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

Shi An, already severely injured, was unable to stop it. He could only frown and angrily say, "What are you doing! Don't you know I am Shi An, the son of the current emperor? Why do you attack my companion?"

"...Why doesn't Your Highness recognize us?"

Li Yu's already pale face appeared even more ashen in the shadows, his eyes gleaming with a terrifying light. "This old servant still wishes to ask Your Highness, why did you bring this Westerner into the forbidden area of ​​the palace?! Are you plotting a rebellion?! Why would Your Highness plot a rebellion?!"

"Eunuch Li is mistaken!"

Zhou Ke'er leaned against the door of the inner hall and sneered, "Since Wu Fei himself wants to change his body and run to the barbarian lands of Great Qin to be emperor for another sixty years, why can't Prince Shi'an come down and prepare a way out for himself?"

"...You damned beast, you maggot-infested wretch! Whose side are you on? What do you want?!"

Li Yu turned his head and stared intently at Zhou Ke'er, his eyes filled with a "I'm going to kill you right now" look, as if he was about to drop the Dior in his hand and suddenly attack Zhou Ke'er at any moment.

Zhou Ke'er was actually a little worried. If Li Yu suddenly attacked him now, he would indeed be unable to run away, and his spiritual power was insufficient to resist, leaving him in a real dilemma.

Fortunately, for some reason, Li Yu only verbally abused him and did not directly attack him. It is likely that he was intimidated by Zhou Ke'er's move just now. If Zhou Ke'er showed weakness and retreated now, it would dispel the other party's doubts and make him take action against Zhou Ke'er.

## Chapter 337, Section 332: The Mystery of Kyoto (Part 10)

"However...as a rare kind-hearted person in this world, I must remind you of something..."

Zhou Ke'er smiled and pointed to the several scratches on Li Yu's arm caused by Dio's sharp nails, kindly reminding her, "It's best not to expose any bleeding wounds to her attack range, otherwise..."

"Varied..."

Upon hearing this, Li Yu instinctively wanted to ask why, but before he could even ask, he sensed something was wrong—a powerful suction force suddenly came from the wound on his arm.

"You actually... attempted to strangle a vampire? Should I praise your courage, or say you've lost your mind?!"

As Li Yu's grip lessened, the pressure on Dio's throat lessened considerably, and she was soon able to speak again. She took a few breaths—though she didn't know why vampires needed to breathe—and then immediately mocked him with an expression that said, "You can't outsmart me, this is my escape route."

"you!"

Although Li Yu's martial arts skills were indeed profound, he had never witnessed such a bizarre ability before. After all... to be honest, even in the Great Qin Dynasty, there really weren't vampires. It was all due to Dio's own character template. So, being ignorant, he was truly caught off guard.

Li Yu subconsciously released Dio and tried to pull his hand back, but unexpectedly, he was firmly held in place by the suction force and couldn't pull his hand away. Ordinary bloodsucking obviously couldn't achieve this; it was clear that Dio had activated some kind of skill the moment Li Yu tried to pull away.

"boom!"

However, Li Yu was not a naive newcomer and was not so easily flustered. After calming down in an instant, he immediately channeled his inner strength into his other hand and slammed his palm hard into Dio's lower abdomen.

Under the heavy blow, even with Dio's enhanced suction, he was no match for Li Yu's profound skill and was instantly sent flying, crashing heavily into the wall of the inner hall.

"Aaaaaah! Fuck!"

At the same time, the place where Dio was sent flying also echoed with a cry of pain—well, coincidentally, it was poor Zhang Buyan.

Back in the subspace, he miraculously survived the collapse of the inner sanctum, which was incredibly lucky. But... now, having given up struggling and lying there, he was still inexplicably affected by the collapse. It's hard to say whether he's lucky or unlucky.

"Huh? You're still alive? The inner palace collapsed just now and you're still alive? How did you do that?"

This really surprised Zhou Ke'er, and he couldn't help but ask.

"You really want me to die?"

Zhang Buyan cried out in pain while muttering complaints.

"Ahem... They even have small bread rolls for emergencies, that's really nice... The palace is so nice."

Dio coughed twice, still dazed from the impact. When he saw Zhang Buyan lying half-dead beside him, he didn't react for a moment and instinctively wanted to use him as a blood bag.

"What the hell! What do you think you're doing?!"

Hearing Dior's mutterings, Zhang Buyan was startled. He immediately forced a hand out and pointed at Zhou Ke'er, repeatedly shouting, "I know her! We're on the same side! Don't do anything! Don't do anything!"

Although Zhang Buyan is indeed lying down and waiting to die, that doesn't mean he'll just stand by and watch himself be used as a blood bag and drained dry!

"..."

Standing there, Li Yu covered the wound on his right arm with his left hand, his expression shifting between light and dark. It was quite obvious that his right hand was in stark contrast to his left. His injured right hand looked like a withered vine that had lost its moisture, appearing dull and gnarled, almost like the arm of that old man in black robes.

