Chapter 261: Do I Even Have a Mom?

Li Yi took advantage of the other third-floor messengers talking and quickly withdrew back to his room. His movements were fast. He took the puppet doll out of his backpack, then extended his finger, condensing his Qi, which was comparable to a steel knife, and very easily carved two characters on the puppet doll's body.

Li Yi!

According to what the collection hall master Fang Hua had said before, one only needed to carve the name, and this puppet doll would replace you, become your appearance, and inherit your memories.

Li Yi threw the puppet doll out and then waited to see what would happen.

Soon.

The motionless puppet doll began to twist, and then it expanded rapidly like a balloon. Moreover, during the expansion, a cold aura permeated, and then Li Yi's appearance gradually presented itself.

In just a few seconds, a person exactly the same as Li Yi stood before his eyes, even the clothes were exactly the same.

Such a scene was incredible.

The supernatural power of this world was truly magical, seemingly capable of doing anything. The principles behind it were something Li Yi, an Evolver, couldn't understand. Every time he saw such things, he felt it was inconceivable.

"My name is Li Yi, from Tianchang City... No, that's not right. Where is Tianchang City? Shouldn't I be from Dachang City? How can there be a place like Tianchang City in this world?" Suddenly, the puppet doll Li Yi spoke. His tone revealed a bit of confusion, as if something was wrong with his memory.

"But I remember I have always lived in Tianchang City. My parents were Evolvers. One day they had an accident and became Silent Ones... Wait, what Evolvers? There are only Ghost Controllers in this world. And my parents, my parents are still alive, they are all living well."

"This is the Ghost Post Office. I want to participate in the delivery mission... No, I want to cross the boundary and leave, leave this world."

He kept whispering, seemingly falling into confusion.

Seeing this situation, Li Yi's expression couldn't help but change. He carefully took a few steps back, while tightly gripping the cracked short club in his hand. He was prepared to kill this puppet doll at any time.

This thing was a bit eerie; perhaps it had already lost control.

However, the next sentence from the puppet doll made Li Yi feel horrified instantly. He saw him suddenly turn his neck, look at a dim corner in the room, and shout: "Mom, why are you here? This is the Ghost Post Office. How did you get in?"

Mom?

Who was he calling?

Li Yi's expression changed drastically, and he looked toward that direction abruptly.

The next moment, his pupils shrank suddenly.

Because he really saw a person.

A woman, with faint corpse spots on her fair palms, and a pale face that looked exceptionally conspicuous in the dim corner. But that face was very familiar; it was exactly the same as Li Yi's mom in the medical pod.

"Mom?"

Li Yi couldn't help but shout as well.

But the eerie woman in the corner didn't respond to him, just revealed an eerie smile, and then looked at him and the puppet doll.

"No, how could my mom appear here?" Li Yi felt a sharp pain at this moment, and then some fragmented memories kept emerging in his mind.

In his memory, Li Yi's mom had originally been lying in the No. 2 medical pod, but as some disappearing memories emerged, there was no one in the medical pod at all. For so many years, it had been in a vacant state.

He had been constantly maintaining the No. 2 medical pod every week, adding nutrient solution to the empty medical pod.

But as memories flickered, the mom who didn't exist in the medical pod emerged again.

But this mom was very eerie. Sometimes she wandered inexplicably in the living room. Li Yi was startled when he occasionally bumped into her, but then he fainted, and some memories disappeared. It was just that now, those disappeared memories didn't know how they had come back.

Li Yi held his head, very painfully.

Fragmented memories kept impacting his brain.

He gradually discovered that his memory seemed to have been tampered with, as if his mom didn't exist at all... He had seen this eerie woman on several nights, and the most recent time seemed to be on Ghost Street in the danger zone.

The various things that had disappeared had all briefly returned.

This made Li Yi feel fear in addition to pain.

For so many years, what kind of existence had he been living with? Why did that thing want to disguise itself as his mom?

"No, I can't stay here. I must escape the Ghost Post Office, shake off this woman, and cross the boundary to leave here."

Although Li Yi was in pain, he was somewhat clear-headed. At this moment, he grabbed his backpack, and then his whole body's blood and Qi exploded. The whole person disappeared from the third floor at an unimaginable speed and rushed toward the outside of the Ghost Post Office.

Under this speed, other messengers didn't even notice.

By the time they reacted, the puppet doll Li Yi had already walked out of Room 34 slowly with a smile, and he was no longer confused. However, the memories in his mind had a great discrepancy with Li Yi's memories. In his memory, he had lived in this world all along; there was no Tianchang City, nor were there any Evolvers.

He was an orphan, his parents died early, he accidentally entered the Ghost Post Office, and struggled to survive... A logically self-consistent experience presented itself in the puppet doll's memory.

And Li Yi, who had truly discovered something was wrong, had already rushed out of the Ghost Post Office and arrived beside a large river outside Dazhuang City.

Li Yi's head hurt more and more, and the memories that had reappeared before were disappearing at an alarming speed.

He caught a glimpse of an eerie woman standing on the opposite side of the river. That woman was still smiling at him, her eyes empty and numb, her appearance exactly the same as the mother in his memory.

"It is tampering with my memory, making me always think it is my mom. My memory recovered just now because I used the puppet doll. This thing treated the puppet doll as me, so it also tampered with the puppet doll's memory. And it is impossible for two identical people to exist in the world. It used the power of tampering with memory on the puppet doll, so it briefly let me go."

