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

Before Zhou Ke'er could speak, the guy next to her glared angrily at the half-shriveled monster and shouted, "Look up at yourself! That behemoth is about to reach us. If we don't react, we're all going to die. And look what you're doing!"

The half-shriveled monster was stunned by what it heard—it had initially thought the guy was angry and wanted to warn it not to steal its prey, but instead it had uttered a string of inexplicable words. Unfortunately, its intelligence was insufficient to support deeper thought; the doubt in its mind vanished in an instant, and it continued to bare its teeth and threaten Zhou Ke'er.

Seeing that this guy couldn't understand what she was saying at all, the guy next to Zhou Ke'er got really annoyed and said angrily, "What are you talking about uniting with? How can we fight against that huge monster with this bunch of insects!"

Zhou Ke'er sighed inwardly—don't be so shameless as to call others insects; you're only about the same level yourself.

The commotion continued, but the giant monster wasn't going to just stand there and wait for them to finish arguing like a narrator would. Once it got close enough, the monster immediately reached out its hand towards Zhou Ke'er and grabbed her.

The arm, twisted like a pretzel, suddenly tightened, and the countless arms that made up the giant arm were stretched like rubber, bursting out and splattering cystic fluid and dirty blood everywhere.

Fortunately, Zhou Ke'er was standing right next to that guy. At first glance, the guy thought that the huge thing was reaching out to him.

It quickly shut its mouth, no longer uttering any more useless nonsense. Instead, it stared intently at the giant hand reaching out, focusing all its attention on squeezing out countless sharp spikes from its body. These spikes then burst forth and disappeared into the giant hand—while also keeping an eye on the half-dried monster that had suddenly appeared earlier.

This guy holds a grudge.

The enormous monster roared in pain and instinctively withdrew its hand—but quickly suppressed the pain and reached out even faster.

Meanwhile, the unreliable guy next to Zhou Ke'er collapsed to the ground, looking completely exhausted, his face turning deathly pale: "I'm...I'm done for!"

Damn it, Zhou Ke'er really can't stand this bunch of incompetent teammates. How come she always encounters such a bunch of idiots wherever she goes? If only Honghe could lend a hand right now.

How can a plan be carried out well when surrounded by these insects!

They had originally planned to fight and retreat, setting up a fire on the ground while searching for any weapons mixed with those drugs.

As a result, this guy completely wasted his life and just lay there like a dead dog, what a piece of trash!

Zhou Ke'er took out the last bottle of wine, which was only half full, from her handbag, took a big gulp, lit it with a lighter in front of her, and then sprayed out a mouthful of wine.

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760. Sen (fifteen)

Fire Release: A technique that can't kill people!

Zhou Ke'er silently called out the name of the move in her mind, and then the wine she spat out turned into a ball of flame with the help of the lighter, which surged and crashed into the huge arm that was striking her.

"boom!"

Then, with a loud bang, Zhou Ke'er was punched and sent flying high into the air before landing heavily on the ground. She rolled several times before finally coming to a stop.

There was nothing that could be done about it. If Zhou Ke'er's flames hadn't caused the other party pain and made them instinctively clench their fists, they wouldn't have just been sent flying—the other party had initially reached out their palm, ready to grab him directly. If they had actually been grabbed, they would probably have been crunched up like a snack right away.

Even so, Zhou Ke'er, who had taken a punch from that monster, was seriously injured. She lay on the ground for a while, unable to breathe properly—she probably had several broken ribs, and her chest felt like it had been dented. If it were Leng Chi Tu or the others, they would have been blown apart.

Damn it, if my teammates weren't such incompetent fools, we wouldn't be in this mess. If that cowardly monster hadn't tried to run away in the first place, but instead prepared to fight alongside Zhou Ke'er, things wouldn't be like this now—it took us a whole lot of time just to persuade it not to run away!

Clenching her teeth, Zhou Ke'er struggled to her feet, her body swaying precariously. Even though the situation had deteriorated to this point, as long as Zhou Ke'er could still move, this wasn't over yet!

Even without weapons or teammates, and with virtually nothing available, there is still one option—don't forget, when Zhou Ke'er and the others went to find Zhang He and the others, the building they were heading to was burning fiercely!

Originally, it was because the place was too dangerous, and even if they used it, their own lives would be in danger. But now that things have come to this point, what does life matter? Being able to die together with the enemy would be a good outcome. With such a strategic advantage, how could they not make good use of it?

"Hey, stop lying there! You're going to die if you don't get up!"

Despite the pain in her chest, Zhou Ke'er shouted to the exhausted monster, "Help me! I know a place that might be able to deal with this guy, or at least slow him down."

If he could get there by himself, he wouldn't have called on this useless guy, but unfortunately, he can barely walk now, so he has no choice but to rely on even a useless teammate.

Upon hearing this, the cowardly monster's eyes lit up, and hope rekindled in them. He struggled to his feet and scrambled to Zhou Ke'er's side, helping her up. "Are you telling the truth? Then let's hurry!"

