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

Item effects:

By using language to subtly influence the other person's mindset and affect their behavior patterns and choices to a certain extent, it is possible to induce them to do things they cannot accept.

Loss of control tendency: low

Out-of-control manifestations: mental erosion

10. The Desperate Medicine Bottle

The writing on the bottle containing sleeping pills had become illegible.

Item Level: Twilight

Item effects:

Taken orally, it enhances the body's self-healing ability for a short period, rapidly restoring wounds. It can only be used once per entire dungeon run.

Tendency to lose control: Extremely high

Out-of-control behavior: The second drug will inevitably cause possession by an evil spirit, directly summoning the evil spirit into the current instance.

Chapter 8: The Moment of Escape and the Unseen Strange Object

The situation is not good.

The situation is quite bad.

Behind them were two mannequins and a lamp-wielding girl with a light on her head, while in front were at least a dozen headless students.

Gao Hai had initially assumed that the eerie creatures in school uniforms would only appear in classrooms, but he hadn't expected them to spawn in the hallways, and even block his path. He had only intended to reach the archives to investigate, but now it seemed that entering the archives would be tantamount to being blocked by a horde of these creatures. Moreover, the anatomical model chasing him had already had its killing rules discovered by Jianzi, and until a solution to these rules was found, Gao Hai dared not let that model block his way.

What should I do?

While he was thinking, Gao Hai had already charged forward with Jianzi, directly in front of the students.

The two mannequins behind them quickly caught up.

The sound of the woman with the lamp head's high heels clicking on the ground was exceptionally clear, and she was already very close.

Gao Hai only roughly estimated the difference in running speed between himself and the things chasing him, and was certain that he could not enter the archives room before being caught up.

There's no other way but to leave the current environment.

A blood-red light flashed in his eyes.

Gao Hai hugged Jianzi, and in the next moment, he sprang up and crashed through the ceiling, landing on the equally dark floor of the 6th floor.

Although the interior of this teaching building has a spatial distortion phenomenon, making the layout of the building extremely chaotic and bizarre, it still retains some of the original characteristics of a building. Therefore, unless you are on the top floor or the bottom floor, the floors above and below will definitely be other floors, and you will not find yourself outside the teaching building after breaking through the ceiling or the ground.

At this moment, Gao Hai realized that the corridor he was in had glass on both sides. Outside the glass, he could see a pitch-black school ground and students hanging outside the windows, staring straight at him. Each of them had a bluish-purple face and held a candle in their hands, a candle that was burning rapidly.

Damn it, how many of these things are there in this place?!

He cursed inwardly and ran forward. Jianzi was now held by his arm, her waist tucked under his arm. He carried her along, making her dizzy and lightheaded, as if she was about to pass out.

very scary……

Seeing that Zi can hear more sounds.

Those rustling, whispering sounds.

Accompanied by suppressed laughter, followed by other sounds.

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It sounds like the voices of the two mannequins. No, it's just the voice of one mannequin. There were two mannequins chasing after us at first, so why is there only the voice of one mannequin now?

And the sound of this mannequin's footsteps... it just feels...

Click!

Cracks appeared in the window glass on one side of the corridor.

A student hanging in mid-air crashed into the window.

Click—click click—

More impacts followed.

One by one, the male and female students, hanging in mid-air, crashed into the window.

You can see their eyes.

The eyes were deathly pale, with pupils almost invisible, yet they gave the feeling of being constantly stared at, a gaze that was firmly locked onto you.

At this moment, his mind seemed to gradually become somewhat dazed.

She heard the footsteps of something wearing high heels, whose head was a searchlight.

The sound of someone running downstairs was very urgent, closely following Gao Hai's footsteps without being left behind at all; their speed was astonishing.

The mannequin's footsteps were still echoing, moving just as quickly. It was certain that the thing was downstairs right now, relentlessly chasing Gao Hai's footsteps, with no way to shake it off.

And... those footsteps, there's no mistake, those footsteps...

"Mr. Gao!"

Suddenly noticing something amiss in the footsteps, Miko looked up at Takami and spoke as loudly as she could.

"The footsteps, that mannequin, it's mimicking your footsteps! Every step it takes is exactly the same as yours!"

As the girl spoke, Gao Hai had already run through the corridor and arrived in a larger space.

The sound of shattering glass continued to echo from behind.

The students with purplish-blue faces had their candles burned out in those few seconds, so all twenty-odd eerie creatures came to life, smashed through the windows, and floated into the corridor, expressionless as they drifted toward Gao Hai.

Gao Hai himself stopped in his tracks at that moment.

Is that mannequin downstairs mimicking my steps?

The moment Gao Hai realized this, he felt his thinking begin to sluggish.

My body is becoming stiff.

Unbeknownst to him, some kind of force had invaded his body, yet he felt nothing unusual at all.

Without any hesitation, Gao Hai took out the rescue team badge from his watch and put it on.

As he did this, half of his face detached, and the skin that fell to the ground turned into plastic.

