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

Although the world's will in this sub-world did try to send beings such as "heroes" and "demon kings" to stop Zhou Ke'er, they didn't even get to see her—let alone Zhou Ke'er, even Wei Ze was killed before he could see her.

Instead, Zhou Ke'er followed the clues and found the world will of this sub-world. To be honest, Zhou Ke'er's current strength should be slightly weaker than the world will of this low-level martial arts world, at most by about the same amount. But how could Zhou Ke'er rely solely on brute force when fighting? She used every trick in the book, from scheming and trickery to cheating.

Putting everything else aside, just consider that Zhou Ke'er activated the energy absorption of the data module as soon as they met. Especially since this data module is specifically designed to act on the world itself—even Mo Bugui, who had seized the power of a higher-level world will, was almost drained dry by the data module. Let alone such a small world will—it didn't even have time to react and was stunned by Zhou Ke'er's sneak attack right from the start.

There's no need to think about what happened next; the world's will was directly captured by Zhou Ke'er and used as a power bank for the data module.

Unfortunately, once the data module absorbs a certain threshold, its rate drops significantly, making it somewhat dangerous to have a high-ranking entity around that could potentially rebel at any time.

Fortunately, the decrease in absorption rate has one advantage: the residual energy that dissipated was directly fed back to Zhou Ke'er, which can be considered a win-win situation.

This move was a complete sham. They borrowed the power of Mo Bugui's world will first, and then turned around and let Zhou Ke'er get one too. It was a complete free lunch.

It's absurd to say, but Zhou Ke'er's strength doesn't come much from his own efforts; it's not even a matter of "deep blue skill points." It's all purely due to external forces.

In this way, Zhou Ke'er easily conquered a small sub-world.

Now Zhou Ke'er understood even more clearly—if those beings only wanted to easily conquer or occupy the world Zhou Ke'er lived in, it would be incredibly simple. It was a completely overwhelming situation; the difference in power from such a dimensional reduction attack was even greater than if Zhou Ke'er had simply conquered this sub-world.

If Zhou Ke'er were a native of this sub-world, he wouldn't know how to fight against himself, let alone how to deal with those beings.

Finally, with the opening of a spatial rift, Nyarlathotep reappeared in front of Zhou Ke'er.

However, she seemed rather uninterested.

"So, are you satisfied with the performance?"

Zhou Ke'er crossed her arms and asked the question knowingly.

"How could I possibly be satisfied! I'm utterly and completely disappointed!"

Nyarko pouted unhappily, "This kind of script is so boring! It reminds me of my dark past... This way of conquering the world is completely unsustainable and a case of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. It won't create any interesting elements anymore!"

Zhou Ke'er crossed her legs and did not answer.

Nyarko continued rambling, "The original script was for you to be the hero, fight against the demon invasion, make adventure partners, and finally defeat the great demon king and win the heart of the beauty. Although this kind of script is cliché, isn't it still very exciting? But you, instead of being a hero, you killed heroes. Instead of defeating the demon king, you invaded the demon world. Who's the villain here?!"

"Huh? You're wrong about that. Look for yourself—fighting the demon invasion, didn't I? I even completely resisted them so they could never invade again. It's an incredible feat. Making adventure partners, wow, now the whole world is my partner, isn't it? Friends all over the world, what do you call that? Isn't that much more satisfying than your stingy three or four adventure partners?"

Zhou Ke'er retorted confidently, "Besides, winning a beauty's heart is easy. Look, Fiss, Vizé, aren't they all like that? If you're not satisfied, I can turn into a beauty myself and carry myself back. That would count as winning a beauty's heart. See, it perfectly meets your requirements, and even far exceeds your expectations, okay?"

Nyarko paused for a moment, tilted her head, and thought for a while before revealing a surprised and enlightened expression: "Huh? Now that you mention it, it does make sense, doesn't it? It really matches all these conditions... So why do I feel so uncomfortable... It feels so strange!"

Zhou Ke'er's lips twitched, and she thought to herself: Because you're an idiot.

"Forget it, never mind. Anyway, things are over here. The world quest is about to start, and I can't leave you here any longer. I'll send you back to the main world first."

Nyarko shook her head, no longer thinking about the question, and grabbed Zhou Ke'er's hand to leave.

Wow, if Zhou Ke'er had heard this news before, she would have been overjoyed. But the problem is that she has to keep Nyaruko occupied now. Now that she's back in the main world, she doesn't know how Renault's plans are going.

No matter what, such an urgent plan should be completed in two or three months, right? Although Zhou Ke'er knew that Renault's sense of time was distorted, she couldn't possibly drag Nyaruko out for several years, could she? Even the dumbest person would see the problem.

Thinking this, Zhou Ke'er said, "You want me to go to the main world now? I'm not going. I haven't settled things here yet. I finally managed to win over the believers and servants of a world. I can't just give up now, can I? Or would you take care of it for me, and I'll go back to the main world to do my mission?"

Nyarko blinked: "That's impossible. What about your clones? Logically speaking, since you've reached this level, you should be able to create clones, right?"

Zhou Ke'er grinned: "Haha, I've already used up my clone! I now have one clone in action."

