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Chapter 246 - 37: The Reincarnator

Chapter 246: Chapter 37: The Reincarnator

Yes.

Hai Han addressed the young man before him as... "Grandpa"!

And his grandpa had passed away over ten years ago, not long after he was born!

The young man waved his hand and said, "Don’t call me that, it makes everyone uncomfortable."

"Okay, fine..."

"Hai Han, knowing this secret must be troubling for you, that’s why you started to have all these wild thoughts."

Hai Han sighed deeply.

"To me, this is a bit too crazy. The islanders of Azure Island, if they choose a sea burial, they would reincarnate and regain their original memories at a certain age... wouldn’t anyone find such a thing spine-chilling?"

Even now, facing the young man before him, Hai Han still felt a shiver run down his spine.

"I understand how you feel."

"I feel like I’m going insane now." Hai Han finally understood why generation after generation of islanders rarely chose to move away— "Only those born on the island, who are given a sea burial in the waters around it, can be reborn on the island, right?"

"The surrounding maritime area is roughly 2-3 nautical miles. This is the experience handed down through generations."

"Mom has been waiting for grandpa, you, to regain your past life’s memories and find her, but to think you only found uncle..."

"Well, it was Dan Yang who discovered me. Actually, I didn’t plan to tell anyone that I was Ji Dayong, the deceased Azure Island mortician."

Hai Han still found it all very eerie.

The "Grandpa" before him gave him the feeling of an actual, living ghost.

Why could this island possess such terrifying power, allowing people to be reincarnated through the generations and exist forever? Isn’t that a form of immortality in some sense?

However, for Hai Han at his age, pondering such matters was far too painful. He had no one to confide in and couldn’t even let uncle know that he was aware of this.

"Are there really so-called sea monsters at the bottom of the sea?"

Clearly, he didn’t want to be fobbed off on this question. He wanted a more definitive answer.

"I don’t know either." The young man shook his head: "At least I’ve never seen a sea monster."

Hai Han continued to eat his noodles, thinking for a while before saying to the young man: "I have another question. Do you... have any impressions of the afterlife?"

Upon hearing this, the young man showed a slight expression of surprise.

"You can remember your past life’s memories... uncle completely believes what you say, which means the memories match up. So... I want to ask you, do you really not remember what the afterlife is like?"

Maybe it was because he was exposed to death too early as a child, seeing too many sea burial ceremonies conducted by uncle and mom, which led him to seriously contemplate death from a young age.

After death, a person decomposes into a pile of white bones, so it seems natural that person’s consciousness would also reach a definitive end. But does consciousness truly cease to exist?

And now, Hai Han knew a reality: after death, consciousness can be preserved, memories and personality can be fully inherited by another newborn and be reborn.

So... does the world after death that is spoken of in legends really exist?

Crew members often passed down stories: under the sea of Azure Island lived sea monsters, which would lead the deceased to the realm of the dead. As a child, he naturally thought it was just a story made up out of thin air, not something to take seriously. But now... Hai Han couldn’t simply regard it as pure fiction anymore.

Originally, Hai Han thought the young man before him would tell him there was no such thing as the afterlife, but at this moment, he hesitated.

"When I first recalled my past life, I actually had some strange memories..."

"Some?"

"I’m not certain if those memories are real or if they depict the so-called afterlife. But at that time, I seemed to feel myself sinking to the bottom of the sea, and then, something seemed to have grabbed me..."

"This?"

"But I can’t remember anything clearly." The young man shook his head and said, "Perhaps it was just an illusion of mine."

Indeed...

Could there indeed be something beneath the sea around Blue Island?

At dusk,

Hai Han finally returned home.

He didn’t like the tedious funeral, and most importantly, especially knowing that the funeral’s deceased would soon return through the reincarnation underneath the sea, he felt eerily uneasy. Therefore, he had been dragging his feet until the funeral banquet was over before returning home.

Even if his parents chided him, he didn’t care. He really didn’t want to participate in such an occasion.

Actually, what Hai Han now feared the most in his heart was...

What kind of person was he in his previous life?

Of course, his grandfather had told him that not every newborn on Blue Island was the reincarnation of the deceased. But statistically speaking, the chances were high.

Perhaps he was one of the dearly departed whom his mother or uncle had helped make up after death, whom they had personally buried beneath the sea.

When a reincarnated individual would awaken their past life memories is uncertain, but generally, it happens after the age of eighteen. The latest time for the awakening can be after the age of fifty. Even then, perhaps some people never awaken their memories in their lifetime.

Hai Han felt very confused. His grandfather was a rare case, having awakened his memories around the age of six. Consequently, he could relatively easily accept his new identity.

But Hai Han felt he couldn’t accept it.

If he awakened his memories, perhaps he was the father of some uncle or aunt on the island, or perhaps the child of another couple, and the most terrifying thought was that maybe he wasn’t even a boy in his past life...

Although most people retain the same gender before and after reincarnation, there are, after all, a few exceptions.

If he was a woman in his past life... Just the thought made Hai Han’s skin crawl.

When he returned home, his parents didn’t scold him; his father was enthusiastically regaling his uncle with tales of his ventures at sea.

Seeing how his father could go on talking with great interest, it seemed he could speak for hours without issue.

As Hai Han looked at his father and uncle, and his mother who was cooking in the kitchen, he wondered... they all must have awakened their past life memories, right?

Old Li knew that if he passed away next year, he and Granny Li may be reincarnated one after the other. Although small, the island’s clinic was fully equipped, and couples on the island would choose to give birth there.

So Old Li wasn’t excessively grieved. After being reincarnated and reaching of age, maybe they would come back together, after all, they would surely still be on this island.

Then...

Were his parents also a couple in their past life?

Thinking about it, it might also be quite romantic.

Just at that moment, there was a knock at the door.

Hai Han immediately went to open it.

Outside stood a man and a woman.

Hai Han recognized them at a glance; they were the couple at the dock who had asked him for directions to Cold Iron Town.

"Um..." The man looked inside and said, "Excuse me, which one of you is Mr. Ji Danyang?"

Hai Han’s uncle stood up and asked, "I am. Who are you?"

"Hello." The man said, "I’m from W City. My name is Dai Ming, and there’s something I’d like to ask you about."

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