Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng watched as Warship No. 37 rescued prisoners and Cthulhu Mythos Believers from the Sea Prison, then escaped Orange Star's forces by plunging into the sea. Orange Mother confirmed the warship had vanished from Orange Star, while officials feared it would return and moved to strengthen their defenses.

• Warship No. 37 disabled the Sea Prison's electronics with an electromagnetic pulse, blasted open its roof, and enabled inmates to escape.
• Liu Siting used a manually operated livestreaming device to negotiate a prisoner exchange with Orange Mother while keeping the warship's network disconnected.
• Warship No. 37 took aboard the rescued prisoners and believers from nearby cruise ships as Orange Star's naval forces and space-based weapons converged.
• Liu Siting stalled Orange Mother by claiming the rescue mission was not finished, then Warship No. 37 fired at the orbital weapons and plunged into the sea.
• Orange Mother found no sign of Warship No. 37 anywhere on Orange Star, and officials ordered stronger defenses against its possible return.

After Warship No. 37 rescued tens of thousands of people, Ke Meng explored Orange Star technology through dreams and learned the warship’s material details. He also sensed believers’ fears that a mysterious Hidden Being might discover the shared dream, but remained confident in his control over it.

• Warship No. 37 escaped after intercepting incoming shells and carried tens of thousands of people away, while Ke Meng admired its Super Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Ke Meng entered the joint dream, examined a small warship transformed by an AI down to its atomic and molecular structure, then left behind garbled information.
• Cthulhu Mythos Believers spread news of Orange Star’s defeat throughout the dream, and Liu Siting interpreted Ke Meng’s garbled message as a warning to beware of believers.
• Gai Yuxing worried that Cthulhu might learn she had made an unknown Hidden Being her primary faith and wondered what she would do if that being demanded information about the dream.
• Ke Meng sensed believers’ fears that the Hidden Being might discover the joint dream and concluded that it would be powerless against his control there.

Ke Meng received a Volcanic Stone and soon suspected it had triggered a devastating earthquake in Koi City. He sent White Sugar away with the stone, and the tremors weakened as he contacted Old Shi and learned the Investigation Bureau would take responsibility for the disaster.

• Ke Meng upgraded his Storage Scarf to hold one thousand items and received a Volcanic Stone that could cause an eruption or create a volcano.
• As Ke Meng left for the Koi City Investigation Headquarters, a powerful earthquake struck, splitting streets and collapsing buildings.
• Ke Meng tried to conceal the Volcanic Stone with Hiding Tree Bark but failed, then ordered White Sugar to teleport it away from Koi City.
• Ke Meng called Old Shi after the city's phone network failed, explained that the stone might have caused the earthquake, and reported that White Sugar had taken it away.
• The earthquake weakened, and Old Shi reassured Ke Meng that the Investigation Bureau would accept responsibility for the disaster.

Ke Meng and his companions rescued people after the Volcanic Stone triggered massive earthquakes across Koi City and a nearby village. Ke Meng and Old Shi found White Sugar carrying the stone and teleported it to a remote desert region for containment.

• Ke Meng flew into the damaged streets, rescued a family from their car, and sent Tangyuan and Shirley to help victims trapped in the ruins.
• The Director-General warned Ke Meng that an earthquake had struck a village outside Koi City, and another major quake hit the city as an aftershock.
• Old Shi arrived with a Directional Coordinate Teleportation Stone, and he and Ke Meng traveled to the village to find White Sugar and move the Volcanic Stone.
• Ke Meng used the Angel Halo's Holy Light to attract White Sugar, while the stone's geological upheaval raised a long ridge behind it.
• Old Shi placed spiritual-sealing talismans on the Volcanic Stone, then teleported himself, Ke Meng, and White Sugar to a desert region more than a thousand kilometers away.

Ke Meng and Old Shi teleported the Volcanic Stone to a dormant volcano to stop its geological transformation from devastating Koi City. The volcano erupted and revealed a surprising connection to its past incident, leaving Ke Meng wondering whether the Volcanic Stone had activated the entire volcano.

• Old Shi teleported Ke Meng and White Sugar to a volcano where the Investigation Bureau had once found a Crying Stone.
• Ke Meng set the Volcanic Stone down, and Old Shi learned from the seismological bureau that the earthquake in Koi City had stopped after the stone was moved.
• Old Shi reported that the earthquake had reached magnitude twelve, and the volcano erupted with green poisonous smoke and magma.
• Tangyuan entered the crater and retrieved a Crying Stone, which Old Shi recognized as similar to one found there before.
• Tangyuan told Ke Meng that the volcano was full of Crying Stones, and Ke Meng wondered whether the Volcanic Stone had activated the entire volcano.

