Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Chapter 270 The World Doesn't Need Normality

My memory hasn't changed.

The person hasn't changed.

Only the twisted and obsessive abnormal emotions disappeared.

"Su Ming".

Bai Xinglan gazed at the tall, upright young man before her, her eyes swirling with complex and indescribable emotions.

Only now did she fully understand.

It turns out that no one is normal.

The moment the forced favorability rating is imposed, cognitive thinking becomes distorted.

They had already undergone a mutation.

Emotions are forcibly fixed.

Therefore, when Su Ming simply returned to normal, it became the biggest abnormality in their eyes.

There is no forced affinity binding, and there is no eternally burning love.

Many things have lost their supporting meaning.

No.

There is one more person.

This is the person that Su Ming, whether mutated or normal, will fall in love with.

Yu Mengnian.

All his actions and decisions at this moment are for Yu Mengnian.

"You...the one you really like is Yu Mengnian?" Bai Xinglan asked softly.

Su Ming nodded seriously, without the slightest hesitation.

But in this world that has long been distorted, crumbling, and on the verge of collapse.

Normal emotions are too fragile, like a candle flickering in the wind, easily broken.

An endless sense of bewilderment welled up in Bai Xinglan's heart.

She understands human nature too well.

Even she wouldn't dare guarantee that she would only love one person in her life.

So how long can Su Ming's feelings for Yu Mengnian last in this completely distorted world?

This moment.

A stark truth was laid bare before her.

She finally understood the core point.

The world cannot be normal.

The world doesn't need to be normal.

Distortion is the best medicine.

It is the forced favorability that keeps this world alive.

They forcibly stabilized this already absurd and collapsing world in an extremely distorted and illogical way.

It was never Su Ming who actively chose all of them.

It was their twisted and forced emotions that trapped Su Ming.

From beginning to end, Su Ming only chose Yu Mengnian.

My thoughts deepened.

Bai Xinglan was forced to expose her truest self and confront the cruelest truth.

At this moment, without the influence of forced favorability, her remaining romantic feelings for Su Ming had long been mixed with countless impurities.

More than anything, it's a deep-seated fear, a curiosity about the unknown, an unease about the status quo, and a forced compromise from which there is no way to resist.

This so-called love is not pure from the very beginning.

It is a mixture of awe, probing, fear, and dependence, layered upon layered and deeply rooted, impossible to completely eradicate.

She couldn't even deny that, deep down, she had already accepted the fact that Su Ming was an anomaly in human form.

This is her most genuine thought, without being influenced by forced favorability ratings.

All she could do was passively conform and accept this absolute disparity and powerlessness.

She had previously dared to recklessly test many drugs on Su Ming because she believed that Su Ming was just an Awakened One, the same kind as her.

At that moment, Su Ming's eyes were filled with deep affection, which was also her greatest source of confidence.

But after learning about Su Ming's experiences, even though she became more cautious, she no longer dared to use Su Ming as a test subject.

Every attitude and every thought she made afterward was the result of careful consideration and deliberation.

Amidst everyone's distorted and warped emotions, only Tangtang's love remained pure and untainted.

Fiery, scalding, pure, unreserved, giving everything.

Everyone relied on Tangtang's extremely passionate love, clearing away impurities and leaving behind only scalding purity.

This distorted system of favorability forcibly splits and replicates Su Ming's deep love for Yu Mengnian, projecting it all onto each of them.

This is the true source of mutual goodwill.

One side is Tangtang's deep love, and the other side is Yu Mengnian's being loved.

Thus, under the influence of forced favorability, this love remains forever unchanged.

Su Ming wouldn't try to guess what people were thinking if he wasn't interested in them.

His real purpose in coming to 2016 was to break the world's upper limit ahead of time and prevent Yu Mengnian from eventually transforming into a terrifying mountain of flesh and blood.

His vivid memory served as a clear reminder.

I did, under the pressure of forced affection, experience brief and unusual feelings of attraction towards others in the past.

But he has been growing.

His growth is visible to the naked eye.

From being naive and immature in the past to being clear-headed and composed now.

Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, Xu Qinghe, Bai Xinglan, Gu Yan—these names that once briefly stirred his heart have now become ordinary names.

To him, they were merely comrades-in-arms, and he had no romantic feelings for them whatsoever.

