From the moment Ke Meng opened his eyes, the first thought he had was that there would be a new sacrifice in his home.
He turned his head to look to the side of his bed. As expected, there was a black little basin placed on the floor. A black cloth wrapping was in the middle of the basin. It was round and the size of an adult's palm.
'What is it this time?'
Ke Meng got up slowly, feeling a little nervous.
'I suppose it's not something that would eat me, is it? The Cat-faced People Mountain Village sent the Strange Knowledge Cat which was the village treasure. What is it this time?'
Just when he was getting out of bed, the tiny cloth wrapping began moving. A weak whimper was released from it.
'It seems like a small animal!'
Judging by the sound, there was a high possibility that it was a young animal.
Ke Meng got up. As he was going to unwrap the cloth, he suddenly thought that might be dangerous since he had no idea what that could be at all.
Maybe he should get the Strange Knowledge Cat to take a look at it. He might gain some strange knowledge by doing that.
He left the room and opened the side bedroom door. He saw the white cat staring blankly while sitting in the basin. It gawked with its big eyes while its expression remained silly.
Ke Meng stretched his arm before the cat. Realizing that it was staring blankly, he moved it to his bedroom.
There was a strange creature in the room now. Ke Meng looked into the big-faced cat's eyes and stared at them for 15 seconds.
He gained strange knowledge!
As Ke Meng fell into a trance, many bits of strange knowledge rushed into his head all of a sudden. There was no need for memorizing as he acquired the new knowledge directly.
It was a mutated cub from the Dog-headed People Mountain Village with the body of a pure beast. It could be the guard dog of the Rookie Zone's boss stage when it grew up with the potential to become an elite.
As for its skills, it could enhance its body size, regenerate by biting its enemies, and shoot its hundreds of tiny dog hair as a secret weapon when it shook its whole body.
However, using that method often would make it go bald.
Feeding was also easy. It would only need some meat or bones everyday as the basic requirement. That would fulfill the guard dog's daily needs. In a week, it could then grow into an elite.
'I see. So, it's an elite-level cub,' Ke Meng began thinking.
The ability to become Boss Ke in his dream was convenient. If the fanatics offered him a sacrifice every time he slept, he would obtain many interesting things.
To Boss Ke, who already owned two properties, money was not important. Interesting articles were what he wanted now.
Before opening the cloth, Ke Meng was thinking about what to feed this puppy.
'Can I feed it dried anchovies? Aren't those for cats? But it's still meat even though it's for cats!'
Ke Meng placed the dried anchovies aside and pointed the camera at the tiny basin again.
It was a newborn creature. He wanted to use the camera to document its eating process to see if it was as strange as that big-faced cat.
Instead of using his hand, Ke Meng used a pair of long chopsticks to hold the tiny cloth and open it slowly.
A golden-haired puppy was revealed. Its hair was scarce while its skin was pink. It looked no different from a regular puppy. However, its eyes were still closed. Its four limbs as well as its tail were tucked near its body.
Ke Meng was mentally prepared to see another strange-looking creature. It seemed like he had overthought things.
The sacrifice the fanatics offered was not all strange creatures like the Strange Knowledge Cat with the same expression.
The guard dog's eyes were still closed. Nevertheless, the first person that it saw the moment it opened its eyes would automatically become its owner and family.
To prevent the guard dog from recognizing the wrong owner, Ke Meng placed the white cat back in the side bedroom. He fed it a dried anchovy before locking it up, and the dried anchovy disappeared as soon as it entered the cat's mouth.
Ke Meng pulled a dried anchovy out with the chopsticks after returning to the master bedroom. Then, he placed it next to the puppy's mouth.
The puppy opened its mouth slightly and moved softly. Soon, the dried anchovy was eaten bit by bit.
Ke Meng watched the way it ate closely. Instead of disappearing like how the big-faced cat ate the dried anchovy, it was eating normally.
The puppy stopped whimpering after eating a dried anchovy. It went quiet as if it had fallen asleep.
Ke Meng placed the dog basin aside and checked the feeding video that he had just recorded.
He checked and analyzed frame after frame. The way the puppy ate was rather normal, and there was nothing strange about it.
Now that he thought about it, could the creatures bring along their systems since they had transmigrated? Otherwise, how would one explain the big-faced cat and the little golden puppy's transmigration mystery?
Ke Meng secretly called out to the system as he thought to this point.
A system menu appeared before his eyes in a whoosh.
It was a small, semi transparent menu. His name and other information were displayed on it.
"Name: Ke Meng
Skill: Entering Game by Dreaming"
Never had Ke Meng thought he would have a system in the real world.
He understood after clicking into the description of the skill slot.
"Entering Game by Dreaming: You'll land on a certain game's creature every time you dream. You'll take over that creature's body. You can't dismiss it as soon as it's bound to you. You'll still be you when you wake up from the dream. The creature, on the other hand, will fall into hibernation, waiting for you to dream again."
It was no wonder that he would dream of himself becoming Boss Ke whenever he slept. It turned out he would enter a certain game whenever he dreamed, and he happened to be bound to the Ultimate Boss, Cthulhu.
The sacrifices' transmigration must be related to this ability. Since his identity was bound to Boss Ke, the sacrifices would be transmigrated to reality as well.
However, he could not understand why the sacrifices would transmigrate to Ke Meng instead of Cthulhu.
Both times when the sacrifices were offered happened to be the times Ke Meng was waking up.
Perhaps Ke Meng's main consciousness returned from the game to reality, causing a shift in his soul, so when it happened in the dream, the game's sacrifices would transmigrate from the game world to him.
Ke Meng jotted down his new studies into his notebook as he thought about this. He wrote the speculations of the dream, Boss Ke, the coordinates of the sacrifices, and the transmigration theory of the sacrifices in his little notebook.
"Was my soul in the dream?"
"Where is Cthulhu's original consciousness? Is it obliterated? Or is it sleeping in its body and has no idea what has happened?"
"The coordinates of the sacrifices remain a mystery!"
"Is reality a game too? That's still a mystery."
Ke Meng looked at his little notebook while sitting before the computer. His curiosity was piqued.
Now that he had so many things to research, his meaningless life of collecting rent was finally no longer boring and dry.
Subsequently, he began studying all the functions in his system. Surprisingly, he found out that there were missions in the system that he could choose to carry out.
"Normal mission: Review something strange. The review video must be viewed by at least 10,000 people."
Reward: Resistance +1
Do you accept the mission?"