Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Su Ming rubbed his fist and beckoned to the churning sea of ​​fire with his finger.

"What are you all standing there for? Come here!"

The moment the words were spoken, more than a dozen twisted ghostly figures engulfed in flames burst forth from the sea of ​​fire.

They charged straight at us with an extreme burning curse, moving so fast that they left only burning afterimages.

Behind him, hundreds of ghosts rose into the air, their scarlet pupils like a sky full of stars, all locking onto Su Ming, their chilling malice almost tangible.

The next instant, layers upon layers of terrifying attacks poured down on him like a torrential rain, and a horrifying curse frantically eroded his flesh.

If it were an ordinary person, even a trace of it would instantly turn them to ashes.

But Su Ming's terrifying bloodstains remained completely still.

The curses that landed on him, the rapidly approaching violent attacks, and the chilling ghost fire couldn't even keep up with his recovery speed.

"this one?"

Su Ming grabbed the ghost head that was gnawing at his shoulder and squeezed it hard with his wrist.

Bang!

His head exploded.

His aura was tainted by Wen Qi's destructive power.

Most of the strange creatures would lose their proud healing and regenerative abilities when facing Su Ming.

Therefore, it died the instant its head exploded.

The moment after death, the headless body suddenly swelled, and a blinding burst of blood-red light erupted.

With a loud bang.

The terrifying impact also triggered a host of bizarre events surrounding Su Ming.

They exploded like firecrackers, one after another, turning into a cloud of blood mist.

In an instant, the sea of ​​fire surged like a raging torrent, transforming into a gigantic mushroom cloud of flames that soared into the sky.

Wait for the mushroom cloud of flames to dissipate.

A mangled figure still stood upright on the scorched earth, with cracked ground beneath his feet and burning ruins all around.

His missing parts are healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Flesh and blood move, bones regenerate, and skin covers the body.

In the blink of an eye, Su Ming was back to normal.

At the same time, those bizarre creatures that had self-destructed were resurrected on the spot, some of which had already developed a second combat form with health bars reaching hundreds of bars.

However, no matter how much health a person has, it is of no use against Su Ming, whose attacks are inherently destructive.

In contrast, Su Ming did not continue his attack.

Instead, he frowned, stood still, and let them attack him relentlessly.

He was thinking.

I pondered why my health was almost infinite in this challenging level.

This game instance appears to have all permissions enabled.

Even if Su Ming doesn't have nearly unlimited health, he can still resurrect infinitely here.

"Is it because of grade II granulation tissue hyperplasia?"

The level 2 flesh proliferation has reached the standard of a level 2 pollution source, corresponding to the level of a turbid god.

In terms of physical strength, Su Ming is already comparable to the Turbid God level.

That makes sense.

Because that's the height to step into another level of life.

"Then... what about Daguan?"

The next instant, Su Ming's eyes turned into cross-shaped pupils.

Vertical pupil distance measurement allows you to discern the location of everything.

Looking back through the ages, one can glimpse the passage of time.

In an instant, the rampaging monsters, and even the entire Lychee Hotel, were frozen in time.

Time stood still at this moment, and everything remained as still as a painting.

Meanwhile, the Lychee Hotel became transparent to Su Ming.

He was like a god looking down upon the world, his gaze penetrating the walls and floors, able to see every corner of the hotel.

This hotel has seven floors.

Each layer represents a level.

The end of each level is at the top of the stairs.

At each stairwell stood a terrifying guardian monster.

On the seventh floor, there is also an entrance leading to the rooftop.

That was the eighth boss, and also the final boss of the Lychee Hotel.

Su Ming knows this BOSS.

It's Tangtang's little bear.

At this moment, it transformed into a blood-red bear over ten meters tall, standing proudly atop the rooftop, its entire body shrouded in a dense, blood-red aura.

"What if we add... blurred boundaries?"

This is new knowledge that Su Ming has just acquired.

The Lychee Hotel in front of me began to twist and fold, as if being kneaded by an invisible hand, turning into a huge vortex.

The blurred boundaries break the established rules of the game's multi-level progression.

Su Ming doesn't need to defeat layer after layer of gatekeeper bosses.

If he wanted, he could step onto the rooftop and face the blood-red bear.

But Su Ming was not in a hurry.

He took a deep breath and began to exert his full power to promote flesh and blood regeneration.

His flesh and blood grew wildly and swelled, and his body expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ten meters... twenty meters... thirty meters... forty meters...

Without Shen Wanyu's control, the larger Su Ming's body became, the more difficult it was for him to maintain his human form.

But he showed no sign of restraint, continuing to let his flesh and blood spread wildly and multiply endlessly.

Its massive body pierced through ceiling after ceiling, tore through floorboards, broke through the rooftop, and surpassed the height of the Lychee Hotel.

But Su Ming still did not choose to stop.

His body was still expanding.

When his size exceeded 100 meters, it seemed that he had reached some kind of limit.

The proliferating flesh and blood were like mud, no longer able to adhere to the bones.

His body was like an indescribable thing that was constantly melting and dripping a huge mass of flesh.

