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Here comes Dahlia.

The devil in waiting arrives as expected, turning everyone's imagined nightmare into reality.She came and went, announcing her arrival with irresistible power. Even Freya, who had been standing alone, was only trembling in fear in front of Dalia.

What Klaus said is right, people who have nostalgia and desire in their hearts, and people who are afraid of losing, also have a weakness that is extremely easy to control.

They all have weaknesses.

Lin An did not expect that Dalia would look for her first.

"I heard you needed my help," Dalia said.Although they have not been there in person, they can know every move of each of them through the surveillance spell.Reviving Cole is Lin An's weakness to be easily controlled.But if Dalia doesn't come, Lin An will also go to her, there is no difference.

"If you want to control me to help the witch who took my daughter, I advise you not to wishful thinking." Michael said to Lin An.

"There is a chain spell between Freya and Dalia. Dalia is so powerful because it is connected to Freya's power. You said that if Freya disappeared, would Dalia's source of power also be cut off? Open?" Lin An said softly, as if muttering to himself.

Michael's expression was shocked: "If you dare to hurt Freya..."

Lin An shook his head, then suddenly reached out and took off the bracelet on his wrist, without looking at it, and threw it to Michael. "I don't need you anymore, go wherever you want."

Michael narrowed his eyes and looked suspiciously at the girl in front of him.Lin An found that Klaus and Michael were alike in some places - vain pride, suspicion rooted deep in the blood, they both had these regular bouts of disease, recurring in their bodies.

Lin An said: "It's not that you can't be a father, why did you give him cruelty?"

Michael didn't answer.

Lin An's thin figure was hidden in the dark night.I'm just afraid, all I can give him is cruelty...

Sitting on the empty pew in St. Anne's Church again, Lin An recalled the scene when she first sat in this church, and thought of those two young and beautiful teenagers—Davina and Tim.

I also think of myself sitting here at that time, helpless and full of fear.Fear of soaking himself in this crazy killing world, one day he will be numb to it all.

Now, the nightmare has come true.

New Orleans is different in the eyes of different people. Some people think it is a world paradise where singing, dancing and sensuality are all year round.Yet other eyes behold the darkness beneath all this, and see the nature of its pervasive deadlands.

Dalia chose St. Anne's Church because it is a holy place stained by innocent blood and full of dark energy created by the massacre.

Klaus and Michael pushed open the heavy wooden door of the church, and saw Lin An sitting with his back.Her footsteps faltered, and her heart was filled with obscurity. In order to revive Cole, she really did not hesitate to stand on the opposite side of him.

Looking around cautiously, there was no one there except Lin An.Klaus forms an alliance with Michael, the most unlikely ally, and prepares the only weapon that can kill Dalia.

Compared with Dalia's strength, it is obvious that Lin An's appearance can disturb his train of thought more.At this moment, Klaus even hoped that Michael's news was wrong, Dalia and all her helpers did not set a trap in this dark and tainted church, it was just a coincidence that Lin An appeared here.

But a voice behind him shattered his illusion.

Dalia suddenly appeared behind her, "Since you're here, there's nothing to wait for," the tone was low and elegant, and the power suppressed carelessly released was incomparable to Esther and Freya.Michael tightened his grip on the only dagger that was fatal to Dalia.

"Let's get started," she said.As soon as he raised his hand, a group of men and women poured into the church door.No one spoke, and the sound of chaotic footsteps echoed in the empty church, spreading out to surround the two of them.

Klaus and Michael showed bloodthirsty smiles, their fangs came out, and the fight began.

Dalia's helpers are just a group of ordinary people controlled by her spell, but who they were originally is meaningless to everyone trapped in this room. At this moment, the other party is just an enemy.Klaus will not soften his heart, and they will lose their fear.

Beast-like roars, howls, slaughter.The deprived bodies were scattered all over the church, Lin An sat in a corner, and there was no intrusion around her.Why didn't he understand, he tried his best to contain the killing, even when the killing was at its height, he still kept away from her consciously.

When one side was finally slaughtered, there was a moment of silence in the church.Klaus and Michael's faces were bloodstained, and even though the wounds could recover quickly, they showed a trace of fatigue.

