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

This sudden turn of events caught not only the elf off guard, but also Zhou Ke'er and the others quite surprised.

Zhou Ke'er instinctively wanted to ask, "Wo Chao! What are you doing here, Leng Chi Tu?"

However, the anchor was still moving at high speed, so Zhou Ke'er's words naturally drifted away into the air.

After a while, near the other end of the city wall, the anchor finally came to a stop, landing steadily on the road and kicking up a cloud of smoke.

Cold-cooked Rabbit refreshed and put the anchor back into its system inventory, sighing contentedly, "That's great. It would be even better if we could fly directly out of this city."

Of course, even without flying out of the city, it has already flown quite far. It flew directly from one end of the capital to the other.

But Honghe asked expressionlessly, "How come I remember your anchor's special effect couldn't fly this far? It should only be a few hundred meters at most, right? Now it's almost crossing a city."

Cold-cooked Rabbit shrugged: "I used up an epic-level consumable item. It greatly enhances the weapon's special effects and forces it to last for at least one minute. Otherwise, even at the original speed, it wouldn't be able to fly this fast."

Zhou Ke'er nodded thoughtfully. "I think I understand. But now is not the time to have a tea party here. I wonder if that elf will suddenly catch up with us or something. Let's leave this city first."

Everyone naturally understood the implications and immediately agreed to the proposal, then quickly slipped out of the capital with Zhou Ke'er.

With the capital in turmoil, there wouldn't be any guards at the city gates. Slipping out now would be too easy—even walking out openly and brazenly wouldn't be difficult.

While aimlessly fleeing into the distance, Red Crane continued to ask, "By the way, there's one more thing... Cold-cooked Rabbit, how did you suddenly end up here?"

Indeed, this was the question Zhou Ke'er had wanted to ask at first.

Cold-cooked Rabbit looked quite bewildered, scratching his head as he replied, "No, I didn't suddenly appear here... It's like this, at the beginning of this game module, I appeared in a place that resembled a small village, where the people seemed to be elves or something."

As a result, they arrested me as an intruder, first throwing me into a cell for interrogation, but I knew nothing, so they naturally couldn't get any information out of me. They then decided to just kill me. Then I was tied to a pillar on a high platform.

Just as they were about to kill me, the priest suddenly frowned and then channeled energy into a tree. A crack appeared in the tree, and after he crawled through it, the crack began to shrink and close.

I looked closely and saw that you were actually outside the crack, so before it completely closed, I grabbed the anchor and rushed out.

Zhou Ke'er stroked her chin thoughtfully. So there really are spawn points set directly outside the central continent. That means players should be able to encounter mythical creatures like dragons and dwarves, right?

Hopefully, those players can lend a hand. If they can win over certain races, they should do so. If they are hostile races like the elves, they should try to cause some trouble for the other side.

Cold-cooked Rabbit, hands on hips, smugly exclaimed, "Ah, what a legendary experience! Truly worthy of me! This is what you call turning the tide when all hope is lost, saving a collapsing edifice. First, feign weakness, then seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy—it's got the feel of a military strategist, doesn't it!"

Zhou Ke'er revealed her dead fish eyes, just like a flamingo: "? Have you suddenly become a powerful, arrogant protagonist?"

"No way! He's not that narcissistic!"

The cold-cooked rabbit immediately showed resistance all over its body and waved its hands repeatedly.

Zhao Ritian, who had been mostly silent, suddenly noticed something. "Long Aotian? You just mentioned Long Aotian, right? Judging from your tone, are you very familiar with him? I remember you were also being chased by him before."

Cold-Eat Rabbit glanced at Zhao Ritian with a puzzled look: "Speaking of which, I was just about to ask... who is this guy?"

Zhou Ke'er didn't turn around, shrugged and replied, "A gambler... cough cough, no. Just a passerby who was chased by Long Aotian. His name is Zhao Ritian. How about that, doesn't it sound like it matches Long Aotian's name quite well?"

Honghe squinted and said seriously, "From a generally rational point of view, that's true. It's like a couple's name."

Zhao Ritian gave him the look of an old man on the subway looking at his phone, "What nonsense are you talking about! How could you possibly have a couple's name with that guy!"

Zhou Ke'er once again gave him a deadpan look: "Ah, this textbook example of arrogant talk... You're not really having a problem, are you? Red Crane, Rabbit, get away from this guy, Mommy's scared!"

"No male mothers! No male mothers!"

The cold-cooked rabbit couldn't help but show a disgusted expression.

Zhao Ritian looked completely bewildered, but still persisted in asking, "What is this... So what exactly is your relationship with Long Aotian?"