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858. The Final Battle, Reenacted

"Oh, I see."

Nyarko scratched his head, seemingly unsurprised by Zhou Ke'er's comment, and said with some distress, "How come you can only create one clone? That's lame. Oh well, if all else fails, I can create a clone to watch over this place for you. I'm much more skilled at what you're doing now than you are. I'll definitely handle it, and I might even do it better than you do it yourself."

"I'm a loser! I'm a loser! So what!"

Zhou Ke'er put her hands on her hips and said confidently, "If you're so capable, why don't you just make me stronger? If you're not capable, why do you talk so much!"

Nyarko was speechless at Zhou Ke'er's actions. She thought she was shameless enough, but she never expected that there would be someone even more shameless. She really overestimated Zhou Ke'er's bottom line.

She rolled her eyes: "Zabududler, it's obvious to anyone with their feet that this is absolutely impossible, why do you still have to test it? You should just hurry up and go to the main world, the world mission is about to start, how can you be absent?"

Zhou Ke'er's eyes widened: "What do you mean by that? Did you assign me some important role without my knowledge? Please allow me to refuse!"

"Refusal is invalid! You'll see when you get there. Don't be so quick to protest! Would I ever harm you?"

After saying that, Nyaruko shrank back guiltily and added, "Even if I were to harm you, I wouldn't let you die so quickly, so what are you afraid of!"

Zhou Ke'er pursed his lips. He already knew that the decisions these beings had made were beyond his control. He was just trying to bluff his way out of things and see if he could get any benefits out of them. However, Nyaruko was shamelessly pretending not to understand. Her attitude was clear, so it seemed he wouldn't get any benefits out of her.

So he changed the subject, saying, "Okay, I understand. But if you send me to the main world, what about my other companions? And this Fiss, he can't possibly come with me, can he?"

Nyarko replied with little interest, "Your friends' situation isn't my concern. What I said before was just a joke to give you some motivation. So I don't really know the situation there. As for Fis... well, I'll just stay here."

Zhou Ke'er rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "Then all your trouble in sending her to my side was a waste of time, wasn't it? What a waste of effort! Look how many chapters she's been in!"

Nyarko said, half annoyed, "Isn't it because I'm afraid you might accidentally kill me one day? You're one of my creations, after all. It would be too much if you died such a clownish death! I'll prepare a good stage for you, so don't worry about it for now!"

“I can’t guarantee I’ll follow your script—oh, not that I can’t guarantee, I mean…”

Zhou Ke'er grinned and said provocatively, "I promise I won't follow your script."

"Get out of here! I knew you were this awful!"

Nyarko was furious. She immediately waved her hand, grabbed Zhou Ke'er by the collar, and threw her over her shoulder, slamming her into the spatial rift. It was truly a case of settling a personal score.

A dizzying sensation ensued, but fortunately, Zhou Ke'er experienced this situation from time to time, so she had long since developed resistance and gotten used to it. Naturally, she didn't feel dizzy at all and arrived at her destination very smoothly.

"Tsk, why do they resort to violence at the slightest disagreement? They have no manners at all."

Zhou Ke'er pursed her lips, then subconsciously checked where she had landed.

He soon realized that he was in the main city of the main world that he had visited once before.

The area was crowded with people, some poised to attack, others cursing, but the majority were wounded and looked quite pitiful, indicating that they had indeed completed the guiding task at the very limit by sticking to the line.

The most pitiful ones are these players. They just escaped from the jaws of death and haven't even had a chance to catch their breath before they are pushed back into danger.

Besides Zhou Ke'er being thrown out of the spatial rift, there are all sorts of other strange ways people have arrived here. The most normal way is that a teleportation array lights up on the ground. As for the others, there are even people who were excreted by monsters flying through the air and fell to the ground, luckily surviving.

Naturally, Zhou Ke'er's relatively normal way of arriving did not attract the attention of most people.

Zhou Ke'er lightly touched the ground with her toes and floated into the air, ignoring the gazes around her. She quickly scanned all the players present, but did not see Honghe and the others.

"That's strange. Could it not be in this area? Well, with so many people, it's very likely they'll be divided into different zones... Let's go take a look at the other side of the main city."

Zhou Ke'er stroked his chin, and just as he was pondering, he suddenly saw a dark shadow falling from the sky not far away, and its shadow on the ground was getting bigger and bigger.

The players below quickly noticed what was happening in the sky and hurriedly screamed and cursed as they scattered. After all, the players who had survived the tutorial quest and made it this far were quick to react. In addition, the dark figure above was not falling very fast. In the end, after all the players had moved aside and cleared an open space, the dark figure finally crashed steadily onto the open space with a loud "boom".

Everyone present stared intently, never expecting that what had fallen from the sky was actually a dilapidated house. It has to be said that calling it dilapidated was an understatement; apart from the main structure and a few crumbling walls, everything else was in complete disarray. It was impossible to imagine what kind of destruction it had endured to become like this.

Immediately afterwards, as the rickety door was kicked open from the inside, Honghe, Zhijiansha, and Qiao Yixia appeared on the scene.

And the most outrageous thing is...

