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

Think of something happy... Think of something happy... Zhou Ke'er said to herself in a self-hypnotic way.

Somehow, under the influence of the intense pain, he seemed to be hallucinating, and a warm and chaotic world inexplicably appeared in his mind—a world he was sure he should have seen before, but had no recollection of—even so, this inexplicable hallucination seemed to give him an extremely strong sense of comfort.

A gentle, soft murmur lingered in his ear, and Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but smile slightly, as if she were listening to the truth and feeling some kind of grace.

All the pain seemed to be gradually weakened at this moment, until it was about to disappear—Zhou Ke'er's consciousness fell into a warm chaos, as if she was indulging in a beautiful dream.

In the silence, listening to Zhou Ke'er's gradually calming breathing, Zhijiansha, sitting in the back seat, opened her mouth as if she wanted to ask something. However, Honghe seemed to know what Zhijiansha wanted to ask, and shook her head at her through the rearview mirror, making a shushing gesture, indicating that she should not speak for the time being.

Seeing this, Zhijiansha understood that Zhou Ke'er had probably fallen asleep—or perhaps was unconscious. But in any case, since they had no way of helping to alleviate her injuries, it was best not to disturb Zhou Ke'er.

Silent all the way.

Along the way, they occasionally encountered a few "eggs" that were still mimicking small animals, but the flamingos easily shook them off. However, one thing is puzzling: when they returned to the place where the module started and saw the bus parked on the other side of the road separated by a guardrail, they found that there were no "eggs" wandering around, not even a trace of them. Only bloodstains everywhere showed what had happened there.

Where did those monsters and the students' corpses all disappear to? (Valley)

The flamingo was puzzled, but its speed did not decrease at all, and it quickly moved away from the place.

Many questions arose in the minds of the three, but since Zhou Ke'er was still asleep, no one uttered a word. The atmosphere was slightly somber—and so, Honghe drove the vehicle onto the mountain road.

Inevitably, the journey began to become bumpy, but judging from the fact that the training camp should be located somewhere halfway up the mountain, we should arrive soon.

"?!"

Suddenly, Zhou Ke'er abruptly opened his eyes without warning, as if waking from a dream, or as if he had just had a terrible nightmare. But in reality, it was just a sudden, inexplicable sense of danger that abruptly swept over him, forcibly pulling him out of his hazy, beautiful dream.

As if it were some kind of warning, Zhou Ke'er felt the stinging sensation in her left hand suddenly intensify—but this sudden increase in stinging sensation seemed to be guiding something, foreshadowing something.

A strong sense of crisis lingered in Zhou Ke'er's mind. He felt as if he was being targeted by a terrifying entity that he was powerless to resist in his current state.

No—that's not right either.

She wasn't targeting him, but... sensed him. And he sensed her too. The other's perception then passed by—but left Zhou Ke'er with a lingering sense of unease.

There's definitely a dangerous big guy in this mountain!

However... Zhou Ke'er did not reveal this matter.

"you're awake."

Honghe noticed Zhou Ke'er's movements, but didn't turn her head. She just glanced at Zhou Ke'er and said in a calm tone, "We've already entered the mountains. We should arrive in a little while. Hopefully, we still have enough gasoline."

Upon hearing the flamingo's voice, Zhijiansha and Lengchitu, who had been dozing off in the back seat for a while, also groggily and barely managed to wake up.

"Are we almost there?"

Cold-cooked rabbit seemed a little sleepy, mumbling something in a daze.

No one answered, but Cold-Eating Rabbit didn't expect anyone to repeat themselves to her. She just yawned again and looked out the car window: "It really is in the mountains... They really do live together in a place like this. Mountain villages don't necessarily have to be in the mountains."

Flamingo replied calmly, “Be content. If the so-called training camp had been held in a big city, we would probably be stuck in the hotel right now, unable to go up or escape. Besides, we would probably encounter more people there, and the monsters would be even more mimicking each other. We wouldn’t be able to tell who is who and who is who, and it might be even more dangerous.”

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746. Forest (1)

In the distance, a bus was seen parked at the end of the mountain road ahead—it looked exactly like the one Zhou Ke'er and her group had ridden in at the beginning.

Strangely, judging from the surrounding scenery, it seemed that we had not yet arrived at the training camp location, and I wondered why the bus had stopped here.

Moreover, this brought Zhou Ke'er and the others a troublesome problem. The mountain road was already quite narrow, barely wide enough for two cars to drive side by side, let alone with a bus parked in front of them. If Zhou Ke'er and the others didn't want to slide down the outside of the mountain road and tumble straight down the mountain, they couldn't possibly think of trying to squeeze past the bus.

