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

Alice just said she thought I was "different from the other teachers," and she seemed very determined to befriend me. This difference... could it be related to my identity? Like in the Shirakawa Apartment, in the Red Nut Gray Hole, besides my role as a "student" in the instance, I have a hidden identity, and has Alice discovered this one?

Gao Hai recalled the execution list he had seen before, and the last person on that list, the teacher who might not have had time to be executed.

The next moment, a strong sense of crisis surged into Gao Hai's senses.

Release your hands, then quickly clench them into fists.

Gao Hai fell from the ceiling. Alice's figure on the ground had disappeared, and a bloody mark appeared on his shoulder.

It was that very bad wolf that appeared.

Tsk, I didn't notice this thing before because it was immobilized by Xiong Mi's obsession object, but it's caught up with me now?

At this moment, Gao Hai could not see the strange creature at all. Alice's illusion had once again covered the entire hall, and the only entrance and exit of the hall had been closed by Alice in some unknown way, turning this place into a dead end where no one could enter or leave.

His pace quickened abruptly.

Gao Hai moved swiftly in the next moment.

The blessing that senses strange creatures and malice has begun to work. Even though the illusion has obscured everything, Gao Hai had already sensed the strange wolf on the rooftop before. The power of the blessing has remembered its aura, so as long as the thing gets within a certain distance, Gao Hai can react immediately and dodge.

Bang!

Heavy footsteps pounded the ground, sending pebbles flying.

The hall, filled with pipes, has been transformed into a bright and sunny little classroom, where a small student sits in each seat, all watching Gao Hai expectantly.

In the blink of an eye, all the seats were empty again, with only bloodstains remaining on them, along with white chrysanthemums and red candles on the tables.

"What, you think this kind of thing can provoke me?"

Realizing that Alice seemed to be doing something, Gao Hai deliberately shouted loudly, while maximizing the power of the rescue team badge, continuing to move at a speed that was impossible for a human to achieve, to evade the wolf's pursuit.

[I just think the teacher might miss it a lot, and Alice was actually the teacher's student too. Even though the teacher is no longer recognized by the students and has been stripped of her teaching position by the school, Alice will still treat the teacher as a teacher.]

The girl's soft laughter echoed in the empty classroom.

"You call this treating me like a teacher? You're quite the liar, though. To me, you're nothing more than a heinous madman—"

Unable to stop, Gao Hai answered with difficulty while continuing to dodge. Suddenly, he bumped into an invisible wall. He quickly dodged away, but the monster that was chasing him still added another wound to his body.

The walls here must not be damaged.

The moment he crashed into the wall, Gao Hai clearly sensed the eerie aura emanating from the cracks in the wall, coming from the depths of the zero-level structure. Even though he had already reached the research institute beneath the dormitory building, the rules of the dormitory building still applied. This was likely because the rules of the zero-level structure specifically applied to the underground areas, thus extending to the research institute as well.

Tsk, that makes the situation even worse. Relying solely on the rescue team badge, I'll have a hard time distancing myself from that monster, and using the blessing won't last long...

Just like in the previous two playthroughs, as long as Alice makes a formal move against Gao Hai, she can definitely put him in a very dangerous situation. Gao Hai has become so familiar with this experience that he wouldn't be surprised at all what tricks Alice might come up with. Well, he can actually already imagine what her backup plan is, since he hasn't seen anything strange about this underground base since entering it.

I just don't know exactly when that eerie thing will appear. After all, its formation is unrelated to Alice, so it shouldn't be able to control it. And the fact that I haven't been attacked yet might be because I haven't triggered the mechanism of that mysterious creature? If that's the case, Alice could easily use illusions to create the illusion that I've violated the mechanism. How disgusting is that thing's ability…

The teacher was quite blunt, but Alice is in a good mood, so she'll forgive her.

Amid Alice's playful laughter, Gao Hai was once again caught up by the wolf's shadow, and a new wound was inflicted on his body.

A crimson light emanated from his eyes.

