Vol. 1Dreams, Shadows, and the Bureau

Ke Meng’s connection to R’lyeh brought offerings, nightmares, and dangerous abilities into his life as he investigated shadow creatures and joined the Investigation Bureau. After solving cases and raising two dead Shadow Stream members with the Yellow Springs Reversal Whistle, he returned home to recover.

  • Ke Meng discovered that his dreams as Cthulhu brought offerings into reality, and he used his powers on the Kobold villagers and Tomb Ghosts as his strange reviews drew attention.
  • Researchers investigated a mysterious episode among three players, while Ke Meng helped White Milk and Sweetness Fills the Air escape recurring ocean nightmares and prepared to test Big Fur.
  • Ke Meng named Tangyuan and used his shadow-grasping ability to uncover Wen Yushan and Mi Jingyun possessing Chen Momo and her mother.
  • The blue-ocean nightmare spread across Orange Star as Ke Meng created a continent in the shared dream, then responded to the Stone Man Tribe’s summoning and examined the strange fish and trident sent to his room.
  • Ke Meng tested Shadow Stream abilities, joined Investigation Team No. 49 as temporary personnel, and made the Demon Map recognize him as its master.
  • Ke Meng tested the Honey Juice and Trident at the Bureau, summoning enormous creatures, then considered Captain Luo’s invitation to join permanently.
  • Ke Meng handed the Eerie Script Book and Trident to the Investigation Bureau, helped Captain Luo’s team find Tang Hua, and tested new equipment.
  • Ke Meng investigated the library’s missing book, tracked clues to two dead Shadow Stream members, raised them with the Yellow Springs Reversal Whistle, and went home to recover.
Chapters 1–100 Read from ch. 1

Arc 1Nightmares and Offerings

Ke Meng’s dream connection to R’lyeh turned offerings into real objects and let his influence reach worshippers and sleeping players. As his strange reviews spread and investigators probed a game-related incident, he left to test Big Fur’s abilities.

  • Ke Meng discovered that the Strange Knowledge Cat could make food disappear and learned that his dreams as Cthulhu brought offerings from the game world into reality.
  • Ke Meng accepted the Kobold villagers’ ritual, killing one player and driving two others mad when he looked at them, then invaded the players’ dreams.
  • Ke Meng accepted the Kobold Priest’s request for revenge and used Random Buff Magic on the villagers, while the Mighty Gloves let him lift his car and earn more resistance.
  • Three players in Mech City suffered a mysterious episode during the ritual, prompting the research institute to investigate as Ke Meng’s Mighty Gloves review spread online.
  • Ke Meng answered the Tomb Ghosts’ summoning with Group Random Buff Magic and discovered that their Honey Juice could make viewers imagine mysterious histories for objects.
  • Researchers reopened World’s servers, and White Milk and Sweetness Fills the Air returned to the game before becoming trapped in recurring ocean nightmares.
  • Ke Meng shaped a whale-filled dream that carried the two players to safety, allowing them to wake and log out while the nightmares remained able to spread.
  • Ke Meng watched Big Fur grow to 1.2 meters and prepared to test its abilities in the hills, asking his followers to suggest a name.
Chapters 1–25 Summaries Read

Arc 2Shadows and the Blue Dream

Ke Meng uncovered shadow creatures in Whale City while the Reincarnation Dream spread across Orange Star, and he reshaped its ocean into a new land. After the Stone Man Tribe summoned him and sent strange items into his room, Ke Meng learned their dangerous effects and sought a way to increase his resistance.

