Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Su Ming looked up at the stars that covered the sky.

The stars are still waiting for their answer.

If I weren't carrying the giant baby of the world, they would never have given me the chance to "play the game".

Then let them continue to wait.

Before Su Ming figured out this future timeline, he would ignore them for the time being.

I glanced at the Gate of All Things.

The evolutionary speed of the Gate of All Things is visible to the naked eye.

Especially after devouring the bird-faced ancient god, even the phantom on the door became clearer.

"So, have you found any trace of Lin Jiajia and the others?"

Too much time has passed, and history has been distorted beyond recognition.

Trying to salvage traces of people from a hundred years ago amidst layers of false history is virtually impossible.

The Gate of All Things directly fed back the information to Su Ming.

There is a dedicated neural pathway between them, specifically for transmitting information so that the Old Gods will not notice.

The Gate of All Things could not find any information about Lin Jiajia, Cheng Yao, Gu Yan, Jiang Qian, and Chi Nian.

However, it collected information from 749 bureaus.

When Doomsday arrived, human civilization collapsed, and over 60% of the population perished.

The 749th Bureau suffered an unprecedented blow, its foundation nearly crumbling.

Over the next decade or so, this special institution gradually faded from public view.

Today, not a trace of Bureau 749 can be found in the six cities.

However, based on the intelligence gathered by the Gate of All Things, a crucial piece of information caught Su Ming's attention.

Zhou Zhengyang last appeared 56 years ago.

The last place he appeared was the courtyard house where Su Ming was now staying.

After that, he left Dream City and disappeared without a trace.

Su Ming frowned as he looked at the information returned by the Gate of All Things.

"Old Zhou came to this courtyard house?"

Su Ming looked towards the courtyard.

Without further hesitation, he immediately activated his Cross-Shaped Eyes.

A glance, a shift in the flow of time.

In the retrospective view, the courtyard has always been empty.

It seems that Yu Mengnian left a long time ago.

After a long period of recollection, the tightly closed courtyard gate was finally slowly pushed open by an old hand.

It is Zhou Zhengyang.

Zhou Zhengyang looked very old at this time.

Doomsday occurred in 2009.

This year is very special.

It is the starting point for the birth of new life.

At this point, 44 years had passed since the day of destruction when Zhou Zhengyang appeared.

Even if Zhou Zhengyang is an awakened one, he is over 70 years old.

Decades of carrying heavy burdens, coupled with the pressure and physical and mental exhaustion left over from Doomsday, completely wore down his spirit and energy.

His face was covered in wrinkles, his hair was gray, and even his back was bent over.

He even needs to use a cane to walk.

This is the natural fate that mortals cannot escape.

Unless you reach the seventh level.

This is why the seventh rank is called a true god.

Before reaching the seventh rank, even the strongest Awakened Ones have a lifespan of only a hundred years or so.

Even with many life-extending products, one cannot resist the erosion of time.

Only by reaching the seventh level can one step into another realm and break free from the limitations of lifespan.

In the courtyard, the aging Zhou Zhengyang walked slowly, bowing deeply to the empty courtyard as he entered.

Then he looked up and gazed at the ever-burning lamp hanging at the door, his eyes filled with endless melancholy.

After a long while, he turned around and looked at the empty courtyard, talking to himself.

"Dream Master, will he really come?"

There was no response from the courtyard, only the echo of his murmurs.

"It's been 44 years."

A long sigh, carrying with it half a lifetime of weariness and utter confusion.

"That king has not yet returned to his throne."

Yu Mengnian said this a long time ago.

She saw a figure in her dream.

That figure will definitely appear.

She stayed there waiting for him to appear.

Even the structure of Game 749 was planned because of this figure, resulting in the "one king and twelve queens" system.

Even now, Zhou Zhengyang doubts that the figure in Yu Mengnian's dream is fake.

It was just a figure.

Her face was not clearly visible.

I don't know the name either.

But Yu Mengnian believed it.

So, Bureau 749 believed it too.

But whether he is really true or not, no one knows.

Dreams themselves have no logic.

The courtyard was deathly silent, without any response.

Zhou Zhengyang bowed deeply for the third time: "Dream Master, I'm leaving now."

After he finished speaking, he leaned on his cane and slowly walked out of the courtyard gate.

That's how simple things were back then.

However, Zhou Zhengyang's soliloquy contained a wealth of information.

Su Ming calmed down and quickly sorted through all the clues.

Zhou Zhengyang possesses the special ability of memory archiving.

He has most likely discovered the real secret behind humanity's survival.

He even discovered the shocking truth about why Wen Qi and the others had been replaced.

But he was powerless to do anything about it.

All he could do was leave.

This flashback is very important.

At this point, Zhou Zhengyang had most likely already died of old age.

His chances of breaking through to the seventh rank are too low.

However, given his abilities, leading the remaining members of Bureau 749 into the Aberration Zone was not a suicide mission, but rather a migration where they were put in a life-or-death situation.

In other words.

Besides these six cities, there is another hidden city on Earth that truly belongs to humankind.

That place is the true continuation of human civilization, a place never before coveted by the ancient gods.

And Wen Qi and the others are very likely in this place.

But Su Ming cannot go to find them.

From the moment he appeared, all the Old Gods watched his every move.

That's why they didn't leave any obvious information.

Although the thinking of the Old Gods is similar to that of humans, their thinking is ultimately not that of true humans.

They can never understand human obsession and perseverance.

For example, they cannot understand it.

Even though the Blue Star has become so distorted that even they feel fear, why does Zhou Zhengyang, this insignificant mortal, still insist on going out?

To them, this was a foolish death.

What puzzled Su Ming even more was when Yu Mengnian left.

Time continues to rewind.

In the struggle to recall, Yu Mengnian's figure finally appeared.

However, this figure made Su Ming's whole body tremble.

He remembered the video Lin Jiajia had shown him back then.

That was the last scene of Yu Mengnian leaving Blue Star.

In the image, she stands on the moon, looking back at the blue planet, with the vast expanse of space behind her.

In the glance she gave back to Blue Star, Su Ming couldn't see a trace of lingering affection, nor could he detect even a hint of human emotion.

The figure in the flashback and the figure in the video overlapped almost perfectly.

Those eyes, devoid of all emotion and desire, indifferent and aloof, only showed a fleeting, almost imperceptible ripple when they swept over the ever-burning lamp.

next moment.

Yu Mengnian raised her eyes and looked up at the sky.

Then it transformed into a beam of light and soared into the sky.

It should be noted that at this time, beyond Earth, the Old Gods had already laid out layers of star webs.

If they were to descend upon Earth, Yu Mengnian might still be able to fight them.

But if we step off the blue planet.

There is no upper limit to the universe.

Su Ming had a deep understanding of the terror of an eighth-tier Old God; it was an invincible combat power capable of crushing everything.

The sword light that shot into the sky tore through layers of star webs, creating a brief gap among the stars.

In the blink of an eye, the gap healed, and Yu Mengnian disappeared completely.

But the moment the gap heals.

Su Ming's pupils suddenly contracted.

He thought he saw... Tang Tang's figure.