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

His attention was now entirely focused on connecting the various extraordinary powers he possessed. As he delved deeper into these connections, the cold sweat on Li Ziyong's face grew increasingly profuse.

The aura of the mountain god of Xiaoheishan Mountain can no longer be found; the thing that deeply bound his soul to the mountain god has vanished.

The connection between the wedding dress ghosts and the spirits was severed. He could no longer sense the wedding dress ghosts that were controlled by paper figures and their belongings after being sacrificed, not to mention the paper figures.

The corpses made by the Zhang family have also disappeared. No matter how hard he tries to sense them, he can't find any trace of them and doesn't know where they are.

There were also those who were once members of the Li family, but later lost their sense of self and became strange creatures for various reasons. The connection to these people remained faint, but Li Ziyong found he couldn't control them anymore. And this feeling… was strange. They should all be dead, but he felt as if they had come back to life. Those Li family members who had died seemed to have all come back to life.

Not right.

Something's definitely not right.

Li Ziyong suddenly felt short of breath. He had a strange feeling that what was about to happen would be even more terrible than he expected.

"Damn it, what's going on? What's going on?! What the hell is going on?!"

A desperate scream drew the attention of Li Ziyong and many villagers.

Li Ziyong looked up and quickly realized that the source of the voice was Mr. Du, the evil god believer named Du Jiahuan.

This man, who had been arrogant and dismissive of several players during his fourth playthrough, only to be defeated by Chika using the altar he had prepared, was now completely broken down, hysterically roaring as he floated in the darkness.

How could it be you?!

Li Ziyong was startled to see this man. He had always harbored deep jealousy and apprehension towards this man with various strange abilities who had helped him live for hundreds of years. Therefore, many years ago, he should have tried to kill him to eliminate any future troubles. Why had this guy reappeared today, and in the form of a living person rather than a monster?

Shocked, Li Ziyong was about to say something when he sensed another presence. He turned around and saw Chen Qiucai and his group. These treasure hunters had also returned to normal and, equally unaware of what had happened, searched the vicinity before noticing Li Ziyong's group and slowly approaching.

"Clan Chief Li, did you make this?"

Chen Qiucai, with a bewildered expression as if he had no idea what was going on, slowly approached Li Ziyong.

"You... that's right, it was a little trick, how about it? Are your men alright?"

Li Ziyong narrowed his eyes slightly at this, then a smile appeared on his face. He told lies without blushing or panting, and then slowly moved closer to Chen Qiucai.

"That's wonderful. It seems that Chief Li values ​​our cooperation very much."

Chen Qiucai smiled and said, closing the distance between himself and Li Ziyong to within thirty meters.

"Of course, of course, our Li family is the most trustworthy."

Li Ziyong also smiled enthusiastically and closed the distance between himself and Chen Qiucai to about twenty meters.

The next moment, the blood-red dice rolled out of Chen Qiucai's hand, only to be caught again, his palm revealing numbers. His companions then launched their attack, the power of various obsessive objects erupting violently in the dark space.

As expected, Li Ziyong waved his hand, and an unsuspecting villager was pulled in front of him by an invisible force. The villager screamed in agony as his body was torn and ulcerated, thus saving Li Ziyong from a calamity.

"Hey, you old ghost, you're still holding back even in this state? Killing you isn't that easy after all. Looks like I won my gamble again. But the Li family is the most trustworthy? Aren't you ashamed to say that? Did you put pigskin on your face?"

Chen Qiucai grinned and sneered as he launched a second wave of attacks with incredible speed. His voice was full of sarcasm.

"Being able to contribute to the Li family is a blessing you've earned in three lifetimes; most people don't even have this opportunity. It's your own incompetence and lack of appreciation that have led you to try and turn against the Li family, even trying to harm our honest and kind-hearted members. You outsiders are nothing but heartless trash."

However, Li Ziyong was no ordinary person. Even with the current situation unclear and fraught with doubt, he shamelessly shifted all the blame onto the other party, continuing to feign virtue and goodness. Of course, Li Ziyong himself didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said. Just like the Li family members under his leadership, hundreds of years had completely distorted their existence. If the Li family of several hundred years ago, while a group of villains, at least knew they were doing bad things, then the current Li family had reached a point where the idea that "it's wrong to harm others" was completely absent from their minds; they only felt that whatever bad things they did were perfectly justified.

"Ha, I've seen plenty of bad guys in my life, and I'm not exactly a saint myself, but I've never seen such rotten trash as you to the core before. Old man, have you hypnotized yourself? You dare call what you've done 'pure and kind'?"

Chen Qiucai laughed loudly, his expression turning fierce. His companions also showed no mercy, and several Red Moon level players went all out at this moment, instantly killing dozens of Li family villagers on the spot.

