Why is my anime art style so weird?

The track and field stadium's synthetic running track has faded badly, turning a strange grayish-red color, while the grass in the middle is overly lush, having grown into a thicket.

Xu Ming turned his head to look at Bai Zhentan, who was sitting on his shoulders.

"Where exactly is that chess piece located?"

Bai Zhentan sensed something and pointed to the roof of the teaching building.

“There it is.”

Xu Ming rubbed his nose. He had just come down from the mountain, and now he had to climb the teaching building. This was really...

"Let's go."

With time running out, Xu Ming didn't hesitate any longer and led the way into the abandoned campus.

Soon everyone stepped onto the playground.

Seeing that the grass was almost up to his thighs, Xu Ming decisively chose to take a detour.

As you walk along the rubber track, you can hear rustling sounds coming from the grass next to you, as if there's something inside.

Xu Ming ignored them and quickly led everyone around the playground to the front of the teaching building.

Just then, Xu Ming suddenly felt a hidden gaze fall on him.

He looked up, but saw nothing.

Each dark window seemed like an entrance to another world.

Xu Ming frowned, then slowly took his phone out of his pocket and held it in his hand.

Everything that had just happened at Ryudou Temple was reminding him that, apart from the 'Class Trial' itself, this dead city was fraught with unknown dangers.

Stepping through the broken glass, I entered the lobby on the first floor.

The first thing you see is a row of shoe cabinets, their cold metallic sheen gleaming in the darkness.

The square cabinet doors looked a bit like the freezer doors in a morgue...

These shoe cabinets are located in the lobby on the first floor of the teaching building, and there is no way to go around them.

Xu Ming then led his men directly through the space between the two rows of shoe cabinets.

Squeak!

A sudden noise rang out.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Ming saw the door of a shoe cabinet not far away slowly open, revealing a pair of black women's round-toed leather shoes.

It seems that the shoe cabinet lock opened simply because it was old and a gust of wind or a slight vibration was causing it to open.

Xu Ming glanced at the shoe cabinet, but without stopping, he led the group straight past it and into the teaching building.

Behind the shoe cabinet was the staircase leading to the second floor, and Xu Ming led the way up to the second floor.

After they left, the lobby on the first floor became quiet again.

In the darkness, everything became silent.

Just then, the doors of more than a dozen shoe cabinets opened silently and slowly, revealing the scene inside: pairs of tattered shoes.

These shoes are mostly hiking shoes and flat casual shoes. Although the styles are old-fashioned, they have elements that young people like, and both men's and women's sizes are available.

Soon, a bizarre scene unfolded.

A series of eerie, blood-red footprints suddenly appeared in front of the open shoe cabinet and gradually began to extend towards the stairs.

In the darkness, shadowy figures moved about, as if countless people covered in blood were gathering in the direction Xu Ming and the others had left...

Upon reaching the second floor, the corridors on both sides were completely silent, with the curtains swaying gently as if something were hiding inside.

Occasionally, a strange noise would come from the rows of classrooms, carrying far through the quiet, empty corridor.

It sounded like discarded books being blown by the wind, or like students who hadn't left school rummaging through drawers looking for something.

Faintly, one could hear disordered footsteps coming from around the corner and whispers coming from the corner, but upon closer listening, there was nothing there.

Xu Ming glanced at the second-floor corridor, then his gaze sharpened, staring intently at a window not far away.

Although the window was covered in dust, it was still in relatively good condition.

But right at the bottom edge of the window, near the windowsill, there was a black handprint.

Xu Ming shone his phone light on the handprint, and under the dim light, the black in the handprint faintly revealed a hint of abnormal blood red.

This is clearly a bloody handprint!

The owner of the handprint didn't know what he had been through. The handprint was dragged downwards for a distance, leaving a thick, long, and hideous bloodstain.

The bloodstain extended downwards to the white wall below, then suddenly spread out, turning into a bloodstain in the shape of a lying person!

A large, complete human-shaped bloodstain was imprinted below the windowsill, looking extremely eerie!

A tragic scene seemed to appear in Xu Ming's mind:

The entire teaching building was shrouded in an eerie, blood-red light. A student struggled to crawl out of the classroom and pressed his blood-stained hand against the glass window.

At that moment, he might have wanted to open the window for help, or he might have wanted to jump out of the window.

