It's time to become an evil god.

The voice kept urging him to escape quickly, so Faust had to use a sedative to force himself to overcome his instinctive fear and calm down.

A mournful cry echoed from the depths of the abyss, a sound that was both laughter and weeping. This sound instilled a chilling dread.

Then a gigantic, writhing hand emerged from the depths of the crevice, its surface covered with countless expressions of agonizing groans. Next came a massive, indescribable mass of writhing flesh. These bizarre life forms, a fusion of bone and flesh, seemed to be slowly crawling out of the abyss, accompanied by unbearable wailing, like a giant, writhing slug.

A massive barrier enveloped the crack, instantly slicing the previously visible flesh into pieces. Faust panicked and shouted, "I don't know what deal you and Baphomet made, but you have no choice but to act now!"

Bai Ge's gaze was fixed on the countless writhing eyeballs beneath the abyss, their bloodshot pupils seemingly representing an endless abyss of despair. Bai Ge first closed his eyes, then suddenly opened them.

The highest level of mental pollution can directly distort reality through will and imagination. At this moment, Bai Ge projected Baphomet's power onto the mad and fallen evil god.

The evil god suddenly raised its enormous tentacle, easily shattering the glass-like protective shield, and slammed it down on Bai Ge.

As the enormous, writhing tentacle was about to smash into Bai Ge, everyone closed their eyes, reluctantly witnessing the bloody scene that followed, and they didn't hear the expected deafening roar. They slowly opened their eyes to find that the monster's writhing tentacles had vanished, replaced by a gigantic… magical wand from Balala the Fairies?

Bai Ge stared at the enraged evil god beneath the earth and calmly retorted, "So you call yourself an evil god?"

Chapter 245 The Truth of the World

The evil god beneath the earth let out a terrifying wail, seemingly enraged by everything Bai Ge had done. When another tentacle stretched out, it activated its demonic power once more, its advanced psychic abilities directly altering the shape of the opponent's body. The other tentacle also transformed into Cardcaptor Sakura's sealing staff.

Nishizawa Ryo suppressed the urge to retort and loudly questioned, "Are you sure this is really an evil god, and not some kind of dark god like Guna Ra?"

Bai Ge also shouted at the top of her lungs, "That's what Village Chief Slow Sheep told me before."

"Chief Slow Sheep?"

Faust froze, his mind racing as he tried to recall this person, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find anyone who matched the description. "Wait, who is Slow Sheep Village Chief?"

While expending the borrowed mental power, Bai Ge explained, "It's that sheep-headed, human-bodied guy I encountered while sitting in that weird chair. Isn't he Chief Slow Sheep?"

"I fucking..."

Faust's blood pressure spiked instantly. He clenched his fists and roared, "That's not Slow Sheep Village Chief, that's the devil Baphomet!"

The colossal creature lurking in the abyss beneath the earth continued to rub and writhe, seemingly trying to break free of its narrow cage. Its body seemed endless beneath the earth, making it impossible to discern just how terrifying it truly was.

A worm-like head emerged from the ground, its eerie mouth surrounded by countless eyes. The mouth, covered in a sticky liquid, slowly opened, spitting out a few indistinct words.

“Die…they all have to…die…”

"Death...die...die..."

Bai Ge raised his hand, aimed it at the monster in front of him, and focused his attention. In the next instant, the ugly head transformed into... an adorable white-haired girl in anime style.

The other person blinked blankly, looking around in confusion, seemingly not yet understanding. They scratched their head in bewilderment.

"Huh?"

The white-haired girl instantly became furious, waving her now harmless little fists and shouting in a childish voice, "I'll beat you to death, you bastard!"

Seeing this, Faust almost had his blood pressure spike. He was about to grab Bai Ge by the collar and yell at him, "High-level mental skills aren't for you to use to turn into a human girl!"

Everyone stared at Bai Ge with strange looks. Bai Ge coughed and explained, "Tell me, which tough guy could resist a cute little princess in pink?"

Like I used to love going to Disneyland, and I especially liked going during work hours. Once, I even ran into my boss walking towards me. I pretended to turn my head away to play on my phone, and suddenly a WeChat message popped up. My boss said, "Stop pretending, I see you. Didn't you take sick leave? What kind of illness requires treatment at Disneyland?"

"After a moment of contemplation, I replied to him seriously, 'Princess syndrome.'"

"Back then, the boss invited me to ride a roller coaster, the kind where you don't wear a seatbelt."

Then another terrifying head emerged from the ground, staring intently at everyone before them. At that moment, Faust suddenly realized, "This isn't the monster's whole form; this is only a part of it. It's all underground. It's useless; no matter how many heads and tentacles we kill, it's only treating the symptoms, not the root cause. We must sever the connection between these bodies and the main body."

