Why is my journey to the world of anime a strange tale of rules?

Gao Hai was still looking around.

He guessed that the "bad kid" had been standing beside him the whole time, and might even be lying on his back.

But Jianzi could see very clearly that the "bad boy" was almost intertwined with Gao Hai, or even that it had grown into his body.

However, Gao Hai couldn't care less about that now. After all, judging from the existing rules, the "bad boy" wouldn't pose any danger to him and Jianzi at the moment. In comparison, confirming other strange occurrences was the key.

The television was very loud, but it didn't attract anything, so things like [Mama Sheep] and [Teacher Duck] shouldn't be here.

This isn't the stairwell, so Mr. Turtle and Mr. Ox don't need to worry for now.

There might be something like the "Flashlight Sister" in the darkness outside, but so far nothing unusual has been found inside. By the way, there's a strange rule in the rules: lights on during the day and lights off at night. Perhaps this means that "lights on means daytime, and lights off means nighttime." That's why, being in the living room under the light, neither I nor Miko can see anything in the dark hallway, because that's an area "visible only at night."

Wait a minute. Since I've verified the existence of the "bad kids" in the rules, it proves that the strange occurrences that have appeared do indeed come from "Fujihana Middle School".

But neither the girl who just passed by in the corridor nor the group of students standing outside the window had any obvious characteristics that could be associated with a particular identity.

Gao Hai pulled out two more flashlights from the drawer, tossed one to Jianzi, then took out a standard-issue pistol from the drawer, took it out along with its holster, tied it to his waist, and then took out two loaded magazines and put them in his pocket.

"You...you still have a gun?"

Jianzi was stunned for a moment, not expecting to see this.

"It's better not to expect this thing to be very effective. It's mainly used to treat cerebral palsy."

Gao Hai said very seriously, then released the safety of his gun, turned around and aimed at the knee of a student with his back to him outside the window.

boom!

The next moment, a sharp gunshot rang out, and blood splattered from the student's knee. He staggered and fell to the ground.

It appears to be a living person?

Interlude 2-33: The Silent Spread of Blood and the Eerie Key Points

The bullet had its effect, knocking a student to the ground.

The person lay on the ground, curled up, clutching their leg, writhing and convulsing in great pain.

Seeing the dark red blood flowing from between the other man's knees, Gao Hai frowned. The fact that a gun attack could actually have an effect was completely unexpected.

It's important to understand that even living people in the process of transformation can basically ignore gun attacks. For example, Kawano, whom you encounter in the second playthrough of Red Nut Gray Hole, can withstand bullets and several fatal attacks after his obsession goes out of control and causes him to be possessed by a ghost. He can even survive taking several bullets to the head.

Are those students standing outside with their backs to us just ordinary people? Or are they simply being driven by some force to stand there with their backs to us?

If that's the case, then knocking them all to the ground might allow us to escape through the window...

[Hehehe—Someone's going to turn into a bad kid!~]

Before Gao Hai could take any further action, he heard a voice in his ear that sounded like a girl's soft laughter.

Snapped!

The living room lights went out the next moment.

Darkness enveloped the entire living room in an instant, covering everything.

Even though it wasn't dark outside and it was still dusk, no light shone into the living room, and it became completely dark in an instant.

Gao Hai heard footsteps.

The sound was incredibly clear, like human footsteps, coming directly in from outside the living room door.

The other person's gaze was already fixed on him.

The intense malice and inhuman aura were enough for Gao Hai to understand what was happening.

Boom——

A violent explosion engulfed the entire living room in the next moment.

The scorching flames scattered and flew up in all directions.

Before the explosives detonated, Gao Hai had already pulled Jianzi to lie down on the ground and kicked over the sofa as a shield.

In the flames, the wall separating the living room and the hallway collapsed with a deafening roar, and the windowpanes shattered. But after the glass shattered completely, what appeared outside the window was not a street, but a pitch-black hallway. The darkness was so intense that the explosive flames could only briefly illuminate it, unable to reach the end of the hallway, leaving only an almost endless expanse of darkness.

Ignoring the girl beside him coughing from the smoke, Gao Hai jumped up the moment the explosion ended, dragging her to a corner of the burning living room.

A small, blood-soaked hand grazed Gao Hai's body, slashing a gash more than ten centimeters long across his back. Then, just before reaching the area illuminated by the firelight, the small hand silently retreated and disappeared.

Gao Hai knew where the other person had been.

As he threw Lao Guo's explosives, in the instant the explosives detonated, he clearly saw a student in a dirty sailor uniform standing in the middle of the living room.

Yes, it had no head, and the neck area was a mangled mess of flesh. This thing rushed in the moment the living room lights went out, and went straight for Gao Hai. The explosion only slightly slowed its movement; if Gao Hai hadn't reacted quickly enough, he probably would have been dead by now.

"She's a senior student."

Gao Hai looked into the darkness ahead and said softly.

The thing didn't stop because of the explosion, but because of the light.

It seems that the monster only regains its ability to move in complete darkness, so creating enough light sources can stop it.

It sounds like a type that's easy to prevent, but...

Can it still be opened?

Gao Hai looked at Jianzi beside him and asked.

