12 Looking at the Man in the Indescribable Mist in the Eye

"Why do I feel like they're performing an evil god sacrificial ceremony?" The assassin player in leather armor had cold sweat dripping down his back and goosebumps erupted all over his body.

"Something's wrong! Something's wrong here!" Another teammate was shuddering.

The adventurer captain peeked at his stats bar. Apart from 'imprisonment' and 'poisoned', there was another negative effect 'fear' added now.

In the next second, a cold wind whooshed by.

He lifted his head and saw a cloud of mist in the well. It integrated with the wind from the natural surroundings while a cloud of massive and indescribable mist formed ten meters above the sky.

Thud!

The sound of the tens of people behind kneeling was heard.

The thud was rushed as if something horrifying was happening in the mountain village at the moment.

The Dog-headed Priest, who was leading the ceremony, also knelt immediately. He placed his forehead on the ground as his body was shaking.

A second later, the strong wind vanished. The blurry mist was changing above the well while an invisible suppression spread from the well.

"You've been affected by an unknown being."

The three players received a notification from the system at the same time.

They initially thought that nothing would happen since it was a game. However, they had no idea why they were shaking all over. Their teeth were chattering as if they were going to die.

The assassin player in leather armor looked at the cloud of indescribable mist above their heads in fear. He said while shaking, "Why am I feeling more and more scared?"

"Why don't we set our bodily sensation to the lowest?"

The leader was shaking too as if there was something extremely terrifying was passing in the mist above their heads. He was terrified before he even saw anything. He was eager to have 10 more legs to run away as he did not want to stay here for even another second.

However, such intense stimulation made the three players even sure that it was the opening of an epic plot mission. Therefore, staying to accept the mission was the wisest choice.

The captain used his thoughts to open the virtual reality game system and set the bodily sensation to the lowest.

It was a virtual reality game whereby the players could set their bodily sensations to zero. However, they would not be able to feel the flow of wind, the scent in the air, the blood running through their bodies, the temperature, and other functions. Their personal combat ability would plummet.

At that moment, the three players had yet to feel relieved after setting it to zero.

"I've adjusted the setting but…I still feel so cold." The assassin player in leather armor was shocked to find out that he was still feeling extremely cold.

Either the temperature did not increase or the bodily sensation function was broken!

He had tried to set his bodily sensation to zero before. He touched a torch with his hand and could not feel any heat at all while he felt nothing cold when he touched ice. He could neither feel cold nor heat even though he was attacked by his partner's ice magic and fire magic.

However, the system's bodily sensation function failed when they were facing the evil believers' sacrificial ceremony. The chill was like a sharp knife piercing through every inch of pores on their skin. It penetrated their veins and entered their hearts through the aorta, sending the chill all over their bodies.

"Damn it! Another bug. There's a bug in imprisonment duration, and now the bodily sensation setting has failed. I'm going to report the game company when I get out!"

"I'll report it too. F*ck!"

While the three of them were criticizing the game, the chat screen of the team was cursing the game company's ancestors.

Although they were tortured horribly, they did not have the intention to go offline.

After all, whoever went offline now would be a fool.

…

"Oh, the almighty Cthulhu…The Sleeper of R'lyeh…The Great Old One!"

Ke Meng was sitting in the middle of the ocean city, feeling bored to death. He suddenly heard a blurry murmur.

It was the fanatics' murmur as they were chanting his godly name.

"Someone is summoning me," Ke Meng thought to himself.

He tried his very best to gather his focus and listened to those blurry voices carefully. As he focused to capture those ethereal worship, the voices in his ears were getting clearer. They were no longer husky.

Suddenly, a tiny mountain village appeared in his head.

It was a dark, little mountain village. There were tens of people in black robes kneeling on the ground on all fours, and nobody dared to lift their heads to look at Him.

Oh, wait, there were five people not wearing black robes by the well. Two of them were unconscious while the remaining three held their heads up to look at Him.

'Interesting. The rest daren't look at me, and there are three people here who do,' Ke Meng thought to himself.

Just when He gazed at the three of them, the three players saw two red gleams flash through the mist. Subsequently, they felt gravely horrified as an indescribable terror landed above their heads.

"You've been watched by an unknown being!"

"Your total status has experienced a 90% drop!"

"Your mental resistance is too low. Your entire body has been suppressed!"

"You're dead!"

Notifications occupied the players' screens.

Bang!

A low hum came from the leader's head. His eyes bled and he died with his eyes wide open. He could not even speak.

The remaining two teammates did not feel any better as well.

"You've fallen into madness!"

Both of them were screaming. They felt like their heads were going to crack while endless images of their past flew through their heads.

"Player's brain has been detected harmed. Mandatory offline safety setting begins!"

The moment one of the players' head exploded while the other two went mad, the three players' avatars in the team list dimmed. They went offline at the same time.

The moment they went offline, the two screaming players were no longer in the game. Their characters became quiet. They lay on the ground with their eyes closed as they were in a slumber. They were like two sleeping dead bodies that could not speak.

The people in black robes by the side were terrified the moment they heard the adventurers' scream. As expected, not lifting their heads to look at the indescribable mist was the right choice…The dog-headed people felt grateful for their wisdom.

"Eh, those were the players."

In the City of R'lyeh deep in the ocean, Ke Meng watched the players who had fallen. Notifications of the players being attacked popped up consecutively on his side.

As he was looking at them, Ke Meng happened to see the username of the five players above their heads. They were 'Qing', 'I No Longer Want to Be Human', 'Hair Standing from Rage', 

'Lingering Sweetness' and 'White Milk'.

"They sure are lousy to not be able to even withstand a stare from me. How are they different from the marine creatures here?" Ke Meng mumbled.

He had merely looked at them out of curiosity earlier without any killing intent. Never had he thought that they could not even take it for a second.

Due to the mandatory offline setting, the players' characters fell into sleep. Ke Meng noticed that a skill in his skill slot lit up.

"Dream Invasion"

He had many skills, but he had yet to use the Dream Invasion skill.

The creatures in the City of R'lyeh at the bottom of the sea were killing among themselves all day. They did not have the intention to sleep at all. Therefore, the dream skills were unavailable.

Now that the five players' characters were sleeping since they went offline, Ke Meng could seize the opportunity to use the skill.

He glanced at the other dream skills. One was Dream Distortion while another was Dream Dissemination. They could only be used when Boss Ke was in the Dream Invasion mode.

"Let's see what's in these players' dreams."

Excited at that moment, he did not even care anything about the Dog-headed Priest's sacrificial ceremony now. He was very interested in the dream skills.