9 Preliminary Understanding of the Summoning Condition

Ke Meng secretly frowned. Nobody knew which mountain village would be the next to hold a sacrificial ceremony.

He could not predict whether the next sacrifice was a neutrally friendly creature or a chaotic evil creature.

After all, the god that these fanatics worshipped was Cthulhu, a crazy guy.

Ke Meng only knew the myth about Cthulhu roughly. He could estimate Cthulhu's style if he were to ditch the culture on Earth and merely look at Cthulhu's compelling skills.

Cthulhu could control one's dreams, and whoever looked at Him would be in bad luck. People with weak bodies might die of self-implosion while those with slightly more powerful bodies would go maniacal. Only different species could maintain their sanity forcefully.

The sacrifices the believers offered might be something overbearingly evil based on the reckless speculation of Cthulhu's style.

There were no such dangerous items appearing yet because His believers were too weak. The sacrifices they offered were weak. For instance, the Dog-headed People Mountain Village could only offer an elite-level baby.

If they had no powerful item, they could offer something rare. Believers would win Cthulhu's attention by offering something rare such as the Cat-faced People Mountain Village offering their village treasure. It had no combat ability, but there was room for appreciation for its strange knowledge. It would be more useful later on.

Ke Meng spent a couple of hours struggling and worrying that night.

He woke up after failing to wait for a new sacrifice to come.

He felt very fortunate that there was no sacrificial ceremony happening. It seemed like the spacetime rock powder was not something that could be easily obtained. Without the spacetime rock powder, the fanatics could not carry out the evil god sacrificial ceremony.

The moment when Ke Meng woke up, a golden, furry round ball came into his sight. A red little tongue flashed across his gaze, and it was licking him all over.

Shocked, Ke Meng slapped the furry creature away. He jumped up from the bed immediately and wiped his face with his palms. He wanted to wipe off the transparent saliva all over his face.

'Where did this new sacrifice come from?'

Woof!

The furry creature barked softly twice. It laid on the floor feeling wronged while its tiny tail was wagging slowly. It had its tongue out while it kept panting.

'No, that's not a new sacrifice.'

Ke Meng was completely awake after hearing the barking.

It was the tiny puppy from yesterday!

The puppy had grown again. It was now the height of an adult poodle. It looked like it was approximately 30 centimeters based on its shoulder height.

It was covered in thick hair while its tiny eyes were the only thing that was showing. Even its ears were covered by the hair.

It had changed overnight to the extent that Ke Meng almost did not recognize it.

He got out of bed and washed his face. He washed his face ten times with cleansing milk. Only then did he stop smelling the odd scent.

The puppy was wandering around in the master bedroom when he returned. It was like a guard dog patrolling its territory and checking its master's land.

Its black eyes were looking around. It did not stop even for a second as it was filled with curiosity. It had grown out of its infancy merely after a day, living up to the hype of a creature from the game world.

Ke Meng sat before the computer and took out his little notebook. He was focused as he documented the new information he had gotten last night.

"There are currently eight fanatic groups.

"Spacetime rock powder is the key to a summoning ceremony!

"Combining what I saw from the two summoning ceremonies, these are the requirements to summon Boss Ke:

1. Spacetime rock powder (suspected to be the source of the fluorescent thing to set up the magic formation)

2. Pond/Well

3. Green flame candles (Might be ordinary candles)

4. Unknown spices (function is unclear)

5. Believers are required

6. Summoning spell

7. Sacrifice"

After writing those down and thinking to himself that he did not miss out on anything, Ke Meng closed the tiny notebook.

The little furry puppy barked softly, begging for food.

After Ke Meng texted Momo to ask her to send him breakfast, he transferred her breakfast money.

Beep.

Momo replied, "Got it.ヾ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ"

Soon, his doorbell rang.

Ke Meng opened the door to pick up his breakfast while wearing a face mask. He saw Chen Momo standing there looking pretty as soon as he opened the door.

