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

At that moment, the twelve students in the classroom turned back into twelve corpses lying on the ground, and the pretty little classroom under the lights turned back into a shattered ruin.

Turning around, Gao Hai pinned the badge, which appeared to be made of gold, onto Jianzi's collar.

Then, before the shadow that appeared outside the window could break through the window and rush in, Gao Hai turned around and inserted a blood-red key into the classroom door.

The next moment, Gao Hai and Jianzi opened the toilet stall door and returned to the toilet next to the archives.

"are you OK?"

Gao Hai didn't immediately take off the sheep's head hood. Instead, after taking the key and closing the door, he quickly looked at Jianzi beside him.

"Um...I'm fine, I'm fine..."

The girl collapsed to the ground, sat down against the cubicle door, and gasped for breath.

The nightmare she just experienced is still incredibly vivid in her mind, so vivid that she feels like her heart is about to stop beating.

Those 12 students were all excellent students, and they... killed each other in the classroom...

Seeing Zi close her eyes, she recalled the moment when the lights were turned off at Gaoshan, and the scene in the classroom she saw.

The first number written on the blackboard was 12.

Then, after the students started fighting, the number written in the chalk began to change: 11, 9, 6, 4... and finally 0.

No... the last number is 1.

But even though all 12 students are dead, and there isn't a single living person left in the classroom, why hasn't the number returned to zero?

Could it be that there is actually another person?

slam-la-

Jianzi felt something making a soft sound beside him.

She looked down and realized it was the toilet stall she was sitting next to. A black ballpoint pen slowly rolled out of the stall through the gap under it, stopping after hitting her clothes.

Why is there a ballpoint pen here?

Puzzled, I saw Zi reach out and pick up the pen.

The next moment, it seemed as if someone's soft laughter came from the cubicle behind.

Slightly stunned, Jianzi slowly lowered her head and peered into the toilet stall through the gap at the bottom of the stall.

Then she saw the pair of eyes hiding in the cubicle, looking at her from inside.

Chapter Fifteen: Investigative Intelligence from the Archives and Reflections on the School Copy

Gao Hai could feel that the sheep's head was gradually growing into his own head.

The viscous flesh and blood were still alive, silently wriggling, slowly squeezing into his cheeks and seeping into every pore.

However, this thing could not completely corrupt Gao Hai himself. Even though he was almost taken away by the power of the ram's head without deliberately resisting, it still could not completely eliminate Gao Hai himself. Therefore, he was able to take away the "Outstanding Student" badge at the critical moment.

The reason is simple: Gao Hai was also wearing a rescue team badge and always had a rescue team uniform on him. By using the counteracting effect of the two different assimilation forces, coupled with the resistance he had developed after being assimilated multiple times, he was able to withstand the influence of the sheep's head and remain clear-headed. He even deliberately allowed the assimilation tendency to spread to a certain extent while maintaining his clarity of mind in the process.

Although doing this was also very difficult for him.

Unfortunately, it's still quite difficult to control one's actions in that state. Otherwise, he would have liked to try and get a few more student badges. Speaking of which, the feel of these badges... could they be made of pure gold? They seem quite valuable. But now that I'm dating Maki and Chika, it seems like I don't need to worry about money for the rest of my life.

Thinking this through, Gao Hai hadn't taken off his hood yet. Maintaining his current state would help him gain certain advantages at school, so despite knowing the danger of this thing, he chose to continue wearing it.

In addition, the second rescue team member he summoned has now entered the archives room under his command.

While Gao Hai and Jian Zi were searching for the "Outstanding Student" badge in Class 1 of the second year of junior high school, he hadn't forgotten the rescue team member who had been summoned and then left around the archives. After giving the team member an order to enter the archives to investigate, it was now about time to confirm the situation.

Shifting our gaze to the archives, we see that this small room has been turned upside down. A large number of documents are piled up on the table, and the rescue team member is silently turning the pages of the documents, discarding those that are blurred and whose content is no longer visible, keeping only the ones that are still legible.

These documents could only be found when the lights were on. When rescue team members entered the archives room with the lights off, they found that the entire archives room had been burned down, and there was nothing of value left inside. However, when the lights came on and the teaching building entered "daytime" mode, the room returned to normal, and the burned files were restored to normal, although for some reason, most of the files were blurry and unclear.

The rescue team picked up one of the documents whose contents were legible, and Gao Hai was somewhat surprised to find that the name written on the document was actually Kyoko Ogawa.

[Enrolled student: Ogawa Kyoko]

Student ID: ■■■■■

[Class of Admission: Grade 8, Class 015]

[Qualification Assessment: Average → Poor]

Current status: Dead

Recommended measures: None

[Conclusion: The sample has been delivered to the biology classroom and is now being used as an anatomy teaching material.]

The file contained very little, only one page, and included a photo of Kyoko Ogawa herself, as well as an image of Kyoko Ogawa transformed into a mannequin.

