Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"study…"

Just as Su Ming was about to discuss it with Bai Xinglan, he found that she had fallen asleep with her head on his shoulder.

Three days of tireless work sorting out the threads of his mind had already left Bai Xinglan physically and mentally exhausted.

Let alone a newcomer like her who has just entered the ranks of Awakeners, even a veteran would find it hard to handle.

Su Ming gently pulled her into his arms, but she still didn't react.

It seems he was really exhausted; he couldn't even perceive the sounds coming from the outside world.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ming instructed the staff member next to him, "Summon everyone to the living area in fifteen minutes."

After giving his instructions, he carried Bai Xinglan into the living area.

The living area is already very well-developed, and it looks exactly the same as the residential areas on Earth.

Moreover, the rooms in this living area have high ceilings, and the ceilings are decorated with blue sky and white cloud scenes, so that people are not in an extremely oppressive environment for a long time.

Bai Xinglan was settled in.

Su Ming left the coordinates here, then chose a direction, activated the boundary blurring, and stepped in.

He moved through house after house at an unimaginable speed.

Following his line of thought.

As long as you go straight in one direction, you will definitely see the boundary.

There aren't many humanoid beings like Li Qi in the back room.

When undisturbed, they remain quietly in their rooms, like lifeless human-shaped signs.

There are rooms everywhere, seemingly endless.

Su Ming drove with blurred boundaries, feeling that the distance he had traversed was enough to circle Blue Star eight times, but he still hadn't reached the boundary.

Is the space in the back room larger than the Earth?

But both its structure and the objects inside it originated from Earth.

This made Su Ming even more puzzled.

He didn't stop, and continued shuttling back and forth.

Fifteen minutes later, Su Ming stared at the room in front of him.

This is a card and chess room, and there are three human-shaped signs in the room.

Moreover, you can also move from this floor to the next floor.

But Su Ming had been to this room before.

He can be sure.

Because wherever he goes, he leaves behind coordinates that only he can detect.

That's where the problem comes in.

I was clearly traveling in one direction, so why did I reappear in this house?

Are you lost?

Or perhaps the back room was inherently chaotic.

Absolute direction, as understood by humankind, completely fails here.

The so-called straight movement is likely to be a continuous, irregular circling under the pull of spatial distortion forces.

Since the direction is wrong.

Su Ming looked up.

There shouldn't be any problems with the top and bottom, right?

So he began to travel upwards again.

It took quite a while to get around.

When Su Ming opened his eyes, he was back in a room he had been to before.

Close your eyes and carefully perceive the trajectory you just traveled.

His trajectory was chaotic, with no discernible pattern.

Everywhere I looked, there was the scent of my past.

"The space here is chaotic."

"It can travel through time, but the direction and location of its travel are uncontrollable."

It seems we have to abandon the idea of ​​finding the boundary of the back chamber by relying on the vague boundary.

As for the size of the back room, Su Ming wasn't sure at the moment.

Unless he relies on blurred boundaries to directly traverse a distance exceeding the entire diameter of the blue planet.

But Su Ming's current strength is not enough to cover that distance.

Left with no other choice, Su Ming decided to turn back.

On the way back, Su Ming had an even bigger headache.

He located the coordinates of the residential area and took a step out.

The scene beneath my feet suddenly changed.

What appeared before Su Ming was not the living area, but rather mottled, blackened tiled walls and a murky, blackened floor.

"Even the coordinates can be distorted," Su Ming cursed under his breath.

He finally figured out the horrors of the back room.

The distortion here is not local, but global.

Even his absolutely precise spatial coordinates would be forcibly shifted and altered by an invisible force.

He calmed himself down, readjusted the coordinates, took a step forward, and the scene before him changed once again.

It's still not a residential area.

Instead, it was a room filled with noise.

The fluorescent lights overhead flickered wildly, and the crackling sound of electricity was sharp and piercing.

The yellowed and peeling wallpaper exudes an old and decaying aura.

The long, narrow corridor has countless identical, tightly closed doors on both sides.

It's another completely new area.

With each crossing, he not only failed to get closer to the residential area, but actually moved further and further away.

"This can't go on."

Su Ming immediately abandoned the ambiguous boundaries and chose to proceed on foot in the most clumsy and safest way.

As long as the direction of the living area's coordinates is locked, without using boundary ambiguity, he can walk back.

This process is tedious and boring.

The scenes along the way kept repeating and overlapping, deathly silent.

Chess and card room, bedroom, office building, storage room.

Countless familiar scenes from Earth are randomly pieced together and forcibly nested.

These scenes are all incredibly familiar, places that can be found anywhere in reality, but when pieced together, they exude a deep-seated eeriness and absurdity.

It took Su Ming a whole day to successfully return to the living area.

I almost got lost here.

