"Splash..." In the hazy light, it seemed that someone was coming on the waves not far away.
"Phantom, you have been lurking in the human world for many years. It is time to awaken." A somewhat androgynous voice, whose gender was indistinguishable, reached my ears.
A phantom? Who is the phantom? And what about the human world, awakening...?
Is this a line from a TV drama? Her eyelashes fluttered, and Su Li snapped out of her slumber.
Could I have misheard? The voice sounded so clear! Thinking back to just now, I went to save a child, the girl disappeared, and I sank into the water…
Feeling a slight soreness in her throat, Su Li's heart skipped a beat! What did that mean? Did it mean I was dead, leaving only a phantom?
"Am I...are we all dead?" Su Li asked, opening her mouth to speak.
"You didn't die, you just awakened. Actually, there wasn't any girl just now, it was just yourself..." It was that same voice.
Fluttering her eyelashes, Su Li opened her eyes and tilted her head slightly. She vaguely saw that she was sitting on the calm surface of a lake, and not far in front of her stood a slender, tall water figure, its form shimmering with light...
"Who are you? And who is Phantom?" Su Li tried to stand up, but found her legs were weak.
“I am Water Spirit, and you are Illusion! Illusion is a guardian spirit hidden in the human world. Your responsibility is to help your master overcome the calamity.” Water Spirit sighed, and as she spoke, the other party’s figure had already moved with the water.
"Guardian? Master?" Su Li shook her head with a wry smile. "I have no skills whatsoever, how can I protect Master?"
“Your abilities have always been within you; they just need the right time to manifest themselves,” Shui Ling explained earnestly. “Just like now, you brought yourself ashore…”
"I got ashore by myself?" Su Li looked down and saw only the rippling water beneath her.
"Look behind you," Shui Ling reminded Su Li.
Behind her? Su Li turned her head and found another version of herself lying on the grass where she had been before, seemingly still asleep.
"How...how could there be two of me?" Su Li was startled. She raised her hand with a "plop!" and swayed, but stood lightly on the water's surface.
“Look, you can already have an out-of-body experience,” Su Li said. Although she couldn’t see Shui Ling’s facial expression, she could clearly sense that he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when he said this.
"So this is called astral projection." Su Li calmed herself down, and after a moment of thought, she blinked. "Then tell me, who is my master?"
"Your master is said to be a woman who can produce plum blossoms, but I've never seen her; it was a message from my companions. Although I'm confined to Silver Mirror Lake most of the time, I can sometimes sense things by using water from other places,"
"Tch, so that's all you know. Then tell me, what am I supposed to do?" The situation before her was so strange, yet Su Li found it perfectly logical.
"If I'm not mistaken, someone will come looking for you at the right time. Your only option right now is to take good care of your mother so that you can leave in peace. You might make an unexpected discovery, and perhaps you'll even find the person you're looking for."
"Don't ask me how I know this. After all, I'm a water spirit, and I can sense some of the things you're about to experience. What happens next, I don't need to tell you; just trust your instincts..." With that, the water spirit sighed, and the water around her accelerated. A moment later, the wave in the lake "splashed!" and instantly subsided...
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