Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Su Ming looked at this journal entry.

On the yellowed pages, there were bloodstains that had long since dried and turned black.

The hasty, dry handwriting on it fully expresses the struggles of all of them.

They held out here for nine years.

They groped their way out of the chaotic back room, built a human settlement with their bare hands, and barely established a fragile order of survival.

But in the end, it could not withstand the gradual encroachment of this space.

In its final year, the residential area, which had existed for nine years, disintegrated and became ruins.

The man covered in scars was the former captain of flight LH16 and the last steadfast member of this team.

He was the last to leave.

And that's the most terrifying part of the back room.

Boiling bones in lukewarm water silently devours them, causing them to wither away day by day.

Bai Xinglan, standing to the side, had a strand of blackened spiritual energy wrapped around her fingertips.

Those were the wandering threads of the spirit belonging to the inner chamber.

After a moment of observation, she spoke, "The speed at which the back chambers are evolving far surpasses their groping speed."

"It is constantly improving its own rules."

"The rules here are completely different from those at the end of 2016."

Even today, Bai Xinglan cannot use spiritual threads to weave a door to the Return Corridor.

In the perfect world timeline, Lin Jiajia's theory of infinite space is still in effect.

Without the control of the empress, the evolution of the empress's household has begun to spiral out of control.

Whether it has developed its own independent will is currently uncertain.

But one thing is certain: every person who dies here leaves behind traces of their spirit and emotions that influence and accelerate the evolution of the back chamber.

The last page of "The Back Room Survival Guide" contained a room key.

After examining the room key for a moment, Su Ming said with certainty, "This should be the control room key they risked their lives to find back then."

"Senior, come with me."

Immediately, Su Ming activated his Cross-Shaped Eyes again.

Amidst the dilapidated ruins of the residential area, the weary, hunched-over middle-aged man reappeared.

He stuffed the backpack into the hidden compartment, glanced back, and then turned and left.

He wasn't looking at the residential area.

Instead, they looked at Su Ming through layers of time.

Although no words were spoken, the meaning was clear.

"Your Majesty, we await your return. Please follow me."

He firmly believed from beginning to end that Su Ming would arrive as promised.

Because when Su Ming left, he told everyone, "We'll meet again in ten years."

Unfortunately, too many changes have occurred in the past ten years.

In the end, of the 238 people in the group, only one person remained in the residential area to wait.

Su Ming followed behind the middle-aged man.

He looked exhausted, with bloodshot eyes and a pale, haggard face, clearly a result of years of insomnia.

It should be noted that everyone on flight LH16 was personally selected by Zhou Zhengyang.

They are the elite of all walks of life on Earth, whose willpower, physique, and temperament far surpass those of ordinary people.

Even so, they didn't last until the tenth year.

As they traveled, the middle-aged man kept muttering to himself, "Your Majesty, you should have already seen the notes and clues I left behind."

"We are sorry, we ultimately could not hold out until your return."

"The speed of evolution here far exceeds our expectations; we simply cannot compete with it."

Middle-aged men talk a lot.

She rambled on about her experiences over the years.

But only Su Ming knew at that moment that he was reporting all the intelligence he knew to him.

But at that time, he went into the back room alone and muttered to himself in the empty space, looking like a crazy madman.

Su Ming actually knew the reason why the back chamber was evolving so rapidly, as he mentioned.

Because he imprisoned the empress.

Without the presence of the matriarch, the evolution of the harem can only be described as out of control.

It was originally a special tool for them to observe humanity.

Every tool needs maintenance.

If it's not maintained, problems will eventually arise.

This is why, whether it's the inner chamber or the eternally silent deep sea city, there is an anthropomorphic being as the controller.

"Your Majesty, I heard a few years ago that the harem has already given birth to real soil."

"It was an enormous room of immense size, where the beginnings of a city were already taking shape."

"According to our analysis, the prototype of that city was also the prototype of a completely new Earth."

"When everything is replaced, the entire planet will fall into the back chamber."

"If Your Majesty wishes to see it, just keep going up."

Go up?

Su Ming looked up at the pale, oppressive ceiling above him.

He kept moving upwards on the daily chart at the end of 2016, relying on the blurred boundaries.

However, the space here is disordered, which makes his spatial travel chaotic as well.

It seems that to reach the top, one must walk upwards.

