The Black Ghost Visited Again

At the bottom of the ocean in the middle of the City of R'lyeh was a stone sculpture of a plump monster with an octopus head and bat wings.

The sculpture looked strange and lifeless, but a deep suppression covered the place.

The Level 999 marine creatures had powerful attributes and had gotten used to the deep pressure much earlier. Thus, they did not find it scary.

However, everything changed instantly when the sculpture suddenly opened its eyes. The dead thing suddenly contained a sea of life force.

An indescribable mist covered it, causing the marine creatures to not be able to see the sculpture clearly.

The slow yet terrifying suppression washed over majestically.

Ke Meng opened his eyes and watched the City of R'lyeh, which was made of piles of gigantic, green rocks. He was calm and did not think his stare was evil.

However, to new visitors in the City of R'lyeh, a pair of petrifying eyes appeared suddenly in the middle of the city. The eyes had maliciously taken over a nerve deep in their skull.

Those marine creatures that could not take it went into a frenzy—they had gone insane. Their will had been lost in the chaos.

The heads of some weak marine creatures exploded.

Ke Meng watched the usual order of the City of R'lyeh, secretly speechless.

'So Boss Ke's boring daily dream has begun, hasn't it?' Boss Ke thought.

At that moment, a rotten, gloomy ghost flew in from the City of R'lyeh's corner.

It had come when Cthulhu's consciousness was sleeping. Unfortunately, Boss Ke had yet to wake that time.

The Elder God's Seal was mighty, and it sealed many of His fatal abilities. Boss Ke was nothing different than a sculpture when He was sleeping.

However, He was just too powerful. As soon as He woke up, the terrifying abilities would wake with Him too. The Elder God could only restrict and weaken Him, but not get Him to yield.

Now that Boss Ke had woken up, the ghost apostle sensed the familiar pressure, so it flew over to report to Boss Ke on the latest news.

Ke Meng focused and listened to the ghost apostle's progress report carefully.

Upon looking at it being careful and shaky, it felt like a déjà vu of a rookie at work reporting to his superior.

The black ghost reported that all of the adventurers had returned.

The black ghosts were suspicious at first. It was uncertain whether they had come back from the failed sacrificial ceremony or another reason.

They did a thorough investigation on that. Through enchantment, forcing, and torture, they found out the reason why the adventurers had disappeared altogether from a minority of adventurers.

The reason was that a high-dimensional game rule restricted their freedom. The game maintainer announced to shut down the game for maintenance. They had to obey that no matter what and leave until the game began again. They could only be teleported back to Adventurer Town through a special channel.

The black ghosts knew that they had limited knowledge, so they could hardly understand what the adventurers were saying. They could only interpret it as an unknown god controlling the adventurers' freedom. The appearance and disappearance of the adventurers were directly linked to the unknown being. The number of believers it had was insane.

Therefore, if they were penetrating that town next, it would mean that they would be seizing the unknown god's believers in His territory. The unknown god would definitely notice that.

The black ghost was in a pickle. On the one hand, it was jealous of the unknown god having many adventurers and resources. They were smart and cunning, and they were fearless. They could even be revived infinitely at the town altar, with their previous life's memory preserved. Although they were weak, they had limitless potential. Although they were useless now, they could definitely help Boss Ke tens of years in the future, offering more sacrifices.

On the other hand, it was afraid of the unknown god's watch. An unknown being was always unpredictable. He could be weaker than Boss Ke, or He could be on par with the Elder God that was powerful enough to seal the almighty Cthulhu.

Therefore, the black ghost told the most important subject of the day, which was hoping Boss Ke to guide it.

The black ghost knew that Boss Ke was sealed, whereby He could not speak. However, it could control its fear, and Boss Ke could hint it and talk to it mentally.

Ke Meng thought to himself while staring at its shaking body.

'I can't believe the players can reveal things about the virtual reality game to NPCs.

'As expected, NPCs can't understand the players. They can only use a god to explain the game being maintained.

'Seizing the unknown god's believers? They're game players. There's no god behind.' 

Boss Ke hesitated at nothing, or rather there was nothing to hesitate about.

The players were better believers and resources than NPCs. They had nothing good to sacrifice since their levels were low now. However, they would definitely have good stuff when they leveled up.

How could one reject something free that was sent to His footstep?

Ke Meng stared at the black ghost. He used the force to control its fear, and He controlled its body instantly.

The black ghost was shaking from that. It sensed a great will pressing on its body, and the fear made it yield. It dared not have any intention of disobeying.

Soon, a blurry voice that would make one have a mental breakdown came to its consciousness. 

It could not hear the exact content, but it was roughly digesting what the almighty existence was trying to say.

The black ghost understood it now. The almighty Cthulhu had decided to attack the unknown god with a huge following of believers in order to take over His believers.

The fear that came like a wave faded quietly. The black ghost's own will was no longer suppressed. However, the remnant of His power hit its body over and over again, causing the rotten aura to grow ever deeper.

After some time, the humble apostle left the City of R'lyeh strenuously.

Boss Ke watched it until it disappeared. He realized that this black ghost enjoyed being tortured and being in a manic state.

He was rendered speechless.

The insane marine creatures were fighting in the city, killing each other maniacally.

Boss Ke thought it was rather boring. He did not want to watch them fight; He was bored of doing that. He thought He would do something.

The moment Boss Ke had arrived in the City of R'lyeh, he had a faint sense that a reincarnation dream had begun somewhere.

Due to the black ghost's arrival, Ke Meng did not rush into finding the far away dreamland.

Now that the black ghost was gone, the City of R'lyeh fell into its endless boring daily life again. Ke Meng focused and listened; He was trying to capture that feeling.

There were many blurry connections. It was not as strong as the connection he had with White Milk and Lingering Sweetness.

Ke Meng worked hard to capture it for over ten minutes. He had finally sensed the dream that was happening far away.

It was a dream of reinforced cement buildings. A man was drenched standing in the middle of the road, and he looked shocked.

There were other groups of reinforced cement buildings. A lady was screaming on the street, asking if there was anyone out there.

In other dreams, there were images of jungles, farmlands, and mountains, respectively.

This time, Ke Meng sensed many dreams. It was not one person dreaming, but a bunch of people having the same dream!