Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Memories of his seventeenth birthday suddenly surfaced in Su Ming's mind.

This isn't right.

Something's nine out of ten wrong.

With his current strength, memories cannot appear out of thin air.

Su Ming immediately turned to Bai Xinglan and said, "Senior, wait for me a moment."

After saying that, he closed his eyes and immersed himself in the depths of his memories.

His memory had long ago become a three-dimensional memory edifice.

It's not just a memory, but something that allows him to step into it as an observer.

next moment.

Su Ming's consciousness was already standing in front of the main entrance of the Memory Building.

The building has eighteen floors, the number of which corresponds to his age.

There are 356 rooms on each floor.

Each room holds a memory of a past day.

The eighteenth floor is incomplete.

That was the first floor where Su Ming turned eighteen.

Each day, the eighteenth floor will become one part complete.

But it will most likely never be whole again.

The first, second, and third floors were always shrouded in a grayish-white mist, occasionally revealing a few blurry fragments of memories.

Fragmented children's shadows, faint warmth, and the indistinct sound of wind.

But these memories are too vague, fleeting, and impossible to capture.

Those were his hazy memories from before he was three years old.

Memories from this period are inherently fragmented and vague, making them difficult to preserve.

Even the memory edifice that Su Ming constructed could not perfect it, and could only be shrouded in mist.

I slowly walked to the last room on the seventeenth floor.

The address plate is clearly engraved with: 17-365.

Inside the door were his complete memories of his seventeenth birthday.

Push open the door.

Long-forgotten memories suddenly resurfaced.

All the images, sounds, and temperatures of that day unfolded before his eyes.

With just a thought, Su Ming could fast-forward, rewind, or freeze this moment at will.

Starting in the morning, Su Ming checked each case one by one.

He did not notice the problem.

Until the birthday party that evening.

When I closed my eyes and made a wish at the age of seventeen.

Three figures suddenly appeared at the birthday party.

Su Ming looked at the three figures with some surprise.

Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, Xu Qinghe.

They left traces of their presence here.

"Is it because of the Sea of ​​Memories?"

Su Ming pondered to himself.

He remembered that Wen Qi and the others went to the Sea of ​​Memories.

This sea of ​​memories is indeed peculiar.

It can actually leave a trace in the memories of other people.

Su Ming stepped forward and walked up to Wen Qi's illusory figure, tentatively asking in a soft voice, "School beauty, can you hear me?"

Wen Qi did not respond.

This is the afterimage they left behind. When Su Ming awakened this memory, it meant that the three of them had already left.

Wen Qi's eyes were gentle, Shen Wanyu's lips were smiling, and Xu Qinghe's eyes were clear.

They watched Su Ming, now seventeen, quietly clapped, and then offered a soft blessing: "Su Ming, happy birthday."

The candle went out immediately.

Laughter and cheerful voices filled the air under the lights, creating a warm and lively atmosphere.

Their illusory figures, after sending this blessing, exchanged glances and then quietly vanished.

They only stayed there for a short while.

Just to say "Happy Birthday" to Su Ming.

But this simple blessing stirred up a huge wave in the depths of Su Ming's memory, warming his heart.

He looked back at the image of himself cutting a cake when he was seventeen.

He then smiled and whispered, looking towards the spot where Wen Qi and the others had disappeared, "Thank you."

At the same time, Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, and Xu Qinghe in the Sea of ​​Memories stopped in their tracks and turned around to look at each other.

They vaguely heard a "thank you".

Shen Wanyu said with a smile, "It's Su Ming's voice."

"He received our blessings."

But the next second, Shen Wanyu's smile faded, and a cold glint flashed in her eyes: "Wen Qi, it's not too late for you to back down now."

"Even the former Ring of Destiny was only comparable to the ninth rank."

"Tenth Rank. Even if Su Ming really manages to reach that level, have you considered what he will ultimately become?"

Wen Qi looked at Shen Wanyu, who didn't explain much, only saying, "Su Ming has already met Lin Jiajia."

"If he is unwilling, I will stop."

Shen Wanyu frowned, remained silent for a moment, and then coldly uttered, "That had to be for the best."

Xu Qinghe, who was standing to the side, sensed a hint of killing intent.

This murderous intent wasn't directed at anyone in particular.

