Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"husband…"

Tangtang had just uttered a single word when a strand of black hair sealed her mouth shut.

Looking back, Wen Qichong gently shook his head at her.

Su Ming sat upright on the sofa with his eyes closed, seemingly asleep, yet also deep in thought.

I don't know how much time passed.

Su Ming slowly opened his eyes and looked at Wen Qi.

His eyes, compared to before, were less naive and more profound.

"School beauty sister".

His voice was hoarse: "If I hadn't severed your doomsday line, but instead defeated it..."

"Will you survive?"

Wen Qi smiled with relief.

She nodded in affirmation, saying clearly, "Yes."

"If we defeat the Doomsday Line, it will become part of the timeline, and we will survive."

"Tang Tang, Xu Qinghe, and Bai Xinglan, they will all survive."

"We will not be wiped out by the world."

She looked directly into Su Ming's eyes and continued speaking, her voice becoming increasingly solemn.

"But are you really prepared?"

"Are you prepared for the fact that even if you go all the way and give your all, you will still be powerless to change anything?"

Wen Qi's question echoed in the empty living room.

It struck Su Ming's mind again and again.

After a few seconds of silence, Su Ming's lips curled into a carefree smile, and his tense body suddenly relaxed.

"My name is Su Ming."

"It's not a destined cry."

"When my father named me, he said that my name, Ming, means 'to make a name for oneself that will amaze everyone.'"

The peaceful and ordinary life he has led for the past seventeen years has been the most solid spiritual anchor for him to take root in the world, making him always remember that he was born as a human being.

The countless deaths in the game shattered his naive worldview and forged a mental resilience far beyond that of ordinary people.

Wen Qi and the others' ardent, pure, and unreserved love made him willingly choose to "control" himself.

In fact, Su Ming has been growing up gradually and imperceptibly all along.

Let's start with Xu Qinghe.

He has abandoned the mindless strategy of grinding for favorability in games.

Instead, he personally led her out of the "hell" that imprisoned her, freeing her from her shackles and giving her a new life.

Until Bai Xinglan was stripped away, erased, and completely disappeared from his sight.

At this moment, Su Ming truly realized what the cruelty of destiny-level events meant.

Although Bai Xinglan and Wen Qi both said that it wasn't him who chose them, but rather they who chose him.

Ultimately, the choice is never in anyone's hands; the real initiative is always firmly in one's own hands.

Through the accumulation of various experiences, quantitative change finally led to qualitative change.

He was no longer satisfied with merely understanding and speculating about them.

Instead, they wanted to... defeat them.

For the people you love, and for the people who love you.

The transformation from boy to man often happens in an instant.

Wen Qi sat down next to Su Ming.

The way she looked at Su Ming was no longer that of a boy, but that of a mature man.

A mixture of relief and heartache, and a heartache mixed with pride.

She gently smoothed the stray hairs in front of Su Ming's face and looked at him with deep eyes: "Su Ming."

What I want to tell you is...

"Kuafu was not praised for chasing the sun, Jingwei was not remembered for filling the sea, and Yugong was not revered for moving mountains."

"What the world praises is not the final perfection, but the courage to still choose to go for it even knowing that it may not be as desired."

"We never persist because we see hope."

"It is through perseverance that we have the hope to ignite hope."

"Whether the outcome is as we wish or not, I will be there for you."

Shen Wanyu stepped forward slowly, her eyes gentle, her smile resolute: "I'm here too."

Tangtang quickly raised her hand: "Me too, me too!"

Xu Qinghe smiled and nodded, "Brother, I will always be with you until the very end."

Su Ming paused for a moment, scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly, and then gave a thumbs up.

"Sister School Beauty, what you just said was very insightful and showed great vision."

Wen Qi's eyes curved into crescent moons as she tapped his forehead: "You forgot, I'm a science student."

"I saw this quote online; it's a piece of toxic positivity."

"I didn't expect you to like drinking it so much."

Su Ming was speechless; he hadn't expected Wen Qi to have such a wicked sense of humor.

Wen Qi looked at him with a smile: "But there's one thing that's true."

"The most beautiful thing in this world is not the scenery, but the power that words can convey."

"It just so happens that you had some insights today."

Write a 3,000-word reflection tonight and hand it in to me tomorrow morning.

Su Ming's expression changed instantly, his pupils dilating in shock.

"Sister School Beauty, I'm going to check on Bai Xinglan."

"Before she disappeared, she told me many things."

I expect to be very busy tonight.

Before Wen Qi could speak again, he immediately entered Bai Xinglan's scene.

Seeing Su Ming flee in disarray, the women in the room all burst into laughter.

Given the choice between writing an essay and defeating them, Su Ming would probably choose the latter.

the other side.

Even after entering Bai Xinglan's scene, Su Ming was still shaken, and his back felt slightly numb.

A three-thousand-word reflection? What a joke!

Normally, when he writes an 800-word essay, he has to be possessed by Sun Wukong—scratching his ears and cheeks.

Luckily, I reacted quickly enough and ran away in a cool way.

Look around at the scene where Bai Xinglan is.

It was a gloomy and eerie cemetery, with many tombstones standing all around.

Looking into the distance, the edge of the tomb was shrouded in black mist, blocking all view.

Once Bai Xinglan's favorability rating increases, and with the addition of her key items, the black mist will likely dissipate.

But let's talk about the key props.

