51: Chapter 54 As the stars return to their places, He too will awaken from the depths of the sea!

Eagle Nation, NASA Observatory.

Boom!

Rumble!

All kinds of artillery fire roared in unison.

Some radicals, who believed that all fear stems from a lack of firepower,

realizing that things were getting out of hand,

hurriedly pulled out their backup plan: carpet bombing with artillery and missile strikes, turning a radius of a hundred meters into scorched earth.

Having experienced the Nightmare Entity and knowing how terrifying mutation was,

they did not dare harbor any wishful thinking.

They decisively learned from their neighbor, the ancient Eastern country's habit, and launched a wave of saturated attacks.

Fortunately, this mutated entity that turned into a spider

seemed to lack infectivity and would not spread in unexpected ways like the Nightmare Entity.

The top brass of the army could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Phew~"

"It seems that this monster's method of transmission is likely visual contamination..."

"Order!"

"Prohibit anyone from observing the moon in high definition!"

"Designate the moon as a restricted zone!"

"..."

Suppressing the terror in his heart, the army's high-ranking official issued the order downward.

Just when he thought

that this rashly triggered crisis

could finally come to an end,

another anomaly occurred on the moon.

Or rather, the anomaly came from the colorful bubbles in the live broadcast.

——

Pop~ Pop~

The sound of bubbles swaying rang out.

Inside the colorful bubbles,

the spider—the Dream Weaver—wielded its slender, sharp legs, as if weaving an invisible dream.

Just as various countries were probing the moon and causing chaos and overturning,

Hum~

an invisible fluctuation spread across His body.

The invisible threads in the Dream Weaver's hands bloomed with a hazy radiance, like a bridge piercing through reality and illusion, finally successfully constructed at this moment, as invisible dimensions reached out toward another nothingness.

Space cracked open at this moment,

extending into the world of nothingness.

Water ripples generated smoke in a pitch-black color.

Twisted into a black ocean by the power of the Evil God, filled with despair and dead Qi, with no traces of life left, only absolute silence, ripples suddenly stirred on such a water surface and spread outward.

A square monument slowly rose from the sea surface.

Lofty!

Primitive!

Like a fortress piled with huge stones.

Logically speaking, this kind of grand architecture that carried a sense of raw roughness should give people a broad, majestic feeling, just like various famous ancient temples on Blue Star.

However, this fortress

unexpectedly made people feel nauseous.

The intense visual conflict made people's eyes go dark, dizzy, and their scalp itchy, as if it was about to grow a brain.

And this was just a negligible preview.

Through the calm ocean, one could faintly see an incomparably massive city completely submerged under the sea.

The obelisk and the ramparts piled with huge stones were merely the tip of the iceberg on the sea.

The city sunken beneath the sea was its true full picture.

The buildings piled with huge stones clearly exuded an ancient, profound aura, but the overall construction style was quite avant-garde, possessing its own unique style, deserving to be called futuristic art.

The structures and shapes of the buildings were all completely abnormal, completely violating geometric settings, which could be said to be a subversive reshaping of existing architectural systems and rules.

Most crucially, these unprecedented spatial structures and dimensional sizes gave people a strong sense of aversion.

The building materials were unimaginably huge stones, and the huge stone carvings were so tall that they made one dizzy; whether it was the stone statues or the reliefs, they all exuded an unclean aura.

The high-ranking officials of various countries who had experienced the spider mutation phenomenon

could not help but suspect that if these images were not projected through the Gear but witnessed with their own eyes, countless people would probably have already suffered contamination, twisted minds, and turned into unspeakable monsters.

...

"Huge stones? Reliefs?"

"Undersea city?"

"Is this the danger of the overlapping dream realms?"

Suppressing the nausea in his body and the sickening thoughts in his mind,

Zheng Fei tried to extract information from the live broadcast.

Anyone else could fall, but he alone could not; the heavy responsibility on his shoulders forced him to bite the bullet and take action.

However, before he could analyze for long,

reality told him that he was still too young!

Imagination... needed to be let loose!

Crack——

Rumble——

As the city emerging from beneath the sea gradually revealed its outline,

in the sky,

the twinkling stars

unexpectedly lit up at this moment.