However, before he could open the window, he collapsed weakly, leaving a long trail of blood on the window.

In the end, his entire body melted into a pool of blood, leaving only a strange human-shaped bloodstain in the spot...

It wasn't just this one spot; a quick glance revealed human-shaped bloodstains all over the entire corridor.

Some of them were leaning against the corner of the wall, while others lay stiffly in the middle of the corridor, with the majority clustered at the classroom doorway.

These humanoid bloodstains all moved in almost identical ways: lying on the ground, stretching their hands forward as if trying to grab something.

"Aren't you going to fix it?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha said softly, casually playing with her fingernails.

Xu Ming thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"We are pressed for time, there's no need to waste it."

Chapter 531 The Ghostly Suiqun Plain

Xu Ming had already made up his mind that as long as the vengeful spirits here didn't provoke him, he wouldn't bother to do anything.

These vengeful spirits may seem numerous, but their soul levels are very low, so even if you destroy them, you won't gain any strange points.

Moreover, these vengeful spirits are everywhere in the school, and eliminating them not only takes a lot of time but also yields no corresponding reward.

He's currently racing against time to outrun Tsukuyomi, so he doesn't have time to meddle in other people's business.

So Xu Ming quickly led everyone up to the third floor.

After they left, the second floor fell silent again, but soon something seemed to wriggle in the darkness.

Bloody handprints crawled out from all corners of the corridor, extending towards the stairs...

Then, on the third, fourth, and fifth floors, numerous human-shaped bloodstains were found.

The tragic scenes he witnessed along the way reminded Xu Ming of a scene from the original work.

During the Holy Grail War, Medusa (Rider), under the orders of her temporary Master Shinji Matou, set up a barrier at Homurahara Academy that could absorb the blood of human beings—the Other's Seal: Blood Temple.

Once the barrier is activated, the human body inside will slowly melt into blood and be absorbed by the barrier to replenish Medusa's magic.

However, regardless of the timeline, Medusa's Blood Temple was never fully successful.

He was either stopped by Shirou Emiya or killed by Souichirou Kuzuki, leading to his defeat.

But judging from the current state of the tragedy at Homurahara Academy, it seems she has ultimately succeeded.

The fifth floor is the top floor of the teaching building, and the staircase in the atrium leads to the top. To reach the rooftop, one must cross the corridor and head to the staircases located in the corners of the floors on either side.

Crossing the corridor meant passing between those humanoid imprints that had been melted into blood by the barrier.

Without hesitation, Xu Ming headed straight for the right-hand corridor, secretly becoming more vigilant.

This is, after all, the territory of the dead, so you can't be too careful.

As soon as he entered the corridor, Xu Ming felt an inexplicable chill creeping over him.

A faint, stench of rotting blood permeated the corridor.

Waaaaah!

Before they even reached the first classroom door, they could faintly hear weeping coming from the corridor. The sound was mournful and desolate, yet incredibly eerie, as if the person making the weeping was right beside them.

Xu Ming activated his spiritual vision and took a look, but found nothing unusual about his surroundings.

Continuing forward, we soon arrived at the door of the first classroom.

Just like in the other classrooms, there were more than a dozen bloodstains from melted human bodies piled up at the classroom doorway.

More than a dozen bloodstained arms stretched out of the classroom in unison.

Xu Ming only glanced at it, but he felt intense resentment and despair emanating from the pile of bloodstains and rushing towards him.

Suddenly, Xu Ming felt a blur before his eyes.

The surrounding scenery became blurred, like an old movie scene filled with chaotic blocks of color.

All the shikigami around him disappeared at once.

Then, with a loud crash, the classroom door suddenly opened, and a group of people, all pale as death, rushed out of the classroom, only to be blocked at the doorway.

They had no blood left on their bodies, as if all of it had been drained.

They struggled desperately to squeeze out of this only escape route, but none of them made it out.

Of course, they couldn't possibly get out.

Because Xu Ming discovered that their bodies were actually connected!

Like conjoined twins!

Suddenly they stopped struggling and looked up at Xu Ming.

Those deathly pale faces were expressionless, and blood that had turned black was constantly flowing from their eyes...

Xu Ming raised his phone with an equally expressionless face.

Since you made the first move, I won't hold back!