Orange Star had been devastated, its landscape scarred and battered, with cities destroyed by Particle Cannon strikes everywhere.
In some cities, the artificial intelligences had not entered the dreamscape and were less affected. Their calm operating mechanisms had kept their city defense systems intact.
Moreover, not every city's military defense control room had been staffed with Nightmare Disease patients.
And since the Orange Star People had gone years without either foreign wars or civil wars, personnel in smaller cities' military defense control rooms often slacked off and left their posts.
That had helped them escape disaster.
Other cities had escaped because they were less extensively automated.
Ten minutes after the Nyarlathotep Avatar died.
Global communications were restored, and everyone could use the public channel to check on the damage in different regions.
Some cities could no longer be contacted at all. Satellite images confirmed that they had become enormous black craters-their city defense systems had offered no resistance.
That day.
Dark clouds blanketed Orange Star's skies. Everyone wept, hating Nya and Cthulhu alike.
If Cthulhu had not connected all the Orange Star People's dreamscapes, Nya would never have had the chance to release chaotic thoughts that infected them en masse.
Ke Meng certainly accepted the blame for this. He really did bear some responsibility.
Still, Ke Meng felt that even without him, Nya would have found another way to plunge Orange Star into chaos.
After all, most of the Game World's players came from Orange Star, and the game files themselves originated there too.
With the player population so heavily concentrated on Orange Star, and Nya being a World Boss whose influence covered the entire world, Nya would naturally have followed the trail to Orange Star and influenced it in turn.
Ke Meng's joint dream was merely one method Nya