"You... what nonsense are you spouting?"
Li Tiezhu reacted as though he had heard the greatest joke in the world. "I crossed over from Earth!"
"I know the Three Hundred Tang Poems, and I've played video games!"
"I can even recite the fucking multiplication table!"
"Did that shock just now break something in you? Have you gone nuts?!"
He roared at the system, trying to use these pieces of common knowledge to shatter its utterly absurd claim.
But a trace of cold dread still rose in his heart.
Because he remembered that incident.
He remembered the flashing montage he had experienced in the River Chart World after swallowing Wang Yan's half-finished "Sorrow-Forgetting Pill."
He had traveled backward through his memories, seeing his arduous cultivation in the Immortal Realm, seeing his bedraggled state when he took a master...
When, full of hope, he had wanted to look once more at the "homeland" that haunted his dreams at the very end of his memories.
There had been nothing.
Only a stretch of nothingness.
And a... blurred, enormous face!
Sure enough, after Li Tiezhu quieted down, the system slowly posed its second question.
[If that is so.] [Then tell me, what is your mother's name?]
"My mom? My mom's name is..."
Li Tiezhu opened his mouth, but the name that should have slipped right off his tongue would not come out, no matter what.
He froze.
A sense of panic swept through his heart in an instant.
What was her name again?
Auntie Zhang? Ms. Li?
No... neither was right.
[Then what about your father? What is his name? What does he look like?]
The system continued peeling back his soul, bit by bit.
"My dad's name is... my dad was a mechanic. He looked... he was very tall,