At this moment, Su Ming suddenly came up with an answer that was very close to the truth.

Wen Qi's school badge, Shen Wanyu's boat ticket, Tang Tang's teddy bear, and Xu Qinghe's knife.

These key props are traces of their past existence.

Blue Star did not erase all traces of them, because of Su Ming, they left behind a medium to find their past.

And this medium is the key tool.

That should be the case.

Su Ming puffed out his chest with a hint of pride.

My brain is getting better and better.

I composed myself for a moment and scanned the entire cemetery with my eyes.

"Strange, where did she go?"

The currently unlocked scene is not large and can be seen at a glance.

But he couldn't find Bai Xinglan.

Just as he was about to activate his Great Observation Eye, a chilling aura suddenly surged from behind him.

The moment this chilling aura came into contact with Su Ming, it was completely absorbed into him.

"Holy crap."

"Bai Xinglan really guessed it correctly in advance."

"This is... possession."

Su Ming could feel that this chilling aura was frantically eroding his soul and invading his spirit.

But Su Ming's mental resilience is too strong.

With a mental resilience exceeding ten thousand points, how could Bai Xinglan possibly shake it?

Perhaps there will be hope only after she becomes a Devastating-level being.

As for now.

If Su Ming wanted to, he could repel Bai Xinglan at any time.

While it might not be an instant kill, it will certainly suffer heavy damage.

Severe damage to the spirit is not as easy to recover from as it is to the physical body.

However, instead of trying to force Bai Xinglan back, he created a gap at the edge of his mental resilience.

As soon as the breach appeared, Bai Xinglan, like a shark smelling blood, rushed into the breach with overwhelming coldness.

But the next second, what came into her view was a three-dimensional memory building made up of countless fragments of memory.

Su Ming condensed all his memories of Bai Xinglan into a single layer, which was now playing before her eyes.

The memory begins when Bai Xinglan becomes the leader of Su Ming's exclusive medical team.

She and her colleagues traveled from Beijing, thousands of miles away, to Lanyue Residential Area…

Su Ming was standing on the top floor of the Memory Building.

Outside the building, there was only pure, deathly darkness.

That place holds all the memories he has accumulated since birth that cannot be interpreted or visualized.

The building beneath his feet represents all his memories as a human being.

A tattered and distorted virtual interface floats in mid-air above the top floor.

It was filled with all sorts of messy, disordered gibberish, like the wreckage of a data collapse.

【~%?…,# Target for Development』☆&℃$︿★? 】

【~%? Su Ming☆&℃$︿★? 】

【~%? Favorability* Degree】☆&℃$︿★? 】

【~%? Forbidden*』☆&℃$︿★? 】

He stared at the damaged panel, his expression hesitant.

After a long time, he made a certain decision.

I didn't want to look at it directly before, pretending I had never seen it before.

But now that he wants to defeat them, Su Ming has no choice but to face them directly.

Wen Qi's words kept echoing in the edifice of memory.

She said, "No one is perfect."

"They are the same."

Taking a deep breath, Su Ming closed his eyes, placed a single finger on his brow, and silently chanted, "Spiritual Vision."

Vision is an innate ability that comes with the system.

It can extract basic information about the other party, including Su Ming himself.

The next instant, the jumbled code in mid-air began to writhe, recombine, and rearrange wildly, emitting a faint, grating sound of data friction.

Through repeated revisions and extractions.

Finally, a complete data panel appeared before Su Ming's eyes.

[Character Development: Ring of Destiny]

[Affection Level: Forever United]

[Forbidden: Real-life death]

[Memory: 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000…]

At a glance, the memory bar at the bottom of the panel is an endless, densely packed array of zeros.

Its numbers extend infinitely, covering the entire virtual panel.

Su Ming stared intently at the endlessly spreading zeros in front of him.

Blood vessels proliferated wildly in his eyes, his pupils were stained blood red, and his heart was pounding violently in his chest.

He was waiting for a number.

Even after the number "0" broke through the page frame and spread wildly all around, that number still didn't appear.

After Bai Xinglan below finished reading all the fragments of her memories.

Until the Memory Tower is submerged by the sea.

Until the endless, dark memories are covered by the sea.

Everything returns to zero.

It's all zeros, an endless series of zeros, and they keep increasing wildly, without end.

All that remained in Su Ming's sight was the endless sea of ​​zero.

Just when his mind was on the verge of collapse.

At the very end of the boundless sea of ​​zeros, all zeros suddenly collapse and blur.

A number that was so small yet so dazzling suddenly appeared.

1%

0.0 is followed by countless trillions of zeros, but eventually there is still an end.

What Su Ming wanted to see was this end.

This 1% figure surpasses countless mountains and seas, the cosmos, and eternal life.

It represents…the truth.

The memory of being born as a human being is real.

Even though it was so small that it was almost indescribable, it still came to an end.

His memory is true.

Then Blue Star is real.

Everything is true.

And this is the answer Su Ming wanted to see.

This string of numbers is like the endless π that humans can't calculate.

Once π is fully calculated, it means there is no infinity in the world, and that all circles are actually regular polygons made up of many straight lines, and there is no true circle.

And then this string of numbers came to an end.

It represents the ring of destiny, which is not perfect.

Imperfection means having flaws and weaknesses.

"School beauty, you're right."

No one is perfect.

"The same is true for them."

Su Ming let out a hearty laugh.

He waited so long just to find out this one answer.

It is the source of all meaning.