According to the records of the Mayan civilization, the progress of human civilization is divided into five solar periods, which experienced five times of prosperity and five times of destruction.The first four are: Gendaya Civilization, Mesopotamian Civilization, Muria Civilization and Atlantis Civilization.Up to now, these ancient civilizations have long been obliterated and unknown. Only the recent Atlantis civilization has written records that are close to legends, and it has also sunk into the bottom of the sea, and no evidence of its existence can be found. According to the calculation method of the Mayans in the (Zolkin calendar), since 3113 BC, the world has entered the fifth solar period, that is, the age of mechanical civilization-this is also the last solar period.

After 5125 years of the Mayan Great Cycle, this world will usher in the final doomsday, which is the so-called "zero day".That night will be the legendary "eternal night": when darkness falls, the sun sinks, and then it will never rise again, and the dawn of the next day will never come.Time stops here, space collapses here, and all human civilizations will be completely destroyed. After that, mankind will enter a new era that has nothing to do with this civilization. For this doomsday statement, some people disagree, and some people are confused. Some extreme religious groups have even organized appalling mass suicides, which has further deepened the world's fear and suspicion of the doomsday.

However, just as the Mayans once accurately made many important predictions for future generations, they still couldn't save the doom of the entire nation disappearing overnight, no matter how developed the world's civilization is, how complicated people's thoughts are about it Believe it or not, fear or not fear, there is no power to make some changes to this prophecy. Only time is eternity passing. The hands of the clock keep turning, and every minute and every second is approaching the day when the prophecy ends——December 21, 2012, at 24:00.When the sun goes down and the clock strikes midnight, will the light never come again?

Somewhere, someone has been waiting in the dark for that day to come. The pointer of time points to December 21, 1998. On the outskirts of Jerusalem, in the wilderness of Crane at the northwest corner of the Dead Sea, there are bells ringing.It was an old church, located in a secluded and desolate valley, overgrown with weeds, it seemed to have been abandoned for many years. However, as the bell rang, a group of people quietly came here under the starlight.They were all dressed in black robes, with jewel pins shining on the necklines, and their eyes were of different colors—they came from all over the world, gathered in front of this palace in the wilderness, without even looking at each other, in a very tacit understanding Enter in turn, clasped hands on chest, lowered head to pray in the bell, extremely pious.

Someone is preaching on the altar, the voice is solemn and solemn, echoing under the dome—— Our Father in heaven: hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from sin. There are about 30 people standing in front of the altar, with different skin colors and hair, and they also have accents from all over the world when they say prayers, and they are watching the portrait of the Madonna holding the Son in the arms on the altar—these people all Belonging to this ancient and mysterious society, but different from ordinary Christians, they carry sharp swords around their waists, wear huge and gorgeous gemstone rings on their fingers, have pale skin, and cold eyes, like wolves in the moonlight.

However, when they said the prayers, their tone was devout and humble—— Because the kingdom, power, and glory are all yours, Forever, --Amen! After praying, the priest on the altar raised his hand with the obsidian ring, made a cross on his chest, and said to the people below: "Please drink the blood of God, for the coming doomsday, for the battle between the children of light and the children of darkness." !" Among the people wearing black robes under the steps, four people walked in line separately. The leader among them was a young man in his twenties, with black hair and sculpted eyebrows, pure black eyes, and his face had obvious oriental features.The three people behind him are all Westerners, with high noses and deep eyes, and deep outlines.One of them is a tall man in his thirties, and the other one is only seventeen or eighteen years old. He has soft long hair that is very light in color and is close to silver. His eyes are clear and blue, just like being blessed by a god in Greek mythology. The young wine secretary.

Each of these four people wears four rings on their hands, each of which has a gemstone of more than 10 carats.They stepped forward one by one and picked up the golden cup placed on the altar—the cup contained red wine that symbolized the blood of God, and its color was bright red. "Thank you for the gift of God!" They held up the golden cups and drank them all in one gulp in front of the altar. The blood-red liquid seemed to have a strange magical power. After the four of them drank it, their faces suddenly turned white, and they raised their hands to press their hearts in pain—at that moment, the rings on their fingers It emitted a strange light.