As soon as he stepped into the residential area, a slender figure jogged towards him.

It's Bai Xinglan.

She had been awake for a while and had been searching for Su Ming.

"Where did you go?"

Bai Xinglan looked at Su Ming with concern.

Before investigating the back room, Su Ming specifically notified everyone to assemble in fifteen minutes.

The result was something he hadn't expected.

He was out of contact for a whole day after he left.

Su Ming scratched his head and said somewhat helplessly, "I just went out to investigate."

"The spatial structure here is extremely chaotic and distorted; I almost couldn't find my way back."

"You should gather everyone together first."

Bai Xinglan nodded and immediately turned to gather everyone.

Su Ming stood there, gazing at the familiar surroundings, his eyes filled with contemplation.

The harem must have some connection to Earth.

He just hasn't figured it out yet.

Fifteen minutes later, everyone gathered in the living area.

Su Ming looked around at everyone, sighed softly, and spoke in a deep voice.

"Let me start with some bad news."

"I spent a day trying to find the boundaries of the back room."

"But the result is clear: the back room was a chaotic and distorted space."

After recounting his experience, one of the surveyors raised his hand and asked, "Your Majesty, do you mean that the space here has been disrupted?"

"Like these rooms, although they came from Earth, they were shuffled and then randomly pieced together."

This is a question that many people have.

Even if Earth has so many rooms.

What is the point of scrambling it together?

Su Ming rubbed his temples; he was actually thinking about this problem as well.

Since the primal impulses with blurred boundaries are located here, they must be related to them.

Su Ming had no idea what was happening on Blue Star right now.

If you choose to kill Bai Xinglan and end this doomsday storyline without understanding anything, you might miss a very important truth.

Bai Xinglan, standing to the side, frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.

She has been deeply involved in the spiritual realm, and now she possesses the ability of spiritual threads.

In addition, she had already heard Su Ming recount the past experiences of the four doomsday lines.

Countless clues converged in her mind.

A very bold hypothesis gradually took shape in her mind.

In the 2020 doomsday timeline, due to Xu Qinghe's ability to hear minds, the most hidden desires and distractions in the human heart were personified, giving birth to the subspace.

According to Lin Jiajia's analysis, the first layer of the Abyss after the world update was born from the accumulation of forgotten pain and distorted truths of humanity.

In the descent of the gods, Yu Mengnian's dream world is also a strange space, born from human imagination.

Even the eternally silent deep-sea city that grew from the sea of ​​memories can be regarded as a memory space where all of humanity's memories have settled.

They observe and understand humanity in different ways.

It's not just about the physical body and reality.

Instead, it penetrates all spiritual dimensions, including emotions, memories, desires, imagination, and the subconscious.

So, is it possible that this is also one of their ways of understanding humanity?

In addition, numerous rooms and objects belonging to Earth appeared in the back chamber.

Therefore, Bai Xinglan spoke softly.

Have you heard of the reality mapping theory?

"The so-called reality mapping theory refers to the fact that forgotten memories, repressed emotions, and abandoned fears do not disappear, but rather detach from reality and accumulate in a cognitive void."

"When it accumulates to a certain extent and reaches a critical point, this void will become an alternate dimension independent of reality."

She turned to look at Su Ming and said again, "The first layer of the abyss, Xu Qinghe's subspace, and Yu Mengnian's dream world may all have been formed in this way."

"And this place," Bai Xinglan continued, "is more like a void in the collective unconscious of humanity."

"Because there aren't actually many strange phenomena or monsters here; what's more common are endless rooms that replicate reality."

"Rooms, corridors, and enclosed spaces are the most basic and common spatial perceptions of humankind."

"Countless people feel lonely and panicked by empty corridors, instinctively fearful of damp basements, uneasy about the desolation of abandoned shopping malls, and suffocated and oppressed by enclosed rooms."

"These perceptions, etched into the collective unconscious of humanity, layer upon layer, converge and take shape, gradually constructing the back room before our eyes."

Su Ming nodded thoughtfully.

He thought Bai Xinglan's words made a lot of sense, after all, this was the field she had been deeply involved in.

At the heart of all her ideas, she actually refers to two words: space.

People have their own space.

They have their own space.

If they want to understand humanity, they must need a special spatial channel.

Just as humans need a microscope to study bacteria.

This space must be connected to them and humanity.

If we understand it using dimensions.

They belong to four dimensions, while humans belong to three dimensions.

Whether it's the back room, the dream world, the subspace, or the sea of ​​memories, they all belong to the 3.5-dimensional transitional space.

These are the interlayered spaces constructed by human beings' own spirit, emotions, and cognition.

It is highly likely that this is the core channel and window through which they gain a comprehensive understanding of humanity and penetrate the real world.

Su Ming believes this discovery is very important.