Chapter 278 The shackles of the transaction? Then cut it off

In the world of mysterious resurrection, memory can be equated with consciousness to a certain extent, provided that this memory can dominate.

However, whether it is the past life or the present life, Cao Yang does not completely agree with this statement. The dominant memory subject can only represent one identity, but human thinking and consciousness do not have only one identity, there are many other things.

At this moment, Cao Yang's transaction with himself was completed, the goods were received, and the next step was to pay for the goods.

In the dim and lightless world of memory, a thin and shriveled figure seemed to appear out of thin air. The man was wearing a blue-gray cloth, and his brown skin was tightly attached to his muscles, like a dried corpse that had been dead for a long time.

Not only that, this person was carrying a shoulder pole with a wooden box hanging on the back end of the pole, and a somewhat illusory and transparent shadow of the wooden box appeared at the front end, as if it was not on the same layer as the figure.

Ghost peddler!
Fate has its place, trade at noon.

A ghost rider who is suspected to have lived from the Republic of China to the present. Even after his consciousness and human emotions were completely eroded, he still retained some of his wisdom and instincts from his lifetime.

However, the ghost peddler that was condensed at this time did not have the black cloth wrapped around his head, and his facial features and face were completely exposed.

That face was none other than Cao Yang's face!
The facial features, angles, expressions, even the demeanor, all the details are exactly the same as Cao Yang!
But what is strange is that this face seems to be drawn. Although there is no temperature in the memory world, this face is melting and collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if there is a real face under Cao Yang's skin.

"This is impossible!"

However, at the moment when the ghost peddler's face completely melted away, a new face was revealed. It was this face that made Cao Yang, who had become an alien, feel stunned and shocked.

"Cao Yang's father, Cao Yanzhong!"

Yes.

In fact, Cao Yang was not familiar with that face, but he was a time traveler and had inherited all the memories of his original body, Cao Yang. Naturally, he could recognize the owner of this face. After all, he was his father in this world.

"Cao Yanzhong disappeared when Cao Yang was very young. Even my uncle who works in the supernatural department has been investigating for more than ten years but has not been able to find any clues."

"If my father was just an ordinary person, he would never have completely wiped out all traces of his existence. He would definitely have left some clues."

"So, the only one who can do this is a ghost rider, and a ghost rider who has a ghost den."

This is a very subtle feeling. Cao Yang has thought of many possibilities, but he never thought that the ghost peddler would be related to his father. However, reality is often so absurd and bizarre, and the supernatural is always so unpredictable.

"First of all, it is certain that my father is definitely not a ghost peddler. In this case, it is easy to guess that my father was cursed by the ghost peddler for some reason in his early years, and he was taken away by this ghost not long after giving birth to Cao Yang."

The ghost peddler that was condensed was not a real ghost, but just his own image in his memory. Now that his memory was obtained by Cao Yang, this memory would naturally return to the entire memory world.

"The Peddler possesses the ability to replace my father. He replaced my father's identity and appearance, but I triggered the law of replacement during the memory ghost incident, so the Peddler had already replaced me at that time. I was just too weak to even realize it."

"But maybe the replacement was not thorough that time. Later, I became more and more keen to complete the transaction with the ghost peddler as soon as possible. This behavior may have deepened the process of replacement and erosion."

"At a moment that I didn't even realize, the ghost peddler completely replaced me, and I became the ghost peddler."

In addition, with the shackles and constraints of the transaction, the real ghost peddler can regain his own supernatural powers and puzzles bit by bit as long as he completes the transaction, and can even completely get rid of the identity of the peddler and get rid of the rules of the transaction. "

"The medium of the Ghost Peddler is Cao Yang. No, to be more precise, from the moment Cao Yang started trading with the Ghost Peddler, he became the medium for the Ghost Peddler to invade reality."

"The ghost peddler has always been there. Cao Yang is the ghost peddler, and the ghost peddler is Cao Yang. The boundary between humans and ghosts has long become blurred. Cao Yang is not a complete human, and the ghost peddler is not a complete ghost." The ghost peddler in the memory world has empty and numb eyes, revealing a dead horror, without a trace of living spirit.

However, with every step he took, his cold and stiff limbs would regain some vitality, the numbness in his eyes would fade away little by little, and the emotions that belonged to living people were returning.

This is not a blind speculation or conjecture. Without the interference of other supernatural beings, such as Shen Lin or Li Leping, memory will not deceive people. The ghost peddler does not have the supernatural power of memory. He can only replace it, but cannot modify or implant it.

"I am Cao Yang, and also the Ghost Peddler. The Ghost Peddler completely replaced the real Cao Yang, both physically and in memory. Even after gaining access to Cao Yang's memories, he believed that he was Cao Yang."

"But the instinct of the evil spirit cannot be erased. The real Cao Yang occupies most of his puzzle pieces, and puzzle acquisition happens to be one of the instincts of the evil spirit. Therefore, the ghost peddler began to participate in transactions, solve incidents, and imprison evil spirits in a targeted manner."

"He even imitated Cao Yang's words, deeds, behaviors and habits. No, that should not be called imitation, because in the eyes of outsiders, he is Cao Yang."

Today, "Cao Yang" finally understood, and the doubts that had troubled his mind for a long time were resolved.

"I'm not Cao Yang, I'm a ghost peddler."

He began to speak, and all the ghost slaves repeated the words with him.

"I'm not a ghost peddler, I'm Cao Yang."

The figure condensed from memory had a smile on his face and his words were full of confidence.

"I am a ghost peddler."

"I'm Cao Yang."

Cao Yang, who was wearing the body of a ghost peddler, and the ghost peddler, who was wearing Cao Yang's body, formed a confrontation in the memory world. The gray-white memory world was trembling and shaking, and high-rise buildings were collapsing and shattering, just like the scene of space annihilation in a movie, and everything was returning to nothingness.

"I am a ghost peddler."

"I'm Cao Yang."

They were still repeating these two sentences, but the situation was changing drastically. The building that had been destroyed and collapsed was restored again, and everything was intact, but the words repeated by the ghost slaves had changed.

"I'm Cao Yang, not a ghost peddler."

"I am the ghost peddler, not Cao Yang."

There was only one figure left in the memory world who was still repeating this sentence. He was a ghost peddler disguised as Cao Yangren.

The image of Cao Yang, who was dressed as a ghost peddler, also changed. The two men were now exactly the same, as if there was an invisible mirror standing between them.

"I'm Cao Yang, and I'm also a ghost peddler."

With a smile on his face, Cao Yang took a small step forward and crossed the non-existent mirror.

(End of this chapter)