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

A bloodied, mangled eye peeked out from the crack in the wooden door, staring intently at the fingertips inside the room—because Zhou Ke'er was leaning against the door, in its blind spot.

"What happened?! Why is this happening..."

Startled, Zhijiansha quickly sped up her movements and forcefully pushed the bed behind the door.

Even if you ask me... I don't know!

Zhou Ke'er breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took a few steps forward to move away from the door. "Quickly look for any other way to escape."

"Aren't you a traitor? Didn't you say you weren't afraid of that thing at all?"

Zhijiansha glanced at Zhou Ke'er and asked with a mixture of mockery and doubt.

That monster really didn't attack Zhou Ke'er just now, and it even obediently walked away... How come its attitude changed so drastically in less than ten seconds?

"...I was just a traitor..."

Zhou Ke'er smiled awkwardly, "Now the mastermind is turning his back on me... He wants to get rid of me."

"Why? If what you're saying is true, he has no reason to do this. At least wait until you kill me first, right?"

Sand between Fingers frowned and asked in confusion.

"Perhaps they think this monster can take us all out in one go, so they don't need me."

Zhou Ke'er didn't know what was going on either, so she just answered casually, then lay down on the ground, pressed her ear to the floor, and gently tapped the floor.

There's a hollow echo, not solid. If this is the first floor, then there's a basement. If not, you can break through the ground and escape downstairs.

Plans are in place!

"No, that doesn't make sense either! This statement is self-contradictory!"

After thinking carefully for a while, Zhijiansha shook her head and retorted, "If the so-called mastermind's goal is to kill all of us, and there's such a powerful monster, then he has no reason to let you be a double agent, right?"

"Since they've already made you a double agent, it means that guy definitely can't kill us directly. The monsters in front of us are either rare, have fatal flaws, or require certain conditions to be met before they can be used."

"If that's the case... then why didn't he wait until you killed me before doing this? Doing it now would only force you and me to unite against him, wouldn't that increase a lot of instability..."

"This makes no sense at all! This is not the optimal choice at all; it doesn't make any sense no matter how you look at it!"

The sand between her fingers was filled with doubt.

"What's the use of thinking so much now? Let's just run for our lives first!"

Zhou Ke'er pursed her lips, looking at the dilapidated wooden door. She figured that even with the bed blocking it, it wouldn't last much longer. So she quickly jumped up and slammed her head on the ground—there was really no other way. Fortunately, the floor was a rotten wooden floor, which should be easy to break.

"..."

Zhijiansha glanced at Zhou Ke'er, stroking his chin as he pondered, "Zhou Ke'er...why is she in such a hurry? And she seems to have a specific purpose in wanting me to go there. If I remember correctly, she just arrived here, right? How does she know this is the second floor and not the ground floor? There are no windows here..."

So that's how it is! I get it! It's all a mix of truth and deception... So that's how it is! This guy's claim of being abandoned by the mastermind is definitely fake, but the fact that he's a traitor is true.

At first, he revealed that he was a double agent, which made me think that he was going off the rails again. I didn't doubt whether he was telling the truth or not. Then he immediately brought up the fact that he had been abandoned, which made me mistakenly think that we should be in the same boat now!

Using a mix of truth and lies, did he manage to make me believe him without a second thought, ultimately leading me somewhere? If so, the mastermind's goal wasn't just to kill me, but... something else entirely?

A smile crept across her face, a slight smirk playing on her lips. "Zhou Ke'er," she thought, "this plan is indeed brilliant, but you were too hasty in its execution! You revealed a flaw! If not for that, she might have truly been fooled by Zhou Ke'er..."

Interestingly, Zhijiansha had long suspected that Zhou Ke'er was not an ordinary mental patient...and now, after this much thought, she was even more certain of her suspicions.

Hmph, pretending to be crazy to hide his scheming? Indeed... if someone has something strange about them, it will arouse suspicion, but if there is nothing normal about them, then others will not bother to suspect them.

She's very shrewd! Zhou Ke'er!

Forcibly suppressing the wildly upturned corners of her mouth, she knew she couldn't reveal that she had seen through Zhou Ke'er's scheme yet. She would play along and see what he was up to first.

"What are you doing? What are you standing there for? Come and help..."

Zhou Ke'er, who was jumping around happily, glanced at Zhijian Sha, who looked thoughtful (constipated), and couldn't help but ask. But before she could finish speaking, there was a "crack" and the wooden floor finally collapsed because of her jumping.

"Ahhh!"

Caught off guard, Zhou Ke'er screamed as she fell through the hole she had jumped out of, landing with a thud on the bed on the next floor.

Luckily I didn't fall to the ground, otherwise my stamina would probably have dropped by more than half.

