Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

After the black fog covered the entire globe.

All the electronic screens lit up for no reason, and lines of cold text silently appeared on each screen.

[World Updated - Version: Gods Descend]

[Update Notes: World level cap increased to Tier 7, world map expanded, second Abyss region opened]

Zhou Zhengyang looked at the text on his phone screen.

This is a protection mechanism from Earth.

It continues to strive to keep the endless unknowns and terrifying existences above the seventh rank firmly outside the world.

A near-mad idea exploded in his mind.

"Could it be that Earth itself is alive?"

Are planets alive?

For a long time, the scientific community has concluded that planets are merely inorganic carriers of life, lacking any signs of life and therefore not living organisms.

There are seven core criteria for determining life in academia.

These are: organic structure, metabolism, self-reproduction, stress response, growth and development, genetic variation, and homeostasis regulation.

But now, all the conclusions of the past are beginning to crumble.

When a source of pollution appears.

The first planet to be affected is Earth, followed by humanity.

Over the past thirty years, no one knows what changes pollution has left on this planet.

But nothing can be judged by common human reasoning.

After all, even the large ship Ovation of the Deep Sea, under the influence of pollution sources, developed self-awareness and gave birth to life.

This means that any inanimate object has the potential to become alive.

A few minutes later, the black fog gradually dissipated.

The already flat surface of Blue Star has not expanded.

Its expansion area is underground.

Below the first level of the abyss, the second level of the abyss appeared.

The structure of the entire planet is quietly and slowly evolving into an inverted giant pyramid.

The moment the cell phone signal was restored.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhou Zhengyang immediately dialed Su Ming's number.

When the call was answered, a child's voice came from the other end of the receiver.

He said, "Hello, are you Mr. Zhou Zhengyang?"

"Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

Those two short sentences sent a chill down Zhou Zhengyang's spine.

That suffocating fear was even stronger than the second update of Earth.

This is definitely not the Su Ming he knows.

The king would never speak to me like that.

He would usually say, "Old Zhou, what the hell do you want from me again?"

Abyss Base.

Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, Xu Qinghe, and Bai Xinglan stared at the ten-year-old child in front of them.

Judging from his appearance, he is Su Ming as a child.

They knew that Su Ming had returned since 2019.

They didn't know what happened on the doomsday line in 2019.

All they knew was that after 17-year-old Su Ming entered 2019, the Su Ming who returned was 10-year-old Su Ming.

Only Tang Tang approached Su Ming with a happy expression.

She looked at him with bright eyes: "Wow, husband, you were so cute when you were little!"

Su Ming raised his eyes, his gaze gentle, his tone soft.

"Tangtang, you're cute too, I like you very much."

But as soon as those words were spoken, even Tangtang sensed that something was amiss.

This statement is so pure, so pure that it contains not a trace of selfishness or desire.

It doesn't feel like genuine emotion; it's more like a pre-set, standard answer—precise, perfect, and impeccable.

Shen Wanyu's gaze fell on Tang Tang, and she asked solemnly, "Have you regained your memories?"

Tang Tang was slightly taken aback, and tried to sort through the fragments of memory in her mind.

Her memories of 2019 are very short.

One day in 2019, she had a dream in which she awakened to her relationship with Su Ming and had a grand wedding with him on September 9th.

After waking up from the dream, she always felt that something good would happen that day.

So, she got up and dressed up with great joy.

However, the moment she looked in the mirror, she heard the sound of breaking glass, followed by a sharp pain in her heart.

Something pierced through his heart.

In the last moments before her consciousness faded, she seemed to feel the world being caressed by a gentle breeze.

That is, the moment Tangtang finished recalling.

Another mutation occurred.

Countless streams of light shot into the sky from all parts of the earth.

City buildings, mountains and trees, and countless living beings all turned into points of light and vanished.

Even the flesh and blood mountain range began to collapse a second time.

The original trajectory of the entire world seemed to be forcibly twisted into another direction by a pair of invisible giant hands.

Bai Xinglan's body began to gradually become ethereal and disintegrate, turning into countless points of light.

Conversely, another blurry outline slowly coalesces and solidifies in the light and shadow.

It was a blurry mirror.

A slender figure sat before the mirror.

It is the girl in the mirror, Cheng Yao.

She was the fifth character to appear in the story.

In the order in which you develop your characters.

The first ghost bride is Tang Tang, the second is the cursed doll Xu Qinghe, the third is the ghost school beauty Wen Qi, and the fourth is the headless female corpse Shen Wanyu.

