Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"Is there a problem?"

Zhou Zhengyang looked at Chen Zhiwei with a puzzled expression.

But Chen Zhiwei was in a bad mood at the moment.

Too lazy to answer Zhou Zhengyang, she instead snapped, "Think about it yourself."

"You get used to serving your superiors, so you subconsciously start to play the straight man, right?"

"Don't tell me you didn't understand."

Zhou Zhengyang awkwardly scratched the back of his head, looking rather simple-minded.

He knew everything perfectly well, but he couldn't say anything. He could only quietly be the most honest person at the table and the best straight man.

It was as if he had discerned that Su Ming might be the source of the pollution.

His insight is second only to Chen Zhiwei.

His disguise was so perfect that if it weren't for a slip of the tongue, Su Ming would probably still think he was an honest man.

This is why Zhou Zhengyang is so afraid of Xu Qinghe.

There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who deliberately pretend to be confused, and those who are genuinely confused.

In contrast, Cheng Yao now feels completely relaxed.

She passed the buck to Chen Zhiwei, just as Chen Zhiwei would pass the buck to Wen Qi about Su Ming, who had come down from the high platform.

When the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up.

There's nothing they can do about it, especially those who are short.

So Cheng Yao replied: "What else could it mean?"

"Tang Tang doesn't want 2019 to stop; she wants to trap Su Ming in 2019."

"Build an endless cycle of memories."

Zhou Zhengyang opened his mouth, making a look of sudden realization.

Cheng Yao covered her mouth and chuckled, "Director Zhou, the King isn't here."

But Zhou Zhengyang maintained his expression of sudden realization.

God knows what you did.

Perhaps Su Ming is watching him right now.

Some people can pretend for a while, while others can pretend for a lifetime.

Those who can only pretend for a short time will not achieve anything great.

A person who spends their whole life pretending will surely achieve great things.

This is what you call the self-cultivation of a great person.

At this moment, Chen Zhiwei slowly sat back down at the dining table. She looked at Tang Tang, who had her eyes closed, and said in a solemn tone, "I originally thought that as long as I killed her, the connection would be severed, Su Ming would ascend to heaven, and the high platform would be established on its own."

"Now it seems I was too naive."

"Humans are so complex," she murmured, rubbing her temples. "Even a fool has his own foolish ways of doing things."

"However, her inner thoughts actually brought me an unexpected reward."

"If everything is a predetermined ending, then the process is the only variable."

"If there are deviations in the process."

"The ending will most likely be fate, not Su Ming's."

She took out her notebook and drew a straight line in it.

At the end of the line, she added a black dot and labeled it: 1996.

Starting from this black dot, she drew line after line, in different directions and of varying lengths.

The shortest line is marked: 2003.

The longest line is marked: 2026.

"It is known that every time Su Ming severs the doomsday line, the world line will start growing again from 1996."

"Cut its shortest line and leave its longest line, so that it can successfully reach 2026."

"But now I have a different idea."

She erased all the solid lines from 1996 onwards and then drew dashed lines instead.

"Our time has been frozen in 1996."

"It never really happened in the next 30 years."

"All the scattered doomsday lines now are actually branches derived from 1996, and can be collectively referred to as the 1996 doomsday lines."

"So, let's set aside all common sense and think about the order of these doomsday lines."

"Since they regenerated from 1996, the years do not represent chronological order."

Chen Zhiwei drew and wrote on the paper, his thoughts becoming clearer and clearer.

"The order in which characters are developed in the 'raising ghosts' game most likely refers to the order in which characters are born in the apocalyptic storyline."

"Starting from 1996, the first doomsday line is Tangtang's 2019."

"2019 marked the beginning of Su Ming's formal transition from Him to humanity."

"After he became human, the doomsday timeline of 2019 was severed, and time returned to 1996 to allow him to grow up again."

"So, the second doomsday line belongs to Xu Qinghe."

"However, the current situation regarding Xu Qinghe's doomsday line is unclear."

At this point, Cheng Yao frowned and asked, "But Su Ming's age doesn't match."

"Dr. Chen, Su Ming is only 17 years old. If you calculate the time, he was born in 2009, while the first doomsday line was in 1996, which is a full 13 years earlier than him."

Chen Zhiwei calmly explained, "We can build a high platform for Tangtang's doomsday scenario, so that it can walk down on its own."

"But if we go back to 1996, there was no platform He could come down from; He had to find a way down himself."

"It took Him 13 years to finally descend upon Earth as a true human being."

Then Cheng Yao would ask, "Dr. Chen, isn't this contradictory?"

"If we consider the second doomsday scenario, then Su Ming was officially born as a human being."

"So how did Su Ming, the first character in the doomsday scenario, come to be?"

"Moreover, in this doomsday timeline, there is a 10-year-old boy named Su Ming."

"How can this be explained?"

Chen Zhiwei circled the word "Them" with the tip of his pen and said, "First, you must understand."

"They exist in a higher dimension, beyond the time defined by us humans."

"They can see the past, present, and future simultaneously."

"So, when 1996 had just begun, He saw the ending."

"In other words, from the moment this doomsday timeline began in 1996, Su Ming saw the ending in 2019."

"Therefore, we now have Su Ming, who is only 10 years old."

