Li Yi took the opportunity while the other third-floor ssengers were conversing to quickly slip away and return to his room. His movents were swift, retrieving the wooden puppet from his backpack. Then, extending a finger, Gang Qi condensed, comparable to a steel blade, and with ease, he carved two characters onto the puppet’s body.
Li Yi!
According to what the collector Fang Hua had said, just by carving the na, this puppet would take your place, transforming into your likeness and inheriting your mories.
Li Yi tossed the puppet out and then quietly observed the changes.
Soon,
the motionless puppet began to writhe and then, like an inflating balloon, swelled rapidly. Amidst the expansion, a chilly aura pervaded, and eventually, the figure of Li Yi began to take shape.
In just a few seconds, a person identical to Li Yi stood before him, even down to the clothes.
The scene was unbelievable.
The supernatural power of this world was indeed magical, seeming capable of anything. The underlying principles baffled even Li Yi, an Evolver, who found such occurrences utterly inconceivable whenever he witnessed them.
"I am Li Yi, from Tianchang City... no, that’s not right, where is Tianchang City? Shouldn’t I be from Da Chang City? There’s no place called Tianchang City in this world." All of a sudden, the puppet Li Yi started to speak, his tone filled with a degree of bewildernt as if there was sothing wrong with his mories.
"But I rember I always lived in Tianchang City, both my parents were Evolvers, and one day they had an accident and beca the Silent Ones... wait, what Evolver, this world only has Ghost Tars, and my parents, my parents are still alive, they’re all doing just fine."
"This is the Ghost Post Office, I’m here to take part in a mail delivery task, no, that’s wrong, I need to Cross Border, leave this world."
He kept muttering, seemingly plunged into confusion.
Seeing this, Li Yi’s complexion changed instantly, and he carefully took a few steps back, all the while tightly gripping a fractured short stick, ready to strike down the puppet at any mont.
This thing was sowhat eerie, and it might have already gone out of control.
However, the next words from the puppet caused Li Yi’s hair to stand on end as it suddenly twisted its neck to look at a dim corner of the room and called out, "Mom, why are you here? This is the Ghost Post Office, how did you get in?"
Mom?
Who was he calling?
Li Yi’s face changed abruptly, and he quickly looked in that direction.
The next mont, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Because he indeed saw soone.
A woman, with pale hands bearing faint livor mortis spots, her pallid face standing out starkly in the murky corner, yet that face was familiar, identical to Li Yi’s mother in the dical pod.
"Mom?"
Li Yi couldn’t help but call out as well.
But the creepy woman in the corner offered no response, only a strange smile as she looked at him and the puppet.
"No, how could my mom be here?" At that mont, Li Yi felt a sharp pain, followed by a flood of fragnted mories surging through his mind.
In his mories, Li Yi’s mother was supposed to be lying in dical pod number two, but as so missing mories returned, the pod turned out to have been empty, seemingly unoccupied for years.
He dutifully maintained pod number two every week, adding nutrient solution to a dical pod that held no one.
Yet, as the mories flickered, the non-existent mother reappeared in his thoughts.
But this mother was eerie, sotis wandering inexplicably in the living room. Li Yi would occasionally catch sight of her, which startled him, but he would then pass out, and certain mories would vanish—only now they were inexplicably returning.
Li Yi clutched his head, in agony.
The fragnted mories continued to assault his brain.
Little by little, he realized his mories seed to have been tampered with, as if his mother never existed... Several nights he saw this sinister woman, the most recent ti appearing to be on Ghost Street in the hazardous district.
All the disapeared traces ca rushing back for a brief mont.
Amidst his pain, an additional layer of fear washed over Li Yi.
For all these years, what kind of entity had he been living with? Why did that thing pretend to be his mother?
"No, I can’t stay here, I must flee the Ghost Post Office, get away from this woman, Cross Border to leave this place."
Though in pain, Li Yi was sowhat clear-headed now. He grabbed his backpack and with a burst of Qi and Blood Gang Qi, he vanished from the third floor at an unimaginable speed, rushing toward the exit of the Ghost Post Office.
Under such speed, the other ssengers didn’t even notice.
By the ti they realized, the puppet Li Yi had already erged from room 34 with a slight smile, no longer engulfed in bewildernt. But the mories in his mind were vastly different from Li Yi’s. In his recollection, he had always lived in this world, with absolutely no Tianchang City or Evolvers.
He was an orphan, his parents had died early, and he stumbled into the Ghost Post Office by accident, desperately struggling to survive... A logically consistent experience presented itself in the mory of the puppet.
anwhile, the real Li Yi, who had noticed that sothing was amiss, had already burst out of the Ghost Post Office and arrived beside a large river outside Dazhuang City.
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