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

Someone was talking inside, conversing and discussing something, but I didn't know exactly what they were saying.

Gao Hai first hid in the shadows and carefully observed his surroundings. He then discovered some standing motionless figures, seemingly soldiers on guard duty. The vast majority of these creatures were headless, their bodies covered in blood, looking like blood-soaked figures. However, there were a few individuals whose heads were still intact. For some reason, these strange beings had not been decapitated and were still standing guard alongside the headless ones, solemnly turning their heads to observe their surroundings.

"You stay here and don't move. I'll try to eavesdrop and hear what's going on inside."

After stretching his limbs, Gao Hai summoned his pistol, prepared to try an assassin-style infiltration method if infiltration failed.

“Mr. Gao, if you want to infiltrate, you can choose this side.”

But then Hayasaka reached out and pointed to a dark corner next to the building, and then to a small corner under the outer wall of the building where clutter was piled up.

“There are three soldiers with heads in total. Two of them switch perspectives every 12 seconds, while the third maintains a single perspective. If you can seize the right opportunity, you can use this corner and that pile of debris to conceal your view and avoid their detection. Specifically, Mr. Gao, you can do this…”

Hayasaka's voice was very calm as he explained things to Takahashi with great seriousness.

As Kaguya's personal maid, Hayasaka Ai, who has received various training, has infiltrated the area.

Whether it's a secret area with various security measures or a high-tech protected room, she can easily infiltrate it. Combined with her strong disguise and acting skills, it's safe to say that this girl could easily work as an assassin if she wanted to.

Of course, none of these things matter at this moment. What matters is that she has finally found a way to help Gao Hai, and is no longer just a burden.

Seeing Gao Hai listening attentively to her voice and carefully considering her proposed solution, the girl herself didn't realize that she was secretly delighted, and her mood became cheerful and happy.

Chapter 47: The Mysterious Infiltration Moment and Battlefield Moment and the Deeper Entrance

Under the dim night sky, Gao Hai was lying on the ground, moving carefully.

1007...1008...

He silently counted the time in his heart.

When the count reached 12, Gao Hai looked up, his body emerging slightly from the shadows. Just then, a soldier who had been monitoring that direction turned his head to look in another direction.

Just as Hayasaka said, the movement patterns of these soldiers are very easy to predict. As long as you find the patterns, you can successfully infiltrate their vicinity.

Take a deep breath, hold it, count silently in your mind, and then continue moving.

Having memorized the key points Hayasaka had mentioned earlier, Takami moved again, this time to a side alley.

Despite the soldiers on guard duty keeping a close watch on their surroundings, none of them noticed Gao Hai's actions.

Takahiro looked back in the direction he had come from, where Hayasaka was hiding, watching him with a slightly nervous expression. Although Hayasaka had found an opening for stealth, because her physical abilities weren't as outrageous as Takahiro's, and her mental resistance wasn't strong enough, she only watched Takahiro's actions from a distance and didn't participate.

Speaking of which, this guy is quite good at observing in this area. No wonder he's a two-dimensional maid! On the surface, Japanese two-dimensional maids may just look like cute girls, but they are always assassinating, fighting, stealth, disguise, and all sorts of skills. Sometimes they even have hacking skills, as well as rapping and dancing. They are all-rounders. Which author started this kind of outrageous character design?

Despite the random thoughts in his mind, Gao Hai moved swiftly, sliding and rolling to hide among the pile of debris. He approached the window of the house from which the sounds were coming and tried to eavesdrop on the conversation inside.

It has been confirmed that Zaoli Elementary School has completely lost contact with the outside world; this is the second school to lose contact. Currently, only Yelu Mountain Middle School is still operational, but that school is now essentially out of control; our soldiers and researchers can no longer even enter the area.

At this distance, Gao Hai could already hear the sounds inside the house; it seemed that several people were discussing issues related to the three schools.

[These three studies involved so much funding and manpower, and this is the result? Sato, choosing to invest in you was the biggest mistake of my life! You deserve to die, you damned bastard!]

One of the men roared and cursed, and there seemed to be the sound of a knife being drawn.

[Takamagahara didn't fail, did it? You killed me, and now you have no way out. It seems the situation on the front lines is really bad, so bad that you had to force me to significantly accelerate the testing progress. I think you all know very well that what this project is researching is a terrifying thing that we completely don't understand and can hardly control. Don't you really know what the consequences will be for messing around with something like this? Now you're just reaping what you sowed.]

Sato's voice rang out, just like the ones Gao Hai had heard before. However, unlike his hysterical state when he was on his deathbed, Sato's voice now sounded quite proud, even a bit arrogant.