Moreover, they both harbored a murderous intent towards each other.

Just like Lin Jiajia said before.

Because of their threat, they had no choice but to join forces.

But once their threat disappears, the real danger lies with each other.

This is the fate of forced favorability.

The only way to break this fate is to dismantle the forced favorability system.

To this day, no one has considered ways to dismantle the forced favorability system.

It's not that they don't think about it, but under the influence of forced favorability, everyone subconsciously avoids and selectively ignores it.

the other side.

Su Ming opened his eyes, and his mood suddenly improved dramatically.

He shouted at Bai Xinglan, "Senior, let's speed things up!"

"I feel like we're not far from our residential area."

Several hours later, Su Ming finally found the residential area.

However, the entire residential area was completely unrecognizable, as if it had experienced a catastrophe that wiped everything out.

The walls were stained with blood.

In the corner, you can still see piles of white bones weathered and turned white.

"This…"

Su Ming gazed at the dilapidated residential area.

He activated his cross-shaped vision, ready to see what had happened here.

Under the retrospection of the cross-shaped pupils.

The residential area on the Japanese lunar map at the end of 2016 came into view.

As time went on, anomalies continued to occur. Strange traces appeared in the residential area, and monsters disguised as humans infiltrated the returning exploration teams.

This residential area is being slowly eroded by the back rooms.

More and more people are going crazy, the team is splitting, and the accumulated conflicts are growing.

Let's continue going back in time.

Many people have already left the residential area and have never returned.

In the final scene, Su Ming's gaze fell upon the original archives room.

A middle-aged man covered in wounds sat in front of a candle, his fingers trembling as he wrote.

After he finished writing, he stuffed the notebook into his backpack and then pushed the backpack into the hidden compartment.

He then glanced back at the residential area and turned to leave.

Backtracking complete.

Su Ming found the backpack in the hidden compartment.

Deep inside the backpack was a blood-stained manuscript titled "Survival Guide for the Back Room".

The first half of the manual is well-organized and the handwriting is neat.

It contains detailed records of the habits, weaknesses, and hierarchical characteristics of various monsters in the back room, as well as methods for identifying safe houses and avoidance techniques.

This content represents the survival experience that survivors have painstakingly developed over many years.

The latter half of the manual includes a personal note.

His handwriting was messy, and his words were full of exhaustion.

It records the general process of their exploration of the back room.

[The first year after the King's departure: The inner chambers were relatively stable, with clear and predictable rules. We managed to establish ourselves by figuring out the patterns, building our dwellings and dividing the area.]

[The second year after the King's departure: The first signs of change appeared. We discovered that the space in the back chamber was becoming increasingly unstable, and the walls began to speak. After discussion, we unanimously concluded that if we stayed here for an extended period, our consciousness would gradually be eroded by the back chamber.]

[In the third year since the King left: Devastating news arrived that the entire expedition team that went out to explore had undergone a mutation, their bodies twisted and deformed, and they had completely lost their self-awareness, becoming the first new monsters born in the inner chamber.]

[Four years after the King's departure: Besides us, we discovered over a hundred survivors who had mistakenly entered the inner chamber; they seem to come from different timelines.]

[Five years after the King's departure: The mental erosion intensifies, and more and more people are experiencing auditory hallucinations. We often hear shouts, airplane roars, and familiar voices. More than a dozen people have already disappeared under the influence of these sounds.]

[Six years after the King's departure: The group completely split apart. One group planned to find a way back to Earth, while the other group gave up resistance and decided to integrate into the inner chamber, becoming part of the space itself.]

[Seven years after the King's departure: After years of effort, we have finally uncovered a glimpse into the underlying workings of the inner chambers. In order to preserve hope, we have compiled our complete survival experience into "The Survival Guide to the Inner Chambers"]

[Eight years since the King left: The inner chambers have entered a phase of rapid evolution, with new types of mutated monsters being born in large numbers. Safe zones are constantly shrinking, and our living space is becoming increasingly narrow.]

[The Ninth Year Since the King's Departure: Disappearances, mutations, and deaths have become the norm, and all the split-off forces have lost contact.]

[Ten years after the King's departure: Your Majesty, if you return, please be careful of us, for we may no longer be human.]