Zhou Ke'er glanced at the enormous creature that was retracting its burning fist and trying to extinguish the flames, and breathed a slight sigh of relief—it seemed there was still a little time to stall for time—then he immediately pointed in the direction of return: "Go that way! Follow my directions, and run faster!"

Not far away, on the ground, the monster with half its body pierced by countless sharp spikes and pinned to the ground struggled wildly, letting out a shrill scream. As it watched Zhou Ke'er and the other person pass by, it twisted its body repeatedly, trying to launch an attack, but unfortunately it still couldn't break free from those spikes. It could only watch helplessly as Zhou Ke'er and that cowardly monster left together and disappeared from sight.

The enormous creature was enraged when it saw that Zhou Ke'er dared to run away. It ignored the flames that were not yet completely extinguished in its hands and chased after her while roaring violently.

Along the way, there were many corpses and "eggs" lying on the ground. Most of the corpses were in an extremely distorted posture, either missing some parts or covered with "eggs", just like silkworms wrapped in cocoons.

Fortunately, the wriggling "eggs" did not approach due to the intimidation of the cowardly monster beside Zhou Ke'er; otherwise, it would have been a difficult task to cross these ghostly things and reach their destination.

They had only walked for less than ten minutes, but it felt like hours had passed. Finally, the two seriously injured people, one human and one monster, arrived near the burning building.

Compared to before, the fire has now spread to the entire building. Perhaps because of the large amount of wooden building materials used, the fire seems to be particularly persistent. Now, even the window from which Zhang He jumped down has been engulfed by flames and can no longer be seen at a glance.

The cowardly monster swallowed hard. "No... while such a huge fire could indeed harm that guy, it seems we can't use it! Even just hiding inside to escape that monster's pursuit is impossible, let alone how we could use it to harm him!"

"You've narrowed your horizons; your thinking has become narrow, and your perspective has become limited. You need to broaden your horizons, do you understand?"

Zhou Ke'er waved her hand, indicating that there was no need to help her. She gritted her teeth and slowly walked forward, picked up a pile of miscellaneous items from the ground, which she didn't know if they had fallen out of the fire or been abandoned by the refugees. She tied them together with a long strip of something and then put them into the flames to light.

Immediately, Zhou Ke'er threw the lit debris onto the ground a short distance away.

The "eggs" lying on the ground never imagined they would suffer such an undeserved disaster. They didn't even have time to dodge; they just trembled wildly and let out a mournful cry before being instantly engulfed by the flames and turned into fuel.

This was something Zhou Ke'er discovered when she tested it on herself. When she first burned her left hand, which was covered in "eggs," the liquid she poured out in her haste was not evenly distributed, and a large portion of it even flowed directly onto the ground and wasted—yet it still burned easily and continuously for quite some time. In addition, her hand had only briefly come into contact with the flames from that huge monster, and it also caught fire. This actually showed that "eggs" are extremely flammable.

Zhou Ke'er looked at the scene and nodded in satisfaction. She turned to look at the cowardly monster and a slightly crazy smile appeared on her face: "Look, aren't there plenty of flammable materials here?"

Although this cowardly monster didn't consider the "egg" lying on the ground to be one of its kind, it still couldn't help but feel a sense of fear from the bottom of its heart—this human in front of it was a species even more terrifying than itself!

There were many "eggs" on the ground, so the fire spread rapidly. And because the "eggs" were afraid of fire, they kept as far away from the burning building as possible from the beginning—so there was a safe place for Zhou Ke'er to hide between the building and the "eggs" on the ground.

Zhou Ke'er stood in the center of the fire, the flames reflecting off his pale face, making it appear red, and his dark eyes reflected a dark red hue. Even the monster couldn't help but feel a chill down its spine when it saw him.

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761. Mori (The End)

"Wait...wait! It's true that this will slow that guy down because he's afraid of the flames! But..."

The cowardly monster next to Zhou Ke'er suddenly seemed to realize something, stared at Zhou Ke'er with wide eyes, and said somewhat incoherently, "But the problem is, we can't escape either! If this drags on, we'll just end up burning to death in here, won't we?"

Zhou Ke'er glanced at the guy, grinned, revealing her gleaming white teeth: "Oh, he's not dead. There's always a way out. Don't worry—would I want to kill myself?"

In fact, setting fire to the outside of the burning building was not to hinder the giant monster's progress, nor to deal with it—just setting it on fire, and since the fire couldn't move on its own, what harm could it do to it?

Obviously, this is all to trap this cowardly monster next to them here and kill him.

Don't forget, Zhou Ke'er's initial goal was to take care of that giant monster and the guy next to her. Now that she has this opportunity, how could she not take advantage of it?

Did Zhou Ke'er really think that just because they ran away together for a while, she actually considered this guy a companion? Don't be ridiculous. That's the kind of plot that only happens to protagonists in shonen manga. In some ways, Zhou Ke'er is a pure villain, okay?

The cowardly monster was startled by Zhou Ke'er's grinning expression, but after thinking it over, he realized that what he said was indeed true—it couldn't possibly be that he really wanted to commit suicide, right?