In a white polo tee and blue shorts today, she looked young and lively. Two ponytails were drooping casually on her shoulders.

She blinked. She wanted to see Ke Meng, but her focus shifted to the tiny puppy that was running over after hearing the strange commotion.

The tiny puppy ran to the girl's feet and sniffed her scent, trying to remember the stranger's scent.

"Wow, this puppy is so cute. When did you buy it?"

Tiny Chen Momo squatted down as she stretched her arm to touch the puppy's head.

It was furry and very soft. With a lot of fur, it looked very obedient.

The tiny puppy whimpered while staring at the breakfast in her hand with a pitiful look. It smelled meat.

"I got it last night," Ke Meng said casually.

"It's so cute! It must be fun to play with." The little girl lifted her head. Her eyes above the face mask were clear as she looked at him with her watery eyes.

Ke Meng thought to himself since he had no idea about that. "Really?"

The tiny puppy was still growing whereby it looked different everyday. He had no idea whether it was fun to play with, but the tiny puppy's growth speed sure was shocking.

Chen Momo played with it for a little while. She giggled while patting the puppy's head. She then went downstairs to watch the store.

"Come on. Let's go inside to eat your dried anchovy," Ke Meng held his head down and said to the puppy.

The puppy followed him to the bedroom while swaying its butt.

Now that he thought about it, the puppy had recognized him as its master, so the big-faced cat could now be released.

Ke Meng went to the side bedroom and moved the cat basin to the master bedroom.

The puppy followed behind Ke Meng all the way. It stretched its head to look at the big-faced cat. The cat looked silly as it sat still in the basin.

The puppy walked to the side of the basin and sniffed hard with its nose. It wanted to remember the big-faced cat's scent. 

Ke Meng took a dried anchovy and shoved it into the puppy's mouth. It licked its mouth after eating the sliver. Its black little eyes stared at him while sitting up straight. It was panting with its tongue out, wanting more.

"No more." Ke Meng glared at the puppy and picked up a dried anchovy for the big-faced cat with chopsticks. "Look at it. It only needs one dried anchovy per day. It's so easy to rear it."

The dried anchovy's round head disappeared as soon as it entered the big-faced cat's mouth.

The puppy lay low on the floor while wagging its tiny tail, seeming wronged.

After feeding the two creatures, Ke Meng checked his video again.

The views had grown to 361, so it seemed pretty good. However, it was still far away from the goal of having 10,000 people watch it.

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When Chen Momo returned to her seat downstairs, she proceeded to sit at the cashier to accept payments.

She took out her phone and began scrolling through videos on B Site.

Soon, she got to Ke Meng's video.

There was a white cat that looked strange. Its eyes were round while its expression was blank. Its two fat paws were placed on both sides of its waste, and it looked silly.

Compared to the video yesterday, there were many comments from retarded netizens flying by. The viewing experience was different this time.

The difference was like heaven and earth when one watched videos with and without comments flying by.

Since getting used to B Site with bullet comments, Chen Momo made it a habit to turn on the bullet comments, so she would feel uncomfortable without them.

The netizens' bullet comments occupied the video.

"Where did you get this cat? I want one too!"

"Boss, I'd love to get one too!"

"I suppose this is a 3D figurine. I'd have almost believed it if I hadn't seen the videos from the MAD category before."

"The owner is amazing to have made a figurine that looks like a real cat."

"Cool, cool, cool, cool!"

Ke Meng was introducing the big-faced cat's superpower in the video in all seriousness: the Food Vanishing Method!

To prove that the food would vanish instantly, he demonstrated by using chopsticks to pick up the dried anchovy.

The chopsticks were removed a second after the dried anchovy entered the big-faced cat's mouth. Half of the dried anchovy was gone while the chopsticks were intact.

The vanishing speed was extremely fast. There was no time gap in between whereas its mouth made no chewing movement.

Giggling, Chen Momo stared at the feeding process. She watched it a few times. She suddenly released a hum after that.

'The more I look at it, the more it looks like a real cat.'