Chapter 1: Children of Fire and Ice

In 2016, the first Saturday just after Children's Day arrived, and Dayu City was being grilled.

Merlin, dressed in a white T-shirt, looked exceptionally sunny, and he walked leisurely on the pedestrian street towards his way home.

For Merlin, a student who almost never does homework and is rated as a three-poor student by school, there is almost no difference between going to school and taking a vacation.

"Antiques, antiques, passing by, don't miss it, China has been up and down for 5,000 years, what antiques do you want, what antiques do you want......" The voice came out of the microphone, repeating constantly.

"Damn! This place still sells antiques, who are you fooling? Merlin muttered to herself, but walked over curiously.

"Classmate, I have been in China for 5,000 years, you can pick whatever you want, and I can recommend you any antiques of any dynasty you want. As soon as the boss saw Merlin's arrival, he quickly showed a signature smile.

Merlin looked at a lot, he knew that these were fraudulent fakes, and he didn't really plan to buy them, but a black bead caught his attention, he picked it up and looked at it carefully, and the thumb-sized black bead was carved with dense and complex patterns, and there were four zigzag ancient characters carved on it.

"'Son of Ice and Fire' is actually written in ancient seal characters. Merlin muttered to himself that he was interested in history and happened to know these words.

Speaking of Merlin's interest in history, it has to be said that it is genetic, his parents are both archaeologists, but he never met his parents, because both of them disappeared in the desert because of archaeology when he was a few years old.

So he was taken to his aunt's house by his aunt at a few years old and has lived until now, his aunt treats him like her own son, and his education is very strict, but his grades are always average in school, but his chemistry and physics are okay, and the others are generally terrible.

"The young man has good eyesight, this bronze bead is said to be Tang Xuanzong's talisman, it is said that once you wear it, the peach blossoms will be lucky, so there are so many beauties around Tang Xuanzong, this is not groundless. ”

Merlin almost threw up when he heard this, and said in his heart that your deceitful lines are too bloody, but he still asked, "How much?"

"Okay, since you have taken a fancy to this bead, I see that you are a student, so I will give you a twenty percent discount, the lowest price is one hundred yuan. ”

"Hehe, I said boss, your so-called bronze beads are made of copper sulfide, and then after being corroded by hydrochloric acid to make it look like an old thing, I studied chemical engineering, I have already tried this technology, if it weren't for the beautiful pattern, do you think I would buy it?"

"Amazing," said the peddler, "although this bead was picked up on the beach, I have always regarded it as an antique product, and this little brother is still a connoisseur, and he suddenly said a counterfeiting technique that even I did not know." ”

"Classmate, this is absolutely genuine, I vouch for it with my conscience and character, so eighty yuan can't be too little. ”

"Ten yuan, love to sell or not. ”

"No, no, you're insulting my personality. "The owner was very angry.

"Chengguan is coming, run, run!" Suddenly, passers-by shouted to the vendors.

"Okay! Ten yuan is ten yuan, classmate, I will sell you personal favors. ”

When Merlin saw that it was the chengguan, he immediately picked up the beads and handed the ten yuan to the boss, who quickly put away the stall and fled quickly on a tricycle after receiving the money.

After a while, Merlin came to a road on the roofs of six or seven-story residential buildings, and after a while he saw a young girl in a white dress standing beside the low guardrail of the road and waving to him with a happy face.

"Damn, my cousin actually arrived early. Merlin recognized the girl in the white dress at a glance, and he knew that his cousin was waiting for her to come home with her, and that his cousin would be waiting for her here every Saturday.

Suddenly, Merlin's expression suddenly became serious, and she saw a man in black running in her direction behind the girl, and there were five or six policemen behind the man in black who were chasing him fiercely.

"Not good, cousin, run. Merlin shouted and quickly charged at the girl in the white dress, knowing that the murderer was likely to use her to blackmail the police.

The girl in the white dress was stunned, "What's going on, cousin, why are you so excited?" The girl in the white dress said with a confused face, and suddenly subconsciously turned around.

As a result, she saw a tall man in black pulling out a black pistol from his chest and charging at her, and the girl's face suddenly turned pale.

The man in black raised his pistol and rushed towards her, and when he saw that there were still a few steps away, a boy in a white shirt pounced on the man in black, and the big man in black slipped his feet, and both of them fell off the road.

........................

"Hey, where is this, grandma's, I'm so cold," Merlin looked around him with a shudder, his eyes blank, and all he could see was a white snowfield.

"Grandma's what's going on, is this the Netherworld?"

Merlin said and immediately slapped himself, "Oops, I relied on your second uncle's old hen to die of pain, and it is said that it will not hurt when people die, haha." Only then did he be sure that he was not dead.