During this time, Zhou Ke'er was not idle. Instead, she continued to look for long, narrow objects nearby and wrapped one end of them with scattered curtains and other easily flammable items.

Soon, the enormous monster caught up with Zhou Ke'er and the others and arrived at this place.

The cowardly monster looked at the other side, suddenly realized the problem, and took several steps back in terror: "No! We were wrong! Look at its height, look at the length of its arms—those burning flames can't stop it at all, it can grab us with a single reach—it can only stop ourselves! We're doomed!"

Zhou Ke'er raised an eyebrow. This guy finally showed some sense when he was about to die. She thought he would stay stupid until he died.

However, at least you die with some understanding. Knowing the outcome of death now and starting to wait for it doesn't necessarily make you lucky.

Just as that guy said, the giant monster bent down slightly, and its arm quickly reached out to grab Zhou Ke'er.

The giant monster was about to grab Zhou Ke'er's entire body in its palm, but then it saw Zhou Ke'er raise her hands high, making a gesture of respect. So the giant monster's hands only grasped Zhou Ke'er's torso, lifted her up, and then pulled her back.

At the same time, Zhou Ke'er gripped the long stick with flames burning at the tip tightly in her right hand and plunged it hard into the monster's arm. Although the tip of the stick was blunt, don't forget that the monster's huge arm was made up of many small arms, so it was not difficult to stab the stick into the gap between these arms.

Soon, due to the flammable nature of the "egg," the burning wooden stick embedded in the arm quickly ignited and burst into flames.

The monster, in pain, instinctively released its grip on Zhou Ke'er's hand.

"You were the one who wanted to grab me just now, and now you're trying to let go? Going back on your word isn't good behavior, you know~"

Zhou Ke'er's eyes widened, and the corners of her mouth turned up, revealing a chilling smile. She immediately stretched out her left hand and tightly grabbed one of the giant monster's fingers, using the force to swing it violently in mid-air. Her right hand then pulled out the wooden stick that had been stuck in the crevice.

Perhaps because it was contaminated with "eggs," the flames on the stick did not go out despite such vigorous movements, which was quite fortunate.

After adjusting her position, Zhou Ke'er released her left hand and leaped into the air toward the countless heads of the giant monster, which resembled blooming flowers.

"call out!"

The monster, of course, wouldn't let Zhou Ke'er succeed so easily. It immediately swung its other arm and lashed out at Zhou Ke'er.

But Zhou Ke'er, who had nowhere to grab hold in mid-air, couldn't possibly dodge, so she naturally didn't think about retreating. She simply gripped the wooden stick tightly with both hands, pointing the flaming end at the arm that was lashing out at her.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the arm slammed solidly into Zhou Ke'er, who coughed up a mouthful of blood, feeling as if she had been brutally slammed by a dump truck.

But he wasn't knocked away.

Because the wooden stick, aided by the giant monster's own strength, pierced its arm, and Zhou Ke'er, gripping the stick tightly with both hands and refusing to let go, was thus kept suspended in mid-air by the stick, preventing her from being directly knocked away.

The flames continued to burn.

One has to marvel at the wonder of the "egg"—in any other situation, the flame on the stick would have been extinguished countless times. But because it was covered in an "egg," it burned so intensely that it was extremely difficult to extinguish.

Weak fire, you're so weak!

Unfortunately, this caused the stick to become firmly embedded in the arm, making it difficult even for Zhou Ke'er to pull it out.

However, Zhou Ke'er had already prepared for this situation—this was a backup plan she came up with because she was worried that the flame on the stick would go out halfway through.

Suddenly, Zhou Ke'er struggled and grabbed the monster's arm tightly with her right hand. The part of the arm that was grabbed quickly transformed into an "egg" shape, which spread to Zhou Ke'er's hand.

Even when it was almost burned by fire, it still had this instinct similar to a stress response—the "egg" was truly amazing.

Zhou Ke'er groaned, then immediately placed her right hand, which was covered in "eggs," on the flames without blinking.

The "egg" burned very quickly, and Zhou Ke'er's right hand soon turned into a burning flame.

Enduring intense pain—no, to be honest, Zhou Ke'er had expected to feel a lot of pain, but surprisingly, she didn't. In her current state, Zhou Ke'er couldn't even feel the pain anymore; she just felt a little dazed, with a light, floating sensation washing over her.

With her last bit of strength, Zhou Ke'er swung her body and continued leaping toward the head of the giant monster.

Now, the monster truly has no way to stop Zhou Ke'er.

"Flame Fist Aa ...

Zhou Ke'er roared in mid-air, and using the momentum, she slammed her fist into the center of the monster's countless heads.

Like dry wood meeting a raging fire, the head area was even denser with "eggs" than the arms. The "eggs" that were stuck with the flames started to burn rapidly, and the fire instantly covered the entire head area of ​​the monster.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, the enormous monster crashed to the ground like a collapsing mountain, its entire body bursting into flames.

Zhou Ke'er herself was engulfed in a sea of ​​fire and disappeared without a trace.

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