Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng, a small-time video creator, dreamed that he had become the sealed game boss Cthulhu beneath R'lyeh and received an offering from villagers seeking help. He woke in his own home, apparently back in his human body, but an unusual meow sounded beside him.

• Ke Meng dreamed he awakened as Cthulhu in the underwater city of R'lyeh, where Black Ghosts praised him and said they could not break the Ancient God Seal.
• Ke Meng found a system panel identifying him as the ultimate boss of the second playthrough, though the seal reduced his stats and prevented him from moving.
• Ke Meng watched the maddened creatures in R'lyeh until a distant ritual call showed him villagers asking Great Cthulhu to stop adventurers from taking their Cat-Tail Grass.
• The villagers offered a strange-looking cat to Ke Meng, and he suddenly awoke beneath the ceiling of his own home.
• Ke Meng checked that he still had his human body and dismissed the experience as a dream before hearing an unusual meow beside him.

Ke Meng discovered that the Strange Knowledge Cat from his dream had appeared in his room, bringing strange knowledge and a story about its abilities. After deciding to keep the motionless cat and setting up a camera to watch it, he heard an odd noise downstairs and looked out the window.

• Ke Meng found the Strange Knowledge Cat in its basin and learned that it could grant strange knowledge to anyone who met its gaze for fifteen seconds.
• Ke Meng tested the cat and confirmed that it never blinked or changed expression, then decided to keep it as an unusual offering from his believers.
• Ke Meng searched online for a game matching his dream but found nothing, then uploaded a review video to Bilibili.
• Ke Meng turned the cat toward his desk and set up a camera to monitor it, then heard a strange noise downstairs and looked out the window.

Ke Meng tried feeding the big-faced cat and discovered that dried fish vanished inside its mouth while wooden chopsticks remained intact. He suspected the cat might carry germs from another world, so he decided to isolate at home and monitor Chen Momo and her mother.

• Ke Meng exchanged greetings with the convenience store owner and Chen Momo, then bought dried fish, a jianbing, and soy milk.
• Chen Momo delivered the food to Ke Meng and showed him her new octopus hair clip.
• Ke Meng fed dried fish to the big-faced cat and found that the fish disappeared as it crossed a shadow inside its mouth.
• Ke Meng reviewed camera footage and recorded his observations about the cat in his notebook.
• Ke Meng worried that the cat might carry germs from another world, decided to isolate, and planned to check on the downstairs tenants' health.

Ke Meng confirmed that his dreams connected him to Cthulhu in the game world, where he remained immobilized in R’lyeh until villagers summoned him. A Kobold Mountain Village ritual ended with an offering dropped into a well, and Ke Meng awoke at home.

• Ke Meng asked Chen Momo whether she and her mother felt well, then played a battle royale game with her before she logged off to do homework.
• Ke Meng checked the low view and engagement numbers on his camera review video, locked the big-faced cat in another room, and went to bed.
• Ke Meng returned in his dream to Cthulhu’s body in R’lyeh and realized that sleeping had connected him to the game world again.
• Kobold villagers summoned Cthulhu and pleaded for him to destroy adventurers who had taken their women from the village.
• The Kobold Priest presented an offering in a basin and dropped it into the well, after which Ke Meng awoke at home.

Ke Meng received a mutant puppy from Kobold Mountain Village and discovered that his dream ability had given him a system in reality. He accepted an optional mission to review a strange object, leaving him with a new task to investigate.

• Ke Meng used the Strange Knowledge Cat to identify the offering as an elite Guard Dog pup from Kobold Mountain Village.
• Ke Meng unwrapped the pup, fed it dried fish, and recorded a video of it eating normally.
• Ke Meng summoned a system panel and learned that his Dream into a Game skill let him inhabit a game creature in dreams and brought offerings into reality.
• Ke Meng recorded his theories about Cthulhu, dreams, and the offerings in his notebook.
• Ke Meng discovered an optional mission to review a strange object in a video watched by at least ten thousand people, with Resistance +1 as the reward.

Kobold Mountain Village believed its sacrifice to Cthulhu had failed when the female Adventurers remained alive, so the villagers resolved to capture Adventurers for their next ritual. On Earth, Ke Meng prepared for a review task, unaware of their plans and that future sacrifices might reach him while he was awake.

