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

"Once the blood pool is dug out, nothing else matters. We must dig it out immediately!"

As soon as the words fell, Howard and Lao Guo, who had finished cooling down, were summoned and used by Gao Haitou for digging. The two blurry figures simultaneously lay down on the ruins and began to dig through the dirt and debris.

Then Gao Hai and the police officers fired together, unleashing countless bullets in a burst mode that far exceeded the normal rate of fire of firearms, and controlling the angle of the bullets, they managed to dig through the ruins with these bullets.

Kaguya Shinomiya took a deep breath. Because of Ichiri Goto's summoned clone to replenish her health, she also activated her pre-cooled Crimson Domain Blessing in the next moment. It overlapped with Takami's Crimson Domain, creating a massive domain that doubled in size and spread rapidly. It actually managed to withstand the light of the blood moon and forcibly blocked the polluting power spreading down from the hole in the ceiling.

More clones were summoned, and the moment they were summoned, they were drained by the crimson domain, continuously replenishing the domain's power.

At this very moment, within the vast space of the underground base, two crimson lights clashed against each other, neither able to gain the upper hand.

This caused the thing on the ruins, which was almost beaten to a pulp but was still alive, to howl furiously. The increasingly vivid blood light spread across its body, seemingly carrying out a deeper transformation of the body little by little.

Those bullets, those strange bullets, caused the power within my body to become disordered and malfunction.

Damn it, we can't delay any longer; we have to take over their bodies. Why hasn't that seed worked yet? There's no reason why that brat can still hold on after all this time. We clearly verified the seed's strength!

wow-

Just then, the broken bricks behind the monster made a sound of collapsing.

Realizing what was happening, the monster turned around and saw a half-melted, almost unrecognizable human hand emerge from under the rubble and grab its ankle.

This...this is impossible...

What crawled out of the ruins was Qi Chuanlian, or rather, some of Qi Chuanlian's things.

This veteran player unfortunately lost a leg during the collapse of the ruins, and the severed leg fell into the blood pool. As a result, not only was her lost leg consumed by the divine blood of the blood pool, but she, as the source of the blood, was also immediately affected by the curse. After being buried by the mud above the blood pool, the curse intensified, and it seemed that she would not survive and would become the kind of flesh and blood slime that Gao Hai had seen in his second playthrough.

This kind of attack at its root cannot be defended against or resisted, even if Gao Hai himself were to do it. But even so, at least for this moment, the players' will has not been completely extinguished.

【Oh oh oh oh oh——】

Amidst the horrific screams, the deformed body of the former fanatic was captured by flesh and blood and dragged down into the pool of blood beneath the ruins.

The consciousnesses possessing this body rushed to escape, while some, unwilling to accept defeat, summoned some kind of power in their final desperate roars, making the light that was eroding the crimson domain even more vibrant.

"No... I can't hold on much longer..."

Kaguya Shinomiya was the first to approach her limit.

The crimson domain she summoned was slightly weaker, and now, on the overlapping crimson domain, her portion began to show cracks of varying sizes. Meanwhile, her own consciousness began to suffer increasingly severe damage.

"Hold on a little longer, just a little longer."

Gao Hai stared intently at the collapsed ruins, now riddled with a large crater from the continuous bombardment. He couldn't care less about anything else now; he had to get the mirror shard. As the last crucial item that Yeluoshan Middle School hadn't yet obtained, the last crucial clue that hadn't yet been grasped, this was the only thing he absolutely had to get his hands on now. He couldn't afford to fail!

Goto Ichiri has stopped playing.

The continuous use of the Crimson Moon-level core artifact has resulted in an enormous drain on her energy. The girl is now nearing the end of her life and can no longer stand up, even while sitting on the ground.

However, she actually had a little bit of strength left.

The last bit was enough strength to support her in doing one last thing.

There's nothing left to hesitate about, isn't there?

Plant the seed in his mind, plant the seed in the minds of everyone around him.

They are all Gao Hai's accomplices, all of them. Let's do it! There's no time to hesitate, let's get started!

The urging voices almost pierced my eardrums.

A strong urge compelled his body to stand up again.

There is no way to question it.

After the power of that seed was unleashed, Goto Ichiri was unable to truly question the voice, unable to develop a sense of "this is not my idea," and thus unable to eliminate the hidden danger through self-examination.

There was no way to call for help.

As one of the final products of Takamagahara's decades-long research in search of a way to escape, the power of the seed destroys the girl's ability to call for help, suppressing all her thoughts and leaving her to endure mental anguish and distortion alone.

Spread the seeds.

Those voices were gradually crushing her consciousness.

By spreading these seeds, he can complete his revenge and avenge his friend Kita Ikuyo, who was killed by Takami.

It was as if her own voice was earnestly pleading with her.

There was no other choice.

She must decide now whether to choose revenge, or...

Click——click——

Gao Hai's Crimson Domain has finally reached its limit. The power of the blessing is still somewhat lacking compared to the power of the entire dungeon, especially at this moment when everything is going crazy. It is already a miracle that he has been able to hold on for so long.

In those blood-soaked pools, Gao Hai dug out his own body, as well as the bodies of others.

As he dug deeper, he even unearthed the corpses of those fanatics. Or more accurately, he unearthed something projected from the power of the blood pool, reflected in the atrium of the main teaching building. After all, these players, who had obtained the identity of [Overseer], were essentially "ammunition packs" located above the blood pool area in Bydos. Therefore, as a corresponding projection, they would naturally exist in the soil of the atrium above the blood pool in the underground base.

