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

"While it's true that they're a bit weak if they haven't been able to clear the Fog difficulty module yet, if they can't clear it and enter the main world, they won't be able to obtain items, weapons, or anything like that, making them even weaker, like they're trapped in a vicious cycle."

Honghe shrugged and added expressionlessly, "So the main purpose of this server-wide event should be to give ordinary players a chance to improve their strength and then enter the main world through the fog module. It's like giving them an officially recognized cheating channel."

"Good grief, why are you talking about those ordinary players all the time now?! Reject the game hierarchy!"

Zhou Ke'er immediately crossed her arms and righteously refused.

Red Crane glanced silently at Zhou Ke'er, then took out the Faceless One's Mask and put it on her face.

"Get to the point, you bastard!"

A fist the size of a clay pot—no, a sandbag—slammed into Zhou Ke'er's face at an incredibly fast speed.

"Damn it! Don't resort to violence just because we disagree!"

Zhou Ke'er was so frightened that she immediately teleported away, running around the living room in circles while shouting her innocence.

"It's not just a disagreement, it's a grudge that's both old and new!"

Red Crane chased Zhou Ke'er around the living room, but after she put on the Faceless One's Mask, she ran much faster than Zhou Ke'er, forcing him to teleport from time to time.

"I just tricked you once! Is it really worth holding a grudge like this? I talk about 'Finger Sand' all the time, and I've never seen her come to hit me, have I? Isn't that right, Ah Sha? Red Crane, look how nice Ah Sha is!"

Zhou Ke'er looked completely self-righteous and even shamelessly started to shift the blame to Honghe.

"?"

Finger Sand, who was inexplicably shot, was completely bewildered. Wait, you two are just joking around, why did you drag her into this?

Seeing the flamingo's cold gaze (not really, how could you see its eyes when it was wearing a mask), Finger Sand couldn't help but shiver and immediately moved closer to the cold-cooked rabbit.

"Pfft!"

Zhou Ke'er, caught up in his banter and forgetting about teleportation, was instantly overtaken by Red Crane, who punched him in the stomach—though it wasn't as hard as expected, just a playful punch—but Zhou Ke'er still dutifully collapsed to the ground and started rolling around, crying out, "Help! Help! Red Crane is murdering my teammate! Rabbit, use your invincible anchor to think of a solution!"

"Ha! You were just mocking me, and now you're asking a high-level player like me for help!"

With his arms crossed, Leng Chi Tu looked down at Zhou Ke'er, who was rolling on the ground, and said condescendingly.

"I'm sorry, I was blind. Please, Rabbit, be magnanimous and forgive me. Come and save me!"

Zhou Ke'er shamelessly started by showering him with flattery.

Finger Sand quickly moved to the side again, a little further away from Cold-Eat Rabbit, and roared inwardly, "Hey, stop talking! Cold-Eat Rabbit, you too! Didn't you see that Red Crane's face changed?! (No, she wasn't, you couldn't see her expression with that mask on.) Watch your breath! Watch your breath!"

"Oh dear, there's really no other way. Since you've begged me so much, I can only reluctantly help you."

Cold-Eat Rabbit's vanity was thoroughly satisfied. He immediately felt the sun had risen, the rain had stopped, and he was good again. He stood up and said to Red Crane, "Red Crane, give me some face, or we can call it even..."

Then two silly dogs appeared in the living room, being chased and beaten.

"Hahaha! Usagi, you can't do that! You didn't eat the Face-Face Fruit, so of course Flamingo won't give you face!"

Zhou Ke'er even had time to turn around and mock the cold-cooked rabbit.

"How dare you laugh at me! Who do you think is to blame for this?!"

Cold-cooked rabbit angrily shifted the blame to Zhou Ke'er, completely forgetting its arrogant and silly demeanor just now.

Faced with this situation, Zhang He and Chen Tian both said they couldn't bear to watch, turning their heads away and ignoring the three brats who were still childlike and playfully fighting (just kidding).

Needless to say, she was definitely sleeping, or rather, resting with her eyes closed (?).

Finally, Zhou Ke'er and Lengchitu, those two silly dogs, were caught by Honghe, who grabbed them by the collar and punched them to the ground one after the other.

