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Lin An experienced a completely different dream.

The woods in late autumn are barren everywhere, and the setting sun hangs lazily in the sky, like a broken egg yolk.Gradually covered by thick fog and blue-gray peaks, from a distance, it looks like someone has bitten you off.

There is no way in the forest, or she cannot find the way.The ground within sight is covered with fallen leaves, layer upon layer, and there is a crisp cracking sound when stepped on lightly.

The yolk-like sunset was finally swallowed up by the mist of the mountains, and the light gradually dimmed, making Lin An even more confused about the direction.Her bare feet and calves were scratched by unsuspecting gravel and dead branches from time to time, so she simply stopped walking and sat down on a fairly flat stone to rest.

Lin An gently raised her right foot. There were already many dense cuts on the bare/bare soles, which were not particularly serious. Lin An wanted to rest for a while and she should be able to continue walking.

This is a very strange feeling.She is in a villa in a plantation. Although the plantation behind the house occupies a large area, most of them are fruit trees, and there are not so many tall green plants.What's more, she has been walking for an hour, or even longer, and still hasn't walked out of the woods.

witch.Or Esther's illusion spell.This is Lin Andi's instinctive guess.She knew her guess was correct, saying that it felt strange because she was alone in this wild forest, and she was not afraid.On the contrary, there is a sense of security that has escaped from the cage.

It was extremely quiet all around, only the rustling autumn wind and falling leaves.Lin An rolled into a ball and sat on the stone, watching the paper-thin leaves being blown down by the wind.

When she noticed, the huge figure had already stepped out from behind the tree.

It walked extremely slowly, and its strong and powerful limbs stepped on the thick dead leaves without making any sound, like a natural hunter.Lin An was the first to see its eyes. Under the dim light of twilight, the green pupils shone with a cruel edge.

It walked completely in front of Lin An, and she saw clearly that it was a wolf.

Lin An stood up abruptly, his bare heels knocked against the stone, excruciatingly painful.Lin An moved a step vigilantly, and the beast standing in front of him lowered his head, his throat rolling out a low warning growl.Lin An saw its sharp fangs and mottled blood around its mouth, she didn't dare to move anymore, maybe it just had a full meal, so it was not in a hurry to attack.But his gaze was like a torch, wrapping the slender figure of his prey in his pupils.

Unexpectedly, two black-feathered birds came from nowhere and flew towards Lin An. Lin An subconsciously exclaimed, lowered his body, and stretched out his hands to drive them away.The dormant wolf roared in fright, jumped up its huge body and rushed towards Lin An.

"Klaus!" Instinct is an uncontrollable emotion, Lin An shouted his name loudly in the face of danger.

As soon as he took a step to escape, he was thrown to the ground by the beast that came behind him in an instant. Lin An closed his eyes, but he didn't wait for the expected pain for a long time.

Slowly opening his eyes, seeing the suddenly enlarged wolf's head close at hand, and the bloody breath blowing on his face, Lin An didn't dare to move.

A huge full moon hangs in the sky, and the dark blue night sky is full of stars, more than Lin An has ever seen before.The sky is full of stars, unbelievable.

The moonlight was clear and light, as if it was slowly flowing down the treetops in the forest, and flowed onto Lin An's cheeks, giving off a lovely luster like a shell.

Lin An suddenly felt a chill on her face, and was surprised that the wolf's head, which was bowed in front of her eyes, stretched out its tongue and rolled over her cheek.Lin An, who was lying on the ground, trembled for a while, and his eyes opened even wider. "Klaus?" she called out uncertainly.

Lin An knew that Klaus had half werewolf blood, but she had never seen his transformed animal form.As if responding to her voice, Lin An felt a moist itch on his face again.

The heartstrings were slightly loose, Lin An stretched out his hands to wrap around its neck and got up from the ground.She gently stroked its smooth and soft fur, and Lin An realized that she felt safe not because of the ease of fleeing, she just knew that someone would always find her.

