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

"Oh, this..."

Detective Zhou Meijiang's eyes sharpened instantly. So that's it! Now he understood! It must be that Kayako, that reclusive girl, owed someone money and was too lazy to pay it back, so she just kept dragging it out. Now that the person has come knocking, she happened to run into Zhou Ke'er and mistakenly thought someone was backing her up, so she burst into tears, saying before leaving that she wouldn't give up on getting her money back! That must be it! Perfect deduction!

Hmph, the reason he's telling me to treat Kayako well is probably because he's afraid she'll abscond with the money and leave this debt hanging over us! Sigh, Kayako really needs to thank Zhou Ke'er, otherwise it would be such a hassle.

As for this bouquet of flowers... is it a case of politeness before taking action? Oh wait, look at this huge bouquet of pure white flowers! The real meaning is, if the money isn't returned, these flowers will be offered at her grave! How terrifying! Thank goodness for Zhou Ke'er, otherwise Kayako would probably be in trouble!

Zhou Ke'er nodded with a look of conviction, then closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, it wasn't someone sent by the organization.

"Hey bro! What did you say to that guy? I saw that ghost actually said a few words after seeing you, and then it ran away crying! How did you do that?! That's amazing!"

Seeing the one-eyed monster run away, Acha, who was hiding in the shadows, couldn't wait to run out and ask.

## Chapter 240, Section 235: Strange and Unusual (Forty-Four)

"Ah... I didn't say anything..."

"Bang!"

"Excuse me! After much thought, I've decided I should hand something to Kaya in person...?"

Zhou Ke'er was casually replying to Acha when she suddenly heard a loud bang as a door was pushed open. Then, for some reason, the one-eyed ghost turned back and suddenly poked his head in from outside the door. He looked hesitant and seemed to want to say something, but when he saw the scene inside the room, he couldn't help but pause.

"....SHIT"

Even Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but swear.

"Wait, who are you people?! What did you do to Kayako-san?!"

The one-eyed monster's expression changed rapidly, his face instantly becoming quite interesting. He slammed the door open and tried to rush into the house.

"...Sigh, why bother?"

Zhou Ke'er did not try to stop him. Instead, she looked at him and sighed softly, secretly clenching her fists in preparation for giving him a hard blow.

Just then, another voice suddenly rang out from outside the door: "Of course we let them go. Did you think we would kill them?... Am I right, Mr. Joker?"

Upon hearing this, not only Zhou Ke'er, but everyone in the room subconsciously looked towards the door. There stood a well-dressed man in a well-fitting suit, exuding an air of authority. Beside him was Zhou Ke'er's old acquaintance, Long Aotian.

"Hey... these two, have they been secretly observing us for a while now? Can they teleport?! And with built-in location tracking? That's too much... Could it be that Long Aojiao's phone has a location tracking feature?"

Zhou Ke'er's mind raced for a moment, thinking frantically, "Then why did they have to come out at this exact moment? And why didn't they come out when Acha's army was fighting amongst themselves? Is it some kind of twisted sense of humor?"

It doesn't make sense! They just abandoned that long-haired man for no reason, and let Kayako's family and the Red Crane leave, while they surrounded me, Zhou Ke'er, all by themselves?

Moreover, if they had been secretly observing me, they should have known that I, Zhou Ke'er, could leave via Sadako's teleportation, so there was no point in trapping me here..."

"Huh? Wait... no, no, he just called me... Joker, not Zhou Ke'er! Long Aotian didn't say anything either, which means they, no, Long Aotian, still don't know my player identity. They still think I'm Joker, a member of some mysterious organization?"

Thinking of this, Zhou Ke'er's eyes lit up—this is going to be fun! To be honest, playing this kind of character who can't be sexy is really quite boring. Zhou Ke'er is getting a little tired of it. It's time to be herself again.

"Long...Long Aotian? You are...."

When Acha saw the newcomer, she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. She had once caught a glimpse of Long Aotian in a town in the main world, so he looked somewhat familiar. But she never expected him to appear here now. It was completely unexpected, and she didn't even recognize the man next to him.

"Who...who are you? What are you talking about?"

The one-eyed monster was completely confused about what was going on and couldn't help but shout in bewilderment.

"...Tsk, filthy ghosts, disgusting...they've stained my eyes."

The man in the suit next to Long Aotian couldn't help but frown, and waved his hand with a look of disgust. Then, without warning, the huge one-eyed monster was hit by something extremely fast and was sent flying backward, making a crisp sound of bones breaking upon impact.

"...Oh? If I'm not mistaken, you're the so-called leader of the organization, right? Speaking of which... are you human or a demon?"

Zhou Ke'er decided to stop pretending. Since the other party had already revealed his identity, even if they were bluffing him, it meant that the other party did not believe him. So there was no point in arguing or insisting anymore. So... he tilted his head and suddenly put on a smiling face, asking casually as if it were an unintentional question.

“Yu, what…what are you saying?”

