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

Seemingly surprised by Gao Hai's reaction, Zi looked up at him and asked.

"Actually, I've been wondering about something for a while now, and the more I explore this school, the more confused I become. I just can't figure out how this school has been able to continue operating."

Gao Hai closed his eyes and continued speaking calmly.

"This is a large school that can accommodate thousands of students. According to the current investigation, it is likely that almost all the students from the first to the third year of junior high school in this school have died each year."

"Such a large-scale expenditure might be manageable for one year, but is it possible for it to continue for two or three years? A thousand students represent a thousand families, affecting tens of thousands of people. I don't believe the organizers behind this school have the power to make such expenditures every year and always ensure that nothing goes wrong."

"So only these students who appeared out of nowhere can explain this situation. When this school was in operation for a long time, it probably stopped recruiting students from outside, and even if it did, it would only recruit a very small number of students. Because this school has started to automatically replenish the students lost each year through some kind of method, creating students out of thin air, just like NPCs generated with one click in a game."

A school that gradually becomes capable of automatically generating living people and automatically carrying out an annual flesh and blood sacrifice.

By constantly using more death and pain, the so-called "Alice" was eventually formed. This creature, codenamed "Pain Idol," remains a mysterious and unknown entity to this day.

What kind of thing did those people want to create back then?

I turned my head and looked at the heavy door that was still intact.

And not far away, there was Rika Ichino, who was squatting on the ground against the wall, looking somewhat depressed and withdrawn, and Chiharu Kobayashi, who was curiously looking around.

Gao Hai finally lowered his head and looked at the girl who was looking up at him.

"That's enough about what I wanted to say. Are you planning to continue acting?"

Gao Hai asked Jian Zi.

"Huh? Mr. Gao, what are you talking about?"

Seeing that Zi was stunned by these words, she didn't understand why Gao Hai would suddenly say such a thing.

"Ito, Kobayashi, it's time to go. That thing is about to break through the door. Although the perception blessing I gained in the Shirakawa apartment is suppressed quite a bit here, I can still sense the general situation of that thing at this distance, even though it's been sensed by my blessing. Also, although it's well hidden, your existence as a psychopath is quite conspicuous to me. I could never misjudge you."

Especially considering that you've already killed him once.

Gao Hai didn't say the last sentence. He just gestured for the two girls to get moving while keeping his eyes fixed on the girl in front of him who had a blank expression.

"So, should I call you Alice now?"

Gao Hai spoke calmly, but his body was already tense.

Just moments ago, Jianzi had a bewildered expression, but after blinking, a smile suddenly appeared on her lips. She then imitated Gao Hai's tone and spoke:

Do you want me to be like that?

Chapter 30: Alice's Focus and the Struggling Survivors

This is the second time that Miko Yotsuya has been possessed by Alice.

However, unlike the first possession, Gao Hai was able to determine through Hedar's perception blessing that Miko's consciousness had not completely disappeared, but was in a dazed state similar to sleepwalking.

Even so, the situation is still dire. This child has been possessed by [Alice] again. Is it because her senses are too powerful? Her perception exceeds the level that most players can reach, but her mental defense and willpower have not yet surpassed human limits. Therefore, she is extremely vulnerable to being affected by excessively strong corrupting forces.

But does this mean that for Alice to possess someone's body, that person's will must collapse? In the first playthrough, she was corrupted by the Black Umbrella and Class 1; in the second playthrough, she was overwhelmed by the corrupting power of this mountain of flesh and blood. Only after this could Alice possess Miko. And throughout both playthroughs, no one except Miko has ever been possessed by Alice, which to some extent confirms that this possession has stringent conditions.

As a result, due to Miko's unique characteristics, she happens to correspond perfectly with the mechanism of [Alice].

While feeling a mix of emotions, Gao Hai acted swiftly and decisively.

He kicked Miko in the stomach, sending the girl he had been protecting flying into the side of the treatment room without hesitation.

Then, Gao Hai suddenly accelerated and ran towards one side of the room.

There's no way to confirm my exact location now. With Alice already in front of me, everything in my sight could be an illusion.

However, the power of blessing remains.

As long as you abandon sight, ignore your own perception, rely solely on the power of your blessing to locate the mountain of flesh and Alice, and then run away from these two things, that will be enough!

As for Kobayashi Chiharu and Iteno Rika, he had already warned them that they needed to escape now, and whether they survived or not was up to them.

Boom!

Amidst the deafening crash, Gao Hai felt as if he had smashed through a wall.

He continued to charge forward, and soon felt himself crash into the wall again, smashing and breaking through it once more.

Then he felt the sensation of falling due to gravity.

In the distance, one could almost hear Alice's soft laughter.

He crashed through the outer wall of the teaching building.

At this moment, I have left the area of ​​the Fujika Middle School teaching building and arrived in the area outside this building.

He violated the rules of the Alice Game.

The monster knew that he could use the power of the blessing to confirm his location and that of the flesh-and-blood monster that had broken into the processing room, so it deliberately tampered with the positions, causing Gao Hai to run in the direction of the outer wall when he escaped.

Did the hard-won method of breaking the enemy's power end up being used against us?

So, isn't this thing a bit too intelligent...?

At the same time that Gao Hai was feeling emotional, a sharp pain spread through his arm.

