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

"???"

Zhou Ke'er's eyes widened—What the hell? What's going on here?

"You mean I blew everyone up in the inner sanctum? Wait... let me think this through. Are you referring to the first time, or the last time I blew them up again?"

Zhou Ke'er asked in confusion.

But that's unlikely... In the end, there probably wasn't enough spiritual energy left for him to unleash another spiritual energy bomb.

"What? It exploded again? Are you out of your mind? You only exploded once? It was when we were all in the inner palace... The emperor, the man in black robes, the dead eunuch, and all that stuff, they were all killed in that explosion along with us..."

Cold-cooked Rabbit looked at Zhou Ke'er as if she were an idiot, "You've lost your memory?"

It's not me who has amnesia, it's you who has amnesia!

Zhou Ke'er narrowed her eyes upon hearing this, and couldn't help but complain in her heart, but she didn't say it out loud.

So it seems... the ending of that last module was definitely not that simple... even Cold Rabbit's memory was distorted?

While Zhou Ke'er was deep in thought, Zhijiansha watched as Zhou Ke'er and Lengchitu openly and intimately whispered in each other's ears in public. She couldn't help but glance furtively at Honghe, feeling that Honghe's already expressionless face had become even more expressionless.

So, to avoid the impending bloody tragedy (?), Zhijiansha quickly changed the subject and asked Zhou Ke'er, "By the way, speaking of which... Zhou Ke'er, what was the special reward you got at the end of that event? Show it to us!"

"oh oh!"

Zhou Ke'er snapped out of her daze upon hearing this, "I haven't claimed it yet, let me check now..."

As she spoke, Zhou Ke'er opened the mail collection panel and claimed the special rewards from the last event. "By the way, what were your special rewards, Chen Tian and Honghe?"

"Character template activation license. The class is [Styx Ferryman], and the system is Old Era Western fantasy. I haven't decided whether to use this yet."

The flamingo yawned, looking quite bored.

Still haven't decided whether to use this? It's ridiculous that Flamingo is starting to act like it's in Versailles...

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but secretly complain to herself.

"...What I gained was a skill, [Yin Sword]..."

Chen Tian looked at Zhou Ke'er with a helpless expression—well, it seems that it should be Chen Tian now.

As she spoke, she sent a private message to Zhou Ke'er: "I had a bad feeling when I saw this reward... I have a feeling that my identity has been exposed?"

Zhou Ke'er's lips twitched. How would he know... Ignoring Chen Tian for the time being, Zhou Ke'er shared the attributes of the special item she had received with everyone and examined it carefully herself.

【Name: Death Fang】

[Type: Weapon (Dagger)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Attack Power: High]

【Special Effect 1 (Active): Instantly appears behind the designated target, ignoring all of the target's defenses, and is guaranteed to strike the target's vital point. Cooldown: 12 hours】

[Special Effect 2 (Passive): When a target is dealt 13 instances of damage, 10% of that target's health will be permanently depleted.]

[Note: The moment it bares its fangs at you, you're already dead. PS: Don't use it to groom the boss's feet!! You can't kill a god by stabbing him 130 times with this thing!]

## Chapter 349, Section 344: Ruins

It has to be said that when Zhou Ke'er first saw the [Death Fang], her first thought was to use it to fix the boss's feet...

However, the note is not wrong. How could a boss just stand there obediently and let you stab it a hundred or so times? To be honest, let alone a hundred or so times, even if it only triggers once, stabbing it thirteen times is actually quite difficult to achieve.

You don't need to stab a monster that you can defeat, and you might not be able to defeat a monster that requires that many stabs. So its applicability is actually quite narrow.

In short, after everyone was ready, they woke up Chun Kan Qiu Fei, who had fallen asleep again sometime during the day, and then pushed open the door of the safe house and walked outside.

But... calling it exploration doesn't really mean they had any clear purpose. After all, unlike the players who were actually heading to the main city of the main world, the place where Zhou Ke'er and her companions were was completely desolate. There weren't even any other players, let alone NPCs; it was practically a ghost town!

Fortunately, the guide with the ahoge (a type of hair sticking up) mentioned that each city has a portal connecting to other places. If we can find a portal, things will be much easier. It's definitely more fun to go to the main city than to stay in this desolate place.

The surroundings were desolate, like ruins made of reinforced concrete. Everyone remained silent, not uttering a word.

Except for Zhou Ke'er.

Others might be afraid of attracting monsters if they spoke, but Zhou Ke'er wasn't scared at all—even if he encountered a monster he couldn't defeat, he could simply use his watch to teleport back to the safe house...

"So where are we going? Who's going to lead the way? Did you all plan this out already? Why didn't anyone tell me? Don't you love me anymore? You're not planning to trick me into selling dermatitis products, are you? That would be so mean!"

Zhou Ke'er kept nagging and pestering the others to ask her questions.

"...Don't worry, no one really wants your dermatitis. We don't do organ trafficking. And...could you teach us how to remove the dermatitis? That's too difficult."

Honghe glanced at Zhou Ke'er expressionlessly and answered in a serious tone.

Upon hearing this, everyone else instinctively moved a few steps away from Zhou Ke'er and Hong He—these two were always making lewd jokes, and no one wanted to associate with them.

"We don't have a fixed destination; we're just wandering around exploring the map."

Pretending not to hear what Zhou Ke'er and Honghe were saying, Zhijiansha shook the parchment in his hand and explained helplessly, "The mall updated its products a few days ago, and one of them is this thing - [Automatic Map Generation]. As long as you carry this thing and define an area, the places you walk in that area will appear on the map."

