A Psychiatrist's Bizarre Game Journey / Dream of the Mist

"Oh? You're willing? That would be great. Then it's up to you. It's best to restrict his movements a bit, like tying him up or something, to prevent any potential consequences if we don't get back in ten hours or if he wakes up early."

Zhou Ke'er nodded noncommittally—he had just casually mentioned murder and body disposal, intending to get Aisaka Taiga to agree to hide the policeman in his house, since there was no need to bring him along and it would be quite troublesome.

Besides, Zhou Ke'er isn't some kind of murderous maniac who kills people at the drop of a hat because she finds it troublesome; there's really no need for this kind of thing.

When Taiga Aisaka saw that Zhou Ke'er had agreed, he quickly nodded, picked up the unconscious policeman, and went downstairs—wow, there's even a basement... This house is unexpectedly big; it doesn't seem like much from the outside.

"Ah! Right! You just stopped at their location. If they didn't discover the mark, could it be that they've already found the real hero? Is it too late for us to get there now?!"

Just then, Cold Rabbit suddenly slapped his forehead and anxiously said to the others.

"...Sister, you're only just realizing this? Isn't this something any normal person would immediately think of...? It's like you've just discovered something earth-shattering about Yang Mi..."

Zhou Ke'er scratched her head in confusion and subconsciously complained, "Even so, there's no use in us being anxious. Three thousand meters, even if we run at full speed the whole time, it will take at least twelve to fifteen minutes, not to mention whether we can keep it up. Even if we can keep it up, we will definitely be exhausted by the time we get there."

Instead of worrying about that, you'd be better off going out and stealing a car right now. If you have a car, you might make it in time.

As she spoke, Zhou Ke'er glanced at Long Aotian without leaving a trace, while muttering to herself, "Since so much time has passed since we stopped at our current location, yet there's been no indication of mission failure, it means... there's more to the story. My earlier deduction... heh, I'm afraid I'll have to do the opposite."

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172. The Great Rescue of the Heroes (Part 8)

A short while later...

"Hey...is this really a good idea? Aren't we just making trouble for ourselves?"

Sitting in the back seat of the car, Lengchitu glanced at the original owner who had been thrown out of the car, and couldn't help but twitch his lips as he asked Zhou Ke'er.

She had thought Zhou Ke'er was just joking, but she didn't expect her to actually take action!

"Isn't it because you hesitated and didn't do anything that I had to take action myself? Besides, look at Taiga Aisaka, she didn't say anything, so what are you whining about?"

Zhou Ke'er rubbed her hands together in the driver's seat, eagerly gripped the steering wheel, and said without turning her head.

Cold-Eating Rabbit glanced at Taiga Aisaka sitting next to him—he really hadn't said anything! Wasn't he completely dumbfounded?! Look, he's already sweating! Didn't you see his expression was so weird, like he had a hemorrhoid flare-up?!

However, the cold-cooked rabbit wisely chose to remain silent in the end.

Arguing with Zhou Ke'er will only hurt her in the end.

As for the rest, Long Aotian sat in the passenger seat, while Coffee floated on the roof with a cup of coffee.

Speaking of which, Cold-Eat Rabbit has been wanting to complain for a long time: Why can the undead touch things?! And just now, he clearly passed right through the sofa and rushed to the policeman, so he can just pass through whenever he wants and not pass through whenever he doesn't want to! No wonder he didn't pass through the ground and fall off Earth!

Cold-cooked Rabbit has long wondered about a certain question: why do the undead, who are said to be intangible in legends, manage to touch the ground instead of passing through the Earth's core and falling into space? Now, that question finally has an answer...

Isn't this ability a bit buggy?

"Are you sure you don't need to think about it anymore... no, don't you want to prepare anything further? Are you just going to go?"

For some reason, Long Aotian, who hadn't said much until now, suddenly spoke up.

What else should we prepare?

Zhou Ke'er glanced at him innocently, tilted her head, and asked with a puzzled look, but inwardly she was laughing: "As expected, playing dumb? Now you finally can't hold back? If I didn't have a backup plan... what would you do? Given the current situation, we're all in one car, our movements are restricted, and everyone is watching. How would you prepare a backup plan? Now I have the upper hand!"

Well, while hiding information from teammates or even secretly sabotaging them is certainly not a good tactic, Zhou Ke'er cares more about competing with Long Aotian than completing the module. From the very beginning, this guy didn't tell everyone the information he deduced, but instead secretly left his own backup plan. From that moment on, Zhou Ke'er automatically took this as a signal that Long Aotian wanted to compete with him, so naturally, he couldn't refuse.

As for whether the module will fail... at least Zhou Ke'er is very confident in herself.

"Of course we still need to prepare a bit more, like how we'll make our entrance! If it's not cool enough, how can it be worthy of someone as perfect as me?"

Long Aotian choked for a moment, but quickly adopted a matter-of-fact attitude, crossed his arms, and tilted his head back to explain.

