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

The dim yellow light came on.

The cold chains were slowly pulled up.

Gao Hai's body was hanging in mid-air. In the darkness, only the light above his head illuminated his location.

[Student Gao Hai, for failing to attend class as required by student regulations, receives a personal warning and is punished with 20 strokes of the cane.]

With a cold sound, the heavy iron rod fell on Gao Hai's body.

One blow, two blows... after only five blows, Gao Hai's back was bruised and bleeding.

The iron rod didn't stop, and gradually began to shift its position, from the back to the chest, to the abdomen, and then to the legs and feet.

By the tenth strike, more than half of Gao Hai's ribs had been broken.

After the fourteenth blow, one of his knees was shattered, and the ankle of his other leg was smashed.

He also received a very heavy blow to the head, so heavy that one of Gao Hai's eyeballs bulged out, and blood kept flowing out.

After being struck twenty times, his hands and feet were all broken, most of his ribs were broken, his internal organs were bleeding, and he had lost half of his vision.

"Cough...uh..."

He's not dead yet.

Even after being struck twenty times with a solid iron rod, Gao Hai still did not die.

It seems that he has barely regained some control over his body.

At this moment, Gao Hai's consciousness was almost gone. The severe head injury had seriously damaged his thinking ability. Amidst the intense dizziness and pain, Gao Hai couldn't even be sure whether he was in Fujika Middle School or having a long nightmare.

He struggled to crawl forward, using his arms to take a step.

Then, it seemed as if a small foot stepped on its back.

Even in this state, the teacher didn't die. She really has a strong will to live!

Even so, the teacher can't survive. These injuries are fatal. Is it possible to change anything by struggling for even a little time left?

[But if it were a teacher, it might actually be possible. After all, the teacher stole Alice's friend without her noticing and even produced a small item that Alice had never seen before, something that a teacher shouldn't possibly possess.]

With a soft laugh, the girl slowly leaned down, resting her head on Gao Hai's back. She affectionately nuzzled his cheek, seemingly unconcerned about the blood smeared on her face. Then, she lowered her head and whispered in his ear, as if blowing air:

Hey, teacher!

Can you tell Alice how the teacher did that?

[If you tell Alice, she'll let the teacher live, okay?]

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Alice, you don't want your friends to disappear, do you?

He didn't seem to be dead yet.

In a daze, such a thought floated through Gao Hai's mind.

Unlike the iron rod that Miko endured in her hallucination during the first playthrough, Takami actually took 20 real hits from a solid iron rod. Each hit was equivalent to a strong adult male swinging the rod at full power, or even much stronger.

It can only be said that the fact that Gao Hai wasn't beaten to death by those twenty iron rods is a result of his body being enhanced.

Even so, his condition is now extremely dire; the severe injuries he has suffered have brought him to the point where he could die at any moment. It's fair to say that Gao Hai's continued existence is a testament to the extreme strength of his will.

I can't fall asleep...

If I fall asleep now... I'll really die...

Gao Hai is still holding on.

In a state of mental confusion, almost instinctively, he struggled and continued to crawl forward on the ground with his broken limbs.

"Huh...huh..."

Amidst his heavy breathing, the girl's soft laughter beside him was so clear.

Is that Miko's laughter?

No, that's not right.

That voice is Alice's; it's the laughter of the possessing ghost that's trying to get to know Jianzi.

Gao Hai could no longer see or hear his surroundings.

But Alice's voice seemed to possess some special power, allowing Takahashi to still hear it under these circumstances.

The rescue team badges were thrown away by the other party.

I'm afraid I have no way to survive now.

However, Gao Hai was still somewhat unwilling to give up now. He tried his best to continue thinking and crawling forward, trying to figure out if there was anything else he could do in this situation.

Teacher, don't you want to talk to Alice?

Laughter rang in my ears.

If you don't speak up now, the teacher won't have another chance!

Along with Alice's voice, a sound came from something approaching.

This feeling... is it that monster formed from fused flesh and blood? Has that thing caught up with me? Is it using map-wide aggro lock or something? Why is it constantly chasing me?

Gao Hai really wanted to say something, but his mouth and throat were full of blood, and he couldn't utter a single word.

I really can't think of any other way to change the situation I'm facing right now.

Four broken limbs, severe internal organ damage, and what looks like a split open head?

Only by finding a way to heal the damage to their bodies can they possibly survive and continue to struggle.

But now he's underground, and the rescue team badge has been thrown outside the school building. Even if he were in good health, it would be difficult to find that object of obsession quickly, not to mention that he's already halfway into the Blood City and about to start his third playthrough.

So……

At this moment, Gao Hai's mind was as calm as still water.

He felt the fleshy monster approaching step by step, and at that moment he knew what he could do in the end.

Ultimately, it's just a gamble.

"call……"

He took a deep, sudden breath.

The next moment, Gao Hai's still intact eye emitted a blood-red light. Then, using his broken arm to support his body, he suddenly leaped into the air and pounced straight towards the location of the writhing flesh monster.

