Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

After half an hour.

When the prison guard in charge checked the number of people, he discovered that one person was missing from the group.

He shouted, "The number is wrong, one is missing!"

The beam of the flashlight swept across the neatly arranged queue.

The count was repeated over and over again, the beam of light flickering violently, and both prisoners and guards were filled with barely concealed panic.

They simply couldn't understand how a prisoner could disappear out of thin air when the entire women's prison was locked up by high walls, surrounded by iron nets, monitored by surveillance cameras with no blind spots, and guarded by multiple layers of access control.

After a brief check, the missing person's identity was quickly confirmed.

"It's Xu Qinghe!" someone shouted, their voice filled with shock.

In an instant, the prison alarms blared, and the warning lights flashed wildly, turning the pitch-black night a deep crimson.

The iron gates were locked in an emergency.

Prison guards sealed off all exits and controlled every passageway, conducting a comprehensive search and arrest operation.

However, no matter how they checked the surveillance footage, verified the access control system, or searched the cells and workshops, they could not find any trace of Xu Qinghe.

The most bizarre thing is the last footage captured by the surveillance cameras.

In the footage, Xu Qinghe disappears into thin air.

She first looked up, then lowered her head and chuckled twice before disappearing without warning.

This illogical event was quickly discovered by the Bureau of Anomalies.

Several experienced Level 3 handlers rushed to Yunshan Prison.

Not only did they fail to find Xu Qinghe, they also failed to detect any unusual fluctuations.

The news quickly reached Chen Zhiwei's ears.

She was having barbecue with Yu Mengnian when her phone popped up with an emergency internal notification from the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs.

Tap the screen, and after reading it, she looked at Yu Mengnian across from her and said casually, "Look, Xu Qinghe has disappeared."

She was not surprised by Xu Qinghe's disappearance.

Just treat it as casual conversation.

She took a big gulp of beer, let out a satisfied "ha," and continued, "According to your memory, Xu Qinghe became an Awakened One when she was three years old."

"Her ability is quite special; it's the ability to hear minds, a kind of conceptual ability. With current technological detection methods, it's very difficult to detect the fluctuations of this ability."

"I'm just curious."

"Tell me," she asked with a smile, "what level of Awakened is Xu Qinghe now?"

In the Dragon Kingdom of 2020, there were two individuals who had awakened to the Five Awakenings.

They are Mr. Lin and Yu Mengnian, respectively.

Bai Bin, the deputy director of the field operations department, is currently the most likely top-tier expert to become the third person to awaken the five senses.

Yu Mengnian's answer was simple: "Does it matter?"

Upon hearing these three words, Chen Zhiwei couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This is Yu Mengnian's confidence.

If it weren't for the world's upper limit, she would have been a sixth-awareness awakener long ago.

Therefore, Xu Qinghe is definitely not a sixth-awareness awakener.

As long as she is not a sixth-awareness awakener, she cannot pose any threat to Yu Mengnian.

Yu Mengnian's strength is far ahead, making her the world's number one by a precipitous margin.

Originally, Chen Zhiwei wanted to advise Yu Mengnian not to underestimate the others.

After all, there are many strange and unusual abilities in this world.

For example, Tangtang's relationship line.

But she swallowed the words back down her throat.

Tangtang's relationship line involves modifying the relationship status between the two parties.

But Yu Mengnian, who was born without emotions, couldn't change anything no matter what she did.

I've known her for so many years.

If one day she were to be contaminated and go insane, given Yu Mengnian's personality, she would most likely just kill herself.

Where is Xu Qinghe's heart?

Well, let's not even mention that.

Yu Mengnian never harbored any mortal evil thoughts.

If you have evil thoughts, that's called a demon in your heart.

For cultivators, inner demons can be eradicated.

At that moment, she was probably thinking: "I cultivate myself, and all worldly matters recede."

To put it even more maliciously: Ant, you are courting death.

Well, that's probably the most vicious thing imaginable.

After all, how malicious can you be towards an ant?

So I thought about it a lot.

Yu Mengnian, who is born without emotions, has no weaknesses and can be considered invincible.

Who cares?

Chen Zhiwei took another big gulp of wine, trying not to think about it, but her brain wouldn't listen to her.

It's like a supercomputer; once data is entered, it works tirelessly to deduce the answer, try to decipher it, and arrive at the result.

So, before she had even finished eating a skewer, Chen Zhiwei was stunned.

"You said..." She started to speak, then shook her head: "Never mind, it's nothing."

But Yu Mengnian on the other side didn't utter a word; she simply drew her sword.

She doesn't like guessing.

I dislike it even more when someone only says half of what they mean.

Chen Zhiwei immediately sat up straight, her expression serious.

She is not Su Ming.

Su Ming can handle it, but she can't.

Yu Mengnian really does know how to kill people.

"I'm thinking about a possibility."

"Since Wenqi can become them."

"So, is there any possibility that Xu Qinghe could become one of them?"

"After all, her ability is very much based on superstition."

"In this respect, it is very similar to the invisible ones."

"Look," Chen Zhiwei stroked his chin, "the deepest, most hidden thoughts in people's hearts are often the darkest and most vicious ideas in the world, which is why everyone deliberately hides and suppresses them."