In broad daylight! Radiating brilliance!

The shining brilliance of the stars even stole the position of the sun.

"The stars?"

Zheng Fei's pupils constricted.

Before he could continue to think deeply,

Swish swish——

Swish swish——

the sound of sliding water currents rang out.

Hundreds of millions of tons of mighty water currents were brought up from the seabed,

pouring down like a waterfall.

A... indescribable... unspeakable lofty figure...

along with the shattering of the obelisk,

slowly rose from the sea and continuously expanded upward.

The waterfall-like pouring water torrents poured into the lofty city and washed over it.

Among the anti-geometric buildings, stone statues, and reliefs,

and all kinds of suffocating objects,

there constantly rang out a seeming-yet-unseeming chanting, like a distant bagpipe, like an unnamed prayer.

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn..."

"When the stars are right..."

"The great stone shall rise from the depths..."

"The great primordial one shall also awaken..."

"..."

The raving of the Evil God continuously echoed.

The sound waves went from low to gradually grand.

The phantom rising from the ground

also expanded amidst the sacrificial sorcerer's chants,

transforming into a lofty existence beyond human imagination.

Upon its head,

countless tentacle-like objects squirmed.

Behind its back,

there was a pair of tattered, seemingly underdeveloped wings.

Looking further down,

it had become increasingly distorted amidst the unspeakable.

The lofty body seemed capable of filling the sea of stars.

It lowered its head,

and a marble-like existence was fished out from the void sea by Him, easily pinched in His hands.

Taking advantage of the afterglow of the Gear,

the Netizens who were eating melons and watching the show suddenly realized:

this was fundamentally not a glass marble,

but—

Blue Star!

The Blue Star beneath their feet!!

Countless lives in the sea of stars were infected by His aura, turning into ugly and distorted spawn, with octopuses on their heads and sharp claws for hands, chanting intermittent ravings in unison.

The entire world was no bigger than a marble to Him; pinched in His hand, He opened His mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.

Crunch crunch...

Hundreds of millions of sharp teeth rotated and twisted. As He chewed, one could even hear the wails of countless wronged souls.

However,

He did not care at all.

Whether it was abhorrence or worship,

it was merely the seasoning for His next meal.

As He kept chewing, all the Netizens in the live broadcast room felt an indescribable chill.

The emanating cold qi seemed to freeze their bodies stiff.

Any ambition, greed, vigilance... all turned to nothingness and shattered at this moment.

Hot blood was also shattered by reality!

Pop~

The bubble shattered, and the dream ended.

"Jingle~"

The wind chime-like sound of the Paper Kite rang out,

awakening them from terror. The scattered starlight once again enshrouded the magic dragon, turning into seven-layer colorful illusions, letting it continue the dream reincarnation, falling eternally into the endless abyss, unable to break free.

"So..."

"It was actually just a dream?"

The Netizens woke up as if from a dream, but the panic in their hearts was not so easily dissipated.

They could only suppress the terror in their hearts,

force a calm, bitter smile,

and try to use cold text to debate in the void, drawing a bit of pathetic warmth from internet users on the other end.

And the internet users' response

did not disappoint as usual.

"A dream?"

"Open your eyes and look at the moon!"

"Besides the phantom of the magic dragon entrenched on it, there are now crisscrossing grid marks. You probably do not need me to explain to you what interwoven spiderwebs mean, right?"

"..."

The cold text completely shattered the wishful thinking in their hearts.

"Holy shit, forget about divinity; after this divinity, there is actually something even stronger?"

"Blue Star is nothing more than a marble in His hands. Just how big is His true body? What a fucking monster!!"

"How big? Does size have any meaning? I only know that this guy not only wants to eat people, but also wants to eat the entire planet! Being killed by the Spacetime Worm still gives you a fighting chance to become a parasitic race... This guy does not leave any path for survival at all!"

"Help, I have not even touched a woman yet, I do not want to die."

"..."

The emotion of panic spread like a virus in people's hearts; everywhere was filled with dejection, and the atmosphere was extremely sluggish.

Just when countless people had fallen into despair,

a bullet comment streaked across like a shooting star:

"Doesn't matter, I'll take action!"