Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"Meat?"

Listening to Tang Tang's description, Su Ming raised an eyebrow.

In his view, this was the most ordinary and normal underground scene.

The surrounding area was filled with mud and gravel, the only normal thing left in this upside-down world.

But in Tangtang's eyes, this place is an overwhelming, boundless hell of flesh and blood.

Layers of sticky, slippery red meat covered the surface of the rock wall.

Broken bones jutted out in a jagged pattern, their jagged edges protruding everywhere.

The wet, intestine-like thing wriggled gently with the invisible airflow, and a foul stench permeated every inch of the air.

This underground area is far more sinister and terrifying than any other deformed ruin on the surface.

Su Ming took out a lantern from his backpack and turned it on with a snap.

The blinding light instantly dispelled the surrounding darkness.

But Tangtang screamed.

She clung tightly to Su Ming, her face pale, her eyelashes trembling, barely daring to breathe. She looked like a frightened little animal, as if she would be swallowed by this hell if she let go.

The light made her even more afraid.

Why?

Su Ming looked down at Tang Tang in his arms, his voice deep and steady.

"Now, tell me, what do you see?"

Tang Tang's voice trembled, and she was almost overwhelmed by fear.

She said, "Eyes, eyes everywhere."

"All these eyes are on me."

Su Ming frowned.

Ordinary darkness is a bloody hell.

Ordinary light has sprouted terrifying eyes.

The perception of Tangtang has been completely distorted and reshaped.

Presumably, this is how Yu Mengnian and Chen Zhiwei see the world.

They dared not go underground.

For them, the underground is a forbidden place where pollution is most severe and distortion is most complete.

"Brother, let's go to Heng'an Middle School."

"Your deformity has become more severe."

Tang Tang suppressed her fear, looked up at Su Ming, and said in a voice that even sounded like she was about to cry.

Her gaze was fixed on the shadow behind Su Ming.

Only when the light comes on will Su Ming's shadow appear.

So Su Ming continued to ask.

"Where do I have a severe distortion?"

Tang Tang pointed fearfully at Su Ming's shadow: "It's a monster formed from countless mouths, and there are countless hands underneath it."

"Brother, there's something still connected to the top of your head..." She tilted her head, thought for a long time, and then described it as, "like an umbilical cord, deep into the darkness."

"And, brother, your eyes are all tangled black lines, like a broken television set."

Her description reminded Su Ming of the description of a bald ghost.

He was enraged by the gloomy corridor of Heng An Middle School and had only one thought in his mind: either you kill me, or I'll kill you.

What happened next?

Su Ming forgot.

But according to what he learned later, he seemed to have done something terrible.

He always believed that it was because his immortality clashed with the game's rules of certain death, causing the system to crash.

His terrifying appearance was most likely a bug that was exploited.

But now that Tang Tang has said this, Su Ming suddenly feels that the truth may not be as simple as he thought.

Let's think about this issue later.

As for now.

Su Ming pointed at Tang Tang's shadow and asked, "And what about you?"

Tangtang has also made its appearance.

Logically speaking, the appearance of shadows under light is the most normal phenomenon.

But Tangtang trembled even more violently.

She gripped Su Ming's clothes tightly, forcing herself to steady her trembling voice: "Brother, I...I'm not afraid."

"No matter what I become, as long as my brother is here, I will not be afraid."

Although she did not explicitly mention her shadow.

But you can tell from her tone of voice.

The appearance of her shadow is a kind of distortion, a horror born from being tainted by the pollution leaking from Su Ming.

Although she was afraid, her emotional attachment helped her overcome her fear.

She still believed that the world she saw was correct, that Su Ming had been corrupted, and that she, influenced by Su Ming, had also been corrupted.

This sentiment is so pure it's heartbreaking.

Su Ming raised his hand and gently stroked Tang Tang's head, his voice calm and gentle: "Don't be afraid."

These things won't hurt you.

Tangtang hummed in agreement, then buried her head even deeper, murmuring softly, "Brother, this place is so scary."

"Your pollution... is getting worse."

"Come with me to Heng'an Middle School. Sister Wen Qi has cured many patients."

"She can definitely cure my brother too."

From her perspective, this hellish landscape before her was a concrete manifestation of the pollution leaked by Su Ming.

Everyone told her that Su Ming was becoming the most terrifying calamity in the world, slowly devouring it.