Every gemstone is blooming brilliance, burning between the fingers. As the light intensified, another bright brilliance bloomed from their bodies, like a pair of wings of light suddenly spread behind them.Those four people seemed to lose their weight suddenly, and they floated up gently like this, their toes lifted off the ground, and their whole bodies were suspended in the air of the palace. "God..." the priest raised his hands and prayed to the icon, "My children sacrificed themselves to you, please answer our wish, give the son of light, and lead us to defeat the darkness!"

The four people opened their hands in the light in response, raised their faces slightly, and looked at the murals on the dome—the scene of the doomsday judgment was painted there, and the flames, strong winds, lakes of salt and fire were vividly visible in their minds.In the center of the dome is a door that is opening. I don't know if it is an illusion, but there seems to be a faint light in the gap of the door. At that moment, an extremely strong force suddenly filled the church, making everyone's voices silenced——the light from behind the door illuminated the entire hall, like lightning falling from the sky, and it was impossible for people to look directly at it.

When the light disappeared, the four people held long swords and stopped on the dome. What was pierced by the sword was a devil in a black robe, coming out from the opened gate of hell—the four swords were inserted with incomparable precision, nailing the black devil in the shape of a cross.At that moment, the door that was being opened on the mural stopped, and the devil actually flowed out bright red blood. "Amen!" All the companions below the steps prayed in unison. After the ritual of subduing demons was completed, the four people who were close to the dome fell back to the ground. The brilliance of their bodies instantly faded, and their wings disappeared.There was a light "click", and something fell to the ground, but the gemstones on the rings shattered and became dull, like an ordinary stone that had been stripped of its essence.

