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

Can not give up.

Never give up until the very last moment.

Gao Hai accelerated again, and then passed right next to Miko, or rather Alice, who was lying on the ground.

In a mere instant, less than a second, Gao Hai reached out and grabbed the girl who only had one hand left, then summoned a writhing mass of flesh from his watch.

Multiple objects of obsession, such as a scalpel and a faceless skull-devouring creature, were released and then, after going out of control, were stuffed into flesh by Gao Hai.

He immediately stuffed in an amount of obsession exceeding the suppression limit of this flesh and blood obsession object, causing it to immediately enter a state of out of control. A mass of flesh and blood suddenly swelled up, clearly showing signs of reverting to the flesh and blood monster in the teaching building.

It threw out flesh and blood, watching the thing fall to the ground as it swelled up, then suddenly wrapped around several students and swallowed them whole.

The strange creatures chasing Gao Hai paused briefly at this moment. It seems that the restricted movement of the manipulated puppets still affected that thing from Yeluoshan Middle School to some extent.

Taking advantage of this moment, Gao Hai took out the device from his watch space that had cost him his life in the second playthrough—the one that could fuse flesh and spirit.

He knew his idea was definitely not a good one.

But he also knew that he didn't have much time left to hesitate.

In any case, when everything starts over, all this pain will be gone. There's no need to dwell on it anymore.

and so……

Gao Hai grabbed the spiked tube on the side of the instrument and stabbed it into himself.

While the pain throbbed in her nerves, the other end of the tube had already been placed on the unconscious girl, piercing her body in the same way.

Gao Hai was about to activate the device, directly merging Miko and Alice, who was possessing Miko, into his own body, forcibly combining the three into one. He intended to use Alice's eerie aura to transform himself from a "living person" to a "dead person," thus forcibly evading Kita Ikuyo and the carnivorous flower girl group's attack.

I hope you can no longer perceive the real world, otherwise this is a very painful process.

They widened the distance once again.

They were caught up again, fled again, and were surrounded and intercepted again.

As the grotesque creatures drew ever closer, Gao Hai retreated rapidly, and after a moment's hesitation, pressed the button on the instrument he was carrying on his shoulder.

And so, everything faded from Gao Hai's sight at that moment.

Chapter Sixty: The Moment to Tear This False Pretense Apart

I witnessed the life that girl lived.

From the moment a baby opens their eyes, still half-asleep, and utters their first cry.

From learning to speak, to being able to run and jump on the road, to falling down and crying and wanting an adult to pick them up.

As she grew up, she matured and gradually became a quiet and kind girl, living each day of her life in an ordinary and simple way.

She loves sweets and has a special fondness for pastries, but she is troubled by the issue of calories, and therefore envies her childhood friend.

She loves cute little animals, cats, and rabbits. She has no resistance to fluffy toys and will carefully choose phone charms.

She doesn't yearn for any extraordinary or unusual life; simply seizing the moment and living each day to the fullest is enough for her. She doesn't have many desires or needs; being content with the ordinary is her defining characteristic.

She didn't want to see those phantoms, didn't want to face those deformed monsters and Alice, didn't want to experience these terrible things, but after seeing Gao Hai protecting her and after seeing Xiong Mi sacrifice herself, she had mustered up her courage and was ready to face everything.

She remains conscious to this day.

Alice never truly extinguished Yotsuya Miko's consciousness. The wicked nature of this monster made it always like to preserve the consciousness of its victims, making them feel the despair of everything being destroyed when they were powerless to do anything.

Gao Hai sensed the emotions and sense of self that belonged to Jian Zi.

At this moment, Jianzi also saw Gao Hai's true thoughts, understood what Gao Hai wanted to do, understood his helplessness, and understood his firm determination.

So it's okay.

Mr. Gao, please do what you want to do.

I can no longer help Mr. Gao; I can no longer be an asset to him. Instead, I will only hurt him.

So please do what you want to do. Don't feel helpless about it. I believe Mr. Gao has done the best he could. So let's do it this way. At least in the very end, I can still talk to Mr. Gao and let him know my thoughts. That's enough.

"..."

The girl's last consciousness had vanished.

Everything about her had become one with Gao Hai, turning her into something at his mercy.

He had personally killed the girl who had accompanied him through battles and explorations, and who had always tried her best to help him.

Gao Hai will not offer any rebuttal to this.

He simply continued to feel the fusion, to feel the aura of something else that had been inserted along with the dissolution of the child.

The aura of Alice.

A strong sense of coldness enveloped Gao Hai's entire body.

The grotesque creatures with their heads split open were already getting closer.

In that instant, Gao Hai saw something new, something belonging to [Alice], something that existed in the monster's memory.

It was the ruins of an abandoned, dilapidated school.