Lin An felt relaxed, because she knew it was not real, but maybe it was because of the illusory possession that she was able to have no scruples.She tore off a corner of his coat to wipe his blood-stained cheeks, and stretched out her fingers presumptuously to pull the beards on both sides of his cheeks.He showed rare meekness.

"Aren't you coming back?" Lin An asked.He closed his eyes and lay prone on the ground, with his head resting comfortably on his outstretched forelimbs. Lin An's touch seemed to make him quite comfortable.

Lin An has never been in contact with transformed werewolves, so he is not sure whether they will lose their human language ability when they are in animal form. "That's good too. It's warm." She opened her arms to embrace his huge body, her chin resting on his solid back, and the soft thick hair on his back caressed her cheeks.

They have been moving forward with heavy loads, but all the heavy objects on their shoulders are invisible at this moment, and all the things in the past no longer exist.They are allowed to stand on each other's blank starting point again, and their warm and profound feelings can be taken and given as they please.Even if it is just a white mist shrouded in moonlight, full of illusions and imaginations.

She lay on his body, warm and soft, sleeping peacefully.The small cheek was almost completely buried in the thick hair on his neck, and his hands were wrapped around his neck.The autumn wind blows, and the fragile dead leaves on the treetops quietly fall.The fluffy tail is slightly rolled up, covering the skinny person beside him, it is the lightest, warmest and most intimate quilt.

Lin An was awakened by the coldness dripping on his face, and there was a patter of raindrops in the middle of the night.Lin An sat up from the thick fur of Klaus. When the raindrops fell, there was a rustling sound on the treetops and dead leaves that had fallen on the ground.After such a rain, the wet dead leaves will rot quietly and become nutrients to nourish the vegetation for years.

"It's raining." Lin An was still a little confused, his soft voice floating in the night rain.After speaking, his small body tilted, and he fell into the softness again.

Feeling his body shaking slightly in the drowsiness, Lin An opened his eyes and found that he was riding on the werewolf's back.The raindrops were sparse but plump and heavy. Lin An thought that he might want to take her to find a shelter from the rain. The leaves above his head and under his feet made the sound of raindrops falling.He walked very slowly so that Lin An, who was still asleep, would not be knocked to the ground by his galloping speed.

Realizing that Lin An was awake, he stopped and turned to look at her questioningly.Lin An immediately bowed his head knowingly, stretched out his arms and hugged his neck tightly, and rubbed his cheeks against the soft and incredible hair on his neck. "Okay. Let's go." Lin An said briskly.

Almost the moment her voice fell, he leaped out like a sharp sword.The raindrops falling from the void were smashed by their figures, and Lin An felt that his forehead, cheeks, and whole body were wrapped in splashing coldness.In the galloping wind, she opened her eyes. In the relative speed, the raindrops and fallen leaves seemed to be floating in mid-air, motionless, and she could easily touch them with her fingers.

They run like no one else in this empty world, as if they can reach any place in their hearts.Everything outside of him quickly and silently fell behind him.flashed by.

She was surrounded by great, vague pleasures.

She indulged her addiction in illusory freedom.

"I want to stay here forever." Lin Anfu whispered in his ear, "We stay here."

**

The sound of rushing water rinsed the blood-stained hands, and the flowing liquid instantly turned intense bright red.Klaus's dark eyes flickered on and off, and he'd just finished an earnest, earnest conversation with two witches and soiled a T-shirt his girl loved, much to his displeasure.

Elijah in his mother's hand.This fact is as obvious as the blood on his face and body at this moment. What needs to be demonstrated is whether Lin An's current situation is also related to his evil mother. ——

She has been comatose for two days.At the same time, the little girl named Hong fell into a deep sleep.

A charming and legendary woman once wrote: If you knew me in the past, maybe you would forgive me in the present.

Everyone in this world seems to have had a bitter and painful past, and was forced to become another self step by step by these last resorts.

So is Esther.