Ke Meng halted the Volcanic Stone’s transformation of the volcano by letting Old Shi take it away, but the volcano remained dangerously altered. Ke Meng contained much of its poisonous smoke as earthquake reports revealed that the damage had spread across the Koi Continent and shifted tectonic plates beyond it.

• Old Shi left with the Volcanic Stone to take it to an ordinary volcano while Ke Meng stayed behind to monitor the activated volcano.
• Ke Meng told Tangyuan to swallow poisonous smoke, then used the Thunder Lord's Ring to charge and force smoke particles back onto the volcano’s walls and lava.
• Ke Meng found thousands of Crying Stones inside the crater and realized the volcano was already mostly alive despite the stone’s removal.
• Ke Meng received reports of aftershocks in Koi City and saw online reports of magnitude-twelve earthquakes, a coming tsunami, and tectonic shifts extending beyond the Koi Continent.

Ke Meng realized that the Volcanic Stone’s repeated checks had made the unlikely eruption inevitable, while the Resurging Jealousy Volcano continued to threaten the world. After investigators took over at the crater and appointed him captain of a disaster rescue team, he returned to earthquake-ravaged Koi City to begin relief work.

• Ke Meng used White Sugar’s question to realize that the Volcanic Stone had triggered its low-probability eruption through repeated checks, then learned that the Resurging Jealousy Volcano was still transforming and generating Crying Jealousy Stones.
• Old Shi reported that the relocated small volcano had erupted, and Ke Meng explained that repeated attempts could make a low-probability event occur thousands of times in a day.
• Investigators arrived by helicopter to take over calming the volcano and told Ke Meng that Headquarters had appointed him captain of the Major Disaster Rescue Team.
• Ke Meng used a Directional Teleportation Stone to return to Investigation Bureau Headquarters in Koi City and received a Storage Ring of rescue items.
• Ke Meng learned that the Director and nearly all Headquarters staff were helping with relief efforts, then ran out to face the devastated city.

Ke Meng joined the rescue effort in Koi City while the Network Divine Beast coordinated responders through their phones. As Koi Continent struggled with the catastrophe, the Shadow Stream Organization sent Deacon Zhu to infiltrate Headquarters and release Sealed Items, while the Frog Society Remnants made a mocking online announcement.

• Ke Meng inspected Headquarters' rescue items, reconnected to the network, and followed the Network Divine Beast's instructions to save a family trapped under rubble.
• The Shadow Stream group owner gathered more than two hundred deacons, made them swear secrecy, and assigned Deacon Zhu a mission to break into Headquarters' Sealing Pavilion and release the Sealed Items.
• Deacon Zhu confirmed the mission and set out for the warehouse where the group owner had left his plan and Special Items.
• The Frog Society Remnants announced online that they would take responsibility for Koi Continent's catastrophe by donating a case of instant noodles, prompting mocking comments from overseas users.

Ke Meng helped rescue Koi City’s residents with the Giantwood Horn, then survived a sniper’s guaranteed-hit attack. He pursued the assassin after the attacker escaped with a Teleportation Stone.

• Ke Meng took over the Director-General’s Giantwood Horn and used it to move rubble while limiting its drain on his life force.
• The Director-General recovered after eating a Longevity Fruit and found that Ke Meng had controlled the existing giant trees without growing new ones.
• Ke Meng worried that investigators from nearby cities had left their own defenses weakened, then sensed an imminent attack.
• A sniper fired a supersonic bullet at Ke Meng’s temple, but it bounced off his head without injuring him.
• The assassin escaped with a Teleportation Stone after Ke Meng spotted him, and Ke Meng gave Shirley the horn before racing after the attacker with the Dharma King Ring.

Ke Meng helped stop a Shadow Stream assassination during Koi City’s crisis, then went to the Sealing Pavilion to investigate the attacker’s mysterious item. The pavilion’s powerful artifact spirit had already subdued the intruder, and Ke Meng prepared to examine the artifact with Big-Faced Cat.

• Ke Meng used the Demon Map to locate the assassins and sent Tangyuan to capture them, while two escaped with Teleportation Stones.
• Ke Meng learned from a captured newcomer that the attackers belonged to the Shadow Stream Organization and had been ordered to assassinate key bureau personnel during the catastrophe.
• Ke Meng brought the captives to the Director-General, who confirmed the Sealing Pavilion was secure and asked him to identify the attacker’s item.
• Ke Meng entered the Sealing Pavilion and found its artifact spirit had subdued the intruder, who held a broken, sinister halberd-shaped item.
• Ke Meng sealed the intruder’s shadow and asked permission to use Big-Faced Cat’s detection ability; the artifact spirit agreed.

