Chapter 300: The Dense Forest Frontier

Elena closed her eyes, her voice too hoarse for words.

"...... I waited for four years, until I was an adult, every day to hear about Guy and Alex's remains in the newspapers and on the radio, but until all the channels I had access to stopped broadcasting about the war, I still didn't wait. "

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

Elena's chest rose and fell slightly: "As an adult, I left the town, went to school, worked, lived, but this place still haunted me and after thirty, with the money I had saved, I came back to this town where there was a war."

"It was a prosperous time, the post-war damage was still being repaired, and a large mill was built on the rainforest's rich timber resources, attracting many people to work there, but the prosperity did not last."

Elena looked back in the direction of the abandoned town: "The workers and machines in the big mills were working day and night to deliver the wood here to the world, and soon the wood here was mined out, losing so many trees that the rainforest, which had received so much rainfall, gradually sanded out and turned into a desert."

"...... Then, everyone here left again, and I'm the only old woman left to guard the graves." Elena patted the headstone she was sitting on and suddenly said, "Oh yes, did I forget to tell you about the cemetery?"

She rubbed her temples, sighing: "...... People are getting old and saying things upside down. This cemetery was used as a mass cemetery to bury dead soldiers during the war, but after the war it was bought by a private owner and turned into a commercial cemetery for sale. "

"But most of those buried here are unnamed bodies from the war, which the government was not allowed to move, and have remained buried here, with the named bodies being claimed by their own families."

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

Elena's eyes became 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 because Guy Davis had a rebel record and by rule he was not eligible for burial in any cemetery in the country."

Elena's voice burst into hysterics: "I hissed at these heartless businessmen, I said Guy Davis is dead! He's been dead for over ten years! After death even God can forgive his sins! It's not your turn to judge him!"

"You have a cemetery where even a rat with indigenous blood can buy a grave, why shouldn't a decent and good man be buried!!!"

Elena held onto the headstone, her eyes hard as she choked out a cough and huffed and puffed.

"...... was young and full of energy at that time, I was not happy and I sold almost all my clothes and jewellery to sell Guy's grave from this cemetery vendor ......"

Elena smiled smugly, but tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.

"I still succeeded, this cemetery vendor agreed to sell me the grave against the rules, and you see, all it took was enough money and the sins of this group of people who refused to even give up pursuing their deaths could be easily erased."

"...... The cemetery fell into disrepair after that cemetery vendor left the area 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 is quiet.

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

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

Elena looked straight into Bai Liu's eyes, "Yes, not a day has gone by that I haven't been tormented by the guilt of not agreeing to marry Alex in the first place, and I have in Guy's grave the letter I later wrote to him agreeing to everything he asked for, and the wedding dress."

"But one day the grave was also ploughed up and the wedding dress and the letter inside were gone, along with a reply from Guy that was indeed his handwriting, the ink on it hadn't even dried, it was still fresh." Elena's breath caught, "I suspect, suspect ......"

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

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

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

Elena exhaled, "These two things, which represented penance, were probably the only reason they would come to see me, and I started writing them letters over and over again, as they came, and making them wedding dresses, hoping they would want to stay and see me."

"...... wish I could say in person to Guy and Alex that I'm sorry and God wish you all the happiness in the world."

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

Elena, with drooping eyelids, said with some breathlessness, "...... I waited and waited, waited for I don't know how many years, made I don't know how many wedding dresses, wrote how many letters, waited until everyone was out of here, and still didn't wait for them to meet me."

"...... Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting old and crazy." Elena smiles, her eyes full of vicissitudes, "Every now and then I'll see Guy in his wedding dress, with his bouquet, appearing in this cemetery, with the happy, beautiful smile I'd hoped he'd have."

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

She looked at Bai Liu with cloudy eyes: "If you really are Alex and Guy's comrades, please tell them that I don't expect them to forgive me for my despicable behaviour, I just want to see them, even if they don't forgive me."

Elena slowly shed a tear: "...... I just want to see them get happy."

"And not because of me, Alex's fiancée, who was never able to stay together until she died."

"I'll pass it on to them." Bai Liu stood up and he smiled gently, "The wedding dress you made is very beautiful and suits Guy very well."

Elena froze and looked up.

Bai Liu said softly, "I was at their wedding and Guy loved your wedding dress, he was so happy to be married to Alex in it, he said he was so happy that he would die for it the next minute, but he was willing to."

Elena opened her lips, a vacant, broken look on her face as she looked suspiciously at Bai Liu and forced out a smile, "Hey young man, there are some delightful lies that are enough to tell once, too many ......"

Bai Liu pulls a silky white headscarf from his pocket.

Elena stopped her words incredulously.

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

Elena looked at the veil in awe for a long, long time before trembling and reaching out to take it and touch it: "...... The hair on this is indeed Guy's hair, it's a wedding dress I made a long time ago and the threads in this area are still attached."

"Are they ...... happy?" Elena asked, holding her veil and tilting her head cautiously.

Bai Liu lowered her eyes, "They do live happily in a place you cannot see."

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

Liu Jiayi wrinkled her brow in confusion, "If this is the real game world line, the fake one we're experiencing, and it's the same relationship between the inside world and the table world as the Rose Factory, then there should only be one Guy, there can't be that many Guy's taking all the wedding dresses that Elena made."

"Is it possible that it's a seven-day loop?" Tang Erda tries to come up with a new explanation, "The real world line outside runs as usual, the war world line inside cycles for seven days, with a Guy on each cycle, and then Guy dies and is buried in the cemetery by Alex."

Bai Liu shook his head, "No, there's a contradiction in that explanation."

Tang Erda asks, "What are the contradictory points?"

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 is already there to what it was seven days ago."

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

"And only Guy exists with multiple living dead, which is not the case for anyone else in the War World line."

Liu Jiayi pondered, "I think the general direction of Tang Erda's seven day cycle one guess is correct, but something must be wrong with Guy the npc, and I Buming White why was he allowed to enter the real world line from the war world line?"

"That's up to the creator of the War Worlds thread, Alex." Bai Liu looked up into the fog that had once again appeared before him.