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

Before Zhou Ke'er and the others could answer, they heard a series of chaotic footsteps behind them. It turned out to be a few students who had luckily survived. After all, there were thirty or forty students in a class, and about a dozen of them had escaped from the bus. The "eggs" that had just exploded off the hood of the car had only splashed onto the students who rushed to the front, so naturally a small number of students would have survived.

All we could hear were them calling out from behind: "Teacher Honghe! Teacher, help us! Wait for us!"

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730. Doomsday Escape (Part 4)

Hearing the shouts, Zhou Ke'er subconsciously turned around to look—but what instantly attracted his attention was not the group of students who had survived by chance, but the fact that behind those students, the originally scattered "eggs" had somehow reassembled and formed the shape of some kind of four-legged beast, fiercely chasing forward one by one.

Zhou Ke'er originally thought that she would die from simply touching the egg, but it turned out that it couldn't be that simple.

Compared to Zhou Ke'er and the students' legs, the monsters made of eggs were obviously much faster, and as they ran, they kept splashing tiny eggs into the surrounding area with the amplitude of their movements.

"Holy crap! What the hell is that? Run!"

Seeing Zhou Ke'er turn her head to look, Lengchitu, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but turn her head as well. She was startled by the monsters and quickly shouted that she had sped up and started running at a speed of fifty meters per second.

Those who had received the warning naturally didn't have the time to pay attention to the students anymore, and they all immediately sped up.

Ultimately, there's nothing we can do—paying attention wouldn't make a difference. Even if we slowed down a bit and waited for them, as the students requested, what good would that do? Would it save them from danger or eliminate the monsters? Neither. Besides, those monsters aren't just single-target attackers; they charge in and unleash a splash damage self-destruct, regardless of how many people are on your team!

However, with their abilities sealed and their physical abilities weakened, even Zhou Ke'er and the others couldn't maintain their sprinting speed indefinitely. In fact, after running only about three or four hundred meters, they were already panting and slowing down.

If this continues, after those students suffer, it will soon be Zhou Ke'er's turn.

After all, those monsters won't stop to hunt. In fact, students who are instantly infected by the "eggs" will quickly and continuously turn into new monsters to join the hunt. In this situation, having many "friends" is useless.

But in this wilderness, there's practically nowhere to hide, let alone anything to save their lives...

Holy crap! Good heavens, there really is one!

Just as Zhou Ke'er was mentally rubbing salt in her wounds, she spotted a car with its door open parked in the distance ahead of the road.

And two monsters were wandering not far from the car. They pounced on the ground, turning into a puddle that kept condensing into some shape, and then collapsing and turning into another shape, just like slimes learning to mimic.

But it is obvious that once they notice a human approaching, they will immediately adjust to a form suitable for pursuit.

If Zhou Ke'er and the others wanted to get the car, they had to go around the monsters next to it and be careful that they didn't explode right next to the car—if they splashed into the car, it would be unusable.

Furthermore, with monsters chasing them from behind, they didn't have any extra time to make further plans.

Honghe turned her head quickly, and Zhou Ke'er and she exchanged a quick glance, both instantly understanding each other's meaning.

Zhou Ke'er gritted her teeth and squeezed out another burst of strength. She ran forward a distance in twos and threes at a time. After separating from Honghe and the others, she took out the small escape hammer she had left behind from her pocket. Estimating that the distance was about right, she suddenly flung it at the monsters.

With a clang, the two monsters that had been wandering around noticed Zhou Ke'er not far away. Without pausing, they transformed into humanoid shapes in the blink of an eye and started chasing after her.

Zhou Ke'er's eyes narrowed slightly. With a quick turn of her feet, she leaped over the guardrail beside the road, using one hand to brace herself against it, leading the two monsters toward the grass. At the same time, she pondered to herself—why did these two monsters transform into human form instead of the beast-like forms that the later monsters took? It was obvious that human form would be much slower.

However, this wasn't hard to guess. Zhou Ke'er quickly came up with a possible answer: these monsters' mimicry required them to "learn" through devouring. The monsters by the bus earlier had been able to mimic the appearance of "four-legged beasts" because they had initially devoured some kind of stray cat or dog. The two monsters here, on the other hand, seemed to have humans as their direct hosts—or rather, other mimicry methods couldn't keep up with humans in terms of hunting speed, so they could only mimic these forms.