[Damn it, it's all because you haven't come up with a viable weapon yet! You were the one who said your weapon could easily annihilate the American nation!]

The man roared again, but dared not approach Sato again.

[At this point, it's extremely difficult to recover Fujika Junior High and Yoruyama Junior High. Sato, tell me the truth, is there anything still useful to be gained from the Hayate Elementary School project? We're on the verge of defeat, we're basically at our wits' end, we have to use even the most self-destructive measures. If we can't even recover the Hayate Elementary School project, frankly, I seriously doubt whether your seemingly sound "Takamagahara" project is even usable, do you understand what I mean?]

A calm male voice rang out at this moment, its tone sounding very cold.

This person's voice seemed quite different from the others; as soon as he spoke, all the other noises immediately vanished, falling silent in his presence. Did this guy seem to be some kind of leader?

Of course, while the situation at Zaoli Elementary School exceeded expectations, I still had some backup plans. Based on my calculations, sending troops in now could still salvage the project. Of course, there would be some sacrifices involved, considering that little girl I personally guided to this point is now incredibly capable.

Sato chuckled softly.

He seemed very confident, and even though the situation had become quite bad, he still didn't think he would lose.

However, considering what Gao Hai had heard about how badly this guy looked after his defenses crumbled, he felt that the guy's confidence here was more likely an act.

Regardless, let's prepare Takamagahara first. We lost this time because of insufficient preparation. If we fail again in the end, at least we can use Takamagahara to continue our experiments, and one day we can make a comeback.

[Don't expose the research data. It will definitely attract attention, and it contains clues that point to Takamagahara. We can't reveal our secret to immortality. Take it all with us to Takamagahara.]

[Sato, don't let us down again. Let's start tomorrow.]

As the voice of the man who seemed to be the leader faded, the room fell silent once more.

After waiting for a while, Gao Hai heard a sound coming from inside the house again. It was the voice of the person who had said "It has been confirmed that Hayate Elementary School has lost contact" at the beginning. Then, the conversation of those people was repeated over and over again.

It seems that what remains here is just a kind of afterimage; there's nothing else besides repetition.

However, it's precisely this place that left behind a lingering regret, coupled with the information about Sato from the radio broadcast earlier… Did someone with the qualification to enter Takamagahara die in the rampage at Hayate Elementary School, unable to enter? And that person must have known Sato very well, which is why they left so many clues related to Sato. No, not necessarily. According to what Miko saw, Sato and others who entered Takamagahara became inhuman and ghostly. Perhaps they had been corrupted to some extent, which is why traces of Sato himself remained at Hayate Elementary School. Even so, such a place that frequently mentions "Takamagahara" still greatly troubled Takami.

During the re-entry into the inner region, I witnessed Chiyo Hachiya cutting the umbilical cord. This means that the girl must have known about Takamagahara's existence to some extent, or had some contact with the foundation upon which it was built. Furthermore, the Fujihana Middle School instance can be observed by Takamagahara in some way, while Hayate Elementary School hasn't shown any such signs, nor have I seen any external forces other than the Keeper interfering. Perhaps I can find a way to enter or destroy Takamagahara within this instance?

While thinking, Gao Hai looked up at a small window above him.

If he wanted, he could probably climb in through the window before the monsters discovered him. Hmm... never mind. Although he'd decided to take the plunge, his plan was to find the deeper areas that might exist, not to collapse here. The clues in Takamagahara were important, but they weren't his primary objective right now; he'd put them aside for now.

Thinking this, Takahashi turned to look in Hayasaka's direction and found the girl staring at him anxiously, seemingly wanting to remind him of something but afraid of disturbing the monsters. Judging from the large rock she was holding, if Takahashi didn't turn around, she might just throw it at him.

What happened? What's going on?

Upon noticing Hayasaka's unusual reaction, Takami became alert.

Then, following Hayasaka's gesture, he glanced sideways and looked at a window on one side of the building out of the corner of his eye.

At that moment, a pale-faced figure leaned out of the window, staring intently at Gao Hai.

Tsk, here we go again?

Without any hesitation, a pistol appeared in Gao Hai's hand.

The next moment, a barrage of bullets knocked all the headless monsters to the ground, and the thing that was peering out of the window was also hit by more than a dozen bullets and forced back.

Gao Hai didn't get up immediately. Instead, he rolled away from the window before scrambling to his feet. Almost the instant he stood up, the window he had been eavesdropping on shattered with a loud crash, and several mangled figures fell out.

More than a dozen headless soldiers had rushed out of the surrounding marching tents.

Originally intending to turn back and reunite with Hayasaka, Takami was blocked from returning by the surrounding monsters. He could only try to give Hayasaka a warning with his eyes before he had no choice but to turn around and run away, charging towards the camp gate as more and more soldiers chased after him.

