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

Honghe had no time to answer; a strong urge to vomit surged up, and she couldn't hold it in, so she knelt down and vomited.

A large amount of bright red mucus, mixed with some unknown solids, gushed out from the flamingo's beak.

"Are these... fragments of organs? Is it a liver? Or...?"

Flamingo vomited violently, struggling to think with her throbbing brain, "Is this... a side effect of that so-called antidote? No... it might not be a 'side effect,' it's just the thing's effect! Is stopping the zombification just a side effect?"

"Ahhh!"

Seeing such a horrifying scene, Nina immediately screamed in fright and instinctively ran away into the distance, with only one thought in her mind: to get out of there as soon as possible.

"Damn it... Don't even think about running away!"

Flamingo forcibly suppressed her vomiting, raised her head to look at Nina, and stood up unsteadily.

But she knew that there was no way she could catch up with Nina this way.

Just then, a tentacle that appeared out of nowhere suddenly wrapped around Nina's body and pulled her back.

The flamingo was startled, then seemed to sense something and looked down.

"These are... tentacles!"

She saw a tentacle extend from her side... the same tentacle that had just grabbed Nina.

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26. Are you going to act like a monster again?

"Huff...huff..."

Zhou Ke'er remained in a disheartened forward-bending position (orz), breathing heavily for a few seconds before feeling the pain in her head gradually subside.

What was that thing? It seemed perfectly normal at first, and even when Zhou Ke'er tricked it, its reactions were just like a normal person's. How did it suddenly go crazy...?

But he died from just one shot? That's so pathetic!

Zhou Ke'er had already prepared for the worst—to fire the last bullet, then retreat back through the crack in the wall she had just come from, back into the dark corridor, so that no one could see anyone else.

Zhou Ke'er struggled to stand up, leaning against the table beside her. She slowly walked to the fallen man, squatted down, and reached into his pockets.

"Hmm? This is..."

Just as Zhou Ke'er touched something hard with her left hand, like some kind of rock, and was about to take it out to examine it, she suddenly felt herself being pushed hard. She stumbled forward and fell flat on her face if she hadn't instinctively braced herself with her hands on the ground.

"pat"

An impact came from his right hand. Because his five fingers were spread out on the ground, he wasn't holding the gun; he was just pressing it to the ground. Now, kicked by something, he was naturally sent flying and his whereabouts were unknown.

Because Zhou Ke'er lost the support of one hand, her body tilted and she was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and immediately gripped the thing she had just taken out in her left hand, and rolled on the ground.

"Hiss... hiss..."

The strange sound came from where Zhou Ke'er had just been.

Zhou Ke'er quickly got up and looked up in that direction.

It was a creature that looked like the zombies that were everywhere on the street, but with a slit running from its throat to its lower abdomen, inside which were densely packed sharp teeth-like objects.

A pair of very cloudy, yet strangely dazzling deep blue eyes were set in the guy's deep-set eye sockets, making him look a little scary.

Judging from the distance, it seems that it wasn't that thing that kicked Zhou Ke'er's right hand... but rather that when it was walking towards Zhou Ke'er, it accidentally kicked a broken object on the ground due to its unsteady movement, and that object happened to hit Zhou Ke'er's right hand.

This shows that this guy's strength is indeed astonishing.

Zhou Ke'er's eyes met this guy's for less than a second, and she felt a pain far exceeding the previous throbbing explode in her brain, as if someone were stabbing a handful of chopsticks into her head and stirring them around...

No, to put it more vividly... it's more like using an egg beater to stir? So... is this supposed to be making a cake out of Zhou Ke'er's brains?

Zhou Ke'er had no time to react, or perhaps no energy to pay attention to her surroundings, before being tackled to the ground by the monster that charged at her.

"Hey...this position is really bad! I should be the one on top!"

Zhou Ke'er weakly blocked in front of her with her hands, barely managing to prevent the monster from getting its saliva on her and its sharp teeth, covered in yellowish grime, from biting into her delicate skin.

Because of the excruciating pain in her head, Zhou Ke'er had no strength in her hands, just like the hands of someone who has overslept and is forcing themselves to get out of bed.

"Pfft"

Zhou Ke'er's eyes widened suddenly.

Without warning, a bunch of sharp spikes emerged from the crack in the monster's body, piercing Zhou Ke'er's body almost instantly.

The numerous blood holes on Zhou Ke'er's body looked like a photo of your face magnified twenty times, revealing dense and enormous pores and blackheads.

"Ahem... If there's nothing else, I'll hang up now."

Zhou Ke'er forced a smile at the monster, then coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood. However, because her face was facing upwards, she couldn't spit it out and choked back it, making it difficult to breathe. She subconsciously turned her head to the right.

"Pfft!"

Almost simultaneously, a sharp spike shot out from the monster's mouth, piercing the spot where Zhou Ke'er's head had just been placed.

"Hey... this is super dangerous! I'll definitely die if I get stabbed! Wait, even if I don't get stabbed, I'll still die? Oh, never mind then."

Zhou Ke'er felt the sharp spikes grazing the back of her head and piercing the ground, and couldn't help but mutter a complaint under her breath.

But suddenly Zhou Ke'er felt that something was wrong? Even though so many sharp spikes had pierced almost his entire body... he didn't feel anything at all?