"They're probably allies."

Zhou Ke'er replied in a serious tone: "It's the kind of alliance that... will betray each other if there are interests involved."

Zhao Ritian's eyes widened: "Weren't you guys being chased by him last time? How come you're allies now? You're not planning to kidnap me and sell me to him, are you?!"

Zhou Ke'er almost burst out laughing. "He probably doesn't even remember you by now. Who would bother hunting you down every day? Besides, selling you to him wouldn't benefit us. Right now, without any subordinates, he's just a lone commander. To be honest, he's actually under my command now."

Zhao Ritian seemed to want to say something more, but then Porius suddenly spoke up: "My god, there is a group of low-level monsters gathering and wandering not far ahead. Should we take cover for now?"

Flamingo glanced back and said, "We're quite a distance from that city now, aren't we? That elf shouldn't be able to catch up... Since we've got a bunch of ordinary infected delivered to our doorstep, should we take this opportunity to speed up our quest progress?"

Zhou Ke'er shook her head: "There's no need for that. The progress of the ordinary infected missions will be completed quickly even if we don't pay attention to them. We don't need to waste time here. Besides, that elf might catch up with us. Why should we gamble on it? Let's find a place to rest first. I need some time too..."

Honghe didn't say anything more after hearing this, and nodded in agreement, saying, "Since you put it that way, then let's do it that way."

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640. Trial

Zhou Ke'er and her group took a detour to avoid the infected and found a safe place to rest.

On the other side, where Chen Tian was.

Chen Tian was in a dark, seemingly secret room. She stood in front of the center of the leftmost wall, chanting incantations over a mark that was flashing red light. She was drawing in the air with her left hand, while her right hand held a carving knife but she hesitated to make a cut. A thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.

Behind her, a figure who looked exactly like Chen Tian was leaning on a sword and breathing slightly heavily. This was Chen Tian, ​​who was possessing the avatar that Chen Tian had created with magic.

Around them, at their feet, lay a pile of monster corpses. The wooden sword in Chen Tian's hand was covered in a black liquid, emitting a corrosive "sizzling" sound.

"I mean, can't you give me some slightly higher quality equipment? I've been using this useless wooden sword from start to finish!"

While panting, Chen Tian couldn't help but complain, "No matter what, using this wooden sword to fight against monsters of this level, especially in large waves... is just too outrageous!"

"There's nothing I can do about this. I've been studying at the Divine Academy lately, haven't I? I haven't even downloaded many modules, so how could I have gotten any weapons or equipment?"

Chen Tian wiped the sweat from her forehead, still intently studying the red-glowing restriction, and answered absentmindedly.

Chen Tian could only sigh helplessly: "One word: Absolutely not! If it weren't for my superb swordsmanship, we would have been wiped out as soon as the first wave of monsters appeared. And these monsters are getting stronger and stronger. If this continues, we really won't be able to hold on."

Although Chen Tian's strength was such that the waves of monsters that had just appeared were nothing more than easy trifles to deal with, the problem was that he didn't have his original strength now. He could only possess Chen Tian's avatar, his spiritual power was pitifully small, his physical condition was only slightly better than that of an ordinary person, and the weapon he was using was a wooden sword without any special effects.

The reason he's been able to hold on until now is because he's truly exceptional.

"Don't worry, I'm almost there. Although the power systems are different, which leads to different ways of inscribing restrictions, they all boil down to a few basic points. Once you understand the meaning of these runes, you can start to break the restriction."

Chen Tian answered without turning her head, her tone detached.

Chen Tian felt a sense of unease: "Then how are you going to figure out the meaning of those runes? Can you understand the meaning of a language by just looking at the characters without knowing anything about it?"

Chen Tian said seriously, "By guessing."

Chen Tian, ​​looking as if he had known all along, dejectedly knelt on the ground, saying, "I knew it! Looks like we're going to die here!"

Chen Tian continued, "Don't be so pessimistic. Also—judging by the time, the next wave of monsters should be coming soon. Keep going, don't let those monsters bother me."

Chen Tian had no choice but to get up and grip the wooden sword in his hand tightly—if he had known he would encounter this situation today, he should have learned about formations from his friends in his past life!

Soon, a black mist billowed out of the narrow room, and a figure gradually emerged from the mist, slowly walking towards Chen Tian and Chen Tian.

"Hey, hey, this guy... I definitely can't beat him in my current condition!"

Chen Tian sensed the other person's condition and couldn't help but mutter, turning back to look at Chen Tian: "How much longer are you going to take? Don't tell me it'll be another ten minutes or half an hour, or we'll all be doomed!"