She traded with the devil for a whole family and won her children.But an immeasurable price destroyed all of this, and even the bleakness of the past couldn't go back, so he could only fight, with grief and indignation and in the name of majestic protection.

Esther tries to get her children to know who she used to be, and to get forgiveness.But no, because the truth was revealed too late, and it became a shallow excuse, a hypocritical skin.The constant swearing of salvation may be just another deception disguised as a loving mother.More because, "Time makes deep things deeper and shallower."

Here, deeper and deeper is hatred.What is getting shallower is the family affection squeezed out by hatred.Because the human heart is only so big, the hatred given to a person takes up more, and the remaining family affection is less.

Klaus was never convinced by Esther, he didn't believe a single word that came out of his mother's mouth, that maybe she would really be able to put their lives into another body and save her children from the curse of the vampire .But this might just be the beginning of another plot for her.Not to mention that he would never allow these uncertainties to threaten the safety of his children.

But deep down in his heart he longed for what his mother said to be true, he longed for these thin feelings that spanned thousands of years.When Esther told him about his biological father, he was born according to his parents' expectations.She would put him in the body of a werewolf, restore him to his true nature, and heal the bloodthirsty curse that had invaded his soul.He could start his own family with the woman he cherished, be happy, be at peace, have everything he hadn't had in a long time.

This is a temptation.Fatal temptation.

As if he was afraid that he would compromise in a second, Klaus yelled, "Enough! Tell me where Elijah is, or I will kill you!" There was a mixture of eager confusion and violence on his face, "Whether Is it your current body, or the body you want to enter in the future. Until the end!"

Esther knew that her stubborn son could not be persuaded once, or that she knew that peaceful means could never make her children obey.Klaus thought he had drawn Esther, but in fact, as a mother, she had already made every step of the arrangement for her child, including this meeting.

The powerful witch force knocked her angry child to the ground, followed by a flick of the wrist, and with the sound of a fragile neck snapping, Klaus fell into a brief state of death. ——Esther needs him to wait here obediently, and then step into her next step.

☆、Chapter 19

When the moonlight was shining, Klaus woke up.The sadness in the dream was completely hidden, and the expression on his face was as contemptuous and arrogant as ever.

He dreamed of his father, his biological father, and when he finally knew his existence and looked for it with little hope, what he found was his body. —Michael killed him first.

It's hard to describe exactly how he felt at the time.He looked at the body of the strange man, they were connected by blood, and then within hours of knowing it, that connection snapped again.In a vague way, he even had a feeling that this should be the case, as if he had vaguely foreseen everything when he was looking for it all the way.He had clearly realized before it happened that there would be no light in his life, that hope was futile, even a shame of weakness.

Nietzsche said: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger in the end.This sentence has been best interpreted by Klaus.He grew up in these darkness, and quickly became stronger in the bloody ordeal that coexisted with the darkness!

"You woke up a little earlier than I expected." Esther looked down at a pocket watch that looked as old as her. "It doesn't matter," she said, "It's time." Between the brows is the superior strength that controls everything .

Esther told Klaus where Elijah was, in a tomb in the cemetery, and fell asleep under her spell.Of course, Esther thought she had given Elijah enough proof to make the right choice.

"One last question," said Klaus, "I need to know, what did you do to her?"

Esther smiled, she knew who the "she" Klaus was talking about. "I'm glad you fell in love, child. It will make you long for an end, or at least a check on your wicked ways. I think you'll think carefully about my offer, for her."

"What did you do? If you let me know that you did anything to hurt her..."

"Calm down my child, are you impatient to expose a weakness to me? It is true that love makes people stupid. But you can rest assured that she is of no use to me. This is just a small deal. She Soon you will wake up unharmed."

The moon was hidden by the thick clouds, and Klaus's gloomy face was also hidden.He didn't believe his mother's words, at least not entirely.He raised his head and looked at the dark-skinned woman with strange facial features in front of him. Through this skin, he pierced through the powerful and cruel soul in the hiding period.He has forgotten since when, the only intersection between him and this soul is confrontation and fighting.