When Acha heard Zhou Ke'er's words and saw his expression change instantly, a sense of foreboding welled up in her heart, and she quickly asked.

Sigh... I don't want to reveal my questionable identity right after I've fooled you all... but what can I do?

Zhou Ke'er pursed her lips, turned to look at her, revealing her gleaming white teeth, her smile looking chilling: "Are you really not understanding? Or are you pretending not to understand? Or are you insisting that you don't understand? Then I'll just tell you directly."

"..."

As Zhou Ke'er spoke, she approached Acha, lowered her head, and whispered in her ear, a smile on her face but a cold voice: "What I just said was all a lie. You really are so trusting of complete strangers, oh dear, you're all such innocent children."

The seemingly dull-witted Da Jun reacted much faster, but unfortunately, he reacted in the wrong direction. Instead of running towards Long Aotian and the others, he immediately threw a punch at Zhou Ke'er.

"Hey, your men are about to be in trouble, aren't you going to stop them? Or are you just going to stand there and watch the show, deliberately sending them to their deaths? You're really something. No wonder you're supposed to be noble humans who look down on filthy ghosts."

Zhou Ke'er appeared to be provocative, calmly mocking him, but in reality, her fists were clenched, her whole body tense, and she was already prepared to retaliate.

Upon hearing this, Da Jun froze for a moment, struggling to stop the car. He turned to look at Long Aotian and then realized what he had done, thinking to himself, "Right! Why did I help them fight this guy? It's super dangerous!"

So he immediately took several steps back, preparing to make a quick getaway—it seemed this was a situation he couldn't interfere with...

"I'm very curious, how exactly did you escape from Ghost Power Company? You should have been trapped here forever."

Long Aotian suddenly spoke up, completely ignoring Zhou Ke'er's rambling, and asked to himself, "After all, I personally led the men to intercept you..."

"Hahaha, is this your IQ? That's really hilarious! Look at me now, and use your brain, which is as small as a fly's excrement, to figure out how I got out so openly?"

Zhou Ke'er revealed a disdainful expression and mocked wildly: "And who said you escaped? I only spared your lives; Heaven has a virtue of cherishing life. Otherwise, do you think you could have left there safely?"

Making boastful remarks and exaggerating are, of course, a must.

"...I see, disguise? I understand. To be able to find an opportunity to infiltrate our ranks under those circumstances without being discovered by me...Very good."

Long Aotian nodded as if he understood, but he wasn't angry because of Zhou Ke'er's trash talk. Generally speaking, as long as it doesn't directly harm his interests, like in the previous module, he is automatically immune to trash talk.

## Chapter 241, Section 236: Strange and Unusual (Forty-Five)

"However, under the current circumstances, your ability to disguise yourself is probably useless."

After a pause, Long Aotian adopted a confident expression, patting non-existent dust off his sleeves. "Do you have any last words?"

The man in the suit next to Long Aotian didn't say anything, but just looked coldly at Zhou Ke'er.

"Ha... How dare a mere insignificant human being spout such nonsense in front of me? Is it the organization you've attached yourself to that gives you the courage?"

Despite being human, Zhou Ke'er spoke of humanity's insignificance with extreme arrogance. "Or perhaps, you're pinning your hopes on... 'Saya'? Too bad you only possess a trace of her aura. You don't really think she'll protect you, do you? And... even if she did descend, so what?"

Zhou Ke'er started rambling again. She had already mentioned this to Long Aotian on the phone when they were at the Ghost Power Company. She didn't know what he thought, so she was going to repeat it to make a deeper impression on him.

"..."

Long Aotian remained silent for a moment, seemingly deep in thought. The man in the suit beside him frowned upon hearing this and angrily retorted, "Mere insignificant humans? You despicable and filthy ghost, you really dare to say that! You're nothing but maggots toyed with in the palm of our hands, yet you speak with such arrogance! You don't even know when we discovered your identity, where does this pride come from!"

"Pshaw, no way, no way, no one really dares to be proud of their flawed scheme? You think I didn't notice you? I deliberately stayed here waiting for you to show yourselves!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but reveal a mocking expression and laughed wildly—although he didn't realize it at first, he certainly couldn't lose face in front of the enemy, so he had to say a few harsh words. Besides... he had already figured out what was going on, so rounding up, he had already seen through it all along!

Seeing that the other party seemed to want to say something more, Zhou Ke'er raised her eyebrows, pointed to Da Jun and A Cha who were standing blankly to the side, and continued to speak to herself: "Isn't it just that when you urgently dispatched these few people to be cannon fodder, you tampered with the communication equipment? You added a listening function, right? So when I told many lies that contradicted common sense in the organization, you discovered that I was actually an imposter. Combined with the information that was previously transmitted to the organization's communications, you deduced that I was the Joker. Although you weren't sure, you still showed up directly and used an unquestionable tone to trick me, right?"

"!"

Upon hearing this, the man in the suit couldn't help but be startled, his pupils instinctively contracting sharply.