But then, as Gao Hai put on the badge, his body, which had begun to look plastic, began to recover. Blood gushed from the half of his face that had been peeled off. Gao Hai had lost one side of his face out of thin air, his eyeballs and teeth were completely exposed, and his bloody flesh trembled with his breath, just like the terrifying Two-Face from the Batman movies.

"Mr. Gao?!"

Because she was still looking up at Gao Hai, Jianzi was immediately splattered with blood from Gao Hai's face. But at this moment, she couldn't care less about being afraid; she was just staring at Gao Hai in shock, completely unable to imagine that he would be in this state.

"It seems that your classmate actually had a chance to be saved just now."

The pain of his face being torn only made Gao Hai frown.

With his strong willpower, he activated the power of his badge to quickly heal the wounds on his face, while continuing to move forward without stopping.

The badge didn't malfunction, so it seems this item of obsession can still be used in this dungeon. Tsk, looks like I'll have to find some time to try out each of my obsession items one by one to confirm which ones are still usable.

The murder rule of the humanoid mannequin that tracks living people has now been successfully cracked. It follows the movements of the living, mimicking their gait, and the person being imitated is cursed, gradually being transformed into another humanoid mannequin. The only way to break this curse is to stare at it while walking backwards, thus keeping the mannequin under observation and preventing it from mimicking. However, this method is essentially only usable in team operations. A solo person cannot continuously walk backwards to deal with other supernatural entities; being entangled by this supernatural entity would be life-threatening.

"I hate games where there's no safe time..."

As Gao Hai was expressing these sentiments, the uniform of the rescue team materialized around him, and he summoned Lao Guo, ordering the rescue team member to rush directly towards the hanged students behind him.

Then, in less than a second, Gao Hai lost all contact with the rescue team member. Jian Zi glanced back and saw a rescue team member hanging from the ceiling surrounded by students. After a short while, the students dispersed, and the rescue team member disappeared.

"That one just now was..."

Completely unaware of what had happened to the rescue team member who suddenly appeared and then died, Miko couldn't help but ask.

"They are reusable cannon fodder, but it will probably take me almost a day to summon them again. The cooldown and resurrection time after they are killed is a bit long."

Gao Hai casually explained, and by then he had passed through several corridor corners and arrived at a corridor with rows of student classrooms on one side and windows on the other.

This classroom is empty and no one is there. The classroom door is marked with the name "Activity Classroom".

Gao Hai wasn't planning to stop because a group of students were still chasing him. But at that moment, a loud bell suddenly rang in the corridor, and then the lights in the corridor and classrooms suddenly turned on. The students following Gao Hai disappeared as soon as the lights came on.

Jingle Bell--

Amidst the piercing ringing of the bell, both Takahashi and Miko, standing in the corridor, felt a very ominous sense of being watched by something.

We've entered the daytime phase!

Without hesitation, Gao Hai quickly pushed open the door of the empty classroom next to him and went in. He put down Jianzi, and the two found a seat and sat down.

The desks, which appeared empty when they entered, now had an extra textbook after they sat down.

Having already experienced this situation once, the two didn't hesitate and immediately took out their textbooks. Gao Hai casually opened to a text and began reading fluently. Although Jian Zi hadn't completely calmed down, she still followed along, reading haltingly but without making any mistakes.

Is it finally a little safer now?

Seeing that her heart was still pounding quite hard.

The escape just now was too thrilling. For a girl who wasn't particularly brave and relied entirely on willpower, it was more than just a little torture.

Especially since Gao Hai only needed to run, while she had to endure the bumpy ride and constantly hear the students chasing after her calling her name and their shrill and terrifying cries.

Among those students who hanged themselves… one was her classmate. Her clothes were different, and because she had only recently died, she stood out from the other eerie figures. That student chased after her, constantly calling out Yotsuya Miko's name, until Miko felt numb from the constant calling.

Now that things have finally settled down, although having to read non-stop is painful, at least she doesn't have to face those terrible things anymore. Therefore, Miko continued reading while almost sobbing quietly, looking extremely pitiful.

Gao Hai didn't have time to adjust his mood; he was simply using reading as an excuse to think about what had happened on the way. After putting on the rescue team badge, he paid attention to the sounds downstairs. He was certain that although the woman with the lamp head was still following him downstairs, the footsteps of the mannequin had stopped.

After wearing the rescue team badge, did I acquire certain eerie characteristics, thus making it impossible for the mannequin to imitate my footsteps?

Then, as for that girl, Jianzi, I held her with one arm the whole time, and her feet never touched the ground, so that thing couldn't imitate Jianzi's steps.

So, if there were a way to make players walk on the ceiling or walls, or to keep players in a floating state, it would completely avoid triggering the strange power of the human model.

However, if the killing rules of this thing are based on imitating footsteps, then what exactly does the "hug" rule mean?

At this moment, Gao Hai could not see the motionless human mannequin in the corridor downstairs.

The mannequin was now embracing Ogawa Kyoko, who had become a mannequin herself, in its arms. The two mannequins were merging little by little, as if the mannequin was absorbing Ogawa Kyoko.

On Kyoko Ogawa's stiff, plastic-looking face, her lifeless, rigid eyes now vividly displayed fear and despair.

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