Chapter 32 I Like You (Part 1) Soft light shone through the seawater...
This is the old building where I lived when I was a child. A murder once took place here. A woman was hacked to death by her lover, her body stuffed into a suitcase, thrown into a trash can, and discovered by a sanitation worker.
The woman's husband was a soldier who was away from home most of the time. After this incident, he returned to the building, took his daughter, and left, never to return.
They can leave, but we can't.
When I was a child, my family was very poor and we had nowhere else to live.
Back then, I played hide-and-seek with some of the neighborhood kids every day.
"I'm here, I'm going to catch you all." I ran through the stairwell, skillfully weaving between the second and third floors.
"Haha, got you!"
"And you."
I caught one child after another, and I was all smiles.
It was nearly evening, and there were no lights in the dimly lit stairwell. We could only rely on the last few slivers of light to find people.
I searched everywhere and finally left the familiar second and third floors, arriving at the fourth-floor rooftop.
As darkness fell, the heavy rain stopped, and all around was quiet.
In the dim light, I could vaguely see a corner of a skirt fluttering.
"Haha, got you!" I shouted and ran over, but then suddenly stopped.
A tiny little girl was pinned to the ground by a fierce-looking woman.
Why is she described as a tiny little girl?
She was very small, really small, looking about the same age as my one-year-old cousin, but with eyes far beyond her years.
—Looking at me helplessly, pleadingly, and painfully.
I was stunned.
Then look at that fierce-looking woman—her face was contorted, her eyes were venomous, and she was gritting her teeth.
I was the most timid kid in that building, but without thinking, I rushed over and grabbed the woman's hand tightly, yelling, "Run, run!"
The moment you can touch a woman's hand—passing through the void.
I was terrified and shocked.
The woman's hand was actually invisible.
Suddenly remembering the woman who was supposedly murdered, I screamed.
The woman released the little girl and lunged at me.
The woman wasn't a physical being, yet she gave me the feeling of being covered in heavy ice and snow, making it hard to breathe.
My hands were flailing about, and I somehow managed to grab a flashlight that someone had left on the rooftop.
He pressed the switch with all his might—and a dazzling golden light shot out like an arrow.
The woman let out a terrified scream.
I realized something, grabbed the flashlight, raised it high, and aimed it at the woman's eyes...
Even stranger things happened: the terrifying screams disappeared, and the woman vanished in an instant.
"Thank you, sister." The girl's soft, sweet voice drifted into my ears.
The little girl wasn't afraid of the flashlight at all. She got up from the ground and touched my face with her tiny hand.
"Sister, I like you."
“We are very destined to meet, otherwise you would not have seen me, let alone helped me.”
"How about I have my son marry you when I grow up? Only then can I be with you forever."
I couldn't understand what she was saying at all; I was completely terrified.
"Sister, I'm so afraid I'll never see you again," tears suddenly welled up in the little girl's eyes, "We don't belong to the same world."
Her warm little hand moved to my chest again. "Your heart is beating so fast, and mine is too."
“My siblings and I have had to travel to different worlds since we were eight years old. The me you see now is me separated from my body. My physical body is locked in a place you may never be able to reach.”
“Evil spirits are the most terrifying things in your world. That woman just died a violent death and turned into an evil spirit, ready to devour me.”
"No one has ever helped me like you have. I can sense that you are terrified."
"Sister, you will forget me from now on, until I appear before you again."
When the adults came up to the rooftop with flashlights, I had just woken up from a nap in the corner. I thought I had fallen asleep from exhaustion, and the adults thought so too.
"Sister, do you remember?" Suddenly, I was back on the bustling street, and the little girl's soft voice, accompanied by the sound of rain, appeared in my ears again.
I was so terrified that I couldn't speak.
"I've come to find you. Please help me find my mother."
The little girl's bright eyes were filled with laughter, and also with a feeling I couldn't understand.
She took my rain-soaked hand in her warm little hand and said, "Come with me."
