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

Cold-cooked rabbit couldn't help but protest angrily.

Honghe didn't explain anything, but just casually said, "Look at the task panel yourself."

Zhou Ke'er continued to ponder – although the clock did not react to the perception of evil, the divine power of the God of Time and Space felt a sense of closeness to it, and could clearly feel that the clock also contained the power of time.

That's right. The reason Zhou Ke'er was able to resist time travel to some extent and still have her memories during the first few time travels was probably because of this timepiece.

However, it seems that because it was not actively activated and used, but only passively served as a carrying item, it only had such a negligible effect.

Although Zhou Ke'er didn't know how to activate this thing, it gave him a previously overlooked idea—the use of the Godhood of Time and Space. Previously, due to the weakness of his own Godhood of Time and Space, he hadn't considered whether he could use it to deal with the current situation. But now, thinking about it—those beings on the other side were merely using external forces to amplify their control over time and space; they were essentially all bark and no bite. Zhou Ke'er, at least, had a genuine Godhood, and might not necessarily be weaker than those beings' inherent power.

Besides... Zhou Ke'er didn't believe that he hadn't realized this during those previous time loops. If it were him, he would definitely have left a backup plan for his future self who was also caught in the time loop.

Just then, Porius, regaining his senses, looked at the clock in Zhou Ke'er's hand and couldn't help but be shocked. He immediately rushed to Zhou Ke'er's side and exclaimed in shock without thinking, "My...my lord?! What happened? Why did you separate your divine spark?! What's going on! This...this is too dangerous, please absorb the divine spark back immediately!"

Zhou Ke'er looked at Porius in confusion, wondering what strange things he was saying. But when she saw Porius staring intently at the clock in his hand, Zhou Ke'er instantly understood what Porius meant—this clock was actually the manifestation of the God of Time and Space!

But Zhou Ke'er was certain that his own Time God Divine Essence was still intact within his body.

That means...

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654. Me from the future?

"Then there's only one answer..."

Zhou Ke'er did not answer Bolius's series of questions. Instead, she stared at the clock in her hand and pondered silently. First of all, he could not possibly take out his own Godhood of Time and Space. At the same time, this Godhood was not a "prop" and could not be released to gain stronger power.

Moreover, he acquired the timepiece long before their group arrived in the city, so it wasn't a product of being trapped in a time loop.

Zhou Ke'er guessed that this might be his own creation in the future, who had mastered the power of the God of Time and Space and was able to reverse time and space, returning to that morning before all of this happened, and condensing a portion of the God's power into this clock and leaving it to Zhou Ke'er at that time.

Of course, it was "partial"—this timepiece couldn't possibly be a complete divine essence, a fact Zhou Ke'er could sense—after all, the divine power on it was so faint that Zhou Ke'er hadn't even recognized it as divine power, thinking it was just something close to the divine essence of the God of Time and Space. If it weren't for Porius recognizing that the timepiece's shape was the divine essence of the God of Time and Space, no one would have noticed that.

The future Zhou Ke'er is so stingy!

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but mentally criticize herself.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ke'er looked at the anxious Porius, shook her head and said, "This is not the divine spark of the God of Time and Space. It just looks exactly the same. There is not even any divine remnant on it. You can tell by sensing it. The real divine spark is still on me and it's fine."

To be honest, if Poseidon wasn't here, or if it wasn't Poseidon asking the question, but rather Flamingo or Cold-Cooked Rabbit, then Zhou Ke'er would definitely have immediately started acting out a tragic scene, such as saying, "This is my last Ripple!"

The flamingo will pick up on the joke, the cold-cooked rabbit will make sarcastic remarks, and while Bolius may not understand what Zhou Ke'er is saying, he'll take it seriously! That's pointless. It's not about using jokes anymore, it's about being awkward.

After hearing Zhou Ke'er's words, Porius calmed down and breathed a sigh of relief before examining the clock again. "So that's how it is... That's good. Upon closer inspection, it is indeed quite different from my lord's divine essence, but—it has many strange patterns on it, and it seems to be filled with a strange and evil aura... I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, but it's more likely not to be."

Zhou Ke'er ran her fingers over the patterns on the watch—although it looked rather sinister, it wasn't sinister at all; it was probably just Zhou Ke'er's own quirky taste.