The fifth one is Cheng Yao, the girl in the mirror, not Bai Xinglan, the ghost.

Bai Xinglan is the seventh.

This is a subversion of time and space, a reshaping of memories.

The course of the world in 2026 is being revised.

The memories of all humanity, and even those of Tang Tang, Xu Qinghe, Wen Qi, and Shen Wanyu, are undergoing tremendous changes.

New memories rise rapidly like icebergs from the sea, replacing old ones.

In Zhou Zhengyang's memory, a completely new timeline slowly unfolds.

In this trajectory, the first character Su Ming chose to develop was Tang Tang.

With Tangtang by his side, he swept away all the strange things in the world with an almost invincible aura.

Yu Mengnian has not entered the realm of the Six Awakenings.

The first person to break the world's upper limit was Su Ming.

The gods did not descend to earth.

Conversely, Su Ming and Chen Zhiwei joined forces to establish an anomaly containment base.

They set their sights on those indescribable beings.

Using the human world as bait, they lured them to descend in anthropomorphic form, and then forcibly imprisoned them using various means.

Meanwhile, Su Ming continuously improved himself through the process of repeatedly containing and imprisoning them.

He is walking toward what people call "God".

Human beings are extremely fanatical and deeply reverent towards him.

The deeper one's faith and the greater one's fervor, the more "blessings" one receives from Su Ming.

People generally refer to this extraordinary power as a gift from God.

As a result, the entire world descended into utter madness.

It's neither human nor ghost, yet it's wildly popular and followed by millions of living beings.

They chanted, "Join the glorious evolution!"

The timeline of 2026 is inherently unstable.

It is constantly changing.

From the moment Su Ming chose to develop a character, it embarked on its own unique path.

That is the trajectory of the turning gears of fate.

Wen Qi let out a long sigh.

As expected, the most disruptive changes of 2026 have finally arrived.

Before experiencing the second apocalyptic timeline, he was simply perfectly playing the role of "Su Ming".

In this new timeline, on the night of March 22, 2026, Su Ming will not be driven by instinct to prioritize Wen Qi, but will strictly choose Tang Tang according to the order.

Then comes Tang Tang's first timeline, and Xu Qinghe's second timeline.

Even if he returned from the second timeline and became a real person, he would lose the right to make a choice again.

Wen Qi couldn't help but think of Chen Zhiwei's two fairy tales.

The Little Spider and the Black Stone.

Su Ming understood the first layer of metaphor and realized that it was Chen Zhiwei's allusion to the end of 2003.

Lin Jiajia understood the second layer: the core of the whole film is about the word "escape".

The Wonderful World Outside the Well

Su Ming understood the first layer of warning: danger lurks outside the well, and one should not leave Blue Star easily. Choosing a safe and stable way to survive in the apocalypse is the last resort.

Lin Jiajia understood the second layer. Chen Zhiwei asked Wen Qi, "After you went outside the well, did you ever regret it?"

However, these two stories are a continuous narrative.

The three paper stars with highly similar content were not only a precaution, but also Wen Qi's answer to Chen Zhiwei.

No regrets.

Wen Qi understood the third layer connecting the two stories.

The essence of a story is always a series of choices.

Is it to remain content with the illusion of safety at the bottom of the well, merely surviving, or to rush out into the unknown beyond the well, seizing that faint glimmer of hope and future?

Su Ming chose Tang Tang, and humanity entrusted its future to Him, gaining a seemingly stable world, but falling into a predetermined fate.

Su Ming chose Wen Qi, because the future of humanity still lies in human hands. Although the road ahead is fraught with danger, humanity possesses a unique pride and spirit of resistance, and the courage to roar "no" at them.

Su Ming once said that he was not destined for fate; his fame was a meteoric rise.

And this is the change he made after choosing Wen Qi.

Before it is fully corrected in 2026.

Wen Qi raised her finger and gently touched her brow.

The expression in her eyes changed rapidly.

Over time, in order to cope with all kinds of unknowns and accidents, she has already dissected her mental world layer by layer, giving birth to countless personalities.

Some personalities took on the consequences of her low-level blind spots.

Some personalities cope with the unexpected changes that lead to a higher level of favorability.

She divided herself into countless pieces, ready to face any unexpected event at any time.

At this moment, a completely new dominant personality awakens deep within her spirit.