Seeing this, Zhijiansha glanced at the monster still chopping at the door, took a deep breath, and jumped down into the hole as well.

"No, no..."

Just as Zhou Ke'er was about to call out to delay the sand from falling from her fingers, she saw a dark shadow fall from above.

"Gan!"

Zhou Ke'er only had time to utter that one word before Zhijiansha stepped on her face, her vision went black, and she collapsed onto the bed.

"I'm...going to die..."

Zhou Ke'er struggled to utter the last three words.

However, the sand between her fingers was completely unaware, still wondering where Zhou Ke'er had run off to so quickly.

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104. I don't want to play anymore, let's just destroy the mod.

"Zhou Ke'er, where are you?"

Sand between his fingers scanned the surroundings, but not seeing Zhou Ke'er, he couldn't help but frown.

I initially thought Zhou Ke'er would keep up the act a little longer, but it seems she couldn't resist revealing her true colors so soon after arriving here? A little disappointing...

That's all you are, Zhou Ke'er!

"You...f***ing...are on top of me!"

With great difficulty, Zhou Ke'er lifted her head, which was buried in the rotten and moldy quilt, and stretched out one hand with difficulty, speaking intermittently.

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"Is it not over yet? Actually, I have something I want to talk to you about."

The silver-haired girl, surrounded by empty cups, looked impatient and, extremely bored, lay sprawled on the ground, glancing sideways at Rae as she asked.

"Is something wrong? Can't we say it here?"

Upon hearing this, Rae couldn't help but raise his eyebrows (since it was all pixelated and no one could see it from the other side anyway), and his hand holding the cup trembled subconsciously twice, almost dropping the cup to the ground. Fortunately, Rae calmly and gently placed the cup on the ball of light next to him, and asked without changing his expression.

"Oh dear, if you have something to say, then you have something to say. This isn't the place to talk, it's not appropriate."

The silver-haired girl, feigning an air of maturity, held up a finger and shook it at Rayle, the ahoge (cowlick) on her head swaying from side to side with the movement of her finger.

"..."

Rae's eyes flickered for a moment as he wondered if he had given himself away, but he felt that he had been careful enough and was just short of giving himself a thorough brainwashing.

"Alright, I'll take care of things here first."

Looking at the silver-haired girl with a somewhat impatient expression, Rael sighed helplessly. Being a traitor was really frustrating.

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"Oh, sorry, I'll get right away..."

Zhijiansha then realized that she was sitting on Zhou Ke'er's lap. She couldn't help but blush and was frantically trying to get off Zhou Ke'er when she heard a loud "thump" from above.

Zhou Ke'er and Zhijiansha looked up at the same time, and saw a giant axe getting bigger and bigger in their line of sight.

"Oh... SHIT!"

Zhou Ke'er only had time to utter a few polite words before she felt a chilling sensation—the axe blade had cleaved her head vertically in two!

Player "Zhou Ke'er" is dead.

[Automatic Exit Module]

[Module settlement in progress]

[Task change detected]

[Task settlement in progress]

[Basic Worldview: Exploration Progress of "Main World (Partial)": 80%]

"I'm dead?? How could I be dead? Why?"

Zhou Ke'er was dumbfounded. He thought that even if his head was chopped off, he would only be sent to the place where Frankenstein and Red Crane had gone before. How could he have died directly?

That's outrageous!

This is garbage mod! I've filed a complaint!

Zhou Ke'er glanced angrily at her friends list and was surprised to find that Red Crane and Finger Sand were not in the "game" either.

Huh? What's going on?

Zhou Ke'er frowned and sent them an email, asking them what was going on.

Honghe was probably furious at Zhou Ke'er's betrayal. He was online the moment he received Zhou Ke'er's email, and immediately went offline.

"..."

Zhou Ke'er rubbed her hands awkwardly.

[Finger Sand: Why did you quit the module? Of course, it's because my character died, and so did yours, right? We died together in the end... Did you lose your memory?]

Tsk, so the Sand Between Fingers died too... What happened in the end? Could it really be what the mastermind said, that time was up? So they had no choice but to maliciously eliminate all the players?

Pshaw, garbage module!

(An innocent Reeue sneezed, and the mosaic on his face almost flew off.)

After being ruined by this terrible mod, Zhou Ke'er lost all interest in playing. Plus, Red Crane is offline now, and Chen Tian isn't online either...

The plan to travel to the main world as a group will have to be postponed for a while longer.

Forget it, let's take it offline.

Zhou Ke'er quit the game looking frustrated.

Standing up from the sofa, Zhou Ke'er stretched and glanced at the sky outside the window.

I was already feeling drowsy, and the orange sunset was dyeing the sky, revealing a faint, gloomy gray-black hue.

Zhou Ke'er glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

It's already past five, almost six.