Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Standing downstairs, Su Ming looked up into the heavy darkness.

He understands.

The stage officially opened in 2003.

The Jintai residential area was shrouded in an eerie silence; there was no wind, no chirping of insects.

Even the flowers, plants, and trees in the community seem lifeless, like stiff ornaments.

He walked towards the entrance of the residential area.

All the pedestrians along the way were frozen in their final moments before death.

Even after the sun has disappeared, they still raise their heads.

Even worse, in order to maintain the tilted-back posture, their necks twisted and deformed, a shocking sight.

They are all dead.

On the scanned page, these are identified as abnormal red dots.

Su Ming twisted off one of the heads and tried to contain it.

No matter how he tried, he could not activate the system's containment mechanism.

Instead, it angered the other party.

It was more like a sudden awakening of the body than an act of provocation.

Having just woken up, Su Ming smashed the other person to pieces with a single punch.

After the opponent's body recovered, its strength increased.

The second time, he smashed the other person's body.

Once it recovers, its strength will increase again.

Like the mutated students at Heng'an Middle School, they are indestructible, and their strength increases with each recovery.

If one merges with another person's body during the recovery period, the speed of strength improvement will be even faster.

Su Ming had no choice but to stop temporarily and hide in a blind spot in another building.

The person who had been awakened became increasingly stiff in his behavior after failing to find Su Ming's whereabouts.

Finally, it stopped moving, raised its head again, and returned to its original lifeless, standing posture.

"Half an hour."

Su Ming looked at the countdown on his phone screen.

These "people" will be awakened, and if they do not find themselves within half an hour, they will fall back into sleep.

Putting his phone in his pocket, Su Ming returned to the "person".

It did not awaken because of Su Ming's appearance and remained in the position of tilting its head back.

Like a neutral monster in a game.

It won't react if you don't provoke it.

Once you make an attack, you will arouse its hatred.

This hatred has a time limit.

Within half an hour, once the target of hatred is lost, the hatred will be cleared, and the system will return to its original state.

"What exactly are they looking at?"

Su Ming really wanted to follow their gaze and take a look.

But he had to hold back.

He had already seen the sun four times, which was his limit.

It is currently impossible to see the fifth sun.

Perhaps, once he has fully received the fourth piece of unknown knowledge, he will have the hope of seeing the fifth.

Open the receiving page.

The progress bar for the fourth unknown knowledge has reached 5.72%.

At a rate of 5% increase per day, this unknown knowledge will be complete in 20 days.

Therefore, Su Ming did not stay in Jintai Community any longer.

He quickly left the residential area.

All the pedestrians encountered on the road remained absolutely still.

As long as Su Ming doesn't attack them, they won't react in any way.

Apart from pedestrians.

The same applies to birds and beasts.

Even birds falling from the sky, facing the ground, will turn their heads 180 degrees to stare at the sky.

"I wonder if there are any survivors."

In this world where signal is cut off, the only way to find survivors is through the most basic and rudimentary methods.

That is: shout.

As a result, Su Ming had just shouted "Feed" when he realized that something was wrong.

The countless people on the roadside who were looking up suddenly reacted.

They twisted their heads in bizarre postures, their empty, dark eyes all staring at him.

He quickly covered his mouth.

The people closest to him took a few stiff steps forward and raised their hands to grab at things haphazardly.

I waited for four or five minutes.

These people then regained stillness and looked up.

"Sensitive to sound."

Su Ming shouted a few times in a voice only he could hear.

There was no reaction from the surrounding area.

"The range of hearing is currently still within the human range."

This is the best news right now.

Their hearing is still human-like, so walking or breathing won't wake them up.

Simultaneously.

Su Ming also discovered that some people gradually blend into the darkness and disappear from then on.

This must be what Wen Qi meant by digestion.

"Darkness is digesting them."

"Judging from the conversation between Wen Qi and Chen Zhiwei at that time."

"This digestion should not be digestion in the physical sense."

"It's more like a comprehensive assimilation."

"He is trying to understand us."

Su Ming's pupils suddenly contracted.

We are trying to understand them, and they are trying to understand humanity.

The darkness digests not only the physical body, but also memories, thoughts, emotions, cognition, and so on.

This means that the darkness enveloping the blue planet is still growing.

It is growing in a human way.

He was thankful that he had obtained Chen Zhiwei's notebook from the beginning and was able to decipher its contents.

If you take it too late, the darkness might understand its deeper meaning.

and so.

From this moment on, that notebook and that little story must never be mentioned again.

So Su Ming took out a brand new notebook and started taking notes in the same way as Chen Zhiwei.

He meticulously recorded everything he could see, with inferences being secondary.

When he sees Chen Zhiwei again, he can hand over the notebook he has been taking notes in.

With Chen Zhiwei's insight, she would surely be able to see even more.

What I need to do is to record what I see and hear.

We arrived at Ninghai City's most bustling pedestrian street.

Hundreds or even thousands of people were frozen in place, like sculptures of different shapes, maintaining an absolutely still posture.

Su Ming rubbed his fist.

He intends to test the limits of these people's growth.

Let's see if they can become catastrophic or devastating in a short period of time.

However, just as they were about to make their move, a sudden change occurred.

All the people who were still suddenly moved at the same moment.

Their bones creaked and groaned, their bodies moved stiffly, exuding a chilling and eerie feeling.

But they grow very quickly.

Within seconds, all the stiff movements gradually became smooth and natural.

Then, they moved.

The entire street seemed to have come back to life.

It's as if the world has returned to its former bustling, human state.

Some are going to work, some are taking a walk, and some are taking their kids out.

Cars and bicycles on the street started moving.

The driver, his body mangled and bloodied, sat inside the wrecked car.

It seemed unaware that it was dead, nor that the car could not be started; it simply gripped the steering wheel, staring straight ahead, as if it were really driving.

The deathly silence was completely shattered.

Various mixed sounds slowly filled the darkness.

In this absolute darkness, the dead began to live as if they were alive.

It's called life, but it feels more like a repetition.

They remain silent, mechanically repeating the daily routines they followed in life.

People eating stiffly pick up their knives and forks, fork up the food from their plates, and then haphazardly put it into their mouths, throats, chests, and arms.

After running a lap, the runner goes home, waits for a minute, then opens the door and continues running.

People at work start to daydream while sitting at their desks, or stare at a document without moving.

"This is an imitation of the former Blue Planet."

"He tried to understand how Earth used to operate by imitating it."

Su Ming frowned.

Although the current imitation is crude, rigid, and full of flaws.

But he believed.

As time goes by, everyone on Earth will begin their lives "normally" as usual.

One day, these dead will possess vivid emotions and complete speech, completely replicating a seemingly perfect "normal world".

only.

Only Su Ming knew.

Blue Star has no light.

All those who have ever looked directly at the sun are dead.

The darkness operates within a bizarre afterlife.

Just as he was taking notes, a familiar figure appeared at the intersection.

It's Shen Wanyu.

She was the first to disappear, and also the first to appear.

At this moment, she walked through the crowd and headed straight for Su Ming, a gentle smile on her face.

But there was something strange about that smile.

Moreover, with each step she took, a pair of bloody footprints appeared behind her.

When she was about three meters away from Su Ming, she suddenly stopped.

"Su Ming, I'm here to take you to Heng'an Middle School."

Everyone is waiting for you.

Shen Wanyu slowly raised her right hand, hovering it in mid-air, assuming a gentle posture as if waiting for him to take her hand.

Su Ming gazed quietly at Shen Wanyu in front of him.

This is a completely new Shen Wanyu.

She finished learning the new knowledge and then appeared before her.