They killed all that stood in their way except Dalia.Her look is one of lofty invincibility, because her strength ensures this invincibility.

Unsurprisingly, they were defeated, and they couldn't even get close to Dalia.With just a lift of a finger, she can make two powerful primal vampires die in agony.Lin An heard Klaus lying on the ground in embarrassment, struggling in pain.

Lin An stared at the holy statue in the middle of the church, its posture and expression unchanged for thousands of years.But he is blind.

Elijah and Freya came, but it was useless, and Dalia destroyed their self-righteous weapons, and deterred the enemy with absolute power.

Dahlia said she just wanted to get back what was rightfully hers.

But what should it be?Lin An originally thought that Klaus should be hers.But he is not.Cole should live as he pleases.But he didn't.

What you can really get is what you deserve. "What is irretrievable belongs not to man, but to God."

Daria left, and the church returned to silence—a more oppressive heaviness than before.

The four stood quietly, Elijah and Klaus looked at each other, then turned their eyes to the thin figure sitting in the corner.Klaus turned his back to Lin An, as if he didn't notice Elijah's slightly hesitant gaze, he paused for a moment, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Elijah hesitated to speak, but finally looked away, and left with Freya and Michael.

The high glazed sky in the church seems to be always covered by the darkness of killing, and the room is dim, and it is impossible to tell the time in it.The flickering candles made a "crackling" sound, illuminating the scattered corpses everywhere.

The lanterns are all thin, and the night is dim.Lin An crouched directly on the stool. It was a terrible change. Now she was able to live alone with dozens of corpses without fear.She's just a little tired, maybe she should eat and sleep a bit.

Sleeping in this room full of corpses, will someone take her away as a dead person?

In the mist, the floating body was embraced by a pair of hands.Lin An smelled the familiar scent, so he stopped opening his eyes.

Klaus put Lin An on the bed, and she didn't open her eyes.Klaus knew that she was not asleep, so he didn't point it out. He stood by the bed and looked at her pale, almost transparent face.The whole world is silent.

Lin An opened his eyes after Klaus left. There was a beating and painful heart in his chest. He went and returned, but now there is only a sober and difficult reality between them, why bother to face it.

Sporadic voices could be discerned from outside the window, not in a pleasant tone, as their sloppiness and blind confidence caused them to miss the only weapon that could have killed Dahlia - though it wasn't actually the weapon that would have killed Dahlia , but their enemies misguided this error by mistake.

Lin An sat in the darkness with heavy curtains, thinking about Dalia's purpose.Hope, there is no doubt about it.But she couldn't see her usefulness to her, and with the power she showed today, no one could stop her.

She would not believe that Dalia would unconditionally help her resurrect Cole.

Lin An heard Freya's sudden scream, she went out, and saw that the stake in Klaus's hand had already reached the position of Michael's heart, and Freya was stopped by Elijah, who was in a state of anxiety.

White oak stumps? !Lin An remembered that Hong had given Esther three white oak tree stumps, which had obviously changed hands to Klaus who defeated Esther.

Lin An heard Klaus ask Michael, who was nailed to the door of death by him again: "...I want to know why?" Why can Freya, who barely knows him, be able to fight so hard?And the person who has been his son for a longer time, but he only despises him from the beginning to the end?Even if he only asked him to be a father...

Michael replied, no idea, that's what he did.

Michael's distaste for Klaus, and even his physical and mental abuse, were gratuitous, long before he knew what Klaus was.Until the truth was revealed, the perpetrator found the best explanation for these crimes—it turned out that there was a reason for all the disgust, because he was a dirty and despicable bastard.

Klaus turned his back to Lin An, she couldn't see his flushed eyes and the tears sliding down his cheeks, but she could feel the bone-chilling longing and grief from his quivering back.

As soon as he sent his arm forward, he was about to pierce Michael's heart and shatter his own weak and shameful extravagant hopes.Freya's desperate cry suddenly became intense.

Michael waited for a moment, but the pain of crushing his heart did not come.Klaus still maintains the posture of his arms, but the stake seems to be fixed, unable to move forward.