Having done all this, the refreshed Red Crane removed the Faceless One's mask, sat back on the sofa with a normal expression, and said in a serious tone, "Alright, let's make some preparations before the event."

"Does preparing for an event include hitting me?!"

Zhou Ke'er, who had not learned her lesson at all, immediately got up from the ground and asked.

Upon hearing this, Cold-Eating Rabbit hurriedly scrambled to his feet and grabbed Zhou Ke'er, saying, "Ke'er, I'm telling you, forget it, forget it, it's not worth it!"

"Including making me feel happy."

The flamingo narrowed its eyes and curved them slightly, as if revealing a hint of a smile.

"grass!"

Everyone else who witnessed this scene couldn't help but grab a herb and shiver.

He, who always has a poker face, actually smiled!

## Chapter 416, Section 411. First, eliminate a troublesome problem.

"Cough..."

Since everyone was stuck in a malfunction and the automatic restart failed, the scene fell silent for a moment. Honghe could only cough expressionlessly, trying to bring everyone back to their senses.

"Ah, well...right, let's get ready for the event, get ready..."

The sand between his fingers had finally come to its senses, but he was muttering incoherent nonsense, scratching his cheek and turning his head away, his gaze unfocused.

Zhou Ke'er, having witnessed Hong He's smile once before, wasn't as surprised this time. She even leaned closer to the sand between her fingers and teased, "Oh ho, Asha, are you shy now? What's wrong with you?"

As she spoke, Zhou Ke'er deliberately imitated her movements in front of Zhijiansha, exaggerating them to an extreme degree, making her look like a complete scoundrel.

Zhou Ke'er's interruption brought everyone back to their senses, and the awkward atmosphere eased back to normal.

Of course, there was another person who was completely out of the loop... that was Chun Kun Qiu Fei, who was constantly dozing off. She knew nothing and could sleep a lot.

As a result, when Zhijiansha saw Zhou Ke'er's appearance, his initial shyness vanished completely, and he even felt extremely speechless. He couldn't help but show the same dead fish eyes as Honghe, looking at Zhou Ke'er as if she were trash.

"Sigh...you guys always talk about what to prepare before an event, but what do we have to prepare? At most, you just tell us what the event includes, and that's about it..."

Zhou Ke'er pretended to ignore the dead fish eyes of the sand between her fingers, slumped on the sofa, and listlessly changed the subject, "We're different from those players who are in the main city as soon as they enter the main world. They can at least go and get some supplies, like buying some... equipment, and maybe even medicine and items... Anyway, we have nothing, so what's there to prepare?"

"Our main intention in preparing this is to prevent you from dragging your teammates down with you and going to your death alone."

The flamingo answered ruthlessly.

"What?! You're actually looking down on me?! We've practically died together, have you already grown tired of me after all this time? Waaah..."

Zhou Ke'er was terrified and looked pale from morning till night, revealing a heartbroken expression. She reached out as if to wipe away tears, looking pitiful... what a joke! She looked absolutely disgusting!

"Ah, yeah, you've gotten boring, I'm tired of it."

Red Crane squinted at Zhou Ke'er, who was sprawled on the sofa pretending to whine, without feeling a shred of pity. She even wanted to throw this girl into a pile of monsters to see if she would still whine. So she immediately crossed her arms and said some incredibly scumbag words.

"Waaah, Asha, I've been ruined, I'm no longer pure, look at that guy Red Crane! Asha, say something!"

Zhou Ke'er immediately escalated the conflict, shamelessly approaching the sand between her fingers and whining about utterly disgusting things.

The veins on her forehead bulged as she looked at Sha's fingers. Why was she being dragged into this mess again, you bastard!

Then, with a blank expression, Honghe put on the Faceless One's Mask again, stood up, walked to Zhou Ke'er, looked down at him who was slumped on the sofa, and punched him hard in the stomach.

Although it didn't hurt much, because Honghe hadn't exerted any force at all, it just looked very intense, Zhou Ke'er still managed to slide off the sofa, arching her back and rolling around on the floor, making a face of excruciating pain.

Finger Sand was startled. Seeing Zhou Ke'er's realistic acting, he thought he had really been beaten up. But remembering that his pain tolerance was maxed out in the main world, he couldn't help but say, "Ah... this doesn't have to be so forceful..."

