Chapter 2984: The Value of the Soul

"Yes, so he found a way to evade debt."

That light female voice continued to laugh, and Amelia, although very smart, was a bit confused about the time relationship at this moment. She sorted out the whole process of this matter in her heart again, and then was surprised to find that the other party was right.

The contract was signed now, so it now has the qualification to collect the debt; but after really arriving now along time, Thomas Bennett went to the past, and it did not sign a contract in the past, so it cannot collect the debt.

This seemed to have become an unsolvable problem, and unsolvable meant that it seemed that the man who had just severed his hand had escaped the shackles of the Ancient One in the forest through this method, gained powerful power from the existence behind the door, and even because of voluntarily admitting defeat, even the fate of the chosen one would no longer find him.

Amelia vaguely felt that everything tonight was a setup. In this setup, she was used to give the other party a chance to escape everything and gain freedom.

She came with trepidation tonight, concerned about how to defeat strong enemies one by one, and finally walk to the Ancient One in the forest with Xia De, but didn't expect that the "gatekeeper" of the first level had planned to use the opportunity tonight to completely escape everything from the beginning.

Amelia Sianuo, who had been free since childhood, didn't actually have a deep understanding of the concept of "freedom," but after figuring out all this, she inexplicably knew how important "freedom" was to those trapped in the vortex.

"The Bennett family in Vesta Woodland has been the servant of the tree here since the early Sixth Era. Generation after generation, until you came here. He had been dissatisfied with everything in his family since his youth, and after knowing the date of his wife's death, he hated the power of time even more."

"So these dissatisfactions gave birth to the idea of escaping everything, and these ideas became reality tonight."

That smiling voice continued to ask Amelia:

"Young tree elf, can you help me, give me the answer, and let me know how to go to that hateful 'liar' to collect the debt?"

The smile was more intoxicating, and when saying this, the voice coming from the darkness behind the door even had a sense of self-pity and resentment:

"If you help me, kind elf, I can give you a reward~"

But even Amelia could hear that the other party was not angry at all about being "deceived," nor was there any urgency to collect the debt:

"I don't want your reward! I don't want anything!"

The little elf hiding behind Xia De said so, and Xia De was extremely gratified by this.

But this didn't mean Amelia really couldn't think of a way. This method was easy for her to think of as long as she encountered a problem and found Xia De, which was her instinct:

"But I know you can ask Xia De for help... Yes, you in the early summer of 1854 can ask Xia De to help you collect the debt."

"Although the contract at that time had not been signed yet, you can completely prepare to take action first. As long as it is not you who take the initiative to find him to collect the debt, you have not violated any rules; and for you in the Frost Month of 1854 today, when Xia De came to you, it was actually the preparation you made in advance to ask Xia De to prevent someone from defaulting on the debt that really played a role."

Amelia thought the more she felt this idea was the best:

"So you only need to tell your sweetheart to find a person named Thomas Bennett to collect the debt before Xia De enters Vesta Woodland, and then wait for Xia De to meet that person, and then guide Xia De..."

She closed her mouth suddenly. A series of stories Xia De told in the past were connected together, and she finally realized what the situation was now.

Then the face behind the dark door laughed more happily:

"In the summer of this year at Moon Bay, I couldn't directly say the name 'Thomas Bennett', otherwise it would also be equivalent to my power violating the rules of time. So I only need to tell your sweetheart a surname, which is enough. After all, as long as the two meet, there is definitely no possibility of getting along peacefully."

Xia De spoke again until this moment:

"You believed so firmly in the summer of this year that I would definitely encounter Thomas Bennett, who traveled through time and escaped from the present?"

Xia De's question was asked, and he didn't get an answer from the woman's voice immediately. Amelia felt that Xia De took a step back. So out of an idea she didn't understand, the elf boldly looked out from the side of Xia De's body, and then saw that the open Music Hall door was illuminated by some unknown light on a corner.

And on the side of the door, a white hand pressed on the door frame, and that face, which looked very weak and charming, poked out from the edge of the door frame.

Amelia Sianuo felt that she even forgot to breathe because of that amazing beauty at this moment. She found it difficult to describe with specific words what kind of face it was. She had seen countless beautiful faces that made her feel ashamed in the Witch Academy of the Fifth Era, and she had also seen the faces of the Great Witches around Xia De in the Sixth Era now, but they probably weren't as seductive as the face revealed behind the door at this moment.