"I remembered. Merlin suddenly shouted, and it flashed in his mind that after he and the murderer had fallen off the road, a whirlpool suddenly appeared out of thin air and sucked him in, and he was sucked into the whirlpool after he watched the murderer be smashed to the head.

It turns out that I am not dead, "Ahhh He looked at the black pistol lying at his feet, and he knew that he had snatched it from the murderer.

Merlin touched his denim shorts and backpack again, and he found that his bag and phone were still there.

He finally checked them all and found that the computer and mobile phone in his schoolbag were intact, but the mobile phone had no signal, which made him extremely crazy when he wanted to call 110 for help.

"Damn, maybe I've been swept to the North Pole by the whirlpool of Dayu City," Merlin said, picking up his pistol, "Will there be any beasts, I can just use it, and I'll go out and hand it over to the police uncle." As he spoke, he suddenly remembered the terrible beasts in the movie The Revenant, and he was terrified.

Grandma's cold died, Merlin had to run on the snowfield, I don't know how long later, he saw a cedar forest, the excited Merlin instantly ran towards the cedar forest, he knew that the hope of survival in the forest was much better than the plain full of snow.

Soon Merlin was in the cedar forest, and he felt much better without the biting cold wind in the cedar forest like on the snowy field, but his whole body was already red from the cold, and if he hadn't been running, he was sure that he would have died by now.

Merlin had thought that he would encounter some wild beasts, but now he did not encounter anything, but suddenly there was a sound of fighting, and he was very excited when he heard it, thinking that it was not a hunting job, and he knew that if it was a hunter, he could have asked them for help, and he could also rub a bowl of broth to drink.

But it wasn't long before Merlin found the source of the sound, and saw six or seven guards in ancient armor lying in the bloody snow, staining large swaths of snow red.

Merlin looked ahead from the guards, and he saw a richly dressed young man holding a pitch-black sword pointing at a girl in a white dress, who was leaning against a cedar with a white cloak, and the snowflakes danced around her, making her look like a fairy.

Merlin bet it was the prettiest beauty he'd ever seen, and even his favorite movie star, Joba, couldn't match her beauty.

"I guess they are acting, look at their equipment is all our ancient costumes, these people must be my Great China here to shoot costume dramas, it seems that this is not the North Pole, is it the northeast of my Great China?"

But Merlin didn't find any cameras or filming staff, and said to himself: "They must be running here alone to practice, and the others may be resting around here." But I haven't seen any of these actors, are they third-rate actors? No, I must sign them first, in case they become as popular as Andy in the future. ”

As soon as he thought of this, Merlin ran towards them excitedly, and shouted loudly as he ran: "Hello everyone, it's nice to meet you!"

Merlin's appearance made the girl's eyes stunned, she looked at Merlin in surprise, and the young man in gorgeous clothes turned around sharply and pointed his sword at Merlin.

"Who are you?" said the young man in Huayi coldly.

"Yo! yo! yo! yes, yes, buddy, you are so into the play, you will definitely be able to win the best actor at the film festival in the future." Merlin rubbed his hands reddened from the cold, and grinned like a can of his signature can.

"It's actually a guy who doesn't have any aura," the young man in Huayi stared at Merlin for a while and then breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the strangely dressed Merlin and said again, "Boy, since you saw it, then this boy can only let you die." ”

"No, Liu Gongzi, please let him go, he is just an innocent person. The girl, leaning motionless on the trunk of the tree, pleaded.

"Haha! You are just a dying person in my Liu Ju's hands, may I ask what qualifications does the guy who has been sealed with spiritual power by me have to let me release him?"

"I ......" The girl was speechless, and could only glance at Merlin sadly.

"Damn, you guys are really the best actors I've ever seen, I'll come in temporarily to run a trick, you can all play on the spot, you're really good actors, can you sign me?"

Merlin walked up to the man in Chinese clothes and quickly took out a paper and pen, and stretched out to Liu Ju, the son of Chinese clothes, "I hope the handsome guy will sign a ......"

Before Merlin finished speaking, he was slapped to the ground by Liu Ju in anger, Merlin was stunned all of a sudden, thinking that Lao Tzu was for an autograph?

"I thought to your grandmother that the master was a bully, right?" Merlin stood up in the shocked eyes of Liu Ju and the girl, and looked at Liu Ju angrily.

Liu Ju was stunned for a moment, he suddenly let go of his anger, turned disdain, and said jokingly: "A guy like an ant dares to ...... in this father."

Liu Ju didn't finish speaking, but a crisp slap of "pop!" came, and he screamed and retreated several steps in a row before stopping.