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

No, I can't activate the power of the object of my obsession.

The village I'm in now is not [Li Family Village].

If this isn't Lijia Village, then what village is it, and what should it be called?

“These people’s memories have been fragmented and altered. There’s no point in continuing to look. Let’s move out.”

Gao Hai, vaguely realizing something, spoke to the Taoist priest beside him, casually throwing something at the terrified villagers in the corner, while speeding up and running out of the Li family compound. He then quickly spread his spiritual energy outwards to monitor the situation outside the village.

This village is not on Xiaoheishan Mountain.

Once his mental energy extended beyond the village's boundaries, Gao Hai immediately realized that the natural scenery outside the village was different from the primeval forest at the foot of Xiaoheishan Mountain; the undulating mountains and their orientations were completely different as well.

But that's not the point.

The key point is that when Gao Hai extended his mental power to its limit and crossed more than ten kilometers of mountain road to reach the other side of the mountain, he felt a flat road.

Yes, this village is not located dozens of kilometers deep into the primeval forest.

This village, inhabited by many strange villagers, is located near the border between the forest mountains and the plains. As a result, these villagers can easily disguise themselves as bandits and lurk along the trade routes at any time. They will rob any passing merchant they see, taking money, tools, rare treasures, women, and anything useful that they can steal.

"A puppet... no, a tool?"

Gao Hai finally understood the situation of the villagers to some extent.

The real village is deep in the mountains, making it unrealistic for its villagers to escape and rob passing merchants. Aside from anything else, simply traversing that vast forest would be a challenge for many. Therefore, a second village exists—a fake one, born after seeking divine protection, intricately connected to the real village, capable of killing outsiders and passing merchants for its villagers, selecting valuable items for them, and automatically resurrecting regardless of whether they live or die—a puppet village.

This "Li Ziyong" only has three years of memories. Perhaps it's because three years ago, this fake village was wiped out by the government or bandits, so the resurrected Li Ziyong forgot what his predecessor did and had to start accumulating memories and experiences from scratch. The other villagers are the same; if they encounter a threat they can't defeat, they run away. If they can't escape and die, they are resurrected and recreated after a while through the power of the strange creatures. That's all there is to it.

What's going on? These villagers seem to know far too many tricks up their sleeves. And to create and maintain such a dubious fake village, it can only be the result of the intervention of the Mountain God or the Fox Goddess. Hmm... considering the names the villagers are calling out, it must be the Fox Goddess, right? Sigh, this is getting more and more confusing.

As he pondered, a mental link rang in Gao Hai's ears; it was a communication from Zhen Fei.

{Haijun, how's the situation over there?}

The girl's voice sounded somewhat worried. Even though he wasn't in front of her, Gao Hai subconsciously smiled and told her there was nothing to worry about. Before Gao Hai and Maki could continue their conversation, Chika's call came in.

{Ah Hai, Ai, she discovered something; something strange seems to have appeared outside the village.}

Chika's voice was very serious, and it was clear that there was a significant problem.

Immediately afterwards, Gao Hai received a picture through the mental link. It was Qianhua's perspective transmitted through the mental link, which clearly showed simple wreaths being placed one by one outside the village, with the word "奠" (meaning "offering" or "condolence") written in large black ink everywhere.

Funeral?

{Ms. Goto's clone has found the [Historian], and the paper figures are besieging them.}

Before Gao Hai could think further, Maki's communication rang again. This time, it was Goto Ichiri's operation that had yielded results. The three players of the "Historian" team, who had disappeared somewhere, were finally caught up by the clone. Upon arrival, the clone saw hundreds of paper figures surrounding the three players from all sides, creating a truly grand scene.

However, Gao Hai still couldn't offer any opinions or make any more detailed observations about the situation here.

Because something even more compelling entered his senses at that moment.

"Something's wrong, something's wrong! I didn't anticipate this thing's appearance. This isn't right, this is completely wrong. This isn't the rule for strange creatures; someone's playing tricks! Mr. Gao, please be careful, something terrible might be happening. Something very dangerous is coming from outside."

At this moment, the Taoist priest Li Nianyou's expression was extremely ugly. He stared intently at the door and swallowed hard.

Gao Hai, who also sensed that thing, looked up and turned his gaze over. He saw a bright red bridal sedan chair placed in the courtyard, with two paper figures with colorful makeup standing on either side of the chair, one of them holding onto one side of the chair's curtain.

slam-la-

The moment Gao Hai looked over, the curtain of the sedan chair automatically parted, and then a dark red figure emerged from inside.

tick tock...tick tock...