The little elf was very sure that she was not the kind of person who liked beautiful girls, but she still felt that her heart was touched at this moment.

But fortunately, Xia De was by her side, and although that face was beautiful, the kind of beauty was a bit too fake when thinking about it carefully.

"I am very sure of this."

The face behind the door smiled, and although the whole face was revealed, only a part of the white neck could be seen, but the shoulders could not be seen, which looked like her head was connected to a neck like a white snake.

That soft hand that grabbed the door frame tapped the door frame itself with its fingertips one by one:

"I am very sure that as long as you enter Vesta Woodland, you will definitely meet him. This is destined. As for why, someone will tell you the answer later. Or rather, haven't you guessed it already?"

Purple eyes identical to Luweiya's stared at Xia De's face:

"Then now the debt collection task is over, give him to me."

Xia De reached into his pocket and took out the toy turned into by the corpse. The monster that ran out of the cupboard when he first arrived, the monster that ran out of the doomsday crack when he discovered the doomsday crack, was actually Thomas Bennett.

The correct timeline should be that Xia De witnessed Bennett signing a contract with "Desire" tonight, then he escaped into the blurred space-time, and then somehow entered the doomsday era, and finally escaped from the doomsday crack last week, and his face was burned by the moon fire, and his right eye was blinded by the witch's arrow.

The explosion of his right eye made him enter the unknowable space-time again, until he escaped from the cupboard of the Accordion Inn two months ago in the Harvest Month, and finally died in the hands of Grace and Helen.

But the real beginning of this story should be in the early summer of this year, when the "Mermaid" under the Count Dalmaning mansion told Xia De that since she helped him, Xia De needed to help her do some things too.

So after the Battle of Moon Bay, Xia De heard the surname "Bennett" for the first time in the Flower Month of summer.

Xia De carried this surname and the debt collection task, flowing down the timeline; while Thomas Bennett, who escaped into the time crack, somehow flowed against time and met Xia De again and again. Therefore, for Thomas Bennett tonight in the Frost Month, it was the first step to gain freedom; but for Xia De, his story with Bennett came to an end at this moment.

After all, what should have happened had already happened in the past.

The corpse fell on the pink snow, and then disappeared as if it had merged into water. The reason why this corpse could not be channeled even by Sister Daifulin was finally clear now—the time had not arrived yet, and although the soul did not belong to "Desire" yet, it would not allow others to touch this soul.

Xia De protected the two elf girls behind him, he still had his own questions:

"I believe that you, who are in the early summer, already know so many things that will happen later. But why did you do all this? You had already seen through Thomas Bennett's thoughts, but you went to great lengths to make me perform in this drama. I don't believe you were really deceived by him."

"So, what exactly did he have that was favored by you?"

If he knew this, Xia De could try to change the same traits he possessed, so as to reduce the degree of being focused on by the "Mermaid."

The face behind the door revealed more of that beautiful face in the light, and the neck revealed was even longer:

"Since you know Thomas Bennett's story, do you really need to ask this question?"

"His love for his wife is so deep, but because he already knew the date of his wife's death, he spent the whole marriage with fear and anxiety. Because of love, he chose to resist the Ancient One, and because of his love for his wife, he was even willing to 'entrust' his three daughters to me, but in the end, it was also because of this love that he got the ending he deserved."

"Love fermented in fear and worry, just like a pearl polished by sand, and also like charming wine brewed in repeated torture. Don't you think that this tragedy caused by the most real and pure love is more exciting than any farce?"

Xia De's mouth twitched. The metaphor of "brewing wine" made him recall not-so-good memories. However, Xia De understood the general meaning of "Desire," she took a fancy to this pure love, so she disgustingly added a ridiculous ending to this story:

"So, you think Thomas Bennett is a clown?"

The face smiled:

"A clown doesn't count, but I just like this kind of tragedy caused by love. Think about it, interesting soul, from his perspective, every step he took was almost done perfectly, and every decision he made was not wrong at the time."

"But in the end, even if he crossed thousands of years of time and space, even if he really arrived at the end of time, he still couldn't reverse this tragedy of love and life. Time seems to be a circle, and he came back after walking a very long road."

After a moment of pause:

"Just like you said, I could completely stop him when he escaped just now, which is not difficult. But don't you think that letting him leave like this, and then letting you throw out his corpse, makes it more interesting?"

"Only such a devoted soul, such a ridiculous story, and such a tragic life are worthy of my collection." ===== CHAPTER 2985 =====