Before he could think any further, the monster retracted its spikes into its body, then quickly stood up, grabbed Zhou Ke'er by the collar, and threw her forward.

"My clothes! Don't pull my clothes! Ah! They're already soaked!"

Zhou Ke'er screamed as she was thrown out and slammed hard against the wall, but she didn't feel anything.

He glanced at the status panel and saw that his stamina was still three-quarters? And it was slowly recovering? Although his sanity had dropped to about one-fifth and was continuing to decrease at a visible rate.

There's also an additional abnormal status called "Unknown Transformation," with a small comment below that reads: "You are transforming into some unknown creature; in other words... you're no longer human!"

"Crack...click..."

Just then, a sound of shattering and collapsing rang out.

Zhou Ke'er had barely realized that the sound was coming from behind her, and before she could even turn around to check, she felt the wall she was leaning against collapse completely, and she fell straight backward.

"Wait... can someone tell me why there's nothing behind the wall?!"

Zhou Ke'er initially thought she had just fallen backward to the ground, but to her surprise, she didn't feel any contact with the ground at all. Instead, she felt a sense of weightlessness and kept falling downward.

Fortunately, this feeling didn't last long, or rather, it only lasted for less than three seconds before Zhou Ke'er felt herself suddenly smash into something that looked like glass.

Then came the sound of shattering glass, and Zhou Ke'er felt herself fall into a container filled with liquid.

"This is..."

Zhou Ke'er first checked above her head and, finding no sign of the monster jumping down, then looked around at her surroundings.

He found himself inside a container that resembled a large petri dish. Fortunately, the petri dish was empty, so Zhou Ke'er didn't have any close encounters with the monsters that were kept in it.

"Pfft..."

Zhou Ke'er floated to the surface of the green liquid and looked at the other facilities in the area.

Everywhere here were devices similar to the petri dish Zhou Ke'er was currently in, except they were empty except for the culture medium inside the containers. Moreover, these petri dishes seemed excessively large by all accounts.

Zhou Ke'er's side happened to be against the wall of this room, and this room seemed to be unusually large. When Zhou Ke'er looked to the other side, she couldn't see the end of the room. It was filled with countless petri dishes.

With a spirit of selfless dedication, Zhou Ke'er tasted a mouthful of the culture medium.

Hmm... this taste is hard to describe... At first glance, it seems pretty good, with a sweet and sour flavor, but then a very strange smell spreads out, like a smelly sock that has been pickled in a pile of salted dried fish for decades and is soaking in a jar of sauerkraut, filling Zhou Ke'er's entire mouth and nasal cavity.

vomit!

Why is he even appraising this thing?

Zhou Ke'er quickly climbed out of the broken petri dish.

He was soaking wet, and a thick, green liquid dripped from his body onto the ground, making a pattering sound.

Zhou Ke'er casually wiped the liquid off her face and walked deeper into the room.

Not long after he walked, he discovered that one of the petri dishes was completely different from the others, which were empty.

Well... this petri dish was wrapped and wrapped by many things that looked like tentacles, chunks of flesh, and tumors. It was also covered with a liquid that emitted a nauseating smell. If it weren't for the fact that you could see the bright green culture medium and the glass of the petri dish through the gaps, Zhou Ke'er would have thought that this thing was a fleshy pillar.

Moreover... this thing gives people an extremely unpleasant feeling as soon as they look at it, as if it stems from an instinctive aversion... or perhaps, fear.

Every cell in Zhou Ke'er's body was screaming for her to get as far away from this thing as possible.

"Hmm... It seems this thing is what this research base is researching... or maybe it's some kind of cultivated organism?"

How could Zhou Ke'er obediently follow his instincts and leave? Of course he would...

Think it over carefully for a fraction of a second before leaving!

Zhou Ke'er immediately turned tail and ran in another direction.

"Crack...click-click-click..."

Unfortunately, a familiar sound of breaking glass came from afar, followed by the "clattering" sound of tentacles spreading and wriggling on the ground, approaching Zhou Ke'er from a distance.

"Oh no, we're doomed..."

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27. You? Cronus?

"!"

Zhou Ke'er tried to take a step, but found that she couldn't move at all.

"what happened?"

"I am the endless abyss... No... no! I am... the master of time and space! Ughhhhh! Damn it! Why is this happening!"

First came confusion, then a desperate and panicked roar from behind Zhou Ke'er.

A strong attraction compelled Zhou Ke'er to turn around and look in that direction.

A small mountain made up of countless wriggling chunks of flesh and tentacles slowly emerged from the broken petri dish. With each step it took, countless fragments of flesh fell off it, but its size remained unchanged, as if the flesh was regenerating as it fell.

At the top of this pile of meat, there was a middle-aged man with his upper body exposed.

He wasn't particularly handsome, but his imposing appearance was largely due to his consistently serious and aloof expression, with deep nasolabial folds further emphasizing his authority. His extremely deep eyes seemed to conceal a hidden tyranny and ferocity.

He was only wrapped in a long linen robe, which exposed his chest at an angle, but it did not seem out of place. Instead, he looked like one of the stern gods in Greek mythology.

Of course, this only applies if we ignore his current ferocious expression and the fact that his linen robe is covered in blood and grime, making its original color completely unrecognizable.