Something grabbed him

No, this sensation... his hand was being bitten by something, something was biting him in mid-air, pulling him up and making him float in mid-air.

Even with his eyes open, Gao Hai could only see that he was still standing in the processing room, unable to confirm the true situation around him. However, the blessing of sensing the difference between humans and non-humans still gave him feedback under such close physical contact, allowing him to vaguely perceive that his arm was being bitten by something wearing a giraffe head mask.

Was the giraffe inspector mentioned in the game rules always outside the school building?

Even teachers can't break the rules of the game!

Alice is very, very angry now that the teacher has broken the rules of the game!

Alice can no longer be friends with a teacher who doesn't follow the rules.

I heard Alice's voice from afar.

A strong sense of crisis spread.

Gao Hai knew that he was very likely to die here now.

Even though he was prepared from the beginning that he would never leave Fujika Middle School, he would never surrender or give up until the very last moment, until he was completely desperate and there was no way to turn the tide.

"call--"

The crisis of death was imminent.

Gao Hai's mind calmed down instead.

He still cannot see the true situation around him and remains in a state of having his senses clouded.

But that didn't stop him from taking a dirty animal doll out of his watch, something he was certain Alice couldn't possibly ignore.

In an instant, Gao Hai felt himself being locked onto by something's gaze.

more than one……

There were 12 points of focus that locked onto him, 3 of which were directly behind him, in the same teaching building he had just been in.

The other nine gazes were divided into three groups, each coming from a different area.

In other words, each of the four areas of [Fujika Middle School] has 3 [Alice]s. Does that mean that there is one success story among the students in the first, second and third years of junior high school in each area?

No... no, there are more than 12, there are two more pairs of eyes.

A gaze that is more subtle, more difficult to detect, and completely different from the gazes of these 12 Alices.

Gao Hai remembered that in the Fujika Middle School instance, the Alice Games in the [Playground] and [Swimming Pool] areas had been sealed off because the key artifacts maintaining these areas had been taken by a Red Moon-level player who had previously explored the instance. Now, thinking about it, these so-called key artifacts were probably related to [Alice]. The two remaining gazes he sensed might be the key artifacts in the [Teaching Building] and [Dormitory Building] areas—the locations of the hidden key [Alice].

So, if I take away the key object of obsession in the [Teaching Building] area, will I be able to seal off the Alice Game in the Teaching Building?

These ideas came to mind in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, Gao Hai threw the doll in his hand away.

"Go away!"

Amidst that sound, Gao Hai suddenly threw the doll away.

A scream came from afar.

Gao Hai could sense that the 12 gazes simultaneously shifted away from him and looked in the direction where the doll had fallen.

His vision returned to normal at that moment, and he could clearly see the giraffe headgear that was holding his hand in its mouth, as well as the neck that was so long that it seemed to have no end.

"Is it a neck-person's tradition?"

After cursing like that, Gao Hai produced a cleaver and slashed it hard across the creature's head, cutting a considerable distance in.

Tsk, it's hard to exert force in this state, I couldn't cut it in one go.

The rotting giraffe's head swung violently, and the next moment Gao Hai's back slammed into the outer wall of the teaching building. With a loud bang, he crashed through the wall and rolled among a pile of desks, chairs, and strange students.

The next moment, he was violently thrown into the air, crashing through four walls and passing through three classrooms before rolling into a corridor. Then, the thing bit his foot and tried to drag him out the window again.

It seems like some images can be seen.

He was a man with a naturally very long neck, so long that he could see into the classroom through the window above the door.

He was the head of the school's inspection team, essentially a dean of students. Therefore, he wielded more authority than the teachers, and he thoroughly enjoyed using this authority to torment the students. He often secretly observed the students, searching for his prey and reveling in the torment he inflicted upon them.

Because of his unusually long neck, his students, who feared and hated him, secretly called him a giraffe.

Being thrown into the classroom seems to be part of this thing's killing process; it will first show me how it tortures me to the other students before killing me. This was its greatest pleasure in life, so much so that its actions after becoming a monster follow the same pattern. It just goes to show how many kinds of twisted beings this lousy school has.

His strengthened body was not so weak as to be unable to withstand such an attack, so Gao Hai suddenly stood up, gripped his machete, and launched another attack.

click-

Amidst the sound of bones breaking, the blade struck the other half of the creature's face, but still failed to sever its head.

boom!

Then Gao Hai's body slammed hard against the ceiling, breaking through the ceiling of that floor, and was then violently thrown to the ground, creating a large crater.

It seemed as if one could hear a man's maniacal laughter and see the terrified expressions on the faces of the students around them.

Gao Hai spat out a mouthful of foul blood, then activated the power of blessing in the next moment, his eyes turning blood red, and then he stood up again.

A white chrysanthemum appeared in his hand, which he then shoved into the creature's eye.

The creature's swift movements suddenly slowed, momentarily delayed by the suppressive effect of the white chrysanthemum. Gao Hai seized the opportunity and slashed down with his sword, but the creature recovered its strength the instant his blade struck. The next moment, a giraffe's head flew through the air amidst a spray of blood, and Gao Hai was sent flying halfway down the corridor, rolling on the ground, creating a shallow crater before bouncing up and flying dozens of meters further, finally crashing into the elevator door at the end of the corridor, crushing the metal door.