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

Jianzi, who hadn't said a word from beginning to end but had only been listening, hesitated subconsciously for a moment, pondering who Gao Hai meant by "bewitched." As she thought about it, her heart started racing slightly, and she had to quickly shift her attention back to the various documents, reports, and other materials she had found.

Judging from the records, it is unclear whether he received some kind of support from Alice, but Fujii Hiroshi seems to have gained control of the land where Fujika Middle School was located and intends to try to restart the school and put it back into operation.

The financial records he left behind contained numerous entries about repairing the electrical system and various infrastructure facilities at Fujika Middle School, including a request to have a portrait of his father erected. This guy didn't seem to care at all about how his father died, where he died, or where his body was; he appeared to be using the matter merely as a pretext.

However, this matter did not last long before Fujii Hiroshi chose to give up.

The reason for abandoning the project seems to be that Alice had other plans. No records were found regarding this, but after that, Idol Alice started to get active again. The first performance record was about half a year after the last maintenance record of Fujika Junior High School.

At this time, Hiroshi Fujii became Alice's manager, assisting her in her work as an idol.

He did his job as a manager very well, and the records and documents he kept during this period were so detailed that it was almost impossible to read them all. Almost every account and every event was recorded. It can be seen that the fame of [Idol Alice] has skyrocketed, and it is no exaggeration to say that she is a national superstar.

The records are really quite detailed...

Listening to the overly detailed records that Miko and the others found through the mental link, Gao Hai couldn't help but sigh inwardly. To be honest, the ease with which so much information was collected already gave Gao Hai a bad feeling.

Information related to the supernatural is always fraught with danger and is not easily obtained.

But here, the situation seemed to be completely reversed. The group easily lured away the strange creatures in the room and effortlessly obtained a wealth of information, learning quite detailed details about what had happened in the past.

This is really strange.

Is it because this information is unimportant?

Or perhaps, even if they obtained this information, it would be meaningless to the "truth" and "rest" that this group of people sought, which is why it was left so conspicuously?

No... Is it possible that this information only appeared when they arrived, and that it was something that Miko mentioned, something those old geezers in [Takamagahara] did?

Gao Hai suddenly became alert.

What follows could be misleading information, or even hidden, harmful information!

[Be extremely careful while reading. Stop immediately if anything seems amiss. There's an abnormally high amount of useful information in this office. It's possible that "Takamagahara," as Yotsuya mentioned, has pulled some strings.]

Gao Hai immediately issued a warning.

Don't worry, I won't make a mistake like this. It seems someone is trying to feed us this information directly; I'll be careful.

In the real world, while answering Takahashi's questions via their mental link, Maki used her phone to research idols from the 1970s. Due to the passage of time, much was difficult to investigate, but she soon found some information. She discovered that Japan seemed to have a national superstar during that era. However, no one paid attention to that star; very little information was left behind—no records of records, concerts, or anything else. Maki could only glean some information from scanned old newspapers; nothing else. It was as if everyone had "forgotten" that idol.

Meanwhile, Miko had found a thick record book containing at least a thousand people's accounts of private meetings between "Idol Alice" and her fans.

Based on the brief description in the table, it seems that the fan who recovered the fastest was roasted alive?

Even though her personality had become much stronger after regaining her memories of the past, Miko still couldn't bear to look away when she saw those horrific records.

[Huff... Huff...]

Meanwhile, in the corridor, the dean, whose body was covered in various wounds and looked as if he had been brutally murdered, walked around the corner, opened the door, and went outside.

Maki and the others who were collecting information in the room were on high alert for a while. After confirming that there was no contamination, they continued their investigation.

Gao Hai jumped down from the ceiling, thought for a moment, opened the door to the deep treatment room, and tried to observe the situation inside.

Then he saw many machines that were obviously taken from Fujiwara Middle School. They were all cold machines made to torture people and had various terrible effects. Most of them still had black marks that could not be washed off.

It seems that because it was inconvenient to always work in the underground base of Fujika Junior High School, Hiroshi Fujii bought a piece of land next to the school and moved these Alice toys to this place.

Yes, you can find comprehensive records of this information, down to the shipping cost of every single item.

"If the activity records of [Idol Alice] are unimportant information, then what information is the most important?"

Gao Hai muttered to himself in a low voice.

[Alice] If the acquired body can move in the real world, there's no record of it in the Dean's office. Gao Hai speculated on various possibilities, but he felt that this shouldn't be his primary concern.

What's truly important is when [Hirano Sosuke] came into contact with [Alice], and what kind of records were left from their contact.

However, no such records were found in the dean's office either.

"It seems like we've gathered a lot of information, but in reality, there's been absolutely no progress."