"...Foreigners, princes, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Zhenbei, and a guard of the Prince of Yan...what are you plotting?! What do you want to do?!"

Li Yu angrily questioned him, her already high-pitched voice sounding extremely harsh.

Zhou Ke'er frowned impatiently, glancing at the young man struggling outside the inner hall and the black-robed elder guarding him, then at Li Yu before her—a blustering but ultimately powerless figure. A sense of boredom and annoyance washed over her. This module should have ended long ago, yet they've dragged it out for so long. Why this futile resistance? Can't they just obediently go and die already?

"Why should I need to explain my actions to others throughout my life?!"

Zhou Ke'er said impatiently in a cold voice. As she spoke, her fingers, hidden under her wide sleeves, twitched slightly. She secretly channeled her inner energy, and several swallow feathers flew silently and at great speed toward Li Yu.

"!"

Li Yu was indeed highly skilled in martial arts and was also the emperor's personal eunuch. Even with his right hand injured, he easily blocked Zhou Ke'er's sneak attack with his outstretched hand, and in a very flamboyant way, he caught all the flying swallow feathers with his fingers.

"A sneak attack? You dare to sneak attack me? With your weak and powerless...."

Li Yu stared at Zhou Ke'er in shock, his mouth uttering incredulous words, but... he only got halfway through his sentence—you see, given Zhou Ke'er's cunning and treacherous nature, how could she possibly just throw an ordinary Flying Swallow Feather? Moreover, Zhou Ke'er didn't believe that the skills randomly obtained from the module could pose a threat to this mini-boss, who was close to the module's power limit, so of course she had hidden a few spiritual energy needles in it...

And Li Yu, to make matters worse, was so arrogant as to not bother to dodge, directly reaching out to catch it, even trapping it between her fingers. Instead of immediately letting go, she held it in her hand and started verbally attacking Zhou Ke'er...

Isn't this just asking to be bombed?

"boom!"

As expected, Li Yu was hit squarely in the face by the spiritual energy needles. Although the damage from those needles was definitely not as great as the Earth Explosion Star (lol) that Zhou Ke'er had just used, they did leave Li Yu stunned for a few seconds.

"Ugh..."

Having already suffered from Zhou Ke'er's sneak attack with spiritual energy needles, Shi An figured out Zhou Ke'er's purpose early on. Naturally, as soon as Zhou Ke'er made her move, he tried his best to slowly approach Li Yu. After Li Yu was blasted by the spiritual energy needles, a few breaths later, he happened to be standing behind Li Yu.

While Li Yu was still dazed from the explosion, Shi An placed his hand behind Li Yu's back, looked at Zhou Ke'er with a chilling gaze, and said, "You see, although you've been targeting me and even seriously injured me, I haven't laid a hand on you. Actually, I've always had a chance, so I hope you remember this. You owe me a favor... Zhou Ke'er."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Yu's expression suddenly changed, as if he had suffered a violent attack, and his whole body began to convulse uncontrollably—was An perhaps using some kind of technique like the Star Absorbing Technique or the Power Dissolving Technique? This was too insidious!

"you..."

Zhou Ke'er frowned. She had originally wanted to ask Shi An how he knew his name, but then she remembered that Lengchitu had indeed mentioned it before...

However, Shi An seemed to see Zhou Ke'er's doubts and explained, "Have you forgotten...? There are several game replays that you participated in on the official forum of this game... I was wondering at first, how could you, who are so famous, dare to pretend to be an NPC!"

## Chapter 338.333. The Mystery of Kyoto (XI)

"...Damn it!"

Zhou Ke'er then realized that there was such a thing, and couldn't help but facepalm helplessly—after all that, he knew from the beginning that Zhou Ke'er was a player, and just watched Zhou Ke'er pretend to be an NPC and act along with him all the way?

Holy crap! This is so incredibly embarrassing! It's socially fatal!

"Hahaha, it's all fake, fake! There are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me. I'm not crazy, all of you get out of my way! Hehehehe!"

Upon realizing this, Zhou Ke'er was struck dumb—it wasn't that he couldn't accept himself being silly, but that others had discovered his silly antics early on and were pretending not to know and joining in—at this moment, Zhou Ke'er suddenly burst into laughter as if his whole being had broken.

"Hey...are you alright?"

Cold-cooked Rabbit, who was following behind Zhou Ke'er, sensed something was wrong. After all, she hadn't known Zhou Ke'er for very long and had never seen Zhou Ke'er in this state before. But even so, she immediately felt that something was off about Zhou Ke'er.

"Of course I'm fine, I'm perfectly fine! What could possibly be wrong with me?"

Zhou Ke'er turned to look at the cold-cooked rabbit, revealing a playful smile, but her eyes were lifeless, as empty as a puppet's fake eyes.

"If we kill all of these people, no one will know about this, right? Oh, no... this mod will also be put on the official website, so it seems we have to kill everyone who has played the game, hahahahaha!"

Zhou Ke'er had a strange expression and muttered some scary words under her breath.

