Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"Mengnian, could you help me contact Cheng Yao?"

"Have her come here to see me."

After saying that, he added a special instruction.

"Don't tell anyone about me except Cheng Yao."

Yu Mengnian glanced at Su Ming and uttered two words: "Wait."

Then a sword light rose up and disappeared before Su Ming's eyes.

After Yu Mengnian left, Su Ming stared at the mirror in the ruins.

The reason it projects its alluring and seductive thoughts is related to its own desires.

Su Ming had to admit that he had very strong feelings for Yu Mengnian.

And this embodiment of desire is probably not as simple as a projection of thoughts.

Therefore, Su Ming had two ideas at this moment.

Alternatively, forcibly reverse the desires in your heart, replace Yu Mengnian with Xu Qinghe, and go see the embodiment of Xu Qinghe's desires.

Alternatively, he could simply conjure up Wen Qi directly.

The problem now is that before Yu Mengnian's desires dissipate, she carries the shadow of Xu Qinghe and silently warns herself: "Be careful of Xu Qinghe."

This warning came out of nowhere, completely outside the scope of the embodiment of desire itself.

After much deliberation and eliminating all possibilities, Su Ming was left with only one answer.

Whether it's the aloof and ethereal Yu Mengnian in reality, or the embodiment of desire born in the subspace, both harbor a sense of apprehension towards Xu Qinghe.

That's why that silent warning was left behind.

It's called a warning, but it's more like a deep-seated, instinctive alert.

Therefore, Su Ming only had one choice left.

He was going to see Wen Qi.

Su Ming's eyes flickered slightly, a hint of curiosity rising in his heart.

I wonder if Wen Qi's figure can materialize within the trap of desire.

And what will Wen Qi, born from the desires in his heart, be like?

Su Ming assured him that he absolutely did not want to see Wen Qi bewitching everyone.

"That's right, that's it."

"And when I break free from the illusion, I might gain new knowledge, which could even blur my boundaries even further."

The mirrors in the ruins are no longer usable.

But what the warp has in abundance is the trap of desire.

Once you step inside, it can satisfy any desire in your heart.

Lust, power, greed—whatever one desires, one can obtain.

Those aimless, twisted, and deformed figures wandering in the ruins are the price of succumbing to the trap of desire.

Without further hesitation, Su Ming found a puddle.

Looking down at the puddle, all the images of Wen Qi flooded his mind, and he repeatedly sketched her appearance and her scent in his heart.

The next instant, Wen Qi's figure appeared in the puddle.

Before Su Ming could speak, millions of black hairs suddenly surged out of the puddle, instantly wrapping around his limbs like an inky torrent and dragging him directly into the depths of the puddle.

The world spins and the scenery changes in an instant.

The desolate and gloomy ruins vanished once again, replaced by a room that looked very familiar to Su Ming.

This is his home in Lanyue Community.

It was perfectly conjured up by the trap of desire.

The next second, a cool and soft body suddenly pressed against his back, and Su Ming was about to turn around and hug her.

A gentle voice sounded in my ear: "Su Ming, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

The person behind him gently pushed him down and firmly pressed him onto the sofa.

"Su Ming, I have now become Him."

That single sentence caused Su Ming's pupils to dilate in shock, and all thoughts in his mind vanished instantly.

He looked up at Wen Qi, who was so close to him, and his Adam's apple bobbed a few times with difficulty: "School beauty, is she the one I understand?"

Wen Qi nodded slightly, a hint of weariness hidden in his eyes.

"If you had shown up any later, I might not have been able to hold on much longer."

"I once thought that as long as I was determined enough, I could barely control His body."

"In order to preserve humanity, I created many personalities, turned these personalities into chains, and tried to lock up the last remaining humanity."

"But I still overestimated myself."

"Although I could barely manage it at first, as time went on, the constant infiltration of my thoughts and cognition gradually eroded my consciousness."

"The identity and concept of being human are gradually disappearing from my mind."

"If I didn't still remember you in my heart, I might have already become one of them."

"No matter how firm one's resolve may be, when one truly becomes like them, all that resolve becomes a laughable and fragile joke."

"That's an effect even more terrifying than the overall effect; the reversal of cognition can only be delayed, not stopped."

Su Ming stared blankly at Wen Qi in front of him, and asked in shock, "School beauty sister, when...when did you become one of them?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he asked the question that had been nagging at him: "Also, this is clearly Xu Qinghe's doomsday timeline, so why are you here?"

He had so many questions to ask that he didn't even know which one to ask first.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you everything."

Wen Qi's eyes were filled with lust, yet she suppressed it with all her willpower.

"The doomsday line in 2019 was very special."

"That was the beginning of the original world line, and also the starting point for your human-like descent into the human world."

"So, when you return from 2019, you are not purely human, but an anthropomorphic unknown being."

"And that's why, in 2026, earth-shattering changes took place."

"Everything is being corrected, gradually moving closer to the original world line."

"In the original timeline, your first choice was Tangtang, not me."

"But the original world line is predetermined; it has a fixed ending."

"To change this outcome, I must address the root cause."

"In fact, when I arrive, this predetermined outcome will inevitably collapse, because I will not let it proceed as usual."

"But this also led to some mistakes."

"When the predetermined trajectory of the original world line is broken and cannot proceed normally, it will fall into an endless cycle until it is completely annihilated."

"So I came up with a solution."

"That is to overlap all the doomsday lines you have passed through before, turn them into a whole, and form a closed loop without beginning or end, no longer distinguishing by order."