Chen Tian immediately wielded the carving knife and began carving on the wall with a "whoosh": "Soon, right now!"

Chen Tian's eyes widened: "You can't have just drawn this randomly!"

"Don't worry, there's at least a 50% chance of success."

Chen Tian comforted her.

"Really? You're so sure?"

Before Chen Tian could even breathe a sigh of relief, Chen Tian continued, "It's either success or failure, isn't it a fifty-fifty probability?"

"Then you really are a genius of probability!"

Before Chen Tian could finish his complaint, a rumbling sound was heard, and the wall in front of him slowly cracked open from the middle, gradually opening to the left and right.

Chen Tian glanced at the situation behind the crack and, after confirming that there was no danger, leaped across to the side. "The door is open, hurry and go this way."

Seeing this, Chen Tian quickly retreated. He didn't want to fight that monster at all. Chen Tian followed and jumped over.

Chen Tian wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Ha, I didn't expect to actually guess right. These runes are really hard to understand."

As soon as he finished speaking, the separated wall suddenly seemed to have encountered some major problem, making a "creak" sound and then getting stuck for a short while.

Taking advantage of this moment, the monster lunged towards Chen Tian, ​​but while in mid-air, the wall suddenly activated, closing with a "boom," then opening again with a "crash," and then closing again with a "boom"...

In short, the wall seemed to be broken, opening and closing repeatedly, and the monster inside was trapped and suffered terribly.

Chen Tian looked at Chen Tian with a surprised expression: "You did this?"

Chen Tian stroked his chin, pondered for a while, but still couldn't be as shameless as Zhou Ke'er—if it were Zhou Ke'er, she probably would have already nodded and praised herself—Chen Tian just shrugged and said, "It's probably a bug in the program. Maybe I engraved the runes wrong in a few places? Oh well, it doesn't matter, as long as it runs."

Chen Tian wiped away his cold sweat: "I have a persistent feeling of danger..."

Just then, the ground in front of the two of them rumbled, and a high platform rose up. On the platform stood a man wearing silver-white armor, with pure white wings on his back, a halo above his head, and silver-white eyes.

Chen Tian was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, "...Angel? No... There's no familiar divine aura, so it's not an angel under God's command. It should be the angel race from the Western fantasy background of this module."

The angel coughed sternly and said, "Humans, congratulations on passing the trial we set. Unfortunately... this trial should only be passed by one person at a time, and you have violated the rules. However, considering you have passed the trial, I will only send you back..."

Chen Tian raised her hand and interjected, "Huh? No, we are the same person. Didn't you notice we look exactly alike? That's because this is just my clone."

As she spoke, she made a hand seal with her right hand, and the avatar beside her disappeared with a "whoosh".

The angel opened his mouth, speechless for a moment. What situation hadn't he encountered before—he really had never encountered this situation before!

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641. Secret

"Ah...I see? I'm so sorry, it was a misunderstanding—I knew it! How could the testing agency have a problem? It was all because of that guy Corleone who insisted that there were definitely two of you..."

The angel looked somewhat embarrassed, no longer displaying his previous dignified demeanor. He first awkwardly apologized to Chen Tian, ​​muttering complaints under his breath.

"Andrei, stop talking nonsense!"

A slightly annoyed voice rang out from somewhere, but it seemed to be directed at the angel in front of Chen Tian.

"Okay, okay. Whatever you say is right."

Andrei pursed his lips, then looked at Chen Tian and continued, "Uh, I hope you don't mind that little misunderstanding. Since you passed our trial in full compliance with the procedures, congratulations—you have earned the right to enter our clan's territory. We will take you to see the clan chief next. Just tell him what you want from our clan."

Chen Tian... no, to be precise, it should be Chen Tian—because Chen Tian is not good at lying or communicating with strangers, so when he withdrew his avatar just now, the dominant one had already switched to Chen Tian.

As Chen Tian followed Andrei forward, he asked, "Excuse me, what was that about those monsters? Were they all under your control?"

Chen Tian could tell that those monsters were all malevolent! To use such things as challenges in the trial—angels that could control malevolent beings? It just seemed very strange.

"Oh, you mean that? It's alright to tell you, it's like this—several hundred years ago, a monster from outside the world sneaked into our territory, trying to secretly take over the chieftain's body and replace him. But the chieftain discovered it, defeated it, but found that he couldn't kill it, and the energy on its body had a property of infecting others."

Andrei shrugged: "After discussing it, we realized that this thing couldn't be killed, and there was no other enclosed place in the clan's territory to imprison or seal it. So we simply threw it into the trial. Its energy will infect the original creations in the trial, which will increase the difficulty of the trial."