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

[Skill activated, consuming 2% of player "Zhou Ke'er's" sanity]

[Target to be investigated: Player "Finger Sand"]

Target Status:

Stamina: 15%

Sanity level: 100%

debuff: "Right leg fracture," "Left leg fracture," "Minor fractures in both hands," "Minor concussion," "Bleeding"

"Wow... this is really terrible. Nobody else would start like this."

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but complain inwardly, but... even so, he should have woken up by the time the game started. They couldn't let Zhijiansha stay dizzy forever, and have Zhou Ke'er and the others carry him around.

Just as Zhou Ke'er was thinking this, Zhijiansha coughed slightly twice and barely opened her eyes.

"She will wake up eventually, but at a different time than us... Does that mean that during this short period of time, the Sand Between Fingers may have experienced events that are different from ours?"

Zhou Ke'er guessed, reached out and helped herself to sit up, asking, "Are you alright? Did anything happen on your end? What went wrong with the import?"

"I just... cough cough, damn it? What's going on? What's wrong with me?"

Just as Zhijiansha was about to explain, she suddenly noticed the situation displayed on her status bar and couldn't help but blurt out a sarcastic remark.

"...We're all about the same, except you seem to have the most serious injuries."

With a stoic expression, Honghe explained in a serious tone, which reminded Zhou Ke'er of the scene in the opening CG where Honghe was holding a wine jar and acting like a drunkard evading taxes. She couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"why are you laughing?"

Honghe stared at Zhou Ke'er with dead fish eyes and asked.

"I remembered some happy things."

Zhou Ke'er suppressed her laughter, forcing back the wildly upturned corners of her mouth, and answered with a forced seriousness.

"You don't have a wife, so she can't have children, and even if she did, they wouldn't be yours."

Flamingo stared with dead fish eyes, tilting her head. "So what are you laughing at?"

"..."

Before Zhou Ke'er could say anything, Fran behind her couldn't help but burst out laughing. While laughing, he wiped away tears and cried out in pain, "Damn it, my wound has reopened, hahaha, damn it, it hurts so much, hahaha!"

"..."

Seeing this scene, Zhijiansha calmed down first, probably thinking that if she didn't calm down, her group of crazy teammates would definitely get wiped out.

"It's like this. I just vaguely saw... what looked like a light? A very bright, white light, somewhat like... how to say it? The light in an operating room like in a TV drama? I'm not really sure, since I've never had surgery."

Sand between her fingers organized her thoughts and explained briefly, "However, it seems to have only lasted for a short time, and it was blurry, switching from complete darkness to light again in an instant."

"Um...does anyone know how to bandage someone? I'm bleeding to death..."

Fran listened to the sand between his fingers finish speaking before whispering something in a low voice.

"Bleeding to death? Your wounds have all scabbed over, haven't they?"

Zhou Ke'er asked without turning her head. He had just seen that Fran wasn't bleeding anymore; if anyone was more pitiful, it was Zhijiansha, who was still bleeding.

"I was laughing so hard I almost split my stomach..."

Fran mumbled pitifully in a low voice.

Just then, a system notification sounded.

[All players are now conscious; the first phase of the main quest has been triggered.]

Main Mission I: You have been in a car accident and are covered in injuries. If you do not receive treatment as soon as possible, it may become life-threatening.

Just then, you suddenly remembered that you had seen an emergency phone by the roadside on the lower part of this mountain road; perhaps you could use that to contact others and ask for help.

"Um..."

Zhou Ke'er scratched her head, feeling strangely that this main quest was odd. How to put it... the quest prompts in the previous modules were so aloof, just a few perfunctory words and that was it. Why was this one so talkative?

Furthermore, it says you need to find an emergency phone number, but it doesn't provide a detailed address, which just makes players search aimlessly.

"Have you all received the main quest yet?"

He confirmed through the sand between his fingers.

"Isn't that obvious?"

Zhou Ke'er rolled her eyes. "A mild concussion really does lower IQ? You broke your leg, not your brain. How dare you ask that?"

"No foul mouth."

Honghe squinted at Zhou Ke'er, put her hands in front of her chest and made an X, "Especially forbids you from talking foul to girls, no wonder you've never been in a relationship."

Then, because the flamingo used the hand that was supporting the sand between her fingers to make a fork, the sand between her fingers suddenly lost its support and fell backward to the ground without any warning, completely stunned by the fall.

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."

Honghe realized what was happening, and with a blank expression, she read aloud her apology, then picked up the sand from between her fingers again.