Look at that flamingo, carrying a giant scythe on its back, its waist adorned with jade pendants, talismans, and precious beads. Its robes, clearly made of extraordinary materials, are stuffed with bulging talismans that are practically spilling out. Then look at Qiao Yixia, with a rapier at her waist, a bronze sword on her back, a pair of double-edged swords at her lower back, and two short swords strapped to her sides. While others might use three swords at most, she uses six, more than double that. Zhijiansha is somewhat more normal, except she's covered in miscellaneous auxiliary items—potions, instant-cast spell scrolls, and countless other darts and hidden weapons.

Don't tell me they came to participate in a world quest. Even if you said they just completed a world quest and robbed all the other players along the way, Zhou Ke'er would believe you!

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859. Fairness, fairness, or XX's fairness!

"Hey, what's going on here? Did you loot the Royal Treasury? How could something like this happen?"

Zhou Ke'er thought about how she had not only been used as a guinea pig but had also not gained any benefits. Looking at the Red Crane and the others in front of her, who had made a fortune, she couldn't help but widen her eyes and start to feel envious.

The flamingos and their companions had just landed when they heard Zhou Ke'er's voice coming from mid-air. They instinctively looked over and saw that Zhou Ke'er was still floating in mid-air, completely intact, so they finally felt relieved.

Flamingo leaped lightly out of the dilapidated house, squinting as she replied, "This isn't something we can decide. You'll have to ask the house what happened—not long after we entered this run-down house, it started teleporting on its own, running to all sorts of inexplicable ruins, searching one and then flying to the next, like a whirlwind. It's been going on for months, and only now has it arrived in the main world."

Zhou Ke'er leaned back strategically: "What do you mean, 'we're eager to give you opportunities and treasures'? You think all these treasures you have were taken from the ruins after you followed this room into the ruins?"

He rummaged through the sand between his fingers and emerged from the house. Upon hearing Zhou Ke'er's question, he immediately shook his head: "No."

Zhou Ke'er felt a little better and asked in confusion, "Then where did the others come from?"

Zhijiansha quickly waved her hand: "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that most of the loot is actually stored in my storage ring. What I have on me are just things that can't fit in the ring or are more suitable to be carried around."

As they spoke, the three flamingos showed off their hands.

Well, now there are really three pairs of hands, a total of thirty fingers, covered with storage rings.

It was a sight so moving it brought tears to the eyes of anyone who heard it and was heartbreaking to witness. Zhou Ke'er beat her chest and stamped her feet in frustration, saying, "Oh dear! What kind of treasure-giving dragon is this! I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced! Why don't I have such good luck!"

Even Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but feel envious, let alone the other players. Although they dared not attack the three Red Cranes covered in treasures—that would be suicidal, something even a fool would never do—they all rushed towards the dilapidated house, hoping that either the Red Cranes had too many treasures to carry and had simply left some "trash" in the house, or that the house might still be able to work its magic and lead them into the ruins.

The three members of the Red Crane Group dodged the surging crowd and came to Zhou Ke'er's side, while Zhou Ke'er slowly landed on the ground at the same time.

"What's there to complain about? We got these things, so it's the same as you getting them, isn't it?"

Honghe stared at Zhou Ke'er with dead fish eyes, and casually tossed a few storage rings to him. "I haven't had time to sort them yet. We'll do it when I have time. You can take them for now. I can't wear that many rings on my hands."

What an extravagant statement!

Zhou Ke'er immediately exclaimed, "Rich woman, food, delicious food!"

"Get out of my way, all of you! Oh la la la la!"

Just then, a very familiar voice came from not far away, and then a simpleton with a giant anchor under his feet rushed into the crowd in front of him as if he were on a skateboard.

A large group of people were thrown into the air in an instant.

"Why are you all gathered together? Have you discovered some treasure? Let me see!"

Having long been accustomed to the speed of the impact, Cold-Cooked Rabbit didn't feel dizzy at all. He jumped heavily off the anchor and glanced at the house surrounded by the crowd: "Huh? What is this! It's just a dilapidated house! I saw you guys making such a fuss over here, even surrounding it, I thought some great treasure had appeared. Why are you fighting over a dilapidated house?"

Wow, I didn't expect Cold-Cooked Rabbit to be here by chance, and it looks pretty powerful. I guess it's been using the anchor to create a lot of people lately.

"Hey Rabbit, how can you be so domineering? People have been working so hard for so long, can't they just find a place to stay? Why do you have to take everything from them?"

Zhou Ke'er immediately showed a strongly condemning expression and said with great heartache, "I really didn't expect to raise you into such a bad person, A-Tu! My child, Dad is really heartbroken."

Upon hearing the tone and manner of the voice, Cold-Eating Rabbit knew without turning its head that the speaker must be Zhou Ke'er. It immediately turned around to look at Zhou Ke'er, "Huh?! You're still alive?"

"You're so good with words!"

Zhou Ke'er didn't expect Leng Chi Tu to greet her so warmly right away, and she couldn't help but feel a vein throbbing on her forehead. "What, are you disappointed that I didn't die? No way, even if I died, I would still be bothering you every day."

"Bah bah bah!"