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

A hoarse voice came from in front of the crowd.

"It's Dupuys's voice!"

Zhou Ke'er and Honghe exchanged a glance, confirming each other's identities.

Everyone quickly looked in the direction from which the sound came and finally discovered a figure standing on a high platform not far ahead.

He was draped in a jet-black robe, concealing himself entirely in shadow. The platform he stood on initially appeared convex, but upon closer inspection, it seemed to be concave.

Logically speaking, since Zhou Ke'er and the others can see each other from their angle, the platform must be convex. However, it's also possible that the space in that area is distorted, so even a concave surface could be seen.

The twisted and unpredictable edges standing on the platform seem to conceal sinister threats and restless emotions. They are arranged in a very orderly manner... no, not orderly, but completely chaotic, yet they give the impression of being "orderly".

For a fleeting moment, Zhou Ke'er felt as if the very center of the platform was directly facing the fluorescent light source at the highest point, but in the blink of an eye, she realized that this was not the case at all; instead, it had tilted to an unknown distance.

But... this old man still dares to mutter incoherently here? And he's doing it right in front of Zhou Ke'er?

Hey, who isn't a bit of a sly fox at heart?!

"Oh my, at your age, you still climbed so high! Aren't you afraid of hurting your back? Don't try to climb every place you see, okay? You're really vigorous for your age. I don't even have the heart to tell you to get lost, otherwise I'm afraid you might actually go and climb it!"

Zhou Ke'er crossed her arms, wearing a "I'm doing this for your own good" expression, and said in a very (in a sarcastic) and (mischievous) manner.

"???"

The other end went silent instantly.

The others on Zhou Ke'er's side also fell silent, turning their heads to look at her, revealing expressions like the old man looking at his phone in the subway station.

"Humble insect...who gave you the courage..."

After a long silence, the person on the other end finally spoke.

"Fish Leong? Or maybe Chang Chen-yue? Oh right, you probably haven't heard of these names from the old era."

Before the other person could finish speaking, Zhou Ke'er interrupted, "Look at what you're saying, here we go again, humble and insect-like, that's all."

Your vocabulary is so limited! Didn't your Chinese teacher teach you many words? Oh right, you don't have a Chinese teacher. That's really funny.

"...You! You..."

Dupuvance pointed at Zhou Ke'er and said in a trembling voice.

"What 'you'? What 'me'? Besides 'you,' what else can you say? Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed at someone who stutters. Maybe you're not a stutterer, just mentally challenged. Oh my god, how pitiful!"

Zhou Ke'er looked at Dipvance with pity and said with a pained expression.

"Hey...don't do that...you're drawing too much aggro at once and you'll over-aggro..."

Cold-Eating Rabbit leaned over and whispered, "Seriously... doesn't this game even censor these kinds of comments?"

"Why mute it? I didn't swear. It's all very beautiful language."

Zhou Ke'er looked at the cold-cooked rabbit with a puzzled expression and gave an example: "For instance, look, isn't the word 'stupid' censored?"

"Hey! You still said that word with the sound muted!"

Cold-cooked rabbit couldn't help but complain wildly.

"Aaaaah! You're so awful! You lowly, despicable..."

Dipvance snapped out of his daze at Zhou Ke'er's words and angrily pointed at her, cursing loudly.

"Hey! Why are you yelling so loudly! Is it because you're the only one left on your household registration? Oh, look at my memory, I forgot, you don't even have a household registration in this remote place!"

Zhou Ke'er glanced at the furious Deepvans and continued speaking.

"Aaaaah! You sharp-toothed worm! You're dead! I'm going to grind you into mincemeat and make you into animal feed!"

Dipvance abruptly flung open his black hood, revealing a head more like a fish than a human, baring sharp teeth, and roared at Zhou Ke'er, "Come forth! Familiars of the Great Being! Deep Ones!"

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"Hey... looks like I accidentally messed things up?"

Zhou Ke'er looked at the Deep Ones emerging from all corners, subconsciously clenched her right fist, gently tapped her head, and awkwardly stuck out her tongue: "Hey, Zhou Ke'er, you're such a silly girl."

"?????"

Cold-cooked Rabbit looked at Zhou Ke'er with a bewildered expression, "When I sent the question mark, it wasn't that I had a problem, but that I thought you had a problem."

"I didn't realize it before... why are you talking so sarcastically?"

Honghe couldn't help but ask Zhou Ke'er.

While being sarcastic or cryptic isn't uncommon, Zhou Ke'er's behavior just now, which resembled that of a sarcastic old person, was quite interesting.

"...Do you think medical disputes only happen in ordinary hospitals?"

Zhou Ke'er glanced at Hong He and explained, "Those bastards who came to the mental hospital to cause trouble, if we don't drive them crazy, they'll really think we can't arrest them and throw them into the wards."

"...Teach me!"

Flamingo's dead fish eyes suddenly lit up, revealing that she had been troubled by this problem for a long time. After all, Flamingo was a doctor, albeit not a psychiatrist, just an ordinary, unremarkable doctor.

"Hey, what are you saying? How could a refined and easy-going model youth like me corrupt the flowers of our motherland?"

Zhou Ke'er waved her hand, then added in a low voice, "...It'll cost extra."

"..."

Honghe resumed her expressionless face, staring at Zhou Ke'er with half-closed eyes.

