Bubble, bubble.
The sound of bubbles rang in his ears.
Ke Meng opened his eyes. There was no one else in the silent R'lyeh, only him.
Beneath him lay offerings piled into a small mountain. Every offering possessed terrifying power or contained evil thoughts.
Some items contained no evil thoughts, but during the reception process, Blue Star's great filter membrane had rejected them. They had failed to teleport and remained here.
Ke Meng closed his eyes and silently used Synesthesia on the black jade in the real world, trying to trace its source.
Before long, a strange piece of black jade appeared in Ke Meng's sea of consciousness.
The black jade contained something connected to the Door Organization. Ke Meng sensed it and probed further.
Soon, Ke Meng deciphered a passage of encrypted text.
This passage was connected to the Door Organization.
Without careful reading, it would remain hidden in a person's subconscious and never activate.
The illumination of the light of knowledge had triggered the hidden text back then-the so-called latent ailment.
The Bandaged Man's brain could not withstand such an enormous amount of chaotic knowledge. To protect his body, his brain had deliberately erased his memories. This latent ailment acted like a lock, making the amnesia even more complete and preventing any recovery.
The encrypted text itself held no actual meaning. Its individual words could not form a complete, meaningful sentence when put together.
Ke Meng analyzed it with his evil god-level knowledge. After some time, he began to get a sense of it.
This was a special key that could open a particular kind of door.
Without encountering that particular door, this encrypted text could not serve as a key to open any other door.
As for adverse effects such as the latent ailment, those were merely