stay together, down

The sun rose to the top of the head, and even though it was already autumn, it was still a little hot and unbearable.The strong light hit one cheek of Klaus, and his other cheek sank in relative darkness.

"My mother, Esther, said it was a deal. Now it looks like it's a deal with you."

The girl with Lin An's body now shrugged and did not deny it. "Would you like to try to guess again, what bargaining chips did I use to make a deal with your great mother?"

Klaus frowned slightly, paused for a moment, and then gave the answer clearly: "Cole."

"Yes!" Hong clapped her hands happily, her eyes shining brightly, "So you see, whether Cole or Lin An, it's not my decision. All I want is this body. Lin An who wants to save you , you can go to Esther. Also," the girl restrained her smile and added pretending to be serious, "I'm not telling you this because I'm afraid of you, but because I'm in a very good mood right now!"

Klaus looked at the girl in front of him with rather complicated emotions, such a long-lost bright smile, he even forgot when was the last time he saw her smile like this.How much he overlooked.

"Hayley." Klaus quickly stood up from the sofa, and suddenly called Hailey's name.

A figure that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye flashed past, and then "click! click!" After two consecutive dull metal collisions, Hai Li stood in front of Hong calmly.

Hong felt cold and heavy on his hands, looked down, and saw that his hands had been locked by a pair of black iron shackles that looked unusually old and heavy.

"Seriously?!" Red stared at the exaggerated handcuffs in disbelief with wide-eyed eyes. It looked almost as old and gloomy as the Michelson family.

"I'm sorry for the way it was done," Klaus apologized without sincerity, "just to make sure you stay here while I go to my dear mother until we get everything back to normal."

"You think this can trap me?"

Klaus didn't answer Hong's question, he walked up to her step by step.Lin An's height could only reach the position of his shoulders, and Klaus deliberately stood in front of her, giving him a condescending sense of oppression.He stared intently at the girl in front of him, and said, "You should be glad that you are now in a body that I will never hurt, otherwise..."

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Hong to react, Klaus had turned to face Elijah, "Elijah?"

Elijah nodded knowingly, "Go, I'll stay here..."

The figure of Klaus has disappeared in place.

**

"You don't need to waste your energy. You can't open it."

Hearing the sound, Hong looked up, and saw that Elijah had changed his clothes. He was wearing a rigid suit as always, and the shirt with collar and cuffs was as white as snow.

"I know. The dark substance is specially used to deal with witches, and this," the girl shook the handcuffs on her hands, and the chains jingled, "you can't cast spells in the hands of a wizard, right?"

Elijah was noncommittal, walked to the sofa on the other side and sat down.

"How do you have these things?" Hong asked with interest.

Elijah looked up at the girl's smiling face, he knew that she didn't really care about these things, maybe she just wanted to find a way to break it.

"A parting gift from a friend to another ... friend when he leaves New Orleans." Elijah still told the truth.

Hong curled her lips, "Strange friends, strange gifts. But if it's related to the Michaelson family, then you won't be surprised."

Elijah ignored the girl's childish teasing. When he stared at her, what kept flashing before his eyes was another indifferent, even hopeless, immature face in the illusion...

**

The sky has completely brightened, the morning fog has cleared, the sun climbed to the top of the zenith, and Hexi warmly shines on everyone on the street.But everyone under the sun is different, has their own different stories, and runs towards their own different goals.

No one knew that the stern man dressed in black walking on the road in a hurry had a pair of deep eyes, and the beautiful and indistinguishable magnetic blue was hidden deep in the pupils.You must not try hard to distinguish, it is an unfathomable and dangerous moat, once you make a mistake, you will be trapped in it forever and cannot save yourself.He is rebellious, yet fragile and vulnerable.His story has been going on for thousands of years, and it is a story about love and killing.The target he was running towards was his mother, both for love and for killing.

Klaus remembered that Lin An had told him that this cemetery was like a dense forest, and it was easy to get lost in it once you walked in.Not to mention that in addition to the dead, there is also a powerful group of witches entangled here.Klaus knew that Lin An had never been to the cemetery before, because she had never faced anyone's death, so she didn't need to go to such a place.Everything starts from coming here, coming to their world.

Indeed, as Lin An said, this place is like a maze, even if it is not, the witch can easily cast a spell to hide herself from being found.Fortunately, it's not a dangerous maze right now, because Esther is also waiting for Klaus.But obviously the purpose of the two is different. Esther is waiting for Klaus's reaction to the resurrection of his biological father, and Klaus's entire mind has been occupied by another person.

Seeing Esther's figure, Klaus approached in an instant, and clasped Esther's neck in anger.Klaus kept walking, and the strength in his hands was amazing. Esther was forced to follow his speed and backed hard until his shoulders slammed into the wall.

