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

"Ahhh!"

Zhou Ke'er was in so much pain that she immediately dropped her cane, hugged her knees, and rolled around on the ground.

"???"

Cold-cooked Rabbit was completely bewildered; she genuinely had no idea what Zhou Ke'er was trying to do.

"He means, let's cooperate."

Zhou Ke'er, who was rolling on the ground with the Red Crane Gang, translated for Cold Eat Rabbit.

"Cooperation...?"

Cold-cooked rabbit repeated it in surprise.

"Smack... Plop..."

Two sounds were heard, and Chu Chegan and Huai Jinwoyu were thrown up by the Deep Ones summoned by Zhou Ke'er, while only one of them, I didn't steal the girl, escaped.

"Is this your sincerity in cooperating?"

Cold-cooked Rabbit pointed at Chu Chegan, who was beaten senseless, and asked Honghe.

As for Huaijin Woyu... because she cooperated fully when she was captured and did not resist at all, she did not suffer any physical pain.

"Hmph! You need to understand, we're not begging you to cooperate with us, we're demanding that you cooperate with us, understand?"

Zhou Ke'er stopped rolling around at some point, sat on the ground, crossed her hands under her chin, and looked up at Lengchitu in a cold voice.

"You just said you would pledge allegiance to me?"

The cold-cooked rabbit delivered a critical hit.

"...Senior Red Crane, why are you just watching! Have you betrayed us too?!"

Zhou Ke'er instantly and seamlessly switched targets, looking at the red crane with an incredulous expression and asking.

“Zhou Zhou, there are limits to how much you can use memes. The more you use memes, the more you will find that you are actually being used by the memes.”

Honghe forced a poker face to convey a weathered expression as she looked at Zhou Ke'er and said, then instantly switched back to her normal deadpan look, turning to look at Lengchitu: "Although you may think we are untrustworthy, but... you have no right to object."

First of all, since this module changed the main questline midway through... oh, you guys should have been notified, right?

Cold-cooked rabbit nodded.

“That makes things easier. It seems that all of our tasks have been forcibly standardized. Given that the time limit has been changed from unlimited to 24 hours, that means... if we do nothing, we will definitely die after 24 hours, or even sooner.”

Seeing that Cold-Eating Rabbit nodded, Red Crane continued her analysis: "And it's quite obvious that the fact that our mission has been forcibly unified means that the difficulty of this mission requires our cooperation. In other words, if we don't cooperate, we will die."

But as you've seen, the two of us alone are more than enough to easily defeat you, so why would we need to cooperate? ...I think it's probably because of our status.

"That's right!"

Zhou Ke'er picked up her cane and stood up, then interjected seriously, "Honghe and I are both detectives, while you are police officers... which means that we need to rely on the police, or... the source of the disaster is the police station."

By the way, the Deepvans mentioned in that mission prompt seems to be Sheriff Pulis's superior.

"..."

Cold-Eat Rabbit pursed its lips, but without hesitation, it quickly made up its mind and nodded, "Alright, time is of the essence, so we have no choice but to cooperate with you. Since we share the same mission objective, I believe you won't attack us."

So... if it's really as you say, and this police station is the source of the disaster... what should we do next?

"Um..."

Zhou Ke'er pretended to ponder for a while, then stared at the cold-cooked rabbit with a serious expression and said, word by word, "I, don't, know!"

"Okay, stop telling lame jokes. You have no talent for them. They're not lame at all, they're even a bit embarrassing."

Honghe waved her hand dismissively at Zhou Ke'er.

"!!!"

Zhou Ke'er stared at Honghe in shock. This deadpan guy actually said he had no talent! And that he was awkward!

Zhou Ke'er secretly added another mark to her mental notebook, adding a tally mark to Honghe's name.

A villain's revenge lasts from morning till night! Just you wait, Red Crane!

No one can offend Zhou Ke'er, no one!

"Let's leave this police station first."

Honghe suddenly said.

"Leave the police station? Why? Didn't you say the key to this mission might be here?"

Cold-cooked rabbit couldn't help but frown and ask in confusion.

"Yes, yes, that's right."

Sitting to the side, Huai Jin and Wo Yu, who had been acting very obediently, resumed their old ways as the "repeater" and echoed each other's sentiments.

"That's why we have to get out of here first."

Flamingo, still looking listless, explained to Cold-Eat Rabbit, "We know nothing about our enemy, and... to be honest, Zhou Ke'er and I just ran into Deepvas upstairs. The alarm just went off..."

"Ha! So you know you're being hunted?"

Zhou Ke'er jumped up and interrupted forcefully: "So you're just staying here and not moving, afraid they won't be able to catch us, right?"

Although Zhou Ke'er's "cultist" mode and the summoned Deep Ones can only exist in this scenario, there's no way around it... after all, a single Deep One can't possibly defeat a group of fully armed police officers who are surrounding them.

