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

"Until death do us part!"

The flamingo raised its head, its face expressionless, and answered in a passionate tone.

Her neatly tied hair had inexplicably fallen down over her forehead, almost completely obscuring her eyebrows and eyes, making her normally lively face appear somewhat melancholic. However, this actually made it less incongruous, and combined with her expressionless demeanor, it seemed almost natural.

"Can I trust you?"

Zhou Ke'er emphasized her words and reached out her hand to Honghe.

"Until death!"

The flamingo immediately picked up on the story and reached out to shake Zhou Ke'er's hand.

Just as their hands were about to touch, Zhou Ke'er swiftly and naturally withdrew them, then strolled leisurely to the front of the Divine Realm Nine Tribulations. "You must have thought I was trying to help her up, right? See, that's the dogmatic mistake of judging by appearances."

"???"

The phrase "Divine Realm Nine Tribulations" is followed by a question mark and a black person's expression.

"You probably thought I was fooled by Zhou Ke'er, right? But actually we had it all planned out."

Honghe stood up, walked to Zhou Ke'er's side, and gave her a high five without expression. "You've made the mistake of making assumptions without understanding the truth, a kind of empirical error."

"???"

The Nine Tribulations of the Divine Realm was completely bewildered.

"Alright, are you almost done with the preparations?"

Seeing this, Zhang He shook his head, sighed, and tried to smooth things over, saying, "We should probably be going now."

Just then, a loud "bang" suddenly echoed through the empty department store.

The group was startled and quickly looked over, only to find that... it was Chun Kan Qiu Fei, who had been dozing off against the shelf, who accidentally pushed the shelf over and made a loud noise.

"Oh... damn it..."

The expression on Shenyu Jiujie's face changed instantly. Before he could say anything more, several roars that were not far away reached everyone.

"I'm not asleep!"

As if jolted awake by spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue, with wide eyes, before realizing what had happened, she confidently and crisply declared.

"You're not asleep yet, but we'll probably all be asleep soon."

Zhou Ke'er grinned at the spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue, then grabbed her homemade spear without hesitation and slipped outside.

Honghe naturally picked up her stick and ran after her. Although she hated boring things, and running away was obviously boring too, she couldn't just go and die because it was fun.

Startled by spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue, her still-sluggish mind finally realized what had happened. Then, with a frown, she grabbed the two kitchen knives Zhang He had just replaced for her and was about to charge towards the oncoming zombies. "I caused this mess, I'll deal with it myself!"

"Oh my little darling, stop fooling around, okay?"

Helpless, Shenyu Jiujie stepped forward, grabbed Chun Kanqiu Fei, hoisted him onto his shoulder, and ran outside. After all, he was a kind-hearted person, and he just couldn't bring himself to abandon his teammates.

"Get down! Quickly!"

Zhou Ke'er's voice came from the front. Shenyu Jiujie and Zhang He, who were behind, didn't know what was going on, but they all knelt down out of trust for their teammates. After all, Zhou Ke'er had no reason to harm them.

Immediately, Zhou Ke'er and Honghe laboriously tossed two large bags of flour over.

Immediately, the flour sack, its opening widened, landed heavily behind Shenyu Jiujie and Zhang He, sending up a cloud of powder and dust.

"Alright, you guys come here quickly! Run faster!"

While shouting, Zhou Ke'er, with the help of Honghe, quickly lit the spare wooden stick that Honghe had brought with a lighter.

Although no fuel was poured on it, it could still be easily ignited after being wrapped with cotton strips.

Although the Nine Tribulations of the Divine Realm and the others did not know what Zhou Ke'er was going to do, they quickly got up and ran towards her.

"Right here! I'll count to three, and when I get to one, you kick this glass door open!"

Zhou Ke'er finally lit the tip of the wooden stick and immediately looked up at Zhang He and the others who were running over.

Before they could say anything, Zhou Ke'er loudly counted, "Three! Two!...One!"

"Art is an explosion! Drink!"

"boom!"

"Bang! Crackling and popping!"

As the lit wooden stick was thrown to the spot where the flour had been thrown earlier, a deafening explosion suddenly rang out.

Taking advantage of the moment, the group broke through the glass and fled while all the zombies were distracted by the explosion.

"Tch... Luckily, I didn't spread the flour evenly because of time constraints, otherwise I might have been in serious trouble... I underestimated the power of a dust explosion..."

Zhou Ke'er was thrown out by the force of the explosion. Fortunately, the glass had already been broken, so Zhou Ke'er landed just in time and was not seriously injured.

Honghe quickly helped Zhou Ke'er up and followed the others to a nearby pharmacy for temporary refuge.

I came here to explore because I was feeling drowsy in the spring and tired in the autumn, and there were no zombies in the pharmacy.

