Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

In 2016, martial law was imposed throughout Dajiang City.

"Quickly, everyone get in position."

Zhou Zhengyang roared, his eyes filled with barely concealed tension.

The entire city's traffic, buildings, streets, and airspace were completely blocked and controlled by Bureau 749.

All members of Bureau 749 were on high alert, holding their breath and waiting quietly.

The tallest rooftop in the city center.

Yu Mengnian stood still, her divine sense covering every corner of Dajiang City.

After a long silence, Zhou Zhengyang tiptoed onto the rooftop and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, are you sure the King will descend upon Dajiang City?"

Yu Mengnian's gaze was calm, and she nodded slightly.

The origin of everything can be traced back to the year of that catastrophe that rewrote the fate of humankind.

July 4, 1996, 9:00 AM.

On that day, Earth witnessed the arrival of its first tangible source of pollution.

It descended without warning on a city of millions, causing the most devastating supernatural disaster in modern human history.

The official internal name for this initial disaster is the "749 Cataclysm Event".

Following the disaster, the Dragon Kingdom urgently established a dedicated agency to deal with the anomaly.

To commemorate the disaster and warn everyone of the extraordinary danger, the organization was directly named Bureau 749.

The 749 Bureau faced extreme difficulties in its early stages.

All sources of pollution possess the intractable characteristic of regeneration.

Even if its physical body is shattered and all its forms are scattered, it can still reassemble and reappear in the world as time goes by, making it impossible to completely eradicate.

Humans can only passively defend and retreat in disarray, with no power to retaliate.

The situation only improved after the first Awakened One appeared on Earth.

The one who truly and completely reversed the decline of humanity and supported the battle against pollution sources was Yu Mengnian, who emerged out of nowhere.

Her rapid rise has overturned the perceptions and predictions of all institutions worldwide.

8-year-olds at level 4, 14-year-olds at level 5.

By 2016, 23-year-old Yu Mengnian was already recognized as the strongest in the world.

Later, when Chen Zhiwei developed the structural sealing chamber, he brought humanity a true means of checks and balances.

A large number of pollutants were detained and imprisoned.

Over the past decade or so, the number of contaminants successfully contained and sealed has increased from No. 001 to over five hundred.

Even today, humanity still lacks the ability to completely eliminate sources of pollution.

The only way to deal with it is to contain, seal, and control it, permanently imprisoning the danger.

On the day Yu Mengnian stepped into the fifth rank, Bureau 749 ushered in the most significant institutional reform since its establishment.

This reform was proposed by Yu Mengnian.

She directly decided on the two highest ranks, the King and the Queen, and established the hierarchy of the playing card structure.

But the position of king has always been vacant.

Although some people suggested that Yu Mengnian be made the king, she said that the position was already taken.

Therefore, she and Chen Zhiwei only sat on the throne of queen.

Until a few days ago, fragments of Yu Mengnian's dreams began to surface frequently.

These images all point to one answer.

She immediately announced it.

"The King is about to appear in the world."

"He will descend upon Oe City."

The news shocked everyone instantly.

Thus, the grand spectacle of a city-wide lockdown and everyone waiting in silence came about today.

"It will come."

Yu Mengnian said softly.

This is what fragments of memory that have recently surfaced told her.

Chen Zhiwei stretched and yawned, her eyes filled with curiosity and confusion: "Niannian, who exactly is he?"

Yu Mengnian shook her head: "I don't know."

"I couldn't see his face clearly, but I knew he would come."

to be frank.

If Yu Mengnian weren't so powerful, many people would have thought she had a cognitive distortion or was mentally unstable.

To make such a statement based solely on a figure that appeared in a dream.

This very figure even fundamentally altered the landscape of 749.

Looking at the whole world, it is estimated that only Yu Mengnian has such great power.

As soon as he finished speaking...

Yu Mengnian's eyes flickered slightly.

"They're here."

In the middle of a deserted street in Dajiang City, a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air.

