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

We absolutely have to get those two bastards out of here!

"Knife!"

Gao Hai stretched out his hand and called out to Zhenfei.

The sharp scalpel was then handed over, and Gao Hai stepped forward, slashing at the man. Although the obsessive scalpel didn't look big, the wound it left was much larger than its size, so much so that Gao Hai severed both of the creature's legs, causing its upper body to fall to the ground.

"Li Youcai, pay me back!"

Gao Hai shouted and tried to kick the thing's leg, attempting to drive it away. But the moment he touched the man's leg, a sharp pain, accompanied by the burning sensation of boiling water, spread through him, forcing Gao Hai to take a step back. Ghost tales are always just ghost tales; even if they resemble humans, even if they speak human language, giving the impression that they can be communicated with, their essence remains unchanged.

I have no money... I... I don't owe you any money?

The man whose legs had been severed was restored to normal in the next instant.

Its bewildered expression, triggered by Gao Hai's shouts, is gradually changing, slowly returning to its original fierce appearance.

But the next moment, Gao Hai grabbed it around the waist and pushed it out of the door. The two figures rolled together in the ruins outside the door of 309, which had been tilted into a slope.

Gao Hai stood up, and boiling water appeared on his rescue team uniform, then quickly disappeared.

Immediately following behind was another muffled thud, as Kaguya, also dressed in a rescue team uniform, rushed out, knocking the woman away. In mid-air, she spun around and kicked the woman, sending her tumbling into the rubble.

"The Blood Puppet is almost at its limit. If it continues, it will go out of control. The Badge can last for 30 seconds."

Kaguya, who had just landed, took a deep breath and, with some difficulty breathing, quickly explained the situation to Takami.

"I can hold out for a little over a minute. Keep them far away and don't let them get near this door! Zhenfei, provide backup for Sun Dajun and the others!"

Gao Hai spoke to Kaguya and began to rush forward. At this moment, he saw Mamael helping Sun Dajun rush over. He shouted to Maki, who was also running out of the gate behind him, and then went up to the man in front of him again, punching him hard in the middle of his nose and knocking him to the ground.

Unlike before, when he wears the badge and manifests the rescue team uniform, he will be more inclined towards ghost stories. At this time, although he cannot kill other ghost stories, he can affect them instead of getting injured when he encounters them as before.

[Laozi's...daughter...]

The man's expression was becoming increasingly agitated, slowly recovering from the stagnation caused by Gao Hai's words.

"You old bastard, die!"

Gao Hai suddenly delivered a flying kick, knocking the man down once again, causing him to roll down the rubble a short distance.

[Rat...rat...]

On the other side, Kaguya leaped high into the air, clamping her legs around the woman who was howling and trying to charge forward. With a twist of her body in mid-air, she sent the woman flying into the air and flying far away, rolling through the ruins and falling a great distance, more than three times the distance that Gao Hai had pushed the man back.

"Haijun, Auntie, hurry up!"

Zhenfei had already led the two men into the house. Without giving them much advice, she directly led Sun Dajun and Mamaier into the small bedroom.

Because the parents had already left 309, the two entered very smoothly and disappeared directly inside the door, escaping the game that was on the verge of collapse.

Instead of following them inside, the girl turned around without hesitation and ran to the gate, calling out to Takami and Kaguya.

At this moment, Gao Hai punched the man again, knocking him to the ground. Then, Kaguya pulled a pitchfork left by some resident from the ruins and pierced the man's chest, pinning him to the ground. Only then did the two of them see Maeda Miwa, who was running out of breath.

"Move quickly!"

Gao Hai shouted at Maeda, the woman. At this moment, Kaguya, who was standing next to him, was nearing her limit and had to take off her badge and the rescue team uniform that had appeared out of thin air, panting heavily.

With only about 20 or 30 seconds left, Gao Hai didn't hesitate. He simply picked up the exhausted and mentally drained Kaguya and rushed towards the door.

"Wait, wait for me!"

