[The Vampire Diaries] I heard I'm dead

It looks like an undeveloped forest here.Alice and Silas had a hard time walking, partly because the mountain road was rough, and partly because they didn't know where to go.

Alice stopped and said: "We must study this place."

Silas asked, "Does it feel weird to you?"

"What's weird?"

"It's so quiet," Silas explained. "There's no running water, no insects, not even the wind blowing through the leaves."

Alice also thought of something: "If all the dead supernatural creatures will be here, then there must be a lot of them. But where are they now?"

Silas put forward his opinion: "This space was created by Quintesia, but Quintesia is dead, so what does the Freedom Realm rely on for its existence?"

"Maybe it's the ancient passage?" Alice tentatively replied, "The ancient passage belongs to the wind listener. Quintesia stole it from the wind listener Dafriel hundreds of years ago and put it in the free realm." .”

"I have heard about the ancient passage of the wind listener." Silas looked around: "But the ancient passage is not used to build a space. It has been 2000 years since Quintesia created the Freedom If it is supported by the ancient passage, then before she got the ancient passage, what did the Freedom Realm rely on?"

This is a loophole, and Alice can't answer it.

"Not all dead supernatural creatures will come to the Freedom Realm. Only those creatures that were produced later than the Freedom Realm will be absorbed here after death. When the Freedom Realm hadn't appeared 2000 years ago, There are other places for supernatural beings to go after they die."

"Then where are they going?" Alice asked.

"I don't know." Silas shook his head slightly: "It's like where will ordinary humans go after death? This is an eternal question. Maybe everyone's destination is different."

"But the ancient passage is indeed in Quintesia's wandering realm." Alice said, "Maybe I haven't explained it. I am a descendant of the Wind Listener, and so are Sith. We can feel—"

"I don't doubt what you mean." Silas said, "But I don't think there is a necessary connection between the existence of the ancient passage and the Freedom. Maybe it's just a passage—if Quintesia puts it Put into the Free State, perhaps out of the temptation of the devil, or out of fear of the devil."

"The ancient passage is not something that Quintesia can control and own." Silas looked at the hazy sky: "In my impression, even the listener himself is afraid of it."

Alice wanted to say something more, but Silas said, "It's not right. He's climbing up the hill, maybe we should go up there and see."

There is no mountain road at all, and it took them a long time to stand on the top of the mountain.

"What can you see?" Silas asked.

The distance is gray, like an old pictorial, the color has faded.

Alice said: "I have a bold guess—"

Silas asked, "What?"

Suddenly, there was a violent tremor under his feet!

Trees fall, rocks crumble—

"Get out of here!" Alice shouted: "Maybe the Freedom Realm is dying! I guess! This space may be about to collapse!"

They ran among the collapsing boulders and logs, heading for the flat land beyond.

"I kind of regret coming here!" Silas said, "I should have a better way to die—no, if I didn't drink the cure and was still immortal, I might be more comfortable with this kind of death." Survive in the wilderness!"

While speaking, the rolling wood hit Alice on the back of the head, causing her to fall to the ground.She almost passed out, but she insisted on standing up.

Silas was already too busy to take care of herself, and Alice was completely on her own.When she decided to enter the Free State, she was already mentally prepared.

But then, an unknown body was attached to her back, and she was taken away from the place where the rocks collapsed at the fastest speed——

Alice's silent heartbeat was completely revived.She didn't need to look back, she already knew who that person was.

"You shouldn't be here." They finally got away from the valley. The older vampire looked depressed and decadent, but still stood upright: "What do you think! I tried my best to save you, but what about you? Just ruin your own life!"

His words were full of reproach, but Alice didn't care.She hugged the person in front of her tightly: "I didn't think about anything. I just thought about you, Elijah. Bonnie said she saw you here, and from that moment on, I couldn't think about anything. "

"Why are you here, Elijah?" Alice looked up in his arms.

"I got lost with Rogia." Elijah said, "We did find Gorgazol's tomb, but it was more dangerous than expected. I fell into a trap and walked here unintentionally."

Gorgaso's tomb is a vast and gloomy complex of palaces.But on the way they walked into the main tomb, there were many traps, and Elijah fell into the abyss of traps.

