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

Their eyes met at that moment.

The hatred and resentment in the bloodshot eyes, bulging from their sockets from the violent impact and about to fall out, were transmitted to the girl's senses with unparalleled clarity at that moment.

Why pretend you can't see it?

She heard the sobbing voice asking a question.

Then, she saw the figure fall.

She heard a heavy thud, and the sound of something shattering.

It seemed that faint crying followed, along with painful gasps and the sound of something struggling and crawling, all occurring at the same time.

bang——

The next sound was the sound of something smashing open the dormitory door.

Startled, Jianzi turned around and looked towards the dark dormitory entrance. There she saw a tall figure standing in the darkness, its limbs twisted, its head broken, and covered in blood. It was definitely not the appearance of a living person.

Then, in the next instant, without giving Jianzi any time to react, the figure stepped into the dormitory and was right in front of her in the blink of an eye. The distance between them instantly closed to an extremely close level, close enough for her to see the other person's bloodshot eyes, which were almost about to fall out of their sockets, and the trembling brain tissue in the shattered skull.

Chapter Twenty-One: The Terrifying Monster That Inevitably Kills Upon Seeing It and the Guitar Girl's Move

Gao Hai was a little embarrassed.

At this moment, he and Jianzi were hiding at the bottom of the stairs, debating whether to go upstairs or downstairs.

The story is actually quite simple. After being instantly killed by the female ghost who jumped off the building, with all her bones shattered and her head flattened, Gao Hai's blessing was automatically activated, thus entering a state of invincibility for 10 minutes.

Then, considering the unreasonable instant kill mechanism of the female ghost who jumped off the building, Gao Hai immediately thought of Jian Zi, a pitiful girl with extremely strong intuition who was very easy to attract ghosts, so he simply left his dormitory and ran out to find her.

Although Gao Hai was in a terrible state at the time, with not a single bone in his body intact, the blessing was, after all, an unreasonable supernatural power. Therefore, even though he looked as if he were dead beyond any possibility and could not move at all, Gao Hai could still control his body to move forward in a way similar to manipulating a puppet, and at this time he could even run faster than he would under normal circumstances.

Upon reaching the 5th floor, Gao Hai, considering that Maki had gained the ability to see the survival rules in the main teaching building after obtaining the second [Strange Tales Club Recruitment Poster], first knocked on the door of room 503 to try and check the situation inside. He found that the person inside seemed to be completely asleep, and there was no response no matter how much he knocked. Gao Hai didn't consider forcibly breaking down the door. After all, he had the Blood Key, a universal door-opening tool; it could open any door with a keyhole, regardless of the lock.

Upon opening the door, Takahashi discovered that both Maki and Kaguya were in a deep sleep and could not be woken up no matter how he called them. It seemed that their consciousness was no longer in their bodies but had been projected to some other place.

Perhaps they entered [Baidos] after falling asleep?

Realizing this, Gao Hai stopped trying to wake Maki and Kaguya. Instead, he cautiously investigated the other two beds where the monsters were sleeping. He found that the two beds were empty, just like in his dormitory. The students, played by the monsters, disappeared after the lights were turned off.

Moreover, as Gao Hai opened the dormitory door and stayed inside for longer periods of time, he began to sense some kind of abnormal change in the dormitory itself, so he had no choice but to leave the dormitory and close the door.

Next, he went to room 508 where Jianzi was staying.

Before he could even open the door, Gao Hai felt a chilling, eerie aura emanating from inside.

Realizing something was wrong, he opened the dormitory door and saw Jianzi standing by the window with a dazed expression inside the open washroom door, and a figure falling from the window.

It's that female ghost who jumped off the building!

Realizing that Miko had been targeted by the monster, Gao Hai didn't hesitate for even half a second. He rushed to Miko's face, grabbed her, and took her outside.

Well, in essence, Gao Hai undoubtedly wanted to protect Jianzi and had no ill intentions whatsoever.

However, there was a small problem that he didn't notice in his anxiety.

That was the man who rushed up to Jianzi at that moment, covered in blood, with shattered bones, a deformed body, and half of his head collapsed.

Seeing that her son didn't cry out.

When Gao Hai led her to the stairwell and rushed her to the stairwell between the 5th and 6th floors, carefully listening and observing whether there was any crawling or wriggling sound on the 5th floor, Jianzi just sat beside Gao Hai, silently shedding tears.

It wasn't until she gently sniffed that Gao Hai noticed something was wrong with the girl. He turned around and saw her face covered in tears.

It's clear that this girl had suffered a significant shock. But thinking about it, it's not entirely incomprehensible. After all, it's difficult for any normal person to remain rational in the face of a bloodied, mangled figure suddenly rushing at you, grabbing you, and running away.

However, it's clear now that the girl has realized the situation and recognized that the terrifying blood-soaked figure is actually Gao Hai, so she has calmed down. However, the tear stains on her face obviously won't dry so quickly, which is why Gao Hai noticed something was amiss.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

Gao Hai apologized quietly.

"..."

Seeing that Zi didn't speak, but only shook her head slightly, she was still very vigilant. Even though she was certain that the person in front of her was Gao Hai, she remained silent, trying her best to ensure that the "communication" between the two would not take place.