• The Kobold Priest declared that Cthulhu had accepted the village's offering, but the patrol later reported that the female Adventurers were still alive.
• The priest concluded that the villagers' faith and offering had not been sufficient and called for another sacrifice.
• A patrol member reported that Cat-Faced People Mountain Village had also sacrificed its treasure, though the ritual brought no response and left some elders mad from nightmares.
• The Kobold Strategist proposed capturing Adventurers alive and making them witness the next ritual, warning the villagers not to offer them directly.
• Ke Meng reviewed his task list on Earth without knowing the Kobolds planned another sacrifice or that Cthulhu might respond while he was awake.

Ke Meng filmed a review of the Strange Knowledge Cat and tested whether watching it would give viewers strange knowledge. After his viewers showed no unusual effects, he decided the video was safe to upload, while an unexplained shadow briefly appeared in the convenience store.

• Ke Meng chose the Strange Knowledge Cat for his review quest and filmed it making dried fish and frozen pork disappear.
• Ke Meng worried viewers might gain strange knowledge by staring at the cat in the video, so he sent the preview to Chen Momo to test it.
• Chen Momo watched the video and reported only finding the cat goofy and the review funny.
• Ke Meng tested the preview on five old classmates, found that none gained strange knowledge, and decided to upload it online.
• A jogger passing the convenience store briefly saw shadowy figures on the wall, but the shadows disappeared when he looked again.

Ke Meng watched his strange puppy grow rapidly, checked the early response to his Bilibili video, and discovered his system counted far fewer viewers than the site counted views. In his dream beneath R'lyeh, Black Ghost reported that followers had infiltrated eight coastal villages, leaving Ke Meng alarmed by the prospect of increasingly powerful sacrifices.

• Ke Meng fed the rapidly growing puppy dried fish and recorded its growth with his webcam.
• Ke Meng played PUBG with Chen Momo and discreetly checked that she had suffered no physical discomfort.
• Ke Meng watched his approved Bilibili video receive comments and found that the system counted 45 viewers despite the site's 86 views.
• Ke Meng dreamed beneath R'lyeh as Black Ghost reported that followers had established gathering places in eight coastal villages but lacked spacetime stone powder for sacrifices.
• Ke Meng realized that more villages could hold sacrifices if they acquired spacetime stone powder, and he feared the offerings might become dangerous.

Ke Meng documented what he had learned about the summoning rituals and spent the morning caring for the rapidly growing fluffy dog and the Big-Faced Cat. Meanwhile, Chen Momo watched his video and began to suspect that the strange cat was real.

• Ke Meng recorded the eight believer groups and the materials and steps he believed were needed to summon Great Cthulhu.
• Ke Meng found the fluffy dog had grown to the size of an adult Teddy dog, then collected breakfast from Chen Momo, who admired the dog.
• Ke Meng moved the Big-Faced Cat into his bedroom, let the fluffy dog meet it, and gave each creature dried fish.
• Ke Meng checked that his video had reached 361 views, while Chen Momo watched it downstairs and replayed the Big-Faced Cat's food-disappearance trick.
• Chen Momo wondered why the Big-Faced Cat looked more and more like a real cat the longer she watched.

Chen Momo’s classmates helped Ke Meng’s cat video gain views, and Ke Meng shared it with his own groups before returning to his life as Great Cthulhu in R’lyeh. Meanwhile, the Kobold Strategist’s ambush captured five adventurers, who suspected the Kobolds’ effects were a bug or a sign of rare enemies.

• Chen Momo shared Ke Meng’s strange cat review in her class group chats, helping the video reach 7,654 views.
• Ke Meng learned that Chen Momo had shared the video, teased her during PUBG, and was killed by her grenades as she won the match.
• Ke Meng shared the video with his own class and family groups, then checked its view count and saw that he still needed 5,580 viewers to complete his quest.
• Ke Meng awoke in R’lyeh, where new sea creatures went mad at the sight of him and the underwater city returned to its usual chaos.
• The Kobold Strategist led fifty Kobolds in an ambush, capturing five adventurers with poison and losing one Kobold in the fight.
• The bound adventurers noticed their Immobilized and Poisoned status effects and wondered whether the prolonged immobilization was a bug or meant the Kobolds were rare mobs.