"Ugh... I should have made some dry ice bombs..."

Zhou Ke'er coughed a few times and said with difficulty, "Why don't department stores sell dry ice?"

"Because the department store only has a hundred kinds of products."

Honghe, supporting Zhou Ke'er, squinted and told a very lame joke.

"hiss..."

Zhou Ke'er shivered from the cold and quickly took a deep breath to warm up the surrounding environment.

Ah, speaking of this, Zhou Ke'er suddenly had a great idea! Viruses are ultimately just combinations of RNA or DNA, and as long as the temperature is raised high enough, they can be eliminated!

So, if we all work together to draw out all the cool air in the world, the temperature will rise dramatically, and we can eliminate the virus!

Wait a minute! Isn't this the greenhouse effect?!

Zhou Ke'er felt she had discovered the truth.

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18. The situation is urgent!

"This is...a difficult situation."

Shenyu Jiujie frowned, glanced at the zombies that had gathered on the entire street outside the pharmacy, and immediately turned back to speak.

"It's not difficult."

Zhou Ke'er lay on the ground, grimacing, and said, "We're doomed."

There's definitely something wrong with this game's settings. It's outrageous that you can't adjust the pain level to 0% and can only go as low as 30%.

That's why real men never look back at an explosion—because if they did, others would see their burned backs!

Zhou Ke'er's hospital gown was burned, and now his back hurts whenever he touches anything. Even when the pain level is lowered, it feels like many ants are crawling on him, making him even more uncomfortable.

"Although this pharmacy has three floors, none of them connect to other areas, and there's no rooftop..."

Zhang He came down the stairs, his face not looking too good. "In other words, we have nowhere to escape. The only way is to force our way out."

"Can't we stay here? If we just guard this place, we should be able to manage, right? We still have enough medicine and food, enough to last for two days."

Shenyu Jiujie sighed and asked tentatively, but it was clear that he himself did not have much hope.

"Wow, how could you have such a naive idea?"

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but roll her eyes. "If your approach were feasible, we wouldn't even need to leave that room in the first place. There's food and water in there... well, even without water, it wouldn't be a problem to last two days."

However, the mission clearly states that the room is only safe for half an hour. Why is that? Obviously, it's because either there's some crisis we haven't discovered yet, or there's a setting where 'staying in one place for too long will get you discovered by zombies'.

And also... have you forgotten that the game has a 'passive action' warning? Staying in one place without doing anything will get you a warning... and if you keep doing this, you'll lose sanity points..."

"And! Most importantly!"

Zhou Ke'er suddenly became excited as she spoke, and glanced at Honghe.

"Don't you guys find it incredibly boring to stay here all the time?!"

Red Crane immediately understood and read it aloud with a straight face.

"...That's what they say..."

Shenyu Jiujie glanced at her again, then sighed, "But Zhou Ke'er, in your current state, can you really break through? If you're unable to move freely..."

Zhou Ke'er glanced at her health bar, which still had more than half left. "I just look a little miserable, but I'm actually fine! Look at my status, it's only 'minor injury'!"

"Alright, since you insist."

Divine Realm Nine Tribulations could only nod. After all, everyone came to play games to relax. Wouldn't it be incredibly boring to stay in one place for two days? Since that's the case, it's better to end it sooner and start the next game.

No one else objected, except Zhang He, who muttered to himself, "Being bitten to death by a zombie is anything but beautiful... becoming a zombie is even uglier..."

"Alright... Let's make some preparations and then break through."

Seeing that no one objected, Shenyu Jiujie nodded and said, "But... I don't know where we should go."

"Who cares? It's hard to say whether we can even get out of this street. Let's just get out first."

Zhou Ke'er sat up, casually stuffed some compressed biscuits into her mouth, then gulped down a bottle of water, and swallowed the food with difficulty.

"Excuse my bluntness... but the way you're eating is really too... unappealing."

Looking at Zhou Ke'er's eating habits, Zhang He felt a surge of disgust and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. "Wooling food is an utterly inelegant behavior; one should chew slowly and carefully."

"Are you going to use a knife, fork, and wine glass to cut up the compressed biscuits?"

Zhou Ke'er pouted, "Isn't that like someone suddenly needing to poop and having to go to the outhouse, and then you accuse them of not using a toilet?"

"..."

Zhang He's lips twitched twice, but he didn't say anything. After all, from any perspective, there's obviously no elegant way to talk to someone who constantly spouts nonsense.

The group ate a little something to remove the "slight hunger" debuff from their status bar.

Immediately, Zhou Ke'er took out a bottle containing high doses of steroids, poured a large amount into her hand, and without caring how much there was, stuffed it directly into her mouth.

"What are you doing? You don't seem so boring."

The flamingo approached expressionlessly and asked.

"Take your medicine."