Introduction: **When a VR game becomes an eldritch baptism, surviving means embracing the very corruption killing you.**Cheng Ye never wanted to be a hero. He only logged into *Eclipse Online* to escape his dead-end job. But when 500 players awaken trapped in a cathedral crawling with biomechanical tentacles, their "game" reveals horrifying new rules:  - **300% pain sensitivity** with permadeath  - A glitched skill called [DATA CORRUPTED] that lets him **devour monsters** for power  - A ticking **"Cognition Contamination"** meter mutating his body  To resist the Old God's assimilation, Cheng must **consume other infected players** - each feast granting him their memories alongside grotesque powers. But the price escalates:  ?? His "Sanity Pool" depletes faster with every **Old God-aligned skill** unlocked  ?? NPCs bleed black oil when he uses [Abyssal Gaze] to reveal their **true eldritch forms**  ?? The enigmatic Sister Angela keeps whispering: *"The 499th sacrament awaits your choice, Proxy."*  As reality itself glitches - showing the game world overlapping with his **real-life city** - Cheng discovers the awful truth:  The "server" is Cthulhu's dreaming prison.  The players aren't random.  And his "character creation" happened **23 years before he was born.**  ---...