They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 362 Origin
"No, in my opinion this is not a plague."

Ria had her own interpretation of the word "plague": "The larvae are catchable, and I can help the townspeople catch the larvae to avert this disaster, but we are completely helpless against the plague."

"In order to defeat the plague, we strive to improve our memes and portray a bunch of characters that are completely unsuitable for us. I'm thinking about how to portray a dream hunter in a dream."
If capturing dreams in reality means devouring other people's dreams, then wouldn't that mean devouring the lives within the dream world?

If your definition of a plague is something that takes lives, then if I were to act as a dream-catcher here, killing every life I can see, what would I be then?

Without hesitation, Farmanf exclaimed, "God!"

Ria fell silent, once again feeling that the pollution of faith had only brought people rigid thinking.

However, the other party was not wrong; in this world, gods are indeed such monsters.

He pushed open the door and looked outside. By this time, those who had surrounded him had all dispersed due to the contamination. The red moon in the sky was so large that it seemed as if it might fall down at any moment.

But its colors had become somewhat strange at this point, as if a thick, colorful fog had enveloped the red moon, making its original colors mottled and distorted.

Light falls on the ground through the Tyndall effect, forming a constantly wriggling spot of light. Under this spot of light, a larva stretches its body in a corner, extending "antennae"-like objects to probe for scents.

When someone passes by, it can quietly parasitize that person without anyone noticing.

"We want to return to the stars."

"We are the starry sky—"

The larvae inside the cup were crawling restlessly when suddenly they noticed someone walking towards them from the doorway. In an instant, they excitedly moved their entire body to half the cup wall.

"You want to let me go? To leave this place?"

Ria didn't speak, but instead lifted the glass in front of Falmanf and reached out her hand towards the Starry Night larva.

It seemed quite surprised; the creature tentatively crawled onto Ria's hand, then curled up into a ball, its colors shifting with a hint of hope.

Then, the next second, it saw the youth open his mouth, bite it, and swallow it whole.

"It doesn't taste good."

Lia licked her lips, wiping away the remaining color.

But at this moment, the hidden Star Rainbow larvae outside suddenly became restless.

This scene left Farmanf completely bewildered, and he asked Ria, "What is going on?"

"Didn't you understand? I'm eating."

"But why did you eat Starry Night? This is the first time I've ever seen anyone eat Starry Night!"

Lia answered truthfully, "Because I'm hungry."

"If you really want to know why, it's probably for the sake of acting. Since you're playing the role of a dream collector, it's quite reasonable to eat things in dreams, isn't it?"

"and……"

The young man turned and walked back outside, watching the larvae gradually revealing themselves, and the residents who became uneasy after discovering their large numbers.

"I don't have the patience to deal with them one by one, so I might as well lure them all out and eat them. Maybe Chaofan will find it interesting and directly judge my performance as successful."

Isn't this great?

The death of a larva releases a pheromone that sends a message to other larvae, and the larva that just died has already discovered that Ria is not an ordinary human.

It issued a warning that there was a threat here and that it needed to be eliminated immediately.

A large number of larvae hidden in the surrounding area will be unable to resist showing themselves, trying to immediately drain all the life force in the surrounding area, and then return to the safer starry sky.

This gave Ria a good opportunity to step in. The local residents were hostile to him, but they would never be hostile to their savior. If Ria could devour all the Star Colors, he would solve many problems at once.

"That's a great idea."

He squinted smugly, unaware that his thinking was increasingly deviating from that of a normal person.

"But there are too many larvae here. It might be troublesome to eat them all. How can we get them to gather together obediently?"

The young man walked out the door while thinking, then stood in the dappled sunlight and gazed at the red moon.

The larvae seemed particularly hostile to him. When they appeared, they would attack Ria first. The supernatural creatures gathered around Ria, crawled to his feet, and then tried to climb onto his body.

Some of the surrounding residents didn't dare to breathe, staring in astonishment at the people surrounded by mottled colors.