Ke Meng learned that the Sealing Pavilion could eventually become omniscient and omnipotent as it gathered more items, then interrogated the captured assassin Deacon Zhu. Deacon Zhu identified the Group Owner of Shadow Stream Home as the one behind the attack, but his attempt to betray his faith triggered a grotesque backlash that left Ke Meng facing a new danger.

• The Big-Faced Cat revealed the Sealing Pavilion's potential future and described the Fractured Demonic Halberd the intruder had brought to break its seals.
• The Sealing Pavilion accepted that storing more items might eventually help it discover its origin, while its guardians learned its prediction and withdrew.
• Ke Meng removed Deacon Zhu from the Sealing Pavilion, transferred him into a body that could withstand lightning, and interrogated him at Headquarters.
• Deacon Zhu confessed that the Group Owner of Shadow Stream Home had sent him and began reciting the group's number.
• Deacon Zhu's betrayal triggered a violent backlash as his body sprouted tentacles and the faces and cries of his former victims, prompting Ke Meng to sense danger.

Ke Meng destroyed Deacon Zhu’s mutated body, but the resulting mental pollution left a phantom of writhing flesh fixed in his vision. After passing Shadow Stream’s contact information to the Director-General and falling asleep, he entered a dream as Cthulhu in Deep-Sea R’lyeh.

• Ke Meng blasted Deacon Zhu’s fused body apart, collected the polluted flesh, and fed it to Big-Faced Cat.
• Ke Meng sensed that the lingering pollution was gathering and could threaten his mind despite his resistance.
• Ke Meng learned that Shadow Stream’s assassination operation had killed several Class A investigators and blamed himself for their deaths.
• Ke Meng sent the Director-General Shadow Stream Home’s group ID, then hypnotized himself to sleep before Captain Luo could arrive.
• Ke Meng brought the phantom faces into his dream and woke as Cthulhu in the peaceful Deep-Sea R’lyeh.

Ke Meng ordered believers to camp players’ Respawn Points after learning that adventurers who abandoned their faith kept resurrecting. On Orange Star, researchers observed a Black Ghost repeatedly killing a purified player, then learned the game had a ten-death safeguard that might let players reach high-level areas while temporarily invincible.

• A Black Ghost reported that former believers had abandoned their faith and that repeated killings could not permanently stop the adventurers from resurrecting.
• Ke Meng commanded believers to kill players at Respawn Points, and the Black Ghost understood only the key instructions before leaving R'lyeh.
• Researchers on Orange Star sent a purified player into the game, where a Black Ghost repeatedly killed him at the Main City Respawn Point.
• The player reported that his fear and heart palpitations vanished after each death, and the Black Ghost stopped killing him after seven resurrections.
• Professor Li Shen warned that high-level monsters might begin camping Respawn Points, and a Game Director explained the ten-death invincibility and random-teleport safeguard.
• Li Shen proposed exploiting the safeguard to steal items from max-level areas while invincible.

Li Shen’s plan sent players on repeated-death teleportation missions, and one assassin landed in the R’lyeh Forbidden Zone. The researchers identified the region and discussed its treasures, but the assassin could not escape or explore safely.

• Li Shen persuaded the Orange Star Organization to send a thousand unequipped players through repeated deaths to test random teleportation.
• Researchers tracked the players and identified one player’s destination as R’lyeh, a forbidden zone in the Deep Sea.
• The assassin player was blinded by the darkness and reduced to zero health by the water pressure, then an enormous jellyfish attacked him.
• The assassin tried to use a Teleportation Scroll, but it failed; he recorded the jellyfish and logged out to send the footage to the institute.
• Li Shen and the designers discussed a memory stone and other treasures in R’lyeh, then concluded players would need to die and respawn to move through the forbidden zone.

Shao Fei remained trapped by a max-level jellyfish in R'lyeh, unable to damage it or safely log out. The jellyfish prepared to sacrifice him to Cthulhu, and Shao Fei realized he might be delivered to the sealed ancient god.

• Shao Fei bit the jellyfish tentacle, but dealt zero damage and remained invincible.
• The jellyfish studied Shao Fei, sensed an unusual power in him, and decided to sacrifice him to Cthulhu.
• The jellyfish carried Shao Fei through the deep sea to a dark location, where it carved a sacrificial Magic Circle with blue spacetime stone powder.
• Shao Fei recognized the circle as one used by Cthulhu Followers and tried to log out, but the game prevented a safe logout because he was still in combat.
• Shao Fei realized that if the jellyfish completed the circle, it could sacrifice his character to Cthulhu.

