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

Yi'an retorted, finding it utterly absurd.

Zhou Ke'er didn't say anything. It wasn't bad to have this guy by her side; it was better to have him in sight than in the dark.

"No, since you've made this request, I will grant it. But that doesn't mean others will agree. If they don't, then I will be the only one who can take you with me."

Yu Ke said in a very serious tone.

Zhou Ke'er narrowed her eyes, and before anyone else could say anything, she quickly replied, "It's alright, let her come along. I'm a very magnanimous person. As long as she recognizes her mistake, there's no need to be too harsh on her."

## Chapter 432, Section 427: Madmen Don't Die from Backstabs

"Wait a minute...something's not right! I'm going to go out and absorb all sorts of strange things, why am I bringing these two burdens along? That doesn't make sense!"

Just then, Zhou Ke'er suddenly remembered what his purpose was. So far, he had only managed to reach the third level of Qi Refining by absorbing strange phenomena, which was still far from enough. If he brought Yi An and Yu Ke with him, how would he level up?

You see, Zhou Ke'er's current arsenal is all about escaping, and the only way she can deal damage is with this unreliable character template, which is also very difficult to upgrade... Now that she's finally found an opportunity to upgrade, how can she let it go so easily?

"Ah... I'm sorry..."

Thinking of this, Zhou Ke'er stopped and said, "My teammate suddenly called me over, saying they need to have a secret meeting or something... I'll have to excuse myself for now. Anyway, thanks for what happened earlier, let's add each other as friends next time. Bye~"

"Teammates? What did they call you? I didn't see anyone."

Yu Ke had no doubts at all, but was quite curious.

Zhou Ke'er grabbed her collar and showed it to everyone, "A hidden communication array."

"Oh, okay, I understand. Sorry for keeping you here. See you next time."

Upon hearing this, Yu Ke nodded quickly. What Zhou Ke'er had just said, while not exactly a team secret, wasn't exactly information that could be casually answered when asked. Yu Ke had already regretted his abruptness when he opened his mouth, but Zhou Ke'er's straightforward answer made him feel even more guilty and touched—she definitely considered him a friend!

So he wisely refrained from asking any further questions.

Only Ming Mengjing, standing to the side, was so angry she was biting her nails, thinking to herself, "I'm so angry! This bastard... saying his teammates were calling, he just wanted to find an excuse to leave the group because he knew I was determined to come! This guy definitely has some ulterior motive! But there's nothing I can do about it now..."

Yi An remained expressionless and didn't ask any further questions, only saying at the end, "Be careful."

Zhou Ke'er waved to them and continued looking for weird things to play with.

As she moved further away from the area, Zhou Ke'er glanced at the countdown to the next monster wave. A little over three and a half hours remained. Not a long time, but not a short one either.

The original six hours seemed like a long time, but once you actually got started, two hours passed quickly.

Just as Zhou Ke'er went to continue searching for the ghost, not far from where he had just been, in a dark alley.

"Bah!"

The sound of a sharp object piercing the wall suddenly rang out.

Dio was seen shoving her right hand into the wall, frowning as she asked a player whose escape route she had blocked, "I've been watching you since the beginning... What are you trying to do by following Zhou Ke'er?!"

The person she had cornered in the alley... was none other than Yuan Fan, who looked terrified. He stared wide-eyed at Dio, swallowed hard, and stammered, "I... I didn't! I didn't follow him!"

But the truth is... From the moment Yuan Fan witnessed that scene at the city gate and instinctively ran away, he somehow couldn't control himself and wanted to expose Zhou Ke'er's actions to the public, letting other players know that there are such terrifying players in this game.

Devouring the supernatural and all that... that's just too... Yuan Fan felt that Zhou Ke'er was starting to resemble the person who almost scared him to death in the last event module.

So, driven by both fear and curiosity, he made this decision—to follow and secretly photograph Zhou Ke'er.

Then... he actually witnessed a terrifying scene—Zhou Ke'er absorbed more than ten strange creatures in just over two hours. Although every few she would close her eyes, sit cross-legged, and do something for a while, those were monsters!

