When she found that the villa was suddenly empty, Sihwa was confused. She knocked on her head, thinking that she was still asleep.
However, the villa was really empty. The noise from before seemed to have disappeared without a trace overnight.
The rich and powerful villa owner, the sullen girl, the professionally dressed chef, the cleaner, and the security guards all disappeared as if they had never existed.
The things in the villa did not disappear, including the big TV. It was still beautiful and neat, waiting for the owner to return at any time.
Sihwa was suddenly at a loss. It was not because she had feelings for the family, but because the Korean drama from yesterday had not finished. The unknown ending made her anxious.
However, through watching these Korean dramas, she learned some social common sense. Although it was not necessarily correct, she did learn it.
Maybe they went out temporarily? For example, visiting relatives.
She waited patiently with hope in her heart.
One day passed …
Three days passed …
The villa owner and his family still did not return.
Because no one cleaned, the originally clean swimming pool was gradually covered with leaves, becoming less clear. Every morning when she woke up, she had to remove the leaves from her hair in annoyance.
Later, it snowed.
The pool water became very cold, and there was always a thin layer of ice at night. In order not to be completely sealed by the thick ice when she slept, she had to break the thin ice every day.
The villa owner and his family still did not return.
She had to think of other possibilities. For example, they went to the warm south for a vacation. Rich people were usually like this. They would not return until spring, or even until summer.
The pool water became more and more turbid.
She had wanted to leave for a long time. The reason why she stayed was that she wanted to know the ending of the mermaid named Sihwa in the TV series. Although according to the plot of these TV series, the male and female protagonists would eventually get married, it was not that there was no melodramatic plot where the male or female protagonists would get cancer and be separated from each other …
After watching these TV series many times, they were generally the same plot. She could guess it, but she just wanted to see the ending. She wanted to see it very much. It even became an obsession in her heart.
She had also thought of risking leaving the pool and entering the house to continue playing the TV series. She had seen how the girl operated it, but looking at her own fishtail, she knew that it would not work. She did not know where the girl stored the shiny disc, and the glass door of the villa was locked from the inside and could not be opened.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the ice in the pond was getting thicker and thicker. It was to the extent that she would bump her head when she woke up in a daze.
Thus, she finally decided to leave this swimming pool that she had stayed in for who knew how long. Otherwise, one day, she would be frozen into ice along with the pool water.
The process of leaving was almost the same as when he came. Taking advantage of the high tide, he jumped out of the swimming pool, pushed open the courtyard door, rolled to the reef outside, and jumped into the water with a splash.
The salty seawater surrounded her again. It was strange yet familiar.
The white whale, which had been away for a long time, did not leave her. It was still hovering nearby, and when it heard her call, it quickly came to her side and intimately rubbed its forehead against her cold face, using its body to provide warmth for her.
She hugged it tiredly, and her eyelids became heavier. She really wanted to sleep. When she was in the swimming pool, she always woke up from the cold, and she always worried that she would be frozen into ice in her sleep.
Just for a while, just for a moment, she thought. Then, she lowered her head and fell asleep instantly.
No matter how the white whale called her, she did not wake up. Her mouth was murmuring half-baked Korean, and her body was as cold as ice.
The white whale took her downstream, all the way to the depths of the sea. There was no light there, and the sun could not shine all year round. It was always a bottomless darkness, and the fish that lived there all looked ugly and scary.
Occasionally, a few spots of light would appear in the sea at this depth, but intelligent creatures would not be tempted to go there, because waiting behind the spots of light could be a bloody mouth full of fangs.
The darkness could not stop the white whale. Its sonar system could ensure that it could find its way in absolute darkness.
It continued to take her downstream, swimming deeper.
Finally, the sound waves encountered an extremely wide obstacle and were all reflected back.
It sent out sound waves sideways, and some of them were also reflected.
The white whale knew that it had reached the bottom of the sea with her.
The bottom of the sea, which should have been darker, was not as dark as it had imagined.
There were a few winding dark red lights at the bottom of the sea, which were inactive volcanic craters. Lava slowly gushed out of the earth's crust, extinguished by the seawater, solidified into volcanic rocks, and slowly sealed the exit of the lava. Then, it was either pushed to the side by the newly gushing lava, or after a small underwater earthquake, the lava found a new exit.
There were rich geothermal resources here, and there were also strange underwater creatures living around. They were strange enough to challenge human imagination. They basically had no eyes, and their vision had degenerated to a dispensable level. Most of them had never been seen by humans. If humans did not ride in heavy submersibles, they would never be able to reach this depth.
The white whale wandered over and over again above the lava, letting the currents heated by the lava caress her body. At the same time, it carefully protected her from falling to avoid being scalded by the lava.
The exit of the lava was blocked again. From deep underground, bubbling lava gathered more and more, and they had to find a new exit. When the lava found a thin and fragile crust, accompanied by a slight underwater earthquake, a new small volcanic crater appeared.
In the tremor, the currents were temporarily disrupted.
Sihwa also felt the tremor in her sleep, and she finally regained consciousness.
As soon as she moved, the white whale knew that she was about to wake up, so it slowed down and floated in the sea.
What … is this place?
She tried to open her eyes wide and look at the darkness around her, but she could see nothing.
The white whale told her that it was very deep at the bottom of the sea, and there was hot lava below.
It wasn't until the moment when warmth flooded her like a tide that she realized how cold she was, and she almost never woke up again.
She had been frozen in the swimming pool for too long. Even though she was an elf, she could not withstand the cold day after day.
It was the white whale that saved her.
If it weren't for it, she would have been the first elf to freeze to death … or maybe she would have died of stupidity.
In her sleep, she dreamed that she became the female lead in a TV series, replacing the mermaid who was so ugly that she could not even look at her. She played out the ending that belonged to her.
But when she woke up, she forgot about the ending.
When the white whale brought her to the surface and returned to the world under the warm sun, she decided to name herself Sihwa.
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