Maeda was running breathlessly behind her, but Takami dared not wait for her. He knew that the surrounding ruins were collapsing more and more violently, and the completely dark void area had spread to a distance of at most a few hundred meters around, and this distance was still shrinking.

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

As Zhenfei called out, she tried to get down to help, but she stumbled after taking only one step.

Boom——

The ruins surrounding the gate of 309 are gradually tilting.

The increasingly severe collapse caused the ruins to fall and dissipate in all directions, and the entire ruins gradually began to sink.

Realizing something was wrong, Maki turned around and found that the door to room 309 was hanging in mid-air, floating about half a meter above the ground, and this height was constantly increasing.

If this continues, it will be too late to escape!

"Move quickly!"

Once again, Maki shouted and jumped onto the door of 309. Her eyes searched the room quickly. Then she pushed over a large cabinet and used it to hold the door in place. Next, she ripped down a curtain from one side of the living room, tied one end to the cabinet handle, and threw the other end down towards Kaguya Takami and her companion who were running towards her.

At this point, the distance between the ground and the gate of 309 had increased to more than five or six meters, which was almost the height of two stories.

The entire ruins are constantly sinking.

Falling into this boundless darkness, dissipating, until utterly returning to nothingness.

Only the gate to 309 stands high in the sky, still radiating light from within, like the only salvation in this hell.

Gao Hai finally reached the open space below 309, leaped up, grabbed the curtains, and with a burst of strength in his other hand, used the power of the rescue team badge to throw Kaguya into the air, directly to the door of 309. Then, Maki reached out and grabbed her, pulling Kaguya into the room.

Then, Gao Hai, who was also nearing his limit, took off his badge, took a few deep breaths to adjust himself, and then climbed upwards with all his might. He quickly climbed to the vicinity of the gate, where Maki and Kaguya reached out and pulled him up.

Only then did Maeda Miwa finally reach the bottom of 309, and with a desperate leap, she managed to grab the curtains, but she no longer had the strength to climb up.

"Help me, help me!"

Maeda, who could only hang from the curtains, couldn't help but cry out loudly.

"Damn it, he's still a complete liability..."

Gao Hai cursed, having no intention of rescuing Maeda Miwa, and instead intending to forcibly drag Maki Kaguya inside. But before he made this decision, he noticed that Green, who should have been dead, twitched a few times on the side of the room, tore off the stitches on his body, and stood up.

Oops!

In the midst of dealing with that despicable couple, the three of them, including Shimotaka and Umi, failed to notice Green's corpse and forgot about the strange events that would occur with the corpse at Shirakawa Apartment.

It's so late, why aren't you going to sleep? This isn't the behavior of a good child.

A strange, distorted tone came from Green's mouth.

This man, whose body was covered in severe burns and densely covered with stitches, spoke in a coy, feminine manner, much like the girl's mother, who was worse than an animal.

Is it the embodiment of the "Mother" under the distorted rules of the apartment itself, or a change in the consciousness of the residents distorted by pollution? At this critical moment, Gao Hai didn't have time to think about what this thing was, but he was certain that, just like the fake Kaguya in the first playthrough, this thing must not be given any fatal or unconscious injuries, otherwise its combat power would be greatly enhanced.

And this fake Green... his injuries seem to be fatal? After all, he seemed to have just died.

boom!

Before Gao Hai could react, a gunshot rang out. Zhen Fei, who was in charge of keeping Lao Guo's backpack, fired decisively, piercing Green's leg and causing him to stagger and kneel on the ground.

The next moment, Kaguya reacted, twisting her feet and using her waist to kick Green, sending him tumbling to the side of the gate.

Finally, Gao Hai, who had already moved towards the 309 gate, grabbed Green around the waist with both hands, and with a sudden backward tilt of his body, threw Green into the air with a standard German back throw, sending him flying out of 309.

"Aha……"

Kaguya, whose strength was completely depleted, knelt on the ground at this moment, almost unable to stand up.

