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

"As for you... I don't know how you managed to come here without drinking the Meng Po soup. You're truly rare fish that slipped through the net. Luckily, I found you. Come with me."

The man said something indifferently, then turned around and walked forward, seemingly without considering whether Zhou Ke'er and Honghe would disobey him.

"Hey, Red Crane, look! Someone's stealing your persona! Seriously, isn't the 'emotionless, expressionless' persona so overused? How come I keep running into them everywhere?"

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but mutter a complaint to Honghe in a low voice.

"I feel that by spending every day with you, my facial paralysis has been almost cured."

Honghe couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Besides, I've said it before, I don't show any expression just because it's boring, and showing expressions is too much trouble. It's not like I'm really incapable of showing expressions. For example, when I'm with someone like you, how can I be called expressionless?"

"That's true. How can they not even stick to their own persona? They've completely ruined it. How pathetic."

Zhou Ke'er showed a look of disgust.

The flamingo rolled its eyes so much they almost became real, so it parted its red lips slightly and softly said, "Idiot."

Simple foul language, ultimate enjoyment.

"You insulted me! You actually insulted me! Even my dad has never insulted me!"

Zhou Ke'er looked very aggrieved.

"So your dad has already scolded you. Any more questions?"

Honghe glanced at Zhou Ke'er, almost blurting out, "I'm your father."

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and follow me."

Without turning his head, the man seemed to see Zhou Ke'er and Honghe's inaction and immediately urged them, "Recently, a cultivator has forced his way into the Underworld, claiming to be searching for his Daoist partner's soul, causing chaos and turning the Underworld upside down. It's a complete mess right now. I guess it's because everyone's mind is elsewhere that you've become an exception."

However, don't think you've struck gold. If you've been wandering around outside recklessly, who knows what might have happened? If you'd been dragged into the River of Oblivion by that evil spirit, you'd be in for a world of hurt.

Zhou Ke'er didn't pay much attention to what the person said. She just snorted angrily, made a mental note about Honghe, and then followed the person.

[Player "Zhou Ke'er" has been detected leaving the module boundary and is entering the main world "Wangchuan" area...]

[Rules are being used to block it...]

[A guide from the River of Oblivion has been detected. The rules have failed to be applied, and the attempt to stop them has failed...]

[Attention! Player "Zhou Ke'er" has left the mod and entered the main world. Mod quest has failed!]

[Exiting the mod... Player not detected in the mod, unable to exit!]

[Sizzle....]

Player "Zhou Ke'er" has entered the "Wangchuan" region of the main world.

A series of system notifications rang out one after another. Zhou Ke'er immediately turned her head to look at Honghe. Fortunately, she had followed and was not stopped by the system.

Noticing Zhou Ke'er's gaze, Honghe nodded, indicating that she had also received a system notification.

Goodness, this module ended so abruptly, completely catching me off guard...

However, this also confirms Zhou Ke'er's previous conjecture: the so-called module worlds are actually places that were artificially separated within a specific time period and were originally in the sub-world or main world.

Logically, players attempting to leave the module's boundaries should be stopped by the system using world rules or similar means. However, it seems that the player in front of us possesses some kind of extradition ability, so the world rules are unable to detect it and thus cannot stop us...

However, for some reason, Zhou Ke'er suddenly felt an ominous premonition welling up in her heart.

## Chapter 471, Section 466: Flowers and Leaves Never Meet Again

Following the unhurried pace of the white-robed man, Zhou Ke'er and Honghe quickly crossed the Naihe Bridge and continued forward. Soon they arrived at a waterfall—a blackish-red stream of water that seemed to cascade down from the sky, its source unknown, flowing straight into the River of Oblivion.

Although the waterfall was dark in color, it did not appear dirty, forming a stark contrast with the River of Oblivion below, which was churning with corpses and filth.

The man reached his hand into the waterfall, as if lifting a curtain, splitting the waterfall in two and revealing a small corner.

He first stepped inside by himself, then continued to hold the waterfall that had been lifted up, turned to look at Zhou Ke'er and Hong He, and gestured for them to come in quickly as well.

Zhou Ke'er, naturally, had nothing to fear and followed them inside without a second thought. Hong He did the same.

"This is where I live. Please stay here for a while. Soon, a ghost messenger will come to deal with your situation."

After seeing Zhou Ke'er and Honghe enter, he withdrew his hand and restored the waterfall to its original state—although from the inside, there was no waterfall at all, only a large, seemingly eternally burning, cold flame.

He then pointed to a rather simple-looking thatched hut not far away. “It’s a pity we don’t have anything to offer you, but perhaps we don’t need all this formality. After all, everything here is dead—the land is dead, the wood, the stone, the sky, the sun—all are dead. I am dead too. You are dead too.”

"Hey, don't start chatting like that. We don't even know your name yet."

Zhou Ke'er naturally treated this place as her own home, casually found a rock that looked like a stool next to the thatched hut and sat down, then asked the man in white.

"Name... I don't remember. A dead person's name has no meaning. Because no one else will call it."

The man in white robes still had a calm expression; no, to be precise, he looked more like he was lifeless.