Unexpectedly, a mystery was solved at this time, but unfortunately, he couldn't care less about it.

"..."

Kaguya Shinomiya sat down on the ground silently.

Part of the originally thick, blood-red domain disappeared, Kaguya's domain shattered, and the girl fell into a state of near brain death due to the violent backlash, at which point she was not much different from a vegetable.

Gao Hai's nose, eyes, ears, and mouth began to bleed, and his domain was about to shatter.

It seemed as if one could hear the students' malicious laughter.

Outside the realm, one could see illusory shadows of students, watching them, who were still struggling, with malicious intent.

This purest malice, forged from blood, is like a ravenous wolf, about to pounce and devour the living.

Bang!

However, before the realm collapsed, what exploded first were the rubble and soil that buried the blood pool.

An arm, almost completely dissolved, emerged from the rubble, clutching a small shard of mirror, and extended it toward Gao Hai.

Don't... lose...

Takami couldn't hear clearly what Hayashibe Kenta was shouting.

He lunged forward almost frantically, grabbing the seemingly ordinary yet terrifying shard of mirror, and immediately activated the power of the black watch to capture it and seal it inside.

The next second, a scarlet light unfolded from behind Gao Hai.

Has someone launched an attack?

In an instant, Gao Hai’s consciousness sluggish, but he quickly regained it.

He looked behind him, at the silently shattering crimson domain, at the rescue team members who had been grabbed and torn apart on the spot by those crimson malices, at the police officer Howard who had been shot and forced back by those crimson humanoid monsters, at Maki who had her leg torn off, at Kaguya who was rushing forward with him, and at the farthest point, at Goto Ichiri who was sitting on the ground beside Aoyama Nanami who was almost fully recovered.

Mr. Gao, please, I choose to believe you. Please lead everyone and get out of this instance alive.

The girl plucked the strings the next moment, deliberately playing a wrong note.

【No!!!!!】

An incredulous, frenzied roar echoed from somewhere outside the crimson realm, seemingly the cry of someone whose plans had gone awry and who was driven to despair.

Fine lines of blood appeared on the girl's body, then tore open.

The old guitar was instantly stained with blood, and then something illusory emerged from the guitar, suddenly becoming real.

The core obsession of the Red Moon level has emerged.

Completely unrestrained, just like the completely out-of-control Red Moon-level core obsession that Takami once encountered with Chiyo Hachiya, it manifested directly in this underground space.

hum-

The mirror shard entered the watch's storage space in the next moment.

The arm that was the last condensation of Hayashibe Kenta's will was then completely transformed, dissolving from the shape of a human hand into a writhing mass of rotten flesh.

Gao Hai stood up amidst the collapsed ruins. He was completely surrounded by a dense mass of students in blood-red school uniforms, leaving no gaps whatsoever.

Chapter 139: The Re-achieved Fusion and the Declaration of Judgment

No! No! No! No!

The desperate howls hadn't stopped yet; it was as if some idiot had escaped from a mental hospital, and was making a racket like someone was wailing at a funeral.

How annoying.

Gao Hai only felt the noise, and he felt extremely irritated, so irritated that he felt like he was about to explode.

The deaths of Hayashibe Kenta and Nanakawa Ren, both players from the [Red Society], were to be expected, given their choice to enter the Blood Pool to retrieve the mirror fragments. It was a guaranteed death situation; if the ceiling hadn't collapsed, one death might have been enough. Now, both of them have perished. However, there's nothing that can be done about it. It's impossible to expect that guy, Jianbing, to actually pull off a one-for-three feat; frankly, his ability to trade two kills was already a huge help.

Kaguya is dead now, but brain death is nothing to worry about, so her condition is alright. At least she's not in much pain, which is good. However, if I used my mental blessing to protect her consciousness beforehand... then I would be distracted, and multitasking would slow me down, so I might not be able to dig through the collapsed area immediately.

The real princess is still by his side, but given her condition, she probably won't last much longer; her lifespan can only be measured in seconds.

Hayasaka's condition is unknown; her body is currently unprotected, and her chances of survival are slim. As for Aoyama Nanami, almost all of her obsessions are gone, leaving her practically a blank slate. She should be recovering by now, right? She seems quite paranoid; I wonder how she'll view the current situation.

As for Goto Ichiri, although she was always prepared to be betrayed by her, did she ultimately choose to sacrifice herself?

What's going on? Doing something like this... You might as well just give me a quick death...

anger.

I could feel the anger filling my chest.

Such powerless anger.

That was the uncontrollable outburst of emotions from a teacher who was a "nothingness" when faced with the death of a student.

That was the overwhelming emotion that Takahashi, as a human, couldn't suppress when constantly facing the deaths of his teammates, and when everyone was doing their best to help him achieve that perfect Happy End.

Even if all of this were eventually reversed, and all the pain could be restored to the moment it never happened, he still felt a surge of anger boiling in his chest, and he still felt a violent emotion constantly washing over his brain.

He never wanted to see such a thing happen.

Gao Hai knew very well that he wasn't a selfless person with great love. He couldn't unconditionally help strangers, nor would he be moved to tears by the tragic fate of someone he didn't know; at most, he would only feel a pang of sympathy. His heart was only open to those who helped him, to those who were willing to be kind to him. Only those willing to give to him, Gao Hai believed, had an obligation and responsibility to give back to.

But how can one pay a price equivalent to death?

He will be resurrected, he will rewind, he will start everything anew, he can make everything without regrets.