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

"Oh, this..."

Upon hearing this, Zhang He choked for a moment, unsure of what expression to make. He could only cough awkwardly twice and quickly change the subject, pointing at Yuan Fan and asking, "Alright, and who is this?"

"He's a player too, you can ask him for details. Let's discuss what to do next and where to go."

Seeing that Zhang He didn't pursue the topic further, Zhijiansha breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

"Pat...pat..."

Just then, a very faint, slow-moving sound came from outside the room, as if something was using its hands to support itself on the ground and moving forward step by step.

Everyone heard the sound and immediately shut up. They looked at each other for a few seconds. Chen Tian held the wooden sword in front of him and slowly tiptoed to the hole in the wall. While keeping an eye on the strange man's corpse, he cautiously looked out into the corridor.

In the dim light of dawn streaming through the window, a woman, her upper body only visible, her hair disheveled and covered in blood, gripped a sickle that looked like a lawnmower tightly in her hand, and moved step by step toward them, supporting herself with her hands on the ground.

"...!"

Just as Chen Tian was about to retreat and tell the others about the situation outside, she made eye contact with the ghost that suddenly raised its head for a second.

"Gan!"

Even the highly composed Chen Tian couldn't help but curse inwardly. Then, the ghost, which had been moving very slowly, suddenly seemed to have been injected with adrenaline. Its upper body straightened up abruptly, and it moved at an extremely fast speed, its hands braced on the ground. It even left afterimages, almost like a teleportation.

"This is... a half-dead undead! Sandfing, come quick, slow her down! Otherwise, we really can't outrun her!"

Upon seeing this, Chen Tian hurriedly shouted to the sand between her fingers—the moment she first saw this thing, Chen Tian had already mentally explained it to her. Although this monster had no lower body, the speed at which it moved with its hands was ridiculously fast!

Moreover... that scythe can cut a living person in half at the waist, it's no ordinary weapon, and it would be really bad if we were caught!

"What's going on? What kind of ghosts or monsters have arrived again?! How did they find this place so quickly?!"

Upon hearing this, Zhijiansha couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.

## Chapter 261, Section 256: Strange and Unusual (Sixty-Five)

"It's a half-dead undead... Now is not the time to talk about this. Dwelling on this is just a waste of time. Let's escape from here first and then talk about it later!"

Chen Tian frowned slightly and glanced around at the furnishings in the room.

Besides the door and the hole in the wall, there's a window leading outside... and since it's on the ground floor, unless you're extremely unlucky, jumping down shouldn't cause any problems...

Thinking of this, Chen Tian couldn't help but glance at Zhang He—there really was someone here with extremely bad luck...

"I think..."

Just then, Zhang He suddenly spoke up: "Although it is an ugly act to suspect others without reason, given the current situation where ghosts are coming to our door one after another, the possibility of it being a coincidence is very small. I have to suspect that one of us may have intentionally or unintentionally revealed our location information to the ghosts."

"...I'm sorry, if that's really the case, then it's possible that it's my..."

Before anyone could say anything, Yuan Fan sighed, looking both aggrieved and somewhat embarrassed, and replied, "I already told you... I have a feeling that there's some monster lurking in the shadows, watching me intently. I was chased all the way here... So, it's quite possible that I accidentally brought a ghost here..."

"...If, if you no longer wish to take me with you, then...then I will leave on my own. I won't cling to you and insist on staying..."

After thinking for a moment, Yuan Fan added another sentence.

"...That's unnecessary."

Zhang He casually gathered his long hair, which had come loose while he was sleeping, behind his back, and raised an eyebrow. "I'm just afraid that you deliberately lured the ghosts here to do something. If it was unintentional, then it's not your fault. Although we're not familiar with each other, it's not right to just leave you like this... After all, we also have someone here who can attract monsters... So, if you're feeling sleepy in spring and tired in autumn, don't sleep! Didn't you realize I was talking about you?"

"I wasn't asleep! I was just dozing off! Dozing off and sleeping are not the same thing!"

Suddenly jolted awake by spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue, before my mind could even process what was happening, my mouth instinctively retorted.

"...Alright, this isn't the time to talk about this! My cooldown isn't over yet, so there's no way to slow that guy down..."