An endless stream of tentacles tried to climb up from the deepest part of the abyss, to break free from the cage that had imprisoned them for tens of millions of years. The fluctuations of mental power crashed against everyone's minds like waves, and their minds, which had just stabilized, began to twist again. The surrounding scene turned into a gloomy basement filled with flesh and blood.

Even without completely breaking free from the shackles, the distorted and terrifying images in one's mind have an irreversible impact on one's mental state.

"what!!!!"

With a painful howl, Kurt suddenly seemed to transform into a different person. He walked expressionlessly to the edge of the crevice, glanced at the abyss, turned around, gave the crowd behind him a strange and eerie smile, and waved.

As if he had just thought of something, Xi Zeliang suddenly rushed forward, trying to grab the other person, but Matt was a step faster. He then leaped into the abyss.

Before everyone could recover from what had just happened, Madi, who had been silent all along, suddenly stood up and slowly took off his glasses.

"No, Maddie, wake up."

Anan tried to use a spell to entangle the other party, but Madi snapped his fingers and said calmly, "Wait a minute, I haven't been bewitched by an evil god."

As Madi muttered incantations, the fragmented scene around them vanished, replaced by a large, blurry mist. The group seemed trapped within this wall of mist, except that the mad god beneath their feet and the Lolita girl with a Henan accent, who had been turned into white hair by Bai Ge's mental abilities, remained.

"I'll kill you!"

"You son of a bitch!"

Although this scene looks absurd and bizarre no matter how you look at it.

Realizing something was wrong, Faust turned around and tried to retrieve Medusa's head from his inventory, but it showed that the item was unusable, and even spells and skills were completely ineffective.

"Restricted again?"

A sense of unease flashed through his mind. He stared intently at Maddie, still holding onto his last trump card. He asked, "You're not a fictional character created in the script. Who are you?"

"who am I?"

A strange smile appeared on Madi's face. He suddenly turned his head 180 degrees to look at Bai Ge behind him and slowly said, "What makes you think we are still in the real world? Haven't any of you noticed?"

"Could it be that..."

Bai Ge seemed to suddenly realize something, and looking at the smug smile on the other person's face, he suddenly exclaimed, "You're a Dream Eater?"

Maddie didn't answer, but nodded slowly with a faint smile. "I promised you I would appear in the next multiplayer scenario mission. If it weren't for me, you would have been crushed like an ant by the final evil god boss in this difficulty dungeon long ago. Fortunately, I set a timer switch on this body. Once the evil god's resurgence is triggered, I will also travel over here as an NPC."

At this point, he added meaningfully, "But what I didn't expect was that there were other forces besides us who were eyeing this."

Bai Ge frowned and asked, "What exactly do you want to do?"

Maddie put his hands in his pockets, snapped his fingers, and said, "Of course it's the truth you're all curious about. I want to take all of you to see part of the truth about this world."

Chapter 246 Two-Faced Angel

"You had better explain to us what you're planning."

Faust, who had always thought he had everything under control, turned pale and never expected that he had fallen into another conspiracy.

The Dream Eater explained casually, "Anomalies are like a double-edged sword. They can give rise to extraordinary life forms like players, but they can also cause devastating damage to civilization. Just like the dungeon world you're in now. Anomalies occur frequently, and a large number of bizarre events appear: human head balloons, slit-mouthed women, death alleys, and all sorts of strange attacks kill a large number of living people without leaving a trace. People are terrified, and even the governments of various countries are completely baffled and have no way to deal with them."

The Dream Eater slowly explained, “They weren’t as lucky as you; they couldn’t destroy the anomalies. Governments from various countries tried everything: weapons, firearms, Taoist talismans, holy water and crosses blessed by the Pope himself, Buddhist statues and scriptures. But nothing could harm the evil spirits and demons. They became memes, spreading their ideas, multiplying, and taking pleasure in slaughter. It’s like countless horror movies have all become reality. That world is full of evil spirits and demons, and the situation is rapidly deteriorating to the point where governments can hardly cover up the truth, and social order is on the verge of collapse.”

The Baku's narration was calm and detached, yet everyone could sense the terror embedded in its words.

"At this point, someone mentioned the parallel universe theory."

Parallel world theory?

"If they could seal all the anomalies and place them in a parallel world, they could escape this terrifying hell on earth. Subsequently, the world's united government in the parallel world began selecting and searching for suitable mediums. After a large number of cruel test subjects died and were eliminated, a seventeen-year-old girl with psychic powers was selected. The girl had survived an anomalous attack, and the authorities noticed that the girl's test subject had a special talent: she could drag the anomalies into a murky, artificial dream world. For her, every sleep was a torment worse than death. Whenever she entered the ethereal dream world, she could hear screams and wails rising and falling, and see bizarre and terrifying sights."