[Ah—ahhhhhh—]

A heart-wrenching roar spread through the night.

The stench of blood grew stronger, and one after another, the monstrous creatures emerged from the tents and the houses. They were all broken, covered in torture wounds, and most of their heads had been severed, some still attached to their bodies with clear fracture surfaces.

In the short span of time, these things numbered over a hundred and were still gathering at an even more terrifying scale.

Rumble, rumble——

The next moment was a thunderous roar.

A crimson light surged in his pupils, and an almost endless hail of bullets spread out from Gao Hai's body, densely covering all directions.

These soldiers, transformed into strange creatures, don't possess absolute physical immunity like other supernatural beings. Therefore, they are still staggered, knocked down, or even thrown away by the knockback effect of bullets. Although they are not actually harmed and can immediately get up after being knocked down, this is enough to buy Gao Hai time to escape.

Then he saw some soldiers standing in the distance raising their guns.

"Holy crap, are you serious?"

boom!

Gao Hai suddenly dodged, accelerating as he ran while aiming his pistol at the strange soldiers, knocking them to the ground and knocking the guns out of their hands.

bang bang bang-

The next second came more gunshots. The monster that had been knocked down stood up again in an anti-gravity posture, and then a gun appeared out of thin air in its hand. It raised it and aimed it at Gao Hai.

The dense hail of bullets crisscrossed each other. Although Gao Hai's side had stronger suppression, he was still hit several times by the bullets flying from all directions, and his body was severely bruised and bloodied.

Yes, with the Berserk Blessing activated to strengthen his body, these rifle bullets could no longer penetrate Gao Hai's body, and couldn't even leave a wound for him.

In that case, maybe I could just charge through the barrage of fire? As long as I protect my eyes, that's all that matters.

Gao Hai was slightly excited to find that he hadn't been shot to death as he had expected.

Then he saw the soldiers on the watchtower at the camp gate shifting the direction of their heavy machine guns. Not only that, the monsters that had fired their guns for a while and found it ineffective now had grenades in their hands, some of them also took out grenade launchers, rifle grenades, flamethrowers, and even some soldiers pushed out several infantry guns from the camp.

Wait, did Japanese soldiers back then have this much equipment? And am I really on a supernatural movie set and not some Call of Duty movie set?!

More than one or two thousand monster soldiers have emerged in dense numbers, raising their guns, throwing grenades, and firing cannons while crowding together and even overlapping each other.

These things seemed to have no ammunition limit, each one firing wildly at Gao Hai as if they had unlimited ammo. If the entire military camp hadn't been formed by a supernatural force that made it indestructible, this place would probably have been razed to the ground by the continuous close-range artillery bombardment long ago.

Therefore, Gao Hai had to push the power of his pistol to its limit, forcibly exchanging fire with the same dense barrage of bullets while constantly dodging artillery fire. Under such circumstances, he forced his way forward, step by step approaching the direction of the military camp gate.

whoosh-

A gunshot was drowned out by the dense hail of bullets.

The monster, still with a head, that was operating the heavy machine gun was shot down and fell to the ground. Then, it struggled a couple of times as if it were really dead and then stopped moving.

Whizzing--

The second and third shots then knocked down the two monsters pushing the cannon.

Hayasaka, who had somehow climbed onto the roof of the building, took down several enemy units that posed the greatest threat to Takami. Then, at Takami's signal, he put away his gun, turned around, ran to the edge of the roof, and jumped down without hesitation. He grabbed a water pipe on one side and slid down from the fifth floor.

At this moment, the monsters' attention was entirely focused on Takami, and they did not notice Hayasaka's presence.

Stay calm, stay calm. You only have one chance, so you must persevere no matter what.

I bit my tongue a little harder.

As the sweet, fishy smell and the stinging sensation spread through his mouth, Hayasaka took a deep breath, his mind now focused.

She lowered her body slightly, then suddenly accelerated, her start and acceleration undoubtedly reaching the level of an Olympic athlete.

Running out of the alleyway on one side of the house, Hayasaka took two steps and jumped more than a meter high, landing on the wall and then rolling over several soldiers running ahead. Then, as he was falling, he braced himself with one hand and jumped again, landing on top of a tent while passing another soldier.

Firelight and roars spread through the camp, while the girl quickened her pace, taking advantage of the fact that she wasn't attracting much attention.

We're getting closer! We're very close now!

Gao Hai, who had approached the gate earlier, continued his advance under the suppression of the barrage of fire. With the artillery and machine guns destroyed, the blockade by the monster soldiers could no longer slow down Gao Hai's movements much.