At this moment, Gao Hai finally released the power of the blessing. Immediately afterward, an incredibly powerful force suddenly came from behind him, forcefully knocking Gao Hai, who was under the blessing, to the ground. With a loud bang, the ground cracked open, and a large number of pipes were shattered and scattered.

Something bit into Gao Hai's back, tearing a piece of flesh from his body.

He couldn't see what it looked like.

It wasn't an illusion created by Alice, but rather that the thing had lived in the darkness for far too long, and had completely forgotten what it looked like, so it could not be seen in any way.

This man-eating monster seemed to move at the smell of blood, but Alice used her ability to disrupt the senses to interrupt the thing's perception of Gao Hai's blood and kept it hidden until Gao Hai used the power of blessing to let the monster find his exact location.

The wolf pounced and bit Gao Hai's hand, tearing it off his body.

The severed arm rolled on the ground before Alice bent down to pick it up and pried open the clenched fist one by one.

[Every naughty child has a wicked wolf watching him all the time, hee hee, that's a fairy tale the headmaster told Alice.]

With a soft laugh, Alice gently placed a slightly damaged toothbrush, probably belonging to a researcher, on Gao Hai's bitten hand.

"So... are you a bad child?"

Despite being forced to the ground and being devoured by the strange creature, Gao Hai's face was pale and covered in cold sweat, but his voice showed no sign of panic.

Well, Alice asked the headmaster a question: what kind of person could be unafraid of such a wicked wolf, and even make it fear and obey, turning it into a well-behaved dog?

Alice covered her mouth with her hand, her laughter revealing an undisguised mischievousness.

It turned out to be the case.

Gao Hai understood.

Alice, originally created as a monster, was restricted by the rules set by the school, but she has probably always sought to break through those rules and successfully exploited the loopholes created by those who set them.

Alice's true identity at Fujika Middle School was likely a unique identity created by the researchers who were unintentionally led by Alice. This unique identity was unique to Alice and allowed her to act with such impunity.

[So now, the teacher is finally going to become Alice's friend!]

With a soft laugh, the girl slowly walked up to Gao Hai and knelt down in front of him.

It was at this moment, feeling the intense erosion and domination gradually spreading through his consciousness, that Gao Hai slowly exhaled, struggling to support his body, which had almost completely devoured his back and part of his internal organs. He smiled at Alice, who appeared before him, and then slowly spoke:

"Yes, now it's finally time for us to turn the tables."

Chapter 58: The Discovery of the Fourth Obsession and the Severed Alice Game

Alice's face beamed with a smug smile, clearly revealing her current smugness. Undoubtedly, she believed Gao Hai was completely under her thumb, with no chance of turning the tables.

Gao Hai realized that he could now guess what this thing was thinking.

Perhaps it's because I've fought this thing so many times, and each time I've ended up getting killed by it, that I've gradually come to understand its way of thinking. Ugh, it's incredibly frustrating that I'm actually starting to understand its thought process.

However, she never expected that Gao Hai had already recalled the rescue team and ordered them to search for the true location of the obsessive object within the research base. This wasn't surprising, though, since it seemed the different Alices couldn't communicate, and he even had a vague feeling that these Alices might harbor some degree of hostility towards each other, or at least a degree of indifference.

[A counterattack? Hmm, Alice doesn't quite understand this term, but the teacher must be saying that she can still change the current situation, right? Can she really do it? To be honest, Alice is very skeptical. At this point, what other options does the teacher have?]

Amidst the girl's playful laughter, Gao Hai could feel that the thing invading his nerves and mind was becoming increasingly vivid, gradually and strongly replacing his own self.

He had experienced this feeling twice before, and each time it was more intense than the last. Therefore, even though he had now met the conditions to become Alice's "friend," Gao Hai stubbornly maintained his composure and did not revert to the helpless, limp state he had been in during his first playthrough.

"...Oh, it's just a bowl of meat soup."

Gao Hai spoke slowly.

Alice's smile abruptly ended at that moment.

It was a bowl of broth placed on a table in the canteen at the research base, shared through rescue team badges.

