Chapter 300: Dense Forest Borderland

Elena closes her eyes, her voice muffled beyond words:

"...... I waited four years until I was an adult, wanting to hear about Guy and Alex's remains every day from those reports in the newspapers and on the radio, but until every outlet I could reach stopped broadcasting about the war, I still hadn't waited. "

"...... I gave up on continuing to wait."

Elena's chest rose and fell slightly, "As an adult, I left the town, to go to school, to work, to live, but the place still haunted me, and after I turned thirty, I took the money I had saved and came back to the town where the war had taken place."

"It was prosperous in those days, the post-war damage was still being repaired, and a large factory was built on the rainforest's abundant wood resources, which attracted many laborers, but the prosperity didn't last."

Elena looks back in the direction of the abandoned town, "The big mills with their workers and machine tools running night and day to send the wood from here to the world, soon the wood was extracted from here, and with the loss of a lot of trees, the rainforest, which used to have a lot of rainfall, gradually sanded down and turned into a desert."

"...... Then, everyone here left again, leaving only me, an old woman, still guarding the graves here." Elena patted the tombstone she was sitting on and suddenly suddenly said, "Oh yeah, did I forget to tell you guys about this cemetery?"

She rubbed her temples, sighed: "...... people are old and say things are just upside down, this cemetery was a collective cemetery used to bury dead soldiers during the war, and after the war this place was purchased by a private owner and turned into a commercial cemetery for sale to the public. "

"But most of the people buried here are unnamed bodies from the war, which the government is not allowed to move, and that's where they've been buried, and the named bodies have been claimed by their own families."

"When I came here, I approached the owner of this cemetery and said that I would be willing to pay my own way to build two empty graves in this cemetery for Alex and Guy, meaning that there would be no bodies in the graves, just a few things that they had sent to me while they were alive."

Elena's eyes grew vacant as she said, "But they got back to me quickly and said that Alex could have a cemetery in this cemetery, but Guy Davis couldn't."

"...... I asked them why, and they said that because Guy Davis had a rebel record, he was ineligible for burial in any cemetery in the country, according to the rules."

Elena's voice rose in sudden hysteria, "I hissed at these heartless businessmen and I said Guy Davis is dead! Dead for more than ten years! Dead enough for even God to forgive his sins! It's not your turn to judge him!"

"Even a rat with aboriginal blood can buy a grave in your cemetery, why shouldn't a decent and good person be buried!!!"

Elena braced herself against the headstone, her eyes hard as she choked and huffed:

"...... I was young and ambitious at that time, and I was not willing to do that, I sold almost all my clothes and jewelry out of my house to sell Guy's grave from this cemetery vendor ......"

Elena smiled proudly, but a tear slipped from the corner of her eye:

"I still succeeded, this cemetery dealer agreed to sell me the grave in violation of the rules, and you see, all it takes is enough money, and the sins of this group of people who refused to give up even the pursuit of death can be easily erased."

"...... After that cemetery vendor left the area, this cemetery fell into disrepair, and I retaliated by changing all the headstones here to Guy's name, and it was a mischievous moment of pleasure."

Speaking of which, Elena went quiet.

"...... Alex's grave I put some stuff I took from his family, Guy, Guy's grave ...... " Elena couldn't help but take a deep breath. "Because I couldn't really find anything else related to him, I put in the old wedding dress I made for him."

Bai Liu looked at Elena calmly: "Later, you realized that the wedding dress was missing, didn't you?"

Elena looked straight into Bai Liu's eyes, "Yes, there hasn't been a single day in all these years that I haven't been tormented by the guilt of not agreeing to him marrying Alex in the first place, and I've put in Guy's grave the letter I wrote to him later agreeing to everything he asked for, and the wedding dress."

"But one day the grave was also ploughed open, and the wedding dress and the letter were gone, and there was a reply from Guy, and it was indeed his handwriting, the ink on it was not even dry, it was still fresh." Elena's breath caught, "I doubt it, doubt it ......"

Bai Liu asked softly, "You suspect they're not dead, they're still alive, they just don't want to come and see you."

Elena was silent for a long, long time and said softly, "...... Yes."