Realizing something was amiss, Gao Hai ordered the rescue team to conduct a more thorough investigation, and they quickly found several more files. Gao Hai soon confirmed that all the clearly written files belonged to Jianzi, and that the "Current Status" in each file was "Dead." It seemed these files recorded information about living people who had come here, and that all of Jianzi's classmates who had come to see her were now dead.

No, wait, there seems to be one still alive.

[Enrolled student: Nozato Hana]

Student ID: ■■■■■

[Class of Admission: Grade 8, Class 015]

[Qualification Assessment: Average → Poor → Bad]

Current Status: In Reflection

[Recommended action: This student is extremely incompetent, disobedient, and disrespectful to teachers. He should be humanely eliminated immediately upon being located.]

[Conclusion: Wait for him to leave the classroom]

What's going on with this Norihana? She's been demoted to a bad student, yet she's still alive? And according to the description in her file, she actually triggered the death penalty, but it wasn't carried out?

It seems necessary to go back and check on her situation. She's still alive; perhaps she's discovered something special.

Before that, we need to find our own and Miko's files and confirm what information is recorded in that archive.

So the rescue team started searching again, and this time, it took them a lot of time to finally find Gao Hai's file.

However, this file is quite extraordinary.

[Enrolled ■student: Gao ■hai■■hai■&le#]

Student ID: ■■■■■■■

[Entry into Teaching Class ■ Grade ■ 10 * cewv1500sdv]

[Qualification Assessment: Average → Poor → Terrible ...

Current status: Not searchable

[Suggested investment ■ quality fr ■ e & ■ dv@r waste jk superior ■ p; ■ ■ ■]

[Conclusion: None / Bury him deeper]

What the heck? Can you really fill out a file like that?

Looking at the file page that looked like scribbles, with the entire layout almost completely collapsed, and his own face on the file that was almost completely distorted and unrecognizable, Gao Hai felt a sense of bewilderment.

Does this mean that this thing has no way to obtain its own clear data information?

Could it be a problem with this watch?

Gao Hai couldn't help but look down at the tattered watch on his wrist.

The rescue team had begun searching for Miko's file, but after a long search, they found nothing. Miko's file wasn't in the archives, but the files of her 23 classmates who were caught up in the incident had all been found. Only the file of Rihanna from the same department showed that she was still alive; the rest were all dead.

From the time I was caught up in this place until now, it has only been a little over an hour.

In such a short time, 22 young girls perished in this eerie school building, which truly moved Gao Hai.

After searching the entire archives, the rescue team found another document, one that was different from the others. It appeared to be a planning document for the fifth floor of the teaching building.

[Grade 8 Program Plan]

[Class area division has been completed]

[Higher Education Section: Class 001]

[Observation Area: Classes 005-008]

[Comparison Area: Classes 002-004]

[Bottom Floor Area: Classes 013-024]

[Special Zone: Classes 010-012 (Closed Area); Class 009 (Isolation Area)]

[Note: The regional division for the second year of junior high school has been completed, and the liaison work with the Germans has also been finished. We can now begin preparations for enrollment. The preliminary preparations for the plan are now basically complete, and the future of the empire will be created through our hard work.]

【——Goro Fujii】

Looking at this file, it seems that the entire eighth grade section on the fifth floor was originally created for some kind of experimental purpose.

Gao Hai felt very bad.

He couldn't help but think of the research base inside the Red Nut Gray Hole, the place that nurtured the ferocious and terrifying core obsession of the Red-Clothed Ghost.

Is this Fujika Middle School a similar place?

Using a group of junior high school students to conduct research... it's really hard to find the right words to describe this.

No, I'm afraid it's not just that.

Gao Hai had been pondering why the three Japanese schools—Zao Li Elementary School, Fujika Middle School, and Ye Luo Shan Middle School—would merge with the German academy, Baidos Academy, into a massive, interconnected copy. Since these schools could become a single, merged copy, it meant that some kind of connection must have developed between them during the process of transforming into this eerie place, much like the Red Nut Gray Hole and the Research Base.

But if that's the case, then what exactly is the connection between these schools?

After seeing the proposal document, Gao Hai gradually formed an idea in his mind.

Perhaps all four colleges have conducted the same kind of research, and have all studied the eerie itself and tried to utilize it.

It's even possible that... Hayate Elementary School, Fujika Junior High School, and Yoruyama High School, these three schools themselves carried out an integrated research process, sharing some kind of bizarre information with that Bydos Academy, and using it for research, thus shaping the hellish place of "Campus Ghost Stories" as it is today.

If that's the case, then what role does Alice play in all of this? Do the good and bad kids in her game rules correspond to the good and bad students at Fujihana Middle School? And since the beginning of this instance, he hasn't found any trace of Alice. What exactly is she? Could the monster that grabbed his hand at home have been Alice?

While thinking, Gao Hai looked down and saw the umbrella he was holding.

Huh?

Didn't I already put this umbrella into my watch's storage? Could it be that I forgot?