"...No, it's completely dark now."

Seeing that Zi had been fiddling with the flashlight in his hand for a while, he could only shake his head regretfully in the end.

After the sudden "lights off" phenomenon, the flashlight could not be turned on. Gao Hai realized the problem the moment the flashlight in his hand went out, so he threw out the explosives he was carrying, which were sponsored by Lao Guo, and used the fire from the explosion to recreate the light source.

Pick up the wooden legs of the coffee table that had been blown up.

Tear the burning curtains apart and roll them up on the wooden table legs.

A simple torch was barely formed.

Gao Hai then followed the same method, producing another torch and handing it to Jian Zi.

Then, he took the torch and moved forward first, and saw headless female and male students standing all over the living room.

"Although I always welcome people to my home, isn't this a bit too impolite?"

Looking at these headless students, whose necks were severely deformed and mangled beyond recognition, Gao Hai's lips twitched several times, unsure of what to say.

Judging from the shape of the wound, it appears that the head was broken by repeated blows with a blunt instrument.

The number of these students... 1, 2, 3... a total of 26. In Japan, the number of students in a class doesn't seem to be too much.

The uniforms are all the same style, so these students must be from the same school. Could they be from the same class?

"What should we do now?"

Having already endured too much stress today, Yotsuya Miko was now desperately using her willpower to stay awake. If Takami glanced down even slightly, he could see that her legs were trembling uncontrollably, making it difficult for her to even stand.

"Don't be afraid. The more afraid you are, the more dangerous it is. You must stay calm when you encounter these things."

Gao Hai first spoke seriously to Jian Zi, and then carefully walked up to one of the students with a torch.

The student remained motionless, standing stiffly in place like a mere corpse.

A slight stinging sensation came from the wound on Gao Hai's back, but under the power of the blessing, the bleeding had stopped automatically, and a layer of scab had formed at the wound site. In just two or three days, a wound that would take ordinary people more than ten days to heal would be completely healed for Gao Hai.

However, this was not the focus at the moment. Gao Hai stood in front of the headless student, and after a moment of silence, he placed his hand on his watch, intending to try to take out a scalpel and cut the student's body.

...It wasn't removed.

The moment Gao Hai conceived the idea of ​​taking out the scalpel from his black watch, he was forced to abandon it.

Because if he did that, what he would pull out wouldn't be a scalpel, but something bizarre emerging from it.

The moment it's removed, it will immediately lose control; there's no other possibility.

Gao Hai was 100% certain that the omen given to him by the black watch would not be wrong, and in fact, Gao Hai had already learned from other players that [Twilight-level obsessions would instantly go out of control in Red Moon-level dungeons].

So, even if the "Campus Ghost Stories" instance were to appear in the real world, it would still possess the ability to "instantly cause Twilight-level obsessions to go out of control." Therefore, isn't this instance actually a Red Moon-level instance? How the hell did the organizers of this "Smash the Gods" game downgrade this thing to Dark Night-level? Honestly, what aspect of this instance deserves to be Dark Night-level? Are they completely trying to deny it any chance of survival?!

Bang!

Gao Hai kicked out with all his might, knocking five or six students to the ground. These students rolled on the ground and bumped into other students, so between the two of them, there were headless students rolling all over the ground.

"This……"

Just moments ago, Miko was terrified by these strange occurrences, but after seeing Gao Hai's decisive kick, her entire worldview was greatly shaken.

"The key to dealing with the supernatural is to understand that these things act according to certain rules."

Gao Hai, having withdrawn his foot, looked at the students who had no intention of resisting and spoke to Jianzi, who was staring blankly beside him.

"Once you break the rules, they will attack you frantically, and sometimes you won't even know how you died."

"But as long as you don't break the rules, they won't do anything to you no matter what you do to them."

"This is absolutely the first key point. Remember it well, you'll use it often in the future."

Upon hearing Gao Hai's earnest instruction, Jian Zi nodded subconsciously. While understanding why Gao Hai dared to take such brutal actions against these strange creatures, he secretly memorized this key point.

and many more……

Then the girl belatedly realized what had happened.

I'll be using this point a lot in the future... Wait, what does that mean? Does this mean I'll be dealing with these kinds of scary things many, many more times in the future?!

"time to go."

Grabbing Miko's hand, Gao Hai, carrying a torch, walked through the headless students and arrived at the corridor he had never entered before.

At this moment, the corridor is clearly different from the corridor in Gao Hai's memory.

The ground was covered with pools of black, filthy blood, and the walls were covered with scratches and bloodstains, as well as marks that looked like they had been torn or cut by some sharp object.

Tick-tick-tick-

Blood was dripping from the ceiling.

Gao Hai looked up and saw a boy who looked young hanging upside down from the ceiling. Layers of wire were strangling the boy's body, and his head was completely deformed. One of his eyeballs had been squeezed out, and brain matter and blood were mixed together and flowing out from the gaps in the wire. It was hard to imagine what kind of force controlled these wires to crush his skull and turn him into this state.

Jianzi, who was holding the torch, turned around and saw the twenty-odd headless students following behind her, all standing silently in the darkness, visible when the torch shone on them.

"Can...we leave from here?"