"Everything I told you tonight is the truth, Nicklaus. Whether you choose to believe it or not is up to you." Esther spoke earnestly, with an extremely sincere expression.Like the first time she came back from the dead and stood before the Michaelson siblings, Klaus thought she was there to kill him.But she said, Nicklaus, you are my son, and I am here to forgive you.But under the cover of noble and hypocritical maternal love is the most vicious and cruel murder.

Klaus did not forget this, he stood silently for a moment, then his figure flashed and disappeared into the darkness.

Esther's calculations were extremely accurate. When Klaus rushed to the cemetery, he ran into the person who made him completely unexpected-his biological father.The ancient leader of the wolf clan thousands of years ago.

He is completely different from Michael, upright, brave, and wise. Klaus can almost find in him all the qualities that a father should have that he once desperately wanted.It’s just that all expectations have a time limit, which represents our unique emotions in a certain period of time, such as weakness, naivety, sadness, fear... It’s a surprise to come before the deadline, and it’s a surprise to appear later. The indelible gaps and estrangements resulting from countless disappointments.

Obviously, Klaus's biological father belongs to the latter.

The first reaction after the shock was no.The man in front of him was a phantasm conjured up by Esther's spell, unreal, an illusion created by his mother to sway him into accepting the deal.

Then, the heart-wrenching words of hurting the enemy one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred blurted out, "Even if what you say is true, you are nothing to me. You can crawl back to hell, it has nothing to do with me."

Time cuts expectations into wounds again and again, and the heart is as hard as iron after hard work.

Klaus rescued Elijah who was trapped by Esther in the cemetery, but he was still sinking in a dream out of control...

**

Elijah saw the young man with a clear face opposite him, standing up against the wall with difficulty, a large amount of blood had already gathered under his feet, but there was a sad and weird smile on the corner of his mouth.He stretched out his hand, and knocked away Elena who was about to use vampire's blood for treatment.

Elijah saw him take a step forward, and the blood flowing down like a brook meandered along with his movements. His piercing eyes were always fixed on the girl who had given him a fatal blow, as if she had fallen into deep thought.

Seeing him looking in the direction of Hong, Elijah's lips moved.But Elijah couldn't hear what he said, because the darkness suddenly hit his face, and everything, people and things in front of him disappeared in an instant. ——

Or maybe he didn't say anything.

The familiar empty and dark corridor was flickering with candlelight.

"Why do you have such a dream?" Hong suddenly asked.She was so weak that she had to support the wall on one side of the corridor to stand still.There is no doubt about the sudden change of the scene in front of him, and it seems that he has completely forgotten the killing and attack the previous moment.

Elijah frowned slightly, he doubted that this was his personal dream, or it was definitely not.Because he didn't know the boy who was seriously injured by the sharp weapon, and the town of Mystic Falls was no longer within his focus.

Seeing Elijah's puzzled expression, Hong added: "I mean here," she looked around the gloomy confinement corridor, "Why do you have such a dream? At first you were like... ...No, that is, a tyrant who has no reason and only bloody killing."

Elijah was silent.

Hong laughed, accompanied by a heavy cough. "Why don't you wake up? You refuse to believe this grotesque dream, don't you? Then wake up."

Facing Elijah's calm gaze, Hong saw the threats mixed with it and the embarrassment of being punctured.She stood up and walked in front of him step by step, Elijah heard her low chuckle. “It’s still something inside you that chooses to believe,” she said.The aura on his body is undergoing a huge change, becoming sharper and sharper.

"Because you know, that's what's real. Reality is not being able to wake up."

The girl's tone was still gentle, and Elijah was hit in the heart by this soft and slow fist, and there was a humming in his chest, which was also light and slow, but it lasted forever.It was as if something he had been rejecting had finally found a breach and seeped in. It was more powerful and thorough than his mother's painstaking physical or psychological destruction.

Then, this tremor in the heart becomes a sharp pain, if it has substance.Elijah lowered his head to look, and there was a wooden stake sticking out of his chest, and the front end of the wooden stake protruding from his body was still being held by the girl's white and slender hands.

