"Your lives are so long. Don't you ever find them boring?"
"Boring? Not at all. There are plenty of interesting things—singing, collecting things you like, traveling to unfamiliar places, making new friends... Aren't those all interesting?"
"Mm... You're destined to watch many things vanish from your side."
"That can't be helped. What use is there in dwelling on it? That is simply how life is. Time flows on; things perish and are born, cycling without end, never ceasing. Why not face it with a positive attitude? What has passed is already gone, but the present is just as important."
"I suppose so."
"But endless life isn't necessarily such a good thing either. After living for a very long time, some sea demons choose to return to their origins of their own accord."
"What does that mean?"
"They become the purest water element, casting away everything that makes them who they are and welcoming a complete rebirth."
Elina told Yao Ziyue stories of sea demons. Yao Ziyue nodded as she ate popcorn; it was her first time hearing such things. How should she put it? She felt rather moved.
Perhaps the beauty of immortality existed only in novels and stories.
Besides, according to what the boss had said before, in the broadest sense, absolute immortality simply did not exist. Even worlds would perish, let alone the many lives dwelling in the universe. Not even true gods were ever immortal and undying.
"I feel like it would be nice if Sister Nan thought the way you do." Yao Ziyue suddenly sighed.
"Sister Nan?" Elina swayed her tail.
"Su Nan. You met her before, didn't you? Singing by the roadside at night while it was raining. Recently, there've even been urban legends in Jiuyao City about ghosts haunting the place, you know?" Yao