Su Ming steadied himself and subconsciously looked around, only to be instantly stunned.

He found the streets and alleys deserted, with no one passing by, but instead filled with 749 Bureau processors dressed in uniform and fully armed.

Countless gazes fell upon him, a mixture of solemnity, awe, and tension.

The next second, a figure appeared directly in front of him.

Rub your eyes, then rub your eyes again.

Su Ming involuntarily took a half step back: "Yu Mengnian!"

His head was buzzing.

What's going on?

Previously, Yu Mengnian would only be able to sense me after I appeared first.

But this time, she was waiting for him here specifically.

Not only him, but the staff around him also seemed to know that they would be here.

Yu Mengnian stared at Su Ming in front of her.

The blurry figure that had been haunting her mind finally became clear.

A faint tenderness flickered in her eyes as she murmured softly.

"So this is what you look like."

The sound of hurried footsteps rang out, and Zhou Zhengyang and Chen Zhiwei rushed over.

Chen Zhiwei circled Su Ming several times, then looked at Yu Mengnian with surprise: "Niannian, is he the one you've been waiting for?"

"That legendary king?"

Yu Mengnian nodded, offering no further explanation, and directly grasped Su Ming's wrist, uttering only two words in her cool voice: "Go home."

In an instant, a sword light tore through the sky and shot upwards.

Chen Zhiwei froze on the spot, then looked up and shouted, "Niannian, what do you mean, 'go home'?"

"Why don't you take me with you? I'm still here!"

But Su Ming and Yu Mengnian had long since disappeared from the sky.

All that could be seen was a streak of light flying towards the capital.

Zhou Zhengyang, standing to the side, was completely stunned and stood there dumbfounded.

Everyone knows that Yu Mengnian is indifferent, aloof, and detached.

Just now, she took the initiative to hold the hand of a strange man and said "go home" in a gentle yet straightforward tone.

This completely shattered his worldview.

It wasn't until Chen Zhiwei kicked him hard and shouted, "What are you standing there for? Chase after him!"

Riding the wind on a sword, the flowing clouds rushed backward.

Su Ming sat on his flying sword, looking at Yu Mengnian in front of him.

I still feel quite emotional.

The confusion and loneliness I felt when I first entered the doomsday scenario are gone.

In every doomsday scenario, Yu Mengnian would wait for her and then take her home.

That quiet and elegant courtyard house is their home.

However, he had many questions at this time.

This doomsday line is a little different from the previous doomsday lines.

Although he hasn't looked into it in detail yet, he feels it's different.

He had just overheard the whispers of the staff around him.

They are saying, "Is it the King?"

"Is he really the king the queen spoke of?"

"So young?"

"Shh, keep your voice down."

Not only that, he also noticed that all the duty officers had the strange number 749 written on their name tags.

Scratching his head, Su Ming asked curiously, "Meng Nian, what's going on?"

"What does 749 mean?"

Yu Mengnian didn't say much, but simply handed her phone to Su Ming.

Su Ming checked his phone and became increasingly confused as he looked at the information.

The year of the catastrophe remained unchanged; it was still 1996.

However, what first descended upon Earth was a tangible source of pollution, rather than the strange creature first discovered by humankind.

The first source of pollution was archived and numbered [001], named [Name Book], and is now sealed and contained under strict control.

Records.

[749 Disaster] On that day, a book of names was dropped on a city with a population of one million. In just five minutes, all the millions of residents of the city disappeared without a trace, leaving no body or body.

All the deceased are now just names, collected in that eerie book of names.

To this day, no one knows whether these people are alive or dead, trapped, or have already vanished.

Several groups of top processors have ventured into the book of names to investigate, but all of them have vanished without a trace, never to return, and have become nothing more than newly added names in the book.

"Change... such a big change?" Su Ming murmured to himself, his heart trembling.

He continued to peruse the detailed files of Bureau 749, gradually piecing together the details.

