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

"Don't get involved, it's time to go!"

Accompanied by a strong, chilling aura, came a sound that abruptly jolted the girl awake from her daze.

When Yotsuya Miko opened her eyes, she found herself being held in Takami's arms.

Chiharu Kobayashi, who was ahead, had already helped Rika Ichino run into the glass corridor inside the door. Seeing that Takami was lagging behind, she slowed down a bit to wait for him and Miko.

Click——click——

At this moment, more and more cracks appeared on the glass wall beside him, and it looked like it was about to shatter.

And in the churning flesh in the classroom,

"call……"

Blood-red light emanated from the pupils of the sheep's head mask.

The rescue team badge, the sheep's head hood, and Hedar's blessing represent three different supernatural powers, all of which have the ability to enhance physical abilities.

At that moment, Gao Hai activated all three powers simultaneously, his body slightly lowered, and he reached out to protect Jianzi's neck to prevent her from breaking her neck due to the instantaneous acceleration. The next moment, he suddenly lunged forward, crossing the glass corridor in an instant amidst the sound of the ground shattering.

On one side of this glass corridor are classrooms, and in each classroom you can see students chatting and laughing.

It also includes the teaching building corridors, toilets, various classrooms, and so-called supply rooms and waste recycling rooms.

Everywhere the students might go is under surveillance, leaving them with absolutely no privacy.

Now, whenever Gao Hai passes a classroom, a corridor, or a room, the students who were chatting and laughing with each other stop what they're doing and turn to stare at him expressionlessly. It's as if their gaze can penetrate this glass and clearly see Gao Hai in this secret corridor.

boom--! ! !

The glass wall behind them shattered at that moment.

The surging flesh pulp chased after it at an extremely fast speed, even faster than the speed Gao Hai was pushing with all his might.

At the same time, Gao Hai also keenly noticed that this thing was not chasing him with all its might. A considerable portion of the flesh pulp wrapped around the teachers he had cut down, trying to absorb those strange things into itself, thus delaying its actions.

This thing attacks indiscriminately, indiscriminately, without distinguishing between the living and the dead!

At that moment, Gao Hai quickly confirmed the characteristics of this mountain of flesh.

Stop.

A sharp scalpel appeared in Gao Hai's hand in the next moment.

Then, the object of obsession suddenly went out of control, and a large amount of blood gushed from the blade. A doctor's phantom image then appeared.

"Go away!"

Gao Hai kicked the thing into the sea of ​​flesh and blood in front of him.

The strange entity residing within the scalpel had just manifested when it was engulfed by the mountain of flesh and disappeared into it.

The second scalpel was thrown out immediately, followed by the faceless skull devourer, the blood scissors, and the blood puppet.

The surging flesh devoured all the out-of-control obsessions and the anomalies they summoned. Even though it, as an anomaly, could not eliminate these non-derived anomalies, it still tried to destroy and devour them without flinching. As a result, its originally rapid speed gradually decreased, and it slowed down in no time.

Taking advantage of the moment when the other side slowed down, Gao Hai quickly led the three girls to escape at a faster pace, soon reaching the end of the glass corridor. This was a large space with some recreational facilities, resembling a lounge. One side of the room had a door leading to a teacher's office, as well as an elevator and stairs connecting the upper and lower floors.

The staircase was pitch black, with no light source whatsoever; you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

The elevator was moving upwards, seemingly about to reach this floor.

On the sofa in the lounge, Gao Hai saw Alice sitting there, smiling at him.

The surging carnivorous fluids in the corridor behind them had caught up and would reach their location soon.

Is this... a multiple-choice question?

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Changes at Fujika Middle School and Their Renewed Encounter

"I'd rather go to your grandpa!"

Without even a moment's hesitation, Gao Hai cursed and stomped his foot hard on the ground.

A violent explosion occurred, and the ground tore apart and collapsed in an instant.

Takami carried Miko down to the floor below, while Itono Rika and Kobayashi Chiharu, having no one to help them, fell directly to the ground, landing dazed and confused. Moreover, because they landed on the rubble that had fallen earlier, the two girls were covered in injuries and looked quite miserable.

But there's no time to worry about how many injuries I've sustained.

The call of that thing is getting closer.

Rihanna could even hear Yuka Kinoshita's voice, hearing her friend calling her name repeatedly, screaming venomously, and cursing and insulting her as she approached her location.

Gao Hai looked around and found that, like the observation area on the 7th floor, this was a secret corridor built for teachers and researchers. He could even see many figures wearing hoods in the distance.

"go!"

After shouting something to the two girls, Gao Hai took the lead and started running. Jianzi was held in his arms, her eyes tightly closed, unable to suppress the increasingly intense pain of mental erosion.

Click!

The bloodstained machete swung down, cleaving a figure wearing a sheep's head mask in half at the waist.

Gao Hai kept advancing, launching attacks on the approaching "teachers" as if he were the monster himself. Before long, he was covered in blood, looking as if he had been pulled out of a pool of blood.

The fleshy paste had already seeped down from the cracks in the ceiling, chasing after him.

One by one, the teachers who had been dismembered and temporarily unable to move began to be swallowed up by this thing, and its speed of movement was slowing down even further.

Before long, the thing slowed down considerably, finally allowing the people running ahead, especially the limping Rihanna and Chiharu Kobayashi, to catch their breath and stop running so hard.

However, it's not safe yet, so we can't relax.

Alice has reappeared.

He no longer had any methods to stop Alice's actions.

We can't see where this new Alice is right now. Is she following us? Or is it possible that she's actually right in front of us, but we just can't see her?

The uncertainty made it impossible for Gao Hai to calm down.

