Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

"The school beauty?"

Su Ming looked at Wen Qi in disbelief.

Shen Wanyu was still holding him tightly, desperately trying to breathe.

Yu Mengnian sat cross-legged in her seat, her face pale, and was adjusting her breathing.

Tang Tang is sleeping, Chen Zhiwei is lost in thought, Zhou Zhengyang…

Ok?

Su Ming's gaze suddenly fell on the small stool next to the sofa.

Zhou Zhengyang has disappeared.

"Su Ming, are you listening to me?"

Seeing that Su Ming did not answer for a long time, Wen Qi slowly walked up to him and pressed her face against his palm.

"I didn't mean to hide it from you."

"He really didn't respond to me."

"However, He gave me some knowledge."

She paused, then pressed Su Ming's hand against her chest: "Do you know what a cockroach is?"

Before Su Ming could answer, she continued, "The knowledge He gave me, I know, will change me."

"But I can't resist it, because that's the truth."

"When I understood this knowledge, it was like a cockroach suddenly gaining self-awareness and realizing that it was actually a human being."

"Those pleasurable memories of eating rotten flesh, crawling around in garbage dumps, and consuming disgusting filth in the sewers instantly shattered its entire consciousness."

"Can you understand?"

"If it cannot be accepted, it will collapse and become distorted."

"Only by accepting it can we gradually shed the filth of the past and become human again."

"A completely new person."

Wen Qi's words seemed to possess a certain magic.

Su Ming subconsciously put himself in the cockroach's shoes.

If he were to transmigrate into the body of a cockroach, without any memories of his previous life, he would live a happy and carefree life.

But one day, his memories of being human will return.

His actions during this period will cause him to break down completely.

The body of a cockroach combined with the mind of a human is the most terrifying distortion.

True distortion is never a physical distortion of the body.

Rather, it is a distortion of thinking.

"My original plan was to kill them quietly and then slowly guide you to come with me."

"Yu Mengnian is very strong; her consciousness was actually able to break free from the devouring darkness."

"But what I didn't expect was..."

Wen Qi looked at the pained Shen Wanyu with pity in his eyes, his former humanity seemingly fading away rapidly.

"Her senses are very strong; she should be becoming an Awakened soon."

"Even I didn't expect that she would sense it through intuition."

"She's right."

"This darkness is indeed alive."

"Because we are all in Him."

After saying that, Wen Qi gently snapped his fingers.

Shen Wanyu's figure began to disappear.

In just a few seconds, she disappeared completely.

Where did she go?

Su Ming suddenly looked up, his gaze fixed on Wen Qi.

The worst thing still happened.

Wenqi is changing.

And it is the most uncontrollable change.

On the contrary, Wen Qi gently stroked Su Ming's face, his tone so gentle it was almost eerie.

"Don't worry, she's just going to learn, to learn how to become a completely new person."

"Su Ming, cockroaches don't deserve to stay around us."

As he was saying.

Chen Zhiwei disappeared.

Tangtang disappeared.

Before disappearing, Yu Mengnian decisively activated the sword energy she had previously planted in Wen Qi's body.

She wanted to kill Wen Qi.

As long as Wen Qi dies, Su Ming can cut off this world line that is about to spiral out of control.

Dense sword energy erupted within Wen Qi's body.

In an instant, Wen Qi was torn into countless pieces.

Before Yu Mengnian could catch her breath, the flying fragments seemed to reverse time, and Wen Qi reappeared, dressed neatly and spotlessly.

Then, her black hair spread out like a tide, as if to drape the entire darkness over her body.

Yu Mengnian drew her sword and slashed out again.

But the sword energy only moved half a meter before silently disappearing into the darkness.

The next second, Yu Mengnian disappeared.

At this moment, only Su Ming and Wen Qi remained in the room.

"they…"

Wen Qi interrupted Su Ming and said gently, "Don't be nervous, I won't hurt you."

"I'm your girlfriend, you should trust me."

"They're just going to learn how to be a completely new person."

"They'll come back once they've learned how."

"Oh." She suddenly remembered something: "Except for Zhou Zhengyang."

"He has been digested."

Su Ming remained silent.

Old Zhou, it's not that I don't want to save you.

You really weren't qualified to sit at the table, which is why you didn't even have the opportunity to learn.

After a moment, he looked up and said.

"You will be erased."

"If you don't die in 27 days, no, 26 days, you will be completely erased by the system."

Wen Qi laughed: "What if I disappear before the system erases me?"

"Can the system erase Him from the distance?"

I won't force you to do things you don't like.

