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

Chapter 40: A Shattered and Reassembled Self and an Unprecedented Enemy

Thinking has stalled.

I can't feel anything.

I am not aware of anything.

I can't understand anything.

They couldn't even understand the fact that they had stopped thinking.

Love her, accept her.

And so they were plunged into endless nothingness.

I was plunged into complete darkness by that gentle voice.

nothingness.

Only nothingness.

Nothingness is the absence of anything.

Let's love her forever, let's love her forever.

My self is shattered.

I thought my unbreakable consciousness had been completely severed.

Everything is now shattered.

It can never be restored to its complete form.

I can no longer recall what it used to look like.

[Love...love...a%＃？＆*！ ……`..]

I know nothing anymore.

Floating in this boundless darkness.

It was gradually stripped into fragments in this endless void.

nothingness.

In the end, there is only pure nothingness.

Finally, it merged into the boundless darkness...

Click!

Then I heard that voice.

It rang in my ears with crystal clarity, like the ticking of a mechanical watch.

The color scarlet.

The color of the starry sky.

The shattered city was submerged in blood red.

Countless stars converged in the darkness.

At the edge of the horizon, on that boundless wilderness, a silver door stands silently.

And on his wrist was a key.

"……what."

Gao Hai opened his eyes.

The first thing I noticed was chaos.

The confused calls gradually faded, forcibly repelled by some force.

Consciousness is like something that has been torn apart and then pieced back together.

The cracks continued to spread and expand.

The nervous system is unable to properly control its own body.

The internal organs have lost their normal function.

The blood and muscles are becoming increasingly disordered.

Spasm.

epilepsy.

Severe dizziness.

Then came the vomiting.

"Ugh... Ugh... Ugh..."

Tears, snot, and saliva all flowed down his face.

The disordered nerves sent waves of excruciating pain, like being slowly sliced ​​to death, which then transformed into a variety of chaotic emotions under the completely disordered brain function. Visual ability would sometimes return, sometimes reverse, and sometimes be lost. The ability to distinguish colors would also disappear and then reappear. The bones of the limbs would even break directly under the violent trembling and twisting, and then heal again.

I can't stand up.

Even the basic concept of "standing" could not be extracted from brain function for a while.

The heart stopped beating.

Blood flow throughout the body and the function of internal organs also become abnormal due to disordered thinking and brain function.

incontinence.

I can no longer feel any changes or reactions in my body.

pain.

pain.

Endless suffering.

As soon as there is even the slightest sign of sensory recovery, I am overwhelmed by unbelievably intense pain.

Dense cracks spread all over his body, like shattered glass being forcibly pieced back together; every breath was a prelude to collapse.

But they won't die.

Beneath the silent, blood-red city, Gao Hai's body still writhed.

It's hard to say whether this stemmed from his physical instincts or from his conscious act of piecing himself back together after being torn apart.

But in this place, he certainly won't die.

In this silent, blood-red world, he can continue to live no matter what.

The heart will resume beating soon after it stops beating due to paralysis.

The twisted bones will heal themselves.

Even if all the organs and nerve tissues in the body are constantly malfunctioning as if they're going crazy, once damage and necrosis occur, these parts will be quickly repaired and restored to a completely normal state.

This horrific ordeal had been going on for more than ten hours, over and over again.

"Uh..."

Gao Hai's lungs were filled with the stomach acid he vomited.

The burning pain made his eyes widen.

Slowly, reach out your hand.

He crawled forward one step with difficulty, then another, before falling into a near-mad convulsion.

The unfocused pupils slowly refocused.

"Oh...oh oh..."

Unable to produce normal sounds.

He simply reached out his hand once again.

It crawled one more step.

The silent, blood-red city remained unchanged.

Beneath the dim, blood-red light, only a struggling, writhing figure was enacting a silent drama of excruciating torture.

"what……"

It took Gao Hai ten days to relearn how to crawl and control some basic bodily functions, such as holding his urine.

"Haah...haah..."

After another month and a half, he regained some basic thinking abilities and gradually suppressed the disorder between his mental power and brain, and his thinking gradually returned to the state of a ten-year-old child.

"I am... Gao Hai... I am Gao Hai... I am Gao Hai... I am Gao Hai..."

After another twenty days, his soul and body finally achieved a complete match. Or rather, after his shattered soul was reassembled, it finally recovered to the point where it could correspond normally to the functions of the various parts of his body, and his will was finally fully restored.

"The four true concubines, Fujiwara Chika, Yotsuya Miko, Hayasaka Ai, Shinomiya Kaguya, Goto Ichisato, Kita Ikuyo... The four true concubines, Fujiwara Chika..."

After about a week, Gao Hai's consciousness returned to its peak. His self-awareness, personality, memories, and so on were all fully restored, leaving no hidden dangers.

It took Gao Hai nearly three months to fully recover, a situation clearly unprecedented. The reason why even with the power of the black watch restoring him, he still experienced such severe side effects was simple: this was the first time Gao Hai had died with his consciousness completely destroyed. The complete collapse of his soul and body led to a chaotic state after his resurrection, where his consciousness and body were not fully in sync. A certain power within the eerie blood flower had an unimaginable impact on Gao Hai, a power that could not be eliminated even after his resurrection. He could only gradually adapt, slowly enduring the ordeal thanks to the consciousness repaired by the black watch.

The difficulty of this process is hard to describe in words, but Gao Hai eventually pulled through.

Although it took a considerable amount of time and effort, he eventually survived the corrosive power and miraculously recovered.

My willpower seems to have increased?

Although he was still somewhat weak, Gao Hai could vaguely sense that he had not only survived a terrifying death this time. Under the protection of the Blood City within the black watch, he not only endured the corrosive power of that strange force, but also, during the process, he had already reached a level of willpower that even top-tier Red Moon level players could not achieve. At this moment, he surpassed that, reaching a completely new and unprecedented realm.

"call……"

Gao Hai slowly stood up from the ground, and it took him a while to regain his balance.

Click——click——

Cracks appeared on the ground beneath his feet, and rock fragments floated up into the air, as if the direction of gravity around Gao Hai had changed.