Chapter 44 To the Other Me
After Yun Mo received the mission briefing from Ye Erwen, he carefully read every detail and thought carefully about how to best deploy the accompanying troops. After careful consideration, he finally made a decision and conveyed the order to the relevant personnel.
After finishing these tasks, Yun Mo felt a wave of fatigue coming over him. He dragged his heavy steps back to his room and fell on the bed, hoping to have a good rest and recover his physical and mental strength.
Time passed quietly, three hours passed...
"EMM, it's dawn... No! Where is this?" Yun Mo suddenly woke up, sat up, and looked around. He found himself in a completely unfamiliar environment, and a strong sense of panic surged in his heart. However, when he touched the pendant on his neck and the brick in his pocket, his emotions gradually stabilized. These familiar objects brought him a little comfort and made him regain some sense of security.
Yun Mo took a deep breath, calmed himself, and then began to observe the surrounding situation. He noticed a closed door in front of him, so he slowly stood up and walked towards the door.
Walking to the door, Yun Mo tried to push it, but was surprised to find that it was not locked.
"Is the door unlocked?" he muttered to himself, full of doubts. Just as he was thinking, a voice suddenly came into his ears.
“Maybe they can live a normal life without me.”
Yun Mo was stunned. This voice sounded so familiar, as if it came from his own mouth. He widened his eyes and looked around for the source of the sound, but the room was very empty and there was no one else.
Then, another sentence came, exploding in his ears like thunder: "If it weren't for me, then Sister Ye Erwen wouldn't have died in Banya."
"Sister Ye Erwen will sacrifice herself? How is this possible?" Yun Mo's face changed drastically, and he couldn't believe what he heard. Ye Erwen meant a lot to him, and her existence was as important as a family member. This sudden news made him fall into great shock, and he was at a loss for a moment.
As Yun Mo stepped forward, his eyes also scanned the surrounding environment. This seemed to be the corridor inside a hotel. Its design style was unique, as if it cleverly combined classical and futuristic elements. There were some flower beds on both sides of the corridor, in which grew strange plants that emitted faint fluorescence. Above the ceiling, a group of blue bubbles floated, and a few small fish swam leisurely in them. In every corner of the corridor, there were countless clocks, which made crisp ticking sounds that echoed in the air.
"Perhaps it was because of me that I implicated everyone... Just to satisfy my own petty and foolish wish, I plunged the whole world into chaos."
"Is this...really me? If it is really me, then why am I like this?"
Yun Mo muttered to himself, his heart full of doubts.
"…I'm so tired and in so much pain. If someone had been willing to help and protect me at the beginning, would I not be as miserable as I am now?"
Hearing this, Yun Mo's heart suddenly shook, as if he remembered something. Could it be that the reason why he became what he is now is because he lacked the help of people like Mr. Lyle? Once this thought came up, it was lingering, and the more Yun Mo thought about it, the more so it was. When he was studying abroad in Su Nien, he had experienced an extremely dark time due to the surveillance of the military. At that time, he was low in spirits, depressed and even wanted to end his life. Fortunately, with the help of Mr. Lyle and his friends around him, he finally broke the cage that trapped him.
"Haha, I am such a useless waste! Since I embarked on this path, there are very few people who are willing to lend a hand to me. But those who once helped me left me one after another. Maybe this is the so-called hell, and I came here just to atone for the sins I committed..."
After hearing this, Yun Mo didn't want to listen anymore. He immediately pushed open the door in front of him, but the scene in front of him shocked him.
Unlike the hotel style on the road, this room is very simple, and the tungsten filament lamp that came from somewhere illuminates the place.
The room was small, with only one faucet, one vent, one toilet... one wooden bed... and in the room a little boy was sitting on the bed crying.
"Where is this? Little boy, you..." When the child turned around after hearing the voice, Yun Mo was immediately stunned.
The child's left eye was tightly wrapped in gauze. He only had one eye, and he was wearing a hospital gown. His body was skinny and his cheeks were pale. Looking at the striking pink short hair, Yun Mo immediately came to an unbelievable conclusion - this was himself.
"You, are you me too?" The boy, Yun Mo, asked, looking at his other self. He was surprised and envious when he saw himself full of energy and without any wounds on his body. Yun Mo did not speak at this time, he just nodded.
"Huh, I didn't expect that you would have another personality emerging. However, it looks like a piece of wood." Another voice that sounded very much like Yun Mo's was heard. The two looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man who looked exactly like the two of them walking over, but his eyes were purple.
"You, you are..."
"Hello, you can call me Yunmo, Mo for inexplicable."
"To be honest, I understand that you are in extreme pain now, right? That's true. Everyone will face such a dilemma. However, please rest assured that I can fully help you. After all, we are from the same person! Now, please speak to me, okay!"
After a long silence... "Yun Mo"... finally broke the silence and spoke.