The Kobolds stripped the captured players of their equipment and prepared a ritual around the village well, while the players mistook their capture for a hidden quest. The ritual began as the Kobold Priest praised Great Cthulhu, and the candle flames turned green.

• The Kobold Strategist removed the party leader’s dagger and belongings, then searched the other players’ pouches for equipment and items.
• Two girls forcibly logged out, leaving their characters tied up as the Kobolds stripped the remaining three players.
• The Kobolds gathered the players beside the well after nightfall, dressed in black robes and dog-face masks.
• The Kobold Priest formed an eight-pointed magic circle with luminous powder, candles, and spices as the villagers chanted.
• The players felt the air grow cold as the moon disappeared behind dark clouds, and the Kobold Priest danced around the circle while praising Great Cthulhu.
• The candle flames flickered and turned an eerie green.

Ke Meng answered a mountain village cult’s summoning, and his gaze killed one player and drove two others mad before forced logout put their characters to sleep. He discovered that the sleeping players let him use Dream Invasion, and prepared to explore their dreams.

• The party leader and his two teammates felt fear and cold as the Kobold Priest’s ritual summoned an immense mist, and their sensory settings failed to protect them.
• Ke Meng heard his worshippers’ chants and focused on the village, noticing three players staring up at him.
• Ke Meng looked at the players, killing the party leader and driving his two teammates mad until the safety protocol logged all three out.
• Ke Meng realized the players’ sleeping characters had activated Dream Invasion, and he prepared to enter their dreams.
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Ke Meng reshaped a logged-off player's empty dream and tested Dream Propagation before responding to the Kobold Mountain Village's request for revenge. His Random Buff Magic granted the villagers temporary powers, but some suffered or died from the dangerous effects.

• Ke Meng used Dream Distortion to fill the player's dream with an ocean, a sun, and strange seafood, then activated Dream Propagation and discovered that nightmares spread through people who told others about them.
• The Kobold Priest asked Great Cthulhu for the power to take revenge and offered an old leather glove.
• Ke Meng accepted the request and used Random Buff Magic on the villagers, though his transmitted words caused them intense pain.
• Ripples spread from the well, granting the Kobold Priest temporary strength while some villagers cried out in agony.

Ke Meng tested the Mighty Gloves, which let their wearer lift objects twenty times their body weight, and completed a video-viewing mission that raised his resistance. He chose a harder review mission promising the Shadow-Grasping Hand skill and noticed Mrs. Chen disinfecting the pavement beneath a gloomy, shadowless-looking sky.

• Ke Meng saw that the fluffy dog had grown much larger, fed it dried fish, and used chopsticks to feed Big-Faced Cat.
• Ke Meng learned that the Mighty Gloves adjusted to his hand and boosted his strength, then lifted one side of his bed with ease.
• Ke Meng tested whether added weight would affect the gloves' strength and noted that they increased his weight by at least four and a half kilograms.
• Ke Meng claimed a mission reward, raising his resistance to 2, and chose a hard mission to make a review video watched by at least one hundred thousand people.
• Ke Meng saw Mrs. Chen spraying disinfectant outside the convenience store, where her shadow looked nearly absent.

Ke Meng prepared to test the Shadow-Grasping Hand while, on Orange Star, three virtual reality players suffered unexplained brain injuries. Researchers investigating the incidents reviewed newly uploaded game footage and saw dog-headed humanoids binding five players.

• Ke Meng checked his temperature, gathered his camera equipment, and headed downstairs to film his car and try the Shadow-Grasping Hand.
• Three Mech City residents screamed in pain inside virtual gaming pods, triggering emergency alerts and rescue responses.
• Medical robots sedated the injured players and transported them to hospitals as the research institute dispatched investigators.
• The research institute director called an urgent meeting, sent virtual gaming and medical researchers to the hospitals, and summoned people from the World game company.
• Researchers examined player records, gaming pod code, and available videos, then watched recent footage of dog-headed humanoids binding five players.

Ke Meng tested the Mighty Gloves on camera and uploaded a video demonstrating that he could lift his car. Meanwhile, Orange Star experts investigated a dangerous incident in the game World, shut it down for maintenance, and summoned two players to answer questions.

