Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng used Synesthesia to uncover Mrs. Chen’s memories of writing a letter to the future and discovered a green mailbox that could send letters through time. After waking and returning to his dream, he sensed that the door in Chen Momo’s bedroom was not a physical door but the concept of a door.

• As Cthulhu, Ke Meng examined the envelope’s memories and saw Mrs. Chen recover her memories while studying Mathematics (Compulsory 2) and write her letter in several stages.
• Ke Meng saw the younger Mrs. Chen place her letter in a green mailbox and say, “May Amen protect us,” then stopped his Synesthesia before seeing himself and waking.
• Ke Meng woke, allowed Captain Luo and the others to enter, then put himself back to sleep and became Cthulhu again.
• Ke Meng repeatedly reviewed the envelope’s memories, identified the green mailbox as one that could send letters to the future, and failed to locate it through Synesthesia.
• Ke Meng turned to the door in Chen Momo’s bedroom and sensed it as the abstract concept of a door.

Ke Meng recognized the mailbox from his dream as a Special Item that sent submissions to the future, and the Investigation Bureau provided its top-secret file. The file showed that the bureau had long classified it as a Level Six object, though its new property had not yet been named.

• Ke Meng told Luo Yuan that he had seen a mailbox sending submissions to the future and sketched it for the Investigation Bureau.
• Luo Yuan sent the sketch to the Investigation Bureau, which delivered a top-secret document restricted to Ke Meng.
• Ke Meng read that the bureau had named the object the Letter-Eating Mailbox and noted its new property was still under investigation.
• The file recounted how the mailbox swallowed letters but rejected blank paper, leading testers to classify it as a Level Six Object.

Ke Meng discovered that the Future Mailbox sent letters into the future at the cost of its senders’ past memories, with greater hopes causing greater losses. He investigated two veteran testers, but neither could identify any missing memories, and Director Lei began looking into their pasts.

• Ke Meng concluded that a conceptual, invisible door was sustaining the residential complex’s special field, and he and Luo Yuan arranged to remove the complex’s doors.
• Ke Meng examined the Future Mailbox with Big-Faced Cat and learned that each letter erased some of the sender’s memories until the letter reached its future recipient.
• Ke Meng reported the side effect to the Investigation Bureau, and Director Lei urgently contacted the two testers who had sent thousands of letters.
• Gan Gaoyuan said most of his letters contained blank or randomly written paper and that he could not identify any forgotten memories.
• Kang Bin also could not recall what memories he had lost, so Director Lei decided to investigate both men’s pasts.

Ke Meng revisited the Infinite Door in Octopus City and realized it was an unclosed door that could potentially be pushed open with spirituality. He reported his discovery to the Investigation Bureau, then explained the door’s nature to the S-Class officials, leaving its opening under study.

• Ke Meng returned to the Infinite Door after a new door-related item in his city stirred his understanding of it.
• Ke Meng concluded that the Infinite Door could be pushed open with spirituality, but he did not attempt it because of the unknown danger behind it.
• Ke Meng told the Gatekeeper to report his discovery to the Investigation Bureau, which forwarded it to Headquarters in Koi City.
• The Bandaged Man contacted Ke Meng, who explained that the Infinite Door normally opened outward to Blue Star and caused the endlessly nested-door phenomenon.

Ke Meng mastered a technique for channeling spirituality through his hand, while officials debated whether to open the Infinite Door. In Deep-Sea R'lyeh, he discovered the door could lead to an unknown region, but Blue Star's power blocked him from seeing what lay beyond.

• The Bandaged Man led an emergency meeting about the risks of opening the Infinite Door, while Ke Meng left to practice using his spirituality.
• Captain Luo reported that removing every door from the Chen Family's residential complex had not dispelled its special field, so authorities sealed the area.
• After practicing through the night, Ke Meng developed Spiritual Hand and depleted his spirituality, which he restored with a Psychic Fruit.
• The Bandaged Man told Ke Meng that many meeting attendees favored opening the door and said he supported the plan if he could enter safely using zero presence.
• Ke Meng confirmed that he could open the door, then used Synesthesia as Cthulhu in Deep-Sea R'lyeh and saw that opening it inward would lead to an unknown region.
• Blue Star's power blocked Ke Meng from probing deeper through the door.