"Look, you are still willing to communicate with me after all." Yun Mo declared happily, "It is obvious that you still have the possibility of being saved. Please have faith, as long as you follow my guidance, you will definitely be able to achieve self-salvation, believe me!"
"…Why do I need to redeem myself?"
"Isn't this basic common sense? Now that things have developed to this point, what will happen if you don't save yourself?" Yun Mo said angrily with a look of anger on his face, as if he was disappointed in him.
"...Common...knowledge..." Yun Mo murmured in a low voice, standing there in a daze as if he had lost the ability to think.
"Okay, I'll explain to you what happened." Looking at Yun Mo's stunned look, Yun Mo said anxiously, "Do you have a memory of being a high school student in CN in your memory?"
"......Yes." "Yun Mo" looked at the person in front of him blankly, and nodded subconsciously in response.
His mind was in a mess, and he didn't know how to understand what he had just heard. "That's right, in fact, that memory does not belong to you, but I made it up and imposed it on you." Yun Mo's words exploded in his ears like thunder, shocking him and Yun Mo who was standing next to him.
Yun Mo took a deep breath and continued, "To be precise, the memories of the original identity 'Yun Mo' are my real memories, and you are just using the name Yun Mo. As for Yun Mo's memory, I deliberately sealed it up. There is no other reason, just because if you know this memory, you will definitely fall into despair, and you may even choose to commit suicide."
Yun Mo's tone was calm, but his eyes revealed a hint of helplessness and sadness. He seemed to have experienced many painful things, and these things were inextricably linked to "Yun Mo".
"Yun Mo" stood there blankly, unable to accept this fact. He had always thought that he was Yun Mo, with his own past and memories. However, now, he was told that all this was fake and he was just a puppet being manipulated.
"Why? Why do you treat me like this?" "Yun Mo" finally came to his senses and questioned Yun Mo angrily.
Yun Mo looked at him silently, and after a long while he slowly spoke: "I had no choice. Some things are too cruel. If you knew the truth, you might not be able to bear it. So I chose this method, hoping to protect you."
After hearing this, Yun Mo felt mixed emotions. On the one hand, he was angry at Yun Mo's deception; on the other hand, he began to doubt the meaning of his own existence. If he was really just a substitute, then what on earth was he?
Deep down, Yun Mo couldn't help but feel curious about the sealed memory. What kind of memory could make people so desperate? But at the same time, he was afraid that he would lose himself and fall into endless pain after knowing the truth.
Faced with such a situation, "Yun Mo" fell into deep confusion and struggle. And Yun Mo, watched him quietly, as if waiting for him to make a decision.
"There's something wrong with your tone." Yun Mo, who had been standing nearby for a long time, said.
"Oh, then what suggestions do you have?" Yun Mo asked, looking at himself in the sticky general's uniform.
"I don't have any suggestions, but." Yun Mo took off the cross hanging around his neck and said, "Help me, Mr. Lyle!!! Help me, Sister Yunru!!!"
At this time, the two people who were developing new weapons in the laboratory suddenly sensed something.
"SIR, I sense a special power." LEGION said beside Lyle.
"I see. It seems that Little Phoenix has encountered something. LEGION, activate the crack generator according to the coordinates. Yunru, we have to go over and take a look."
"I understand, Mr. Lyle." Yunru put on her exoskeleton armor and followed Lyle in.
After the two entered, Yunru was confused when she saw three almost identical brothers, but she quickly came to her own brother's side.
"elder sister!!!"
"Sister...sister..." "Yun Mo" felt a little envious when he saw another self hugging his sister.
"So, Little Phoenix, is this why you called us here?" When Lyle felt the extremely unstable spiritual power of the other two, he understood that the other two were Yun Mo from different worlds, no, to be precise, the Yun Mo with bruises all over his body. The other one was his other personality.
"Mr. Lyle, what is going on?" Yunru asked in confusion.
"Haha, to be honest, Yunru, do you still remember some of the things I showed you?"
"Of course I remember. If it weren't for these things, I might still...wait, you mean, this is what Xiaoyun will look like in the future." Yunru realized something as she spoke, her tone full of disbelief.
"Yes, you two can take a look too." After saying that, Lyle placed his hands on the two men's heads and began to transmit something.
"I understand. You've worked really hard, my other self." Yun Mo whispered softly, and then opened his arms without hesitation, hugging the wounded and exhausted self tightly. At the same time, Yun Ru also came forward and hugged the two of them with her warm hands, tears sliding down her cheeks, and whispered: "Brother, you've worked hard, cry as much as you want."
As if he had been liberated, Yun Mo burst into tears in their embrace, as if he wanted to vent all the suffering and grievances he had endured in these two lives. The Yun Ru siblings stood silently by, listening to the pain and sorrow in his heart. They gently stroked Yun Mo's short hair, their eyes full of tears, but they did not make a sound.