Chapter 69 Chapter 68

I turned around again.But this time, there was no one behind me. I immediately turned around, and back again.But no matter how many times I do it it's the same result - D and Emily are gone. I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was still standing where I was.The surrounding stone walls are towering, and the air is filled with a golden-red color, and nothing has changed.But my companion is gone.Shengsheng evaporated from the air in front of me. "D? Emily—" I yelled into the air, trying to get a response.But there was only a horrible and empty echo around, hitting a solid wall and bouncing back.Then the echo gradually died down, and the surroundings returned to the death-like silence again.

I rampage through the maze, calling out my companion's name over and over again in horror.I gradually realized that with every step I took, the road in front of me became narrower and narrower, and then slowly merged into the depths of my memory, overlapped, and then locked.I trembled in uncontrollable terror as the worst nightmare I ever had came rushing back into my head, alone, lost among the endless stone walls.I can't find D, and I don't have his butler Sebastian with me anymore. The world suddenly collapsed into a series of cramped, dark stone-walled corridors, leaving me alone in the middle.I was completely disoriented, I couldn't see the end and couldn't find the exit.I was like those sacrifices taken to the Minotaur, shivering between the stone walls, waiting for their tragic fate.

Then I heard the voice again.Someone is in the maze! I immediately ran to follow the sound, even if he was really Minotaur, I would have to find out.I had to get rid of the nightmare in my heart. Everything that seemed familiar before me was driving me crazy. I turned a fork in the road and saw the source of the sound.I didn't see the dreaded tauren, but I saw D. My eyes were full of tears, and the joy of reunion after parting dazzled my brain.I rushed over without thinking. But D didn't look at me.He didn't seem to see me at all the whole time.His gray eyes looked straight through me, looking somewhere behind me.No matter how I called him, he didn't respond.

I panicked.I don't know why he can't hear me.I tried to reach out and touch him, but he quickly moved away from where he was standing.He walked right past me like I didn't even exist. I turned my head, so I finally witnessed my worst nightmare. The person I least wanted to see was still wearing the big red leopard-print dress at the New Year’s ball, and his long orange hair was tied up high. Makeup looks radiant.She stood between the narrow stone walls, so beautiful, so noble, like a light, illuminating the whole dark and dark world before her. I staggered and held on to the stone wall so I didn't fall.I saw D go past, brushed my shoulder and went straight to Vera.I saw her throw her arms into his arms, wrap her arms around his neck and whisper into his ear.I saw D's smile, private and joyful, he hugged the other party's waist tightly, leaned over and kissed the other party's lips.

The whole world fell apart in front of me.I'm no longer the Christmas pudding at the ball, I'm no longer that pathetic little girl, I'm back to Odile the Witch, I've got a D, I'm as perfect as any girl in the world can dream of Married the person you love the most in the ceremony.But why, why, the same thing happened again before my eyes.Every strand of hair, every movement, is so realistic.I don't believe this is a dream.What's more, after Murphys left, I stopped dreaming. I pounced on them, and with a courage I didn't even believe in, I wanted to tear them apart.I want to question D aloud: "Why do you cheat my feelings again and again!" But I can't go through.

I ran as hard as I could, but every time I thought I was in their place, I found myself still where I was.It was like a cursed room, I was standing at the door and they were at the end of the room.And when I walked to the end of the room, I found that I had re-entered the room.I was wrapped in a finite and unbounded space, I thought they were right in front of me, but they weren't there at all. I lay down on the ground and hissed D's name, I hoped he could hear me, I hoped he could turn his head and look at me.Just one glance.Then maybe he will remember my existence, and he will remember that there was once a girl who waited for six hundred years for his looking back.

But he never looked back. I could even clearly hear the teasing, the whispered intimacy between him and Vera, but they couldn't hear me.They are like a realistic three-dimensional movie, played repeatedly in front of my eyes, over and over again. I closed my eyes in despair.Satan, if you're still on my side, if you don't want me to die here, please help me, please stop this.I was devastated and at a loss, I kept praying these words in my heart, hoping that my dream would come true. Then I opened my eyes.Gone are the dreaded stereoscopic films.I mean, both D and Vera disappeared.I swallowed hard and wiped the sweat off my brow.It's not true, it's not true!I repeated it to myself over and over again, confirming that I was still in the labyrinth of the fire elves, and everything I saw was an illusion.

I watched the narrow stone walls slowly widen and regain their former red-gold hue.I know my judgment is correct, no matter what happened just now, I need to find D and Emily as soon as possible. I found them quickly.But again I couldn't believe my eyes.I saw two shabby old men who I would never have recognized as D and Emily if they hadn't called out my name.Their faces were wrinkled, and their withered fingers supported each other tremblingly as they staggered along the side of the stone wall. Satan, what the hell is going on here?I looked at them in horror, and suddenly remembered that the magic space has a different time axis.I had perfectly verified this when I first entered here, when I was alone in that foggy "foyer" for a whole day, and they were only a few minutes for D.

Now it's completely reversed.To them, the "moment" I left was ten years?twenty years?Or is it fifty years?I looked at the other person's thin fingers and cloudy eyes, and I was completely petrified, and I didn't dare to move. "O...Dell?" I heard a dry old voice, from the mouth of the old man who had no resemblance to D, and my tears almost welled up.His face was wrinkled, his eye sockets were sunken, and the protruding bones were wrapped directly under the loose skin, like a terrible mummy. "I thought... I'd never see you again..." He tremblingly stretched out a skinny arm like a chicken paw, I took a breath, and instinctively took a step back, hitting the hard stone wall with my back .

But he still got me.He was skinny, but when he grabbed my arm tightly, I couldn't break free. "You just left me, Audrey!" he said to me in a hollow voice that broke my heart. "Do you know how long I've been waiting for you?" "We were still together just now," I replied tremblingly, "I was only away for a little while..." "A little while? A little while!" he raised his voice, sharp and piercing, "I've been trapped in this damned maze for forty-five years, eight months and three days! Forty-five years! Like a sad prisoner, facing these unchanging stone walls every day! A little while!" He sneered, "Of course, I have been waiting for you for six hundred years, and another half a century is just a fraction. "

Tears welled up at last, and I stared blankly at his withered and pale face, and those gray eyes, which were once clear, became filthy with bloodshot eyes.There was a lump in my throat, and I wanted to speak, but it seemed to be blocked by something. "For a little while! It's like being 'reincarnated' again, isn't it? I'm left alone, trapped in this cursed life, six hundred years, losing you over and over again, watching the same drama over and over again Playing it over and over again, and continuing to wait for your return. Hope you will recognize me, love me again, and repeat the tragic life we ​​have rehearsed. I don't want to wait any longer, Odell. It's been too long, It's been too long...I'm tired, I want to rest..." "No!" I desperately squeezed out a negation, "Don't..." "...Leave you? Odell, look at me, look at my appearance." He grabbed my hand with five fingers like chicken feet, and pressed it against his ugly and aging face, I subconsciously thought Withdrew his arm, but he held me tightly. "Feel my face, Audrey, touch these criss-crossing wrinkles, these decayed and dry skin! I am no longer the D you love. I can't change back to him. You will still love me like this Are you still with me? Will you accept me?" He stared at me with a pair of cloudy gray eyes like a dead fish, "I beg you one last time, Odell, don't treat me lie." The sudden pain almost suffocated me.Reason told me that I should never leave him, but I couldn't say it.I hate myself.I wish I could die.Because I never realized that my so-called feelings are so cheap and ridiculous.If D didn't have his outstanding appearance and great strength, would I still love him?If he really was such a horrible mummy, might I still love him? I couldn't even answer myself.