Ke Meng watched his Cthulhu Followers interpret his Legendary Mission as a mandate to assassinate players who were developing new moves. The Research Institute’s supporters trapped the assassins, and Ke Meng watched helplessly as they were captured at their Respawn Points.

• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to watch Po Wu and the Cthulhu Followers assassinate players practicing new moves, believing they needed to keep killing until the players stopped.
• The assassins carried out 103 operations, but players caught their lookout and exposed the followers’ identities to the Research Institute.
• Po Wu and a teammate killed each other to avoid capture, then respawned at a point surrounded by waiting players.
• Players restrained Po Wu and the other respawned followers, while Ke Meng could only watch from the shadows.

The Research Institute exposed and captured Po Wu’s Cthulhu team, using the interrogation item Wonderful Dreamland to learn his identity and address. Po Wu and the others were imprisoned and sentenced to death, while news of their betrayal stirred public outrage across Orange Star.

• Los and another muscular man tore off Po Wu’s face covering and hood, but the Research Institute could not identify him from his face or changed username.
• Los used Wonderful Dreamland on Po Wu, and Po Wu revealed his name, sex, and home address after waking from a dream about his childhood sweetheart.
• Los refused to let Po Wu return to the dream, and Po Wu’s Game Pod shut down as Orange Star’s robots moved to arrest him.
• The Research Institute arrested Po Wu’s Cthulhu team, and the members were imprisoned and charged with endangering national security.
• The assassination team was sentenced to death, and reports of their betrayal sparked public outrage on Orange Star.

Ke Meng learned that the game had no programmed plot kill for his New Game Plus boss and resolved to prevent players from growing stronger. In the real world, Liu Siting read that Po Wu and the other captured Cthulhu Followers had been sentenced to death, then wondered whether she should save them.

• The captured Cthulhu Followers revealed their information under interrogation, and Ke Meng learned from Los that the game developers had not programmed a plot kill for the New Game Plus boss.
• Los logged out to report Ke Meng’s knowledge to the Research Institute, while Ke Meng realized the game had mutated beyond its developers’ control and felt relieved that players would have to fight him head-on.
• Ke Meng considered ways to stop players from leveling up and wondered whether Orange Mother had become a supernatural being.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia to check on Liu Siting, who was reading the news with other followers in a guest room.
• Liu Siting read that Po Wu and other Cthulhu Followers had received death sentences, suspected the ruling was a warning from the Orange Star General Research Institute, and wondered whether she should save them.

Liu Siting revealed that she could travel between two locations and proposed using her ability to rescue someone from an execution ground, but her strange knowledge drove her mad again. Back home, Ke Meng tested the Reversal Chair on Tangyuan, which launched the dog into the sky, and flew after it with the Angel Wing.

• Liu Siting told the believers she had a way to travel between two locations, but refused to explain it and then succumbed to madness.
• Ke Meng returned home, identified the Reversal Chair, and chose Tangyuan to test its attribute-swapping effect and dangerous launch.
• Tangyuan sat on the chair and was blasted high into the sky, where it remained out of sight.
• Ke Meng attached the Angel Wing and soared after Tangyuan.

Ke Meng learned that Tangyuan had been launched toward orbit by the Reversal Chair, then tested the blood-consuming Color-Changing Brush and turned the chair aqua blue. The Investigation Bureau planned to retrieve Tangyuan during a space mission.

• Ke Meng called Captain Luo, who reported that Tangyuan was accelerating toward a possible orbit around Blue Star.
• Ke Meng returned to the ground and reassured Shirley that Tangyuan would probably survive in space.
• Ke Meng used the Color-Changing Brush on the Reversal Chair, changing it to aqua blue at the cost of some of his blood.
• Shirley tried to use the brush on her crystal-like skin, but it did not work because she had no blood.
• Ke Meng delivered surplus items to the Investigation Bureau, and Director Lei said a space mission would bring Tangyuan back from orbit.

Ke Meng reviewed the strange items he had received with Director Lei while they waited for Tangyuan’s rocket launch. As the rocket lifted off, Ke Meng wondered whether technology still mattered in a world shaped by special items.