It is the exact same abandoned site as the Fujika Middle School in its dark state that Takahashi explored in his three playthroughs; it is the true appearance of this place before it became a dungeon.

Four people carried something into the school.

Some were sobbing quietly, some were filled with anger, some looked almost desperate, and some were flushed with excitement.

On the deserted playground, they put the thing down and removed the white cloth covering it.

That's Alice's body.

She was Alice, young and beautiful, with a devilishly strong allure, who had already died.

The manner of death was three bullets that pierced the skull, leaving two bullet holes in the forehead and one below one eye. The bullet holes themselves were not very large, and from the front, the body did not appear to have suffered serious damage. However, in reality, a much larger hole had been opened in the back of the head, and a large chunk of the back of the skull was broken off. The brain structure inside was like paste, only it had been frozen and would not spill out.

The white sheet used to cover the body bore the police station's markings.

The corpse's face was filled with a confused expression, as if it had seen something incomprehensible before it died.

Is this the last trace left by Alice, a living person?

The four men who carried the body into the school once again displayed fanatical expressions upon seeing it. One of them even had the urge to kiss the body and touch it, but was stopped by the other three.

They took out knives, saws, and all sorts of tools they had prepared beforehand.

Gao Hai realized that these people were there to dismember the body, to divide it into four pieces. This was the original source of the four objects of Alice's obsession, the fanatical act of four fans who were so obsessed with Alice that they even stole her body after her death.

No... If it was just a fanatical act, why would they deliberately bring the body back to Fujika Junior High School? Why would these fans die in different areas of Fujika Junior High School and conveniently bring the objects they created to the research base?

Sensing something, Gao Hai looked to the side and saw Alice standing not far away in the darkness, smiling as she watched the four people.

The body was eventually dismembered into four pieces, which were carefully arranged by these people before they were prepared to be taken away by their respective owners for further processing.

Behind every departing person, there followed the figure of Alice, a figure unseen by anyone else, seemingly only visible to Gao Hai, a bystander in history.

Close your eyes.

At this moment, Gao Hai had no time to analyze or think about the information revealed by these images. Instead, he focused his attention on the present and on the crisis he was facing that he had not yet overcome.

Kita Ikuyo had already approached again, and the students were also drawing closer, gathering towards Takami under the manipulation of the unknown Nightfall Mountain Middle School monster.

Click!

Amidst the sound of bones shattering, Gao Hai's forehead had been split open with a gash three or four centimeters deep.

He collapsed to the ground, blood staining his vision, and his consciousness began to blur.

The strange creatures drew closer once more.

The sound of footsteps echoed around Gao Hai.

then……

The footsteps then completely disappeared.

The monstrous creature that had been crawling on his back and gnawing at his flesh disappeared, and the wound gradually healed under the power of the rescue team's badge.

Gao Hai got up from the ground, staggered to his feet, and saw only an empty hall, the fleshy monster that had quieted down and curled up in a ball, and the rescue team members standing not far away, held by bloody hands that had emerged from the broth, preventing them from reuniting.

Something was constantly assaulting his sense of self within him.

It seemed as if something was trapped inside his body, struggling desperately to break free.

He could even hear the shrieking sound coming from that thing.

"Stop howling, what are you howling about? Don't bother the neighbors in the middle of the night."

Gao Hai muttered to himself as he walked toward the rescue team.

That force is still trying to influence him, to manipulate his senses, to destroy his ego, and to stop what is happening right now.

At this moment, Gao Hai's senses of sight, hearing, smell, and perception all underwent extremely severe confusion, so severe that he could hardly distinguish whether he was dreaming or had already gone mad without realizing it.

But he kept walking forward.

The rescue team badge transmits the perspective of the summoned rescue team members to Gao Hai, allowing him to always see the real scene.

So he walked step by step to the rescue team members, reached out and grabbed the broth, staring at the distorted face of Alice pieced together from the chunks of meat that gushed out of the broth, and turned his watch to face the broth.

This time, Alice was no longer able to stop Gao Hai from taking any action.

"Goodbye."

After he finished speaking, Gao Hai successfully stored the bowl of meat soup inside the black watch.

One second passed, and nothing changed.

It seems that losing this object of obsession has not brought about any changes; the underground base remains the same as it was at the beginning, and Fujika Middle School still exists.

Two seconds later, Gao Hai began to feel a faint tremor coming from underground.

It was like a very minor earthquake, not even as strong as the vibration from a massage chair; it was completely insignificant.

In 3 seconds, everything shattered.

The underground base has collapsed.

The buildings of Fujika Middle School, including the teaching buildings, dormitories, swimming pool, playground, and school gate sign, all shattered like glass at this moment, losing their foundation as Alice's obsession with the scene disappeared.

Gao Hai plummeted into the darkness.