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

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Gao Hai saw a blurry image, like a door being opened.

Then, amidst the pungent smell of blood, he sensed something emanating from inside the door—something no less powerful than the core obsession of a Red Moon-level being, and perhaps even more terrifying and twisted.

I can't watch any longer.

Gao Hai himself was naturally unafraid of such polluted energy. For him now, [Strange Creatures] were outdated opponents; no matter how powerful they were, they could hardly pose a real threat to him. However, the Red Moon-level players who obtained clues through his mental link would find it difficult to withstand such pollution. He ultimately needed to pass this information on to them, and if he let it pass unchecked, it could potentially lead to deaths. He had to be cautious.

……Um?

It was at this moment that Gao Hai finally sensed the aura he was looking for.

Red Moon level core obsession.

In those wards, there was a patient, and in the cave of that patient, the aura of the core obsession of the Red Moon level was hidden.

The exact location is still unclear, and Gao Hai cannot exert too much power; at this moment, he can only vaguely sense something.

However, even if the specifics are still unclear, it can at least be confirmed that it is indeed a core obsession, one of the 30 constituent bases in this chaotic and distorted copy space.

As for which patient it was and how to correctly enter that patient's cave, that wasn't Gao Hai's concern. This task was for the Red Moon-level players who had obtained the relevant information.

[Well, it's about time we got out. We can't let you keep falling like this.]

Calm words appeared in the ears of all the players in the dark void the next second.

Xiong Mi and the lawyer, along with one of the rescue team members, were swept up by an invisible wind and flown towards an empty exit. On the other side, Yuan Shanming and the other two were also gathered together and sent to an exit along with another rescue team member.

After a brief period of teamwork, they dispersed again. In Gao Hai's opinion, gathering so many Red Moon-level players together was a bit of a waste. Besides, the Lazy Fish Gang and the Red Society didn't have much experience cooperating, and if they didn't coordinate well and something went wrong, it wouldn't be a good thing.

This time, as the space changed, Xiong Mi opened her eyes and found herself lying in a hospital room. It was a locked ward, clearly used to detain mentally ill patients with violent tendencies, with soft padding covering the floor, walls, and ceiling.

The door to this ward is now slightly ajar.

Where Xiong Mi was lying, behind her, at the deepest part of the ward, a table was placed, and a strong smell of blood was emanating from it.

Stand up.

Xiongmi quickly located the source of the bloody smell.

It was a human head.

Or perhaps two-thirds of the heads would be a more accurate description.

With the combined effect of various pipes, IV lines, and metal restraint devices, the head of a young boy who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, with one-third of his head cut off from the side, was placed on the table.

When Xiong Mi looked over, the boy's eyes followed. Strangely, he was still breathing, even though he had no body and his head was incomplete, with a clear piece of his brain missing. But he was indeed still breathing, his gaze was still moving around, and his flesh twitched occasionally, as if he could still think.

Xiong Mi walked up to the head and saw several blood-stained scalpels and other objects on the table, such as hammers and metal spikes, which were hard to distinguish as either torture instruments or medical devices.

These are all things we are obsessed with.

Although the intensity of their aura is very low, perhaps only at the level of a Twilight-grade obsession, these scalpels and various tools are indeed obsessions.

However, for a player of Xiong Mi's skill level, these kinds of items are practically useless. Some might sell them to lower-level players or give them away as gifts. But considering that these dungeons are backed by something like the [Hospital], it's hard to say whether using these items rashly could lead to any disastrous consequences.

There was also a medical record on the table.

Although the distorted text didn't look like a normal medical record at all, thankfully the content was still legible and not completely unreadable.

【Patient A-1107】

[Number: 355■■■■■ (Some digits are illegible)]

[Current Ward: K2]

[Preliminary Diagnosis:]

[Moderate anxiety symptoms]

Self-doubt, self-isolation, low self-esteem

[Rebellious, with serious conflicts with parents]

[Highly aggressive]

Current diagnosis:

The patient is no longer paying attention to the real world.

The patient's body is no longer affected by the surgery.

The patient hid in his hole and refused to come out.

【Diagnosis】

[Dig him out]

[Remove unnecessary body parts and locate the opening.]

He is still afraid of his father, and his father's belt and broom can trigger his pain.