Bai Xinglan, who was standing to the side, could neither hear nor see.

Therefore, Su Ming needs to verbally explain to her.

Upon hearing Su Ming's description, Bai Xinglan pondered for a moment before saying, "So it seems that the root of those unknown places on Blue Star lies in the back chamber."

However, his statement is not accurate.

"The back chamber is not replacing Earth, but rather assimilating and devouring it little by little."

"One day, Earth will be completely reduced to a part of the harem."

"Then," Bai Xinglan said, looking at the endless rooms around her, "this endless array of rooms will unfold the entire history of Blue Star from ancient times to the present."

Su Ming frowned and asked, "Like dissecting a corpse?"

Bai Xinglan nodded: "More or less."

"However," she paused, a hint of doubt in her voice, "I still can't figure it out."

"Since Earth was the foundation before 1996 and cannot be shaken, how should the inner chambers develop Earth?"

"Or rather, the back room is actually trying to invade the pre-1996 era."

"I had always believed that nothing had changed before 1996 because the Ring of Fate stared at the blue planet in 1996, preventing them from observing and intervening."

"Now it seems that this is not the case."

Bai Xinglan looked up and said, "Before 1996, it was more like being protected and isolated by an unknown, powerful force."

"Therefore, even the Ring of Destiny can only gaze upon the blue planet from 1996 onwards, unable to reach the earlier past."

Bai Xinglan's guess was deduced using the logic of a medical student.

She viewed the entire blue planet as a complete body.

Since it is a corpse, it can naturally be dissected in its entirety.

In reality, there are very few parts of Earth that can be dissected.

Most of the parts could not be dissected, and peeping was also prohibited.

The only answer is that someone forcibly sealed off this area, cutting off all dimensional observation.

While the two were deep in thought, the middle-aged man slumped down in front of a door.

It was a very ordinary hotel room door.

Outdated design, equipped with old-fashioned electronic locks, unremarkable, blending into countless similar rooms with no distinguishing features.

If it weren't for the middle-aged man leading the way, Su Ming would never have given this door a second glance, even if he had encountered it.

At this moment, the middle-aged man slumped down in the doorway, pointing to the door behind him: "Your Majesty, this is the control room we discovered earlier."

"I've tucked the key into the last page of the notebook."

"That access card was a copy I made."

"We used the real room key and added a survival guide we wrote to our survival backpack."

"I am also an Awakened One, possessing the ability to copy, but I can only copy one thing at a time, and the copied item can only be used once."

"Your Majesty, once you enter the control room, you will be granted the authority to modify the underlying operating logic of the back room once."

"My permissions are extremely limited, and the parts I can modify are negligible. I hope Your Majesty will not take offense."

"This is all the cards we, 238 people, have left for you after giving it our all."

A few seconds after he finished speaking, he suddenly looked up and laughed.

"Oh, right."

"If Your Majesty sees me again, please be very careful."

After saying that sentence...

boom--

A gunshot rang out.

He chose to commit suicide by shooting himself.

There was no fear in his eyes after his death, only relief and liberation.

If it weren't for waiting for Su Ming, he might have committed suicide long ago.

Blood splattered in large, glaring bursts on the cold, gray wall.

Su Ming sighed and closed his cross-shaped pupils.

The bloodstains on the wall are still there, but the corpse at the foot of the wall has disappeared.

The middle-aged man showed Su Ming through his actions.

He is dead.

If he reappears, he will definitely not be the same person.

It must be said that the people Zhou Zhengyang chose all possessed extremely firm wills.

Otherwise, let alone persisting for nine years.

They'll probably be wiped out within a year.

Su Ming's voice was deep and solemn as he said, "May you have a safe journey."

Then, he looked up at the door in front of him.

This is the culmination of ten years of dedication by the 238 elite crew members on flight LH16, excluding Bai Xinglan.

It contains all their hopes and hopes.

Su Ming no longer hesitated.

Pick up the room key and swipe it lightly on the door.

drop--

An electronic sound appeared.

A slight mechanical clicking sound followed.

The room card in Su Ming's hand turned to ashes in an instant.

Turning his head to look at Bai Xinglan, Su Ming said, "Senior, let's go inside and take a look."

The two pushed open the door and stepped into the room together.

The instant they entered through the door.

The door began to twist and blur eerily, and finally vanished completely, as if it had never existed.