"You lied to me! You said she would wake up soon and unscathed, but that's not her at all! Tell me where she is? Or I swear, I'll choke your neck again, worse than last time Without hesitation."

Esther looked up at Klaus in amazement, and she could feel that Klaus really wanted to kill her desperately, no matter where his sudden out-of-control anger came from.Esther stretched out her right hand to cast a spell to save herself. The irresistible powerful spell made Klaus have a splitting headache, but he didn't let go of the grip, and Esther was almost suffocated.

"I've done so many things, Klaus...I've explained everything so...that you can trust me. So, whatever...what you're saying...isn't my doing." Esther spoke intermittently.

"I'll find out by myself. Now, I need a spell that can return her to her original body." Klaus threw Esther's sinking body away.

"You know I can cast a spell for you. This is a spell I created. No one can control it better than me." Esther crouched on the ground, panting.

"I don't believe you." Klaus took out a pen and paper and handed it to Esther, saying calmly and without hesitation.

Esther stood up from the ground with a peaceful smile on her face, as if nothing just happened. "I could give you a spell," Esther said, "and trade your sister, Rebecca, for your love. Which would you choose, Nicklaus?"

"How dare you!..." Klaus's tone was furious, but he suddenly stopped talking, the anger on his face turned into a mysterious smile, "I can offer you a deal, mother."

Esther raised her eyes with interest, waiting for Klaus to continue. "You resurrect Cole with a spell, put him in the body of a wizard, or a human, as you please. And I, try to consider your painstaking proposal." Klaus said, "The big family reunion Tuanyuan, my mother, one less can’t be called a great reunion.”

Esther chuckled, and walked towards the stone room, "I see, it's for that girl, isn't it?"

"Cole is my brother!"

"I do. I believe you will do anything to save your family. But, Nicklaus, you know very well that if I bring Cole back, he'll become a second Finn to my side. Between you and You never want that to happen in a confrontation where I've fallen behind. And yet you've come up with this—deal, in your words. Maybe I underestimated the effect that girl had on you."

Esther fell into a brief thought, and then immediately came back to her senses and said: "But it's okay, you are my son, Nicklaus, and I am willing to keep this salvation for you. Similarly, I have the ability to destroy it at any time. You That should be kept in mind. As for Cole," said Esther, looking at Klaus, "I'm not going to give up any of my children. And Rebecca, I'm going to find her, sooner or later."

Esther walked to the stone table, put the pen and paper on the table, and leaned over to draw ancient and complicated spells.

When Klaus walked out of the tomb, a colorless world of Xiaosha reappeared in front of his eyes.The gray and dark hanging coffins, the bare tree trunks surrounding the cemetery.The sky was gray, with large swaths of clouds floating, and the sun passed through it, sometimes bright and sometimes dark.Occasionally, some spots of light coming through the gaps in the clouds moved on the top of the huge hanging coffin.

The man's figure flashed away quickly in these lights and shadows.

**

Klaus didn't trust Esther, and he didn't quite trust the two witches who were now in his house, in fact he had a hard time trusting anyone, and during the millennia of chaotic strife he had kept his sobriety in isolation.Absolute control, absolute power, this is his survival mode.

Now is no exception.

Elijah was the first to speak out against her. The encounter between him and Hong in the dream made him feel sympathetic to this spirit-like girl, but it also made him deeply realize that she is untrustworthy.It's not just that Hong has a different standpoint from them, but also because this girl is too elusive. There are two opposite extremes of ignorance, innocence and cruelty coexisting in her.Her innocent tyranny is full of uncertainty.

Therefore, Elijah objected to the casting of the spell by red.

"I don't need her. I can come and cast the spell." Another voice suddenly spoke.The three people in the room turned their eyes to look at her, and the girl repeated quietly, "I can cast spells, and I'm more believable than her, aren't I?"

"I don't think you still have the power of a witch," Elijah said.With the facts in front of her eyes, Hong occupied her body.

"As long as her magic is suppressed," the girl looked at Hong, who was locked in handcuffs. The latter was nestling comfortably on the sofa, with his legs crossed, a small bare foot dangling mischievously, hanging on the side of his legs The chains on her body jingled non-stop as she moved.Hong played happily, as if everything they were talking about had nothing to do with her.The girl withdrew her gaze and said to Elijah, "I believe you will make sure of this, will you, Mr. Elijah Michaelson?"

Elijah didn't answer.He looked at Klaus, and Klaus stared back.Elijah wanted to say something, but in the end he was silent. In the blur, he seemed to see a crack in Klaus' eyes. It was a crack in an absolutely closed barrier. When we loosen our hold and allow others to walk in , this crack has begun to slowly seep from the inside.Its existence shows that there is never absolute control.

So Elijah nodded silently to Klaus.This is what he is going to do and has been doing, support, and give himself all the help.