Chapter 54

The loading icon on the review system was spinning. A couple of seconds later, a mission shining in golden gleam appeared.

“Undefined Mission: Review a local special item from Blue Planet and obtain over 400,000 viewers. You’ll be rewarded 30 Resistance points.”

‘My, my. A more difficult mission really appeared.’

Obtaining a special item aside, it was a tough one to even look for one.

The investigators from the investigation bureau might have their ways of finding special items, but Ke Meng did not. He had no idea where to find a special item in the wilderness.

The rule restricted a special item from Blue Planet. It put an end to Ke Meng using the shortcut of reviewing the trident and honey, as they were items the evil god’s believers had sent from the game world.

It was no wonder the mission prefix identification was undefined. The difficulty could be easy or hard. It all depended on how Ke Meng did it.

He left the mission on the list for the time being. He would only accept it when he wanted to. The system did not give a strict timeline.

The sun was rather weak at 16:30. The race car toy Mi Jingyun invaded remained still as if she was dead.

The lady’s shadow the race car reflected was changing following the sun’s angle. Apart from that, there was no new movement at all.

Meanwhile, the frequency of ear movement on the doll Wen Yushan controlled was growing gradually. It had increased from eight times to 60 times an hour. She would move the ears almost once each minute.

Congratulations!

Ke Meng was anticipating Wen Yushan’s performance. If she could live in the doll, she would not need to breathe, nor would she need food or going to the toilet to unload.

She would be a self-operating immortal machine that did not require energy!

She would be the ideal creature, a completely detached creature from the physical requirement of a carbon-based organism.

Such an operation could not be realized at all without the Shadow Catcher. However, Wen Yushan was collapsing in the doll. She did not find that comfortable at all.

Meanwhile, the tiny race car was performing as usual, whereby it did not move at all.

At night, Ke Meng moved to the third floor to sleep. Glutinous Ball moved the important things to the third floor too. It would be on the night watch while observing the doll and race car.

The doll’s ears could move twice a minute now, but the race car remained still.

“Can it be that the structure is so complicated that she can’t move in it?” Ke Meng quietly speculated the reason why the shadow’s consciousness could not move the race car.

He was very patient. He did not have the plan to remove Mi Jingyun for questioning.

People needed time to adapt to a machine. Perhaps she could move it tomorrow.

If she was not moving, Ke Meng would remove her from the race car. They that had transformed into shadow species were no longer ordinary humans—they were close to attaining immortality.

The thought of the organization Shadow Drift having old monsters that had lived up to 1,000 years was terrifying. Therefore, he could not be reckless in studying them. He had to be careful for a proper result.

Since the doll could move, it made no sense that the shadow could not move in a machine.

Ke Meng did not know who Shadow Drift’s boss was, but he was not an internal staff in the investigation bureau. He did not have the authorization to check Shadow Drift’s file. He could only learn about shadow species one step after another on his own.

He closed his eyes slowly. His mind was a mess as he was thinking of some speculations about Shadow Drift.

A doll that could move, a tiny race car that could run, a fruit knife that could kill, a shoe that could jump, and napkins that would run all over the world with humans’ shadows…

They could run on the ground, walk on the wall vertically, and float with the wind in the air. They would be devils that could do whatever they wanted!

The more he was thinking, the more complicated it was getting. He fell asleep without knowing when. He heard the gulping ocean water noise in R’lyeh.

…

In the Orange Planet Research Institute’s conference hall, the number shown on the projected screen had reached 10,000,000!

The spread of the nightmare condition through the internet was extremely terrifying. Everyone began losing sleep since the previous night when they had seen the number.

Fortunately, the spreading of the condition plummeted since the Orange Planet’s upper echelons decided to block the key words and sentences on the internet. It was no longer as scary as before.

There were still new victims out there, but the spread range had been reduced.

The condition was only spreading among families instead of among strangers.

When they combined the cases, such obvious commonality gained the attention of many researchers.

Regarding that, Researcher Li Shen from Orange Planet voiced a new perspective—content spread!

“The condition is spread through the internet on the surface, but in reality, the content spread is its real nature. As soon as a person told something about the nightmare to someone else, the other person would contract the condition if they listened to it carefully.

“The internet is a super collector of information. It happens to be the best carrier for the condition. The internet speed is the spreading speed. Anyone might be infected as long as they read related content…

“Apart from the internet, it would have the same effect if it’s in the form of written words and conversation!”

Li Shen stood in the conference hall, facing a bunch of researchers who looked confused. He knew his point was too shocking.

In a world of science, how would a bunch of scientists not be shocked when someone told them there was a virus that could be spread through content?

If not for the fact that up to 10,000,000 people had contracted the condition, everyone would really treat Li Shen as a lunatic.

However, the truth had proven the blocking of content on the internet to have slowed down the condition’s spreading speed. Li Shen’s research direction was correct. The condition was a brand new disease. It could not be explained rationally with current scientific knowledge.

“The conclusion is to make the nature of the condition’s spread public. Let everyone know how the condition is spread. They won’t dream of it as long as they don’t mention the nightmare’s content,” Li Shen concluded.

The researchers discussed among each other softly in the conference hall. They were nodding quietly, thinking what Li Shen said made a lot of sense.

Clap, clap, clap.

A person clapped first. It was the institute’s director. He was in high spirits and clapped loudly.

Clap, clap, clap!

Clapping noise that was like waves drowned the conference hall. Li Shen blushed. It felt so good to have everyone approve of his study!

A couple of minutes later, the edited report meeting was uploaded to the internet. The condition’s specific content was removed from the video.

The Orange Planet citizens dared not sleep that night. All of them had dark eye circles.

The views of the video the institute’s authority posted were skyrocketing. It had broken through 10,000,000 people viewing it within a short half an hour.

Three hours later, they had over 100,000,000 views.

It drew nationwide attention!