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

Without warning, the sword began to hum, and a burst of light surged from the tip of the sword to the entire blade. The image-recording stone also emitted light the instant it came into contact with the light.

Seeing this, Xu Qingming quickly put the talisman back on, and the light on the sword disappeared, but the recording stone continued to glow.

"Phew... I previously discovered that this talisman seems to be able to instantly increase the power of the unknown energy radiated by this sword, to the point that it is enough to activate the recording stone, but the radiation at normal power seems not to work."

Xu Qingming explained and sat down on the sofa.

After the photo stone glowed for a while, a beam of light was projected from one side, illuminating the blank wall that Zhou Ke'er had left.

Because the curtains were drawn and the lights weren't on, the image projected by the image-recording stone wasn't very bright, but it was still clear enough.

After a moment of shaking, the video started playing.

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"Ah...it finally worked! No wonder it's the highest-grade image-recording stone that cost me so much money..."

First, a voice came, and then a young man wearing a white coat, glasses, and a cross around his neck, looking somewhat out of place, appeared in the frame.

At first glance, the man appears unkempt and disheveled, but for some reason, he seems quite shrewd.

Judging from the facilities around the man, it should be a place similar to a laboratory.

"On my first day here to carry out the experiment, well... I miss those guys a little. I wonder how they are doing on the front lines."

The man gazed into the distance, muttered a few words, then perked up: "Hey, I don't know who will find this recording stone, or maybe it will never be found by anyone again? After all, the world is about to end, and humanity is about to perish... But even if it's just to leave some proof that it existed... let me introduce myself first. My name is Reno, and from today onwards, I'm a researcher!"

"呲"

The screen then flashed and went black, but a new screen quickly appeared.

"The second day of the experiment~ I wanted to introduce my other lab colleagues, but they were all too shy... mainly because I wasn't familiar with them..."

Renault scratched his head. "I've turned this thing on, but I don't know what to record... After all, who keeps a diary? This is the same thing... But this thing is so expensive, I can't waste it..."

"Well then, let's talk about what kind of research projects this lab is conducting."

Renault thought for a long time, idly spinning around in his swivel chair dozens of times, before continuing, "I remember saying yesterday, didn't I? The world is about to be destroyed... Actually, that's not quite accurate. I should say 'Earth' is about to be destroyed."

"I don't know where they came from... uh, aliens... I think that's how it is? Although Chen Tian and the others kept emphasizing that they weren't ordinary aliens, but something like Outer Gods? Old Ones or something... who can understand that?"

Reno shrugged. "I've only read a little bit about the Cthulhu Mythos, it's really asking too much of memorize all that. But anyway, it's these things who inexplicably want to destroy the world... well, not exactly destroy the world? They just want to play a 'game' with humanity, a game where the survival of Earth is the stake."

"Renault, come help me quickly!"

Halfway through the conversation, a voice rang out.

"Okay! Coming right away!"

Renault quickly responded a few times, then hurriedly turned off the recording stone.

The screen then went black.

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"Hmm... this guy named Renault did mention 'Chen Tian'..."

Taking advantage of the moment when the screen went black, Zhou Ke'er glanced at Chen Tian thoughtfully, only to find that she also looked puzzled.

"Chen Tian said... he seemed to remember a friend named Renault, but in his memory, they had only played a few games together. He couldn't remember anything else."

Chen Tian shook his head and said, "As for the Cthulhu Mythos and the like, he said he didn't seem to know much about it, but he has a friend named Pompero who knows a lot about it."

"I see..."

Zhou Ke'er didn't know what to say, because the intelligence was still basically scattered and couldn't be connected at all.

"Keep watching, keep watching."

Xu Qingming waved his hand, "We'll talk about other things after we finish watching. This thing can't be paused. If we accidentally miss something, we'll have to replay it. Who knows how many more times that sword and this recording stone can be used, or if they'll break after another use?"

"Ok."

Zhou Ke'er and Chen Tian both nodded.

The image projected on the wall flashed for a moment, then a new image appeared.

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47. The End of Renault

However, in the next few scenes, Renault only casually mentioned the date and some other trivial matters, as if he had been holding back for too long and was talking to himself, without providing any important information.

He even forgot about what he had said before about explaining why the world was going to be destroyed.

Moreover, the intervals became longer and longer over time. What started as daily gradually became every two or three days, then a week, then half a month...

"This is so true... It's just like when I decided to start writing a diary! I was writing for a while and then I just lost my diary somewhere. No decent person would do that kind of thing!"

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but complain, turning to look at Xu Qingming: "Is there any more useful information later? It can't all be like this, can it?"

"No, no, what comes next is more important, keep reading."

Xu Qingming shook his head.

Since Xu Qingming said so, Zhou Ke'er had no choice but to continue watching.

