Gwen frowned.
"Why?"
"Remember, she was dead before the transformation, which is what triggered the vampire transformation to revive her."
"..."
Gwen recalled the transformation process that Caroline had told her about and looked at Caroline, who was also resisting turning back into a normal human.
At that moment.
The phone rang.
Gwen took out her phone, glanced at it, and then handed it to Hawk: "It's Natasha."
Hawk reached out, took it, and got up from the sofa, putting the phone to his ear.
"Natasha."
"Gwen...Hawk, the results are out."
"You were right."
"The Dr. Merick we captured, his DNA telomere length doesn't match normal DNA lengths."
"His bone age test is also strange."
"Although the Dr. Merick we captured looks exactly like the Dr. Merick in the database, his bones show no damage and no small traces of life whatsoever."
"His bones are as smooth as those of a newborn."
At S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, Natasha looked at the two test results displayed on the computer screen in front of her, talking to Hawk with some disbelief: "But I can't understand, you said clones don't have souls, but he has a soul."
Hawk chuckled.
"Clones indeed shouldn't have souls."
"Then he..."
"I already know the reason."
"What?"
Natasha was slightly stunned and a bit curious, wasn't Hawk supposed to be on vacation in Georgia? How did he suddenly know the reason?
Hawk chuckled again, not hiding from S.H.I.E.L.D.: "It has to do with the dimension war. As for why it dragged me in, I'm still investigating. Once I find out, I'll tell you when you ask."
Dimension war?
Natasha understood dimensions, but not much, but she understood war.
Her heart instantly became alert.
"Does S.H.I.E.L.D. need to do anything?"
"Not for the time being."
Hawk smiled and said, "Alright then, that's it for now, bye."
With that.
He directly hung up the phone and then glanced toward the lawn that was gradually brightening with the rise of the sun.
In sight.
With the sunrise, Damon, who was bound in place, also met his fate.
Wisps of smoke began to emanate from Damon's body.
Damon's mouth opened wide.
He seemed to want to scream, to cry out, but his voice seemed blocked, as his mouth was open but not a sound could be heard.
Hawk glanced sideways at Gwen, who walked to his side, arms crossed, calmly watching it all.
"Do you need to hear his screams?"
"Will Grandpa be woken up?"
"No."
"...Forget it."
Gwen thought for a moment, shook her head, then looked at Caroline: "This is a vampire. Losing that ring, exposed to sunlight, will lead to their total demise. Do you still want to be a vampire?"
Caroline looked out at Damon on the lawn, his wide mouth twisted in expression, body emitting thick smoke, then said to Gwen: "Cousin, human Caroline is already dead."
Gwen looked at Caroline.
After a while.
She sighed, took out the Sunlight Ring Hawk had just retrieved from Damon, grabbed Caroline's cold right hand, and placed the ring into it, her tone carrying a trace of helplessness.
"Remember to always carry a spare ring."
"...Thank you, cousin."
Caroline stared at the Sunlight Ring in her hand, hearing Gwen's words, she was first stunned, then realized, and looked up at Gwen with a bright smile.
At the same time.
Damon also vanished from the lawn.
Vanished in the physical sense, though compared to being directly vaporized by Hawk's Phoenix Beam, at least Damon, killed by ultraviolet light, still left traces of his existence on the lawn.
Stefan looked at the white mark left on the lawn with a peculiar expression.
Elena also felt inexplicably strange.
Only Little Black Bonnie, looking at the white mark on the lawn, had one thought in her mind.
Thank God, this disaster is finally gone.
God can testify, in Bonnie's view, a lot of the chaos in the town was caused or incited by Damon.
Now that Damon was dead, Bonnie truly felt that the troubles in Waterfall Town could instantly be reduced by over ninety percent.
Gwen at this moment also withdrew her gaze, looked at Hawk: "I'm going to rest for a while."
Hawk raised an eyebrow: "I'll join you."
Gwen smiled, did not refuse, turned, and walked over to the stairs.
Standing in place, Caroline watched, looked at the turning Gwen: "Cousin, then I..."
Hawk glanced at Caroline.
"You should say thank you."
"Thank you."
Caroline instinctively said thank you, then watched as Hawk, who also didn't look back, caught up with her cousin.
"Then I..."
"Do whatever you want; we're here to stay with Grandpa and have a vacation."
Hawk spoke without looking back, then caught up with Gwen, following her toward the room, planning to seize the time to get some sleep.
Soon.
Hawk and Gwen's figures disappeared into the stairwell.
Caroline only withdrew her gaze after their figures disappeared, and then walked out of the manor again and approached Little Black Bonnie and Elena.
She watched Stefan, who had found a plastic bag from somewhere, collecting the ash on the lawn into it, intending to say sorry.