If these monsters were to devour some dangerous species, that would be a real problem.

For example, some small flying insects, this pile of "eggs" can turn into so many small insects. When they mimic insects, they will swarm all over the place and invade human settlements. It will be like a field that has been hit by a locust plague. It will destroy everything in its path.

Forget it, it's not something that's already happened, so let's not think about it that far ahead.

Zhou Ke'er glanced quickly at the location of the car and saw Honghe and the others successfully board. Since Zhijiansha and Lengchitu were currently in high school, they weren't suitable to drive, so Honghe had to drive. However, Zhou Ke'er remembered that Honghe had even gotten carsick before when she drove… Could she really drive well?

(Flamingo: Even a normal person would get seasick riding in your car!)

But there was no time to think about it. Honghe had already gestured for him to hurry over and started turning the car around.

If the creature chasing Zhou Ke'er was a monster disguised as a "four-legged beast," Zhou Ke'er would definitely not dare to turn back. Fortunately, it was only in human form, and its speed was not much different from Zhou Ke'er's. In fact, due to the imperfection of the mimicry, it might even be a little slower.

Without further hesitation, Zhou Ke'er immediately raised her hand and responded to the red crane with a gesture. Then she circled around in an arc before heading back towards the road—after all, if she turned back in a straight line, and those two monsters suddenly exploded, it would be all over.

Honghe quickly understood Zhou Ke'er's meaning, and after turning around, it immediately drove slowly forward.

Seeing this, Zhijiansha, who was in the back seat, quickly put her hands on the back of the front seat and said to Honghe, "Zhou Ke'er hasn't run back yet!"

“I know. I’m just trying to make it easier for him to get on the bus.”

Honghe replied briefly and gave the instruction: "Open the car door closest to him."

Upon hearing this, Cold-Eating Rabbit immediately obeyed Red Crane's command and opened the car door beside him.

Sure enough, Zhou Ke'er was soon seen leaping over the highway guardrail, and then she jumped straight into the open car door with a leap.

Immediately afterwards, Honghe slammed on the gas pedal and accelerated, while Lengchitu quickly slammed the car door shut.

Zhou Ke'er clearly fell headfirst into Zhijiansha's arms.

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731. Doomsday Escape (Part 5)

"Hey!"

Caught off guard, Zhijiansha was startled and almost knocked Zhou Ke'er over: "What do you mean by pounced on me like that?!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ke'er waved her fist and complained, "What?! I should be asking you what you mean! I'm already incredibly skilled at jumping into the car so accurately. Do you really expect me to aim right under the seat and crawl in? That's asking too much."

"Then you can't..."

Fingers frantically stole glances at the flamingo in the driver's seat, and stammered slightly, "Anyway, you'd better hurry up and get to the passenger seat!"

The cold-cooked rabbit next to him squinted its eyes, and for some reason, started fanning the flames: "Oh~ hurry up! Hurry up! What adorable interjections!"

Zhou Ke'er, on the other hand, looked quite self-righteous. "So why do I have to be the one to roll to the front? I was the one who lured those monsters away, okay? I'm so tired now that I don't even want to move. Can't you be a little understanding and roll to the front yourself?"

"You bastard!" Zhijiansha gritted his teeth.

"It's so noisy. I'm not a good driver, so don't drive recklessly. It could cause an accident. Just to be safe, make sure you all fasten your seatbelts. Besides, we're driving on the wrong side of the road right now. If there's a car coming from the front, and we're going too fast, I can't guarantee we won't crash into it."

Just then, Red Crane, focused on driving, spoke up in a cold voice, "Also, be quiet and don't disturb me. I haven't even gotten my driver's license in real life yet."

Finger Sand immediately fell silent, not caring whether Red Crane could see or not, and simply nodded in agreement.

"Why didn't you do this earlier!"

Zhou Ke'er was not at all shy. She not only got up and sat down, but also lifted her buttocks and squeezed the sand between her fingers: "Move over a bit, move over a bit, make some room for me."

As he spoke, he reached out and pulled over the seatbelt, fastening it for both of them at the same time.

Fortunately, Zhou Ke'er and Zhijiansha were transformed into high school students by the system, and their bodies became smaller. Moreover, the two of them were already relatively thin... or rather, petite, so squeezing into one space wasn't a big problem.

The cold-cooked rabbit next to him couldn't help but cover its mouth and smirk, its whole face looking comical.