But she refused to raise the knife, refused to end her brother's life with her own hands.

Su Ming didn't argue, he just gently patted Tang Tang's head.

Explanation is the most useless thing.

When the world's perceptions are distorted, truth becomes the only fallacy, and clarity becomes the heaviest sin.

Just then.

Boom!

A violent tremor suddenly swept across the entire underground area.

The hard rock strata suddenly cracked open, and crisscrossing fissures spread rapidly.

The darkness on the surface suddenly surged into the earth.

The darkness of the underground cavity suddenly became heavy, substantial, like a living behemoth slowly awakening.

A huge crack lay in front of Su Ming.

It was Yu Mengnian's sword energy.

She stood in the darkness, her gaze shifting from Su Ming to Tang Tang.

The moment she saw Tang Tang, her usually calm expression changed drastically, and shock and regret surged in her eyes.

Chen Zhiwei's gaze, however, was fixed on the lantern in Su Ming's hand.

She looked as if she had seen something terrifying; her face had turned pale.

"Su Ming".

Yu Mengnian pointed her sword at Su Ming, her voice icy: "If you still cherish our past relationship, then let Tang Tang go."

"She's just a child, and she's always wanted to protect you."

Even if you are contaminated, she will still choose you without wavering.

"But how did you treat Tangtang?"

"You are corrupting her with your own hands; you will let her die in the most painful despair."

Su Ming grinned.

Can't tell.

It's really hard to explain.

Everyone's gone mad.

With differing perceptions, how can one definitively say that it's merely a shadow?

Shadows are the most normal thing.

Su Ming's gaze did not linger on Yu Mengnian, but rather on the large group of fake people behind her.

They could talk, and their faces showed obvious emotions.

In appearance, they are no different from humans, except that their eyes are a deathly pure black.

Listen carefully.

They were saying, "It's over, even the sugar has been contaminated."

"If we don't kill Su Ming, the world is doomed, and everyone will die."

Many of the fake people turned around and earnestly advised Yu Mengnian: "Captain Mengnian, you can't show mercy just because Su Ming is your Daoist partner."

"He has been completely corrupted. For the sake of the world, you must ruthlessly eliminate him."

"Yes, Captain Mengnian, many people have been killed because of him, and the world is changing faster and faster."

"If we don't act now, it will really be too late."

Yu Mengnian looked somewhat conflicted, but quickly regained her composure and seemed to have made a resolute decision.

On the other side, Chen Zhiwei was manipulating the darkness on the ground while talking to some "people".

"We are making every effort to clean up the underground pollution."

"The extent of underground distortion far exceeds expectations, and the cleanup process will be lengthy."

"That's right, without eliminating the core source of pollution, all purification efforts are in vain."

"If Su Ming cannot be dealt with, the pollution will continue to spread, and the distortion of the entire world will only intensify."

Her demeanor was calm, rational, and cold, much like the official handlers who used to deal with anomalies in the order of Blue Star.

To Su Ming's surprise, these pseudo-humans were evolving at an alarming rate.

From the very beginning, there was numbness, stiffness, and sluggishness.

By now, they have developed language and relatively obvious emotions.

Sooner or later, the world will return to its original "normal" state.

But this "normal" is completely different from what it used to be.

Su Ming believes.

What he's waiting for is perhaps the moment when the whole world returns to "normal".

A whole new world.

Brand new rules.

"Complete" people live inside.

And he is the biggest oddball in this world.

As Chen Zhiwei finished speaking, the light emitted by the lantern in Su Ming's hand grew dimmer and dimmer, seemingly completely suppressed by the darkness.

at the same time.

Su Ming heard the whispers of the darkness.

Even without activating his Listening ability, he could hear the whispers.

Those were the whispers of countless screams and wails, men, women, old and young.

The mournful cries intertwined and swirled, filled with despair and bleakness, like a grand finale.

But to Tang Tang and the others, and to the fake people, these whispers sounded like the most normal sounds of wind, rain, and water.

"Tangtang, let's go."

Hold on to me.

Su Ming didn't say much and chose to continue deeper underground.

These people have now given up on the idea of ​​taking him to Heng An Middle School for "treatment".

They wanted to eliminate themselves on the spot.

Just like the official administrators of Earth in the past, handling those abnormal events.

When an abnormal event is beyond control, the only solution is to eliminate it completely, leaving no room for compromise.