Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

The two slowly stepped into the very center where the color blocks had coalesced.

At its very center lies the deepest color in the world, and at the very center is a tiny crack.

There is a magnifying glass icon next to the crack.

Su Ming and Shen Wanyu exchanged a glance.

They said in unison, "That was left behind by the Time Worm."

Since it observes the blue planet, it will naturally be influenced by the blue planet.

Moreover, in this flat world, all intangible and intangible existences take form through human cognition.

This magnifying glass is the trace left by the Time Worm.

Su Ming quickly approached the crack, but no matter how he looked at it, the inside was pitch black.

It wasn't until Shen Wanyu handed him the magnifying glass that he understood.

"Use this to look."

Taking the magnifying glass, Su Ming immediately aimed it at the crack and peered inside.

With just one glance, he felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, as if countless fine needles were piercing his nerves.

He saw scenes from the past, of his former self.

Within the crack.

He saw himself with his arm around Shen Wanyu's waist, looking up to admire the fireworks.

Shen Wanyu pointed excitedly at the colorful night sky, her tone full of joy.

"Su Ming, look, so many fireworks!"

Just then, Su Ming frowned slightly and looked up at the deep sky above the fireworks.

Su Ming was all too familiar with this scene.

At that moment, he did feel something flash by.

It was faster than I could have imagined.

It is unlike a flying bird, unlike a drifting cloud, and unlike anything known in the human world.

Only now does he understand.

That's my current perspective.

It turned out that he had somehow caught a glimpse of his future self's gaze.

Su Ming outside the crack could see Su Ming inside the crack clearly.

The self inside the crack was turning its head and whispering something to Shen Wanyu.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he abruptly looked up at the window, his expression changed, and he said, "The third observation is here."

At this moment, Su Ming finally realized why Shen Wanyu had asked him to wait.

Three observations.

The first and third times came from myself.

The second one came from Shen Wanyu.

Because he possesses a low-level blind spot, he is able to perceive the gaze from the unseen realm.

"The Headless Sister".

Shen Wanyu bit her lip and shook her head: "It's okay, let's just watch it."

"These three observations were predetermined and could not be avoided."

Even if Su Ming wasn't in a hurry to go see it.

It is estimated that Shen Wanyu will conduct another observation to confirm the scene she saw for the third time.

"Now, absolutely do not watch it a fourth time."

Her expression was extremely serious.

What will happen the fourth time?

It can actually be deduced.

The fourth and final observation.

Either Shen Wanyu successfully ascends to a higher dimension and becomes one of them.

Either Shen Wanyu fails to ascend to a higher dimension, or all of humanity simultaneously begins a large-scale spiritual ascension.

And this "failure" is quite nuanced.

Failure does not mean death.

But Shen Wanyu must die.

She couldn't die an ordinary death; she had to die a complete and utter death.

In their eyes, ordinary death has no meaning.

The body dies, but the spirit lives on.

The spirit dies, but the memory remains.

Even if the memory is dead, the traces remain.

Therefore, achieving complete death is not a simple matter.

It requires the use of another kind of power.

For example: erase.

All traces, memories, and influences are erased, and then the timeline is corrected, as if it had never existed.

And this is the true, ultimate death.

As far as we know, apart from the system.

Only Su Ming's instinctive urge to regenerate flesh and blood could accomplish this.

Of course.

Shen Wanyu does not need to be completely erased.

All you need to do is erase her special state of half-step dimensional ascension and deliberately cause her dimensional ascension to fail.

Active and passive, though only one word apart, are as chasm as heaven and earth.

The former involves actively determining an outcome.

The latter is hard to say.

Su Ming stood there, scratching his head in confusion.

He even began to wonder if they were the Time Worms.

But looking at the plane with its mixed colors and the magnifying glass next to the crack...

It can be confirmed that these are traces of the Time Worm's presence.

Where is He now?

Just as Su Ming was deep in thought, Shen Wanyu slowly raised her hand, her slender palm making a light sweeping motion in the air.

Swah——

The scene before my eyes suddenly changed.

Her hand movements became faster and faster, and the scene transitions became faster and faster as well.

At first, it was a bit choppy and sluggish, like an old-fashioned page-turning animation, but as the speed increased, the screen transitions became smoother and more fluid.

This flat world seemed to come alive; time flowed, day and night alternated, and people lived their normal lives within it.

However, this clump of mixed colors remained completely unchanged from beginning to end.

"Since He came, He must have left something behind."

"In a two-dimensional world, intangible things are made tangible."

"He must have left something behind."

Shen Wanyu's gaze was resolute, and her tone was firm.

I wonder how many slices she cut, and how many years she went through.

Finally, at a certain moment, a question mark appeared on the confused plane of colors.

The image freezes, and the time is clearly the first day of the new year in 1996.

The mixed-color blocks are still there, but the cracks have disappeared.

Shen Wanyu picked up the [?] and said, "This was left behind by the Time Worm."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Wanyu removed two exclamation marks from Su Ming's head, much to his astonishment.

Remove the period from the exclamation mark, then place them side by side horizontally to form an equal sign.

This time, Su Ming understood without Shen Wanyu even needing to explain.

Placing the "=" sign after the "?" sign creates a "?" sign.

Sure enough, results started appearing after the "=" sign.

Large, chaotic black gibberish, densely packed and layered.

Through continuous disassembly and recombination, it eventually transforms into lines of clear and orderly human writing.

Why can't I log in? That's strange.

Su Ming looked thoughtfully at the text following the "=" sign.

Then, as if he had suddenly realized something, his pupils contracted, and he looked sharply at Shen Wanyu.

But Shen Wanyu had already figured it out.

Her red lips parted slightly: "He is wondering why he cannot step into the time before 1996."

"This is also the core reason why He cannot understand humanity."

"Because it is incomplete, He can only observe 30 years."

"If you consider Earth as a book, 30 years isn't even the cover."

"Even if human knowledge accumulates until 2026, in His eyes it will be nothing more than a catalog."

Su Ming was taken aback.

Shen Wanyu looked into the distance, her tone both heavy and relieved, and continued, "Chen Zhiwei guessed correctly."

"1996 was both the end of the world and a refuge."

"We were all protected by the 1996 apocalypse, which is why the world has been able to continue until 2026."

"If they cannot defeat the doomsday of 1996 and determine an accurate ending, one day they will enter 1996."

Shen Wanyu didn't say what would happen.

Su Ming knew that it wasn't that she didn't want to speak, but rather that she didn't know how to speak.

You can exhaust all your imagination and think about the darkest and most desperate directions to get close to that result by one or two points.