"Huh? Do you think I'm stupid? Since I've cornered you here, it means I've definitely discovered you're following her... and, most importantly..."

Dior scoffed dismissively, looking at Yuan Fan as if he were a loaf of bread. "I never said anyone was Zhou Ke'er. How did you know who I was talking about? Your mistake is too obvious."

"No... wait a minute! Since you noticed this, and you know him... didn't you realize that he's been eating those monsters since the beginning? Isn't that terrifying?! He's definitely not a normal person!"

Yuan Fan quickly tried to explain.

"Huh? What's normal about this? I eat people, what's the problem?"

Dior gave a disgusted look, as if to say, "Is that all?" He added, "Do you really care what other people think of the bread you're eating?"

"You...you eat people?!"

Yuan Fan stared in surprise.

"Nonsense! Do you think vampires eat humans or are vegetarians?!"

Dio slapped Yuan Fan, sending him flying through the air and spinning several times.

"These people are all crazy! It's too dangerous, escape... we have to escape right now!"

As Yuan Fan flew through the air, his mind went blank. Ever since he saw that strange being, he felt his mental state was deteriorating and he would often fall into a daze.

Dio was about to step forward and finish him off when she suddenly felt an aura that she found extremely repulsive emanating from Yuan Fan, causing her to instinctively stop in her tracks.

Immediately, Yuan Fan appeared dazed and confused, but several tentacles suddenly shot out from his lower back, piercing the wall beside him. After barely stopping, he pulled back sharply and then sprang outwards, quickly disappearing into the shadows of the other buildings.

"Damn... what kind of weird, spooky thing is this..."

Dio felt utterly disgusted and couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath.

Now, let's turn our attention back to Zhou Ke'er.

While searching for the strange creature's whereabouts, Zhou Ke'er suddenly sensed a dangerous omen and instinctively moved a great distance to the side without hesitation.

The next moment, with a loud "bang," countless black smoke-like objects, resembling sharp blades or tentacles, appeared out of nowhere and pierced the spot where he had just walked.

"What? Is it a ghost? It actually came to us on its own?"

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but narrow her eyes.

"Just casually running into another monster's territory and shamelessly devouring the little monsters it raises... isn't that a bit too much?"

A voice that sounded very rough and reverberant, yet extremely grating, and after a while, like some kind of sticky, dirty liquid, rang out from the smoke that had just been stirred up.

Then, a figure slowly emerged from the smoke.

That thing looked like a human, but it was just a shape. Most of its body was made of black mist, and many parts looked like exposed flesh and blood, making it look strange and disgusting.

Before he could finish speaking, the guy suddenly swung a black mist at Zhou Ke'er.

Zhou Ke'er took a deep breath and caught the blade with her bare hands. She tightly gripped the black mist and then tried to absorb it with her eyes.

"boom!"

But the next second, Zhou Ke'er was sent flying.

"It can't absorb it?! What's going on?!"

Zhou Ke'er, who was flying in mid-air, thought in surprise, but quickly realized: "No, it's not that I can't absorb it... it's that I've reached my limit. I can only store a certain amount of evil at a time, and the amount of evil contained in this monster... far exceeds the limit that I can hold at one time! Just like when I first met Kronos, the amount of evil I absorbed was probably less than one ten-thousandth of what was on its body before it was burst!"

## Chapter 433, Section 428: I'm going to escape, and no one can stop me.

"You actually think about devouring me? Can you even think straight? Have you already been reduced to something that can only act on instinct...?"

The ghost was completely taken aback that Zhou Ke'er would actually try to absorb it, and its deep, grating voice revealed an incredulous emotion.

To be honest, Zhou Ke'er had some doubts: as appendages of those beings that would drive normal people crazy with just a glance, why is it that the stronger the Weird becomes, the more rational and capable of thinking? Since they are closer to the essence of those beings, shouldn't they be more chaotic and insane?

However, now is clearly not the time to dwell on this matter. Zhou Ke'er, who was flying in mid-air, did not hesitate to conjure up the Death Fang in her hand and directly used the backstab effect.

The next instant, Zhou Ke'er disappeared from the strange creature's sight.