The advantage of the second playthrough seemed to last only a short time. It wasn't until he faced the strange being, Alice, once again that Gao Hai had to confront the fact that he still couldn't control the creature's actions and that he would be at a huge disadvantage if he confronted it head-on.

However, slightly better than the first playthrough, he didn't retrieve the black umbrella this time, so Alice never displayed the possession abilities she had in the first playthrough. Now it seems that the human-skin umbrella might itself be an object of obsession born from the strange being Alice, which explains the drastic change after it was retrieved in this instance. This makes the "Female Mask Gang" incredibly suspicious; players of that level couldn't possibly obtain such an object of obsession. In other words, it was obtained by someone supporting them behind the scenes?

Players who can successfully complete the "School Ghost Stories" instance, survive in the "Wisteria Middle School" area, and even retrieve their obsession item from there are extremely rare.

That might significantly narrow down the scope of who's behind it all. Hmm... that's assuming I can leave this place alive, which doesn't seem like that will be easy at the moment.

Like the 7th floor, the secret corridor on the 6th floor has glass walls on both sides. Behind one wall are various classrooms, while behind the other wall is complete darkness. No, this floor is slightly different. Although it is also pitch black behind the other wall, there are a considerable number of students hanging in mid-air, including the girl who had previously stuck her head out of the window and was subsequently arrested.

The students in the classroom all turned to look at Gao Hai.

But the students hanging in mid-air did not make any movement; they simply remained quiet and still.

They... don't seem to see us?

Gao Hai keenly noticed this difference. The students in the classrooms along this corridor would stare at him, but these hanged students, the students who had chased after Gao Hai in the first time, did not react to him at all.

What are the differences between the two?

Furthermore, this is theoretically a secret area unknown to the students. Why am I being watched by them here? When I was in the teaching building, these strange students treated me completely as a teacher because of the sheep-head hoods, showing no unusual behavior whatsoever. Why are they staring at me as I pass through this secret corridor? Is it because I'm not a real teacher, and thus revealed some flaw here? Or does this corridor, this secret area, possess some special characteristic that resonates with a particular aspect of me?

While pondering the reasons behind this, Gao Hai remained attentive to his senses, constantly on guard against being attacked by hallucinations. He quickly arrived at the end of the corridor, where there was a heavy security door, identical to the one on the 7th floor, which would slowly open only after swiping his card.

If only this door had a keyhole, maybe the blood key could be of some use.

Because the process of processing the meat paste had been slowed down considerably, Gao Hai didn't need to rush this time. He put down Jian Zi, who was still somewhat dazed, and waited for the door to open normally. Then he let the three girls go in first, followed by himself, and finally swiped his card to close the door.

Considering that the previous glass wall had been able to hold back the flesh for quite some time, this iron door should hold out even longer. Therefore, after entering this new area, Gao Hai did not rush to find a way out, but instead carefully observed the surroundings first.

This... seems to be a processing room?

There were many black plastic bags on the ground on one side, which were obviously used to carry people, judging from their size.

The walls were covered with all sorts of tools, from brooms, mops, and vacuum cleaners to saws, machetes, pistols, and other odd-looking gadgets. There were also several meat grinders, two electric chairs, and three holes for throwing away trash, which seemed to lead to the underground.

"This is where the dead students are disposed of after they've been played with and thrown away. The bodies from the 6th and 7th floors are processed here."

Seeing that Zi seemed to have recovered by then, he was able to stand up and speak, barely able to support himself against the wall.

"Is this what you just saw in your hallucination?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Hai turned to look at her and asked.

"...Yes, the monster that chased us was originally processed here. During the processing, some pieces of flesh leaked out. This was originally an accident, but after it was discovered, the higher-ups who promoted the experiment chose to let it go and kept it from the lower-level test personnel until those gathered pieces of flesh started to move."

"This thing is afraid of fire. Although it can no longer be destroyed by conventional means, flames can temporarily stop its movement. If it catches up again, we can try to light a fire to stop it."

Jianzi's face was very pale, and she looked very tired.

Her mental state was quite poor, as if she might faint at any moment. In fact, she had already fainted once; she was basically unconscious during the escape down the corridor, so Gao Hai had to carry her the whole time.

At this moment, Gao Hai had already walked to one side of the processing room and saw a notice posted on the wall.

[Important Notes for Processing Room Personnel:]

[1. Only "bad students" may be dealt with in the processing room. No other students may be processed here.]

2. For "bad students" who have not yet stopped breathing, it is necessary to ensure that their breathing has stopped before taking any action.

3. Prioritize the treatment of "bad students" who have stopped breathing but are still capable of movement, and confirm and report their class and name.

[4. For "bad students" who meet the priority handling criteria in Article 3 but whose names cannot be confirmed, they must be sabotaged as soon as possible to ensure that they are rendered incapacitated before further action is taken. After the sabotage is completed, the case must be reported immediately.]

5. If it is impossible to disrupt the "bad student," immediately activate the emergency plan.

6. If any items not belonging to "bad students" are found in the processing room, they must not be processed. They must be reported and handled by professionals.

The content is not much, and there is nothing superfluous or frivolous. You can easily understand what this processing room used to look like.

"It seems that the school was in pretty serious condition when it was still operating."

When Gao Hai saw the "unable to confirm the name" mark, he immediately realized that it was very likely that when Fujika Middle School was still operating, the students who enrolled were already mixed with something else.

"Although I haven't seen much about it, I have heard some things. It seems that after the school had been open for a while, some students started appearing whose identities and names were unrecognizable, as if they had appeared out of thin air."

Seeing that Zi had slowly walked to Gao Hai's side, she spoke in a low voice.

"I see. If that's the case, then it makes sense."

Gao Hai nodded, seemingly unsurprised.

"What did the teacher understand?"