"I began to try, and I found that whenever I put the wedding dress and the letters on the grave, sometimes they would disappear and vanish the next day, and sometimes it would take a long time before they disappeared, and some new letters would appear with letters that were fifty years old."

Elena let out a breath, "Those two things that represented penance were probably the only reason they were willing to come and see me, and I started to keep writing them letters as they came in and making them wedding dresses in the hopes that they would be willing to stay and see me."

"...... wish I could say to Guy and Alex in person, I'm sorry and God wishes you all happiness forever."

[May God wish you all happiness forever] - a phrase Bai Liu had seen on Guy's wedding dress.

Elena drooped her eyelids, she breathed a little, "...... I waited and waited and waited, and waited for I don't know how many years, and made I don't know how many wedding dresses, and wrote I don't know how many letters, and waited until everyone was out of the way, and still I didn't wait for them to come and see me."

"...... Sometimes, I will suspect that I have been old and crazy." Elena smiled, her eyes full of vicissitudes, "I'll see Guy in a wedding dress, holding a bouquet of flowers appearing in this cemetery every now and then, with the happy, beautiful smile I wish he could have had on his face."

"...... But when I got closer, I realized he was just a stitched up corpse."

She looked at Bai Liu with cloudy eyes : "If you are really Alex and Guy's comrades in arms, please tell them that I don't expect them to forgive me for my despicable behavior in the first place, I just wish to meet them, even if they don't forgive me."

Elena slowly shed a tear, "...... I just want to see them be happy."

"And it's not because of me, Alex's fiancée, that I don't get to be together until I die."

"I'll pass it on to them." Bai Liu stood up, he smiled gently, "You made a very beautiful wedding dress, it suits Guy."

Elena froze and looked up.

Bai Liu said softly, "I attended their wedding, Guy loved your wedding dress, he was very happy when he married Alex in it, he said, so happy that he would willingly die for it in the next second."

Elena opened her lips, the look on her face empty and broken, skeptical looked at Bai Liu and forced a smile, "Hey young man, there are some delightful lies that are good enough to tell once, tell them more than once ......"

Bai Liu pulls a silky white veil headscarf from his pocket.

Elena stopped herself incredulously.

"This is the veil from one of your wedding dresses that was accidentally ripped off Guy's head by my friend during the wedding." Bai Liu hands it to Elena and smiles, "I never tell lies to please people, ma'am."

Elena looked at the veil in awe for a long, long time before she reached out a trembling hand to take it and caress it, "...... The hair on this is, indeed, Guy's hair, and it's a wedding gown I made a long time ago, and the threads in this place haven't been attached yet."

"Are they ...... happy?" Elena asked, cautiously tilting her head as she held her veil.

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "They do live happily ever after in a place you cannot see."

After Elena gave the letter to Bai Liu, Bai Liu and his group left her and headed back.

Liu Jiayi wrinkled her eyebrows in puzzlement, "If this is the real game world line, the fake one we experienced, which is the same relationship between the inner world and the surface world as the Rose Factory, then there should only be one Guy, there can't be that many Guy's who have taken all the wedding dresses Elena has made."

"Is it possible that it's a seven-day cycle line?" Tang Er typed trying to come up with a new explanation, "The real world line outside runs as usual, and the war world line inside loops for seven days, and each time it loops there's a Guy, and then Guy dies and gets buried in the cemetery by Alex."

Bai Liu shook his head, "No, there is a contradiction in this explanation."

Tang Er asked, "What point of conflict?"

Bai Liu looked at him, "Alex's potion works by changing things back to the way they were seven days ago, it's not really a cycle, he can only restore what's already there to what it was seven days ago."

"That is, if Guy ran from the War World Line to the Real World Line, then there would be no Guy in the War World Line." Liu Jiayi quickly responded, "But we did see Guy in the War World Line, so that argument doesn't work."

"And only Guy exists with multiple living dead, no one else in the War World Line does."

Liu Jiayi pondered, "I think Tang Er is right in the general direction of playing the seven-day cycle one guess, but there must be something wrong with Guy the NPC, I don't understand why he was allowed to enter the real world line from the war world line?"

"That would be a question for the creator of the War World Line, Alex." Bai Liu looks up into the mist that has once again appeared in front of him.