They panted slightly, and raised their hands to their chests to salute, like medieval knights. "Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel," the priest looked at them lovingly and appreciatively, and called them by the names of the four archangels in turn, "Thank the Lord, my children, this time you You have perfectly mastered these four holy swords, even the devils in hell will fear your power." Having said this, the priest stood on the altar, looking solemnly at the line of people from all over the hall. , opened the mouth and said: "Dear children, I summoned you to the temple this time because I have a sad news to tell everyone." Everyone under the steps raised their eyes, waiting for the next words. "As the time draws near, visions and natural disasters have frequently occurred around the world in the past year." The priest raised his hand and pressed a button on the tiny remote control. In an instant, a beam of light came from the last row of the church. Projected over there, a world map was actually projected on the altar. ——On the map, there are densely marked with blood red, across the entire Eurasian continent, and a conspicuous blood cross is drawn out! The priest raised his finger and pointed: "February, the Caucasus; April, Tahiti; July, Madagascar. Behind every disaster there is a shadow from 'that world'. According to the secret report I received, two apostles have appeared in the world, and have begun to pick and choose their followers and followers." "The apostles of 'White Moon'?" The crowd exclaimed in a low voice, "They appeared?" "Yes. The clock of doomsday is speeding up. Time is running out. We can't sit still." The priest put his hand on the crisp yellow ancient scroll, looked at the black-haired and black-eyed oriental youth, "before 2012 comes , we and 'that world' will finally fight. Michael, are you afraid?" "Never!" The young man raised his eyebrows and replied with a long sword in his hand. "Then, go say goodbye to your family and ask them to pray for you." The priest looked at him and said lightly, "I heard that you fell in love with a girl recently? This is against the creed of the society—remember, you His whole body and mind belong to the Lord in heaven." "..." Michael was shocked, and lowered his head to look at his fingers.The huge gemstones in his hand were shattered piece by piece, only the ring on the ring finger of his left hand was still intact—it was a plain platinum ring, the style of a wedding ring, unpretentious. He turned the ring slightly, looked at the words engraved on it, and didn't speak. The priest glanced at him indifferently, did not say anything, but raised his voice: "In three months' time, everyone will gather in Belize City, Honduras - we will walk through 'that door' and stab the sword into the enemy heart!" "That door?" Michael was shocked, "It's impossible, we can't get there with our strength!" "Michael, you have become weak...don't think this is impossible, let's take a look at this first!" The priest turned around and uncovered a piece of dark red velvet on the altar. At that moment, everyone gasped. On the tray was a huge diamond, almost the size of a grown man's fist, pure and flawless, almost colorless, with only a slight yellow tint.Although it has not been polished yet, it has already reflected dazzling light under the candlelight of the altar, resplendent and fierce, and imposing, like an unsheathed sword! "This is the legendary 'Braganza', one of the top ten famous diamonds in the world." The priest carefully picked up the huge diamond from the tray and showed it to the companions below, "It weighs 1680 carats. , contains great energy, enough to open the passage, allowing everyone to reach the 'door'." Michael stared at this legendary gem, and muttered to himself with a complex expression: "So, does the Vatican even believe in the prophecy of the end? Braganza was discovered in Brazil in 1725, and it was discovered soon after it was dug out. Its whereabouts are unknown—it's the secret collection of the popes, isn't it?" "Yes." The priest said solemnly, and announced to everyone, "From today onwards, the community will cooperate with the Holy See in the Vatican to fully fight against the threat from 'that world'!" As soon as the words came out, everyone in the temple was in a slight commotion. This mysterious society has a long history and was founded earlier than the Holy See in the Vatican. However, because of different understandings of the doctrine, it has been opposed to the Vatican for thousands of years, and it has been regarded as heresy, persecuted and expelled.But as 2012 approaches, is the Holy See in the Vatican willing to cooperate with them? Only the silver-haired boy in the audience didn't hear the important news, he just stared at the huge gemstone, his eyes sparkled with surprise, he wanted to reach out his fingers to touch it several times, but he held back up. Such a big gem...how much power should it contain! "Raphael, you take care of it." The priest said gently to the excited boy, handed him the gem lined with black velvet, and then turned around and said to everyone, "This time, we must open it." That door', seize that 'key' that can reverse the fate of the world!" "Yes!" Everyone in the club replied in unison. "The fire of doomsday is about to burn, my children, I hope you will join hands and fight for the children of light!" The priest put his hand on the crisp yellow sheepskin ancient scroll and led everyone to recite the prayer on it —— Our heavenly Father, may you hear my prayers, have mercy on your family, and turn sorrow into joy, so that we can live in this world and sing praises to your holy name. God!Let not those tongues that praise you perish! Under the dark sky, the bells echoed, and the sound of prayers stretched like water. Before dawn, a group of people in black robes filed out of the church without speaking to each other. After going out, they went their separate ways and disappeared into the wilderness before dawn.They have made a vow before God, and they will reunite in the near future and travel together until they reach "that door". "Be careful!" The moment he walked down the steps, Michael stretched out his hand like lightning to help the silver-haired