[Hey, hey, hey, why are you asking for trouble again? Teacher, can't you just listen to me for a second?]

Alice, who had been flipped to the ground, sat on the spot in a duck-like position, waving her little hands and shouting in a tone that was half protest and half coquettish, with a hint of dissatisfaction.

In the next instant, Gao Hai plunged directly into the writhing fleshy monster and was instantly swallowed up.

The pain intensely enveloped my entire body in the next moment.

The countless pieces of rotten flesh were constantly assimilating Gao Hai, trying to turn him into a part of this monster.

Without the power of blessing, he would undoubtedly be completely absorbed by this thing in a second.

But through Hedar's blessing, even at this critical moment, as long as Gao Hai's life force has not been completely exhausted, he can continue to maintain his life and fight with his last bit of strength.

I sensed it...

All the obsessions he had thrown into this thing, and all the strange things summoned by the obsessions he had thrown out, are now all sealed inside this thing, along with the students and teachers it has already swallowed, all sealed here.

These strange forces could not escape the seal of this fleshy monster, so they remained suppressed. Even the strange creatures summoned by obsession objects from other instances were fused into this thing and could not move.

Your opportunity is right here.

Gao Hai, who could no longer see anything, struggled and writhed in the darkness. At this moment, he mustered his last strength and charged forward in one direction.

In the dark punishment room, illuminated only by an old incandescent bulb, Alice tilted her head, curiously gazing at the fleshy monster before her.

Is the teacher still struggling? Alice is a little confused. Does the teacher want to die, or does she not want to die?

As she spoke, she began to walk towards the piece of meat.

The flesh-and-blood monster that devoured everything seemed to have no effect on Alice, or rather, it couldn't harm her. Even when she walked onto its body, it didn't react at all.

At that moment, accompanied by the sound of flesh tearing apart, Gao Hai's figure suddenly leaped out from another direction, rolling on the ground covered in blood. After rolling several times to distance himself from the flesh monster, he slowly got up, panting heavily.

His entire body was covered in blood; there wasn't a single good piece of flesh left.

But these injuries were healing at an extremely fast pace. In just a few seconds, Gao Hai's bones were basically healed, and most of his skin and flesh had grown back.

"Finally... I've found a way."

Gao Hai, whose clothes had been completely torn to shreds by the flesh monster, stood up abruptly and looked at the flesh monster moving towards him in the distance, and Alice, who was sitting on the flesh monster with a curious expression.

He held a medicine bottle in his hand, a coveted item he had snatched from the Red Nut Gray Hole dungeon, a pill that could quickly heal wounds.

This obsession item is of the Twilight level, making it extremely easy to lose control. It can only be used once per instance, and a second use will result in the user being possessed by a strange entity. It can be said to be a life-saving item with significant limitations.

But just now, inside that fleshy monster, Gao Hai swallowed five pills in one go.

The near-death injuries have been fully recovered.

The strange thing that should have triggered the rules and harmed Gao Hai remained completely still. Of course, it was impossible for it to move, as it was currently lying inside the flesh monster, firmly suppressed by its power, making any movement impossible.

It wasn't until this moment that Gao Hai realized he had fallen into a misconception, a mental trap that a player who had never actually experienced the Red Moon level dungeon could easily fall into.

Twilight-level artifacts are basically unusable in Red Moon-level dungeons because they will go out of control as soon as they are taken out, summoning the corresponding supernatural entity into the dungeon.

However, this line of thinking can actually be reversed. The strangeness of the Crimson Moon level is far stronger than that of the Twilight level. So as long as the strangeness of the Crimson Moon level suppresses the strangeness summoned by the Twilight level obsession, then these obsessions that should easily get out of control will become items with no side effects and will not cause any harm.

Of course, the fact that Twilight-level artifacts are inherently too weak in Red Moon-level dungeons is undeniable, so even using this method will still have limitations. However, this generally refers to situations where Twilight-level artifacts are being used against Red Moon-level monsters. The medicine bottle Gao Hai took out is a healing item used to restore players' health. After removing the side effects, this item is truly a lifesaver for Gao Hai.

There are four pills left. Weren't there at least thirty or forty of these when we opened the Red Nut Gray Hole? Oh, right, the anomaly corresponding to these was under suppression, so its power must have weakened considerably, hence the reduced number of pills. But it's okay, the fact that these are usable is already a huge surprise.

clap clap-

Alice, who was not far away, was applauding Gao Hai very earnestly.

The fleshy monster she had been sitting on had vanished, its whereabouts unknown.

The surrounding light had completely disappeared, and Gao Hai had clearly fallen into a hallucination again, this time without any way to deal with it.

They escaped the near-death crisis, but still couldn't escape the danger.

Gao Hai stood calmly in place, continuing to confirm the location of the flesh monster through Li Zhaodi's blessing, while thinking about his next move. Suddenly, he heard Alice's voice ring out directly behind him.