"Oh, I see... How about we floor the gas pedal and drive at 120 mph to wedge the wheels into the stinky ditch at the bend, and use that to unleash the legendary Cyclone Charge Tornado?"

Zhou Ke'er nodded in complete agreement and made the suggestion in a serious tone.

"Hey! Watch where you're going! Watch where you're going! Damn it! I knew it! I should have realized it as soon as I saw you get in the driver's seat!"

Cold-cooked Rabbit immediately interrupted Zhou Ke'er and Long Aotian's conversation, shouting loudly—the memory of Zhou Ke'er speeding on the street during the last module she did with Zhou Ke'er suddenly came back to her, she shouldn't have let Zhou Ke'er hold that steering wheel!

"Hey Rabbit, you know... there's a golden rule in our racing world, and I think it's time to tell you..."

Zhou Ke'er snapped off her seatbelt, gripped the steering wheel with one hand, turned half her body to the side, and looked at Leng Chi Tu with a serious expression, as if she were entrusting him with some final words: "Even the fastest AE86 can't catch up with Xia Shu riding in a Mercedes!"

"What are you talking about? Watch where you're going!"

Cold-Eating Rabbit was shocked by Zhou Ke'er's actions and shouted loudly, "You almost crashed into the roadside green belt, you idiot! Didn't you see that Aisaka Taiga next to you was almost scared to death?!"

"Ah, Rabbit, in my long career as a race car driver, I've finally learned one thing: human capabilities..."

Zhou Ke'er sighed and was about to start reciting the lines engraved on the DNA when, unexpectedly, Leng Chi Tu immediately pressed one hand on his face and reached around to the front with the other, forcefully turning Zhou Ke'er to face forward. "Drive properly, you bastard!"

"Aaaaaah, I'm going to die! My neck! My neck! It's going to break!"

Zhou Ke'er's cheeks were pinched between Leng Chi Tu's two hands, her already thin face and mouth squeezed together, making her look both miserable and funny, and she screamed incoherently.

"Then you better drive carefully! I don't want to die at the hands of my own teammates instead of the enemy!"

Cold-Eat Rabbit let out a few gasps, panting heavily—she had been tightly fastened to her seatbelt just moments before, and this sudden lurch forward had almost squeezed her intestines out—wait a minute…did they really come out…? Cold-Eat Rabbit, who randomly became an undead, had many suture marks on her abdomen…

Thinking of this, Cold Rabbit's face stiffened abruptly, but she couldn't just openly lift her clothes here...

Zhou Ke'er rubbed her neck, which she had almost broken, and complained indignantly, "Seriously, have some faith in me, okay? My driving skills are top-notch! I can catch those patients who steal cars and escape from the mental hospital with ease, and I can even catch escaped patients in another car while driving!"

"Hey! You've been on the police station's blacklist countless times already! This isn't just about going to jail! You'll definitely be locked up! Hasn't your driver's license been revoked yet?!"

Upon hearing this, Cold-Eat Rabbit couldn't help but launch into a frenzy of吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet

"...Another world...how scary..."

Listening to Zhou Ke'er and Lengchitu arguing, Aisaka Taiga didn't dare to move, sitting upright in her seat, trembling.

"Huh? This kind of thing only requires money... cough cough..."

Zhou Ke'er subconsciously uttered half a sentence, but immediately stopped herself—no, it had to be in accordance with the core socialist values! So she quickly changed her words, saying, "Well, I made this choice out of necessity to prevent mentally ill patients with serious social harmful tendencies from causing significant harm to society..."

Public officials who can see through the essence of the matter at a glance naturally uphold the belief of serving the people. They understood my correct approach of unifying personal and social values, and rights and obligations, and after giving me a profound lesson, they let me go.

"..."

Cold-cooked Rabbit was speechless. This guy is really something... You let it slip from the start! That confident way you're acting is so ironic. You're actually a master of subtle mockery, aren't you?! Shut up, you jerk!

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173. The Great Rescue of the Heroes (Part 9)

However, although Zhou Ke'er kept rambling on about racing and other incomprehensible things, her speed was actually quite moderate, or rather, a bit slow. It took her almost twenty minutes to travel a distance of less than four kilometers, which was ridiculously slow. This was only because she finally sped up halfway through; otherwise, it would have taken who knows how long.

Just to be on the safe side, Zhou Ke'er didn't rush directly to those guys. Instead, after asking Long Aotian, she stopped her car about a hundred meters away—at a chemical plant by the sea—and planned to sneak over there carefully, trying not to be spotted by those guys immediately.

"You seem to have a lot of free time. It's such a short distance, and you've taken this long to drive? Are you unsure of your driving skills?"

As Leng Chi Tu got off the bus, she couldn't help but speak up. She had urged Zhou Ke'er several times on the way, but Zhou Ke'er only agreed verbally without taking any action. It was a standard "I was wrong, but I will do it again next time, I will do it now."