boy who stumbled on the stone beside him, "Don't just look at Braganza, Rafael!" The boy just hugged the fist-sized stone, fondled it around, even licked it with the tip of his tongue, and said, "Oh my god... How much do you think such a big diamond is worth?" ? One hundred million dollars?" Michael looked helplessly at his companion holding the diamond with shining eyes, and sighed: "Braganza contains great power, it is a priceless treasure, and cannot be measured by the price at the auction." "That's right... that's why the Pope has hidden it like a treasure for more than two hundred years?" Raphael smiled and picked up the diamond, and looked at it in the moonlight, his eyes full of fascination, "However, how do those people in the Holy See understand it? What’s the beauty of it? They only know how to use it as a luxury jewelry decoration, but they don’t know how to use it as a magic weapon to enhance their own strength, what a reckless waste!” "Raphael, I'm going back to China first." Michael stopped chattering with the boy 11 years younger than himself, and turned around to get into a jeep parked under the moon. "See you in Honduras in three months." .” "Yeah." Although the boy was still holding the diamond and kept looking at it, he followed him and said in a coquettish tone, "Take me a ride! It's not convenient to land here, my helicopter stops three kilometers away, walk over there It's a bit far." Michael sighed helplessly, looked at this childish companion: "Come on." The two got into the car, the jeep started, and the engine made a low roar. "Raphael," Michael suddenly called him in a low voice, "are you afraid?" "Ah... afraid? What are you afraid of?" Raphael then looked away from the diamond, and the black eyes of his companion beside him were as deep as the night, looking straight at the vast Kelan wilderness.Michael put his hands flat on the steering wheel and murmured, "We're finally reaching 'that door'. This is a battle of life and death." "Uh... I'm not yet an adult, maybe the priest won't let me go this time?" Raphael didn't think so, and continued to lower his head a little heartlessly, looking at the Braganza, unable to put it down.Michael sighed, and turned the plain wedding ring on the ring finger of his left hand, with a slight tone: "But I must go, I may not come back..." "What?" Raphael looked up at him in surprise, it was the first time he saw an abnormal expression on the face of this most outstanding companion, and couldn't help blurting out in a low voice, "Oh my god... the priest didn't say anything Wrong, Michael, you have fear in your heart!" "..." Michael didn't answer, looking down at his ring. "Is it because of a woman?" Raphael looked at the wedding ring on his ring finger, "God, are you really married? This is against the rules of the club! If it wasn't for the urgent need for employment, the priest would definitely punish you severely !" Michael shook his head, did not speak, a complex expression flashed in his eyes, and he was silent for a long time before picking up a miniature photo frame placed on the front window of the car: "I have not betrayed God, nor have I violated my The oath. But I am just a mortal, I just want to protect her and her child." "What?" Raphael's eyes widened, "They all... already have children? It's too soon!" Michael shook his head with a wry smile.In the photo is a beautiful woman with a baby in her arms. She is in her early twenties. She has the same long black and smooth hair as him. Her fingers are long and soft. She also wears a plain platinum ring of the same style on her left ring finger. She is staring at the camera and smiling quietly. And sweet.At that moment, the whole world seemed to quiet down. "Wow... It's like the Virgin Mother descending with the Son in her arms!" Raphael clicked his tongue, and saw two Chinese characters written in the lower right corner of the photo: "Qing" and "Blue".The boy stared at it for a long time but didn't recognize it. He said, "Is that your wife's name? She is really beautiful. No wonder you want to be their guardian angel." "Unfortunately, I can't just be her angel..." Michael sighed and put the photo upside down on the table without looking at it again, "Father Gong Geer is right, my body and mind belong to Lord high in the sky—maybe it is wrong to make such a decision.” "What?" Raphael was stunned, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be some great secret hidden in the other party's heart.However, the companion beside him didn't say anything, just started the car and disappeared into the night roaring. Not far away, there was a wind blowing from the Dead Sea, whimpering. Three months later, a short but violent earthquake occurred in the sea near Belize City, Honduras, with a magnitude of 7.5 and a focal depth of about 15 kilometers. Even the city center 20 kilometers away was strongly felt. The shock lasted only 17 seconds, and then became calm again. When the glass tumbled and rolled on the table, the boy sitting by the sea stopped meditating, his face turned pale, and he couldn't believe his eyes.What?The glass is poured?This...does this mean that Michael and the others are...impossible!As soon as I thought of this, the glass fell to the marble floor with a bang and shattered.The boy trembled suddenly, "Huo" stood up, staggered and rushed to the beach desperately. The quake triggered a small tsunami.After the tsunami ended, people found a huge pothole on the sea surface, and the seabed collapsed inexplicably in a certain place, blue and black, like a deep pupil that suddenly opened on the bottom of the sea, beautiful and weird.Many people gathered on the beach, looking at the sudden spectacle not far away, and gasping in amazement. The young man came running wildly, staring fixedly at the blue hole that suddenly appeared, and ran into the sea like crazy. "Michael...Michael!" He called out his companion's name loudly, "Where are you? Answer me!" However, there was no one on the sea, only the sound of the tide rushing towards his face, drowning him in a pocket.There is no sign of it... So many people, but they never came back, and there was no bones left? !He called out the names of his companions, knelt down in the sea, and buried his head