Exhausted, Gao Hai leaned against the wall next to the door, panting heavily. He couldn't catch his breath for a long time, and his vision was blurry.

The intense exertion from the rescue team medals, the climbing, and the recent emergency struggle had left him feeling his lungs trembling as he breathed.

"We can't delay any longer, let's go."

The one in the best condition, Maki, helped Takami to his feet, and then helped Kaguya up. This was an extremely urgent moment; she knew there was no time to pity Maeda Miwa below. Her own survival had to be the priority, so she struggled to suppress her kindness.

"Yes, let's go, it's time to go."

Gao Hai leaned against the wall, smiled at Zhenfei, and started walking. The three of them headed towards the door.

Suddenly, Maeda Miwa screamed from below the door, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

A sense of foreboding washed over him. Gao Hai turned his head and saw a black arm suddenly reach in from outside the door, hurtling towards Kaguya at high speed.

Click——

It seemed as if the sound of a tolling bell could be heard.

Those who turn the hands and travel back in time will be cursed by the apartment's power and will establish a connection with the apartment.

That connection made the person dialing the clock see the clock as a human head, but what else was involved, Gao Hai never knew.

But now, seeing these black arms, seeing the black arms that had once taken him and Maki away, he suddenly realized something.

It was something that arose from the resentment of the deceased who could never leave the apartment, combined with the apartment's rules.

In the first playthrough, Maki had a superficial interaction with the deceased through a letter, which led to her being attacked and taken to the third floor. At that time, she turned the clock, something that most of the deceased in Shirakawa Apartment had done, which made Takami a target as well, and he was also dragged to the third floor.

The people who turned the clock in this loop were Maeda Miwa and Kaguya.

This black arm doesn't seem to kill directly, but it can move people to extremely dangerous places, such as moving him and Maki to the third floor, or taking Maeda and Kaguya away from the escape route.

Gao Hai reached out and pushed Zhen Fei, shoving the unprepared girl into the brightly lit bedroom.

The next moment, he reached out and grabbed Kaguya's arm, then with his other hand, he grabbed Kaguya's collar. He and Kaguya were then pulled out of the room by the black arm, thrown out of 309, and thrown into the increasingly smaller ruins below, which were now only about a hundred meters in size.

"Are you an idiot? You could just ignore Maeda's life or death, so why are you bothering with me now?!"

This unexpected development caused Kaguya's expression to change drastically, and she couldn't help but scold Takami.

"Isn't this a very simple principle? She did me no favors, while you are a true comrade who helped me and advanced alongside me. I can be ruthless to a stranger I've only met once, but if I can't even save the person who truly helped me, what's the point of me even if I clear the game?"

Gao Hai grinned as he spoke, and then the two of them fell to the ground, landing right on a dusty bed.

On the other side, Maeda, who had also been thrown off, landed on a bed. He was howling as he climbed off the bed, trying to run back to the door of 309, but he discovered in despair that he was now more than ten meters away from the curtains hanging on the door, making it impossible for him to get up.

"Completely incomprehensible...utterly meaningless..."

On the other bed, Kaguya, who had just sat up from Takahashi's embrace, took a deep breath in annoyance and stared at him as she spoke in a low voice, which sounded quite resentful.

Incomprehensible.

I simply cannot understand this man.

Is there really any point in doing this?

Kaguya, who follows the teachings of the Shinomiya family and believes in the absolute use of others and the inability to reciprocate with true feelings, cannot understand why Takami chose to die here with her when she was capable of surviving on her own.

Does doing this really make any sense?

"Just consider me a fool who's risking my life to pick up girls, although I haven't decided yet whether I should just hang myself on Maki's tree. Anyway, cough cough, I've slightly exposed myself, so please be a little more mindful of your image, Miss Shinomiya."

Gao Hai coughed lightly and looked away.

Only then did Kaguya notice that because Takami had grabbed her collar too forcefully, part of her collar had been torn, revealing her collarbone, one shoulder, and...