Bao Bao and the Afterlife

I was a seal with no worries or sorrows, happy every day.

This morning, while I was sunning myself on the beach, I encountered a strange creature I had never seen before.

It looked like a huge white gummy candy, with two pitch-black holes resembling eyes on its body.

It had neither hands and feet for walking on land, nor fins for swimming beneath the sea, let alone wings for flapping through the air.

This strange white creature ran over and explained the Hilbert Hotel to me.

After I said, "Great, I understand everything now," it tore off a piece of its white bedsheet-like skin and turned it into a soft milk candy for me.

"How strange. How does a seal like me know so much about the human world?"

"No, isn't that not the issue I should be focusing on right now?!"

The seal propped up its body with its tail, and its chubby realistic-looking face suddenly turned cartoonish.

Its big eyes melted into lines like modeling clay, and clear streams of water gushed out like fountains.

"Boohoo, how did I die just like that? I'm still so young, and I haven't even found a cute girlfriend yet..."

The seal was terrified as it looked at the silent, motionless world around it.

It saw that its original body was still foolishly lying motionless on the beach, completely unresponsive to the outside world. It had to be dead.

"Seal, your time is up."

A vague voice came from beside the seal's ear, like a distant call from another world.

"H-how did I die just like that?"

"That shouldn't be possible. This body should have lived another twenty years. Did you make a mistake somewhere?"

The seal craned its neck toward the fellow draped in a huge white sheet. This person