Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"Protection mechanism?"

Su Ming muttered to himself, realizing he had never actually considered this aspect before.

Wen Qi drew a circle on the paper.

"This circle represents the blue planet."

Then, she drew an even bigger circle with "Blue Star" attached.

"This outer circle represents the upper limit of the world."

"Within the range of these two circles, only those with five senses awakened and those with catastrophic anomalies can be tolerated."

"Outside the circle, all unknown individuals with strength exceeding the fifth rank are isolated."

"They cannot descend upon Earth."

"Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?"

Wen Qi's explanation made Su Ming suddenly realize what was going on, and all the fragmented clues instantly connected, giving him a sense of sudden enlightenment.

"So that's how it is."

"In other words..."

Su Ming picked up his pen and drew a larger circle outside the second circle.

"After Yu Mengnian broke through to become a sixth-level awakener, she forcefully raised the upper limit of the world."

"Therefore, its range has become larger."

"More, even more terrifying things are descending from outside the circle."

No wonder the abyss descended.

No wonder it has recovered in such a strange way, three years ahead of schedule.

No wonder Zhou Zhengyang said that many unknown places appeared out of nowhere on Earth.

The reason is here.

Without a global cap, we would have fallen long ago.

At this moment, Chen Zhiwei spoke up.

She said firmly, "Something is eyeing our world."

"Or perhaps, it's just passing through our world."

"The former is alright."

"If it's the latter." Chen Zhiwei remained silent.

Because everyone present understood.

If it's the latter, then it's utterly hopeless.

Such a huge change on Earth was merely the aura emitted by some unknown entity passing by.

This power has exceeded everyone's imagination.

If it were the former, although there would still be despair, it wouldn't be this desperate.

Something has its eye on Earth and wants to descend upon it, so it actively and consciously tries to influence it.

Intentional and unintentional, active and passive—though only one word differs, they represent two completely different concepts.

Su Ming had heard Chen Zhiwei from 2026 mention this theory before.

She favored the latter at the time and was extremely pessimistic.

Chen Zhiwei continued.

"As for the timeline Wen Qi mentioned, I think it makes a lot of sense."

Of those present, only Chen Zhiwei could keep up with Wen Qi's train of thought.

They all possess an extremely vast knowledge system.

However, Wen Qi prefers learning new knowledge, and her scope is extremely broad and her content is much more extensive.

Chen Zhiwei, on the other hand, specializes in a particular field, and all other knowledge is used to pave the way and lay the foundation for that field.

She picked up a pen and drew a tree on the paper.

Then, holding the pen, I walked up the tree trunk.

As the pen tip reached the first horizontal branch on the tree trunk, she looked up at Wen Qi: "This side branch is the trajectory of Wen Qi's original world line on Blue Star."

"Her existence will forcibly pull the originally straight forward world line, deviating from the right track and heading towards this crooked branch."

The pen tip followed the branch upwards for a while, and Chen Zhiwei looked at Su Ming: "And Su Ming, returning to 2003 was to correct this distorted world line."

"He cut off that branch, allowing the timeline to grow forward again."

After saying that, Chen Zhiwei wiped away the branch that belonged to "Wen Qi".

Then, holding the pen tip, continue extending it upwards along the main stem.

Upon reaching the second horizontal branch, she looked at Shen Wanyu: "Next is Shen Wanyu."

"Her existence will also affect the direction of the world line."

"All of Su Ming's actions are aimed at making this world line go straight upward."

"Cut off all branches, eliminate them all."

"Until 2026."

The line and the pen tip both stop here.

"The bizarre has descended upon us, Earth has been forcibly renewing itself, Yu Mengnian has undergone a massive mutation, and my whereabouts are unknown."

I don't know if this is the final destination.

"but.

She drew a complete circle at the top of the line: "It's starting to bear fruit."

"Absorbing the nutrients of the entire world line, it bears a fruit."

"Or, the birth of this fruit will overwhelm the entire timeline."

"Kill Yu Mengnian." Chen Zhiwei shook her head. "It might be too late."

"But one thing is certain."

"If it's fruit, something will surely come to take it."

Chen Zhiwei explained it in great detail.

Even four-year-old Tangtang understood it.

It's just pruning branches to make the tree grow taller and taller without it growing crooked.

Su Ming is like a gardener who prunes the branches, controlling the direction of the tree's growth.

"I will stop cultivating."

After thinking for a moment, Yu Mengnian spoke.