This is a bottomless pit, like an endless dark space-time, without boundaries and without end.He kept falling until he met a ray of light.Without a choice, he ran towards that beam of light.

"The ancient passage!" Alice exclaimed, "Did you pass through the ancient passage?"

"I don't know what the Ancient Passage is," Elijah replied, "but it's a long journey."

Not only was it long, but it was also painful.There were countless visions in the darkness to torment him, Alice's withered, dead body gazing at him with empty eyes; the sight of Nicklaus killing their mother, brutal even though he had never actually seen it; Countless voices hinted that he would never be able to escape, tempting him to collapse.

"This is the free realm created by Quintesia." Silas finally staggered over and complained to Alice: "I thought I could give you a ride, but now it seems that you don't need it."

Although she was not out of danger, seeing Elijah always made her feel strangely happy.So she smiled at Silas and said, "No no no, it's always good to have a powerful wizard."

"You are not Stefan." Elijah lowered his eyes to look at him: "Are you Silas?"

"That's right." Alice replied instead of Silas: "We are allies now—because Sith doesn't want to come, he thinks it's too dangerous."

"Then you should follow the Sith's judgment—"

Elijah seemed to start preaching again, and Alice quickly covered his mouth: "Okay, I'm here now, I can't change it, can I?"

Alice said, "Both Silas and I felt that this place was very wrong. The Wandering Realm was a magical space created by the witch Quintesia, and every supernatural creature that died has entered here since then. But the Sith killed her— Because she wanted to kill me. Now that she's dead, we figured maybe the space would collapse."

"Quintesia wants to kill you?" Elijah quickly looked her up and down to make sure there was no harm: "For what reason?"

"She took me as Dafriel." Alice replied, "It turned out that she killed Dafriel hundreds of years ago. Now she sees me and thinks I'm here for revenge, so naturally she wants to kill again .”

Alice asked again: "How long have you been here, is there anything unusual?"

"I'm not sure." Elijah shook his head slightly: "Time doesn't have a strong sense of existence for me, especially when I have lost all contact with the outside world. As you guessed-this area is dying. It collapsed inch by inch, fell inch by inch, and finally turned completely gray and black, and disappeared into dust."

His eyes looked at the mountain that just collapsed.Alice looked in his direction, the mountain looked more and more gray and decayed, the color became darker and lighter——

"We can't stay any longer!" Silas said. "Get out of here!"

"Everywhere is collapsing," Elijah said. "There's nowhere to go in this space unless you can get out of this space."

Silas said, "But the Freedom has no exit. It has an entrance, though, and the entrance is Bonnie."

Alice looked around and gradually came up with an idea.

"No, there is another place." She said firmly: "Let's retreat to the ancient passage." She hooked Elijah's finger: "Honey, do you still remember that direction?"

Elijah looked at her, deep and trusting.

"Okay," he said, "make your heart strong, and don't be deluded by the devil. Don't listen to what he says; don't look at the illusions he creates. Always remember your original intention, and never be deluded by the devil. False. Promise me, Alice, that no matter what you hear or see, you will not feel sad and angry, and you will not give up in despair."

"I promise you." She stood on tiptoe and gave Elijah a soft kiss: "Although I don't know what is in the ancient passage, although everyone is afraid of it--but I know I have you, this is Enough is enough. If the devil tempts me, I will remember what lies ahead; if darkness consumes me, I will remember the dawn. Nothing lasts forever, and nothing is easily lost. I am content with what I have, but even if it Lost, there is nothing to resent, I have, experienced, this is my destiny. I don't need more, and I never need anything from the devil."

"Very good." Elijah kissed her forehead, eyes, bridge of nose, then her lips. "I know the way back to the passage." Even though the place is very evil, it doesn't prevent you from going there again.

In Elijah's arms, Alice chuckled and turned to look at Silas: "Then, my lord wizard, can the ancient passage be regarded as a wise way of death?"

"That's right." Silas raised his eyebrows and said, "At least you don't have to die in Quintesia, that would be too embarrassing. The ancient passage is something that even those who listen to it are afraid of, at least it sounds much smarter."

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