When the Starry Sky comes into contact with human skin, people will feel its presence as a sticky, harmful vapor. This creature will devour the life force of its prey, causing them to degenerate and mutate both physically and mentally.

"He was eaten, eaten by the Starry Night..."

"Let's run, or we'll get eaten too."

"How could so many larvae suddenly appear here!?"

"That person is a patient. He has a very strong life force. Once the larvae eat him up, he will become an adult worm, and then we will all be finished!"

"Get out of here! Get out of here!"

The residents frantically began to run outside, while some daring or curious supernatural beings remained behind. They then witnessed the bodies of those attacked by the larvae gradually disappear, eventually being swallowed whole.

"It's really life-and-death."

"He's a complete madman, a madman with a screw loose. Is that guy trying to stuff Starry Night to death?"

"Or maybe he just wants to feed Starlight and then let Starlight kill us all!"

The remaining supernatural beings chatted amongst themselves, but they soon found their bodies becoming weak, and some of the weaker supernatural beings immediately turned into mummies.

The colors of the star-colored larvae became more saturated, and they twisted their bodies, gradually coalescing into a sphere.

Indeed, as those extraordinary beings said, Ria simply allowed the Starry Night to devour her life force, and then these larvae quickly grew into cocoons.

The sphere visibly expanded, and the Starry Night larvae from all directions rapidly converged on it. Suddenly, a violent flash of light appeared, and the sphere exploded unexpectedly.

"boom------"

Intense colors erupted in a burst, shooting from the ground into the sky like a toxic gas leak or pollution from a chemical plant merging into the atmosphere. All other colors paled in comparison, and in this dreamlike realm, only the brilliance of the stars shone brightly.

As they had always wished, they rose into the starry sky and transformed into stars. The extraordinary beings looked up at them, completely stunned and speechless.

Most people won't live to see their true form, but as the larvae said before, ignoring their polluting nature, in the eyes of the residents of the Dreamland, they are truly beautiful, a unique "romance" belonging to the Dreamland.

One resident looked at his hand: "Those larvae have turned into adults, but I'm still alive. I'm actually still alive."

"They only needed to devour one human to transform into their complete form, and now that our threat has disappeared, the Starry Night will no longer devour our lives for the time being, and we no longer need to frantically search for larvae every day..."

"Honestly, we should thank that human."

"He was our savior. Even though he's dead, I'll remember him." "So what was his name?"

"Call……"

A group of extraordinary beings stammered. At that moment, Falmanf stepped out and bent down in the direction from which the Starlight erupted.

"Praise trade."

"What trade—"

The doubtful syllables were swallowed up in the ensuing roar, as if time itself had slowed down, and people could even hear their hearts pounding and their breathing.

The next second, a group of pitch-black tentacles, seemingly capable of devouring all colors, grew from the ground. They stretched wildly towards the sky, surrounding and consuming the escaped Starlight, bit by bit.

Darkness blended with various colors, and the tentacles closed up together before gradually retracting back to the ground.

For a fleeting moment, people saw countless golden specks of light, shimmering with a polluted glow in the darkness.

After the tentacles completely disappeared, the young man reappeared before everyone, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand: "See, that solved the problem..."

He fulfilled Xingzhicai's wish, he fulfilled the residents' wish, and he also fulfilled his own wish.

Eating them was easier than expected. Although Ria only swallowed a portion of them, countless larvae still existed elsewhere in the Dreamland. These creatures were difficult to eradicate completely, and their existence was an important part of the Dreamland's ecosystem.

But to the residents of Burgess in the dream world, Ria's actions were nothing short of a miracle.

Even the most powerful starlight could not take away that person's entire life; instead, it was devoured by him. Many residents, even those who were not corrupted by faith, still bowed their heads to Ria.

He saved them.

Extraordinary beings often have simple minds; they believe that since Ria solved the problem of the Starry Night, he is their follower.

