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

"Excuse my bluntness, but all I heard was, 'This shape is perfect for holding in your hand.'"

Flamingo squinted, revealing a look of disgust. "So it really is your XP that's the problem."

"You lost! You lost! You lost! You're no longer facial paralysis! It is now announced that the winner of this year's Facial Paralysis Gold Award is Yi An!"

Zhou Ke'er pointed at the flamingo with a disgusted expression and started shouting.

"..."

Even Yi An, who was usually expressionless, couldn't help but twitch at the sight. She turned to Long Aotian and said in a completely calm tone, "Why did you join them in this nonsense? I was too badly injured to walk alone, but why did you?"

Before Long Aotian could answer, Zhou Ke'er skipped over, hooked her left arm around his shoulder, and said, "Oh, don't say that! Long Aotian and I are sworn brothers, don't you agree, Xiao Tiantian?"

"...Do they want to kill each other, to fight to the death like sworn brothers?"

Long Aotian finally couldn't help but twitch his lips and retort, "But... I really do want to ask you one thing, why are you still staying here...?"

"Sizzle!"

Before Long Aotian could finish speaking, Zhou Ke'er turned around, her hand that was originally hooked around Long Aotian's shoulder now wrapped around his neck. At the same time, she gripped the spider leg with her right hand and suddenly stabbed it behind Long Aotian, producing a tooth-grinding sound.

"Oh, look, that's why."

Zhou Ke'er then released Long Aotian with a grin, pointing behind him: "Now, the roles are reversed. Why should we run away? We only ran away because we couldn't beat Ba Chi, not because we were afraid of these small fry. Besides, killing them one by one would be too slow. It's better to wait for them to charge at us all at once and take them out on us at once. Don't you think so?"

Well, while that's what they say, Zhou Ke'er actually has other motives behind the scenes. For example... the leaderboard for the second main quest. She wasn't sure if it was updated in real-time until now, after killing a ghost, she discovered... it definitely is. Although she doesn't know the calculation principle behind the leaderboard's changes, it has definitely been altered.

Therefore, if you kill them one by one, then Long Aotian, who checks the leaderboard after each kill, will definitely find that a player named Zhou Ke'er is always growing in the rankings at a similar rate...

Although in his mind "Zhou Ke'er" was a female player, no matter what, he would definitely suspect "joker" next to him because of this, right?

Therefore, only when he is too busy fighting ghosts to have time to look at the constantly changing leaderboard, and either he kicks the bucket and can't see it, or he only sees the final ranking at the very end, then even if player "Zhou Ke'er" has a similar ranking to him, he won't be too suspicious.

Besides... it's easier to die from being ganged up on by a group of monsters than to kill them one by one, right?

Thinking of this, Zhou Ke'er smiled at Long Aotian.

Long Aotian couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine, sensing that he had been tricked by someone...

At the same time, everyone turned to look at the ghost that Zhou Ke'er had just killed with a spider leg. They wish they hadn't looked, because what they saw...

Hmm, how should I describe it? At first glance, it's impossible to discern its shape; it merely resembles a writhing, dark liquid dissolved in the surrounding shadows. However, upon closer inspection, one can see that the thing reflects a murky light under the dim, faint sunlight.

The group carefully examined the basic shape of the monster. It resembled an extremely twisted human body, with inverted joints and pitch-black skin, dissolving and sticking together under the influence of a viscous black liquid. Although it was completely indistinct, it inexplicably gave everyone the feeling that "its left arm was inserted into its abdomen, its right foot pierced through its skull, and its large intestine was coiled and exposed. The parts that had broken off at the joints of the arms, though stained black, still poured out from the cut ends of the large intestines, flowing onto the ground."

On that body, grotesque-looking...worms kept hatching from the writhing, black liquid?

These pitch-black insects flapped their wings, which were stuck to the liquid, but were firmly attached to the skin of the pitch-black monster, revealing huge and ominous mouthparts, and constantly emitting abhorrent noises.

In just one glance, everyone's rationality plummeted.

Yes, of course, Zhou Ke'er's sanity level hasn't changed at all.

"Hey... what kind of monster is this? Is it really a monster?!"

Long Aotian couldn't help but turn his head and ask Zhou Ke'er, who remained expressionless, "The feeling this monster gives me... this eerie, repulsive aura is a bit like... Saya? Didn't you say several times that you know Saya?! Do you know anything about her?"

## Chapter 267, Section 262: Strange and Unusual (Seventy-One)

I know nothing!

Zhou Ke'er secretly pursed her lips. She hadn't looked closely just now, only seeing a dark shadow rushing towards Long Aotian, so she thought it was just an ordinary ghost. She immediately swung a spider leg at it, and when she glanced at it out of the corner of her eye, she didn't pay attention anymore—after all, Long Aotian was the closest to it, and even if it wasn't dead and suddenly attacked, it wouldn't be able to hit Zhou Ke'er—but she really didn't expect things to turn out like this.

Moreover, no matter how you look at it, the appearance of this monster is definitely related to those beings; perhaps it was just a tool they added for fun.

However, although she didn't know what was going on, Zhou Ke'er still put on a confident look and explained with certainty: "Well... although it's rare, you guys should have seen it before, right? It's a kind of ghost called Daxado. Although it looks disgusting, it's actually not difficult to deal with."

"..."

Honghe squinted at Zhou Ke'er, her eyes clearly asking, "Hey, really? You're just making this up again, aren't you?"

"Yeah, that's right! I was just talking nonsense, so what!"

Zhou Ke'er glared back with the same look.

"...?"

Honghe was completely baffled by Zhou Ke'er's winking and gesturing, secretly wondering if he had just had a mental breakdown at that moment...

"But this ability to corrupt reason..."