Wen Qi shook his head: "It's no use."

"Even if you don't strive to become a Sixth Awakener, someone else will eventually."

After thinking for a moment, Yu Mengnian said again, "I'm going to commit suicide now."

She believes that the outcome of the world line is related to her awakened abilities.

That fruit is called the Celestial Realm, the Celestial Realm in a dream.

Once she dies, she will not undergo any mutations, and the celestial realm will not appear in her dreams.

Blue Star will not raise the world's ceiling, nor will the bizarre events arrive prematurely.

Wen Qi shook his head: "First of all, all of this is just our current speculation and cannot be confirmed."

"Whether Su Ming can change the future by influencing the past after his return can only be known after his return."

"Secondly, history has its own way of correcting itself."

"Even if you commit suicide, once Su Ming returns, he will most likely correct the incident of your suicide."

"Unless Su Ming completely erases my traces in the real world, just like he did with me."

Before Yu Mengnian could speak, Chen Zhiwei grabbed her hand: "Your priority is lower than Wen Qi's."

"If Wen Qi doesn't disappear, let alone 2026, we probably won't even reach 2012."

"To put it bluntly," Chen Zhiwei said, pointing at Shen Wanyu and Tang Tang, "their priority is higher than yours."

"That's why you're able to live to 2026."

"In other words, even if you are mutated, the world is not completely destroyed, it just begins to gradually collapse."

"And if they were alive, the consequences they would cause would likely be far more serious than what you have done."

Su Ming understood.

He couldn't help but look at Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, and Tang Tang.

Yu Mengnian's abilities are already terrifying enough.

In dreams, one can weave a world of cultivation, then practice within it, and even ascend to immortality, creating a celestial realm.

The apocalypse she brings is most likely the descent of the gods.

This is Wen Qi's prediction of the next world update version, which is also most likely the last version.

We can think about it according to Chen Zhiwei's words.

The version of "Gods Descend to Earth" brought by Yu Mengnian turned out to be the gentlest and most relaxed of all the apocalyptic endings.

The apocalypse brought by Wen Qi, Shen Wanyu, and Tang Tang is far more despairing and terrifying than the descent of the gods.

Zhou Zhengyang, who was listening in, felt his heart clench violently and almost suffocated on the spot.

He wasn't qualified to sit at the table, nor was he qualified to speak, but just listening almost shattered him.

He originally thought that Yu Mengnian's ability was the most overpowered among everyone at the table.

After listening to everyone, it turned out that hers was the weakest and had the least influence.

Even four-year-old Tang Tang, who was holding a teddy bear, was more dangerous than Yu Mengnian.

Oh my god!

What kind of monsters are sitting at the dining table?

At this moment, Shen Wanyu, who had not spoken for a long time, finally spoke.

Because she had just finished organizing these contents.

To be honest, she felt that her values ​​and common sense had completely collapsed today.

Her question was simple, yet it hit the nail on the head.

She asked, "Why us?"

"An inexplicable and unusual attraction, an uncontrollable and lucid descent, and a burning love that accumulates day by day."

"In the future, all of our feelings will be forcibly bound and altered by the favorability rating, causing us to completely succumb and willingly and unreservedly fall in love with you."

Shen Wanyu had mentioned this point before.

Su Ming had no answer.

The dining table fell into a deathly silence.

After a long while, it was Tangtang, who was only four years old, who broke the silence and spoke weakly.

The voice was innocent and naive, yet it was deafening.

She said, "Because my brother has to support us."

A soft, sweet voice floated across the dining table.

Tangtang blinked, not understanding why everyone was silent, so she added another sentence, speaking very seriously.

"What if we run away without any affinity points tied to us?"

Have you ever played video games?

"I once played a game where I captured small animals, but because my affection level with them was too low, they ran away, and I was heartbroken for a very long time."

"Even after I found it, I couldn't trust it completely anymore. I was always afraid that it would secretly run away."

"Is my brother also afraid we'll run away?"

Tang Tang carefully handed the teddy bear in her arms to Su Ming, her voice soft yet firm: "Brother, I won't run away."

Su Ming took the teddy bear, gently rubbed Tang Tang's cheek, and asked, "Why can't you run away?"

His tone was joking.

Tang Tang tilted her head back, her eyes clear and serious, and spoke each word clearly.

"Because my brother said that Tangtang will be his bride in the future."

"Therefore, Tangtang won't run away."

"Just like Mom and Dad, we'll be together forever and ever."