A flash of black light, and the time in the scene was now two months after the first scene.

"Ugh..."

Upon entering, Renault sighed, scratching his messy hair and staring with heavily dark-circled eyes. "This is terrible... The situation couldn't get any worse... According to the messages we received, Huang Quan and Kronos have disappeared! Although the Pang family has sent others over, it's just robbing Peter to pay Paul..."

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Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er's pupils constricted sharply, and she was terrified.

The Underworld? Kronos? He had only heard these two words in the game yesterday!

He had always thought "Yellow Springs" was some kind of thing... but it turns out it's... a person?!

However, the video continued, so Zhou Ke'er didn't rush to think about it further.

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"Our experiments have made some progress, but at this rate of collapse... it's far from enough!"

Renault scratched his head in frustration. "If we don't achieve results before Chen Tian and his team suffer a complete defeat, then this research will be meaningless! Whew... The only saving grace is that, according to Chen Tian, ​​our research hasn't been exposed..."

"Ah, I don't have time to work on this anymore, I need to get to the experiments going..."

Renault sighed and reached out to turn off the recording stone.

The scene flashed, and this time it was another two weeks later.

"It's over...it's all over! Almost all the Western gods have fallen, and over 90% of the gods and immortals from our Celestial Empire and the East have also perished...there's no chance of winning...why? Why are the gods on Earth completely unable to contend with that evil god?!"

Renault, trembling and clutching his head, lay on the table and picked up the cross ornament around his neck, muttering under his breath, "R. ora pro nobis! R. ora pro nobis!"

As he chanted softly, a faint, pure white light emanated from the cross.

Reno breathed a sigh of relief. "God hasn't fallen yet... at least that means there's still a final chance. If God isn't dead, then Pyshnu, Zeus, and the other chief gods should still have the power to fight back..."

"We need to speed up the research...maybe we can finish before the last minute..."

Renault reached out and turned off the recording stone.

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"Wait... this is a lot of information..."

Zhou Ke'er swallowed hard and pointed to the recording stone that was still switching between black and white screens. "According to this guy's description, all the gods recorded in mythology in the old era actually exist? And... they all united to resist some kind of external threat? Evil gods?"

As she spoke, Zhou Ke'er subconsciously looked at Chen Tian.

After all, there's a suspected time traveler here; he might know something.

Chen Tian noticed Zhou Ke'er's gaze and immediately understood what he meant. She could only wave her hand in a panic, "This... never mind, I can't explain it clearly either. Let Chen Tian come out and tell you himself."

Immediately, Chen Tian's demeanor changed abruptly. She glanced helplessly at Zhou Ke'er and Xu Qingming, her eyes drooping, and said, "I really don't know... I know Renault, and I know the Pang family he mentioned—it's my friend, the Pompeiro family..."

I know Huang Quan, but I don't know Cronus.

As for Western and Eastern deities, I only know King Zhou of Shang, also known as Emperor Xin, the Star Lord of Heavenly Joy, and Ereshkigal, the goddess of the underworld... As for the others, I really don't know.

However, just now, some fragments that weren't in my memory seemed to flash back into my mind... I feel like I might have lost a large part of my memory.

"Ha...this amnesia is really thorough. Oh well, let's keep reading."

Zhou Ke'er shook her head.

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"..."

At the very beginning, Renault stared blankly at the recording stone for a long time. Just when Zhou Ke'er was about to suspect that something was wrong with the recording stone, he finally spoke, and it was a thunderbolt at the beginning: "God is dead."

As he spoke, he tremblingly grasped the cross pendant and chanted the incantation he had recited earlier several times, but the cross turned into dust.

"Why... the experiment was so close to success, it was the final stretch, just two more weeks!"

Renault stammered, forcefully carving "R. ora pro nobis" into the table, muttering, "Pray for us...even though you have fallen...pray for us..."

After calming himself down a bit, Renault looked into the distance and said in a low voice, "Our last chance depends on Chen Tian and Pompeii... This is truly a critical moment of life and death..."

Then the screen went black.

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"...Friend, you seem to be a protagonist in the old era."

Zhou Ke'er's focus suddenly became very strange as she looked at Chen Tian and said...

"...Although I don't remember what happened, since the world was destroyed, it means I failed..."

Chen Tian, ​​or rather, Chen Tian now, sighed and said, "All our efforts to resist have failed... This is just too hopeless..."

"Well, try to think more positively. Maybe it wasn't that you tried your best to resist failure, but that you chickened out in the end... cough cough, backed down, and somehow managed to travel through time, right?"

Zhou Ke'er patted Chen Tian on the shoulder and offered words of comfort.

"...Thank you so much! I'm really relieved!"

Chen Tian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. After realizing what he meant, he couldn't help but bulge his veins and replied with a forced smile.

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"Phew... the research isn't successful yet."