After encountering a Cthulhu follower and being sent to face the evil god, Shao Fei suffered a severe psychological breakdown, while Li Shen argued that he should be allowed to observe Cthulhu. Ke Meng accepted a max-level follower’s offering and found a living player in the summoning circle.

• Shao Fei forcibly logged out, panicked at the sight of the Game Pod, and became too distressed to sleep without a sedative.
• Researchers watched Shao Fei’s recording and realized that the encounter had left him terrified of returning to the game.
• Li Shen argued that Shao Fei should face Cthulhu so he could learn from the evil god, but the Grand Elder warned him that his thinking had become dangerously radical.
• Ke Meng accepted a max-level follower’s sacrifice and descended into the deep sea to inspect the offering.
• Jellyfish explained that the offering might help unseal Cthulhu, and Ke Meng saw that it was a living player at level 188 whose life was being sustained by a power nearing its limit.

Ke Meng rejected the player sacrifice to keep his evil god identity secret, then discovered that game rules made the player impossible to kill. After waking on Blue Star, he found the Holy Light Room contaminated by a Black Colony and learned that the pollution had spread beyond it.

• Ke Meng decided not to accept the player as a sacrifice because the Investigation Bureau might uncover his connection to Cthulhu and expose his evil god identity.
• Ke Meng ordered the max-level jellyfish to bring the unconscious player to R'lyeh so he could investigate the player's immortality.
• The jellyfish delivered the player, and Ke Meng found that no matter how he attacked, the power protecting the player kept his body from being destroyed.
• Ke Meng woke on Blue Star as the Koi Continent Investigation Bureau reacted furiously to Shadow Stream's assault, which had killed several Senior Investigators.
• Ke Meng discovered that a Black Colony had formed in the contaminated Holy Light Room and that black patches had spread outside; he checked his resistance points and called the Bureau to ask whether anyone else was affected.

After escaping the sealed maze around his room, Ke Meng helped with rescue efforts and learned that the Shadow Stream Organization had devastated several cities. He and Flaming Man considered creating a group using Shadow Stream Home’s number to find a way into the organization, but the Network Divine Beast warned that trying it could be risky.

• Ke Meng scraped the fungal patch from his room and fed it to Big-Faced Cat, reducing the mental pollution before Captain Luo led him out of the sealed maze.
• Captain Luo told Ke Meng that most people in Koi Continent had been rescued, but other cities had suffered serious losses and many Sealed Items had escaped.
• Ke Meng helped the local Investigation Bureau rescue people and learned that the bureau planned to make him custodian of the Volcanic Stone.
• Flaming Man told Ke Meng that the Network Divine Beast could not find Shadow Stream Home’s group number, and Ke Meng proposed creating a group with that number to reach the Shadow Stream Organization.
• Flaming Man contacted the Network Divine Beast, which agreed to try but warned of risks, so Flaming Man decided to hold a meeting before proceeding.

The senior investigators agreed to let the Network Divine Beast create a Shadow Stream Home group, and Ke Meng used madness to synchronize with it and glimpse its chat. He realized the messages he saw came from the past, while a blood-colored tear seeped from his eye.

• Flaming Man proposed creating a Shadow Stream Home group with the recovered ID, and the senior figures approved despite the unknown risks to the Network Divine Beast.
• The Network Divine Beast began creating the group and asked Ke Meng to choose its capacity.
• Ke Meng revived the deacon’s madness in his body, suppressed it with reason, and used Synesthesia to raise his synchronization with Shadow Stream Home.
• Ke Meng chose a capacity of 500 and glimpsed group messages saying the Investigation Bureau had tracked down Deacon Zhang and ordering a withdrawal from Koi.
• Ke Meng recognized that the messages were from a past conversation, and Flaming Man saw blood-colored liquid seep from Ke Meng’s eye.

Ke Meng used Synesthesia to help the Network Divine Beast recreate the Shadow Stream Home, enduring a dangerous encounter with its sinister influence before using his resistance to break free. He entered the group through a regulator account and found 231 members and an old record showing Deacon Zhu had been kicked out the previous night.

• Ke Meng resisted the Shadow Stream Home's sinister voices while using Synesthesia to determine that its group description was blank and its avatar solid black.
• Flaming Man called S-Class members for medical help as Ke Meng's eyes bled, and Ke Meng eventually activated his resistance, gaining 0.1 resistance.
• Ke Meng told the others his resistance was a growth-type supernatural ability granted by a fruit.
• The Network Divine Beast created the Shadow Stream Home, which appeared in the Tencent Backend Database before its Group Owner information was entered.
• Ke Meng used a regulator account to enter the silent group, saw it had 231 members, and found a record showing Deacon Zhu had been kicked out the previous night.