The Dream Eater calmly continued, "The World Government sympathizes with the girl's plight, but the real world has deteriorated to the point that they can no longer afford to be merciful. They have no choice but to make a decision: using the technology at hand, they will use the girl's brain as a container to contain all the strange events in the world and store them in the depths of the murky dream world. They will also reactivate the technology to travel between parallel worlds."

Sensing the chilling decision behind him, Nishizawa Ryo narrowed his eyes and said, "You mean..."

"The facts are just as you imagine."

The Dream Eater sighed, "The United Government's research institutions created a link between dreams and reality, placing that seventeen-year-old girl into a giant instrument, putting her into a state of perpetual sleep. Through the consciousness diffusion function in the instrument, the psychic power in her mind was unconditionally amplified, dragging strange events and phenomena in reality into a deep dream, thereby achieving the goal of eliminating supernatural events."

"However, this is only a temporary solution. Once the girl who took the punishment in place of the world dies, or is unable to remain asleep and awakens, those monsters will reappear, bringing even more terrifying disasters. Therefore, they can only choose to take another precaution: banish the sleeping girl to a parallel world to solve all the problems once and for all."

"Could it be..."

Upon hearing the Baku's account, Faust's face instantly turned ashen. "The so-called sleeping fallen god is actually..."

The Dream Eater lowered its head, looked at the enormous creature writhing in the depths of the abyss, and slowly nodded.

"That monster was actually a girl who was transported to a parallel world, and during the transport, time was pushed forward by billions of years. Such a long period of confinement caused the girl's mind to be corrupted and polluted, her consciousness was eroded, and she fell into chaos, turning into a writhing giant monster. Because the girl's dream had something in common with my dream, she asked me with her last remaining sliver of consciousness that she hoped I could do something."

"what's up?"

Bai Ge had already foreseen the tragic ending of the whole affair.

The Dream Eater slowly said, "Let me kill her, and be completely free."

"..."

At that very moment, the monster deep within the dream let out a sharp wail, seemingly pleading with everyone to end her suffering. Bai Ge, standing to the side, fell into deep thought, feeling that a crucial element was missing from the so-called truth.

"So that's how it is. Is this the truth? If we kill the evil god, what will happen to the chaotic power in that dream?"

"It will be inherited by the player who kills the evil god."

The Dream Eater said indifferently, "There must be a Lich King."

Hearing this, Faust finally revealed his last trump card. He clutched a white angel statue tightly in his hand. Unlike the angel statues he usually saw, this one held up a scale in both hands. This white statue had two faces.

One image depicts a hideous, ferocious, and angry demon, while the other image on the back shows a benevolent, peaceful, and compassionate image of the Virgin Mary—a discordant and eerie sight.

[Item: Two-Faced Angel Statue]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Features: By paying a certain price and reward, one can summon the legendary mythical creature, the Two-Faced Angel. Upon successful summoning, the Angel will unconditionally grant one request from the summoner.]

[Postscript: A superior, independent race that has existed for billions of years, representing both despair and hope]

Faust explained, “Two-faced angels are merely idealistic beings that exist in consciousness. They appear in people’s dreams and memories, making them perfect for dealing with this guy in front of us.”

After saying that, he unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his muscular chest. Without saying a word, he plunged his hand into his chest, and with blood flowing continuously, he expressionlessly dug out a still-beating heart. The white statue, which could originally be held in one hand, instantly swelled to the size of a real person, and the blood-stained heart was placed on the scales.

Faust calmly explained, "The heart of Saint Andrew, this is the price I paid."

The moment the heart was placed on the scales, the balance suddenly tilted towards it. The two-faced angel statue, which had been keeping its eyes closed, suddenly opened them, its stone-like wings began to flap, and it swooped down towards the monster in the abyss. Faust, meanwhile, issued an unalterable command.

"Kill her and seize the power of the evil god!"

Chapter 247 Pandora's Box of Destruction

A blinding white light descended from the sky, slamming into the monster and illuminating the eerie, dark abyss, as well as the colossal creature's scales and claws. The monster conjured countless horrifying images: a face stripped of its skin and dripping with blood, a man whose face was burned beyond recognition and struggling in agony, and countless arms crawling like hind legs. Everything looked bizarre and indescribable. Accompanied by agonizing howls, its eyes slowly closed.

The blazing white light, like a sharp sword cleaving through the darkness, slammed into the writhing evil god. Instead of spurting blood from the shattered wound, clumps of black mist-like substance continuously spewed out from the cracks, and soon an anomaly appeared in the surroundings.

A woman in a white dress with disheveled hair appeared in the center, looking like a flickering projection on a television screen, eerie and unreal.

However, with each blink, the terrifying woman took another step closer. Faust immediately realized that this was a memetic vengeful ghost that used patterns to kill, and he immediately turned around and shouted at Bai Ge, "Don't blink! This is a memetic vengeful ghost!"