We can only make our escape first. Anyway, we still have Lengchitu and the other two hostages who believe Zhou Ke'er is a cultist... cough cough, companions. We can fool them anywhere, so there's no need to dwell on the present.

"Hey! Something just popped into my head!"

Before Honghe could say anything, Zhou Ke'er suddenly had a bright idea and said, "If there are cultists in this module... could there also be exorcists or something like that?"

He remembered that in the previous mod, wasn't Priti's background story about being sent by the church to deal with cultists? Since this mod has cultists, maybe it also has a church or something like that.

"That makes sense... Ah, really, it seemed like a normal anti-crime module at first, how did it suddenly become so surreal?"

Cold-cooked Rabbit sighed and scratched his head, utterly puzzled.

"Yes, yes, that's right."

Huai Jin Wo Yu nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Hey? Still alive? If you're still alive, stop pretending to be dead, or I'll have the Deep Ones eat you up."

Zhou Ke'er squatted down and poked Chu Chegan, "After all, if you can't get up, we won't have the extra energy to take you with us."

"Cough cough... Hmph, the wisdom of mortals..."

Chu Chegan sat up abruptly, pushed up his glasses, and said, "I'm strategically restoring my strength."

"Alright, stop babbling and run..."

Before Zhou Ke'er could finish speaking, she heard a series of noisy footsteps coming from downstairs.

"Don't move! What are you doing here? Which department are you from?"

Several questions came loudly from downstairs, followed by my hesitant reply: "I...I'm a police officer! By the way! There's a cult member upstairs! He's arrested several of my comrades! You guys need to arrest him right now!"

"Oh wow..."

Zhou Ke'er leaned over the railing and looked down. The number of people... it must be half the police station that was mobilized.

"It's over, the road below is blocked."

Zhou Ke'er turned to talk to the others, and pointed to the door leading from the stairwell to the corridor: "I reckon there's a bunch of police waiting behind this door, and they'll probably start shooting us as soon as we open it."

"This is... a dead end!"

Chu Chegan hurriedly pushed up his glasses, "Damn it, a mere mortal like a cricket could actually set up something like this..."

"Alright, alright, if you keep pushing up your glasses you're going to break them."

Zhou Ke'er waved her hand impatiently, interrupting Chu Chegan, and directed the Deep Ones to stand at the door. She rarely showed a serious expression and said to the others, "This is the third floor, which is about 12-15 meters high according to normal standards. As long as we are lucky enough, we won't die from the fall. In addition, most of the police officers in the police station should be on this floor below the stairs, so we still have a chance to escape by jumping off the building."

"I'll let the Deep One take some damage and see if I can make it break through. The rest is up to you."

At this point, Zhou Ke'er was extremely grateful that the monsters summoned by this title obeyed her commands, unlike the monsters summoned by normal cultists who would turn against her.

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58. Collapse (Part Two)

"boom!"

Zhou Ke'er directed the Deep Ones to kick the door open with a loud bang.

As expected, there were more than a dozen police officers pointing their guns at the door, with Sheriff Pulis in the lead.

"Hey! Isn't this Sheriff Pulis? Who are you waiting for?"

Zhou Ke'er hid behind the Deep One and slowly walked towards the group of people. "What? Are you unhappy to see me? Or do you not want me, the famous detective... cough cough, not want me to find out that you are actually all cultists?"

She almost blurted out "famous detective"... To this group, it wasn't a lie, since that's the background setting... And once they believed the lie, Zhou Ke'er's disguise would switch from "cult member" to "famous detective"...

If that happens, the Deep Ones summoned by Zhou Ke'er will disappear... and then we're doomed.

"Deep Diver...My lord? How could this be..."

When Sheriff Pulis saw the Deep One summoned by Zhou Ke'er, his expression was as varied as if he had seen the goddess he had been admiring for years appear in someone else's bed and behaving very obediently.

"Kneel down before me now!"

Seeing this, Zhou Ke'er immediately understood. She leaned out, acting arrogantly, and shouted at Sheriff Pulis, "See that? The Deep Ones are in my hands! I am the man who can become the Pirate King!"

Honghe and the others hid in the stairwell, not showing their faces. Zhou Ke'er was protected by the Deep Ones, so the other side didn't dare to make a move. They weren't so lucky; they could only wait for Zhou Ke'er to break through a path before taking action.

"..."

Priss shakily raised his gun at the Deep One, but dared not fire. The other police officers were the same; looking at this monster, their sanity was plummeting.

"Hahaha! I am the Great Chaos! You will all tremble and crawl at my feet!"

Zhou Ke'er threw her head back and laughed wildly, "As long as you surrender to the Emperor... Lord Evil God, you'll reap huge benefits!"

"Bang!" "Bang!"

Unexpectedly, several gunshots rang out without warning.

Zhou Ke'er was startled, but thankfully she didn't hit him.

It turned out that a few police officers, whose sanity had dropped so much from fright that they had probably gone into a temporary frenzy, fired their guns in a subconscious manner.