Only Tangtang held a peculiar feeling in his heart.

He would only feel grateful, but he wouldn't choose Tang Tang, even though she loved him deeply.

The only person he truly cared about was Yu Mengnian.

The phrase "Wait for me to come home" is Su Ming's deepest subconscious thought.

He wasn't speaking to all of humanity.

He was speaking to Yu Mengnian, and it was also a promise he made to her.

"Senior."

Su Ming's expression was calm, and his tone was frank, without the slightest hesitation.

"Let's end our relationship here."

"I don't want to dream of sadness."

"What happened before?" Su Ming frowned. "If you mind, I can help you rewind to your original body and remove those memories."

"Correspondingly, I will also erase my memories without leaving a trace."

What things?

Of course, it's about those things he did with Bai Xinglan.

For Su Ming, it was an absurd past entangled in abnormal emotions.

Now that his heart is pure and clear, he can no longer divide it into so many parts.

Bai Xinglan lowered her eyes, her voice revealing neither joy nor anger: "I know."

"I won't talk nonsense."

She slowly raised her eyes and looked at the boy beside her, a lingering sadness hidden in her eyes.

"It was a distorted relationship to begin with, and now that everything has settled, I have nothing to linger over."

Su Ming nodded: "That would be best."

"Come with me."

He didn't grab Bai Xinglan's hand, but instead put his arm around her shoulder. With one step, the two of them appeared at the end of the corridor.

I pushed open the door, which was incredibly blurry even as I got closer.

The moment the door opened, an intense tearing force pulled them inside.

The next second, the door slammed shut.

The entire corridor fell silent again, as if no one had ever been there.

When I opened my eyes again.

What came into view was a city that defied all logic and was completely chaotic.

This city is extremely irrational, filled with incongruity everywhere.

Countless buildings of different styles are piled up illogically.

The residential building is incongruously embedded in the office building.

The intersecting sky bridges connect low-rise houses at one end and high-rise buildings at the other.

There are also high-rise building walls that are forcibly embedded into old, low-rise houses.

All the buildings are nested together in a chaotic manner, stretching out into the distance in a dense, interconnected pattern.

Even the sky was in disarray.

Sunny days, cloudy days, rainy nights, and snowfall—four completely different colors of the sky, starkly contrasted and disjointed on the same vast expanse of heaven.

Countless figures moved about in the sloping streets, suspended stairwells, and twisted shops.

The entire city was functioning normally in a strange and distorted way.

Bai Xinglan frowned as she looked at the chaotic city before her.

After a long while, she spoke, "We should have entered the second level of the back room."

"The first level of the back chamber is made up of countless rooms, which is essentially a concrete manifestation of the human subconscious."

"And here, is a human city pieced together from the back room."

"The figures inside appear to be alive, but they are actually replicas of people in the back room."

She lightly lifted her fingertips, and spiritual threads quietly spread out, cautiously exploring this chaotic city.

Su Ming looked at those figures.

It is a person, but it lacks any trace of a real, living person; instead, it creates an extremely eerie feeling.

At this moment, Bai Xinglan said again, "He does more than just imitate human city life."

"His true purpose."

Bai Xinglan lowered her voice and said, "They are trying to replicate the entire Blue Star."

"He tried to replace everything on Earth with this place."

"The first-floor back room is a garbage dump of human subconsciousness, messy and disorderly."

"The second, rear chamber is what He meticulously crafted."

"Every brick, every street, and every haphazardly nested building here is an extension of His flesh and blood, a concrete manifestation of His power."

Su Ming looked up and gazed into the distance, taking in the bizarre and absurd scene before him.

An extreme sense of incongruity and chaos is everywhere, yet it is forcibly stabilized by an invisible force, maintaining its eerie state.

"In place of Earth."

Su Ming repeated those four words in a low voice.

He instantly understood those unknown places that would descend upon him in 2026.

They come from here.

They are gradually replacing the real blue planet.

And the real Earth gradually became part of its former world.

On this path, there is no winner or loser.

The old world will eventually become the real Blue Star.

The once real Earth will sooner or later become a new harem.

However, the real Earth will only be replaced from 1996 to 2026.

Therefore, the year 1996 will emerge when it is completely replaced.