The flamingo squinted at the sand between its fingers.

"Waaah, as expected, Asha still cares about me!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er immediately rolled over from the ground and hugged Zhijian Shadu's legs.

Zhijiansha now knew perfectly well that she had been fooled by Zhou Ke'er's acting skills. After a few awkward seconds of silence, she finally squinted and said coldly, "Get out of here!"

"Alright, now that we've dealt with this big problem, let's get started."

Honghe completely ignored Zhou Ke'er and said seriously, "First of all, as mentioned in the event details, this event is different from the last one. We won't be throwing all participating players into the same module. After all, last time only players who entered the main world participated, which was only a small part of all players. This time, however, it's all players. If we put them all in one module, not to mention the issue of whether they can fit or not, the players' gaming experience won't be very good."

Therefore, it seems that this time the players are grouped and matched according to their skill level, and then placed into different game modules.

"Speaking of which, I'm a little curious... how is this strength determined? It's actually quite unpredictable, isn't it?"

Zhang He nodded, then said with a hint of doubt, "If a player accidentally obtains a powerful item, and if they use it, they can easily defeat a large number of players, but if they don't, they're just an ordinary weakling, how should that be classified? Should it be considered a combination of both? That doesn't quite seem right..."

"Even if you ask that, we still don't know. After all, we're not the game's calculation program, so who knows how it makes that judgment? Maybe it's just making a subjective assumption."

Finger Sand shrugged. "Fortunately, players in a team can be assigned to the same module, so we don't have to worry about being randomly separated."

"Ah...now that you mention it, I suddenly thought of a question..."

With a large handprint on her right cheek, Zhou Ke'er sat upright on the sofa and said in a serious tone, "I'm not bragging, but we'll definitely be assigned to the first tier, right? That means there's one problem... we'll definitely run into that troublesome guy Long Aotian... he'll probably want to kill us as soon as he sees us, right?"

Honghe and Lengchitu nodded in agreement. However, the others looked completely bewildered, not understanding what Zhou Ke'er was talking about.

"What do you mean by 'overpowered protagonist'? Are you talking about some old-fashioned, simplistic plot from a romance novel?"

The sand between her fingers couldn't help but ask.

"No... Oh, I forgot you guys don't know that guy yet, so let me give you a brief introduction... Apparently, he's the guild leader of a large gaming guild, and his strength should be quite high in the game. However... once in a module, A-Tu thwarted his plan, which created a grudge between them."

Zhou Ke'er explained with certainty, completely ignoring Leng Chi Tu's protests from the side saying things like "You did it yourself" and other nonsensical remarks. She continued with great certainty, "In addition, in the last event, he should have had a huge advantage. If Hong He hadn't interfered, he should have been able to get first place. But Hong He completely ruined his big plan. Now he probably hates us to death."

"?"

Red Crane narrowed his eyes, took out the Faceless One's Mask and gestured with it, "Who do you think did it?"

"I did it, I did it, please calm down..."

Zhou Ke'er immediately backed down, then turned her face and changed the subject without any change in expression, saying, "Anyway, it's this problem. Because we've made enemies with him, he'll probably be lying in wait to take us all out. Given their large numbers, it's not impossible for them to succeed."

"No...no matter how you look at it, this has nothing to do with us, right?"

Finger Sand waved his hand coldly, "He only wants to kill you, what does it have to do with us?"

"Hey! You're so heartless, so cold-blooded, so unreasonable, Asha! If you keep acting like this, I'll rush up to him and say that you and I are best friends, and if you die, I'll just commit suicide out of heartbreak!"

Zhou Ke'er said something incredibly vulgar and shameless: "Then he'll definitely come after you! You won't be able to escape either, hehehehe!"

## Chapter 417, Section 412: The Battle to Defend the City (Part 1)

"To be fair, your level of shamelessness is truly refreshing."

Honghe squinted at Zhou Ke'er, who was shameless, and couldn't help but speak up.

"Hey, I'm not as good as you say."

Zhou Ke'er feigned shyness after receiving the compliment, blushing and scratching her cheek, "Thank you for the compliment, hehe~"

Honghe couldn't help but show a look of disgust, as if she were looking at trash. "If you keep being so disgusting, I'll call the police."