Almost simultaneously, a glaring blood-red system pop-up appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and an alarm blared.

【warn!warn!warn! 】

[The school beauty's emotions are acting strangely, and her affection level has dropped significantly.]

【Affection Level: Devoted to You (Full) → Intimacy (399/400)】

Forcing a positive impression is too domineering.

Even though Wen Qi awakened a completely new personality and deliberately severed his emotions, he only lost 1 point of favorability.

This was likely her only and last chance to shake the already maxed-out level of affection.

But enough.

Even if you lower it by 1 point, your favorability rating will no longer be at its maximum.

next moment.

The 1 point of favorability that was lost was forcibly restored to the maximum level.

The pop-up window in front of Su Ming suddenly froze, the interface became distorted and messed up, and dense garbled characters appeared, as if a fatal bug had been generated in the system.

[Affection +1, Current (Ghost School Beauty): Intimacy (400/400)]

[Start...]

The system is starting to freeze.

This task has already been initiated once.

The entire system interface was filled with garbled text.

In the end, even the door that imprisoned the "World Giant Baby" suddenly appeared.

The door hissed and crackled, sometimes clear, sometimes disappearing.

When it's clear, everyone present can see it.

When it disappears, only Su Ming himself can see it.

That's enough.

The moment the door reappeared.

Without the slightest hesitation, Wen Qi activated the low-level blind zone with all his might, and took advantage of the moment when the system froze and time and space were disordered to resolutely rush into the door.

Known.

They exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future.

Wen Qi made a decision.

She decided to become them, and then force her way into 2003.

As Wen Qi disappeared, the door that imprisoned the giant baby of the world gradually turned to dust and vanished without a trace.

The year 2003, which had been severed, has returned with a bang.

This is a brand new 2003 year-end chart.

With absolute and tyrannical power, it grew wildly from the depths of nothingness, defying the flow of time, taking the future as its root, blossoming in the past, and forcibly replacing the old 2003.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle.

Xu Qinghe was unaware of what had happened.

New memories kept appearing in her mind, and the world before her eyes was changing rapidly with shifting light and shadow.

But she heard Wen Qi's inner thoughts just now.

She was shouting.

"Xu Qinghe, begin your apocalyptic timeline."

Xu Qinghe subconsciously controlled her feelings of favor as they began to surge.

[Affection +10, Current (Cursed Doll): Unsealed (10/300)]

[Affection +10, Current (Cursed Doll): Unsealed (20/300)]

...

[Affection +10, Current (Cursed Doll): Unsealed (300/300)]

[Affection Level Up Quest: Survive the Cursed Doll for 7 Days]

The pop-up window started flashing and jumping around wildly again.

In the new timeline, Su Ming has completed the quest to upgrade the Cursed Doll's favorability.

He even severed the doomsday line of the cursed doll.

In the new trajectory of the world, he also severed three doomsday lines.

These are Tang Tang's doomsday timeline, Xu Qinghe's doomsday timeline, and Wen Qi's doomsday timeline, respectively.

Next up should be Shen Wanyu's doomsday scenario.

Thus, the extreme spacetime contradiction completely detonated the system.

The task to increase Xu Qinghe's favorability was forcibly refreshed and is now marked as complete.

[Cursed Doll Affection Level Up: Unsealed → Eternal Favor]

The favorability rating has just been upgraded, and it's starting to increase rapidly again.

[Affection +10, Current (Cursed Doll): Eternal Favor (10/400)]

[Affection +10, Current (Cursed Doll): Eternal Favor (20/400)]

...

[Affection +10, Current (Cursed Doll): Eternal Favor (400/400)]

[Detecting maximum favorability]

[Unlock the affinity upgrade...]

This time, the system interface completely froze, and there was no further movement.

A daily chart from the end of 2003, returning from nothingness.

A doomsday scenario involving Xu Qinghe.

And the ultimate conflict arising from the worldline correction in 2026.

The collision of these three contradictions and the intense conflict between time and space freeze the flow of time completely.

Two doomsday lines that should have been unrelated have overlapped and intertwined in an unprecedented way, merging into one.

You could call it Wenqi's doomsday scenario.

You could also say it's Xu Qinghe's doomsday line.

But the only thing that is certain is this:

This doomsday line will determine whether 2026 will remain the same or head towards its inevitable end.

The black fog of deep space, which had been silent for a moment, surged again between heaven and earth.

With an almost frenzied attitude, it frantically devoured and submerged everything in the world.