But none of that matters. The real question is how Zhou Ke'er should use this thing now.

He had just tried it, whether it was pouring evil or divine power into it, or even doing something like blood oath, nothing worked.

Now it seems there is still one way left—Zhou Ke'er slowly inserted the clock into her body. Because her body is now made of evil, there will be no disgusting scenes such as flesh and blood holes. It is just like disappearing into smoke. The clock disappeared into Zhou Ke'er's body.

In that instant, the Time and Space God within Zhou Ke'er's body became active like a shark that had smelled blood. It even immediately broke away from its original position and rushed directly toward the clock, devouring it without hesitation.

As expected, this was exactly as Zhou Ke'er had guessed—this clock itself could not be used as a standalone item, but it could be used as a "key" to the Time-Space Godhood to activate certain powers of the Time-Space Godhood.

Of course, this is quite normal. After all, if even Zhou Ke'er doesn't understand what he's thinking, then who else can? Hong He?

After the God of Time and Space devoured the clock, the meager power obtained from it was merely a bonus. The most important thing was the "information" left behind in the God of Time and Space after the clock was devoured—information maintained and protected by a meager amount of divine power.

But to Zhou Ke'er's surprise, the message didn't feature him, but rather... a flamingo?

Zhou Ke'er realized something was wrong and quickly immersed her consciousness in the divine spark to carefully examine the information left behind.

The truth, however, was utterly unexpected—the timepiece was left behind by him, but not entirely. The reason it possessed only such a small amount of divine power wasn't because his future self was stingy, but because he had only a tiny fraction of his divine power left!

Moreover... this damaged timepiece is truly his own divine essence. The reason it has strange and evil patterns on it is because—remember that Zhou Ke'er's Time God divine essence was fused with evil? As for why there was no reaction when using evil perception just now, it's because the evil within it has been completely consumed.

Zhou Ke'er's ominous premonition grew stronger, and he hurriedly continued to investigate. Finally, the whole story was revealed before his eyes—in one of the loops, Zhou Ke'er failed to overcome the predicament before him. In the endless repetition of the time loop, too much of his power was stripped away, and the beings that absorbed his power became even stronger. So much so that even when his Godhood of Time and Space finally took effect and he regained the memories lost in the time loop, it was too late to turn the tide.

In the end, he could only burn through all his remaining power to barely send the flamingo back in time for a short period of time, and have the flamingo dump his body there—in the bushes where Zhou Ke'er first obtained the clock.

Because Zhou Ke'er's body is currently composed of evil, once the evil is exhausted, his body will dissipate on its own—leaving only a depleted spacetime god's core, which is this broken clock.

After reading about what happened on this timeline, Zhou Ke'er's expression changed—good heavens, he had previously thought that it was his future self who had resolved the incident and, in his happiness, had casually given him a speedrun guide. He never expected that it was actually a failure record left behind by his past self who failed the guide and died?!

Damn it, you're doomed!

Zhou Ke'er really didn't expect that she would fail, or even end up with her body completely destroyed.

Fortunately, it wasn't the current him who died, and the one who died in the past left a legacy, otherwise Zhou Ke'er might have repeated the same mistakes in this timeline.

But... wouldn't doing this lead to a spacetime paradox? Or is it applying the principle of parallel universes? Or is his timeline unique and not intertwined with other timelines?

Zhou Ke'er didn't understand what was going on either, but there was one thing that was most important—she couldn't die again!

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655. Hound

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with that timer?"

Seeing that Zhou Ke'er hadn't spoken but her expression was gradually darkening, Honghe wondered what was wrong and quickly asked, "Are you sure it's okay to just put it directly into your body like this?"

Zhou Ke'er thought about it and decided not to tell them the truth. After all, it was too despairing and a serious blow to their self-confidence. Besides, they wouldn't remember it after the time rewind was over anyway, so why should they have to live in fear for such a long time?

He shook his head. "It has nothing to do with that. I was just thinking about time..."

At this point, Zhou Ke'er suddenly paused, as if she had thought of something, or as if she had sensed some subtle fluctuation, and abruptly turned her head to look at a certain spot in mid-air.

"call out!"