"Him." Chen Zhiwei gripped the pen, her voice suddenly trembling, "That unknown Him is Su Ming, who is only 10 years old."

"He descended upon Earth in an anthropomorphic manner to understand humanity."

"Each of them understands the Earth in a different way."

"Destiny has led me to choose to become human, but I am not yet a true human, only an anthropomorphic one."

Chen Zhiwei looked around abruptly, her heart pounding violently, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

"He has always been there, right beside us."

One of her deductions led her to discover another version of Him.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Zhengyang and Cheng Yao also looked around sharply.

A chilling sensation that sent shivers down their spines instantly enveloped the three of them.

Fate has always been watching them in an anthropomorphic way.

A world of memories.

The party is over.

Su Ming returned to his home in Lanyue Residential Area.

His parents have returned.

Watching Su Ming grow up, their eyes were filled with joy, yet also with an undisguised heartache.

"Son, well done! Dad is so proud of you," Su Wangshan said with pride.

Mother Song Yu's eyes reddened, and her nose tingled with emotion.

No matter what he has experienced or how mature he has become, he is still the child she has loved since childhood.

She never imagined that her seventeen-year-old son would go through so much.

Su Ming patted his chest, his tone relaxed and carefree: "Mom and Dad, I think I'm doing great right now."

"Life should be exciting and lively, otherwise it's too boring."

"Is it right?"

He picked up his ten-year-old self.

"You should be in elementary school by now."

"Elementary school was alright. I had time to play, I liked watching cartoons, and I liked eating snacks."

"But then they go to junior high, and especially high school."

"Exams, practice questions, classes, sleep—it's a monotonous cycle, as tedious as stagnant water."

Su Wangshan and Song Yu looked at the two Su Mings, smiled at each other, and quietly retreated, leaving themselves some space.

There is no more wondrous conversation in the world than this.

But then again.

As a child, Su Ming was indeed naturally lively and full of curiosity, and he was interested in everything in the world.

With his personality, if he were to grow up and spend every day taking exams, doing practice problems, attending classes, and sleeping, it would indeed be a terrible torment.

In the living room.

Little Su Ming looked at Big Su Ming curiously and asked, "I don't like exams, I don't like doing practice questions or going to class, I like to play."

"But the adult world has many rules, and if you don't follow them, you'll be eliminated."

"My parents said that no matter how well-off our family is, I must go to university and get a diploma."

Da Suming rubbed Xiao Suming's head and laughed loudly: "Our parents are right."

"University is not just about obtaining a diploma, but also about accumulating experience and cultivating character; it is an essential part of life."

However...

His tone carried a hint of adult wisdom and helplessness: "If the apocalypse doesn't happen."

"After I graduate from university, I'll probably take over my parents' business."

"Striving for a living, working hard for the future, and planning for the next generation."

"Although it's tiring, this is life, and we need to take responsibility."

"You're right, aren't you?"

Xiao Suming shook his head vigorously, his tone stubborn: "I don't like it."

I like how you are tonight.

"Be flamboyant and unrestrained, fearless, do as you please, open and carefree, not dwelling on the past, not worrying about the future, just living in the present."

Su Ming threw his head back and laughed loudly, "Because that's what youth is all about."

Seventeen is the best time of your life.

"Seventeen years old is the most precious and beautiful age in a person's life."

"Untouched by the trials of life, unaware of the vicissitudes of human existence, and oblivious to the burdens of existence, they are brimming with vibrant, upward-striving vitality."

"There is also the pure and innocent stirrings of first love, the passionate and open joy of youth, enough to be engraved in the heart and remembered for a lifetime."

"Most importantly," Su Ming said with a burning gaze, "seventeen years old, just one step away from turning eighteen and becoming an adult. Not an adult yet, but like one. The age is just right."

Xiao Su Ming listened with a look of longing, and asked curiously, "Seventeen years old, is it really the best age?"

Su Ming nodded firmly, his tone resolute: "Of course, otherwise why would anyone say, 'Forever seventeen'?"

Xiao Suming nodded as if he understood, and said seriously, "Then seventeen years old, I like this age."

As soon as he finished speaking, a breeze, unnoticed by anyone, quietly swept by.

The wind broke free from the shackles of 2019, passing through the cracks of time and blowing towards all of history.

Su Ming, on the last day of 2003, listened to Wen Qi say, "Everything about you may be being watched by your future self."

Su Ming was immediately terrified and broke out in a cold sweat.

He couldn't help but look around.

I wonder if a future version of myself is gazing at him now.

At the end of 2012, Su Ming slowly walked up to his three-year-old self.

He was worried about what would happen to his younger self after he died if the apocalypse occurred.

Suddenly, a chilling feeling shot up my spine and straight to the top of my head.

He suddenly turned around to look.

I felt a gaze steadily fixed on me, like a gust of wind.

Is it him in the future?

Not sure.

But in that instant, all the unease in his heart vanished.

Because he knows that a future version of himself is looking after his childhood self.

2026年，3月22日，凌晨1点37。

This was late at night the day after Su Ming turned seventeen.

He lay in bed, wide awake.

Staring at the dark ceiling with his eyes open, he took out his phone from under his pillow after a long while.

As I kept scrolling...

His eyes suddenly lit up: "Raising a ghost, 18+."

He was somewhat excited as he looked at the introduction inside.

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