"What?"

Bai Xiao was slightly taken aback, as she had absolutely no related memories.

“My daughter… her homeroom teacher…” Bai Xiao’s tone was tinged with suspicion as she stared at Lillian for a long time, even wondering if the other woman was some kind of fraudster. So she added, “You…”

"My daughter, you used to play very well with my daughter, Mona, Mona, do you remember?"

Before Bai Xiao could ask any more questions, the other party's answer was like a thunderclap from a clear sky!

Mona?!

Bai Xiao felt like screaming like a groundhog right now!

Mona, isn't that the name of the final boss in the game?!

Good heavens! Is it just a coincidence of names?

She's seen a ghost—ugh! She's seen Mona's mother?

"Wait, we...we used to be neighbors?" After a moment of shock, Bai Xiao quickly realized what the other person had said!

“Yes? What’s wrong?” Lillian said, as if she didn’t think she had said anything wrong. “After my divorce from my ex-husband… I moved away with Mona.”

As she spoke, Lillian's gaze swept over Bai Xiao again, and she said with sympathy, "We deeply sympathized with what happened to your daughter back then, but what exactly happened to you and your husband this past year...?"

Lillian didn't voice how things had turned out this way, but Bai Xiao immediately realized that something seemed off about her role.

It seems that the other person's perception is somewhat different from my own perception of myself?

She knew that her character was a middle-aged couple who had lost their daughter and were destitute.

But it seems she isn't as poor as she perceives herself to be?

Otherwise, how could she have become neighbors with Lillian's family?

Although she was unaware of the game's plot, Bai Xiao knew about Mona's background; her family seemed to have always been well-off.

It is impossible that he suffered hardship and lived in a slum in his early years.

So why does her character seem to keep emphasizing that she is very poor?

“After my daughter passed away, my husband and I really lost our will to live… We’ve had a tough time lately, unlike you, who seems to be living a very happy life now.”

Although she couldn't figure it out for the moment, that didn't stop Bai Xiao from subtly shifting the topic to Lillian.

This is the boss's mother!

There must be a lot of valuable information.

...

"ha?!"

After Mingmei and Zhen Hu checked their answers, Bai Xiao returned and told them about her encounter with Lillian.

While Mingmei was surprised, she sensed something unusual about Lillian's actions.

It seemed like the woman was deliberately giving them a warning.

“Ah Fang and I didn’t originally think about the memory disorder on our bodies, but Lillian spoke so convincingly, saying that I used to be her neighbor, and even talking about the character’s deceased daughter… it didn’t seem fake.”

Unaware of what Mingmei was thinking, Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang took the lead in analyzing the situation. Considering what happened to Hu Yue before, they had now concluded that the information on the characters they had transmigrated into had indeed been distorted at some point.

Just as previously suspected, it is very likely that their memories were indeed affected by the BOSS.

However, they weren't sure how much of this information was true and how much was false. And what about Lillian?

Is she unaffected by the BOSS, or is she some kind of survivor?

“Lillian mentioned her ex-husband…” Bai Xiao said with some doubt in her tone, “She said her ex-husband is my daughter’s homeroom teacher.”

Is there a problem?

Mingmei realized she had discovered another character: Mona's biological father.

“That person… I remember he died in the middle school fire too, which was only a little over a year ago…”

"Are you saying that the characters of Lillian and Zhen Hu are seamlessly connected?"

Mingmei also noticed this. Lillian told Hu Yue that they had only moved here a year ago, which meant that she had been remarried for at least a year.

She had divorced more than a year ago, and then remarried shortly after. Not long after she moved out, her ex-husband died in a fire at the school.

What a coincidence!

Divorced, remarried, and with his ex-partner dead—a true master of time management?

"But these are all Lillian's side of the story. I don't remember any of this, and I'm not sure how much of what she said is true or false."

"Then let's go check the place she mentioned." At this moment, Mu Chen returned, and as if he hadn't told Mingmei before, he moved what he discovered yesterday to today. (www.cascoo.net)

This time, he told Bai Xiao and the others that he had found their relevant information by checking their milk delivery records.

This confirms that Lillian was right; they were indeed neighbors.

"But why would the BOSS do this? Change all of our memories? We forgot that Mona and the others existed in our past lives, yet she changed the memories of our current neighbors, Lu Xiaoyao and the others, to the point that they were long-term neighbors and had grown up playing with the kids across the street. What is the purpose of this?"

Yuan Fang couldn't quite understand it, but a few thoughts seemed to come to mind, only to vanish in an instant and slip through his fingers.

"Perhaps you can find some clues in yourselves. After all, you used to be neighbors, and maybe... your present is the future of Lu Xiaoyao and the others."

Bright words are a bit too frightening.

Is their present the future of Lu Xiaoyao and the others?

Their child ultimately chose self-destruction, not knowing why they lived in such poverty. Could it be that Lu Xiaoyao and Julian were the same?!

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