Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 97 Abnormality in Memory
Before they knew it, it was already six o'clock. Many people were ready to leave, but they were stopped by the security guards. Are you kidding? A supernatural incident has occurred. You can't just leave if you want to.

"I'm sorry sir, the special case that happened here has not been solved yet. The whole building is now blocked and no one is allowed to leave."

The guard stopped a man who was about to leave, and another guard had raised his gun and aimed at the man's head. Here, Cao Yang's orders were the most important, and no one was allowed to leave without permission.

"Ok."

The man didn't dare to bet that the gun in the guard's hand was a fake, so he had to return to his seat in disappointment.

At seven o'clock, the sky over Otsu City had already darkened, and the landmark Beichen Building had disappeared out of thin air in the city. The liaison officer Hu Mingtao had lost contact with Cao Yang, and now he could only pray that Cao Yang could resolve the incident.

The sudden disappearance of a building cannot be concealed. Rumors are now flying all over the Internet, and relevant personnel at the headquarters are working overtime to frantically clean up these posts.

Inside the Beichen Building, Cao Yang took out his satellite phone and checked the time: 7:30 in the evening.

"It's already dark outside, but looking out from the building it's still gray and dim."

Cao Yang waved his hand, and a man in formal attire immediately ran over. This was the temporary assistant he had found, who was responsible for helping him count the death toll and summarize the common features of the deceased.

“What is the death toll now?
"84, with a male-to-female ratio of about 1:1. Aside from the peaceful expressions and terrified eyes you confirmed earlier, I didn't find anything in common between them."

"Got it. Just continue with the statistics and summarize them every two hours."

Cao Yang waved his hand and the man left. He knew that the man in front of him was no ordinary person. He knew it from the moment Cao Yang took out the golden pistol.

"Ghosts only kill people according to patterns, so what exactly is the pattern of this ghost?"

"If that shadow is a ghost den, why does it only cover the North Star Building and not spread to other areas?"

In the outside world, Cao Yang didn't know that the supernatural had begun to spread. With Beichen Building as the center, the two surrounding streets had turned gray and yellow, looking like an old photo.

As a last resort, Hu Mingtao had to expand the blockade again, and many residents had even been temporarily relocated to the suburbs of Dajing City.

"Memory killing, or should I say memory killing? Like Shen Lin?"

Cao Yang's thoughts were spreading. In the world of mysterious resurrection, memory is basically equivalent to human consciousness. If ghosts kill people at the level of consciousness, it means that the rules of ghosts are most likely related to memory.

"The pattern of the ghost painting is to recall the appearance of the woman in the painting, so what is the pattern of this ghost recalling?"

"It's a headache, damn, if it's really a ghost at the conscious level, then I can't handle it at all!"

Human thoughts are inherently difficult to control. Humans often diverge involuntarily while thinking. Your weird thoughts often turn to an inexplicable corner uncontrollably until you discover it and adjust your thoughts, and then they turn to an inexplicable corner again.

Cao Yang is now trying his best to restrain himself from recalling the past, but his thoughts cannot be controlled unless they are forcibly interrupted by some external force.

Otsu University, Oishi City Villa, Ghost Window Incident, Taiping Inn... and even some memory fragments before the time travel began to flash through Cao Yang's mind like a revolving lantern. "Wait, that's..."

Although Cao Yang was extremely reluctant, his thoughts still spread to the past and could not be stopped. However, Cao Yang also discovered something unusual: Beichen Building.

When recalling everything that happened in Otsu City, Cao Yang discovered that there was no such building in his memory. The original location of the building was only an office-sized room that was completely gold-plated and appeared in mid-air unscientifically. That was Cao Yang's office.

"What is this? The Beichen Building in my memory has disappeared, so doesn't that mean this building is just an existence in my memory?!"

Not only that, Cao Yang found that the office in his memory was also disappearing bit by bit, as if the ghost was beginning to erode his earlier memories, when the office had not yet been filled with gold.

"The ghost exists in the memory... and the ghost even moved the building in the memory into reality."

Outside, after the first group of people escorting the materials arrived, the headquarters sent out a second group of support. And after some special tests, they found that the North Star Building did not disappear out of thin air, but was covered by some kind of supernatural power, like an invisibility cloak, which cannot be observed by all current means, but it does exist objectively.

"But what is the pattern of the ghost's killing? I have started to recall, but the ghost has not attacked me."

"No, that's not right. I've been attacked."

Cao Yang's eyes suddenly froze, and he found that he seemed to no longer be in reality. The worst thing was that the supernatural power he controlled was isolated.

"The ghost that stepped on people has become my lower body. If I were to isolate myself from the spirit world, I should be a disabled person with only the upper body. But now I have a healthy body, which means that this isolation seems incomplete."

Not only that, Cao Yang discovered that the container containing the mutilated ghost hand was gone, but the pistol was still on him.

"Is it the same isolation principle as in ghost dreams? Some ordinary items can be brought into dreams, but gold cannot. But my pistol is made of gold."

This is the Beichen Building in my memory, with its grayish, white and yellowish tones, like the revolving images in a person’s mind after death.

"This is not the entire North Star Building that I remember, because I only know the floor where the office is located, and I don't know about the other floors. So the ghost also grabbed the image and layout of the North Star Building from other people's memories."

"Let's go to my office first. My office has a very high confidentiality level, and ordinary people cannot know it. But the layer before me has not been transformed into gold, and ghosts can complete that layer through other people's memories."

Although it is the building in his memory, the water, electricity and even the elevator are all functioning normally, and Cao Yang has not found any trace of evil spirits so far.

"This is difficult. This is not my office, but the office of the previous person in charge, Peng Cheng. The supernatural cannot affect gold, so the evil spirit has seized the earlier memories."

Cao Yang originally planned to use the resources of his office to try to escape from this memory world, but now the plan has failed.

"A ghost that exists in memory must have a carrier to appear in reality. Our current goal is to find that carrier. Although this is not my office, Peng Cheng, as the person in charge, cannot possibly have no golden container in his office."

(End of this chapter)