• Ke Meng filmed an unboxing review and used the Mighty Gloves to lift the front of his car.
• Ke Meng uploaded his video to Bilibili, then drew an Octagram Magic Circle and realized it required spacetime stone powder to work.
• Orange Star experts reviewed game footage that failed to show what the players and Kobolds had seen during a sacrificial ritual.
• The director of the Mech City Research Institute demanded an explanation, and the game company shut World down for maintenance.
• Hospital reports confirmed that the three players had no physical brain injuries and were in deep sleep from sedatives.
• The director invited the two female players who had forced themselves offline to assist with the investigation.

Ke Meng's Mighty Gloves review passed moderation and drew viewers with its absurd demonstration of lifting a car and crushing a stone. His fans promoted the video and set their sights on his goal of fifty thousand favorites, while Ke Meng went to sleep with Big Fur Dog beside him.

• Ke Meng shared his newly approved Mighty Gloves review with his fan group and teased the glove's function.
• Big Fatty watched the video as Ke Meng put on a glove that liquefied around his hand.
• Ke Meng claimed the glove amplified strength and lifted the front of a car with one arm, shocking viewers and entertaining them with the bullet comments.
• Ke Meng crushed a stone with the glove, and Big Fatty liked, coined, and favorited the video.
• Ke Meng promised another upload at fifty thousand favorites, and his fans began sharing the review to help it reach that goal.
• Ke Meng went to sleep, and Big Fur Dog curled up beside him to keep watch.

The institute investigated the three players’ missing memories and began treating Wang Qing with hypnosis. His subconscious drew a ritual in a mountain village before his distress forced the doctor to stop, leaving him confused by the strangely familiar picture.

• An investigator questioned White Milk and another player, who reported no unusual sensations and knew nothing about the three players’ real lives.
• The three players woke with gaps in their memories, and attempts to recall what happened caused severe pain.
• The institute’s researchers decided to treat the players’ suspected psychological trauma and learn about the incident during treatment.
• Wang Qing entered a hypnosis session, where his subconscious drew kneeling figures, five players, a well, and a ritual in a mountain village.
• Wang Qing’s agitation surged as he drew chaotic lines above the well, so the doctor stopped the session and brought him back to consciousness.
• Wang Qing found himself holding a pen over the drawing and felt it was familiar, though he could not explain why.

Ke Meng watched the crazed seafood in R'lyeh, tested his control over them, and learned that his influence faded beyond the city's barrier. After a Ghost Apostle reported a new sacrifice from Tomb Ghost Village and the disappearance of the adventurers from a human town, Ke Meng heard the villagers summoning him.

• Ke Meng used Control Fear to make a Water Scorpion kill several crazed sea creatures, then stopped to avoid wiping them all out.
• Ke Meng sent frightened seafood creatures beyond R'lyeh, but his control weakened and vanished after they crossed the city's boundary.
• A Ghost Apostle reported that sixteen settlements had fanatical believers, Tomb Ghost Village was nearly ready to sacrifice, and all adventurers had disappeared from a human town.
• Ke Meng suspected the adventurers had vanished because the game was undergoing maintenance, then heard a summoning voice from Tomb Ghost Village.
• Ke Meng's consciousness reached a cavern where black-robed figures praised Cthulhu and summoned him.

The Tomb Ghosts offered Ke Meng Honey Juice and asked for help preserving their memories after resurrection, but Ke Meng answered with random buffs instead. After receiving the Honey Juice, Ke Meng tested its effect, resisted its mental interference, and learned that resistance could increase outside quests.

• The Tomb Ghosts completed a summoning ritual and offered Ke Meng Honey Juice while asking to retain their memories after resurrection.
• Ke Meng searched his skills for a way to preserve their memories, then used Group Random Buff Magic, which killed, transformed, injured, or strengthened Tomb Ghosts at random.
• Ke Meng later received a vine basket of Honey Juice and learned its effect by staring into Big-Faced Cat’s eyes.
• Ke Meng coated a toothbrush with Honey Juice and experienced a false impression that its bristles were made of stone.
• Ke Meng resisted the mental interference, gained 0.1 resistance, and realized Honey Juice made observers imagine mysterious backstories for objects.