Why Aren't You Laughing Now?

You couldn't catch a wolf without baiting the trap.

If possession was like a hacker stealing someone else's computer,

then cognitive contamination was like filling that computer with infected files.

You dare invade my mind? I'll make sure you never leave!

Though Chen Feng couldn't move his body, he frantically recalled the selfie the Netherworld Star big shot had posted in the Chat Group. Netherworld Star! Your takeout has arrived. Please pick it up promptly.

Bull Face felt deeply uneasy. Why? I'm invading his mind and taking his body, but he isn't afraid at all?

Then, the instant their minds met,

Bull Face saw it.

In the vast, boundless darkness of the universe loomed something too immense to describe.

It was a colossal rust-red planet, moving through space on an irregular path that defied every known rule of the universe and law of physics.

Most terrifying of all was its surface. The outline of an ugly, grotesque, twisted human face stretched across it, pitted and covered in skin-like folds. Not even the finest painter in the world could have captured its appearance.

A living planet?

One glance was enough to bring back an emotion that had vanished from Bull Face over four thousand years.

The taste of fear.

It can pull people across planes?

Power on this level is beyond anything I understand. It might even be able to hold its own against Cihang Bodhisattva at his peak.

As Bull Face thought this,

the Netherworld Star's eyes moved. It had clearly noticed the uninvited guest.

Sound couldn't travel through the vacuum of space, of course, but words suddenly appeared in Bull Face's mind: The group leader's handing out snacks again already?

I'm dead. I'm dead!

Bull Face knew perfectly well that he was a consciousness and couldn't be harmed by