No, those villagers did not die.

Immediately after the attack was launched, Chen Qiu noticed that the villagers whose bodies had been ravaged by the power of the obsessive object had not died. Even though they were torn to pieces, frozen solid, or burned to a crisp, these villagers were still alive. They continued to tremble and endure their agony amidst their constant wails.

Is it because the power of the object of obsession is significantly weakened in this distorted space?

It doesn't seem to be entirely like that. These villagers seem to have always been in a state of being half-human, half-monster. It's just that they were previously protected by the power of the mountain god, so they looked more like living people. But now the entire instance has experienced a very serious collapse, so they are temporarily stuck on the middle line between humans and monsters. Therefore, they can neither possess the powerful supernatural abilities of monsters, nor can they die as easily as humans.

That sounds really good.

Chen Qiucai, who clearly remembered being captured and turned into a paper doll by Li Ziyong, had a fierce glint in his eyes. The other companions, who didn't understand the specifics of what was going on but knew that the Li family had broken ties with them, were not idle either. They used all sorts of power and methods to torture and kill the villagers.

Although Li Ziyong was almost unable to use his original methods, with the help of some tricks he had secretly learned from Mr. Du and the cooperation of other members of the Li family who came to help after discovering the problem, he was not completely powerless and was able to barely hold on against the attacks of several players.

As the instance world collapsed for unknown reasons, the Treasure Hunters and the villagers of Li Family Village, who had cooperated many times before, began a dogfight.

Despite their previous close relationship—the Treasure Hunters selling problematic, one-time-use items from the Infant Cry Village dungeon, promoting its existence, and providing sacrifices to the Li family, who in turn handed over the items from these sacrifices to the Treasure Hunters—the two groups had a remarkably close relationship before the dungeon was fixed, even jointly framing and killing many people. However, now the conflict between them seems irreconcilable. Even though the dungeon environment looks terribly wrong, they must first kill each other to determine a victor before considering their next move.

Mr. Du did not participate in this pointless fight.

After realizing his failure, and that his "obsession" with being separated from the cause and effect had actually vanished, he sensed an extremely terrifying possibility. Therefore, all he could think about now was how to escape from this place, how to leave here alive.

Perfect timing. If Li Ziyong is free, he'll definitely come looking for trouble. Let him continue his infighting with those other players. I'll go ahead and find a way to escape this place.

Thinking this, Mr. Du swam upwards a short distance, and then saw Gao Hai's face emerge from the darkness. At the same time, Gao Hai's large hand pressed down, landing on the top of Mr. Du's head.

tear-

The next second, Mr. Du's head, along with his spine, was easily ripped off his body by Gao Hai.

"Ughh ...

The unexpected situation, the excruciating pain, and the bizarre feeling of being unable to die caused Mr. Du to let out a scream.

"Don't shout, the neighbors still need to sleep."

Then Gao Hai tore off Mr. Du's jaw and threw it away, then ripped off his vocal cords and tongue. Now Mr. Du couldn't make a sound, and could only tremble slightly and stare wide-eyed to show the extreme pain he was enduring.

The girls did not follow Gao Hai, but were left in an area further up by Gao Hai under some pretext, waiting for the dungeon exit to appear so that he could find them in time.

The real reason he didn't want them to come was actually quite simple: Gao Hai didn't want the girls he liked to see his ruthless side towards enemies. Although his girls had grown considerably after so many dungeon missions, and wouldn't be overwhelmed even if they witnessed Gao Hai's violence, Gao Hai still preferred not to show them too much of his "Chinese transmigrator" side. That would be too un-Japanese, too un-youthful, and too unromantic.

That's enough of a face to show to your enemies.

As for the question of which side Gao Hai was referring to?

Of course, it can only be the side of "killing all the enemies without leaving any future troubles, even chopping up the dogs the enemy keeps, and digging up the earthworms underground and cutting them vertically."

"Cough cough!"

Gao Hai coughed suddenly, drawing the attention of the players and villagers who were still fighting nearby to the commotion.

"Fellow villagers, although you are not actually my fellow villagers, I will still ask politely if you have finished warming up?"

Holding Mr. Du's still trembling human-headed sheep scorpion, Gao Hai's smile was incredibly sunny.

"Let's get started as soon as we're done warming up."

"Sending all of you scum to hell one by one, and then destroying this instance, is going to be quite a rush for me."

In a casual manner, as if discussing what to eat after get off work, Gao Hai, floating in the dark space, slowly moved towards the villagers.

"Who the hell do you think you are? You think you're so great?"

Some villagers who didn't know Gao Hai directly retorted.