Seeing Zhou Ke'er looking in that direction with a serious expression, Honghe didn't even glance at her before throwing the dead rabbit in her hand in that direction without hesitation.

But there was nothing there. The dead rabbit flew through the air in a beautiful parabola before crashing heavily to the ground, looking extremely disgusting.

What's there?

Cold-cooked Rabbit was startled by Red Crane's move and subconsciously asked a question.

Honghe looked at Zhou Ke'er, but Zhou Ke'er shook her head: "There's nothing there. But just now, for a moment, I seemed to sense a spatial fluctuation that didn't belong to this space—maybe this clock made my senses more acute—although it was very slight, and I don't know what caused it, but this did give me some inspiration."

That's right. Since these subtle spatial fluctuations, which don't belong to this space, are occurring, it means that this space isn't as stable as we imagine. So, if we introduce something from the outside... to completely destroy these inherently unstable spatial points, we can break this independent space... right?

As for this, Zhou Ke'er is perfectly capable of doing it—although he himself will also face some minor dangers.

But it's just a little danger; it's better than dying here.

Then Zhou Ke'er turned to the others and said, "You guys find somewhere to hide first. I'm going to do something big and destroy this place."

Cold-Eat Rabbit looked at Zhou Ke'er with a puzzled expression. Having lost her memory during the time rewind, she clearly didn't understand why Zhou Ke'er was doing this. However, after hearing Zhou Ke'er's words, Red Crane nodded and then, without hesitation, grabbed Cold-Eat Rabbit and ran away.

Bolius seemed to want to say something more, but seeing Zhou Ke'er's serious eyes, he could only follow the flamingo and the cold-cooked rabbit in the end.

So having a flamingo as a teammate is really comfortable. When encountering situations like this, they never procrastinate and handle things decisively and efficiently. Who wouldn't like such a good teammate?

After estimating that the others had probably gone quite far, Zhou Ke'er took a deep breath. The blurry words in her right eye changed instantly, then stopped abruptly and became clear—"Wu".

The Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Lord's Secret Scripture, Volume Five, The Record of Taiyin Corpse Dissolution and Metamorphosis.

One of these methods is clearly very useful nowadays—contact with Tindarous Hounds.

As Zhou Ke'er unleashed her powerful, sinister energy, although she still couldn't directly break through this isolated space and make contact with the outside world, she could rely on the secret techniques in the Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Monarch's Secret Scripture to make the Tindaros Hound sense her and lure it over through spacetime fluctuations.

Ha, an entity that constantly hunts down time travelers, what would happen if it encountered another entity that could allow others to travel through time...?

Although Zhou Ke'er wasn't entirely sure, she felt that the two of them were unlikely to have any good relationship.

Soon, a sound like a mirror shattering rang out. Then, from a spot where branches of trees intersected and formed an angle not far away, a thick cloud of strangely colored smoke suddenly billowed out without warning or origin. Then, the head of a ferocious and eerie creature slowly emerged from the smoke. At first glance, it looked a bit like a wolf, with burning eyes and a protruding jaw, but its outline kept changing, as if all the evil in the universe was constantly reshaping it.

Zhou Ke'er didn't think that just because he had summoned it, the other party would negotiate with him properly. Before the guy could fully reveal his body from the smoke, Zhou Ke'er didn't hesitate to take off running. Her evil powers were running at full speed, and she didn't even care about the direction—anyway, she would eventually end up in that city, as long as she didn't run into Red Crane and the others.

When the Tindaros saw that the source that had attracted it to this place—Zhou Ke'er—had run away, it couldn't help but growl angrily. A bluish liquid, which was hard to tell whether it was saliva or digestive juice, dripped from its hollow, straw-like tongue, splashing around and making a "sizzling" corrosive sound.

Finally, its entire body emerged from the smoke. It first looked around the isolated space with a puzzled expression, but did not think for long. Instead, it was once again lured by the aura emanating from Zhou Ke'er through the Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Monarch's Secret Scripture and immediately chased after Zhou Ke'er.

Of course, it wouldn't foolishly chase after her by flying or running; instead, it would directly burrow into the angle formed by the intersecting branches, and then emerge again from an angled position near where Zhou Ke'er was.

