Irina closed her eyes and said in a hoarse voice:
"...I waited four years, until I was an adult, every day in the newspapers and on the radio, to hear about Guy and Alex's bodies, but until all the channels I had access to stopped broadcasting news about the war, I still didn't get to hear about it."
"...I gave up and continued to wait."
Irina's chest rose and fell slightly. "After I became an adult, I left the town to go to school, work, and live. But this place still haunted me. After I turned 30, I took the money I had saved and came back to this town where the war had taken place."
"It was very prosperous at that time. The post-war damage had been mostly repaired, and someone built a large factory using the rich wood resources in the rainforest, attracting many people to work. But this prosperity did not last long."
Elena looked back toward the abandoned town. "The workers and machine tools in the big factory were running day and night, transporting the wood here to the world. Soon all the wood here was mined out. A large number of trees were lost, and the rainforest, which originally had a lot of rainfall, gradually became sandy and turned into a desert."
"...Later, everyone here left, and I was the only old woman left here to guard the grave." Iliana patted the tombstone where she was sitting, and suddenly said, "Oh, by the way, did I forget to tell you about this cemetery?"
She rubbed her temples and sighed, "...When people get old, they start to talk nonsense. This cemetery was used to bury dead soldiers during the war. After the war, it was bought by a private owner and turned into a commercial cemetery for sale."
"But most of the bodies buried here are unidentified bodies from the war. The government does not allow them to be moved, so they have been buried here. The bodies with names have been taken away by their families."
"When I came here, I found the owner of this cemetery and said I was willing to pay for two empty graves for Alex and Guy in this cemetery. That is, there are no bodies in the graves, only some things they sent to me when they were alive."
When Irina said this, her eyes became blank: "But they quickly gave me a reply, saying that Alex can have a grave in this cemetery, but Guy Davis cannot."
"...I asked them why, and they said that because Guy Davis had a record of being a rebel, according to regulations, he was not eligible for burial in any cemetery in the country."
Elena's voice suddenly became hysterical: "I yelled at these heartless businessmen, Guy Davis is dead! He has been dead for more than ten years! Even God can forgive his crimes after his death! It is not your turn to judge him!"
"Your cemetery allows even a rat of indigenous descent to buy a grave. Why can't an upright and kind person be buried there?!"
Iliana leaned against the tombstone with a fierce look in her eyes. She coughed and panted:
"…I was young and hot-headed at the time, and I was unwilling to give up. I sold all my clothes and jewelry, almost bankrupting myself, to sell them from this cemetery vendor to Guy's grave…"
Iliana smiled triumphantly, but tears rolled down her cheeks:
"I succeeded. The cemetery dealer agreed to sell the grave to me in violation of the regulations. You see, with enough money, the sins of these people who refused to give up even death can be easily erased."
"…After the cemetery dealer left, the cemetery fell into disrepair. I retaliated by changing all the tombstones to Guy's name. It was a moment of prank-like happiness."
Having said this, Iliana fell silent.
"... I put some things I took from Alex's home in his grave. Guy, Guy's grave..." Iliana couldn't help but take a deep breath, "Because I couldn't find anything related to him, I put the old wedding dress I made for him in there."
Bai Liu looked at Iliana calmly: "Later, you found that the wedding dress was missing, right?"
Iliana looked directly into Bai Liu's eyes and said, "Yes, for all these years, there has not been a day that I have not been tortured by the guilt of not agreeing to his marriage to Alex. I placed the letter I later wrote to him agreeing to all his requests and the wedding dress in Guy's grave."
"But one day the grave was dug up, and the wedding dress and letter were gone. But there was a reply letter from Guy. It was indeed his handwriting, and the ink was still fresh." Iliana's breathing became rapid. "I suspected, suspected..."
Bai Liu asked softly, "You suspect that they are not dead yet, but are still alive, but just don't want to see you."
Iliana was silent for a long time, then said softly, "...Yes."
"I started to test it, and I found that whenever I put wedding dresses and letters on the grave, sometimes they would disappear the next day, and sometimes they would disappear after a long time, and some new letters would appear, all of which were written 50 years ago."
