Chapter 57

The lake water around the design temple was very deep. It was at least eight meters deep. No ordinary human or animal could swim over.

However, it was an exception for people who could swim.

The dream world was close to reality. Those who could swim communicated with the wolf brother and sister when they arrived. They then swam toward the design temple casually and managed to get to the shore.

The wolf siblings were gazing with burning desire. It did not come across to them that knowing how to swim was a blessing.

“Sister, I’ll learn to swim when I get back to reality, and I’ll swim across next time. What about you?”

“We’re wolves now. How are we supposed to learn to swim?”

“That makes sense.” The wolf brother thought what his sister said made sense.

Humans’ swimming style was different from animals’. They could not use the same style they were swimming in reality in the dream.

However, could animals not swim?

Naturally, that was not true!

Wolves could swim, but both players had human souls. They would need to learn from the beginning if they wanted to swim.

“I’ll learn, I’ll learn no matter what.” Fleygin lifted his head and sank into the water again. He took the initiative to figure out how to swim in a wolf’s body.

His sister saw the idiotic brother’s initiative. She had a stern face on while falling into a pickle.

Ten seconds later, Gilly went into the water too to figure out how to swim in the wolf’s body.

In R’lyeh, Ke Meng watched the two clowns coming in and out of the lake water. They were trying to swim like madmen at the brink of being drowned. He thought it was interesting.

After watching them for a couple of minutes, He noticed the first player who successfully walked out of the design temple’s door. It was a man who looked rather lecherous. He had a half-bald head, a flat nose, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and tanned skin.

Player ‘Breeze Makes My Butt Cold’ learned the building skill from the design temple. He began using the skill as soon as he got out of the temple’s door.

He grabbed at the ground through the air with one hand. He seemed to be grabbing soil.

In the next second, a small cube with soil texture appeared in his hand.

The small cube had eight clear angles. It had a smooth surface as if it was modeled following strict aesthetic rules.

He placed the cube on the ground and grabbed the air again. Another small cube of soil appeared in his hand again.

He grabbed another soil cube.

He turned around and looked at the temple’s stone pillars. He stretched his hand, grabbed, and a small rock cube appeared in his hand. The appearance was the strict cube form as usual.

He stacked the rocks by the lake. He built a bridge slowly.

The two wolves who were practicing swimming across the lake saw the guy building a bridge out of thin air. They looked dumbstruck.

“I’m so dumb. Why am I learning how to swim? Wouldn’t it be easier to wait for him to finish building the bridge?”

Soon, a bridge made of a combination of rock and soil cubes were completed. It connected outside the lake to the middle of the lake.

Two drenched wolves made it to the design temple successfully. They obtained the building skill after committing themselves to the god whose name was so long that nobody could remember.

One would obtain the building skill in the dream like that.

Point a finger at an item and grab the relative attribute.

Subsequently, the player would create a tiny substance cube with their psychic force. The substance’s attribute would rely on the thing they grabbed.

For instance, the player would obtain a small cube of rock attributes if they grabbed a stone pillar.

There would be a wood cube if they were to grab a tree.

A large item was made of the piling of small cubes.

Ke Meng, who was observing the players’ behavior behind the scene, nodded in silence. The Orange Planet players’ adaptation ability was as outstanding as he expected. They could already make use of the ability instead of staying stagnant in a blur.

When the people were building things in the dream world, the Orange Planet Research Institute was investigating 260,000 players with irregular brainwaves. They were in the most important stage at the moment.

All of the 260,000 players drew irregular and messy lines when they were drawing with their subconscious mind. They even tore the paper. Their consciousness was very unstable.

However, it was similar to the three male players a few days ago.

The three players were ‘Qing’, ‘I No Longer Want to Be Human’, and ‘Hair Standing from Rage’. They had been captured by the dog-headed people in the VR game ‘World’ and brought straight to the NPCs’ sacrificial ceremony.

The three players drew these with their subconscious mind—mountain village, well, tiny black people, matchstick people, and messy, irregular lines.

Therefore, the researchers were focusing on the game ‘World’ again.

There must be something wrong with this game. They had to investigate it!

However, the researchers had no idea who the dog-headed people were sacrificing to. They had to send people to the Dog-headed People Mountain Village again for a detailed investigation.

At the moment, the game had been shut down, while the game company too was shut down for rectification. Everyone in the company thought the company was facing the risk of bankruptcy. Most engineers had resigned.

Some had already joined other companies, while some were still in the process of resigning. The research institute ordered to bring back all of the opening team when they found out about this. Nobody should be left behind.

There was a serious issue right now, and the original opening team must be questioned.

The people from the institute were reading the game’s core code. The virtual engine was nothing different than the games available on the market.

Meanwhile, the game had a bug for the failed dog-headed people’s data modification. The bug must be rectified.

However, all of the researchers had been focusing on the pandemic, which was the spreading of the nightmare condition. Nobody followed up with the dog-headed people’s irregular data bug.

Now that they thought about it, the dog-headed people had escaped the program’s control.

It would be futile even if they were to alter the NPC’s data from the backend. Therefore, the upper echelons thought of an idea, which was to send people into the game to investigate the dog-headed people’s unusualness.

“Now we need a batch of supreme equipment and maximum level accounts.

“The code of this mission will be Mission 0. All investigators will enter the game with a maximum level account to find out what’s happening in the Dog-headed People Mountain Village.

“You guys should know how to kill in one hit. No matter who is standing before you guys, you must kill them in one hit!

“You’ll be punished if you fail to do that!”

The research institute’s director was pacing in the middle of the conference hall. He gave the game company’s director and engineers a good scolding.

A scolding was considered to be mild since such a severe incident had occurred.

The director and the opening team held their heads down. They accepted the director’s raging shrieks willingly.

“What are you guys waiting for? Do it now!”

“Yes!”

Soon, the sweating engineers reopened the server. They built supreme accounts and fetched supreme equipment.

As Ke Meng was watching the players building houses faraway in R’lyeh, he suddenly heard an ethereal voice.

“The game has been reopened.”