Weren't we looking for a teleportation array to leave this city? But unless we're incredibly lucky and find one today, we'll eventually have to go back to the safe house. This map is essential to avoid forgetting the way back and wasting time repeatedly exploring later.

"What?! The store has been updated? How come I didn't hear about it? What's new?"

Zhou Ke'er scratched her head, subconsciously trying to open the store interface, but found that she couldn't.

"The shop panel can only be accessed in the safe zone."

Honghe immediately saw what Zhou Ke'er was doing and squinted as she spoke to remind her.

"There's such a setting..."

"Wait, there's something ahead..."

Just then, Zhang He, who was leading the way, suddenly turned around and gestured for everyone to be quiet. He whispered a reminder and pointed in a certain direction ahead.

Everyone looked in that direction and discovered... that there was a skeleton walking slowly on the street, with a small, faint green flame flickering in its eye sockets. At first glance, Zhou Ke'er almost thought it was that old skeleton from the Academy of Gods who had come here.

Oh, speaking of the Divine Academy... Zhou Ke'er hasn't been there even once since then, she's completely forgotten about it. Looks like she'll have to find some time to go there again. Her watch already shows she's skipped almost thirty or forty classes—after all, she hasn't attended a single class since her application was accepted.

Although Zhou Ke'er felt no guilt about it, upon closer inspection, it sounded quite interesting, so she decided to give it a try.

"What do you mean? Avoid it?"

Finger Sand suggested that everyone should be a little timid at the beginning, and that it's always better to be safe than sorry. He lowered his voice and asked the others.

"It's just a skeleton. Based on my past gaming experience, it's at most a cannon fodder monster. What's there to be afraid of? Let me handle it!"

Cold-Eating Rabbit, already reckless by nature and even more so under Zhou Ke'er's influence, immediately jumped out and shook her head. Before Zhijian Sha could say anything more, she had already pulled out a huge anchor, aimed at the skull, and shouted, "Set sail!!"

"boom!"

As expected, in the blink of an eye, everyone first saw the poor skeleton monster being knocked away by the Cold-Eat Rabbit, flying more than ten meters away. All its bones were broken and scattered all over the ground. Then, a crisp sound finally came.

Zhou Ke'er naturally followed along eagerly, and with a keen research spirit, she picked up the last remaining main bones—the spine and skull that hadn't broken or shattered yet—and brought them to the front of everyone.

"Huh? Wait... this..."

Before anyone else could say anything, Zhou Ke'er glanced at the flickering flames in the skull's eye sockets, then reached into the skull's mouth and grabbed the flames.

[“Energy Source O Netherworld Type” detected, which can be converted into character template experience points.]

[Note: Because this energy source differs from the character template system of player "Zhou Ke'er", energy conversion will result in losses.]

"Wow! So this is how you get experience from killing monsters!"

Zhou Ke'er let out a "Yo-ho!" and immediately transformed the thing.

It seems the main world is used to upgrade players' character template levels. No wonder Zhou Ke'er was wondering how to enhance her character template before; now I understand.

[Player "Zhou Ke'er" absorbed "Energy Source O Netherworld Type", gaining 50% of its energy, and her character template experience increased by 2.]

Half the conversion rate...

Zhou Ke'er immediately told everyone about it, and especially said to Honghe, "This kind of Netherworld energy, although it's unclear how it's classified, seems to be from the same system as your character template. If this area is full of monsters like this, it'll be a leveling paradise for you, incredibly efficient. Why don't you just use that character template? Anyway, even if you don't like it, you can always switch to another character template later."

"But there's a possibility that I'll explode because of systemic conflicts."

Red Crane retorted with dead fish eyes, but despite saying that, she eventually activated the [Ferryman of the Styx] character template.

## Chapter 350, Section 345: The Monster

"But... come to think of it, this shouldn't be the case..."

At this moment, Zhang He, who was standing to the side, frowned and muttered in confusion.

"What's wrong? What shouldn't be done?"

Upon hearing this, Zhijiansha subconsciously asked.

"The last time I passed through this area, there was nothing here..."

Zhang He looked around: "Logically speaking, since a skeleton monster has appeared, it means that similar monsters should appear in this area. There should be a place like a monster gathering place, but I haven't encountered any before, which is very strange. And if there is no so-called monster gathering place, but only this one skeleton monster has appeared alone... that's even stranger."

"That's true..."

Zhou Ke'er nodded, about to say something, when suddenly she felt a faint energy flash in her eyes. The scene before her eyes changed instantly. All the colors in her vision were stripped away, and countless black mists swirled around the ruins of the building beside her, giving Zhou Ke'er an extremely jarring feeling.

But this only lasted for less than a blink of an eye before returning to normal. Zhou Ke'er didn't even see clearly what changes had occurred in her vision just now; it was as if her vision had simply gone black for a moment.

But Zhou Ke'er was certain that it was absolutely not like that.

"..."

Is this the same situation as in reality? Is it also a stress response caused by absorbing evil energy?

But that's not right... this can't be considered evil energy, can it?

That's very strange.

And what did that black mist we just saw mean? What did it represent?

Zhou Ke'er narrowed her eyes, but she couldn't figure it out for the time being.

"I think... we should put this issue aside for now."

The flamingo's emotionless voice came through. She pointed in a certain direction and squinted, saying, "Oh, right, a new problem has arisen. How should we deal with monsters that have no physical form?"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked in the direction Honghe pointed, only to see a group of people who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, with stiff and pale faces. They were dressed in gaudy clothes in bright red and green, but they had no feet and were floating.