you take care of my business, I can also provide you with supplies.

Michaela agrees:

It just so happens that Kalia has nothing to lose this time. You have enough energy to study.

When Lani heard what Michaela said, she was a little curious about what happened on the ground: So what happened after I left, why did Michaela appear again, and why did the golden tree become like this?

This is a long story. Wuming said, Ask your mother - let's go.

Wuming left with the employees, and after hearing the story, he understood the reason behind the disappearance of the sun, and settled his worries. There was nothing more he wanted to hear.

On the way, Patch seemed a little silent.

Patch's face has been a bit gloomy ever since Lani's sermon about the huge two fingers swallowing the sun.

What's wrong? Wuming lowered his head and noticed that Patch's face was not very good, What do you know?

Patch curled his lips and hesitated, as if he didn't know what to say. After a while, he sighed and said:

The Supreme Will may be coming.

I forgot to mention something in the summary. Regarding the cause of Chapolili's death, many reasons were specially written. It may be because Michaela's pure golden needle restrained it, it may be that the unknown hand tore through the hotbed of chaos, it may be because of the concept of neutral attributes of the first fire to restrain chaos, it may be because The identity of the eternal champion. So I write like this, firstly, because tearing it up by hand is really too ridiculous, so I write down various possibilities, and believe whichever one you like to believe. On the other hand, the plot of the Ring of Magic is also written in this way. For example, the first generation of demigods is extremely powerful. We understand that it is because of their bloodline, but just like in reality, the nobles are excellent because they have better resources and various teachers. What about the rings? Perhaps they are all there. Many of the plots in Ring of Magic are difficult-to-understand concepts and easy-to-understand specific events that occur in parallel, such as the relationship between big runes and identity. The most obvious ones should be various plots related to fate. This is also an echo of the writing method of Dharma Ring.

There is another one. The previous article told a short story about a man who went crazy when he couldn't see the sun. That was actually Asimov's Sunset. Some of the elements involved in it can be extended to various propositions of the Ring of Magic.

In addition, Mikaela cooperates with Diianhuo to save Melina, which actually draws on the player's gameplay of choosing Diianhuo to save Melina. Similar options include the Dark Souls Fire Fighting ending. The reason why I always choose to spread the fire is because in this choice, there is always a question that I still have no answer to - if you want to walk into destruction, why do you have to drag others with you. At present, I guess it is due to the influence of religion. Maybe I can only wait for the destruction of the world instead of letting myself go? But the game didn’t show it