Long Aotian seemed to snap out of his reverie, stroking his chin as he looked at Zhou Ke'er, who was speaking eloquently, with a strange look in his eyes, as if he had just been thinking about something.

"You think I fell for your trap? Hahaha, what a joke! I did it on purpose. Otherwise, do you think our organization's intelligence network would have given us so much wrong information? I deliberately said those things to lure you out! So... now it's not me who needs to escape, it's you!"

Zhou Ke'er scoffed, head held high, looking at the two people in front of her, and laughed wildly: "Although you can't escape either! Do you know why I did this? Whether it's one or two dust particles swept away, to the naked eye there's no difference! The only difference is... it's easier and more convenient to deal with two at once."

That's right! Even if Zhou Ke'er is in a situation where she needs to run away immediately, she still needs to create the impression that the other person should be the one running away!

However... speaking of which, the man in the suit who seemed to be the leader of the organization, his disgust for ghosts and monsters didn't seem fake. Could it be that he really isn't a ghost or monster? Does that mean that what Zhou Ke'er and Hong He made up before was really wrong?

Uh... no, it should be said that it was indeed wrong.

"Was this part of your plan, Joker?!"

After hearing Zhou Ke'er's words, the man in the suit finally couldn't help but grit his teeth and say, "Damn lowly ghosts, they actually know how to use these tricks?"

"However, what would you think if you saw those monsters who are clearly your own kind, yet act as if they are human and must protect and sacrifice themselves for humanity?"

Just then, Long Aotian's expression returned to normal, and he once again revealed that confident and in control look. He tilted his head back and laughed with an air of self-assurance, as if he were having a friendly conversation with Zhou Ke'er—after all, both of them were laughing. Although Zhou Ke'er was laughing wildly, there was actually a strangely friendly atmosphere about it.

"Hmph, that's right. You lowly monsters, you want to revive your so-called glory as monsters, don't you? I really want to ask you, when you discovered that the biggest obstacle on your path is not humans, but your own kind, how did you feel? Oh, no need to ask, you can tell from the fact that you let that clown monster go before."

Before Zhou Ke'er could even process what Long Aotian meant after he said those words, the man in the suit, looking confident again, asked with a cold smile.

"???"

Zhou Ke'er was stunned for a fraction of a second. On the surface, she didn't show anything unusual, still maintaining her arrogant demeanor as if she knew everything. But in her mind, she was thinking rapidly: "What do they mean by that? Of course we know that the members of that organization are ghosts, but what's there to think about? They're just humans turned ghosts. Even if you look at it from the perspective of the identity I made up, you wouldn't have any particular opinion, right?"

"No, judging from their sarcastic tone, as if they've won a point, it's definitely not that simple. The only explanation is that those organization members weren't transformed from humans, but were originally monsters? Then why would they have the idea of ​​'protecting humanity'? Could it be brainwashing?"

Thinking about this, Zhou Ke'er felt that this setting was really ridiculous, but she couldn't think of any other more reasonable explanation for the time being, so she decided to bluff the other party—of course, she couldn't be too straightforward, otherwise it would be terrible if she guessed wrong and the other party found out that Zhou Ke'er was just bluffing.

"Ha, so what? Rather, I'm relieved for them. If they can live peacefully in ignorance, why bother with useless rationality?"

Zhou Ke'er curled her lips slightly, seemingly unconcerned, and slowly uttered a sentence: "Because of omniscience, one is foolish; because of omnipotence, one is blind."

[Warning! You are being watched!]

You are being watched by an unknown, great being!

Just as Zhou Ke'er uttered those words, a system notification suddenly sounded without warning.

## Chapter 242, Section 237: Strange and Unusual (Forty-Six)

However... it seems that after the notification sounded, there were no other effects. In the current situation, Zhou Ke'er didn't have any other thoughts about it, so she ignored it for the time being.

"...?"

Upon hearing this, Long Aotian wore the expression of an old man in a subway station looking at his phone, as if wondering, "What the hell is this guy talking about?" He was momentarily speechless. Seriously, do all ghosts and monsters have some kind of mental problem?

"Hmph, what's the point of wasting words with such a stubborn monster? Let him go to hell where he belongs, and then we can talk slowly!"

The man in the suit snorted coldly, then reached inside his coat and pulled out... a submachine gun?

Holy crap, is this the Thomson Ripple Dash?!

Upon seeing this, Zhou Ke'er's pupils couldn't help but shrink sharply. Damn it, she originally wanted to exchange some words with the other party first, but the other party directly said "Adults eat shit!", what's the point of arguing now!

Come to think of it, this is the first time Zhou Ke'er has ever encountered an NPC with a gun in all the time she's been playing the game, right? And it's in this supernatural mod... It's such a disgrace to this mod genre, lol! You'd be better off with some kind of superpower, you bastard!

"You foolish monster! Come and see the wonders of human technology! Human technology is the best in the world!"