The moment Ke Meng opened his eyes in R'lyeh, he sensed countless dream bubbles far away.
There were even more dreams than the day before yesterday, on an entirely different scale.
Ke Meng had no idea how many people on Orange Star were having nightmares, or whether they had already noticed his existence.
If the game's developers noticed him, would they delete the second-playthrough boss character?
That was a problem.
Yet even if Ke Meng recognized the problem, he could do nothing to change it. Ultimately, he was only a game character. Of course, the developers might not be able to delete him either. The odds were fifty-fifty.
Ke Meng focused on sensing the dreams and stopped worrying about what the developers thought. Things would work themselves out when the time came. Even if they deleted the boss character, at worst, his life would return to normal.
Before long, Ke Meng connected to a player's dream through Synesthesia.
The dream world remained much as it had been. The vast continent on the sea housed two or three million people, while more than a hundred thousand still lived inside the Great Whale beneath it.
More than ten million people on Orange Star were infected, but not everyone slept at the same time, so the number of people in the joint dream would not exceed ten million.
However, after the way Nightmare Disease spread was officially announced, those who had been afraid to sleep for two days and two nights finally began going to bed.
While Great Cthulhu was online, the number of new players entering the joint dream shot up.
Most of the new players were people who had been afraid to sleep for two days and two nights. Their first reaction upon entering the dream was bewilderment, followed by a