"...you guys..."

Zhijiansha glanced helplessly at Zhou Ke'er and Honghe, secretly thinking that these two were deliberately trying to mess with her. Humph, what a pair of jfyf.

"I feel like you're thinking about something rude."

Honghe squinted and looked at the expression on Zhijiansha's face.

"Um... I mean... could we go find that phone? If we stay here any longer, we don't know any first aid or bandaging, and it's really cold at night. Our stamina will run out quickly..."

Fran, who had been ignored and felt out of place, finally couldn't help but make his presence known and muttered something under his breath.

(This is just like when you're in a tabletop role-playing game and after the combat round, there's a bunch of wounded players but nobody calls for first aid.)

"Alright alright."

Zhou Ke'er was surprised to find that there was actually a serious gamer out there. Seriously, who plays games seriously these days? (Just kidding)

"However... we don't know where we are right now."

Sand between Fingers struggled to her feet and looked around at the pitch-black surroundings. "We must have landed in some kind of forest? But... why is it so dark? How come the car didn't catch fire after the crash?"

"Hey, if we get burned, we're all doomed."

Zhou Ke'er couldn't help but complain.

"But it's really strange that everyone falls out of the car! It's one thing if one person falls out, but it's not normal for everyone to fall out... We were all wearing seat belts in the front seats."

Finger Sand still found it strange that everyone had fallen out of the car, and that they were all scattered around, with no car in sight.

"Uh... well, if you mean the car, it seems to be over there."

Once again ignored, Fran spoke softly and weakly, pointing to the sky above and to the right of the group.

Following Fran's gaze, everyone saw... on the mountainside there, many thick branches jutted out at an angle, and these branches gathered like a net, on which hung a car whose front end was crushed and deformed, and the whole car was faintly emitting smoke.

"Oh, holy shit..."

Zhou Ke'er instinctively took a few steps back. "This car is obviously tilting towards us... I reckon it's about to fall... Let's run! Hurry up!"

"How can I run fast..."

Sand between her fingers rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Um, I also broke my leg."

Fran said in a low voice.

"...Don't tell me you're one too?"

Zhou Ke'er looked up at the flamingo.

"No, it's just a little blood."

Honghe shook her head. Before Zhou Ke'er could even breathe a sigh of relief, she saw Honghe release her hand from her lower abdomen, and a large amount of blood gushed out from there.

"Damn, it's leaking a little!"

Zhou Ke'er felt speechless. They were just a bunch of disabled people, and he was the only one who still had some mobility.

"and many more..."

Suddenly, Zhijiansha turned her head and asked, "Did you... hear anything? It sounded like... someone was calling my name?"

There was silence all around.

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88. Who Died? (Part Two)

"A sound? There's no sound..."

Fran answered in a low voice, puzzled, and couldn't help rubbing his arms. "I didn't hear anything... Could it be that this module has paranormal events?"

Zhou Ke'er, who was still quite agile and had already retreated to a safe distance from the car, crossed her arms and looked like she was deep in thought, hiding her face in the shadows (actually because her phone was in Hong He's hands). She said seriously, "In a scene that looks like a horror movie, isn't it normal for someone to suddenly call your name from behind? As long as you don't turn around, you'll usually be fine. Of course, there's also the possibility that if you don't turn around, you'll get caught up and killed."

Why are you standing so far away?

The sand between her fingers couldn't help but ask.

"I'm afraid that if you get crushed to death, I'll be implicated."

Zhou Ke'er shrugged and answered as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"..."

Zhijiansha took a deep breath. Luckily, she had matched with Zhou Ke'er a few times before, otherwise she would have been driven crazy by this girl.

I could barely keep up with this guy's insane way of thinking before, but after not seeing him for more than ten hours, he's started acting like a jerk.

Don't be angry, don't be angry. The world is so beautiful, yet I'm so irritable. This isn't good, it's not good. Zhijiansha took another deep breath. She was starting to understand how Jin Yi had felt before. Zhou Ke'er had been targeting the Shi family and Jin Yi before, but now the target had changed to her.

"Alright, if we dawdle here any longer, we'll be considered as playing passively. Let's hurry up and get going."

Zhou Ke'er continued speaking loudly towards the sand between her fingers.

"I already told you... but you all ignored me..."

Fran muttered under his breath, sounding quite aggrieved.

Honghe glanced at the car. At such a height, it was impossible to search inside for anything useful, so she could only leave it for now.