A cold, dripping sound of water could be heard dripping down beside my ears.

call……

On the cheeks, which were tightly stitched together, a faint airflow was released as the broken facial features writhed.

The thing raised its hand, a small hand with long, bluish-purple fingernails, and stretched it out towards Gao Hai.

As Gao Hai himself sensed this terrifying aura, facing the overwhelming and eerie presence, he could only utter a few words in a daze:

"Nullification, activated."

The power of the blessing took effect instantly, blurring Gao Hai's body.

The enhancement-type obsession items also activated one by one, bringing further improvement to Gao Hai at this moment.

Then, Gao Hai grabbed the hand that the strange creature had reached out.

Gao Hai grabbed it with his left hand and pulled it aside to expose the front of the monster. Then Gao Hai summoned his right hand, raised it, clenched it into a fist, and assumed an attack posture.

Boom! ! !

The next moment, a heavy fist tore through the air with a loud bang, smashing the thing's head open with a single punch.

Chapter 61: The Combination Technique of Nihilization and Future Transmission, and the Growth of Individuals

The crimson color is blooming.

Incoherent babbling spread through the dimly lit house.

The monstrous creature with its shattered head swayed, but was not deterred by Gao Hai's attack. Instead, it reached out again, trying to grab the other party.

But Gao Hai simply raised his fist again and knocked the thing that had come closer away with a single blow.

Bang! ! !

The force, far exceeding human limits, sent the monster flying, crashing into the first-floor ceiling and shattering it completely. It then smashed through the second-floor wall and landed in the courtyard outside.

The dark red wedding dress was covered in dust, and the monster itself was bent over, its spine broken in two by Gao Hai's punch.

"call……"

With a soft cry, Gao Hai looked down at his fist. His arm was now covered in swollen, festering marks, clearly indicating that the strange creature's power was beginning to affect him. The next moment, Gao Hai grabbed his arm and, with a tearing sound, ripped his hand off, blood spurting out immediately.

The power of the rescue team badge immediately took effect, and the new arm grew rapidly. In just a few seconds, Gao Hai's hand was restored to its original state without any trace of injury, and the original traces of the monster's power also disappeared without a trace.

"what……"

The Taoist priest standing nearby stared wide-eyed, his expression one of disbelief.

From the moment this terrifying creature suddenly appeared and launched its attack to the moment Gao Hai countered with two punches and knocked it down, less than five seconds had passed.

Li Nianyou was certain that the aura of that thing was undoubtedly possessed by a Crimson Moon-level monster.

Such monsters should be something players should never be able to confront head-on. Once encountered, they should only try their best to limit and avoid them through items of obsession and blessings, or use the power of the rules to avoid the danger of being hunted down.

But Gao Hai's actions were completely different.

In less than five seconds, he directly confronted the terrifying creature he had just encountered and engaged in a head-on confrontation. Moreover, he gained the upper hand in the confrontation and actually managed to repel it.

Even if such physical damage is largely meaningless to the monster—it could regenerate even if Gao Hai reduced it to ashes—this level of physical damage is still enough to temporarily weaken a physical monster, buying time for the two to proceed. The question is, how did he do it? Unlike dungeons like Teng Hua Middle School where you can find special items targeting dungeon monsters, such as the Alice's Machete, allowing players to use special weapons to wreak havoc, Gao Hai's actions just now were undoubtedly accomplished through his own strength, and that's the most incredible part.

Was it because some special rule was discovered?

But this strange creature has only just appeared. There's no way it could have broken the rules right away, right? Even with my precognitive abilities, I can't immediately see through the rules of a newly appeared strange creature. How did it manage to do that?!

Is the reason why Sister Xiongmi values ​​this young man so much because he possesses such incredible power?

After being tormented by the prophetic ability for months, Li Nianyou thought his battered heart was no longer capable of feelings like surprise and disbelief. But at this moment, in his first official collaboration with this man named Gao Hai, he was somewhat shocked.

Of course, Gao Hai himself was completely unaware of his thoughts.

Right now, he's just recalling the feeling of using the blessing ability, trying to feel that power more deeply.

To defeat the wedding dress-clad monster, the most crucial blessing needed is [Voidification]. This damage reduction skill might not seem significant normally, but its power becomes apparent in critical moments. Previously, against completely overpowered beings like the Mountain God and Blood Flower, the Voidification blessing wasn't very effective. However, when facing the Red Moon-level monster, this blessing truly demonstrated its strength, reducing the power of the rules by a full 50%, greatly mitigating the damage Gao Hai suffered.

