172: Chapter 172: You Need to Take Some Medicine Now 172: Chapter 172: You Need to Take Some Medicine Now “Good news, you’re going to have a sister.”
Pff—!
Li Mumu almost sprayed the cream of mushroom soup she was drinking all over Li Ya’s chest.
She had been tiptoeing nervously into the dining room following Li Ya, quietly ordered her meal, and throughout the process, Li Ya hadn’t said a word, making her even more anxious.
Just when the food had finally arrived and she had barely taken a couple of bites, Li Ya dropped this bombshell on her.
It wasn’t that she was unprepared, but she was not prepared for this.
It’s only been a few days and you guys just…
“If you weren’t so useless, I wouldn’t have thought about having a second child.”
Li Ya, with one hand propping her cheek and the other stirring her soup with a spoon, said calmly, “With the recent disturbances in the time-space strings, this child’s talents should far surpass yours.
This might be the best gift you, as her useless sister, could give her.”
Li Mumu’s pupils dilated suddenly.
The disturbances in the time-space strings…
This is another term for “Time-Space Retrospection” from the “String Theory.”
She knows everything!
She even knows I just went through a time-space retrospection!
“What do you think would be a good name for her?”
Li Ya looked up, her calm gaze meeting Li Mumu’s terrified eyes, “Don’t be so nervous; it’s just one more person in the family.
Mom and Dad’s love for you won’t change.”
Is that really what I’m nervous about?
Li Mumu stared at Li Ya and asked in a lowered voice, “Are you really the one manipulating all this?
Why?”
“Why what?
Is your mental illness acting up again?”
Li Ya shook her head, “I thought leaving Saifu City might have been good for you.
Maybe you spent too much time on the ship, and it’s making you sick again?
What’s it called again?
Ah, right, claustrophobia, right?”
You’re the one with claustrophobia!
“I’m not sick!”
Li Mumu said angrily, “I mean, you know about the disturbances in the time-space strings, you know everything!”
Li Ya looked at her silently for a long moment and sighed deeply.
“Let’s finish our meal first, then we can talk about this when we get back.”
The meal was tasteless for Li Mumu, who couldn’t bear to believe that her own mother was really the mastermind behind all this or that she genuinely didn’t care about her own daughter’s death.
But facts speak louder than words.
After the meal, back in the room, Li Ya pulled out a bottle of pills from her pocket, took out a white pill, and handed it to Li Mumu, “Take your medicine, and then we can have a good talk.”
“What is this medicine?”
“Methylchlorophen, a sedative.
If you’ve read enough, you should have heard of it.”
Li Ya picked up a glass of water, “Come on, take it, don’t waste time!”
So what’s the cost of this…
Li Mumu didn’t want to take the weird medicine, but under her mother’s piercing gaze, she couldn’t muster the courage to refuse.
It’s not like she could fight her just to avoid taking the pill… and she didn’t even know if she could win.
Li Mumu clasped the amulet in her palm and obediently swallowed the pill.
“I know you have many questions,”
After watching her swallow the pill and drink the water, Li Ya began, “You’ve just experienced a disturbance in the String Theory, returning to this moment from the future.
You have many questions, but all of these questions are less serious than your own issues.”
“At this point, I won’t hide it from you anymore.
Li Mumu, you’ve had a severe mental illness since childhood.
Of course, it’s not your fault, as our family has a history of hereditary mental illnesses.
With the current level of medical knowledge, there is no way to treat it, so your father and I always had a laissez-faire attitude toward you, not wanting to create too much psychological pressure for you.”
Li Mumu was dumbfounded.
Why don’t you go write a novel?
Are you trying to convince me that all I experienced before was a hallucination?
“Not everything was a hallucination.”
Seemingly recognizing the thoughts in Li Mumu’s mind, Li Ya spread her hands and said, “I’m not negating everything you’ve experienced.
I just want to tell you that some parts of your memory, your thoughts, and your recognition are false, a consequence of your schizophrenia.”
“For example, your good friend Wendy doesn’t actually exist.”
“You’re talking nonsense!
Wendy has even come to our house for dinner!”
“In fact, that was just your dad and I acting along with you, so as not to trigger your condition.
Have you never considered that, aside from you, Wendy never interacts with anyone else?
Isn’t that abnormal?”
“No!
No!
No!”
Li Mumu was nearly bewildered by Li Ya: “Wendy doesn’t like interacting with people, it’s not that she can’t interact; we were at the Hell Church…”
“But you only received an invitation, right?”
This statement stunned Li Mumu on the spot.
“Patients with schizophrenia often intentionally ignore these logical flaws, only hearing what they want to hear and seeing what they want to see.
Sometimes, it’s you who did something, but in the image constructed in your mind, it was you and Wendy accomplishing the task together.”
“Do you know why the names Li Mumu and Wendy are infamous in Safo City?
Because over the past ten years, you killed everyone who mocked you for having a mental illness and denied Wendy’s existence.”
“The truth is…”
“Ten years ago, you didn’t manage to rescue Wendy from the hands of the cultists.
You were only four years old then, and witnessing her death fully triggered your family’s inherited disease.
Since then, a personality named Wendy has formed in your mind.”
“You often spend nights in the old Freud Family mansion; haven’t you ever wondered why that place feels uninhabited, not like someone’s home?
Have you never questioned why Wendy’s mother hasn’t come to see her all these years?
What about her father?”
“Of course, you wouldn’t suspect, because a mentally ill person always finds a way to justify their thoughts.”
Li Mumu opened her mouth, but couldn’t utter a word.
Her mind was starting to blur.
“Let’s set aside Wendy’s case for now.
I remember you mentioned that you thought you had traveled back from the future, right?”
Li Ya moved closer to Li Mumu, staring at her pupils as they began to dilate.
“I asked you before if you knew about Shiyan’s problem, yet you didn’t know anything.”
“Shiyan is the source of the Time-Space Retrospection disturbance we are experiencing, like a stone thrown into water — With such severe disturbances already in our time, how could you, supposedly from even closer to the source in the future, know nothing about it?
Does that make any sense?”
“The actual truth is that you’ve split off yet another new personality.
Although I don’t want to admit it, as my daughter, you undoubtedly can’t compare to me, but compared to an average person, you still have a tiny bit of talent.”
“This new personality of yours is nothing more than an outcome of you using that bit of talent to peek into the future, then filling in the gaps with your imagination.”
Li Mumu didn’t answer.
Now that the medication was taking effect, her gaze turned vacant and hollow, no longer able to respond.
“I didn’t want to give you this medication, but for the sake of your sister’s health, we can’t let you go on like this any longer, darling.”
Li Ya shook her head, detached the amulet from her wrist, took the letter hidden in her pocket, walked out, and casually tossed these two items over the ship’s railing.