Ke Meng had no idea that the Shadow Stream Organization had already set its sights on him. His consciousness was roaming the Dream World.
After just one day away, all sorts of bizarre things had appeared in the dream.
The players' imaginations were growing wilder, and the things they created were getting stranger.
Rocks, soil, a mountain, rivers-there were even players who had turned themselves into air.
Many of these things could hardly be called conscious entities, and they had no ability to move.
Once they entered the dream, they seemed to stop thinking, staying in place in a daze or drifting with the terrain and natural winds until their gaming pods forcibly awakened their consciousnesses.
But adding a few details, such as giving an airplane artificial intelligence or adding plankton to an ocean, made all the difference.
The players' consciousnesses automatically transformed into machine intelligence or collective intelligence, allowing them to think.
Through Sakata Yue, the player who piloted a giant dragon, Ke Meng saw vast stretches of ocean stained orange. The distant waters were still blue, but all the seas surrounding the land had turned orange.
This was thanks to the fervor of the players from Orange Star. Large numbers of player-created oceans had poured in, transforming the seawater and filling it with vast amounts of plankton.
But another problem followed: what happened when one orange sea met another? Their consciousnesses came primarily from the collective consciousness of their plankton, and once they met, conflicts between those consciousnesses were hard to avoid.
At the moment, Ke Meng had noticed seven orange oceans engaged in a battle of consciousnesses. Their plankton had gone into a killing frenzy, desperately fighting over territory.
Ke Meng sensed worry from the dragon players watching nearby. They were concerned that the combatants might kill