Finger Sand peeked out to look outside, then quickly pulled back in, urgently telling the others, "I can only speed ourselves up now, and the speed boost won't last long... so we have to escape quickly! That monster is running way too fast!"

"Seriously, can't we just fight back? Why do we have to run away? Didn't we just successfully fight back?"

At this moment, Cold-Eat Rabbit asked with a hint of doubt, "Or is this ghost really strong? Chen Tian, ​​you just said you knew about this ghost, what was it called again, a half-bodied undead? Is it very strong?"

"Logically speaking, it's not that strong, but..."

While keeping an eye on the approaching half-dead undead, Chen Tian hurriedly replied, "But we're out of options, aren't we? Or do you have some hidden tricks up your sleeve? You can't expect me to fight it with this wooden sword, can you? And... if we don't run now... no, it's too late! I'll hold it off, you guys run!"

Chen Tian was explaining when the ghost suddenly accelerated again. In Chen Tian's vision, the entire ghost became blurry with speed. Chen Tian only had time to subconsciously block with her wooden sword and shout a warning to the others before she felt a cold wind coming from her ankle. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and instinctively pulled her foot back and jumped, thus dodging the scythe attack. In her haste, she had forgotten that half-dead undead attacked in this way.

"...I've already given us all a boost, but time is short, we need to create some distance quickly!"

Seeing this, Sand Between Fingers didn't hesitate any longer and quickly grabbed the Hourglass of Time to give everyone a buff.

"Ha, so... even though danger is rapidly approaching, you guys are still acting so unhurried, discussing all sorts of nonsense, without any sense of urgency at all... I really don't understand."

Upon hearing Chen Tian's words, Chun Kun Qiu Fei, who had already scurried away, glanced at the others who were still standing still and couldn't help but complain.

"Hey! Ghosts are here and you're still sleeping? Who's the least urgency-conscious person here?!"

Seeing the signs of spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue, the others quickly followed suit. However, Zhang He complained about spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue and then stayed behind.

Aren't you leaving yet?

Having attracted the hatred of the half-body undead, Chen Tian, ​​who was jumping around wildly, quickly said to Zhang He.

"Letting others cover for me is not something I should do; it's not in line with my principles..."

Zhang He pulled out a voodoo doll. "If I help you, it'll be easier, right? Maybe... there'll be a chance to turn the tables... the voodoo doll's curse—divide your luck!"

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"Hey...where do we run now?"

As Honghe dragged Zhou Ke'er away, she looked back at the building they had escaped from and asked in a low voice, "Are we going back to Zhijiansha and the others?"

"I wanted to say yes... but I can't..."

Zhou Ke'er's lips twitched, and she whispered to Honghe, "That guy Long Aotian is still with us! He's seen Cold-Cooked Rabbit, he can't hide it... If our player identities are exposed, all our efforts so far will be for nothing!"

"Oh...this is indeed a problem..."

Honghe glanced discreetly at Long Aotian following behind, and couldn't help but whisper, "Why don't we take advantage of this moment... and get rid of him? It seems he's already exhausted all his tricks, hasn't he?"

"...It's not that simple. If I could do it, I would have already..."

Zhou Ke'er shook her head. "That guy still has a killer move he hasn't used yet. Although it seems to have side effects, if he uses it... even that eight-foot-tall woman from before probably couldn't beat him, let alone us."

So what do you plan to do now?

Red Crane asked, squinting.

"..."

Zhou Ke'er hesitated for a few seconds, then turned her head to look at Long Aotian as she ran, "Hey... are you willing to be chased by those ghosts and monsters like this?"

"uh-huh?"

Long Aotian raised an eyebrow. "This is a strategic retreat. When have I, Long Aotian, ever been chased? They're not qualified!"

"...hesitating mouth."

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but twitch her lips.

What are you trying to do now?

Honghe couldn't quite understand why Zhou Ke'er suddenly called Long Aotian.

"It's simple... I was just thinking about it and suddenly realized that main quest one and main quest two might not be contradictory... We can create some ghosts that obey us through urban legends and use them to fight back against those ghosts... Of course, there's also the possibility that some might not obey, in which case we'll have to rely on Long Aotian's brainwashing tools..."

