Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Su Ming woke up.

He stared wide-eyed at the familiar ceiling.

The amount of information Tangtang conveyed in the dream was truly overwhelming.

Even now, I still feel a sense of unreality, as if I were in a dream.

I turned my head to look at the sky that was gradually brightening.

The world before him was created based on his subconscious.

It is one of the endings that He chose for Him and for the entire human race.

The sun rose as usual.

The world is as peaceful as ever.

Although the eerie resurgence is happening in the shadows, they can only remain hidden.

Even a top-tier supernatural being like Cheng Yao wouldn't dare to be too presumptuous.

This is because this world, formed by Su Ming's subconscious, contains a power powerful enough to suppress all strange phenomena.

Besides the incredibly powerful Yu Mengnian, there are also a group of top figures in the human world, such as Wen Qi and Shen Wanyu, who are in charge of various places.

Together they firmly suppressed all the restless and eerie activity in the shadows.

The bizarre is necessary and an inevitable rule of this world.

They cannot be completely eradicated, nor can they be eradicated.

If they all disappear, Su Ming will lose the foundation of his existence, and the world will also disappear.

There are no real beings in this world, only traces of them.

Even Tangtang, whom he met in his dream, was bound by the rules of the world and trapped in the Lychee Hotel, unable to leave.

"A fifth doomsday line?"

Su Ming murmured softly, his gaze fixed on the dawning sky.

It was the end of the world, an end of the world that had never been imagined.

If this apocalypse were to be named, Su Ming would think "Twilight Dividing Line" would be the most suitable.

From this doomsday line, the future was split into two completely different paths.

Two choices, two futures.

Choose to accept.

Staying here, dusk will give way to sunrise, and the ending will be predetermined.

Choose to refuse.

No one knows whether after dusk comes a long night or the dawn.

Su Ming was undoubtedly inclined to stay here.

Having arrived here, he was unsure how long it had taken him, and had forgotten what he had gone through.

But the peace before our eyes is the only outcome that we can see clearly and hold onto.

At the same time, Xu Qinghe, who had not appeared in the living room, suddenly appeared.

A flower of extreme evil bloomed, and her form solidified rapidly.

Then, amidst everyone's slightly puzzled gazes, she rushed into the master bedroom and grabbed Su Ming's wrist.

"no."

Her voice was resolute and firm, but her eyes held an undisguised fear and unease.

She must have heard the voice in Su Ming's heart at that moment.

But she knew better than anyone that this seemingly perfect ending concealed too many risks.

"We can't do without mandatory favorability ratings." Xu Qinghe said with utmost seriousness.

The moment the words were spoken, a flower of evil bloomed swiftly in mid-air above the master bedroom.

As the petals unfurled, a fragment was projected, clearly appearing before Su Ming's eyes.

This scene stunned Su Ming.

Because I know the protagonist of the segment.

His name is Li Tao, and he also lives in Lanyue Community. He had met Su Ming a few times before.

The first scene shows him holding his wife Song Liyi's hand as they return from the market, chatting and laughing, looking quite affectionate.

The second scene takes place seven years later, and its style changes drastically.

The once gentle and considerate husband has now become a hideous monster with a fierce look in his eyes. He personally murdered his wife Song Liyi, who had been by his side day and night, and then cruelly dismembered her body. He then conspired with his lover Zhao Fei to take the corpse to the suburbs and feed it to the dogs.

And this happened in just seven short years.

Seven years have eroded their deep affection and torn their love apart.

"How long can you love Yu Mengnian?"

Xu Qinghe didn't mention us; she only mentioned Yu Mengnian.

Because Yu Mengnian is someone Su Ming truly fell in love with from the bottom of his heart, without being influenced by forced affection levels.

But how long can this love last?

Humans have always praised unwavering love, but they can never deny that love eventually expires.

The deepest love that was once unforgettable will eventually fade away over the long years.

Seven years, seventy years, seven hundred years—there will always come a day when the passionate excitement fades into ordinariness, until it vanishes completely.

This is the norm of human nature, and an irreversible fate.

Moreover, Yu Mengnian is emotionally deprived at this time, making it difficult for her to reciprocate Su Ming's love.

Even if her feelings are restored in the future, and she reciprocates his love.

But how long can Yu Mengnian maintain this love?

Be bolder.

Use love to bind Su Ming.

Yu Mengnian, Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, Chen Zhiwei, Cheng Yao, Lin Jiajia, one after another.

In the long years that followed, Su Ming bound himself with new loves time and time again, and changed the people who moved his heart.

But as time goes by, even the most sincere love will completely lose its original warmth and meaning through repeated changes.

To know.

Su Ming and Chen Zhiwei had lived in the book of names for decades, which caused them to undergo tremendous psychological changes.

If he hadn't sealed his memories, his soul would have continued to age.

Time is a terrible thing for humankind.

A person's true nature can be rewritten in just a few decades.

What about the next few hundred or thousand years?

At that time, Su Ming will be neither human nor ghost, neither god nor immortal, but will only become a monster mutated by time.

This seemingly perfect ending was brought about by Su Ming.

But the despairing ending to come will also be brought about by Su Ming.

Wen Qi stood at the door of the master bedroom.

She watched the clips that Xu Qinghe had shown.