Moreover, the young man's actions were brilliant in every way. He took a few steps forward, and the residents immediately rushed towards him as if welcoming a triumphant hero.

The moonlight in the sky was a pure red, and a half-human, half-spider girl climbed down from the roof, holding a white flower in her hands.

She crawled to Ria, straightened up, and handed him the flowers: "The moon is clean again, thank you."

"You were just on the roof looking at the moon?"

"Yes, I really like it. I don't know when it started, but I like to stare at the moon in a daze. But I just got so lost in thought on the roof that I forgot to run away."

"But you don't have to worry about that now."

The girl blinked the eight spider eyes on her gray skin: "I can see the red moonlight again, which I haven't seen in a long time. I wish everyone would like it."

As she spoke, she slowly climbed back onto the roof and looked up at the moon.

Ria recalled that Atlach had shown a similar expression in his dreams, and that He would capture human women to become His own subjects.

Perhaps Atlas himself has some connection with Crimson.

He then looked at the extraordinary creatures surrounding him, including a small number of humans living in the Dreamland. Among them were even people with blank expressions, clearly having only been to this place a few times and still not used to it.

They called Ria a hero, and even though Ria did not influence them with his faith, the group spontaneously called out the name of trade.

"Praise be to trade!!!"

Needless to say, this was definitely revealed by Falmanf, but Ria didn't stop him, which is probably why he was able to reveal it successfully.

Ria was conducting an experiment; he wanted to know the difference between those who spontaneously believed in him and those who did not.

He now realized that these people wouldn't provide much supernatural energy, or even anything close to zero, but Ria felt inexplicably at ease.

These are probably the normal believers.

The strange creatures surrounded Ria, some carrying baskets filled with food unique to the Dreamland, and they were trying to stuff the food into Ria's hands.

"Try it! It's made from our own soil, the brains are sweet!"

"Get out of here! What a disgusting thing you're making! My lord, look here! Freshly baked ghoul sandwiches, made from the flesh of ghouls under three or four years old. They smell delicious!"

"I think my dad's meat tastes good!"

"Sir Trader, who would you like to eat? We can kill them on the spot!"

Ria was overwhelmed by their enthusiasm. He thought his recipes were perfectly normal, but now it seemed they had misunderstood something.

Little Swarth perched on Ria's shoulder, hissing and bristling, his feathers puffing up completely into a large badminton shuttlecock.

It was warning everyone not to touch Ria, but most of the residents were extraordinary beings, and they were not afraid of the little Swarth in this form; some even wanted to touch it.

Then its hand was bitten off.

"They bit so neatly!"

The extraordinary creatures were all amazed, and then each of them wanted the mythical creature to bite them.

This farce lasted for quite some time before it stopped, but everyone quickly became familiar with each other. Ria also discovered that the extraordinary creatures in the dream world were more human-like, while the humans seemed rather listless.

This is the opposite of reality.

But there are also strange similarities.

Ria did not gain the Dreamcatcher meme by consuming the Star Color. He was not surprised, as improving the meme encoding would only become more and more difficult. He also did not know what the opportunity for improvement would be this time.

He came to the Dreamland not entirely for the performance, but more so to search for clues about the Apocalypse.

Regarding the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Ria had a vague clue in her mind, a clue that pointed directly to the origin—

The very beginning.

A mountain range filled with madness and death.

Guy Cosso.

The original Ria Kercha died there, and he also contracted the plague there, developing eyes on the back of his neck.

When his eyes were fully open, Ria died, but he awoke in the coffin.

"What are those eyes? Are they divine beings? Then why did it choose me? I've always worked properly and never done anything out of line."

Ria returned to the building in deep thought, where, besides Falmanf, there were other extraordinary beings who were preparing to discuss the plague with him.

There happened to be a mirror in the corner, and as she passed by it, Ria stopped in her tracks by accident.

Then, his pupils contracted, he turned his head stiffly, and his breathing became erratic for a moment.

(End of this chapter)