Iliana exhaled: "These two things represent confession. They may be the only reason why they are willing to come to see me. I started to write letters to them according to the content of the letters and make wedding dresses for them, hoping that they would be willing to stay and see me."
"...I hope I can personally say to Guy and Alex, I'm sorry, God wishes you happiness forever."
[May God wish you eternal happiness] - Bai Liu had seen this sentence on Guy's wedding dress.
Elena drooped her eyelids and said with a bit of difficulty in breathing, "...I waited and waited, for who knows how many years, made countless wedding dresses, wrote countless letters, waited until everyone left here, but they still didn't come to see me."
"...Sometimes, I wonder if I've gone crazy." Iliana laughed, her eyes full of sorrow. "From time to time, I would see Guy in a wedding dress, holding a bouquet, appearing in this cemetery, with the happy and beautiful smile on his face that I wish he could have."
"…But when I got closer, I realized he was just a stitched-up corpse."
She looked at Bai Liu with cloudy eyes: "If you are really Alex and Guy's comrade-in-arms, please tell them that I don't expect them to forgive my despicable behavior. I just hope to meet them, even if they don't forgive me."
Iliana slowly shed a tear: "...I just want to see them be happy."
"Not because I, Alex's fiancée, can't be together until death."
"I'll tell them." Bai Liu stood up and smiled softly, "The wedding dress you made is very beautiful and very suitable for Guy."
Iliana was startled and raised her head.
Bai Liu said softly, "I attended their wedding. Guy liked your wedding dress very much. He was very happy when he married Alex in the wedding dress. He said that he was so happy that he was willing to die for it in the next second."
Iliana opened her lips, the expression on her face was empty and shattered. She looked at Bai Liu suspiciously and forced a smile: "Hey, young man, some flattering lies only need to be told once. If you tell too many..."
Bai Liu pulled out a silky white gauze headscarf from his pocket.
Iliana stopped talking in disbelief.
"This is the veil of one of your wedding dresses. My friend accidentally pulled it off Guy's head during the wedding." Bai Liu handed it to Iliana and smiled. "I never tell lies to please others, ma'am."
Elena stared at the veil for a long time before she tremblingly reached out her hand to touch it: "...The hair on top is indeed Guy's hair. This is a wedding dress I made a long time ago, and the thread here has not been connected yet."
"Are they... happy?" Iliana asked cautiously while holding the veil.
Bai Liu lowered her eyes and said, "They are indeed living a happy life in a place you can't see."
After Iliana handed the letter to Bai Liu, Bai Liu and his group said goodbye to her and went back.
Liu Jiayi frowned in confusion: "If this is the real game world line, and the fake game world line we experienced is the relationship between the inner world and the outer world like the Rose Factory, then there should be only one Guy. It is impossible for there to be so many Guys to wear all the wedding dresses made by Iliana."
"Is it possible that it is a seven-day cycle?" Tang Erda tried to come up with a new explanation. "The real world line outside is running as usual, and the war world line inside is cycling for seven days. There is a Guy in each cycle, and then Guy dies and is buried in the cemetery by Alex."
Bai Liu shook his head: "No, there is a contradiction in this explanation."
Tang Er asked: "What's the contradiction?"
Bai Liu glanced at him and said, "Alex's drug can only restore things to the way they were seven days ago. It's not a real cycle. He can only restore existing things to the way they were seven days ago."
"That is to say, if Guy escaped from the War Worldline to the Real Worldline, then there would be no Guy in the War Worldline." Liu Jiayi responded quickly, "But we did see Guy in the War Worldline, so this statement doesn't work."
"And only Guy has multiple living dead. This situation does not exist for other people in the war world line."
Liu Jiayi pondered: "I think the general direction of Tang Er's guess about the Seven Days Cycle is correct, but there must be something wrong with this NPC Guy. I don't understand why he was allowed to enter the real world line from the war world line?"
"That's something we need to ask Alex, the creator of the war worldline." Bai Liu looked up at the mist that appeared before him again.