Then, the second blessing effect that Gao Hai used was [Future Transmission], which is another effect of the blessing that [Teacher] gave to Gao Hai, the ability to send items wrapped in spiritual power to a future point in time.

At first, Gao Hai wasn't quite sure how to use this ability. He considered sending the summoned bombs into the future to achieve a cumulative explosion, and he also thought about sending important items that he couldn't immediately obtain to the future. But these were just ideas; in practice, Gao Hai couldn't find the right time to use this blessing. Until just now, until that strange creature attacked.

When Gao Hai saw this thing coming towards him and was preparing to dodge, a thought suddenly came to his mind.

If [Future Transfer] requires complete envelopment of mental energy, what effect would it have if this blessing were used when mental energy was insufficient to completely envelop the item to be transferred?

As proof of this idea, Gao Hai punched the monster with the protruding face.

The simple, straightforward physical attacks, combined with the power of annihilation, were ultimately ineffective in defeating this strange creature dressed in a wedding gown.

However, Gao Hai enveloped his fist with his greatly enhanced mental power after the mutation, and activated the blessing of future transmission the moment this mental power came into contact with the monster's head.

At that moment, Gao Hai felt his brain was hit by a significant shock, and his thoughts went blank for a moment.

The direct contact between his mental energy and the Red Moon-level monster naturally caused astonishing damage. If his mental energy hadn't become much stronger, Gao Hai estimated that his reckless actions would have resulted in a rather miserable end. But there are no "ifs" in this world. Gao Hai didn't care about this level of mental impact at all. He didn't even show any signs of it, like a symbolic nosebleed, and simply withstood the corrosive impact.

He survived, but the monster could not.

The mental energy that did not completely envelop the monster's head tore its skull apart the instant the future teleportation was activated.

Because Gao Hai used his mental energy to envelop his fist in the attack and utilized the spatial transfer properties of the void, his mental energy spread throughout the monster's head, inside and out, in that instant. The moment the power of future teleportation was activated, this mental energy became the carrier of the blessing power, tearing all the monster's connected body tissues from its original body and carrying them to the future.

Gao Hai set the teleportation time to be within 0.1 seconds after punching the monster.

In less than a tenth of a second, the torn head reappeared in the real world. But the creature's head had shifted in that brief moment, meaning the original body tissues could no longer perfectly align with the missing parts of its head. Rotten flesh, organs, and bones squeezed directly into the creature's head, clashing instantly with the existing structures that occupied its space, resulting in the head exploding and turning it into a headless bride.

The combination of two non-aggressive blessing effects achieved a cruel and terrifying result at this moment. Even the user, Gao Hai, had not expected that this combination could produce such powerful force, and was stunned for a moment.

With his second punch, Gao Hai demonstrated even greater skill in using this combination of blessings. He landed a blow on the creature's waist, his mental energy penetrating its body and using instantaneous future teleportation to shatter its spine, instantly breaking it in half.

Achieving this effect through pure physical attack alone would be nearly impossible. A strange creature is still a strange creature; even if it appears to have a physical form, it cannot be truly considered a living being. However, with the addition of supernatural blessing power, an effect that was previously difficult to achieve through physical attack is no longer impossible. As for the physical and mental trauma caused by this close-range attack, Gao Hai can only say that its power is too weak, posing absolutely no threat.

Unless I'm facing a Red Moon-level monster with a core obsession, I probably wouldn't need to care about its rules anymore and could just forcefully defeat it with my blessing power, right? Well, that doesn't seem entirely true. After all, I still have to consider cursed monsters and monsters with space-time transformation abilities. Even if I defeat these two types of monsters, there's a possibility of problems arising from triggering their abilities. From this perspective, I still have quite a few weaknesses.

Without realizing it, I have become stronger.

Gao Hai flexed his wrists, silently reflecting on the changes in himself.

"Let's go, it's time to go back. There's something going on in the village over there too."

After saying this to the Taoist priest, Gao Hai rushed out of the house, intending to return to the previous space through the well.

But as Gao Hai stepped into the courtyard, he saw more: red sedan chairs that had been placed around the courtyard at some point, paper figures being slowly lifted from the sedan chairs, and women in wedding dresses emerging from them.

The dark red color is spreading.

The eyes, nose, and mouth were sealed with needles and thread, the ears were plugged, the fingers and toes were all strung together with fine thread, and the body was covered with dense embroidery, stitching the festering skin together.

tick tock...tick tock...

Water was dripping from the bright red wedding dresses of the brides.