She threw my umbrella away with her other hand.
The surroundings suddenly changed, and everything in the scenery changed.
She grew longer and taller, becoming a shoulder taller than me.
“Our time is different. In your world, I would shrink.” She explained, looking at my surprised expression.
She took my hand and pushed open a huge bronze door in front of us.
A colossal ice sculpture stands in the middle of the room.
The ice sculpture was carved very vaguely; you could only make out that it was a person, but you couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman, let alone their appearance.
“Look up,” she said, pointing to the top of our heads.
I looked up and was even more stunned.
Above us was a deep blue sea, where colorful fish of all sizes swam freely, like birds soaring in the sky.
"Miss, we are now deep in the ocean. My mother has been trapped here for a long time."
Why is your mother imprisoned here?
"She wants too much, just like all women who are infatuated with love."
"Being captivated by love means being locked up here?" I found it unbelievable.
“Of course.” Her soft fingers suddenly moved to my lips. “Shh, don’t talk.”
A series of strange incantations came from her lips, and a few minutes later, the ice sculpture slowly cracked in two. To my astonishment, a phantom figure appeared in the middle of the ice sculpture.
"Mom, I'm here." She walked forward with a smile.
She turned to me, who was still standing there, and said, "Come with me."
I was terrified and dared not move.
"Come on, dear lady."
She walked up to me and smiled sweetly and gently.
"Because of you, I can never love a man again. Men on the mainland are cruel, cold-blooded, and mercenary; marriage is just a stepping stone for them. I hate them, especially after I met you. I only love someone like you. Many people think I'm naive, but actually, I'm like my fierce brothers and sisters; I know everything."
Suddenly I realized who she was—the elven queen who had lived in the Black Castle since childhood and had never seen an outsider.
She took my hand and led me to the crack in the ice sculpture. We walked through the illusory figures and jumped into the crack together...
It seems to be deep in the ocean.
She took me swimming underwater, her long hair flowing gracefully in the water.
The soft light shone through the seawater onto her, coating her entire body with a gentle and beautiful pale white halo.
She is beautiful, absolutely stunning.
She took me swimming to a very, very deep place. There was an ancient, dilapidated shipwreck there, like a relic from ancient times, sinking into the sea with a sense of history, surrounded by clusters of coral and seaweed.
We swam into the dilapidated interior of the shipwreck, a very large room containing only a glittering crystal coffin, like the brightest star in the dark night sky.
She let go of my hand and swam toward the crystal coffin.
The moment the coffin lid was pushed open, it shone brightly.
I closed my eyes, and her soft voice clearly reached my ears, "She died for love, just like the fate of all elven kings. She could have become queen, but she gave the throne to her husband. Her husband later fell in love with someone else, and she killed his lover, turning her husband against her. Love is a luxury, and to have it once is already a blessing; how can one expect it to last forever?"
This sensational story made me slowly open my eyes.
She looked into my eyes and said, "Sister, now please help me lift her body out of the coffin."
I dared not refuse, but the seawater prevented me from speaking.
But when she came over and took my hand again, I couldn't help but swim with her to the crystal coffin.
An extremely beautiful woman came into my view.
She was so beautiful that even her magnificent clothes paled in comparison.
"Sister, please carry her out now."
I reached my hands into the crystal coffin and touched her body; it was incredibly soft.
With a little effort, I lifted her out.
"Now, please throw her body into the sea, let her float away and disappear from this sea forever. Before you throw her, remove the gold and diamond crown from her head."
With one hand free, I removed the crown with considerable difficulty.
As soon as I took it off, the body suddenly became hot, hotter and hotter, until I could no longer hold it and I suddenly let go.
A surge of water, seemingly from nowhere, swept the corpse far away.
I didn't even have time to reach out and grab it...
“Sister, please put the crown on my head now,” she said.
The gold and diamond-encrusted crown in my hand, which had been dull in color, suddenly glowed, its golden light shining brightly.
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