in the water.Tears mixed with sea water, cold and salty.Where is Michael?Where is the priest?Brothers in those clubs?Is their blood dissolved in this vast blue?Have their bodies been reduced to ashes?The boy buried his head in the sea water, crying loudly.The underwater world is so quiet and cold, a silver ring was rolled up with the light sea sand and landed in his palm—it was a plain platinum wedding ring, which had been damaged by some kind of horrible The terrifying force twisted and deformed, and one side showed signs of melting slightly.However, the owner of the ring has disappeared into the sea and is never seen again.After that tsunami, a huge pothole appeared on the seabed 300 meters northwest of the lighthouse in the waters near Belize City, Honduras. It was thousands of meters deep and presented a strange blue-black color, known as the "blue hole". , so that geologists and explorers from all sides came one after another.The hole is so deep that even professional surveying deep-sea robots cannot reach the bottom.The sea water was constantly sucked in, forming a huge vortex at the entrance, but never spit out. Some geologists have injected hundreds of tons of dyed seawater into the blue hole, and want to know where the inflowing seawater flows out.However, those red sea water never appeared after being sucked in, never to return.Scientists suspected that the sea had diluted the dye, making it impossible to observe where the ocean currents flowed out. They then poured a kind of fine particles with a density comparable to that of sea water into the entrance of the blue hole-as many as 300 million small yellow particles were quickly swept away. In, forming a torrent.However, after more than a month of strict monitoring, those small particles never appeared on the sea again, as if they had evaporated out of thin air. It was a vortex that could suck in everything, as terrifying as a black hole. "It is the eye of the sea, which man cannot see through," the famous explorer Sir DJ Howard once said after the third failed bottoming. "Even the light cannot shine so deep." However, no one knows that on a certain night, a group of people once reached the end of the blue hole. ——It's just that those people have turned into nothingness and can never come back. On the other side of the earth, far away in China, there is an ordinary second-tier city B City in the south.The sun is bright in early winter, and the hanging white gauze curtains are gently fluttering behind the opened French windows. The fingers jumping on the keys suddenly stopped, and the beautiful female piano teacher looked down at the wedding ring on her left ring finger, her face paled instantly - there was a strange scorching heat spreading from her fingers, only to hear the sound of "pop" With a soft sound, the plain platinum ring suddenly broke in the middle for no reason, and fell on the keys without warning. "Ah?!" The woman sitting by the piano suddenly stood up, looking at her fingers in disbelief. ——There was only a faint ring mark left there. "Qing, wait for me. After I come back this time, I will stay by your and Wei Lan's side forever and never leave again." The man's words were still ringing in his ears when he left, with infinite nostalgia, but also Unlimited determination, "But, if there is no news after three months, then I may never come back." Now, it has been three months. The female piano teacher threw herself on the piano and cried, and the pressed keys resonated in a low voice. "Mom?" The little girl who was playing with a doll in another room heard the voice and couldn't help running over—she was only five or six years old, with a beautiful face that was pure and innocent.She ran over and grabbed her mother's sleeve, and asked with concern: "Mom, why are you crying? Who bullied you?" The female piano teacher was shaking from crying and couldn't say a word. "Mom, don't cry, Dad just came back!" The little girl curled her lips helplessly, "If Dad sees you crying, he will be very distressed!" What?The female piano teacher was shocked suddenly, raised her tear-stained face to look at her daughter, and lost her voice, "Wei Lan, you... what did you say? He's back? Where is he?" "Yeah, didn't you see it?" The little girl briskly ran to the stairs, looked outside the door, and then turned her head in confusion, "Eh, that's strange... just now, my father clearly came back, and he gave me a gift. You gave me a present, are you leaving again?" "Zhixuan?" The female piano teacher rushed to the window desperately, opened the curtain and looked - the garden door was empty.Summer has passed, and the roses on the railing have begun to wither, leaving only withered petals hanging on the branches, like dead corpses.Behind the wall of withered flowers, there was no sign of that person anymore. "He... what did he say to you?" The female piano teacher asked absently, "What gift did he give you?" "Here, this! Doesn't it look good?" The little girl tilted her head, lifted something around her neck, and asked innocently, "Papa said that he is going to travel again this time, and he will go for a long time... He told me to be obedient. Listen to your words carefully, study hard, and go to the best university in S City in the future—” Hanging around her neck is a crystal clear jade pendant, which is not something that this family originally had.The female piano teacher stared at it for a moment, her whole body shook violently, and suddenly she couldn't control herself and burst into tears.The little girl was frightened, and forgot to say the next half of the sentence, and looked at her mother blankly. "Mom, mom, don't cry! Wei Lan is scared... Wei Lan is so scared!" She rushed forward, shouted in a crying voice, and pulled her mother's sleeve with all her strength, "Dad, what's wrong with Dad? I just searched all over The whole house, he's gone... where did he go?" "Wei Lan, he won't come back." The female piano teacher hugged her daughter tightly, sobbing, "He...he will never come back again!" echoed in the wind.The plain platinum wedding ring that was broken in two fell on the keys, emitting a slight light, like two tears. That year, Xia Weilan was 5 years old, and there were still 13 years before December 21, 2012.