This is the world formed by Su Ming's subconscious.

In this world, Li Tao ultimately killed his wife for his lover.

This precisely illustrates that even Su Ming's own subconscious mind acknowledges that the essence of human nature cannot be altered.

The subconscious mind doesn't lie.

That was my truest thought.

He himself didn't believe that he could love them for a long time without a forced bond of affection.

Falling in love with someone can happen in an instant.

It can happen in an instant to stop loving someone.

There is no reason.

From being moved to being heartbroken, the process is nothing more than a fleeting moment.

After a long while.

Su Ming said in a rather hoarse voice.

"She became Him because of me, and now she has become Her because of me."

"If the heart dies in splendor, love will live on forever in death."

This sentence was once said by Tang Tang.

Only by dying at the moment of greatest love can love be made eternal.

Only then can this love grow deeper with the passage of time.

"The knowledge she carries is eternal love, and also the source of forced affection."

"I can make forced favorability reappear."

"And we can also become immortal ghosts, thus making all of this eternal."

Immortality is their least valuable knowledge.

Therefore, those anomalies that revived due to their influence, even the weakest restricted ones, are immortal.

But for true life, immortality is a mountain that no one can climb.

Wen Qi smiled.

She walked slowly to Su Ming, and gently touched his forehead with her fingertip.

"I must have taught you a lot."

"Is the focus now on acceptance and rejection?"

"You need to broaden your perspective and take a longer-term view."

Su Ming felt a moment of dizziness.

The feeling is so familiar, the words are so familiar.

It seems like a long time ago, someone else said something similar to me.

Is this Wen Qi standing before me?

"Tell me everything you know first."

In fact, everyone present, even Xu Qinghe, was just piecing together the truth based on clues.

They had no idea what Su Ming meant by "them".

Su Ming didn't know much either, because his memory was hazy, and most of what he heard came from Tang Tang.

But what I've heard is enough.

After Su Ming finished speaking, Wen Qi's eyes flickered slightly, and she asked softly, "Is Tang Tang one of them?"

"So, do you think Tangtang loves you?"

Su Ming nodded.

Tangtang's love was so intense and pure that even the most numb person could feel it.

"But Tangtang said that they didn't have any emotions at all."

"Where does Tangtang's affection come from?"

Wen Qi's question stunned Su Ming.

Yes.

They have no emotions, so why does Tangtang, who is one of them, feel such pure love?

After thinking for a long time, he finally spoke: "Tang Tang said that she was originally a human, but became Him because of me."

Chen Zhiwei stood to the side, rolling her eyes.

She wished she could answer for Su Ming.

The teacher meant that they influence humanity, and humanity also influences them.

If they want to understand humanity, they must willingly accept the "contamination" from humanity and descend in a distorted "anthropomorphic" manner.

Since it has been anthropomorphized, its thoughts, nature, and obsessions must be close to those of humans.

Their words are trustworthy because they do not lie.

They can be personified; they can deceive, scheme, harbor selfish desires and obsessions, and be swayed by their emotions.

Anthropomorphism is what they see as distortion.

Theologization is a distortion in the eyes of humans.

One is moving closer to them, and the other is moving closer to humanity.

These two are the true root of the apocalypse.

They are far more terrifying than those who are ruthless and desireless, and only know how to maintain order.

Upon hearing Chen Zhiwei's explanation, Su Ming looked at Wen Qi in disbelief: "You mean, the anthropomorphized versions of them could lie?"

Wen Qi nodded.

This is Su Ming's fifth doomsday line.

Apart from the doomsday scenario in 2003, where Wen Qi tricked one of Him into descending in an anthropomorphic form.

They never descended in an anthropomorphic manner.

Because they know about the variable of humanity, yet they never care.

The so-called cleaning was more like a casual, perfunctory effort.

It's like a human casually stepping on and killing an insect.

The process of lifting and lowering a foot is the process of an insect living and dying.

This process is insignificant in the eyes of humans.

But for insects, this is time, and also a lifetime of life and death.

Human time, however long, has no meaning for them, because they are immortal.

Until the fifth doomsday line.

Without any human interference, a version of Him descended in a truly anthropomorphic way.

That was the first time they truly looked at humanity.

Because they discovered that rashly trampling humans might hurt their feet.

Human blood splattered on them could also corrode their skin.

Therefore, they no longer chose to act rashly, but instead changed their approach.

For example, first use objects to restrain people, and then calmly take action to completely eliminate the hidden danger.

And now, it's somewhat similar to the process of using objects to restrain people.

Wen Qi also gave an example for this.

"A farmer found a worm that was eating his crops on his farm."

"At first he thought he could just step on the bug and kill it."

"But upon closer inspection, it became clear that this insect could potentially harm him."

"So he found a bottle or bag, put the insect in it, and kept it still."

"Then find a handy tool and kill it."

Wen Qi pointed to the ceiling and said with a smile.

"This is their greatest weakness now that they have been personified."

"They do not want to get hurt, nor will they allow themselves to get hurt."

"And this weakness is currently our only advantage."

"But once they are willing to be injured to kill us, any struggle will be in vain."

The master bedroom was deathly silent.

It's a really niche, yet quite reasonable example.

Because humans are like that too.

Once they are anthropomorphized, all their actions can be interpreted by humans.