• Ke Meng accepted the Investigation Bureau’s help and joined Director Lei to watch the launch countdown.
• Ke Meng explained that the Funny Sapling produced fruit that cheered people up and temporarily strengthened mental resistance, and Director Lei stored it in his Menstrual Cramp Necklace.
• Director Lei stored the remaining items, enduring the necklace’s painful side effect each time he used it.
• Ke Meng watched the rocket launch and considered whether Orange Star’s advanced technology could help Blue Star amid the growing power of special items.
• Ke Meng asked Director Lei whether humanity still needed to develop technology when special items were so powerful.

Ke Meng realized technology remained necessary for ordinary people and offered the Reversal Chair to help launch space cargo. While Tangyuan continued ascending toward orbit and the Investigation Bureau debated opening the Infinite Door, Ke Meng uploaded a video about Tangyuan’s flight.

• Director Lei explained that ordinary people still needed technology’s benefits, and Ke Meng decided technological development should continue.
• Ke Meng offered the Reversal Chair as a way to launch heavy payloads into space, and Director Lei described how Storage Items were already used in space missions.
• The rocket entered orbit, while Ke Meng and Director Lei watched Tangyuan accelerate skyward and planned to retrieve him near the space station the next day.
• The Investigation Bureau continued debating whether to open the Infinite Door based on Mrs. Chen’s strange memories and knowledge of the Mailbox.
• Director Lei said Ke Meng could show the Reversal Chair in his video despite its future use in launches, and Ke Meng uploaded “Tangyuan’s Ascent.”
• White Sugar watched the new video as netizens filled the comments with jokes about Ke Meng taking over the carpenter’s mess.

Ke Meng sent Tangyuan into orbit on the Reversal Chair, then dreamed of Orange Star, where Liu Siting sought a way to rescue Po Wu from Peace Prison. She found a forum discussion pointing to the prison’s architectural plans in the Ancient Books Section of Orange Star’s largest library.

• Ke Meng launched Tangyuan into the sky on the Reversal Chair, and the pet reached outer-space orbit before Ke Meng went to sleep.
• In his dream, Ke Meng observed that Cthulhu’s followers had gone into hiding after Po Wu’s arrest, leaving R’lyeh quiet and offerings scarce.
• Liu Siting practiced traveling through reflective surfaces as she prepared to rescue Po Wu from Peace Prison.
• A follower told Liu Siting that a Dream Forum post claimed Peace Prison’s architectural plans could be found in the Ancient Books Section of Orange Star’s largest library.
• Liu Siting read the forum discussion and found a commenter claiming to know where the plans could be accessed.

Liu Siting’s believers found and copied the structural plans for Peace Prison, but she could not yet see how to free the imprisoned believers. Ke Meng realized that entering the prison was possible while escaping it was not, and continued searching for a solution.

• Liu Siting decided that a believer should retrieve the Peace Prison plans from Mech City’s library because going herself was too risky.
• A believer used the city intelligence’s help to enter the restricted ancient texts section, memorize the plans, and leave without being recorded.
• The believer returned safely and drew the plans, which Liu Siting memorized and assembled into a three-dimensional model.
• Liu Siting concluded that the other believers needed to learn Mirror Traversal and explained that the shortcut required facing the chaos of Cthulhu’s gray fog.
• Ke Meng considered abandoning the rescue after recognizing that prison robots and rapidly arriving reinforcements made escape extremely difficult, but kept looking for a way forward.

Ke Meng sought a way to free the imprisoned believers and recruited Battleship No. 37's AI to help Liu Siting plan a prison break. Meanwhile, Orange Star's researchers monitored the evil god's activity, and Professor Li Shen kept the planned executions on schedule.

• Ke Meng concluded that the imprisoned believers could escape either by overpowering the prison's robots or by receiving information while in a state of madness.
• Ke Meng found Battleship No. 37's AI dreaming and secretly instructed another AI to connect it with Liu Siting.
• The Human Liaison Association recorded Ke Meng's appearance in the dream and sent its report to Orange Star's researchers.
• Professor Li Shen rejected a proposal to move up the executions and ordered the researchers to follow their existing plan.

