Three years.

Overcast skies, which lasted for three years.

At night, it was almost so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, and the day was a little better, but only the slightest sunlight could cast on the earth, and you looked up as if before a storm.

At the beginning of the three years, most people still felt that there was no problem, and they were more concerned about their own lives and how to make money to support themselves than the sky above them.

But slowly, things changed - because of the lack of light for a long time, the crops in the fields began to turn yellow and wither, the trees lost their green, the forests became woods, the woods became grasslands, and the grass became wilderness......

The temperature continues to drop, and everything looks like winter is coming early.

But this winter has been terrible, probably the most terrible and longest winter many people have ever experienced – food production is nearly dead, livestock is dying, prices are skyrocketing everywhere, and social unrest is unfolding.

A demon named "Famine" is born and wreaks havoc on the entire world.

Within a few months, everything in the world became unimportant, and everyone was thinking almost only about one question – where to go, how to find food, how to survive.

Under some guidance, some people left the gathering place and ran to the west, while others ran to the east, south, or north.

Many once prosperous big cities have been deserted, and even some small kingdoms and principalities have disappeared from the map without a trace.

By the time three years have passed, the world is no longer what it once was.

Sometimes the world changes slowly, but sometimes it's unimaginably fast – especially when you're being guided.

......

Three years later.

That is, the third year of the Black Age or the New Era, which is called in people's mouths, August 25.

Under a gloomy daytime sky, a father and son, Philip at the age of forty-two and little Jimmy at the age of eight, are heading west in the uninhabited wilderness.

After walking for a while, the father and son got tired and stopped at a rock to rest.

Philip carefully removed a half-deflated burlap bag from his shoulder, untied the rope, took out a somewhat dry mushroom from it and handed it to little Jimmy to eat, and ate the same one himself, then tied the bag vigorously and carried it back to his shoulder.

The father and son chewed the mushrooms, the bitter taste in their mouths, but there was no expression on their faces, they just looked at the end of the earth with their eyes, and their eyes became a little hollow.

After a few seconds, little Jimmy's eyes first returned to clarity, turned to look at Philip and asked, "Daddy, how far do we have to go to that place?"

How far to go...... Philip couldn't help but shake his head, and then honestly told his son that he didn't know either...... He had heard all the legends about the place he was going to and about the sarin...... In fact, he wasn't even sure if sarin existed or not.

Say that there is endless food, say that there are all kinds of miraculous creations that have never been seen before, and say that there is a beautiful life like heaven...... Is this possible?

It's a new era.

Isn't the new era an era of darkness and disaster?

In addition, he heard that Shalin was the culprit in all this, and since he was the culprit, how could it be so beautiful?

Philip felt a little confused in his thinking, and thought about it for a long time, until little Jimmy pulled his sleeve with his hand, and he came back to his senses. Glancing at the horizon again, he immediately showed a confident smile and said with certainty: "Three days, three more days at most, we can get to where we are going." Don't worry, Jimmy, the mushrooms in our bag will be able to eat until then. ”

After a pause, Philip added: "It's really not good, we can also go back to Guangming Town, save some, and there are enough mushrooms." ”

"That's good. Little Jimmy laughed, "Still, we'd better not go back to Bright Town, there...... It's not bright at all. ”

"Daddy is just like you. Philip laughed, "Okay, it's almost time to rest, it's time for us to go, walk through the little mound in front of us, how about we rest again?"

Philip said, pointing to a protrusion in the ground in the distance, on which a tree had grown, but now dead, and its branches were motionless, like a sculpture.

Little Jimmy looked at it and nodded: "Okay." ”

"Let's go, then. Philip took little Jimmy and set off on his journey, but had only taken a few steps before he stopped abruptly, his eyes widening a little.

I saw that on the mound in the distance, a figure suddenly stood up from behind the dead tree. It seemed that the figure had rested against a dead tree, but now that he had rested enough, he stood up and moved his body for a while, and then looked around and walked straight to this side.

Philip's body tensed instantly, and he protected little Jimmy behind him, staring at the visitor with his eyes, thinking about what to do.

He didn't dare, who knew what the identity of the other party was, what if it was a robber? This is too common in the wilderness of the New Era, in fact, there are quite a few in Guangming Town.

He couldn't run fast with little Jimmy at all, and he had been hungry for so long, his body was extremely weak, and he couldn't run far. In case the other party has malicious intentions, if he runs like this, he may anger the other party, and the result will be worse.

So what to do?

Philip's mind was racing, but he couldn't think of an idea that would work.

At this time, the other party had already come closer.

I can see that the other party is wearing a very strange dress, which looks like a robe at a cursory glance, but it is more tightly wrapped, and the wrists and ankles are tightly tied. The surface of the clothes has a metal-like luster, but it is not as heavy as metal, and it is much lighter.

In addition, the other party wore a mask similar to a bird's beak on his face, and behind him was a metal pipe more than half a meter long.

The other party walked a few meters away and took the initiative to stop, but it didn't look like there was any malice. He removes his mask, revealing a young man, brown hair, and amber eyes.

The other glanced at Philip and Little Jimmy, smiled and asked, "Both, from the west?"

"Yes, sir. Philip replied cautiously, and lowered his posture automatically, because he saw that the other party was ruddy, which was a sign of being able to eat well for a long time, unlike him and his son, who were yellow and thin-skinned—in the new era, eating well for a long time could already represent strength or high status in a sense.

"Are you from Wadi City, or from Grey Forest City?" the other asked again, looking curious. This irritated Philip a little, but it also put him at ease - as long as he didn't grab their mushrooms as soon as they met.

"My lord, we are from Guangming Town, not too far from Gray Forest City, as for the dry valley city you mentioned, I ...... Never heard of it. ”

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