"I lack confidence in the police's speed..."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er pouted and muttered.

"What does this have to do with the police? Are you afraid they'll arrest you for running a red light?"

The cold-cooked rabbit's ears were quite pointed. After hearing Zhou Ke'er's mutterings, it immediately asked back with amusement.

"Sigh, you wouldn't understand even if I told you, and there's no time to explain it now. You'll find out when the time comes."

Zhou Ke'er waved her hand casually, leading the way into the abandoned chemical plant while muttering something unintentionally.

For some reason, this chemical plant was filled with dilapidated shipping containers, making it somewhat like a maze.

As for Long Aotian, he subtly revealed a hint of realization, as if he had breathed a sigh of relief without making a sound, and said, "We are very close to them now, but something is strange... They haven't moved for almost half an hour, not even the slightest movement within a meter. Could this be a trap?"

Hearing Long Aotian's question, Zhou Ke'er finally raised an eyebrow, thinking to herself, "So he couldn't help but ask...it seems he already knew..."

"That's right! This is a trap!"

Zhou Ke'er nodded naturally and answered in unison with a voice that seemed to come from nowhere.

"Huh?! What's going on? Could it be... you're a traitor?!"

Cold-cooked Rabbit was shocked by Zhou Ke'er's matter-of-fact expression, and then realized that it was not surprising at all that Zhou Ke'er did such a thing!

So she immediately took two steps back warily and quickly scanned the surrounding scene. She hadn't noticed before, but now she realized, a beat too late, that this was actually a chemical plant by the sea, though it seemed to have been abandoned. In addition, there were dilapidated containers scattered around, and the roads here were winding and full of side roads. If you didn't make a sound, you wouldn't be able to see the other person even if you were just around a corner.

In this situation... how were those guys able to find them? What other explanation could there be besides a traitor among their own side?!

Sure enough, Zhou Ke'er couldn't resist turning on her teammate! Cold Rabbit felt like she had discovered the truth and couldn't help but stare intently at Zhou Ke'er.

"Are you stupid? Didn't you see the spear stuck in there and the armor next to it? If you can't tell it's a trap after seeing those two, then you're really stupid, Rabbit!"

Zhou Ke'er glanced helplessly at Leng Chi Tu, who was having quite an internal monologue, and quietly retreated to Aisaka Taiga's side, where she and Long Aotian stood in front and behind to protect him.

"Hey! You're the one who fell for the trap! Why are you acting like I'm the stupidest one?!"

Seeing the look Zhou Ke'er gave him, Leng Chimian immediately retorted, but also became wary, retreating to Aisaka Taiga's side and muttering, "You said Holmes didn't understand deduction, but you, with your shameless words, fell for it too! Deduction, my foot!"

"Ha, how can I outmaneuver him if I don't fall into his trap? Stepping into the trap is a necessary confirmation process. Unverified reasoning is just nonsense. Besides, if I'm not sure that this is indeed their plan, then my subsequent backup plans might fall through..."

Regardless of whether Lengchitu could hear her, Zhou Ke'er explained in a very soft, noncommittal voice.

At the same time, footsteps sounded, and then the three guards and the girl appeared on the container in front.

Then the leading guard stepped forward again, looking down at Zhou Ke'er and the others. He snorted coldly and said contemptuously, "You've finally arrived. This saves us a lot of trouble. If you hadn't reacted at all, we would have had to spend some time luring you here."

As expected, you self-proclaimed intelligent monsters are much easier to deal with than those idiots whose brains are completely blocked by muscles. You've fallen for their trap so obediently!

"Why waste time arguing with them? Hurry up and activate the formation to finish them off! I can't hold out in this state for much longer!"

The girl frowned and immediately scolded him, as if she was enduring something.

"What's going on here? Should we run away?"

Seeing that the group had already begun to activate some kind of formation, Cold-Eat Rabbit quickly asked Zhou Ke'er and the others, "Should we stop them now? Let's decide!"

"Well, no need to rush, didn't you hear anything?"

Zhou Ke'er spoke leisurely and unhurriedly, taking out her tablet and taking a picture of the girl who was floating in the air and emitting golden light. Then she fiddled with the tablet for a while, saying, "I told you I have a backup plan. You know what a backup plan is? It means that even if I can't catch up with Mercedes, I can catch up with other cars."

"What are you talking about?!"

Cold-Eating Rabbit was completely confused about what Zhou Ke'er was talking about and asked in bewilderment. Before she could finish speaking, Long Aotian interrupted, "Listen, that's the sound of police cars. She called the police! As expected of someone I acknowledge, she was able to mobilize the police force. She's truly only slightly less intelligent than me! In terms of intelligence, I'd call you second!"

Long Aotian crossed his arms, nodded to Zhou Ke'er, and didn't forget to boast a few words.

"Would you like to dance too?"

Zhou Ke'er forcefully resisted the urge to make him carry a bag of rice up several floors right now, and while signaling everyone to retreat, she said...