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

"I've been waiting for you. And I've been waiting for almost an hour."

The flamingo answered very calmly.

"Did we agree to meet here?"

Looking at Honghe's matter-of-fact attitude, Zhou Ke'er began to wonder if she had lost her memory.

"No."

Honghe shook her head. "I just thought you would come back here, so I waited here. Besides, even if you never come, the final meeting place is still here."

"Oh? So you're not going to look for the pre-set rewards? What about the others? They should all have gone, right?"

While silently circulating the "Smoke-like Technique" to heal her injuries, Zhou Ke'er asked.

"They all went. As for me... what's the point of this time-consuming and exhausting treasure hunt game where I have to fight with others?"

The flamingo's lips twitched almost imperceptibly; let's just say she pouted.

"Ha, do you think coming to find me is any fun?"

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but tease her.

"In my opinion, it is indeed more interesting in comparison."

Red Crane didn't refute, "But... what did you do in there to get beaten up like this and slinking away? Did you go and charge into Long Aotian's entire guild all by yourself?"

"No, no, if it were a guild attack, they would be the ones in this mess. I probably ran into the city boss; I couldn't break through its defenses at all, so I had to run away."

Zhou Ke'er shrugged helplessly.

"If you can't beat them, just run away... How boring. Are you really Zhou Ke'er? I feel like you've been getting bored lately. Is it just my imagination?"

Honghe stared at Zhou Ke'er with dead fish eyes, looked her up and down, and asked.

"Ah, if you put it that way...that's true..."

Zhou Ke'er stroked her chin. "I haven't really done anything interesting lately. How about this, how about we pull off a big one in this district right now? ...By the way, whether this event module mission succeeds or not shouldn't matter to you, right?"

"Of course."

"Then there's no problem, Aibo, Ramen Ikuzei!"

## Chapter 434, Section 429: I hid everything there.

High in the sky somewhere in the city, Zhou Ke'er and Hong He stood on their spirit sword, looking down at the entire city—which was indeed unexpectedly large.

However, this is the last place they will be calling out to. They have already called out to the other areas one by one. If there are still players who cannot hear them, there is nothing he can do. After all, he cannot create a huge projection screen over the entire city.

Zhou Ke'er focused her energy, casting a megaphone spell on herself (found in "Two or Three"), and then shouted down, "Each player has a limit to the number of hidden rewards they can obtain. So what should you do if you discover more rewards that you can't get? I'll tell you..."

Immediately afterward, the flamingo spoke up, "Want my treasure? You can have it all. Go find it! I've left all my treasure there!"

In addition, it also includes her character template [Ferryman of the Styx]'s innate skill: to transmit her own murmurs and whispers into the minds of other targets within a small area, causing them to echo continuously and increasing the chance of them falling into chaos and madness.

As Honghe spoke, Zhou Ke'er shaped her spiritual energy into several wisps of black mist, as if they actually contained something. She conspicuously circled them a few times in mid-air before they scattered in different directions—it was as if she had placed something inside the black mist and then let it fall to different locations with the mist.

Oh, that's actually a bit of a misconception, because it's not that it seems to be wrapped up with something, it is that it is indeed wrapped up with some... uh, things—just some little tricks.

However, these are all weakened monsters that have had a lot of energy absorbed by Zhou Ke'er. Most of the players who can enter this module should be capable of dealing with these things.

In this way—although the number of ghosts in the city has decreased significantly because of Zhou Ke'er, he has not taken any action. Therefore, the large ghost that just came to his door could not locate Zhou Ke'er by the location of the other small ghosts it kept.

Moreover, this also causes many strange creatures to be out of place. If there is more than one great strange creature, and they all have a sense of territory... then they will be in for a lot of trouble.

That's right, Zhou Ke'er not only wanted to scheme against other players, but also wanted to get revenge on that big monster from before—although she couldn't beat it now, she could still cause it some annoying little troubles that were hard to guard against.

As for why they would sabotage other players, there's a reason. If you recall, the final evaluation criteria for this event module were based on a combined score of [survival time] and [contribution to defending the city].

If you shorten the survival time of other players by means of certain methods, wouldn't that be equivalent to improving your own ranking?

As for whether this behavior would reduce his contribution to defending the city—that's a joke. It wasn't Zhou Ke'er who killed them; they encountered the monster and died on their own. What does it have to do with Zhou Ke'er?

It wasn't me, it was the soldiers!

Just then, a blood-red bat flew up from mid-air and landed in front of Zhou Ke'er and Hong He, then quickly transformed into human form. It was Long Aotian.

"What are you planning to do now? If you have any extra hidden rewards, I'll give them to you and I'll pay for them. Why throw them away like this?"

Long Aotian frowned, looking like he was wondering, "Why would you do something so stupid?"

Zhou Ke'er turned her head with a grin and glanced at Honghe. "See? You were just wondering if anyone would take the bait, and here they are! Doesn't that prove the plan is absolutely effective?"

"...Seriously, some people are really stupid...cough cough, it's unbelievable that someone would actually be caught with a straight hook like that..."

The flamingo squinted and sighed in a helpless tone.