Others quickly noticed the anomaly, too.Klaus turned around and saw Lin An standing on the porch.

"You want the ashes of a Viking. A Viking's hair is still a Viking if its hair is burned. If it's not enough, there are fingers and arms..." she said.If you don't want to, don't kill.

How many things can we do as we please?How many things can I do for you?there is none left.So, if you don't want to, don't kill it.

Standing at the corner of the street, Lin An saw the young man walking out of the flower shop with roses in his hands. All the sunshine in New Orleans gathered on his face. His young and handsome face was about to leave this place of death with his lover because he had let go of all dark plots. He is full of smiles, like a red rose in full bloom in his hands.

But the blooming is always short-lived, within a few steps, the fresh life in his hands has been burned out, leaving only withered flower branches.

Dalia blocked his way.

Lynn knew him, Hayley's wolf clan member, Joshua's boyfriend, Aiden.Also Klaus's spy in the Wolf Clan.

Aiden is the perfect trigger to drive a wedge between Michael's family.Dalia's plan was straightforward and effective.

In the quiet and hidden alley, Dalia's finger was like a sharp weapon, drawing bloodstains on Aiden's face and neck from the air.Lin An finally walked over, stopped at the other end of the alley, and stood facing Dalia.

"Oh dear," said Dahlia kindly, "I thought you'd prefer to watch from afar."

Lin An didn't speak.

Dalia didn't seem to care, she clenched her palms into fists, and the clothes on Aiden's chest were instantly soaked in blood, and the beating heart in his chest would burst out in the next second.

"I can solve Klaus." Lin An said.

Dalia let go of her palm leisurely, and Aiden immediately lay down on the ground and gasped for breath.

"Forgive me for not catching you, what did you just say, dear?" said Dahlia.

Lin An looked at her, the thin cheeks highlighted the big and bright eyes, and said slowly and firmly: "If anyone in this world can defeat you, it will only be Klaus. I will solve him."

Dalia laughed: "What an innocent and kind child. In order to save this person you don't even know, you don't hesitate to fight against your lover..."

"I didn't do it to save him," Lin An turned his face away, and Aiden was still lying on the ground, looking at her and Dalia warily. "At least it's not just to save him. If you get Hope, you will help me revive Cole, Klaus...sooner or later."

"Really?" Dahlia looked at her with a smile, "Or you are just worried that I will blame Klaus for Aiden's death, which will make him lose his most cherished family."

Lin An was startled, and then said flatly: "I don't think you're so complicated." She was telling the truth, and she couldn't think of these conspiracies so far.

Dalia took a few steps closer to her, and the black windbreaker hanging down to her calf swayed gracefully with her steps. "Sometimes our actions are more honest than our thoughts."

The mottled and dilapidated walls on both sides blocked the daylight, the secluded alley was gloomy and damp, and the air was filled with a musty and rotten smell.

Dalia reached out and stroked Lin An's hair hanging on her shoulders, like a close elder. "Go, dear. I await your news."

Lin An looked down at Aiden.Dalia didn't show the slightest displeasure at Lin An's suspicion: "You can trust me, dear. I never break my promise."

Lin An turned around silently, like a crisp autumn leaf, disappeared at the end of the alley.

There is a slight icy breeze blowing through this alley as if there is nothing, and nature travels through the pain and joy of the world with changing seasons, without any mercy.Like human emotion, if it exists, it does not ask why.When it betrays and disappears, it is irretrievable.This is the emptiest existence in the world.

Human beings, who are primates of all things, cannot detect this layer of illusion. They are nostalgic when they are in it, and they will always bear the burden of resentment after being betrayed and hurt...

Dalia leaned close to Aiden who was trembling on the ground, and lightly brushed the scars on his face with her palm, and the bloodstains carved by the spell, which could not be restored by the supernatural power of the half-breed, disappeared.

"Loyalty is the creed of the wolf clan," Dalia's gentle fingers slid across Aiden's young and handsome face, "so, go tell your clan. Go tell Hayley, Klaus, tell everyone, my lovely Little League will help me get back what's rightfully mine."