Yi An continued to press for answers with a blank expression, but was interrupted halfway through by Long Aotian's coughs.

"Contaminate reason? What's that?"

Zhou Ke'er wore a very puzzled expression. Relying on the fact that seeing this kind of monster wouldn't lower her sanity because of her character template, she deliberately squatted down and poked at the monster's corpse with her spider legs from a suitable distance, asking, "How come I've never heard of this monster having this ability? I don't feel like it can lower my sanity either?"

"Maybe it's because you've lost your mind."

Yi An looked at Zhou Ke'er with a blank expression, "Without reason, there's no reason to lower one's level."

"Hey! How dare you steal my lines! Don't go too far, I've been putting up with you for too long! You deadpan expression!"

Honghe couldn't help but glare at Yi'an with her dead fish eyes, muttering a protest under her breath.

You have no right to call others expressionless!

Zhou Ke'er and Long Aotian both thought to themselves.

However, there wasn't much time left for everyone to talk and chat. Although Zhou Ke'er had easily knocked down the dark figure that had suddenly attacked, it didn't stop the ghosts from advancing. Ghosts of all sizes and shapes poured out of the surrounding buildings and rushed towards Zhou Ke'er and the others.

As Zhou Ke'er watched the strange-looking ghosts rushing towards them, she was puzzled... How did they determine that Zhou Ke'er and the others were human? The system notification said that once ghosts determined that their target was human, they would launch an indiscriminate attack, but they couldn't distinguish correctly, so why were they swarming at them now?

"Aren't you wondering why they suddenly united and launched an attack on you without any scruples?"

Just then, the voice of the eight-foot-tall woman came from not far away, her voice containing an emotion that was hard to tell whether it was mockery or indifference.

"I was quite confused at first, but not anymore."

Zhou Ke'er used her spider leg to knock down a strangely shaped, muscular male ghost, glanced at the eight-foot-tall woman standing not far away who was watching the show from the sidelines, and pouted unhappily.

"..."

Red Crane squinted as she looked at the large group of ghosts rushing towards her, and a pure white mask gradually appeared on her face—"The Faceless One's Face"!

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"Huh...huh..."

Zhang He tightly covered the wound on his left arm with his right hand. Because the wound was so large, and for some reason it hadn't scabbed over, fresh blood kept flowing out.

"Are you OK?"

Chen Tian struggled to pull the wooden sword from the half-dead creature, wiped the blood splattered on her face, and hurriedly ran to Zhang He's side to ask.

"It's nothing serious, you won't die anytime soon."

Zhang He was pale, but he didn't panic. Instead, he remained quite calm. "This is perfectly normal. There won't be any problems for now. We'll just bandage it up later."

"...But I don't know how to bandage!"

Chen Tian couldn't help but remind her.

"I can!"

Zhang He was speechless, but Chen Tian amused him. "If I don't know how to bandage, wouldn't I be able to bleed to death from an unexpected accident while walking down the street?"

Hmm... Just now, after Zhang He used the voodoo doll to split his luck with the half-dead, the half-dead almost never hit Chen Tian, ​​and sometimes it would even fall flat on its face while crawling.

At the very last moment, just as Chen Tian plunged his sword into the neck of the half-dead undead, the undead inexplicably trembled, and the scythe in its hand was flung out at a very strange angle, slicing past Zhang He's left arm.

Because the sickle was so sharp, Zhang He's left arm was cut open horizontally with a wound as wide as a thumb without any obstruction.

It's truly a tragic situation.

"Wait a minute...something's not right!"

Zhang He suddenly seemed to remember something and looked at Chen Tian, ​​saying, "Isn't your title supposed to help others recover their stamina?"

"Ah! Right! I forgot!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Tian suddenly realized, "It's been so long since I used it, I'd completely forgotten about the title system!"

"...?"

Zhang He looked completely bewildered: "It didn't last that long. This mod was only banned for a short while... It only took about seven or eight hours of gameplay in total."

"...Oh, really? I must have been half asleep."

Chen Tian scratched his head but didn't say anything more.

Zhang He nodded, then released his right hand from the wound, took out a cell phone from his pocket, and handed it to Chen Tian: "This is the cell phone that Zhijian Sha left me when she left. Her contact information is saved on it. My hand is covered in blood right now, so I can't use it. Call them first and ask where they are."

"Oh, okay, okay."

Chen Tian quickly took the phone from Zhang He and wiped the blood off her clothes—she was already covered in blood, so a little more wouldn't make a difference—then she found her contacts and called Zhijiansha.

"Beep beep..."

The call was answered within two seconds.

"Huff...huff...is that Zhang He?"

The sound of sand slipping through fingers came from the phone, and the person seemed a little out of breath.

"I am Chen Tian. Zhang He is injured and is sitting here. Where are you now?"

Chen Tian explained.

"I'm so glad you're all alright... We... We're... Huff... We're running for our lives! I don't even know where we are..."

Sand between Fingers hurriedly replied, "Anyway, we're barely able to protect ourselves right now. You guys should take care of yourselves first... I have to go now, we're about to be caught... Goodbye! Good luck!"

## Chapter 268, Section 263: Strange and Unusual (Seventy-Two)

"This...it seems they've been hunted down pretty badly..."

Chen Tian handed the phone back to Zhang He, saying helplessly, "And they didn't even say where they were, so even if we wanted to help, there's nothing we could do... However, judging from the noise coming from over there, it should be a crowded place. What kinds of crowded places would be there at this time...?"

"No, although this guess is generally correct, this is not the usual situation."

Zhang He stood up, walked to the window in the next room, drew back the curtains, and glanced outside. "You can hear the noise from your phone clearly, but you can't notice the sounds right next to us?"

"Ok?"