Chapter 44

Noticing that she said nothing, Ke Meng used both hands to separate Mi Jingyun from the bug.

After the quick operation, Mi Jingyun returned to the shadowless ant.

Ke Meng knew that she was back and awake when he saw Mi Jingyun control the ant to walk again.

He tested for over ten times consecutively. He got a rough idea of what exactly happened.

If a shadow creature penetrated a shadowless creature, the situation would be awkward, whereby the shadow would not be able to leave the host.

They did not understand what caused that to happen. It was impossible for Ke Meng to know the theory.

Mi Jingyun and Wen Yushan had never encountered anything so strange. However, they had not changed too many hosts before. They lacked in experience and knowledge. Perhaps the old Shadow Drift members would know something about it.

“What else do you guys know about Shadow Drift?” Ke Meng asked.

Shadow Drift was an illegal organization that the officials would go after. The ants were unwilling to tell as they did not want to be Shadow Drift’s traitors. However, Ke Meng’s technique was too powerful.

The duo was shocked to their very core when they heard Ke Meng saying, “What would happen if I put the both of you into the chair?”

They moved their short legs immediately.

Both ladies were walking strenuously on the table, spilling a little bit of Shadow Drift’s intel.

Everyone who joined the organization was an unusual person. Instead, they were a strange species that had turned into shadows.

They were ordinary people from Octopus City. Due to the fire at a cinema, their faces had been disfigured, and they thought they could no longer live.

The people from Shadow Drift had happened to show that time.

They had given up their burnt faces and joined Shadow Drift. They had picked a face that they liked and continued to live.

Ke Meng guessed what happened later on. They liked Mrs. Chen and Chen Momo, who were in the car. Thus, they penetrated their bodies, becoming their shadows.

That was their story.

However, Ke Meng was still curious about the chair, “Why are you guys afraid of still objects? Can’t you penetrate still objects to become their shadow?”

“No! Our mentor warned us against penetrating dead objects that have no ability to think.”

Both of them were protesting the idea strongly. Subsequently, they began begging Boss Ke, hoping that he would not joke with human lives.

However, in Ke Meng’s eyes, both of the shadow species were no longer considered humans. They were aliens. The term ‘human life’ did not match them at all.

They used to be humans, but they were shadows now. Moreover, it was a choice that they had made. Nobody had forced them to do that.

Ke Meng proceeded to force the question on them. He was attempting to find out why they could not penetrate still objects’ shadow.

The duo could not answer him. They were rookies, so they did not know about the theory.

Their mentor had merely warned them not to do anything foolish, where they would not be able to get out after penetrating still objects. Whoever penetrated a still object would be a fool.

That was the ending both ants did not want to see—they did not want Ke Meng to put them into the chairs.

“In reality, there’s nothing to be afraid of. I could drag you guys out again if you stopped thinking.” Ke Meng was confident about his hands.

The two ants were shaking. Eventually, they could not fight Ke Meng’s determination.

The people from Shadow Drift would not expect there was someone in this world who could drag a shadow into a chair forcefully.

“Forget it. I’ll test on the bug first.” Ke Meng thought about it and decided he would not use the human shadows for the experiment.

He picked up the poor bug’s shadow again while grabbing the chair’s shadow on the other hand. He then tossed the bug’s shadow into the chair.

In the next second, the chair had a bug’s shadow on it.

Meanwhile, he tossed the chair’s shadow onto the bug for standby.

Ke Meng waited for a while, but nothing happened to the chair.

“The overall structure is fixed. This test is meaningless,” Ke Meng mumbled.

He needed to find a dead object that could move. The test would only make sense by then.

“Forget it, I’ll test that tomorrow.” Ke Meng checked the time, and it was close to 23:00. He did not have the habit of staying up late. It was usually time to sleep at such an hour.

He placed the two poor ants into a tiny paper box with Glutinous Ball watching them aside. It could handle them as soon as they did anything at all.

Ke Meng took a shower first and lay on the bed comfortably. He logged into B Site to take a look before sleeping.

His video had been assessed. The round Glutinous Ball finally met the netizens.

As the video had just been posted, it had yet to gather many views. Ke Meng thought he would only check it tomorrow.

“Watch them closely, Glutinous Ball,” Ke Meng ordered. He only shut his eyes peacefully upon hearing a woof from it.

Soon, he fell asleep, and flowing ocean water sounds reached his ears.

…

On Orange Planet, ever since someone had dreamed of the strange, blue ocean, people in the entire Omnic City, or rather the entire planet, would enter that strange dream.

The researchers of Omnic City were currently exhausted, their eyes bloodshot. They were staring at the screen.

There were study reports of various cities on the screen.

“It has gotten out of control. Everyone would enter that dream whenever they sleep.”

“But why are there people who don’t dream of it? Why?”

The people began screaming in the institute.

However, screaming was futile before the solution was found.

“Those who didn’t dream of it entered the dream later on. Why is that?”

The mysterious dream confused the people.

Most importantly, the dream did not only happen in the game.

Those who slept naturally instead of sleeping in the gaming pod had entered that strange dream too.

Everyone had been shocked when the first case of non-gaming pod dream had been reported to the institute.

It had exceeded all researchers’ knowledge!

Their worldview had collapsed!

Some people had thought it was the people’s imagination. However, as there were more and more similar reports, the researchers had finally accepted the truth.

The blue ocean dream had broken away from the gaming pod’s mechanism. It had connected everyone, making a massive dream online game.

???

There were countless question marks in the researchers’ heads. They could not figure it out, they just could not.

Until now, the statistics had shown over 100,000 people who had the nightmare globally.

The dream’s dissemination method was still under investigation at the moment.

It had spread to 100,000 people within a day. It was considered a great disaster. It was hard for one to imagine everyone on the planet entering the same blue dream at night if it continued to spread.

The people of Orange Planet had yet to end this biological need, which was sleep. As soon as they slept, they might dream.

Orange Planet had issued a level-1 alert warning. The entire planet had fallen into a crisis.

The officials told the public that Orange Planet was experiencing a dream disaster that was hard to explain with science. They warned the people to sleep as little as they could.

Researchers from all places, too, began studying the cause of the dream. They learned the dream’s documentation and read the nightmare’s content.

Little did they know that would cause the nightmare to spread even further.

They would need a little time to realize the nightmare could be spread through language and words. It might be a couple of hours later, or perhaps a day later when they finally find out.