Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Chapter 267 Creating a Child in the Harem

The rear chamber has no day or night.

It has only an unchanging gray-white dome and endless walls.

Even the flow of time has become blurred.

The room was well-lit, but the light gave it a suffocating, oppressive feel.

At this moment, Su Ming and Bai Xinglan were sitting in a bedroom.

There is a television set in the center of the bedroom.

Once opened, all you can hear is a hissing noise and snowflake patterns.

Bai Xinglan was squatting in front of the television, trying to repair it.

Based on her judgment, since the television set was in the back room, it was no ordinary object.

There was no power source in the room, yet it could still be turned on.

This alone is enough to make it unreasonable.

The strangest thing is that Bai Xinglan sensed mental threads inside the television set.

These threads are intricately interwoven, much like the original circuitry of a device.

But a television, being an inanimate object, cannot possibly generate the spiritual threads of life.

Unless, it is a strange creature.

Even the strange creatures that haven't revived yet possess their own unique mental fluctuations.

Bai Xinglan carefully untangled these stray threads of consciousness.

After a long while, the pale television screen suddenly displayed an image.

The screen reflected the bedroom they were in at that moment.

Su Ming immediately surveyed his surroundings.

He did not find any cameras.

Even looking along the angle of the TV, nothing was found.

He then turned to look at the television.

The images on the television screen are being broadcast live.

They, on the screen, were also looking at the television set on the screen.

Su Ming, however, sensed their gazes.

He suddenly had a chilling sense of déjà vu.

This is a very eerie scene.

They on the screen are looking at themselves outside the screen.

Su Ming immediately activated his Great Observation Eye and began to delve deeper into the line of sight he sensed.

This deeper dive gave him a huge fright.

Because Su Ming on TV also simultaneously activated his "Big Eyes" (a feature on the TV screen).

The moment their eyes met, the same look of shock appeared on their faces.

"Senior, I think I'm seeing another version of myself."

Su Ming said in disbelief.

Bai Xinglan stared intently at the screen on the television.

In the video, she is squatting in front of the television, her expression serious.

Su Ming in the video also said the same words he had just said.

A few seconds later, Bai Xinglan turned off the TV.

The unseen gaze vanished instantly.

However, both of them had very serious expressions.

This wasn't the first anomaly they had discovered.

The first anomaly they discovered was that the space in the back room was not fixed.

It is expanding at a slow pace.

The expansion of space only applies to open areas.

The furniture in the room remains in its original size and position.

It just makes the room feel more spacious.

This means that the special dimension of the back room is still growing.

The second anomaly is that in some rooms, there will be sudden bursts of conversation clips lasting a few seconds or even more than ten seconds.

The dialogue was blurry and distorted, like pre-recorded background noise, with no discernible pattern.

Sometimes several sounds would ring out at the same time, creating a chaotic scene.

Bai Xinglan concluded that the back room had intercepted sound fragments from Blue Star.

These sounds, like the haphazardly stacked rooms in the back, were randomly pieced together.

The television set they are currently using is the third anomaly they have discovered.

Su Ming walked to Bai Xinglan's side and asked in a deep voice, "Senior, what are your thoughts?"

After thinking for a moment, Bai Xinglan said, "The only thing I can think of is a replica."

"Somewhat like a mirror image."

"Did you notice just now that there was a TV on the TV screen, and us on the TV screen?"

"These screens are nested one inside another, like a back room, endlessly overlapping, with no end in sight."

"Moreover, their movements, expressions, and breathing rhythms are completely synchronized with ours."

"Combined with what you just saw with your Great Observation Eye, we can confirm that this is not a simple projection, but a physical replica."

"The back room has the ability to replicate us."

"Adding to the anomalies we discovered earlier."

Bai Xinglan said seriously, "Are the girls in the back room studying us?"

"It's trying to replicate a real person."

"Those human-shaped signs are the product of their failure."

Su Ming swallowed hard: "Senior, do you mean the harem is trying to have a baby?"

"To create real people?"

The more he thought about this absurd and terrifying conjecture, the closer he felt it was to the truth.

He had only ever heard of Nuwa creating humans, never of the empress creating humans.

But can it create real people?

Bai Xinglan noticed Su Ming's confusion; she was actually quite shocked herself.

The more I learned about the back room, the more terrifying it seemed.

She looked at Su Ming, her voice trembling with confusion.

"I'm not sure if real people can be created here."

"But if people are created in the back room, where will those people eventually go?"

The first thought that came to Su Ming's mind was: Earth.

He immediately understood Bai Xinglan's unspoken meaning.

Since the people who built the back chamber might travel to Earth, the back chamber must have a passage to Earth.

"and."

Bai Xinglan continued, "Since the back room has been constantly growing, learning, and experimenting..."

"This means that we were not the only ones who accidentally wandered into the back room."

"Humans have always strayed into the back room on Earth."

"Those refreshed backpacks were not gifts of kindness, but rather the most basic survival guarantee provided to the experimental samples in the back room."

"It keeps every intruder in check, allowing for close observation, analysis, and recording."

"My previous guess was correct; the back room is most likely formed from the accumulation of human subconsciousness."

"Countless people have strayed into this place."

"Whether they were alive, dead, struggling, or desperate, fragments of their consciousness remain here."

"The back room has been quietly observing, learning, and growing day after day."

"The goal is to understand the complete form of human beings."

At this moment, Su Ming finally connected these scattered anomalies together.

The slowly expanding space is the self-growth of the rear chamber.

It continuously improves itself by leveraging the human subconscious.

The jumbled and fragmented snippets of human voices are how it collects the trajectory of human life and the logic of speech.

A television capable of replicating a mirror image in real time is an attempt to replicate a complete human individual.

Those stiff, distorted human-shaped signs are its failed, clumsy experiments.

There must be many humans who have wandered in by mistake.

These humans are the best example.

Living humans.

It has breathing, emotions, thoughts, struggles, good and evil, reason, and madness.

The back room greedily devoured everything belonging to every intruder.

Using bits and pieces of information from these intruders, combined with his own understanding of humanity, he attempted to piece together a truly complete "human being".

Su Ming asked in a hoarse voice, "What if it succeeds?"

Bai Xinglan looked at him, her lips moving slightly, unsure how to answer for a moment.

But she eventually revealed the worst possible outcome.

"This would explain those inexplicable and bizarre rumors on Earth."

"Some people's personalities suddenly change drastically, becoming completely different from before, as if they have been possessed."

"It's not that they've changed," Bai Xinglan said in a heavy voice. "They've come back, but they're not the same people they used to be."

Su Ming froze and took half a step back.

He suddenly thought of those who died and returned after the world was corrected in 2026.

How does the world correct itself?

Su Ming was never quite clear about it.

But now, an absurd and all-encompassing guess is growing wildly in his mind.

He was so insane that he didn't even dare to say it out loud.