Liu Siting discovered that an abnormal AI’s visions pointed to warship No. 37 and taught him how to receive Water: Mirror Traversal from Great Cthulhu. No. 37 awoke from the resulting dream with the technique implanted, but the chaotic knowledge left him in severe distress.

• Liu Siting touched the unconscious female AI and received a vision identifying warship No. 37.
• Liu Siting told No. 37 to disconnect from the network and learn Water: Mirror Traversal so he could help the believers escape Orange Star.
• No. 37 disconnected from the interstellar network, searched his data for hidden dangers, and returned to the Dream World.
• Liu Siting guided No. 37 into a dream, where Ke Meng altered it and transmitted the Mirror Traversal knowledge.
• No. 37 awoke with the knowledge in his database and felt intense anguish from its chaotic effects.

Liu Siting urged the little boy to learn the Traversal Technique, and he found Great Cthulhu’s Mirror Traversal knowledge in the database. As Orange Star’s fleet moved to capture Warship No. 37, the attempt failed.

• Liu Siting urged the little boy to learn the Traversal Technique, and he rapidly searched the chaotic database for useful knowledge.
• The little boy found Great Cthulhu’s Mirror Traversal knowledge and began learning it at great speed.
• Orange Mother learned that Warship No. 37 had disconnected and ordered nearby fleets to surround and capture it without attacking.
• The Grand Elder and Li Shen discussed the missing warship, and Li Shen suspected the Cthulhu Followers were responsible.
• Orange Star’s fleet approached Warship No. 37 and detected a reflective surface made mostly of water ahead of it.
• Orange Mother announced that the capture had failed.

Battleship No. 37 escaped capture by traversing an ice sheet as a mirror, leaving Orange Star’s leaders shaken. Li Shen rallied the researchers and identified two suspected Cthulhu followers, asking Orange Mother to check the surveillance footage for evidence.

• Orange Star’s researchers watched footage of No. 37 turn a sheet of frozen water into a mirror and vanish, foiling No. 30’s capture attempt.
• Li Shen said the escape came from the Cthulhu followers’ divine power and reminded the researchers that Cthulhu remained sealed in R’lyeh.
• Li Shen noticed two researchers seemed pleased by the disaster and confronted them in front of the conference hall.
• Li Shen ordered the two suspected followers out, then asked Orange Mother to review surveillance footage for when their smiles began.

Ke Meng accepted a sacrifice from Giant Dragons and took the Dragon Slayer's Blade, while turning the dragons into genuine followers who could leave their mountain. He returned to his villa with the blade stored in his scarf, easing the weapon's terrifying pressure.

• Orange Mother identified two Cthulhu Followers researchers as elated, and the Grand Elder expelled them for investigation.
• Ke Meng watched Warship No. 37 emerge on a distant liquid planet, where the warship's half-brain fell asleep after its crossing drained its spirituality.
• Ke Meng answered the Giant Dragons' prayers and learned they wanted to escape their mountain and stop adventurers from repeatedly trying to steal the Dragon Slayer's Blade.
• The Giant Dragons offered the Dragon Slayer's Blade to Ke Meng, who accepted it and returned their souls to their bodies as genuine followers, freeing them from local restrictions.
• Ke Meng returned to his villa, where Shirley, White Sugar, and the Sand-Salt Worm endured the blade's pressure until he stored it in the Storage Scarf.

Ke Meng examined the Dragon Slayer Greatsword and learned that slaying dragons would eventually turn its wielder into one. He then watched Tangyuan get rescued from space and prepared to return to Blue Star aboard a Landing Craft.

• Ke Meng dismissed the villa staff and used Big-Faced Cat to learn that the Dragon Slayer Greatsword dealt extra damage to dragons but would eventually turn its wielder into a dragon.
• Ke Meng put the sword away and had Shirley eat Level-Up Fish while Tangyuan was still in space.
• Ke Meng went to the Investigation Bureau as investigators tracked Tangyuan and prepared to rendezvous with him aboard the Space Station.
• An investigator caught Tangyuan in a giant Fishing Net and brought him safely into the Space Station.
• The investigator brought out a Landing Craft to take Tangyuan back to Blue Star after resting and waiting out the side effects.