It was obvious that the rest of the journey would have to be on foot. Fortunately, we were already halfway up the mountain, which meant we weren't far from the training camp.

Sure enough, the car braked smoothly behind the bus. Honghe looked around for a while, then shook her head: "We can't get through. We'll have to get off and walk."

Zhou Ke'er rubbed her temples with her right hand, then pushed open the door and got out of the car. Her current mental state... was somewhat indescribably subtle. She seemed to have just had a very warm dream, but after waking up, she couldn't remember anything, only a lingering sense of "dazedness" from the dream remained with her.

This "dazedness" mixed with the persistent, excruciating pain in her left hand, coupled with an intuitive, lingering sense of crisis, and a constant, piercing pain emanating from within her left hand as if foreshadowing something—it has to be said that Zhou Ke'er's mental state is now in a very dangerous state.

"Bloodstains... There really is a problem here too."

After getting off the bus, Zhijiansha cautiously and carefully examined the bus parked there, and quickly noticed something was amiss—or rather, since the bus had stopped here halfway through the journey, it was normal for something to be unusual. Otherwise, something even bigger and more dangerous might be brewing.

Inside the bus windows, there were many nearly dried bloody handprints. Several windows were broken, and the remaining shards were also covered with scratches and bloodstains.

In contrast, the mountain road outside the bus was full of chaotic traces of running away. There were even many traces of climbing and sliding on the outer edge of the mountain road, obviously many students who were panicking and did not know where to go accidentally fell or were pushed off by others.

"It looks like it's similar to what we encountered at the beginning, right? And there wasn't a single corpse left; they were obviously all devoured by those 'eggs'..."

Cold Rabbit also rarely expressed her opinion. Although it was something that anyone with eyes could see, at least there were no major logical errors, which was a huge improvement for her.

"Let's not linger here. We don't know if that monster is still wandering around. It might come back to patrol every now and then. Let's not waste any more time here and move on."

Honghe raised her head slightly and looked into the distance, following the messy footprints: "The footprints a bit further ahead are less messy, which should be left by the first group of students who escaped. If any of them know the location of the training camp, we should be able to find it by following the footprints."

"?!"

Just as everyone was about to continue forward, Zhou Ke'er suddenly turned around abruptly without warning, as if she had suddenly seen something—just like the scene in most ghost movies, where a dark shadow of something flashed past behind them, but when she turned around to look, there was nothing there.

It was definitely not a misperception. Even though her mental state was extremely poor, Zhou Ke'er still trusted her intuition.

Honghe looked at Zhou Ke'er with a slight puzzlement. Although she didn't ask the question, it was definitely a question in her mind.

"There's something following us. We need to speed up and shake it off!"

Zhou Ke'er immediately lowered her voice to explain, and then strode forward.

The others naturally didn't object upon hearing this, and quickly followed Zhou Ke'er.

Soon after rounding the bend, the mountain road ahead narrowed, and compared to the section of mountain road we had just passed, the one in front of us seemed to be an old, dilapidated road, not only narrow but also bumpy, full of potholes.

No wonder the bus stopped there before. It's possible that it didn't suddenly encounter danger at this location, but rather that it was being relentlessly pursued by some kind of monster. After escaping here, it had no choice but to abandon the bus and walk, which is when the monsters caught up with it and caused the disaster.

As Zhou Ke'er stepped onto the old mountain road ahead, she felt gazes coming from all directions, focusing intently on her, but then disappearing without a trace.

She glanced discreetly at the other three; none of them reacted. Red Crane was fine; she never reacted much. But Cold-Eating Rabbit, who was usually the most prone to making a fuss, didn't suddenly speak, which meant they genuinely hadn't sensed anything—meaning only Zhou Ke'er felt those gazes?

Although perceiving line of sight is indeed a mysterious thing, and is often mistaken for an illusion... the chilling feeling of having something on your back is undeniable.

what is going on……

If we were to pinpoint what makes Zhou Ke'er different from the other three, and in this particular scenario, it would be this: she was once attached to an "egg".

If that's the case, then it means... perhaps Zhou Ke'er gained some ability to sense other "egg-born" monsters because of this?

We cannot confirm whether this inference is correct yet, but let's mark it in our minds for now.

After a short while, they walked along the narrow mountain road, and the area halfway up the mountain gradually opened up, as if an open area had been artificially created. After turning the last bend, several relatively large buildings appeared in front of them.

This looks like the location for the training camp.

Moreover—Zhou Ke'er clearly saw that the outer gate of the training camp was blocked off with a temporary barbed wire fence, which meant that there must still be normal people surviving inside.