However, Zhou Ke'er himself didn't really mean to tease... uh, flirt... uh, play tricks on, well, he didn't mean to tease the Sand Between Fingers. He really didn't mean it (seriously), he was just too lazy to scroll back to the beginning, after all, he was currently thinking about the known information about this module in his mind.

Not long after, everyone suddenly felt a violent forward lurch—it turned out that Honghe had slammed on the brakes.

"what happened?"

Zhou Ke'er, snapping back to her senses, quickly asked.

Before Honghe could answer, Lengchitu, who had been keeping an eye on the road, immediately replied, "The elevated road leading to the city is broken. Literally broken."

"?"

Zhou Ke'er quickly unbuckled her seatbelt and tried her best to stand on tiptoe to look ahead—sure enough, just as Leng Chi Tu had said, a long section of the overpass ahead had collapsed. Even in the unscientific high-speed chases in Fast and Furious, it was impossible to fly that far through the air.

The viaduct connecting this highway extends upwards, meaning that while people can try to pass under the viaduct, cars certainly cannot.

Honghe turned to look at Zhou Ke'er. Although she didn't say anything, it was clear that she meant "what to say now?"

Zhou Ke'er hesitated for a moment, then said, "I'll go down and check the situation first. If there's nothing wrong under the overpass... I'll show you what real driving skills are!"

Upon hearing this, Cold-Eat Rabbit's face turned green: "We've already tasted enough, let's hurry up and take it away! Let's go back the way we came, maybe the module will force us to go to that so-called training camp location?"

She had witnessed Zhou Ke'er's wild driving many times before. Zhou Ke'er's driving in her normal state was already outrageous enough, let alone now in her shrunk state. Cold-Eating Rabbit clearly remembered that the first time she encountered Zhou Ke'er and Red Crane in the module, as soon as Zhou Ke'er finished driving, Red Crane immediately collapsed to the ground and vomited violently.

But long before she finished speaking, Zhou Ke'er had already pushed open the car door and jumped out, rushing to the front to check the situation.

A short while later, he walked back confidently and reached out to open the driver's side door.

He gave the flamingo a thumbs up: "There are only a few scattered monsters, not even any abandoned vehicles blocking the way. It's totally easy difficulty, leave it to me!"

The girl in the back seat, nicknamed "Cold Rabbit," exclaimed in shock: "No! No, no! Zhou Ke'er shouldn't do that kind of thing while driving, at least wait until we get off the overpass!"

Honghe ignored Lengchitu and immediately risked getting carsick by moving away and sitting in the passenger seat.

Zhou Ke'er sat in the driver's seat, fastened her seatbelt, and was ready to go: "Cold-eating rabbit, what nonsense are you talking about? We're right under the overpass!"

"By the way, I just checked—the guardrail separating the two lanes on the highway is quite sturdy. This car shouldn't be able to jump directly from one lane to the other. However…"

Zhou Ke'er's lips curled up, and she laughed arrogantly: "The guardrails on the elevated road are also very sturdy—but that's not a problem. The section of the elevated road that broke off ahead isn't too high, so we can just drive right over it!"

Road map:

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←←←←丨 Elevated road (upper) (broken)

—(Guardrail)——(Elevated guardrail)

→→→→丨Elevated Road (Lower)→→

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When Zhou Ke'er said those words, Zhijiansha, who had been wondering why Lengchitu had reacted so strongly, finally understood what was going on. She immediately widened her eyes and prepared to stop her, but it was too late.

Zhou Ke'er started the car and floored the accelerator.

"Wuhu!! Takeoff!! Remember to fasten your seatbelts!"

The car instantly sped onto the elevated road, and while turning, it rushed across the gap in the elevated road without slowing down at all, directly plunging into the road below.

"Ahhhh!"

Fortunately, Cold-Eating Rabbit was prepared. Not only did he fasten his own seatbelt as soon as he saw Zhou Ke'er get into the driver's seat, but he also helped Zhijiansha, who hadn't reacted yet, fasten her seatbelt as well. Otherwise, Zhijiansha would definitely have been thrown straight out of the windshield.

"boom!"

With a loud crash, the car tilted to one side, the left side lifted up, and the right wheel landed heavily on the ground, rolling over and crashing into the guardrail on the outside of the road before coming to a stop.

"How about that! That's what you call driving skill, the high-altitude emergency braking technique I've practiced for years!"

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