Zhou Ke'er lowered her voice and explained to Honghe, "Moreover, we can also capture other ghosts at the same time, brainwash them after capturing them, strengthen our side's strength... and then we can start the counterattack. Of course, at that time... we still need to deal with Long Aotian first."

"You cross the river and then destroy the bridge, using other people's things and then betraying them—you truly are something else!"

Flamingo couldn't help but mutter a complaint under her breath.

## Chapter 262, Section 257: Strange and Unusual (Sixty-Six)

Just as Zhou Ke'er was planning her next move, she inadvertently noticed that the gunshots and footsteps that should have been far away from that building were getting closer and closer.

Just as Zhou Ke'er turned around to say something to Long Aotian behind her, the red crane that was pulling him along suddenly stopped. Zhou Ke'er was caught off guard and almost knocked her to the ground. Fortunately, the red crane was quite stable, and Zhou Ke'er only touched it.

"what happened?"

Zhou Ke'er didn't understand what was going on, so she quickly asked Honghe.

"Don't stick to me like that..."

The flamingo squinted, but didn't turn around, instead keeping its eyes fixed ahead: "And...you're asking me why? Don't you even watch where you're going?...Look at the road ahead, is it even safe to keep going?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er quickly looked ahead and saw that, at some point, a disheveled woman in red had appeared in the middle of the road ahead. Her skin was dry and bluish-black, with bulging purplish-black veins, and she floated quietly in mid-air.

"...What kind of ghost is this? Judging from its clothes, it looks like a ghost from the old Celestial Empire... Is it a spirit from a Ouija board? Or a spirit from a spirit board? But that doesn't make sense, since no one summoned it, how could this kind of ghost come out on its own?"

Upon seeing the ghost, Zhou Ke'er immediately racked her brains, thinking, "A red-clad ghost standing silently in the middle of the road... I've never heard of it before? Is it because I haven't read enough books?"

"Hey, this guy in front is a real ghost now, not some god or some foreign monster or anything like that, right?!"

Long Aotian stepped forward, hesitated for a moment, then pointed slightly angrily at the red-clothed ghost in front of him and asked Zhou Ke'er.

"Yes, that's right."

Zhou Ke'er nodded seriously, "You can use your high-tech anti-ghosts equipment to deal with her, and let me see your true level. To be honest, your trump card just now was really lame. I thought you were planning something with all that fanfare, but it turned out you just made a fool of yourself."

"Ha, what do those foolish ghosts know? How could I possibly make such a mistake? That was obviously a deliberate slip-up, a feigned weakness to lull the enemy into a false sense of security, so I could seize the opportunity to strike and kill them!"

Upon hearing this, Long Aotian's expression stiffened at first, but he quickly returned to normal and confidently explained, making it seem as if he himself believed it.

"boom!"

Just then, a gunshot suddenly rang out. Zhou Ke'er and the others quickly turned around and belatedly realized that the red-clothed ghost had been hit by a bullet from who-knows-where. He was immediately thrown back three or four steps by the inertia and fell to the ground.

"The time it took for that monster to be hit was almost exactly the same as the time we heard the gunshot, less than a second... The person who fired the shot was at most about 300 meters away from us!"

Red Crane, who had been closely monitoring the situation with the ghosts, calmly analyzed, "And this gunshot is exactly the same as the one we heard outside that house just now. If I'm not mistaken, it should be the same person who fired the shot earlier... In that case..."

"That means Yasakani and Jorogumo came along too! You can tell just by their footsteps, right?!"

Zhou Ke'er immediately followed up with the next sentence, and hurriedly looked in that direction as the sound grew closer.

"Jorogumo?... Hmm..."

Flamingo scratched his head in slight confusion. "What is that? Wait... I feel like I've heard that somewhere before... Let me think... Is it the Spider Woman? The Spider Demon?"

"...What you said isn't wrong..."

Zhou Ke'er nodded, and sure enough, in the direction from which the sound came, the white-haired loli he had just seen had her lower abdomen stained red with blood. Her left hand was covering the wound, and her right hand was tightly gripping the gun that was almost longer than her. She quickly leaped down from the roof of one building, darted to the rooftop of another building, did a somersault, stood up, and continued running.