But Su Ming remained unmoved.

He continued to grow flesh and blood.

Tons of flesh and blood gushed out like a flood, engulfing the entire Lychee Hotel.

Its size continued to expand, and it has now exceeded 100 meters.

However, its appearance has long since deviated from human form, resembling a volcano of flesh and blood that keeps piling up outwards.

That is, at this very moment.

The space began to shake violently.

Buzz—buzz—

Thousands of black iron chains rose from the ground and soared into the air, wrapping around the flesh-and-blood volcano again and again, trying to push it back down.

A terrifying roar erupted from inside the volcano.

The next moment, the volcano suddenly erupted.

A giant eyeball rose into the air from the crater.

The cross-shaped pattern in the pupil suddenly burst open the eyeball and extended, forming a huge cross-shaped crack.

It's like two intersecting, terrifying canyons, with a deep purple glow emanating from its depths.

The pupils elongated, and the iron chains binding the flesh-and-blood volcano began to contract amidst violent tremors.

It was as if time was flowing backward.

But the next second, even more chains swept in from all directions.

Densely packed, endless.

They forcefully pushed the cross-shaped crack into the flesh-and-blood volcano.

Then they completely wrapped around the flesh volcano, and as they contracted, the flesh volcano became smaller and smaller.

In the end, Su Ming returned to human form.

He simply looked down at the iron chains that ran through his entire body.

Iron chains between the hands, iron chains between the feet, iron chains piercing the collarbone, iron chains wrapped around the neck.

"prisoner…"

He uttered two words softly.

In fact, Su Ming had been pondering what had happened in the Jintai residential area.

Even with horizontal pupils, one cannot see the past of Jintai Community.

At that moment, he gave in to the urge to proliferate his flesh, and what happened afterward was a complete blank.

But how was he able to regain his human form?

That time, however, there was no call from Wen Qi.

Therefore, he kept thinking about how he recovered.

Taking advantage of the game's rules, he decided to give it a try, and surprisingly, he gained something unexpected.

This game instance not only does not restrict players, but also indulges them to the extreme.

As long as you have the ability and dare to break the rules, the instance will unconditionally bless you and allow all "out-of-bounds" behavior.

This is the source of its hardcore nature.

However, the answer he received surprised Su Ming greatly.

In that instant, he understood many things.

Why is he immune to pollutants?

Even a level-three pollution source cannot affect him.

Perhaps the answer isn't the system, but rather himself.

What if...he himself is the source of pollution?

Then it will descend in a form that is closer to human than the "world's giant baby".

If that's really the case.

The system, instead, became a prison that confined him, a framework that bound him.

So.

Su Ming looked back.

Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, Tang Tang, and those other characters she didn't choose to raise.

They are essentially prison guards.

It's not that he's supporting them, but that they're supporting themselves.

Cultivate yourself using human methods, human frameworks, and human warmth.

The source of pollution may truly be impossible to kill.

Because it is itself a carrier of knowledge.

Even if one dies in a human way, at most one will revert to the most primitive form of knowledge.

You can kill life, but you cannot kill knowledge.

Therefore, the only thing that limits knowledge is the framework, preventing it from exceeding its limits.

The only way to limit pollution sources.

It is not destruction, not oppression, not imprisonment, but control.

What do you use to drive it?

Human beings are too small to control sources of pollution.

There is only one way to control pollution sources.

Pull Him into a true human form.

Then let Him use His own human emotions to "control" Himself.

The most unsolvable one is...

Even if Su Ming understands all of this, would he choose to become a source of pollution again and give up everything he has now?

Wen Qi is both intelligent and beautiful.

The noble and composed Shen Wanyu.

Unwavering, giving all the sugar she loves.

I can't give up.

Any life, once bound by emotional shackles, is like having its wings clipped from free flight, willingly becoming enslaved by those shackles.

As Su Ming watched the thousands of iron chains gradually disappear, he wore a wry smile.

It turns out that the one truly bound by emotions wasn't Wen Qi and the others, but himself.

"Sister School Beauty, this looks a lot like your work."

Su Ming looked up, took a step, and his figure twisted and disappeared.

The next moment, he appeared on the top floor.

The ten-meter-tall crimson bear let out a roaring scream the moment it saw Su Ming, its massive body trembling and retreating.

What did it just see?

No amount of words in my entire life could describe that scene.

The man who previously had excessive health points above his head now had no health bar left, only three floating question marks.

The most terrifying thing is.

The man with the question mark above his head came to the rooftop looking for it.

It's a miracle it wasn't scared to death.

"Come here, little bear."

"We've met before, and you wanted to hug me the most when you were little."

Su Ming waved to the blood-red bear.

The blood-red bear dared not disobey.

The moment it stood up, its body shrank to nine meters.

Taking the first step, its body shrank to eight meters.

By the time it reached Su Ming's side, it had become a mini bear the size of a palm.

Su Ming bent down, picked up the teddy bear, and patted off the dust.

"So, who should I choose as my next character to develop?"

After Tangtang's favorability rating was upgraded.

Su Ming will then be able to unlock the fourth character to develop.