Without hesitation, Gui moved forward in a motionless manner while turning his head 180 degrees backward.

The movement was undeniably fast. Fortunately, Zhou Ke'er's "Death Fang" special effect had a guaranteed hit.

Therefore, the monster could only watch helplessly as Zhou Ke'er suddenly appeared behind it and plunged the dagger into its back, right where something similar to the source of its mutation was located.

But soon...

"What a joke! You actually startled me... You actually wanted to hurt me with this pathetic, broken dagger? Have you been dealing with humans for too long that you think of your fellow humans as beings who can die no matter what they are hit by?"

A black mist suddenly surged from the monster's body, sending Zhou Ke'er flying in the blink of an eye, before it said mockingly.

Zhou Ke'er originally thought she had succeeded, but before she could react, she was sent flying without even having time to use teleportation.

"boom!"

Zhou Ke'er slammed hard onto the ground, rolling around several times, getting covered in dust, and her stamina dropped drastically in an instant.

Immediately put the Death Fang back into your backpack—it seems this is useless against the ghost.

We can only try again to see if the evil spiritual power can work, otherwise... the only option is to run away and make a run for it.

"Heaven and earth are boundless, the universe borrows its power, use the Fire Binding Spell, go!"

Zhou Ke'er didn't dare to stay on the ground for even a second longer. He bounced up almost immediately after being knocked down and slammed to the ground—who knew if he stayed for even a second longer, or if that monster would take him home with a combo attack—and immediately cast a spell and roared at the other side. A green flame instantly spread from between his fingers and rushed towards the monster.

"You're using those weak human methods, you freak? And... you haven't even mastered them at all!"

The ghost was initially stunned to see that Zhou Ke'er could actually use a cultivation system technique, but it quickly realized that although the cultivation system technique could indeed harm it, the power of this low-level Qi Refining technique was not even enough to break through its defenses!

As expected, the green flame was swallowed up by the black mist swirling around the monster as soon as it touched it.

"Damn it! My level is too low!"

Zhou Ke'er also realized this. In the past, the opponents he had fought against were either of the same level or he simply cheated and did not make a move. She had almost forgotten that there was a possibility that killing monsters of a higher level might not break through their defenses.

Indeed, he's only a minor Qi Refining cultivator right now. If what Chen Tian said is true, the entire army of the Old Era was wiped out when they defended this city... They couldn't possibly have defended the city with just a bunch of Qi Refining cultivators, right? Regardless of their cultivation system, they'd probably be at a level where Golden Core cultivators were everywhere and Nascent Soul cultivators were practically worthless...

Even so, they were all destroyed. What can Zhou Ke'er do now that she's only at the Qi Refining stage? In addition, the absorption effect of the original special attack against strange creatures is still useless against this big strange creature... no, to be precise, it's useless against strange creatures that are much stronger than Zhou Ke'er.

What's the point of fighting then? We might as well just defect to the enemy!

Forget it, if we can't win, we'll run first! When it comes to escaping, as long as the other party doesn't block the space, Zhou Ke'er can always escape!

Moreover, there's no need to go through the trouble of playing a chase game with this guy. He set up teleportation coordinates at the city gate from the beginning, so you can just press your wristwatch to teleport there.

"Sorry, I'll hang up now if there's nothing else. Thanks for the treat, your pet monster was delicious, I'll come again next time."

Zhou Ke'er coughed twice, smiled at the strangely grinning watch opposite her, waved her hand, and then pressed the wristwatch without hesitation.

In an instant, Zhou Ke'er disappeared from the spot. Almost at the same time as he disappeared, countless black mists suddenly pierced into the place where he had just landed, shattering the ground.

"You're finally here. You're so slow. Why do you look so miserable? Did you get beaten up?"

As soon as Zhou Ke'er teleported to the city gate, she heard a completely calm voice coming from the side, without the slightest hint of surprise.

"Flamingo? What are you doing here?"

Zhou Ke'er was stunned for a moment, looking at the red crane with its expressionless face, arms crossed and back against the city gate, and couldn't help but ask, "And what's with the fact that it looks like it's waiting for me?"