After giving the heart of the sea to the sea maiden, Suman thought that this task was completed, and giving the sea maiden the position of sea god was another kind of transformation.
Unexpectedly, the word that the mission was over did not come for a long time.
she mused.
"Suman." Haenyeo suddenly said, "I want to bury them all." She pointed at the corpses of all the villagers on the ground.
"Cremated?" Suman asked.
"No." Haenyeo shook her head.
Either cremation or burial, so many people. Suman felt that she seemed to understand, but she seemed not to understand, but it didn't matter, she respected it.
But the reality was a little different from what she thought. It was not a traditional burial. Haenyeo chose a beach relatively close to the coast, dug a deep pit next to a giant reef, and buried everyone in that Inside the pit.
After finishing all this, she exhaled a breath, sat down on the rock next to her, patted the seat next to her, and motioned for Suman to sit too.
Suman sat next to her without saying a word, and the Haenyeo didn't speak any more, just looking at the clouds on the horizon quietly.
The breeze blows on your face, with a faint salty smell. If you ignore the villages that have been ravaged and destroyed, there is a different kind of comfort.
After a while, the haenyeo spoke.
"Do you know where this place is?"
Suman didn't answer. She felt that Haenyeo didn't want to hear her answer.
Sure enough, in the next second, Haenyeo asked and answered herself, "The first time I became conscious, I was already Xiaode's mother. All my memories are about this village and Xiaode. I know everyone here. I am alone, but I dare not say hello to them because I am different from them.”
She said, looking down at her ugly tail, "They have legs, but I don't. They can't live under the sea for a long time, but I can."
She pointed at the rock below her, "I didn't dare to get close to them, so I hid behind the rock, like a thief, secretly observing their lives."
"I especially wanted to live the life I remembered with them, where we would walk and chat on the beach, me cooking at home and my husband fishing outside.. When I finally got up the courage to have a bonfire on the beach with them at night When I came ashore, they were all scared away by me."
"They probably didn't even see what I looked like, so they were scared away by my tail. My ears were filled with the sound of them shouting monsters at me. I can still remember their panicked and frightened expressions at that time. , they picked up tools one by one and wanted to kill me."
The haenyeo smiled and said, "I even brought them gifts at that time, a bunch of small fish that are specialties from the sea." She gestured.
Before going ashore, she had imagined that people might welcome her because of this string of fish. After all, in the daily life she saw, people would take the fish they caught and give it to their neighbors. Everyone would Very happy.
"That day, I fled into the sea in a panic. I hid in the deep sea, but the voice of calling me a monster was still in my ears. What made me particularly sad was Xiao De. He also called me a monster and I took him alone. The pearl was a gift, but of course I didn’t give it away.” Haenyeo forced a smile, but tears fell down.
She was depressed for a time and had no idea what the meaning of her existence was, until she met Tiansha.
"At that time, I was hiding behind the rocks. I saw everyone holding fishing nets and tools looking for me like a dragnet. Master Tiansha suddenly appeared above the rocks."
"I was scared at the time and subconsciously wanted to run away, but Master Tiansha told me that he knew everything about me and why I came here."
“He even told me that he could help me change all my current situations. I was too eager to know the meaning of my existence, so I was moved.
Master Tiansha told me that I was actually just a fake, a fake that he created to help a little boy who wanted his mother. "
As she said that, she glanced at Suman, but quickly retracted, "He told me that as long as I help everyone in the village make wishes, and if I make a hundred wishes, I can become a real person. human beings and live a truly human life in the future.”
"He said that if I didn't agree, he would let people from the village catch me and kill me in the square."
"I don't want to be called a monster and hide everywhere, and I don't know if Lord Tiansha is too powerful. I really can't let go of Xiao De in my heart. I miss him very much, want to live with him, and want to give him a mother. His love, I would hear him calling me mom again and again in my dreams."
When the Haenyeo said this, a soft light flashed in her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by a touch of sadness, "I didn't know that making wishes to those villagers required human sacrifices."
All of this was arranged by Master Tiansha. She knew that after she received the first sacrifice thrown into the sea, she had the ability to make wishes to humans.
She was very panicked at the time.
"That was the first time I saw a dead person. The ones who died were familiar villagers in my memory. You know, these villagers are all in my memory. When one dies, there is one less familiar person and one hundred wishes. Then Even if a hundred people die, I can't imagine how many people I know will still be alive in this place when I become a human. I'm not even sure whether Xiao De will survive to the end."
"After I knew the truth, I secretly contacted Master Tiansha, but Master Tiansha said that this is the price that must be paid. There is no free lunch in this world. Some people make wishes and some people die. This is all It’s fair.”
"I had no way to stop it. I could only watch that the harmonious village in the past began to become disharmonious because of this desire. Those seemingly friendly appearances were shattered in an instant, and the pictures I longed for in the past disappeared. ”
After Haenyeo finished speaking, she was silent for a long time. When Suman thought she would not speak again, she spoke again, "That day, a lost stranger accidentally came to the village. That night, he was sacrificed to me by the villagers. Yes, they tricked me and used that person to pretend to be someone from the village... I actually knew it, but I didn't stop it because I didn't want all the faces I was familiar with to die, even though I was actually aware of it. When we arrived, the villagers began to turn evil."
"The wish I made that day was accomplished by mistake, but I was worried that Lord Tiansha would be angry. After all, I didn't use people from the village to sacrifice as Lord Tiansha ordered. But later, I discovered that Lord Tiansha didn't do it either. He is Lord Tiansha all the time.”