"Die here! Or, wake up!!"

In the excruciating pain, Elijah heard Hong's voice, sonorous and firm.

……

**

Klaus was about to turn and leave when Elijah suddenly woke up.Elijah had a slight rash-like wound on his neck, which Klaus recognized as the result of his mother's habitual spell of putting people to sleep with the petals of the malloc orchid, through which the petals put people to sleep, while the roots can Used to wake up.

Klaus was about to leave to find the plant when Elijah woke up.With the vigilance and surprise of being suddenly pierced through the heart.

This psychedelic trip is connected with each other. Although he is not sure, Klaus immediately turned around and walked to Lin An's room.

At the dawn of time, the light blue sky gradually appeared a magnificent morning glow.In the first ray of morning light shining through the mist, Klaus saw the same figure approaching.

He showed his first real smile in days, gentle and soft like the morning light, with stretched eyebrows and slightly raised corners of his mouth.It's right that he doesn't laugh like this often, otherwise how many people would be addicted to it.

When they met head-on, both of them subconsciously stopped, but in just a moment, with the distance between the two of them, Klaus actually used the limit speed and flew in front of Lin An in an instant, before she could react. Into a cool embrace.

Klaus heard a short low laugh from the person in his arms, and before he had time to wonder, he was bounced off by a huge irresistible force, and his body was imprisoned by this force, unable to move at all.

"Although I don't mind such enthusiasm, I think you may need to ask your girl for advice." Klaus heard the relaxed and cheerful voice of the girl standing in front of him.The girl's arms dropped, and Klaus' body crashed to the ground.

With completely unfamiliar words and gestures, Lin An didn't have such a powerful force, let alone hurt him.Klaus stood up and saw a slightly sarcastic expression floating on the familiar face.

It took almost an instant for Klaus to realize that the person in front of him was not Lin An. His first reaction was the memory of another soul hidden in Lin An's body, and he immediately denied that "she" would not have such an outwardly proud expression.

That is……

"Red!" Elijah, who had just woken up, expressed Klaus' guess.So aggressive, Elijah had just learned from this girl.

The girl winked slyly at Elijah. "Although it took a little longer than I expected, but," she walked slowly to the fitting mirror in the room, carefully looked at this brand new body back and forth, as if she was trying on a new dress, she was overjoyed , "Perfect." The girl said.

"Elijah, watch her, don't let her use Lin An's body to leave this room. I'll go to Marcel." After calming down, Klaus said quickly.On the second day when Lin An fell into a deep sleep, Marcel brought Hong the same news.If the plot is a body swap, he needs to find Lin An before something worse happens.

"You don't have to go." Elijah stopped Klaus and turned his gaze to the direction of the door.Concern is chaotic, his powerful younger brother didn't hear the other person's footsteps at all.

Klaus turned his head following Elijah's gaze, and saw another figure with a very similar outline, but a little immature.She stopped at the door and didn't come any closer.

Clouston did not move where he was.The moment he saw her he knew it was worse. ——Because the girl's eyes only stayed on him for a short moment, and then directly passed him to look at the person behind him.

More because Klaus saw pity in her short gaze...

Lin An, or Hong, turned his back to the crowd, caught the gaze from the door in the clean mirror, and looked even more complacent and arrogant.

"You lost," she said.

The figure standing at the door did not answer, and walked back into the house.She walked slowly and spoke slowly.She said: "My body can better control the magic. I always knew your purpose was here, but I didn't expect it to be so fast. You did a good job, I was surprised."

She stopped in front of the mirror, standing shoulder to shoulder with her.The mirror reflected two almost identical faces.A smile is contemptuous.A calm and condensed.

The autumn sun shone in faintly. "Crack!" With a cracking sound, the fitting mirror, which was as tall as a person, was torn apart.

"If she doesn't come back, then you will all be buried with her." Klaus's cold voice came from behind.