"So, you don't need to answer me in advance."

"If you've made up your mind, come find me at Heng An Middle School."

After saying that, she gently placed a kiss on Su Ming's lips.

As she turned to blend into the darkness, she glanced back at him and earnestly gave him some advice.

"Su Ming, I am not currently bound by favorability ratings, so my patience has its limits."

"I really don't want to hurt you."

As soon as she finished speaking, she merged into the darkness and vanished without a trace.

Su Ming was the only one left in the room.

Wen Qi's last words were very thought-provoking, especially that final glance back.

Her favorability rating was not forcibly tied.

In other words, her current feelings for Su Ming are something she maintains herself through her own emotions.

However, feelings like these will fade over time if they are not maintained, until they disappear.

Su Ming frowned.

Once Wen Qi's feelings for him fade or disappear.

She won't wait for herself; instead, she will go directly to confront that so-called ultimate truth.

Shen Wanyu, Tang Tang, Yu Mengnian, and Chen Zhiwei don't need to become completely new people. Wen Qi will abandon them and let them be consumed by darkness like Zhou Zhengyang.

The last sentence was, "I really don't want to hurt you."

This means that she is not incapable, but simply unwilling.

If Su Ming doesn't give her an answer or refuses, she doesn't mind using force.

But why would she specifically mention those two sentences?

These two sentences are more like a prophecy, telling you in advance what might happen in the future.

still have a question.

Wen Qi returned to Heng'an Middle School.

This place is special; it's where she was supposed to die.

"School beauty, what are you thinking?"

Su Ming rubbed his temples.

He even suspected that Wen Qi's fleeting satisfied smile was something she deliberately showed.

There's an indescribable sense of disconnect.

But what should we do now?

After a few minutes of silence, Su Ming stood up, clenching his fists.

No matter what.

Go to Heng'an Middle School to find Wen Qi.

Find a way to kill her and sever this out-of-control world line from 2003.

Isn't this exactly what he and Wen Qi had discussed before?

Before heading to Heng'an Middle School, Su Ming picked up the notebook on the table.

This was left behind by Chen Zhiwei before she disappeared.

Su Ming remembers that she told herself at the time: "No matter what happens in the future, you must keep this notebook safe and then give it to your 2012 self."

Su Ming opened the notebook and curiously flipped through a few pages.

It contains observational data after the "world's extinction" and Chen Zhiwei's conjectures.

As he flipped through the notebook, he suddenly came across a short story on the last page.

Judging from the handwriting, it is completely different from the previous overall record.

The handwriting in this story is very messy, with many words stuck together and even the lines not aligned.

It must have been written by Chen Zhiwei in the dark after the sun went out, and in a great hurry.

The story is short.

The title is "The Little Spider and the Black Stone".

Once upon a time, there was a little spider who lived at the bottom of a very, very deep well.

It was so dark there, you couldn't see anything, but the little spider wasn't afraid.

Because it remembered that a long, long time ago, it had seen a star at the mouth of the well.

That star was bright and warm.

Just thinking about it warms the little spider's heart.

But one day, the wellhead was blocked by a large rock.

The little spider couldn't get out.

It can only work hard every day to weave its net, its fine threads gently reaching towards the stone, trying to push it away.

But the stone was too heavy and the spider silk too thin; they couldn't move it.

Until one day, a voice suddenly came from the darkness.

"Little spider, I can help you move the rock."

"But you have to tell me, where is that star you've always been thinking about?"

The little spider listened carefully and realized that it was a black stone speaking.

It had no eyes or mouth; it was just a dark, indistinct shadow.

The little spider thought for a moment and said, "Okay, help me move the rock, and I'll tell you."

The black stone was very happy and moved the stone at the wellhead.

Sunlight shone into the bottom of the well, making it bright and clear.

The little spider climbed up to the top of the well, looked up, and saw the blue sky and the bright sun.

It laughed, pointed to the sky, and said, "Look, that's the star I wanted. Its light shines on you, but where is your shadow?"

Black Stone looked down and realized he had no shadow.

It was startled.

The little spider added, "You think you're a stone, but you're not."

"You are the shadow of that stone; you appear when it gets dark, but disappear when it gets light."

Black Stone looked down and, lo and behold, his body had indeed become transparent.

When the light shone on it, it realized that it was just a dark shadow.

Later, the little spider crawled out of the well.

Before leaving, it looked back at the well and whispered, "Thank you for helping me move that rock."

The story is over.

Su Ming's brows furrowed even more.

He simply couldn't understand why Chen Zhiwei would write such a short story in the dark.