Seeing that the other party remained calm, Gao Hai didn't say much, but simply hid at the stairwell to continue observing the situation.

squeak-

The door opened faster than Gao Hai had expected.

He could hear something entering Miko's dormitory, like the sound of clothes rubbing against the floor, slowly, inching forward.

The thing didn't seem to be moving very fast; it was just moving slowly.

But when Gao Hai realized something was wrong, he discovered that the wriggling sound wasn't coming from far away in Jianzi's dormitory room, but directly from the stairwell where he and Jianzi were hiding.

When did they arrive? I didn't even notice!

A strong sense of terror instantly filled my nerves.

Without the slightest hesitation, Gao Hai grabbed Jianzi and moved swiftly towards the sixth floor, while simultaneously summoning Howard's figure through his badge, ordering him to charge down the stairs in an attempt to block the jumping ghost's movement.

In the blink of an eye, Gao Hai had moved to the stairwell on the sixth floor.

But the rescue team members who rushed to the fourth floor did not see the strange object that had jumped off the building.

Through the shared line of sight, Gao Hai could confirm that the rescue team member had passed through the area from which the wriggling sound came, but Gao Hai had no way of seeing the thing through the rescue team member's line of sight.

Could it be... that it's invisible when it moves?

Thinking this with surprise, Gao Hai saw a head peeking out from below the stairs the next moment.

The creature, with disheveled hair, brain matter and blood flowing through it, and covered in filth, was missing half a human head.

It should have been one of the students at this school. Its terrifying face still retains a trace of its former beauty, though it is no longer the same as it once was.

Gao Hai's gaze met its only remaining eye.

Even though his 10-minute invincibility period hadn't ended, he felt an indescribable sense of terror at this moment.

The monster's pupils seemed to hold endless resentment, as if this terrifying creature had completely transformed its own existence into resentment itself.

How exactly did such a thing come into being?

Why would there be such a thing inside a dormitory building...?

"Ugh?!"

Seeing the suppressed gasp from the person beside him, Gao Hai felt an even stronger sense of danger.

He turned his head.

The woman's face, half covered in blood, was right in front of him, her pupils almost bulging out of their sockets, staring intently at him.

When did it crawl up to my side?

No, that's not right...

Distance is meaningless to this thing.

Gao Hai understood at that moment.

The only rule for the "female ghost who jumps off the building" in the dormitory building is "gazing." It doesn't even need the person it's watching to be aware of its existence. As long as its gaze is locked on the person it wants to kill, it is already beside that person and there is no way to shake it off.

In other words, if his 10-minute invincibility period hadn't ended, he would have been instantly killed the moment its head emerged from the stairwell and saw him. This process might have a slight delay and wouldn't happen immediately, but once the "gaze" was complete, his death was an inevitable outcome, regardless of how he tried to escape before the rules took effect.

Now, because he is in an "immortal" state, it has directly caused it to follow him around, as if possessed, and he cannot get rid of it no matter where he goes.

Why pretend you can't see it?

Whispers rang in Gao Hai's ears.

The voice seemed to be asking Gao Hai a question, but it also seemed to be just talking to itself.

Since Yotsuya Miko was not targeted by the monster's gaze, she was still able to move freely. After hesitating for a moment, she wanted to rush up to rescue Takami.

But before that, a leisurely guitar melody reached the ears of Takahashi and Miko.

hum-

The gaze of that deformed, grotesque creature was forcibly deflected at that moment.

History has been changed.

Gao Hai was no longer alone when he entered the fifth floor. On his way there, he encountered a clone created by Goto Ichiri to investigate. After rescuing Miko, this clone was at the very back of the group and thus was noticed by the monster before Gao Hai, shielding him from the chilling killing intent that momentarily threatened him.

"go!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Gao Hai immediately grabbed Jianzi's arm and led her into the corridor on the 6th floor.

A dormitory door opened silently, revealing a pitch-black room with no sign of anyone inside. This seemed highly suspicious, but Gao Hai and Jian Zi had no other choice. They rushed into the dormitory room before the thing turned around and quickly closed the door.

The bathroom door in this dormitory was closed, so the dormitory was pitch black, almost to the point where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

crunch - crunch -

The unsettling sound, which immediately brought to Gao Hai's mind the writhing, eerie creature's voice, rang out in the corridor outside after a few seconds and then quickly disappeared.

It seemed that this thing had also opened a dormitory door on the sixth floor, and Gao Hai suspected that it might be room 604, where Goto Ichiri himself lived. However, it seemed that the thing just circled around the dormitory and then slipped away without doing anything. Well, even if it wanted to do something, it was too late now.

After all, this socially anxious person was already beside him.

Thinking this, Takahashi turned his head and looked at Goto Ichiri, who was standing not far behind him, gently strumming the guitar strings, and who instantly tensed up because of his gaze.

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Formation of the Three-Man Team and the Selection of the Next Direction

23:06

6th floor, dormitory 606.

Gao Hai leaned against the door, listening carefully to the sounds outside for a while. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the strange creature had moved away from the floor. Then he turned to look at the two girls beside him.

Miko Yotsuya was now slumped on the ground. Even after the trials of Fujika Junior High School, the terror of being so close to a deadly monster was still too much for her. Although she was trembling with fear, Miko didn't scream once from beginning to end, remaining silent and not paralyzed by fear.

"Is everything okay?"