The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 371 - 261: Do I Actually Have a Mother?

Li Yi!

According to what the collector Fang Hua had said, just by carving the name, this puppet would take your place, transforming into your likeness and inheriting your memories.

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 bewilderment as if there was something wrong with his memories.

"But I remember I always lived in Tianchang City, both my parents were Evolvers, and one day they had an accident and became the Silent Ones... wait, what Evolver, this world only has Ghost Tamers, 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 moment.

This thing was somewhat 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 moment, his pupils suddenly contracted.

Because he indeed saw someone.

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 medical 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 moment, Li Yi felt a sharp pain, followed by a flood of fragmented memories surging through his mind.

In his memories, Li Yi’s mother was supposed to be lying in medical pod number two, but as some missing memories 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 medical pod that held no one.

Yet, as the memories flickered, the non-existent mother reappeared in his thoughts.

But this mother was eerie, sometimes 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 memories would vanish—only now they were inexplicably returning.

Li Yi clutched his head, in agony.

The fragmented memories continued to assault his brain.

Little by little, he realized his memories seemed to have been tampered with, as if his mother never existed... Several nights he saw this sinister woman, the most recent time appearing to be on Ghost Street in the hazardous district.

All the disapeared traces came rushing back for a brief moment.

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 somewhat 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 Messengers didn’t even notice.

By the time they realized, the puppet Li Yi had already emerged from room 34 with a slight smile, no longer engulfed in bewilderment. But the memories 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 memory of the puppet.

Meanwhile, the real Li Yi, who had noticed that something was amiss, had already burst out of the Ghost Post Office and arrived beside a large river outside Dazhuang City.