"That's why I had this moment of clarity, but now it seems to have come back to influence me again."

Li Yi understood everything at this moment.

His mom might have died long ago. This thing had been disguising itself as his mom and lying in the medical pod. And it wasn't that he hadn't discovered clues before; it was just that every time he discovered them, his memory was tampered with. Now that he thought about it carefully, many people had already reminded him that his mom was not right.

Lin Jie had hinted several times, but under the influence of his memory, he couldn't think that much.

It was just that why didn't Lin Jie tell him clearly?

Would she be killed by it if she said it?

"Ah!" Li Yi by the river held his head and cried out in pain again. The memories that had emerged before were forcibly erased by a force, and he was about to return to the state of knowing nothing before.

And this power that influenced memory was very familiar.

It was very much like... a ghost.

Li Yi had no time to continue thinking at this moment. He extended his finger and quickly wrote a few words on his arm: "Beware of my mom."

After writing this sentence, his arm was already covered in blood.

But the Evolver's physical fitness was strong, and the bleeding stopped in just a moment.

Li Yi didn't know if the information he left behind was useful, but this was the only thing he could do now. If his memory was really modified so thoroughly, there was nothing he could do, and he could only accept his fate.

Accompanied by the elimination of memory reaching its extreme, he couldn't bear this torture and pain and fainted directly, falling by the river.

This fainting lasted for a full four hours.

When Li Yi woke up again, his eyes were filled with confusion. He tried hard to recall what had happened before. He knew that he had used the puppet doll in the Ghost Post Office, and afterward, he had found an opportunity to withdraw and leave.

However, when he raised his arm, he found that there were bloodstains remaining on his arm, and there were four scribbled words carved on it: Beware of my mom?

"Did I carve these words on my arm with Qi?" Li Yi recognized the origin of this scar at a glance, but he didn't understand why he would do such a thing, why he would suddenly carve these four words, and would rather carve them on his own arm than write them down?

"Does it have anything to do with my fainting?"

His gaze shifted, and he stared at the four words on his arm, falling into deep thought. But as an Evolver's instinct, he felt this was a very important clue; otherwise, he wouldn't have self-mutilated to preserve it.

But Li Yi hadn't crossed the boundary back to Tianchang City yet. Even if his mom had a problem, there was no way to investigate it now.

"Only after I go back can everything be clarified," he thought to himself, and made up his mind that after returning home this time, he must figure out what was going on and what had happened to him.

He couldn't be kept in the dark anymore. He vaguely felt that this might relate to his life and safety.

However, just as Li Yi was lost in thought.

Suddenly.

A slight vibration came from his backpack.

Li Yi thought of something and hurriedly opened his backpack, taking out the locator.

He saw the indicator light on the locator light up, and at the same time, a countdown appeared on it: 23:59:55.

"This is the signal that the Gate of Boundary Crossing is opening. Twenty-four hours later, the Gate of Boundary Crossing will open." Li Yi was both surprised and happy at this moment.

He had finally survived three months and waited for this moment.

He didn't want to stay in this desperate, broken world for even a moment. It was full of vengeful ghosts and supernatural events everywhere; it was simply too dangerous.

This world, codenamed No. 36, should be completely sealed off, and other boundary crossers should be forbidden from entering or leaving.

"However, there are still some things to do before leaving. I had a deal with that person named Yang Jian before and got a golden pistol. Selling it will be just enough to repay the favor." In addition to his surprise, Li Yi thought of another thing.

He took out a golden pistol, and then operated his Qi. This pistol was immediately forcibly deformed by his powerful strength. Finally, after playing with it in his palm a few times, the pistol had turned into a gold brick.

It had to be said that the guy named Yang Jian was quite generous. This piece of gold was worth more than three million; it was worth at least six million. He usually paid close attention to the price of gold in this world.

It had reached an outrageous price now.

Li Yi took this piece of gold and returned to Dazhuang City during the time before the Gate of Boundary Crossing opened.

He found a gold shop and sold this piece of gold, getting nearly seven million in total.

Li Yi first transferred 3.5 million to the card number Wang Chuan had left him last time. He didn't touch the remaining money, just left it on the card, and at the same time, called Zheng Yaoyao.

"Hello, is this Li Yi?" Zheng Yaoyao answered immediately, her voice revealing surprise: "You haven't contacted me for a long time. Where are you now? Do you want to come and stay with me? I've learned some cooking recently; you can taste the dishes I made. They must be delicious."

Li Yi said at this moment: "There's no time. I'm leaving tomorrow. Before I leave, I left a sum of money for you, consider it a gift for you. The money is on your card number. Remember to take a look later. Okay, that's it, I'm hanging up."

After speaking, he hung up the phone without any hesitation and turned off his phone at the same time.

Because Li Yi understood that he probably wouldn't come to this world again in the future, and talking more wouldn't make any sense, but would only add trouble.

After doing all this, Li Yi felt inexplicably relieved.

The favor was repaid, the Ghost Post Office matter was handled, and he could safely leave.

He carried his backpack, his steps much lighter, and walked toward the outside of Dazhuang City without looking back.

It was just that when he came, it was a team of six, but when he returned, only he was left.

Thinking of the teammates who had died one by one, Li Yi felt inexplicably melancholy in his heart. ===== CHAPTER 262 =====