Chapter 70 Chapter 69

Emily came over.She looks even scarier than D.The formerly rosy apple-like face was shriveled, and the soft reddish-brown hair was completely gray, partly tied together in a mess, revealing the other side of the bald head, which was covered with terrible wrinkles and veins. She tried her best to open her glued eyelids wide, and stared at me, "Odelle?" I dare not answer. She jumped up suddenly and jumped on my face like a dry bat. She tore my hair, twisted my ears, grabbed my face, pinched my neck, and her sharp nails dug into my face. my meat. "Look at these elastic skins, this youthful and immortal body! Why don't you die! Why do you dare to come back! Are you here to laugh at the miserable appearance of us dying people? Yes!"

"Emily...I..." I choked up.The opponent's nails pierced my skin like a sharp blade, and I could feel the blood flowing down.But I can't hide.As D said, I have been in hiding for forty-five years, eight months and three days.I can't hide anymore.I forgot my friends, and sent them with my own hands into the labyrinth of the Minotaur. This is all my fault. "Because of you, we went from America to Europe; because of you, we entered this damned magic space in Venice; and because of you, I lost Siegfried! But after all this horrible thing you did to us, Do I blame you? Because I believe in you, because Siegfried believes in you! But you failed all our expectations of you! You left us here for forty-five years! I am the first I was eighteen when I first saw you, and now I'm sixty-three...but do I look sixty-three? I look older than my eighty-three-year-old great-grandmother! I I pray to God every day, hoping that I can die the next day, but I have lived until this day, until this moment... just to see you again, and to kill you with my own hands!"

Emily tightened her bony fingers, and I couldn't breathe.I opened my mouth wide and tried to struggle, but to no avail.Her fingers got tighter and tighter, and at the very moment when I was almost unconscious, I saw D coming, coming to me as always, in every crisis I faced.He pulled Emily's hand away. "Forget it, let her go." He said to her hoarsely. "You're still protecting her?" Emily screamed in disbelief, "after everything that happened, after forty-five long, lonely years, you're still protecting her !" D sighs. "Wake up! Didn't you see the way she looked at us? Didn't you see the way she looked at you? We waited for her in this stone tomb for forty-five years! She came back and said What? Did she apologize? Did she mean a little remorse? She didn't! We are two monsters to her! And you are still covering her!!"

D sighed again, and he looked me in the eyes.The pair of gray eyes that were once clear and almost indifferent are now covered with a thick layer of dust. His eyes are full of mist, and I can see endless disappointment and pain from inside. My heart is broken.When Emily let go of me, my legs went limp and I slid helplessly to the ground. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" I cried at his feet, "It's all my fault, all of this is my fault!" "So what's the point of apologizing?" Emily sneered, "For forty-five years, just say 'I'm sorry' and it's over?"

"I know you won't forgive me, and I don't expect to be forgiven." I raised my head, choked up and said, "But at least let me take you away from here." "Leave?" Emily sneered again, "We have spent forty-five years here! Do you think we have never found an exit? If there was an exit in this maze, we would have already gone out !" "Please give me one more chance to take you away." I closed my eyes and said softly, "This is the only thing I can do now." D frowned at me, he didn't know what I was thinking.For the first time I took the lead.The way he looked at me was so helpless and pathetic.Oh satan, please, don't torture him like this again.Don't torture me like this again!Let me do something, let me make it up to them, let everything in front of me be exchanged, let me be the helpless and sad person.Please, make him strong again, let Emily find Siegfried.I can do anything for them.

Kill me, let me die, make me grow old, let me die a thousand times! I just wish my friends could come back. I was thinking about all this in my heart, and suddenly my hand touched the bag on my waist.The bag containing the three elemental spirit tokens.I was startled.I suddenly remembered my mission.I'm short of one last token.I came here to find the fire elves. The head told me that collecting all four tokens would save my life.So can you, don't save my life, save theirs.Save my friends.Let them out of the sea of ​​suffering, let them return to youth. I took a deep breath.I took D's and Emily's hands.

"Trust me one last time," I said to them, "allow me to get you out of here." D narrowed his eyes, he didn't know what I was thinking.He doesn't know my purpose.His thin body trembled like a dry leaf in the wind, his back was hunched, and he could barely stand upright.I took a step forward and hugged him gently. His body trembled more, his wrinkled face became more confused, he didn't know what I was going to do. "I know it's useless to explain, because it's all my fault. It's all." I said to him softly, "so I can only humbly beg you, my love, if you don't love me in your heart If there is a trace of affection, then please trust me one more time, one last time. I will not leave you alone."

He stared at me blankly, his cloudy gray eyes were hazy, and something bright shone in their pupils. "No matter what you become, human or vampire, young or old, beautiful or ugly, strong or weak, you will always be him, you will always be All my black knights. You are my lover, my friend, my family, my husband, my life belongs, my soul mate. For the previous six hundred years, six hundred and forty-five eight Months and three days, you have been taking care of me and protecting me, now it is my turn. Please let me take care of you, please let me protect you. No matter how far our future is, no matter how long we can live, If this is the end of the world, then please let me protect you in this moment, please let me be with you."

"Audrey..." "Please, don't turn me down, let me get you out of here, let's get out of here together! Because I love you. I can't bear to lose you again. Past, present, and future, Vlad, I just love you one." When I uttered this wonderful word, it was like a powerful spell, rekindling a glimmer of hope in a hopeless world.The haze that had been hanging over my head receded, and the long-standing shadow in my heart disappeared.I finally realized that I love him beyond time itself, beyond good, evil, beauty and ugliness, I just want to be with him, nothing more.

Because that's the only longing in my heart. D in his arms trembled violently.I opened my blurred eyes and saw his emaciated body shrink even smaller, as if suddenly turned into a real mummy.He stretched out his hand with difficulty, as if he wanted to touch my face, but before his arm reached my face, terrible cracks had already spread all over his skin, and then there was a soft "snap", and the whole arm was on my face. It shattered into dust in front of my eyes.Immediately afterwards, his body also shattered into dust in my arms. A gust of wind blew by, leaving only a handful of gray dust between my empty hands, and then it slid down along my fingers.

I screamed in horror.I looked up and saw that Emily was gone too.I screamed in terror, screamed out of voice, and screamed accusations against the crazy world, until a man suddenly came into my sight and hugged me tightly. "Odell? Odell!" He called out my name loudly. I struggled with all my strength in the arms of the visitor until I realized that the voice was familiar.So I stopped struggling, raised my tearful eyes, and looked at the person in front of me. Strong, tall, beautiful, with no blemish on his snow-white face.He looked into my face with concern in his clear, familiar gray eyes. "Odile," he asked me softly, "what did you see?" I couldn't believe my eyes.I reached out and stroked his delicate and cold skin, just like I remembered, there was no wrinkle or any trace of age on it. "I..." I held back my tears and sniffled, "I seem to have a dream." "Don't be afraid, I'm here." D hugged me tightly. Over his shoulder, I saw Emily, the same eighteen-year-old girl, with the mask I had given her over her thick reddish-brown hair, her head tilted, looking at me inexplicably. I exhaled lightly.A chill runs down my spine, and I know it wasn't a dream.We are still in the realm of the Fire Elves, in the labyrinth of the Minotaur.What I saw was not the truth, but a premonition.Or whatever is going on in another universe.Or, I got away with passing my "test" by the cunning fire elf, fulfilling my "promise" to my companions, so everything returned to normal again. No matter what the answer is, I only know one thing.That is, if I don't get the last token here, something even more terrible will happen. I have no way out.