Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Su Ming leaned back lazily on the sofa, his gaze fixed on the TV series starring Cheng Yao on the screen.

He appeared to be watching with great interest, but in reality, he was secretly opening his eyes to observe the changes in the old world.

The old world has become a living hell.

Evil flowers bloomed wildly everywhere, covering the earth in layers.

A giant pen descended from the sky, pressing down on the space, causing it to collapse and wrinkle, as if trying to flatten the entire world into a flat scroll.

The evil god that appeared greedily devoured the evil thoughts and desires that arose in the human world.

Countless beings trapped in the snare of desire broke free of their constraints and crawled out of it.

They have long since lost their human form and consciousness, becoming the embodiment of a corrupt spirit.

As soon as they appeared, these twisted monsters began to frantically devour and tear each other apart, sending blood and flesh fragments flying everywhere.

However, as long as desires and evil thoughts persist in the world, they will possess the power to endure forever.

Even if its body is shattered, it can be reformed.

As a result, the entire old world spiraled out of control, chaos ensued, and violence filled the air.

If hell truly exists on earth, this is roughly what it looks like.

However, just as this chaotic inferno reached its peak, a sudden change occurred.

Without warning, a vast expanse of land, intertwined with desire and malice, suddenly vanished, leaving behind a pure void.

Then, the second and third areas disappeared one after another, leaving blank spaces.

It's as if someone is holding an eraser, slowly wiping away all the madness and filth of the old world.

"What's happening in the new world?"

Su Ming frowned.

The place I live in has many names.

Xu Qinghe called it the abyss of the human heart.

Chen Zhiwei calls it the emotional mapping subspace.

Wen Qi called it the Old World.

But no matter how many names it has, it has one thing in common.

This is a reflection of the real world, a byproduct of the myriad aspects of human life and the obsession with good and evil.

Every slight change in the real world will be precisely projected onto this place, creating a chain reaction of ripples.

Now, large swaths of blank space have appeared.

Even some evil gods that have already materialized are disappearing at a visible rate.

Cheng Yao, who was nestled in his arms watching TV, suddenly trembled all over.

The joy on her face vanished completely.

A look of astonishment and confusion first welled up in his eyes, then slowly returned to calm, and finally turned into a relieved smile.

"Your Majesty."

Her figure began to become transparent and ethereal, and her voice was as soft as a wisp of wind about to dissipate.

She looked at Su Ming and forced a smile: "The real me is dead."

The Cheng Yao here is a reflection of the real Cheng Yao.

The moment Cheng Yao truly dies, the reflected entity will be completely annihilated.

It doesn't transform into desires and evil thoughts and merge into this world; it truly disappears.

When a person dies, the lamp goes out.

No matter how many evil thoughts and obsessions one has in life, they will all return to dust.

"Dead?"

Su Ming's pupils contracted slightly, and his heart sank.

Looking at Cheng Yao, who was gradually fading away in front of him.

He instantly connected all the strange phenomena.

Large swathes of the old world have been reduced to blank spaces, evil gods have disappeared one after another, and Cheng Yao's reflection has begun to vanish.

All the clues point to one single answer.

The people of the new world are dying in large numbers.

As more and more people die, the old world gradually collapses and disintegrates.

This place was born from people's obsessions and evil intentions.

If even the people are gone, then this old world that depends on human existence will naturally collapse and disintegrate.

In the blink of an eye.

The first evil god vanished like a shattered vortex, leaving only a resentful roar echoing in the void.

Then came the second statue, and the third statue.

One evil god after another took over and vanished.

All the twisted monsters that thrive on human desires are also rapidly dying out.

"Procedure…"

When he turned around again, Cheng Yao in his arms had disappeared.

This is a trap of desire built by Cheng Yao's obsession.

As Cheng Yao vanished, the place began to collapse layer by layer.

The TV series playing on the screen suddenly went black and disappeared.

The hazy night view outside the window, the exquisite room decoration, the soft sofa beneath me—all the concrete scenery gradually fades away, turning into blankness.

Su Ming opened his eyes again.

Even Cheng Yao's grave has disappeared.

Looking up, the vast expanse of blank space between heaven and earth makes it difficult to distinguish where the sky ends and the earth begins.

Su Ming didn't know where he should go.

He wandered aimlessly through the blank world.

My mind was filled with doubt and confusion.

This collapse came too quickly and too completely.

Is this the cleanup mechanism?

This kind of disappearance was beyond his comprehension, let alone his ability to stop it.

As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but blank space.

It's like formatting a folder on your computer with a single click.

Even if a few scattered colors flash by, they will quickly vanish in the next instant, returning to blankness.

Just as he was racking his brains trying to figure it out, a system pop-up window suddenly appeared in front of him.

[Affection Level Up Quest: Kill Her] (Completed)

[Affection Level: Forever Love → Always By Your Side]

[Capacity limit increased: 30 → 32]

Backpack capacity increased from 45 to 48.

[Cursed Doll Affection Level: Always By My Side (Full)]

[Unlock Story Background ②: The Fish in the Tank]

Su Ming was stunned on the spot, his face full of astonishment and confusion.

Mission accomplished?

This is Xu Qinghe's doomsday scenario, her home turf.

But he had never seen Xu Qinghe from beginning to end.

Even now, he doesn't know how Xu Qinghe died.

All he knew was that before he came here, Chen Zhiwei said she had a way to kill Xu Qinghe completely.

So in the end, even Xu Qinghe's death was orchestrated by Chen Zhiwei.

Before Su Ming could sort out his thoughts.

A powerful repulsive force swept over his entire body.

This old world, now completely blank, forcibly expelled him.

In a dizzying moment, Su Ming broke free from the emotional projection subspace and returned to his physical body.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

What came into view was a devastated wasteland.

Looking down, he found a black notebook lying quietly beside him.

Su Ming recognized this notebook.

It was left behind by Chen Zhiwei.

The moment he returned, dark fog from deep space swept in from all directions.

All Su Ming could do was throw the notebook into his backpack.

The next instant, he was completely swallowed up by the boundless black mist.

Wait for the black fog to dissipate.

He returned to the scene in Gu Yan's morgue.

Gu Yan remained gazing at Su Ming.

Su Ming's previous answer did not dispel her doubts.

At this moment, the ghostly aura emanating from Su Ming was even stronger than it had been just moments before.

Su Ming had no time to pay attention to Gu Yan at this moment.

He was filled with confusion about the daily chart at the end of 2020.

He immediately took out the notebook that Chen Zhiwei had left for him.

Xu Qinghe's doomsday scenario in 2020 was really strange.

Although they knew many secrets about this doomsday line.

For example, the filling process transforms these four doomsday lines into a complete closed loop.

Clearly, it was a success.

Because Su Ming was born through the process of human birth.

Moreover, Su Ming also learned about the eternally silent city in the deep sea that sealed off human imagination.

This is their second cleansing mechanism.

But just as he was hiding in Cheng Yao's trap of desire, intending to continue his observation, the mission was suddenly completed.

The 2020 doomsday line was directly severed.

All of this happened so suddenly and unexpectedly.

Fortunately, before returning to 2026, Chen Zhiwei made a special effort to leave behind a notebook.

It's likely that this notebook records everything that has happened.

Turn to the first page of the notebook.

[2020: Fish in the Tank]

We are still alive.

But we are no longer human.

[Recorder: Chen Zhiwei]

[Su Ming, by the time you see this, I will already be dead.]

By now, you should have returned to 2026.

You should have already seen everything that happened in the emotionally mapped subspace.

Next, I will provide you with a complete record of what happened in the real world of the 2020 apocalypse after you entered the subspace.