"What are you still saying? Run!"

Seeing Zhou Ke'er and Honghe staring at each other without running away, Lengchitu quickly grabbed Honghe and tried to slip away.

After all, there was a dark mass of about a dozen Deep Ones charging towards them. Which normal person wouldn't feel weak in the knees?

Zhou Ke'er said that he was not weak in the knees.

"Run? Do you think you can escape this situation? Where would you run to?"

Zhou Ke'er shrugged. "And...have you forgotten who I am?"

As she spoke, Zhou Ke'er paused, pointed to herself with her thumb, and said loudly enough for even Deepvas to hear, "I am the man who will become the King of the Cult! I can also summon Deep Ones, so what if there are a few on the other side? Who's afraid of who?"

The Deep Ones who were rushing towards Zhou Ke'er and the others stopped in their tracks upon hearing Zhou Ke'er's words and looked at Dipvans, seemingly asking if what Zhou Ke'er said was true.

"...Why...why can you summon a Deep One? Even I can't do that...I've already transformed myself into a Deep One through a sacrificial ritual...Why! How come you can?!"

After a long silence, Dipvance finally roared at Zhou Ke'er.

Well done! Thanks for the assist! It seems that Red Crane's deduction was correct. This guy did see Zhou Ke'er summoning the Deep One through the surveillance, otherwise he wouldn't have believed Zhou Ke'er just by saying it.

Now that this guy has given us this much-needed help, most of the Deep Ones should believe it now.

[Player "Zhou Ke'er" has been detected as a cultist, and more than half of the people present believe her. Title effect activated.]

Player "Zhou Ke'er" acquires the basic traits of "Cultist": "Sacrifice," "Summon Inferior Families," and "Invoke Evil God."

[Note: This identity is only valid in this scenario and when someone who believes in this identity is present.]

A system notification sounded.

NI~CE!

"Oh dear, what a mess! It's like the flood washed away the Dragon King's temple! It's like family fighting family members! Hahahaha!"

Zhou Ke'er laughed wildly, immediately activating the "Summon Inferior Familiars" skill. She raised her staff high, drawing strange patterns in the air, and shouted, "Balala Energy—Sara Sara—Little Fairy—Transform!"

"???"

Now, not only did Lengchitu make the face of an old man looking at his phone in the subway station, but even Dipvance made the same expression with his fish-like face. I don't know how he did it.

Player "Zhou Ke'er" successfully used the skill "Summon Inferior Familiar"

[Randomly summoning lower-ranking familiars]

[Randomization complete]

[Consumes 80% of player "Zhou Ke'er's" sanity to summon the inferior servant race "Thrills of Cthulhu"]

[Player "Zhou Ke'er" is currently under the buff "Resist Chaos" duration, reducing sanity consumption by 80%.]

[Player "Zhou Ke'er" now consumes 16% of her sanity instead of 80%]

"Damn it, this almost drove me crazy! Luckily I had a buff... 80% sanity!"

Zhou Ke'er herself was startled; such a random action could easily lead to someone's death.

As the system notification sound faded, a burst of black mist suddenly surged out in front of Zhou Ke'er. This black mist rapidly coalesced and gradually took shape.

Before long, many swollen, gray, human-shaped chunks of flesh appeared in front of Zhou Ke'er.

These things' muscles... well, maybe they can be considered muscles? Anyway, they ooze a dense mass of tiny, rotten, jelly-like particles—every time these monsters wriggle or tremble, these swollen flesh droplets like teardrops, but it doesn't seem to affect the main body at all, because the monsters don't just disappear as they drop.

Although they are not good at attacking with their feet, each of their fingers and toes has sharp claws at the end.

Their hairless faces have a pair of rough, wide-open, unblinking yellow eyes. Tiny, fine, wriggling tentacles sprout from the corners of their mouths, which are filled with sharp teeth, or from the tops of their hairless heads.

Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that they are all white worms about the thickness of a thumb, just like some terrifying sea anemones frantically sucking up the still-living brain.

They unconsciously emitted strange and disgusting sounds, which, even if the volume was not loud and only a little, were extremely nauseating to ordinary humans.

"Wow... what is this? It looks even more disgusting than the Deep One..."

Zhou Ke'er complained without restraint, since he wasn't afraid of being attacked back, as the monsters summoned through the game system all obeyed his commands.

"kiaoaoaoao!!"

Upon seeing the monsters summoned by Zhou Ke'er, the Deep Ones couldn't help but scream wildly, emitting disgusting and ear-piercing sounds that gave anyone a headache.

"Ahhh!"

Dupuvance clutched his head, which was becoming increasingly fish-like, and let out a painful howl.

Seeing the monsters in front of Zhou Ke'er, the group of Deep Ones dared not approach her any further.

"Oh, oh, oh, why aren't you here? You made such a big show of it, but you chickened out here? Are you trying to mess with me? That's really hilarious! Are you stupid?"

Seeing that she had a great advantage on the field, Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but start to talk nonsense, "Oh dear, look at my memory, I forgot. Ning has turned into a fish brain. Oh no, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. You're not stupid, you just have a bad brain. I misunderstood you."

"Ahhh!"

After hearing Zhou Ke'er's words, Dipvance was silent for two seconds, holding his head in a daze for a while, before continuing to roar even louder.