"And the prerequisite for doing all this is to ascend to His position, because He is the only being we know that transcends time."

"Therefore, I deliberately lowered my favorability rating and forcibly restarted my 2003 doomsday timeline."

Su Ming was shocked, his brain buzzing.

He remembered that Wen Qi could lower his favorability rating.

Unexpectedly, this was her ultimate purpose in lowering the favorability rating.

Therefore, at the moment he chose Wen Qi, her fragmented memories contained not only human knowledge but also fragmented memories of ascending to His throne.

"That's right." Wen Qi nodded, confirming his guess.

"I have repeated this cycle of fate countless times by myself."

"But for you, there's only one chance."

"Because the moment you chose me, the endless cycle of reincarnation was shattered."

"This was a variable that should never have happened, something that was outside of destiny."

"It was Chen Zhiwei's ability that gave birth to a glimmer of light in this impossible situation."

Su Ming's pupils dilated again, and he asked in astonishment, "Chen Zhiwei has abilities? She's an Awakened?"

Wen Qi smiled and nodded: "Yes."

"Her ability is very special; it's called possibility."

"This ability can make the impossible possible."

"When that slightest possibility arises, her ability will disappear forever, never to be repeated."

Wen Qi smiled and tapped Su Ming's forehead, her voice gentle yet tinged with relief: "The moment this possibility was born, the outcome was already predetermined. You would definitely choose me first, and all I need to do is fill in the gaps in the process."

"This is called putting the cause in the effect; you should understand."

"I briefly became one of them in 2003."

"So when I restart the 2003 doomsday chart, without your interference, I will definitely transform and become Him again."

"They transcend time; they can exist and be seen simultaneously in 2003, 2012, 2019, and even 2020."

"The first three doomsday scenarios have been settled. Only the uncertainties of 2020, which you haven't yet severed, remain, and that's the only process I need to supplement."

"Because I was originally a resident of Earth, I replaced Him in 2020 by cutting in line."

"But even if someone takes his place, the events that will happen in this doomsday timeline will still occur as scheduled."

"The moment Xu Qinghe awakens her ability to hear minds, the abyss of the human heart will inevitably collapse, and a man-made disaster that will sweep across all mankind will be inevitable and unstoppable."

"This was unavoidable."

"But the human heart is full of complexities; besides greed and malice, there is also regret."

"When Xu Qinghe ignited the abyss of people's hearts and overturned the world, the regrets and remorse of hundreds of millions of people also poured into the abyss."

"Through these regrets, I fought for her a chance to start over and created a whole new world for her."

"And that new world is the 2020 you first entered, which is also the root cause of Xu Qinghe's life trajectory being completely rewritten."

"And the place we are in right now is the old world of 2020, which has been devoured and abandoned by desire."

"But everything is temporary."

"The desires of the new world will continue to be born, settle, and eventually all flow into this old world."

"And I am irreversibly moving closer to them."

"So, when Xu Qinghe realized you were there, she deliberately caused a car accident, broke free from the shackles of the new world, and returned to this old world."

Su Ming quickly raised his hand: "School beauty, wait a minute, let me catch my breath."

The amount of information is overwhelming.

He was a little confused.

I never imagined that so many things would happen without my knowledge.

After calming down for a long time, Su Ming finally suppressed the shock in his heart and asked the question that had been most puzzling to him.

"Then... what happened in those sixteen years?"

Wen Qi patiently explained, "The new world was reborn in 2004."

"2004 was the year Xu Qinghe awakened to listen to her heart, and it was also the source of the abyss of the human heart."

"The new world has grown for 16 years and arrived in 2020, while this abandoned old world has also survived on its own for 16 years."

No wonder Yu Mengnian said that 16 years have passed since that apocalyptic war.

Sixteen years have indeed passed, but the flow of time in the old world is meaningless; the only thing that matters is the time in the new world.

Therefore, although it seems that 16 years have passed, it is actually waiting for the new world to develop from 2004 to 2020 and synchronize with it in time and space.

"As I just said, the original main timeline collapsed, so it will regenerate."

"The trajectory of the new main timeline initially overlapped completely with the timeline at the end of 2020."

"They didn't separate until 2020, when they had been together for so long."

"One is forever frozen in 2020, while the other is heading towards 2026."

Wen Qi looked at Su Ming with gentle eyes.

"To get you to choose me, before they separated, I designed a game called 'Under Destiny' for you when you were only 11 years old."

"Your future self won't remember this game; only a faint sense of familiarity will remain."

"And that slight sense of familiarity is enough."

Su Ming suddenly realized.

No wonder he felt a strong connection to the Ghost School Beauty character when choosing his initial character in the game "Raising Ghosts".

It turns out to be the effect of residual sensation.

Now he even suspects that Yu Mengnian's silent warning was Wen Qi's way of making him give up on Xu Qinghe and instead choose to imaginary her.

Wen Qi saw through his thoughts at a glance and nodded frankly.

"That's true."

"But it wasn't me who deliberately guided you; the one who truly drove all of this was Xu Qinghe herself."

Su Ming's eye twitched violently: "Sister School Beauty, do you mean that the one I was entangled with wasn't Yu Mengnian's embodiment of desire, but Xu Qinghe?"

"The reason she warned me to be careful of her is to make me ultimately choose you over her."

Wen Qi nodded again in confirmation.

Su Ming rubbed his forehead.

No wonder the other person understood what I was thinking before I even said it, and cooperated perfectly.

He always thought it was a meeting of minds, a perfect match.