Just as everyone continued walking forward, a whooshing sound rang out.

"call out!"

A sharp arrow pierced the soil in front of Zhou Ke'er and the other two.

Zhou Ke'er subconsciously looked directly in the direction from which the arrow had come—and saw a girl who looked like a student drawing her bow and aiming it directly at them, but she didn't let go immediately; the arrow just now seemed more like a warning.

"Teacher Red Crane—and the rest of you. Please prove your identities. I will not let you in until I confirm you are not those monsters."

Standing on the makeshift platform, the female student looked down at Zhou Ke'er and the others and spoke.

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747. Forest (2)

Okay, here comes the classic question—how to prove that you are a person, and how to prove that you are yourself.

Under normal circumstances, one could manage to bluff their way through, but in this module, although the game system sets a background for the players, it doesn't tell them all the detailed experiences of the "roles" they play—after all, there's no need to—so if the other party were to ask about what everyone "should know," they would absolutely be clueless.

This will only make the other party suspect that they are monsters—after all, it seems that monsters created through mimicry will not have the memories of the person they are mimicking for the time being.

Therefore, you can't give the initiative to the other person. Once you let her ask questions, things will go wrong.

But it was clear that Cold-Cooked Rabbit hadn't considered all that; she instinctively asked, "Then how do you want us to prove it...?"

Upon hearing this, Zhijiansha was startled and hurriedly tried to stop Lengchitu from continuing. However, before she could make any move, a dark shadow suddenly flashed past her.

Zhou Ke'er suddenly set off without any warning.

"call out!"

The sound of an arrow piercing the air rang out, but unfortunately it only grazed about half a meter above Zhou Ke'er's head before disappearing into the soil.

Because no one expected Zhou Ke'er to actually move suddenly, if that arrow she hastily shot could actually hit the target—then why are you still a student here? Why don't you hurry up and become an athlete?

"Damn it! What are you trying to do?! Stop right now!"

The female student clearly hadn't expected Zhou Ke'er to do such a thing. She instinctively shouted to stop her while quickly drawing another arrow, nocking it on her bow, and trying to aim.

After all, when she was guarding this place before, apart from some monsters with low mimicry levels, which she would deal with as soon as she discovered them, the rest, whether they were real refugees or monsters mimicking humans, would answer her questions properly after she asked them—even the monsters were no exception, although most of the time those monsters couldn't answer at all and would only give some obviously lame excuses.

I've never seen anyone charge in without a second thought! Didn't he see how high the barbed wire was? Even monsters would have a hard time getting through!

In this situation, she should have immediately sounded the alarm and called for help. But unfortunately, she panicked for a moment, and all she could think about was stopping Zhou Ke'er from rushing over. Apart from nocking an arrow, drawing her bow, and shooting it into the air, there was nothing else she could do.

Zhou Ke'er accelerated straight ahead without dodging or avoiding, rushing towards the barbed wire fence at the main gate. Then, with a sudden leap, she clung tightly to the wire. The deliberately protruding, sharp wires tore at her clothes and skin, even ripping her flesh. Blood began to seep from the cuts.

However, Zhou Ke'er didn't care—these minor pains were nothing compared to his charred left hand, not to mention that he was currently in a somewhat dazed state, which greatly reduced his perception of pain. He shifted all his attention to his left hand, deeply feeling the agony of the wire piercing and hooking the wound again, which allowed him to ignore the pain in other parts of his body.

"call out!"

Hanging from the barbed wire, Zhou Ke'er could no longer move as quickly as before, making it less strenuous to hit her. A whooshing sound filled the air as an arrow flew towards Zhou Ke'er.

Zhou Ke'er didn't turn her head and simply stretched out her left hand.

"Pfft!"

The arrow pierced deep into her left palm, leaving a deep hole—even Zhou Ke'er showed a slightly distorted expression due to the pain once again.

But he didn't stop. Without hesitation, he turned his left hand, wedged the arrow's fletching into the barbed wire, and then pulled hard, his palm passing right through the arrow.

It's just another bloody hole in my already charred hand. I didn't have much time left anyway, why would I care about this?

Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent recovered from their shock and hurriedly nocked another arrow, Zhou Ke'er swiftly vaulted over the high barbed wire fence. She then leaped heavily, landing with a dull thud on the steps below the platform. Luckily, Zhou Ke'er had good balance; otherwise, she would have tumbled down.

Taking three steps at a time, Zhou Ke'er quickly rushed down the steps of the platform to a spot just below it, where the platform's railing blocked his view. He first swung his left hand sharply upwards, exposing himself to the other person's line of sight.