The contrast is obvious. The flamingo's expressionless face is because she can't find anything interesting, so she doesn't show any other expressions. But if she encounters something interesting, she won't deliberately maintain a blank expression. On the other hand, the white-robed man is expressionless simply because nothing means anything to him.

"Or, you can call me Hanami. I remember someone used to call me that, but that person doesn't exist anymore."

The man in white paused indifferently before slowly adding to the story.

"Hmm, so what are you doing here? You even have a place to stay."

Zhou Ke'er looked around and found that this was indeed a very cramped space. The surrounding area was like a canyon with towering mountain walls of unknown composition. The mountain walls reached into the clouds and almost touched the sky, making it impossible to see what was above.

This is a valley surrounded by mountains, and directly above it is a sun that looks very hot, but is lifeless and has no temperature, only providing a sliver of light.

"This is an extremely yin place in the underworld, and also one of the borders between the underworld and the human world. Countless evil spirits want to return to the human world from here, so someone has to guard this place."

Hanami replied indifferently, "I am the guard here."

"Just you?"

Honghe suddenly asked, "Such an important place, and you're the only one guarding it?"

"There was originally more than that."

Hanami glanced at the flamingo with his lifeless eyes, as if it were none of his business, and said as if stating a fact: "He just said he wanted to see the sun in the human world again. So I let him go back."

"So you were punished for violating the rules?"

Red Crane asked, squinting.

"No. I'm in charge of this area, so there aren't any regulations. I just picked him up casually from the road to the underworld, so there's no need to report it to my superiors."

Hanami shook her head. "Later, I saw him again in the River of Oblivion. So I never retrieved any more souls."

"And what about you? Don't you want to see the sun on earth again?"

Zhou Ke'er asked with great interest, as he was quite intrigued by Hanami's literary and artistic way of speaking.

It was both awkward and funny.

"I have never seen it before, so how can I see it again? I am a dead thing born from the River of Oblivion, and I cannot leave this place."

Hanami looked up at the lifeless sun in the sky and replied softly, "Sometimes, I think humans are indeed very strange creatures. They struggle and suffer in the River of Oblivion for thousands of years, only to return to the human world for a short period of less than a hundred years before returning to the River of Oblivion to suffer again. Everything is just a cycle, so what is the meaning of it all?"

"Crackling..."

As Hua Jian was talking to herself, the seemingly eternally burning cold flame beside her suddenly flickered—that was the place where Zhou Ke'er and Hong He had just entered.

A hideous ghost face emerged from the flames, hissing and burning incessantly, leaving charred marks on its face, causing it to scream and wail incessantly.

But it still keeps trying to break out of the flames, constantly impacting the invisible membrane surrounding them.

"Shouldn't we address that situation?"

The flamingo pointed there.

"It can't get here. A wandering soul that returns to the mortal world from here and falls into the River of Oblivion can never enter this place again. Don't worry."

Hanami didn't even look there, and simply replied indifferently.

"Is this the lucky guy you just mentioned, the one you picked up from the road to the underworld?"

Zhou Ke'er stood up and slowly walked to the flame. "I think he seems to want to say something to you. Don't be so cold, or you might miss something you'll regret for the rest of your life. Let me help you out, it looks quite interesting."

As she spoke, Zhou Ke'er reached out and grasped the hand of the struggling ghost in the flames, which was desperately trying to touch the edge of the fire.

The flames weren't hot at all, and there was no burning sensation. But once you touched them, it felt as if they were directly affecting your soul, constantly eroding it and causing excruciating pain.

Even Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but frown at the pain.

But when Zhou Ke'er grasped the spirit's hand, it didn't take the opportunity to pull hard and try to use the force to break out of the flames. Instead, it simply stuffed something into Zhou Ke'er's hand.

"Ok?"

Zhou Ke'er was stunned, but then the spirit released its grip on its own and disappeared from the flames.

He subconsciously withdrew his hand and glanced at what the guy had stuffed into his hand.

"Ah, it seems to be something like a recording stone."

Zhou Ke'er had seen a recording stone before, so she immediately recognized this thing as similar, except it was broken and tattered, and she didn't know if it was still usable.

"Would you mind if I saw what was recorded inside?"

Although Zhou Ke'er asked, she did not seek an answer and instead channeled some spiritual energy into it on her own.

Soon, a blurry image, due to damage, was projected.

The image shows a sun.

Unlike the lifeless sun here.

It is the sun of the human world.

## Chapter 472, Section 467: Missed

The sun in the human world makes the River of Oblivion seem even more deathly, and makes Hanami seem even more deathly.

Hua Jian silently reached out and took the memory stone that Zhou Ke'er handed him—heaven knows what method that person used to bring something from the human world to the underworld.

Just then, Red Crane walked over and whispered in Zhou Ke'er's ear, "I just remembered, this place is right in the main world, and it's also the underworld that leads to the human world. Why don't we ask him where the so-called main city that those players are talking about is?"

"What you said makes sense. Why don't we go ask them?"

Zhou Ke'er nodded in agreement and then threw the question back to Honghe.

"..."

Honghe squinted at Zhou Ke'er for a while, as if she had expected Zhou Ke'er to say that, and then turned and walked towards Huajian.