Xiong Mi, who had walked up to Gao Hai, spoke up at this moment.

"That's quite normal, but at least one thing can be confirmed now."

As Gao Hai spoke, he was still recalling the last document that Miko and the others had found in the office. That document was carefully stored in a hidden safe. So, "Goto No. 1" performed a feat of tearing the safe apart with his bare hands and then took out the document.

Alice will never leave us.

I will succeed, I will definitely bring her back.

However... I can't do it on my own; I can't do it alone.

[That's right, that's right. We need to gather more people, just like at Nightfall Mountain Middle School. As long as everyone has unwavering faith, Alice can return.]

Now that everything is ready, it's time to return to that school, to the place where Alice was born.

My Alice, Alice, Alice, Alice, come back to me!

[—Hiroshi Fujii]

The fact that Guangben Hospital used Yelushan Middle School's resources is not surprising.

But who shared the information about Yelu Mountain Middle School with him?

Moreover, this record is dated after the death of [Idol Alice], right?

There's so much missing... I thought I'd find some crucial clues, but this is what I found?

However, it seems that those messages pointed the way for the subsequent investigation.

What might we find if we return to the ruins of Fujika Middle School?

"That thing is back."

Xiong Mi had already issued a warning at this point.

"Yes, I know. It's time to leave now."

Gao Hai nodded, and at the same time asked Jianzi in the mental link if she had seen anything that others couldn't see.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Gao Hai turned his gaze to the elevator in the building.

Uncovering secrets?

Don't move outside yet, come to the elevator.

Gao Hai, who was the first to step into the elevator, looked at the buttons on the elevator and found that there were only buttons for floors 1 to 3, and there were no underground floors.

So he crouched down, his eyes turning blood red in an instant, and then punched through the elevator floor, tearing a hole in it.

A profound darkness was revealed to Gao Hai in the next moment.

Chapter 77: Fragments of the Past Seen While Falling into the Abyss

Jianzi could sense that something had changed in the surroundings.

Instead of investigating the ruins of Fujika Middle School, Gao Hai insisted on digging deeper into the secrets of the building. However, something lurking in the shadows seemed to become active, as if it was extremely dissatisfied with this and therefore attempted to take some action.

Are they the three things I saw before?

Mr. Gao said that the information she collected might contain elements of deliberate manipulation. Is it really true that those things were plotting something behind the scenes?

Were those things a deliberate attempt to lure them to Teng Hua Middle School?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little scared.

However, compared to things that don't need to be faced yet, the things that need to be dealt with immediately are more worthy of attention.

whoosh-

Amidst the raging cold wind, the girl intensely experienced a falling sensation far more intense than when she jumped from the third floor.

The footsteps of the strange creatures were already gathering above.

The previously lazy security guards and the dean who hadn't noticed their movements seemed to be alarmed at this moment, and they all gathered together and converged on the elevator.

However, their speed was no longer comparable to that of Gao Hai and his group.

After damaging the elevator floor, the group immediately chose to jump down, plummeting into the darkness.

"Woo..."

Driven by an instinctive fear of falling, Miko instinctively clung to the person beside her, Takahashi, who had waited for her before jumping down with her.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay."

Gao Hai casually offered a word of comfort to the girl, but his gaze remained fixed on the darkness below.

Xiongmi and "Goto No. 1" were falling together around them.

The four figures were now completely swallowed up by the darkness, and it was unknown where they would fall to.

Then, the first thing to appear was a completely meaningless noise, an extremely piercing shock.

The sound seemed to contain the shrill screams of many people on the verge of death, filled with endless pain and despair, almost shattering the listener's nerves and mind.

Gao Hai frowned, relying on his extraordinary willpower to directly resist the mental impact, and using the will-sharing function of his watch to protect Yotsuya Miko, who was tightly holding him in her arms, from the impact, directly bearing double the impact on his own.

Xiong Mi has already put the blessing of manipulating her own personality into use, so as to ensure that even if her thinking ability is destroyed by the mental shock, she can still recover quickly.

As for the girls who were remotely controlling "Goto No. 1," their connection with that body had been severed. The mental shock was blocked by temporarily disconnecting the internet, but in return, they could no longer know the specific situation inside.

hum-

Amidst the piercing sounds, Gao Hai had already seen many images, many fragmented scenes from the past.

That's Alice singing on stage.

That's Alice smiling as she meets her fans.

It was Alice, humming a song softly, cradling a blood-soaked doll.

Let's all become Alice's friends!

The girl whispered joyfully.

Amidst the spreading crimson hue, countless mutilated bodies had ceased to breathe.

She was smiling.

Wearing gorgeous gowns and lovely dresses, they dance gracefully and sing leisurely on the stage.

That voice captivated countless people.