The 749 Bureau, established on Earth in 1996, shares a highly similar core framework and functional system with the Anomalous Containment Facility he is familiar with in 2026.

However, the two situations are different.

The Anomaly Management Bureau in 2026 is more like a preliminary outline.

But this doomsday scenario from 2016 is the real content.

The old laws permeate the past, present, and future.

The world of Earth, under this law, has taken a completely different turn.

This moment.

Su Ming suddenly understood the new era that Wen Qi had mentioned.

This is the true new era.

1996 marked the beginning of a new era.

The Doomsday Line represents the process of a new era.

2026 will be the year of the new era.

Soon, Yu Mengnian brought Su Ming to the courtyard house in Beijing.

Half an hour later, Zhou Zhengyang and Chen Zhiwei also rushed over.

In the courtyard.

Yu Mengnian sat upright on the stone bench, calmly sipping her tea, but her gaze remained fixed on Su Ming.

Zhou Zhengyang was extremely uneasy and restless. In the end, he could only squat under the ginkgo tree and look down at the ants on the ground.

Chen Zhiwei stared intently at Su Ming, as she had too many questions to ask.

Su Ming also looked at Chen Zhiwei, as he also had many questions to ask.

"Let me go first."

In the end, it was Su Ming who spoke first, recounting his background.

After listening to Su Ming's entire account, Chen Zhiwei frowned and held out her palm: "Give me the notebook I left behind in 2020 first."

After she carefully read through the notebook she had kept in 2020, she looked up at Su Ming.

"In other words, the old laws are now in effect."

"There is only one core rule: anything that humans designate as a source of pollution must not set foot on Earth in a purely void form; it must rely on a tangible, concrete carrier in order to descend."

"But the true source of this law's effectiveness is not 2026, but the 749 Cataclysm of 1996."

"Therefore, Earth also had to make corresponding corrections and adaptations."

"Otherwise, the timeline wouldn't even reach 2026."

"The coping strategies, containment systems, and confrontation logic that Wen Qi explored in 2026 had already laid the groundwork for the initial revision in 1996, forming a causal loop across time and space."

She paused for a moment before continuing.

"The old laws transcended the linear timeline of human cognition."

"Therefore, the simultaneous emergence of the Anomalous Containment Facility established in 2026 and Bureau 749 established in 1996 is mutually causal, mutually corroborative, and not contradictory."

She tapped rhythmically on the stone table with her fingertips, slowly piecing together the clues.

After a long while, Chen Zhiwei concluded.

"The overall pattern has not changed much; it's just that the carriers of disasters have undergone iterations."

"Since all sources of pollution need to rely on carriers to reach the earth, they will inevitably be subject to the limits of the world."

"Before the upper limit of Blue Star is raised, they are at most comparable to the fifth tier."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Zhiwei raised her eyes, her gaze sharp.

"Su Ming, have you ever wondered where all this pollution that keeps pouring onto Earth comes from?"

"Are they from countless different versions of Him, or from the same Him?"

This question surprised Su Ming.

He couldn't help but think that whenever he finished listening to knowledge, he always felt as if he were a little more complete.

Based on Chen Zhiwei's question, a chilling answer slowly took shape.

All the contaminants that have landed on Earth so far may have originated from him.

From Him who was once the Ring of Destiny.

The path of destiny from Him to humanity, and from humanity back to Him, is essentially a process of self-recovery and self-completion.

It turns out that the first cleaning mechanism has been running continuously without stopping.

As long as he is still on Earth, as long as he is still human.

Pollution sources will continuously descend upon Earth.

He is the source of all these pollutants.

Chen Zhiwei's voice rang out again: "In other words..."

"Su Ming, what do you think will be the first thing to be eroded and contaminated after the source of pollution arrives?"

Su Ming's pupils suddenly contracted.

Pollution has descended upon Earth.

Humans were not the first to be contaminated.

Rather, it is... Earth itself.