  • Ke Meng tested Tangyuan’s fur-needle attack, then named the giant dog Tangyuan and gained Shadow-Grasping Hand as Chen Momo told him about the shadow that had entered her mother.
  • Ke Meng demonstrated that he could grab and move shadows, experimented with insects, and discovered that two shadow creatures had possessed Chen Momo and Mrs. Chen.
  • Ke Meng questioned the shadow creatures, who identified themselves as Wen Yushan and Mi Jingyun of Shadow Stream, and learned they had entered Chen Momo and her mother ten days earlier.
  • Ke Meng captured a wanted fugitive whose shadow tried to switch hosts, then registered Tangyuan, Big-Faced Cat, and the Mighty Gloves with Captain Luo’s Special Affairs Investigation Bureau.
  • Ke Meng learned that Wen Yushan and Mi Jingyun had once been disfigured in a theater fire before becoming shadow creatures, while the blue-ocean nightmare spread to more than one hundred thousand people across Orange Star.
  • Ke Meng entered the shared dream and created a continent, where Wright and other dreamers found a changing landscape of forest, grassland, and river as Orange Star authorities censored nightmare discussions and detained people who posted about them.
  • Ke Meng heard a summoning hymn and gave the Stone Man Tribe instructions for Water: Mirror Traversal, but the stone men went mad and proved unable to use the skill.
  • Ke Meng woke to find a black trident and a strange fish in his room, learned that the fish’s scales caused paralysis and the trident conjured an animal when thrust, then had Tangyuan cover the fish.
Chapters 26–50 Summaries Read

Arc 3The Bureau and the Trident

Ke Meng tested Shadow Stream abilities, entered the Investigation Bureau as temporary personnel, and uncovered the Demon Map’s obedience to him. His testing of the Uncertain Trident revealed its power to summon enormous creatures, and he left the Bureau considering a permanent role.

  • Chen Momo visited Ke Meng and met Tangyuan, while Ke Meng tested whether insect shadows could animate toys and figurines.
  • Ke Meng entered Orange Star’s joint dream as Great Cthulhu, terrifying hundreds of thousands of players before creating construction temples for them.
  • Ke Meng’s tests exposed Mi Jingyun as Wen Yushan’s mentor and revealed how Shadow Stream members escaped between hosts, while Random Skill Water raised his resistance and granted him a new skill.
  • Ke Meng joined Investigation Team No. 49 as temporary personnel and scored exceptionally well on a spiritual-perception test by sensing an endless sequence of doors.
  • Ke Meng entered the Demon Map’s maze-like dream and made it recognize him as its master.
  • Ke Meng brought the Honey Juice and Trident to the Bureau for testing, then used the Trident to summon a mountain-sized Monster Bear, insects, and blue whales.
  • Captain Luo warned Ke Meng about foreign threats and invited him to join the Bureau, but Ke Meng said he would consider it and drove away.
Chapters 51–75 Summaries Read

Arc 4The Library’s Missing Book

Ke Meng handed the dangerous Eerie Script Book to the Investigation Bureau, helped solve a perfume-related disappearance, and tested new equipment during a library investigation. The clues led him to two dead Shadow Stream members, whom he briefly raised with the Yellow Springs Reversal Whistle before returning home to rest.

  • Ke Meng explored the Joint Dream, while Unspeakable accepted a quest from the Black Ghost to find eight colleagues showing abnormal behavior.
  • Ke Meng surrendered the Eerie Script Book and Trident to the Investigation Bureau, then joined Captain Luo’s team and investigated Tang’s disappearance from an elevator.
  • Ke Meng used Synesthesia to identify Liang Jing’s sleep-inducing perfume and the hidden red flower behind Tang Hua’s disappearance, helping the team bring Tang Hua back safely.
  • Ke Meng’s Trident video went viral, and he tested the Fisherman’s Fork while Chen Momo considered applying to the Special Affairs Investigation Bureau.
  • Ke Meng adjusted aquatic players’ spawn locations, received the Yellow Springs Reversal Whistle in the real world, and tested a Storage Scarf that could hold living people.
  • Ke Meng joined Captain Luo’s team at a library Special Field, where he removed an endlessly printing machine and traced the missing Whale County Travel Notes to the sixth floor.
  • Ke Meng recognized missing guard Hong Zhiyuan as the dark figure at the library window and used Synesthesia to follow clues to two men in black and a suspicious house.
  • Ke Meng used the whistle to raise two dead Shadow Stream members, learned they could answer only yes-or-no questions, and went home to recover.
Chapters 76–100 Summaries Read
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