"???"

Shi An couldn't help but show a look of surprise and uncertainty—he didn't understand. He had clearly given Zhou Ke'er face, so how had he provoked her to this state? No matter how he thought about it, it shouldn't be like this! And... she had just said those kinds of things, could it be that she was going to attack him? Was that reasonable?!

However, what no one noticed was that the black mist quietly rising in Zhou Ke'er's eyes was slowly eating away at the whites of her eyes, and fine, scarlet blood vessels were gradually creeping into the corners of her eyes.

Given Shi An's skill level, he was unlikely to pose a fatal threat to Li Yu. He had only managed to control Li Yu because Li Yu was already in a bad state and caught him off guard. Now, Shi An was momentarily distracted and subconsciously relaxed his control over his technique. Li Yu seized this opportunity and, in that instant, turned around and slapped Shi An hard.

Shi An, who was already seriously injured, was naturally unable to resist and was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string.

"Traitors and villains...all must die!"

Li Yu seemed to be losing her senses, and was just screaming in a shrill voice in a subconscious way. After all, she had first had a large amount of blood sucked out, and then her face was blown by Zhou Ke'er's spiritual needles. She was already in a dazed state, and it was also suspected that Shi An had sucked out her internal energy. When the internal energy rushed into her spiritual platform, her mind immediately became chaotic, and she showed signs of going into qi deviation.

With Li Yu's skills, even if Zhou Ke'er and the others attacked together, they wouldn't be his match. But unfortunately, he suffered because he knew very little about Zhou Ke'er and the others' methods, and now they have been forced into this situation.

"Are you crazy? Who gave you permission to go crazy? I'm a doctor, and I haven't even said anything yet, how dare you go crazy?!"

Zhou Ke'er looked at Li Yu, who was shouting wildly. Li Yu's expression was also somewhat crazy. While shouting, he didn't even care about the difference in strength between himself and his enemy, and rushed straight towards Li Yu.

"Hey! Are you crazy?!"

Shi An barely managed to recover his senses when he saw Zhou Ke'er recklessly rushing forward, and he immediately cried out in shock.

"No...she's gone completely insane..."

On the contrary, Dio, who had been standing aside, hesitating whether to use Zhang Buyan as a health pack, spoke up—after all, she was a high-level player who had activated the character template, and she had seen this situation before. Generally speaking, only players whose sanity had dropped below 20%, or even below zero and were on the verge of being forced to quit, would fall into this state.

But... even if her sanity level drops, shouldn't there be some warning signs? From what I've seen so far, Zhou Ke'er's actions, while somewhat erratic, haven't really been considered insane, and her sanity level has been at least half... how could she suddenly fall into a state of madness now?

When Li Yu saw Zhou Ke'er rushing towards him, although he had not yet regained his senses, he instinctively slapped Zhou Ke'er hard with his palm, relying on his years of experience.

Just as Zhou Ke'er was about to collide with Li Yu's palm strike, her body suddenly became supple, like a snake, and quickly wrapped around Li Yu's outstretched hand, sticking to Li Yu's body in the blink of an eye.

"Do you think you've gone crazy? Huh? Well, let me treat you then. How about a frontal lobe removal surgery? Oh, never mind, there's no way to remove it now, how about just blowing it up?"

While muttering incomprehensible words, Zhou Ke'er suddenly reached out and slapped Li Yu hard on the top of his head—with one or two spiritual needles between each of his fingers, which had almost exhausted all his remaining spiritual power.

At the same time, Li Yu reacted quickly and slapped Zhou Ke'er hard with his palm, sending him flying.

"Bang! Bang!"

What followed was a violent explosion. Although the explosion range of the spirit needle was smaller and could not reach the same scale as the previous spirit ball, the damage within the attack range was not much different.

Even if Li Yu had mastered the best external martial arts in the world, it wouldn't have mattered if his skull was hit by such a violent explosion. Even if he had skin of copper and bones of iron, could he withstand a gunpowder explosion face-to-face? Not to mention that the explosive power of Zhou Ke'er's spiritual needles was even greater than that of gunpowder.

Li Yu's head was naturally blown to pieces, his face a bloody mess, with his white bones exposed on the top of his head, and even the exposed top of his head was missing a part, clearly blown open.

Zhou Ke'er was also seriously injured. Don't forget... most of those spirit needles exploded when he was holding them in his hand. How could she possibly come out unscathed? Li Yu's palm strike only caused a minor injury, but Zhou Ke'er's hand was blown off, leaving only a few slightly broken bones exposed, with blood gushing out continuously.

Even Dior couldn't help but show a look of disgust upon seeing this—damn, couldn't they at least censor it?!

Cold-cooked Rabbit, who had never seen such a scene before, immediately covered his mouth and knelt down, gagging on the ground. Needless to say, his sanity was dropping rapidly.

"Hey, what should we do in this situation?"

Shi An suppressed her nausea and turned to Dio to ask, since she seemed to know something about the situation.

"My advice is... ignore her, let's run!"