"Huh? What do you mean by this? Are you talking about fishing with bait or something..."

Long Aotian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

"Don't you understand?" Zhou Ke'er glanced speechlessly at the stunned Long Aotian. This guy was quite cunning at the city gate at the beginning (although Zhou Ke'er saw through him), so he shouldn't be this stupid... Moreover, he was also stupid in the modules he had experienced. He was sometimes stupid and sometimes not, and his intelligence was like a quantum superposition state of existence and non-existence.

"...I mean, I have a plan, would you like to participate? Don't worry, you definitely won't lose out."

Zhou Ke'er shrugged, looking like a shrewd businesswoman about to start swindling people.

"Plan? What plan..."

Long Aotian was about to ask more probing questions, but Zhou Ke'er waved her hand, "This isn't the place to talk properly. Let's go downstairs and find somewhere to talk."

Actually, all Zhou Ke'er wanted to do was conserve some spiritual energy. This sword control technique consumed too much mana too quickly; even though he had absorbed spiritual energy all the way to the sixth level of Qi Refining, he couldn't sustain it for long.

Before long, Zhou Ke'er and Hong He, led by Long Aotian, arrived at their temporary base in the city.

"Aren't you afraid they've set up a trap, just waiting for us to fall into it?"

Looking at the dilapidated building in front of her and Long Aotian who had already walked through the door, Honghe couldn't help but lean close to Zhou Ke'er's ear and whisper a question.

"Are you still afraid of this? They should be afraid that we'll cause chaos and destruction after we find out about their stronghold."

Zhou Ke'er answered in a serious and matter-of-fact voice.

"...Oh, that's true."

Honghe instantly gave a deadpan look, "That's definitely your style of answer."

What are you all still standing there for?

Long Aotian poked his head out and asked Zhou Ke'er and Honghe, who were still leisurely standing outside, with a puzzled look.

"Oh, is that so? My friend is afraid this is a trap you set for us. If we go in, we might be tackled by a group of big men."

Zhou Ke'er squinted and answered seriously.

"Hehe, if I come out to pick you up, you won't have to worry about that, right? How about I be your hostage?"

Just then, Long Aojiao came out and said to Zhou Ke'er with a grin, "By the way, who is this? Is he your teammate?"

"That's my boss, Red Crane."

Zhou Ke'er raised her head and then pointed at Long Aojiao, "This is one of the players I took down in the last event module, Long Aojiao."

"Don't emphasize that! You're really ruining the mood!"

Upon hearing this, Long Aojiao immediately pouted and complained.

"But it's true. Otherwise, how could I introduce you?"

Zhou Ke'er looked at Long Aojiao with a puzzled expression.

"Then why don't you just say we're friends who've been through thick and thin together?"

Long Aojiao leaned closer to Zhou Ke'er and replied with a grin, "What is 'words of conversation'? Do you even know it?"

True friendship, even unto death.

Honghe squinted at the mischievous Long Aojiao, her face expressionless. "Has she developed feelings after being killed? Or is she a masochist? Addicted to being killed? Or does she have Stockholm Syndrome?"

"Can't it be my personal charm?!"

Zhou Ke'er retorted confidently.

"It's better to believe she's crazy."

The flamingo replied with dead fish eyes.

"Aren't madmen great too? Mentally ill and madmen are a perfect match."

Long Aojiao answered confidently.

"Not just mentally ill, but psychologically ill!" X2

Upon hearing Long Aojiao's words, Zhou Ke'er and Honghe immediately answered in unison.

## Chapter 435, Section 430: I've killed everyone here.

After Zhou Ke'er and Hong He followed Long Aotian into the building, they found that the scene they had imagined—a large group of underlings surrounding the building—did not appear. Besides Long Aotian and Long Aojiao, there were only Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen, whom Zhou Ke'er had killed in the previous event module.

When the two men saw Zhou Ke'er walking in with Long Aotian, they were stunned for a moment, thinking they were seeing things. They quickly rubbed their eyes, but when they found that Zhou Ke'er was still there, they were so frightened that they immediately drew their weapons. "President, be careful! This is the treacherous, cunning, and cruel Zhou Ke'er!"

"Uh... thank you for the compliment?"

Zhou Ke'er tilted her head and said with an innocent look.

"Hey you two, really, don't say that! He's our friend now, right, bro?"

As she spoke, Long Aojiao reached out and nudged Long Aotian with her elbow.

"Oh, um... I guess so?"

Long Aotian answered uncertainly.

Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen were both shocked. Although they didn't say anything, they couldn't help but look at Long Aojiao with an expression that seemed to say, "Didn't you get killed by this guy last time? Do you have Stockholm syndrome?"

"What exactly did you do? I think they're both about to develop 'Zhou Ke'er PTSD'."

Honghe asked in a low voice behind Zhou Ke'er.

"I didn't do anything too outrageous, I just killed them all. That's not excessive, is it?"

Zhou Ke'er answered confidently, then continued to ask Long Aotian, "Speaking of which... where are your other underlings, oh no, where are your other guild members? Why are there only a few of you here?"

"They went out to explore."