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

Gao Hai saw their tearful faces.

Alice!!!

Gao Hai saw them screaming their hearts out, jumping around, waving their glow sticks, and looking intently at the graceful figure on the stage.

That's a girl.

One of them had long golden hair, and her face was sculpted as if by a demon, something no human could possess. She was so beautiful that it was breathtaking, as if she could steal one's soul.

Hi everyone, Alice wants to be your friend!

[Let's become really, really good friends with everyone!]

Alice loves you all the most!

She was smiling.

Her blue eyes were so bright, like sparkling gems.

Her long, golden hair shone like sunlight.

The slight upturn of her lips was enough to make one feel dazed.

So beautiful...

It's absolutely gorgeous...

Can such a person truly exist in this world...?

Gao Hai was unable to suppress his mental confusion.

He felt as if his consciousness was sinking into the sea.

My palms seemed to be sweating a lot and had become a little damp.

It seems that nothing matters anymore.

All you have to do is get close to the girl in front of you, just be by her side, stay by her side, and you can ignore everything else.

That's right, that's all you need to do.

There is no need for any hesitation.

As long as... as long as... what the hell is this mermaid charm skill? I'm not mentally unstable, why would I give up my two beautiful wives, Chika and Maki, to be with a dead human skin like you?!

Blood seeped from the corner of Gao Hai's mouth.

He almost bit off his tongue on the spot.

The pain stimulated his nerves, and his scattered consciousness was completely restored at that moment.

Gao Hai's vision cleared.

He is currently in the corridor on the fourth floor of the teaching building of Teng Hua Middle School, surrounded by broken stones, desks, chairs, books and other things scattered all over the floor.

There was no one in sight directly ahead.

no one?

The human skin that had been standing in front of him, emerging from Miko's body, was now gone.

A chilling aura emanated from behind.

Realizing something was wrong, Gao Hai turned around abruptly and saw Jianzi with her back to him.

The wild cypress has fallen.

One of her eyes was wide open, tears streaming down her cheek, while her other eye was missing, a deep hole gouged out.

puff-

Yotsuya Miko pulled the pen out of Ichino Rihana's eye.

It was a black ballpoint pen.

It was completely inserted into the head of Ichino Rihanna, from the tip to the end of the pen, before being pulled out.

The blood-red color had soaked through the pen.

Now, it's a red ballpoint pen.

That's great!

Having regained her senses, Miko turned around and smiled at Takahashi.

[The teacher is so amazing! I could never do something as scary as biting my tongue!]

So, I'll just give the game winning item to the teacher.

Come on, teacher, you've already won!

As she said this, Miko reached out to hand the blood-red ballpoint pen to Takahashi.

Behind her, long hair had grown out of the vaguely visible human skin. It was black... no, not black, but hair that had been soaked in blood and turned black. It hung down and covered the human skin itself.

Gao Hai took a step back.

The girl in front of him smiled and took a step closer to him.

Without further hesitation, he turned and fled, using the physical enhancements provided by his rescue team badge to achieve a speed exceeding human limits.

The next moment, Miko's little head peeked out from behind Gao Hai's shoulder and turned to look at him.

Hedar activated his body enhancement blessing again, and Gao Hai accelerated once more, instantly passing through the corridor and shaking off the girl following behind him.

No, we didn't shake them off.

Gao Hai could hear her footsteps following closely behind him.

Even with Hedar's blessing power, is there still no way to shake off the opponent?

When the teacher tells you to stop, stand still and don't move until I say it's okay.

Gao Hai tried to activate the power of the ram's head and gave commands to Jianzi behind him.

So the other person really stopped and stood motionless in the corridor.

"Mr. Gao?"

A bewildered voice came from behind.

Completely different from the eerie voice from before, this was clearly the girl's own voice.

Is she still alive?

After being possessed by a strange power, how come he's still alive?

Gao Hai's surprise lasted only a very short time, less than a second, before he continued running forward without any intention of stopping. He simply turned the corner of the corridor and disappeared from Yotsuya Miko's sight.

"Mr. Gao, wait! Please wait! No... no..."

The girl's voice had gradually faded into the distance.

Gao Hai ran forward in silence for a while longer, until he was sure he could no longer hear Zi's voice, before finally stopping.

Turning around, the dark corridor was completely empty.

It seems that "Alice" can only move around by relying on the possession of Miko. After Miko herself is restricted, it is unable to come to her.

In the end, in just over an hour, all 24 students were dead. Even Miko, whom he had tried his best to protect, had been possessed by Alice and was no different from being dead.

After being left alone in that corridor, what would happen to her next... well, there's no point in thinking about it now. Besides, who knows if those last words she called out were actually her own, or if it was Alice using some kind of disguise ability? After all, her neck was broken before, so she should have been dead long ago.

However, it's really tough.

From the moment I entered Fujika Middle School, I've been struggling until now, and I have absolutely no clue how to get through this place. I can't find any decisive information from the information I've obtained, and now I don't even know where to go next.

In short, Alice's game cannot be completed.

Completing this damn game would be a guaranteed death sentence, but without completing it, I wouldn't be able to leave the school building. This would limit my investigation to this area.

What should we do next?

Before you reach a dead end, you must try your best to obtain more clues.

Gao Hai had already vaguely realized that after losing Jianzi, an assistant with powerful sensory abilities, his chances of leaving this place alive were virtually nonexistent.

Therefore, he had to make the most of his life before he died.

In this way, I can establish more advantages at the start of the next round and have a better chance of clearing this hellish place.

So, based on the intelligence we have so far, what other information is still valuable?

basement.

Gao Hai immediately thought of this answer.

Fujika Middle School has a basement, and there are even teachers specifically in charge of managing the basement.

The place where the students were punished by the teacher in the hallucinations that he and Jianzi had seen before was very likely in the underground area.

Could it be inside the teaching building?

Gao Hai spent some time finding the location of the stairwell, then, holding the red pen, he walked down the stairs towards the bottom of the pitch-black teaching building.

[Sizzle…]

As Gao Hai walked down the stairs, he heard a commotion echoing throughout the teaching building, reverberating across every floor, every classroom, and every corridor.

It's the school's loudspeaker playing. Is someone using the loudspeaker?

As Gao Hai was pondering this, he then heard a song playing on the radio.

That sounded like a child singing.

It's a rather strange nursery rhyme.

I stepped on a cat! I stepped on a cat!

The children were singing and laughing.

Did I step on the napping kitten?

The sound coming from the radio was like a child's song playing right next to me.

Gao Hai simply continued walking downstairs.

In the dim candlelight, they continued walking downstairs step by step.