Li Yi’s head was increasingly in pain, and the mories that had reappeared before were disappearing at an astonishing rate.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a sinister woman standing across the river. The woman continued to smile at him with a vacant and numb expression, looking exactly like his mother from his mories.
"It... it’s tampering with my mories, making always believe it is my mom. My mories recovered just now because I used the puppet doll. This thing mistook the puppet doll for , so it also tampered with the puppet doll’s mories. It’s impossible for there to be two identical people in the world, so it used its power to alter mories on the doll, which is why it briefly spared ."
"That’s why I had this mont of clarity, but now it seems to be coming back to influence again."
At this mont, Li Yi understood everything.
His mom might have died long ago, this thing has been pretending to be his mom lying in the dical pod. He had noticed so clues before, but every ti he did, his mories were altered. Thinking about it carefully, many people had already been hinting to him that sothing was off with his mom.
Sister Lin had hinted at it several tis, but in the state of affected mory, he couldn’t think too much about it.
Why wouldn’t Sister Lin just tell him outright?
Would speaking out get her killed by it?
"Ah!" Li Yi at the riverside again cried out in pain as the mories that had surfaced were forcibly erased. He was about to revert to his previous state of being oblivious once again.
And this power influencing his mories felt very familiar.
It was like... a ghost.
At this mont, Li Yi no longer had ti to continue thinking. He quickly wrote a few words on his arm with his finger: "Beware of my mom."
After writing this sentence, his arm was bloody.
But being an Evolver, his strong physical constitution caused the bleeding to stop in just a mont.
Li Yi didn’t know if this ssage he left would be useful, but it was the only thing he could do now. If the mory alteration was really that thorough, he had no choice but to resign himself to fate.
As the erasure of his mory reached its peak, he could not endure the tornt and pain and directly fainted, falling at the riverside.
This faint lasted a full four hours.
When Li Yi woke up again, his eyes carried a hint of confusion. He strenuously tried to recall what had happened before, about him using the puppet doll in the Ghost Post Office and then finding an opportunity to slip away.
However, when he lifted his arm, he discovered bloodstains on it, with four sloppy words carved: Beware of my mom?
"Did I etch these words into my arm with Gang Qi?" Li Yi imdiately recognized the source of the scars, but he didn’t understand why he would do such a thing, why he would suddenly carve these four words and prefer to etch them into his arm rather than write them down?
"Is it related to my fainting?"
His gaze shifted slightly, staring at the four words on his arm as he fell into deep thought. But as an Evolver, his instincts told him this was an important clue; otherwise, he wouldn’t go to such lengths to self-harm to preserve it.
But Li Yi had not yet crossed borders back to Tianchang City. Even if there was sothing wrong with his mom, he had no way to investigate it now.
"Only after going back can everything be clarified," he thought to himself, determined to understand what was going on with him this ti when he got back ho.
He couldn’t be kept in the dark any longer; he vaguely felt it might concern his own life and safety.
However, just as Li Yi was lost in thought,
suddenly,
a slight vibration ca from his backpack.
Li Yi thought of sothing and hurriedly opened his backpack, taking out the locator.
He saw the indicator light on the locator co on, and at the sa ti, a countdown appeared: 23:59:55.
"That’s the signal that the Cross Border gateway is opening, and the gateway will open in twenty-four hours." Li Yi was both surprised and delighted at this mont.
He had finally endured three months and reached this mont.
This desperate, broken world was unbearable, filled with fierce ghosts and supernatural events, and it was too dangerous.
This world, code-nad 36, should be completely sealed off, prohibiting other Cross-borders from entering or leaving.
"However, before leaving, there are a few things that need to be done. I had made a deal with a man nad Yang Jian, acquired a gold handgun, and selling it would be a good way to repay a favor." Amidst his excitent, Li Yi rembered another matter.
He took out a gold handgun, and then, as he exerted his Gang Qi, he forcefully distorted the gun with his potent energy. After playing with it in his palm for a few monts, the handgun had turned into a gold brick.
It must be said, that fellow Yang Jian was quite generous. This piece of gold was worth far more than three million, at least six million or more, especially since he had been keeping an eye on the gold prices in this world.
The price had reached an extravagant level now.
Clutching the gold piece, Li Yi returned to Dazhuang City during the little ti left before the Cross Border gateway opened.
He found a gold shop and sold the gold piece, amassing nearly seven million.
Li Yi first transferred three and a half million to the account number Wang Chuan had left him last ti. He didn’t touch the remainder of the money but simply left it on the card and then called Zheng Yaoyao.
"Hello, is this Li Yi?" Zheng Yaoyao imdiately picked up, her voice conveying her excitent, "You haven’t contacted for a long ti; where are you now? Why not co stay at my place? I’ve learned so cooking recently, and you can try the dishes I’ve made. They’re definitely delicious."
Li Yi then said, "There’s no ti, I’m leaving tomorrow. Before I go, I’ve left a sum of money for you as a gift. The money’s in your account, rember to check it out later. Alright, that’s it, I’m hanging up."
He spoke without any hesitation and hung up the phone, then turned off his mobile.
Because Li Yi understood that he would likely never return to this world again, speaking more would serve no purpose and only add to his worries.
After finishing all these tasks, Li Yi felt a strange relief.
He had settled his debts, and the affairs with the Ghost Post Office were sorted; he could leave with peace of mind.
With a backpack on his shoulders, his steps beca much brisker as he headed out of Dazhuang City without looking back.
When he had arrived, he was part of a six-person squad; now, he was the only one left.
Recalling the teammates who had died one by one, Li Yi felt a sudden, inexplicable lancholy.
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