"Where the hell did this sacrifice come from, Chieftain? If we take his flesh and blood, will we be able to regain some of our strength?"

These villagers, eager to regain their extraordinary powers, licked their lips and looked at Gao Hai with greedy expressions.

"...You, it's you?!"

Li Ziyong, recalling his experience of being tortured by Gao Hai, turned pale instantly. Chen Qiucai, on the other side, also remembered what kind of person Gao Hai was and immediately lost all intention of continuing the fight, deciding to flee as well.

What happened next left Gao Hai somewhat amused and exasperated. He saw that the villagers who had initially been itching to attack him immediately scattered and fled in all directions after witnessing the leader's reaction. More than a thousand people ran in over a thousand different directions, their practiced movements clearly indicating this wasn't their first time.

That makes sense, though. These universally hated creatures are bound to encounter people they can't afford to mess with. So they certainly know exactly how to run away with their tails between their legs.

“If all the villagers were to run away separately, I must admit I wouldn’t be able to catch them all. After all, even a thousand pigs would be hard to catch once they started running.”

Gao Hai stood still and didn't chase after them. He just smiled and said with emotion.

"Fortunately, I'm not the only one who has a grudge against you."

"Although the power of the blood flower eliminated the power of the core obsession, the obsession of most of the monsters in the dungeon has not actually been eliminated."

"Dear children of the Li family, what do you think their obsession is?"

puff!

Amidst the splatter of blood, a female monster dressed in a wedding gown emerged from the darkness and ripped open a villager's throat.

"Waaaaah, don't come any closer!"

The pale, swollen infant ghost stretched out its hands, calling out "Mommy" as it hugged a wailing woman, and then tore a bowl-sized hole in her chest with its mouth.

"Stop! I order you to stop! Why isn't it working anymore? Waaaaaah—"

The grotesque creatures formed from the corpses of the villagers of Zhangjia Village also jumped out, completely ignoring the villagers' orders, grabbing one of them, and piercing through his chest with their ten fingers, puncturing both of his lungs.

More and more strange creatures are appearing.

Those who suffered the backlash and met their final end—the Liu family members whose bodies still bore the marks of parasitic vines even after the blood flowers disappeared; the caravan members who were ambushed and killed by the Li family's bandits; the opera troupe members who were skinned alive; the fleeing soldiers who were lured there and met a terrible end; the giant bear that was poisoned; and so on—more and more strange creatures, more and more blood debts owed by the Li family—all came back at this moment, surrounding them from all directions, giving them no chance to escape.

"No, no! It's not my fault! I didn't do anything wrong!"

"Chief, save me!"

"I am innocent! We are innocent! Mountain God, please save us!"

The villagers' screams rang out along with the sounds of flesh being torn apart.

Just as Gao Hai had predicted, even at the very last moment of their lives, these utterly distorted beings would never be capable of reflection. They would only genuinely believe that they were innocent, and no amount of reasoning could convince them. They were the kind of people who would never admit their mistakes even knowing they were about to die.

So there's no need to reason with them, why not just kill them?

"It's time to go to hell, the time is almost up."

As Gao Hai said this, he smiled brightly and slowly took a step forward.

Surrounded by strange creatures from all sides, only the area above Gao Hai's location remained relatively free of them. It seemed the deeper one went in this distorted space, the more strange creatures appeared, making Gao Hai's location a relatively safe place to break through.

Soon enough, hundreds of villagers who still had the strength to escape, along with the players mixed in among them, swam towards Gao Hai. Li Ziyong deliberately hid behind several villagers, trying to find an opportunity to escape from Gao Hai's side.

Subconsciously, Gao Hai decided to release aerial bombs to give these guys a modern shock.

But then he sensed something, and became aware of some obsessions that were still lingering in this instance space, obsessions that had not yet dissipated, but could not be fully activated for some reason.

No, they were already basically activated. After he placed the two wooden tablets of the Suppressor of Evil together, some invisible force generated, activating them to a certain extent. This activating force, because of its connection to the Mountain God, remained in this loop, but he hadn't had time to pay attention to it. Only now, only after he vaguely realized that he had completed the triggering of the final condition, did he finally understand this.

Although doing so would take away a lot of prey, as long as I can make sure that the few I want to kill the most get a turn in my hands, it's not impossible for everyone to participate and have some fun.

Now that he knew what he had to do, Gao Hai's smile became even more unrestrained than before.

The villagers, who were fleeing for their lives, did not notice Gao Hai's reaction. Or rather, even if they did notice, in order to avoid being tormented by those terrifying monsters, they could only grit their teeth and rush forward, and could only pray that they would be the lucky ones who went unnoticed.

Then, very quickly, they escaped from Gao Hai's side.