He still misses his paintbrush, the paints and canvases he wants that can capture his attention.

Treatment Priority: High

Belt...broom...paint...canvas...

Xiong Mi's gaze lingered on a few seemingly important places for a moment, then she looked at the exposed, grayish-pink brain tissue on the human head, shook her head slightly, took the medical report, and turned to leave the room.

The lawyer was already standing outside, and in his hand were two documents that looked similar to the medical records Xiong Mi had.

"Of the three patients, one of whom is suspected of harboring the core obsession in the [cave]."

"Find that crucial hole, and maybe we can complete one-thirtieth of this job."

The lawyer, who was saying this, waved the medical record in his hand, his face as expressionless as ever.

Hope remains, and we will watch over them for eternity!

As for the rescue team members who were always acting crazy, Xiong Mi had gotten used to them shouting all sorts of nonsensical things by now, so she didn't pay much attention to their performance. She just took the documents from the lawyer and glanced at the mental hospital map in the corridor.

Hopefully, this map will be of some use.

Having experienced several spatial distortions, Xiong Mi couldn't help but think to himself.

Chapter Seventeen: An Unknown Hospital, Three Medical Records, and Two Empty Sides.

Splash—splash—

It's raining outside the window.

A chill seeped into the room through the windows, spreading throughout the dimly lit hall.

Xiong Mi's gaze swept over the empty registration area, now covered in a thick layer of dust, then looked at the half-open security room on the other side of the hall, and finally turned to the dark pharmacy. She walked slowly and silently.

This is a hospital.

No clear name record was found; the only way to identify it as a hospital was by its layout.

After leaving that mental hospital-like corridor, Xiong Mi arrived at the lobby on the first floor of the hospital.

Unlike the places they'd visited before, the space here was relatively stable. After the lawyer's examination, it was basically confirmed that there wouldn't be any serious spatial distortion within the hospital's building, so the map here could be trusted to some extent. After a brief discussion, the players decided to investigate to see if they could find any useful clues to help them return to the mental hospital ward corridor and locate the [hole] containing the Red Moon-level core's obsession.

As Xiong Mi looked at the hospital's first-floor map in her hand again, she was still recalling what she had seen not long ago.

Three wards, three patients, or rather, three heads.

In each of the three wards labeled K1, K2, and K3, there is a living human head, a head whose structure has been partially removed, yet it can still blink, breathe, and tremble.

The three heads showed no reaction to the outside world; touching them or attempting to harm them had no effect. Furthermore, they could not be moved from the platform where the heads were placed; some unknown force forcibly held them in place, preventing players from simply picking them up and running.

As for how to deal with these things, after some investigation, the lawyer believed that it was possible to use the surgical tools and chisels on the table—the objects of obsession—to penetrate and dissect specific parts of the exposed brains of these severed heads, which might achieve a specific effect. Of course, this was just the lawyer's speculation, without any actual evidence. Before finding the correct method, no one dared to mess with these three heads that held important clues, so they temporarily left the heads aside and tried to find clues in the surrounding area.

The main clues we have so far are in those three medical records.

Xiong Mi turned her gaze to the remaining two medical records. After deciding to come here to investigate, the lawyer had handed her the two remaining medical records. Xiong Mi had naturally already read through the text on them and memorized it.

[Patient D-2003]

【ID: 60■■6■■■】

[Current Ward: K1]

[Preliminary Diagnosis:]

Severe sensory hallucinations

[Inability to achieve rational communication; speech lacks logic]

[Emotionally weak, physically rigid]

Current diagnosis:

The patient has become detached from reality.

The patient had already gone deep into his own cave.

He had already abandoned the patient's body.

The patient's body was possessed by something that came out of the cave.

Something is spying outwards.

Something is trying to come out of the patient's body.

【Diagnosis】

Bring him back.

[Cut open the abnormal body, and find the part where communication is still possible]

[Comprehensive surveillance, comprehensive restraint—prevent those things from emerging.]

He wanted to continue escaping the real world; he was shown his daughter's bills and her tombstone.

He still couldn't forget the happiness he once had, and the things that belonged to his daughter and wife lured him in; he still wanted to get them back.

Treatment Priority: Highest

Patient 0-0001

[Number: 000000000000……]

[Current Ward: K3]