Beside the bowl of broth, a corpse lay slumped on the table. This body was distinctly different from the others in the research facility; it was remarkably fresh, appearing to have died only recently. The manner of death was gunshot wounds to the back: two to the head and two to the chest. It could be roughly deduced that the shooter likely entered through the cafeteria entrance, initially hitting the deceased, who was sitting with his back to him, in the head, then approaching and delivering two more shots to the heart and one more to the head to ensure a permanent kill.

In the pocket of the corpse was a concert ticket, the same one held by the corpse in the underground basement of the teaching building.

The soup was very fresh; when the rescue team members walked over, they could even see the soup still steaming.

The soup was blood red.

The meat is fresh.

There was still drool overflowing from the corner of the corpse's mouth.

Just looking at this scene, Gao Hai felt as if he could imagine what it was like.

Alice's skin was made into an umbrella, her bones into a cane, and her flesh into a bowl of steaming broth. The remaining object of obsession, which was taken away by some unknown group, was probably a part of Alice's body, something made from her body.

The rescue team members reached out and picked up the soup.

His movements weren't exactly gentle; the bowl even tilted slightly to the side when he picked it up.

However, this will not cause any trouble.

Even when the bowl was turned upside down, there was absolutely no sign that the blood and flesh inside would leak out.

The substance seemed unable to flow out of the bowl in any way, as if it were firmly locked inside by some unseen force, maintaining its fixed shape. Perhaps only by drinking it, or rather, eating it, could its position be moved?

Of course, this kind of thing is not important.

Gao Hai simply stared at Alice, who had appeared before him, and enjoyed the surprised expression on her face, a slight sense of pleasure rising in his heart.

It must have sensed that its object of obsession had been taken away, otherwise it wouldn't have shown such an expression. As Gao Hai thought this, he suddenly felt an even stronger sense of mental torment and destruction. After realizing that something was wrong, Alice chose to intensify her attack on Gao Hai, determined to completely destroy his will right there. Not only that, it even stepped forward and reached out to pull off the badge Gao Hai was wearing.

Did they realize I was controlling the rescue team member, so they planned to speed things up and eliminate me to avoid further problems?

Gao Hai was not surprised by Alice's choice.

So he reached out and grabbed Alice's outstretched hand, pinning her to the ground.

On the ground, the giant wolf's shadow pounced towards Gao Hai.

However, nothing happened.

Neither the distorted illusion nor the wolf shadow targeting Gao Hai continued to have any effect.

The monstrous creature clinging to Gao Hai's back, gnawing at his flesh, was still feasting, but it clearly preferred prolonged torture to a quick kill. As a result, Gao Hai was able to withstand the creature's healing power thanks to his rescue team badge.

That might not be the most accurate way to put it.

Because the current Gao Hai is not the real Gao Hai.

"I told you, it's time to fight back. Do you understand what I mean now?"

The cold, indifferent voice did not belong to Gao Hai.

Rather, it was Xiong Mi who, before jumping off the broken rooftop, planted a fragment of his personality in Gao Hai's consciousness with her blessing.

The power of sincere blessing does not end with the death of its holder, but continues to exert its influence. At this most critical moment, it forcibly severed the rule that led Alice to Gao Hai, thus ending the power of this strange creature.

After all, Alice wanted to be friends with [Gao Hai].

When this temporarily implanted, nameless personality fragment takes over Gao Hai's body, this person can no longer be fully regarded as [Gao Hai] himself, and thus cannot continue to complete Alice's game of making friends.

The wolf's shadow has crumbled.

As a derivative creature without a physical form, once its rules and procedures cease to function, it faces certain death.

Alice stared blankly at Gao Hai for a long while before finally realizing what had happened, and her expression seemed to darken slightly at that moment.

Why do Alice's friends all hate her so much? Even though Miss Bear is dead, she still tries to stop Alice from making new friends. It's just too much!

The girl took a step back as she spoke, trying to forcefully break free from Gao Hai's arm.

Having been possessed by it, Yotsuya Miko was naturally no match for Takami in terms of strength. So Alice suddenly pulled her hand away and snapped her arm off with a crack. The spurting blood instantly sprayed onto Takami's face.