"But thoughts are just ideas, they don't represent actions."

"People are bound by morality, have a bottom line of cognition, and are constrained by the environment. Even if a thousand evil thoughts flash through their minds, the vast majority of people will not actually put them into action."

"Just like people occasionally utter harsh words or harbor curses, it is ultimately just a way of venting emotions."

"In essence, the evil thoughts deep in people's hearts are the exclusive outlet for negative human emotions, which can be controlled, suppressed, and concealed."

Chen Zhiwei paused for half a second before continuing.

"But Xu Qinghe is different."

"She awakened to the ability to hear her own heart at the age of three, but at that time her values ​​were not yet formed and her mind was a blank."

"Having listened to people's darkest, most vicious, and most insane thoughts for so long, her values ​​must have become distorted and warped long ago."

"She couldn't even distinguish that the evil thoughts in people's hearts are completely different from actual evil deeds."

Yu Mengnian slowly sheathed her sword, raised her eyes, and asked, "What does this have to do with becoming one of them?"

Chen Zhiwei nodded vigorously: "Of course."

"Didn't you just tell me that they can't understand idealistic things like human emotions and imagination?"

"And once they appear in a physical form, they will inevitably be extremely terrifying."

"That's because negative emotions are the strongest and most intense in humans, and they are also the easiest for them to perceive and influence."

"Therefore," Chen Zhiwei held up one finger, "they are not actually distinguished by good or evil."

"That's very similar to Xu Qinghe."

"She can hear the darkest parts of everyone's heart, the purest darkness, and the most intense negative emotions."

"In addition, she awakened this ability when she was three years old."

"Therefore I can be certain that she has no concept of good or evil."

"It's not that we can't distinguish between them, but rather that our sense of good and evil has collapsed and disappeared."

"if."

I mean, hypothetically.

Chen Zhiwei tapped the table: "As far as we know, each time an ability is upgraded, a new form will be unlocked."

"Do you think it's possible for Xu Qinghe's 'Heart-Listening' ability to invade the inner world of others?"

"Her physical body certainly cannot enter a person's inner world."

"Could it be that this disappearance was a deliberate act of abandoning her physical body, transforming into an invisible spiritual form, and entering the abyss of the hearts of all beings?"

uncertain.

Because no one knows where Xu Qinghe is now.

However, according to Chen Zhiwei's judgment.

Xu Qinghe now shares three things in common with them.

It can accurately capture all negative emotions in the world; its sense of good and evil has long since collapsed and disappeared, and now it may not even have a form left.

Therefore, she had serious doubts.

Originally, Xu Qinghe's doomsday scenario in 2020 was not brought about by those outside the boundary.

It was brought by her herself.

She is the one most likely to become them.

the other side.

Xu Qinghe was indeed as Chen Zhiwei had said.

She detached herself from her physical body and entered the inner world of all beings in an invisible form.

There is no heaven and earth here, no dawn and dusk, no day and night; there is only a boiling, decaying spiritual wasteland.

This is the darkness that all of humanity has deliberately suppressed, disguised, and buried.

They broke free from the constraints of their physical bodies and grew wildly in the most twisted and frenzied manner.

These shadows transformed into layers upon layers of overlapping, mutually devouring blocks of color and phantoms.

Thick, inky black is selfishness rooted in one's very bones.

The murky gray fog is suspicion lurking in the cracks.

The viscous dark red is an unstoppable surge of violence.

The mottled grayness is an endless jealousy and resentment.

These colors flowed like rotting pus and blood, or like wild tentacles stretching, tearing, and entwining wantonly.

They have no fixed trajectory, no bounds, and are completely out of control, irrational madness.

On the desolate land, there are still millions of human beings.

They don't have complete bodies, only misaligned limbs.

A crooked head, a mouth split to the ears, and empty eye sockets, yet it stares menacingly in all directions.

They will also gnaw on each other and tear each other apart.

It was torn apart one second, and then grew back from the earth the next.

Endless and ever-renewing, it carries a morbid malice of procreation.

The sound of the wind here is more like a whisper from them.

Countless fragmented, overlapping, frenzied whispers and sneers.

There was also gnashing resentment, smug gloating, and self-loathing mad murmurings.

Its sounds pressed in layer upon layer, without a source or direction, densely lingering in every corner of the space.

look up.

There was no sky above, only a huge, writhing, deformed shadow.

It has no fixed shape; sometimes it swells into a massive, sun-covering tumor, sometimes it shrinks into sharp bone spurs, and sometimes it splits into countless tiny tentacles, wandering around everywhere.

"So this is the real world."

Xu Qinghe looked at everything in front of her.

Peel away that disguised shell, and you'll find a rotten, insane abyss hidden inside.

However, at that moment...

A hazy, ethereal figure appeared before her.

He couldn't see clearly, or even knew what He was; the only certainty was that He was gazing at him.

No sound came out, but Xu Qinghe understood what He was saying.

It was a feeling that was hard to describe.

To put it bluntly, it's like you know someone so well that you know exactly what they're up to just by looking at them.

To put it more elegantly, it's about shared thoughts and a transmission of ideas.

The figure is speaking.

"Join me in creating a new world!"