And as it became more familiar with and accustomed to the spatial structure of this independent space, its spatial traversal became increasingly rapid. Originally, it needed to emerge from a certain angle and then reappear from the beginning, just like when it first appeared—this would alert Zhou Ke'er before it appeared, allowing her to avoid it in advance. But later, perhaps because this thing constantly and violently traversed the space, causing many spatial loopholes to appear in this independent space, it became more and more like a normal space. Therefore, it no longer needed such cumbersome steps; it could simply burst out from a certain angle without warning.

Zhou Ke'er almost ran into this guy several times, but fortunately he had plenty of ways to survive a chase. So, she chased and fled in danger until she arrived at the familiar wilderness outside the city.

Zhou Ke'er immediately approached the city. The vortex floating in the air at the city's outer edge saw Zhou Ke'er and skillfully prepared to rewind time for her. A wave of time fluctuation instantly reverberated around Zhou Ke'er.

Unfortunately for them, the Tindalos Hound quickly rushed over from the side, smashing the time fluctuation directly and baring its teeth at the vortex, its meaning very clear: This is the prey I've been chasing for so long, who do you think you are to dare to steal it from me?!

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656. Riot

The vortex was clearly taken aback by this sudden turn of events, never expecting that a Tindaros Hound would appear in this place.

But regardless, how dare the other party adopt such a threatening stance towards it?

The vortex immediately twisted and contorted, transforming into a reptilian form. Its body was thick and long, twisting and undulating, like an enlarged version of a worm. More than four limbs extended from its lower sides, and its skin was covered with patterns resembling rock helmets. Its back was covered with organs that looked like thorns or dorsal fins, but were undoubtedly extremely sharp.

It barked back at Tindaros's hounds as if to assert its dominance, and while barking, it also made a very strange sound, which Zhou Ke'er thought might be a way to call for its other companions.

The Tindaros Hound was clearly offended—if it were human, it would probably think: "I usually turn a blind eye to you guys changing the flow of time and letting people travel through time, but now I'm just here to arrest someone, and you dare to yell at me?!" Zhou Ke'er imagined this, thinking it was a very likely scenario.

The Tindaros Hound, naturally unwilling to back down, pounced without hesitation and began tearing at the creature.

Those beings weren't particularly strong to begin with, and although they seemed to have become much stronger here for some reason, they would still be crushed by the Tindaros Hounds in a one-on-one fight.

But it was clear that this being had no intention of fighting the Tindalos Hounds; it was merely stalling for time. Soon, one vortex after another appeared in the city, instantly transforming into nearly identical crawling forms in mid-air, and relentlessly pounced on the Tindalos Hounds, beginning a despicable gang beating.

While Tindalos Hounds are strong in individual combat, they can't fight against many opponents, let alone a group of more than four. Even Master Ye, who could take on ten opponents, would struggle if surrounded and ganged up on by a large group.

The vortexes that transformed into reptiles not only ganged up on the hounds, but also resorted to a more despicable strategy of attrition warfare. When the first circling got tired of ganging up, they would retreat and take over for the next circling, surrounding the enemy in layers upon layers.

The poor Tindaros Hound could only rely on spatial teleportation to try to break free of the encirclement and launch a counterattack time and time again. But as soon as it escaped the encirclement, those beings that were still in a vortex state in mid-air would immediately transform into reptiles and continue to surround it in the same way. Meanwhile, those beings that had surrounded it would return to their vortex state to recuperate.

It can be described as a despicable yet artistic hunt.

But clearly, they were so engrossed in the thrill of the hunt and victory that they didn't anticipate that as the Tindaros Hounds continued to teleport through this area, it made the space increasingly fragile, filled with holes and damage.

Adding fuel to the fire, Zhou Ke'er activated the fifth volume of the Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Monarch's Secret Scripture again. This time, because the space was very fragile and the connection with the outside world was becoming clearer, he didn't need to output the evil energy at a high power as before. As long as he used it normally, he could lure many hounds.

Soon, smoke began to rise from various angled spots nearby, and one Tindarus Hound after another poked its head out of the smoke, causing the creatures to let out angry howls.

Soon, before the later hounds had even fully entered this isolated space, the entire space was already overwhelmed and emitted a series of shattering sounds, crackling and popping one after another. Then, the isolated space, like a shattered mirror, scattered into fragments all over the ground.