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

What he saw first, while forcing himself to stay strong, were several lingering shadows of bygone days.

"If you get out from here, you'll definitely escape. Enter one by one, don't crowd. Everyone hurry and grab your oxygen tanks. So many people entering this confined space will definitely lead to oxygen deprivation, so please don't lose your oxygen tanks."

Captain Schmidt's calm voice rang out, accompanied by the rustling sound of footsteps moving around him.

Those things are catching up!

Someone let out a terrified scream, but even the scream sounded weak and feeble, perhaps because of the torment of being subjected to prolonged experiments.

I'll be the last one; you all go in first.

Amidst the panicked noises of the crowd, Schmidt's voice remained clear and calm, as if he were completely unaware of anything amiss.

In other words, did this guy who assisted in many horrific and dark experiments end up covering the deaths of the poor people who were used as test subjects?

As Gao Hai was thinking this, he then heard a sound from further behind.

[Is everyone in? I'll bring up the rear. Hmm, what's this all about?]

Those things are very fast; we can't escape if we're all crammed into the passageway like this. I just saw them; they're interested in fresh meat. So you have to stay; you can't come with us.

Oh, and your helmet and oxygen tank too, give them to us. You can't keep them.

Bang! Bang bang—

After the gunshot, a figure slowly fell to the ground.

Something entered the dormitory room, twisted and deformed, something whose appearance could not be clearly seen in this flashback, and was immediately drawn to Schmidt lying in a pool of blood.

As for those who stole the helmets and oxygen tanks, although they successfully escaped into the tunnel, Gao Hai could clearly see that something else was following them. It seemed unlikely that these survivors would escape alive; they were destined to die here, just like the other abandoned people.

Unlike the situations at Fujika Junior High School and Hayate Elementary School, where everything spiraled out of control and everyone perished, the abandonment of the Bydos Research Institute was carried out proactively by Urian's men, with various pre-planned measures in place. Therefore, those deliberately left behind had absolutely no chance of escaping alive; whatever they did would have led to the same outcome.

[Oh... so that's how it ended up...]

The image gradually blurred and then disappeared. The small hole, which had been dug out without anyone knowing how, was now empty; nothing was left behind.

{Senior, let's begin}

Seeing the firm tone of the voice, Gao Hai thought.

We... are about to be together...

And so... finally... we're inseparable...

Meanwhile, Maki and Kaguya's voices, accompanied by a gradually intensifying force pulling at their bodies, also began to become more prominent.

{Please hold on as much as possible. I will try my best to support your mental well-being with my blessings, so please hang in there!}

The next moment, Takami completely released Chiyo Hachiya's spiritual blessing, linking his spiritual world with that of Miko Yotsuya, whom he had already regarded as "family," so that their minds could achieve their intended effect at that moment.

In an instant, Gao Hai felt the painful cries of Miko herself in her mental world.

In that instant, he also saw what Yotsuya Miko herself had seen.

That's...blood.

It is surging, cohesive, and filled with all sorts of incomplete, filthy, and twisted blood.

It is a blood pool filled in the central area of ​​the underground base, with an extremely large area, which is no exaggeration to call it a large lake.

Maki and Kaguya's hands reached out from the pool of blood.

Then, Gao Hai felt himself being grabbed by those two small hands and dragged little by little into the blood pool.

"So...you were here..."

Gao Hai, who had almost lost his ability to speak, murmured a sigh at this moment.

Chapter 91: The Painful Path of Peeping and the Last Words of Two Girls

The courtyard is the blood pool, and the blood pool is the courtyard.

These two key locations, situated in different instance areas, are actually spatially connected.

As for how Maki and Kaguya triggered the spatial connection, transferring them from the courtyard area to the blood pool and transforming them into their current state, Gao Hai still had no idea. But gazing at the boundless crimson color before him and the broken pieces of corpses churning in the blood, Gao Hai had gained a deeper understanding of the connection between Yoruyama Middle School and the Baytos Research Institute, and also understood his current situation.

Stay!

Join us, join us!

The girl's murmurs still echoed in my ears.

The voices were so sweet, so intoxicating, even though he knew perfectly well that they had been completely replaced in essence and were no longer the girls he knew.

Head up.

In essence, Takahashi, who was observing this place from Miko's perspective, raised his head and looked at the humanoid objects above the blood pool, each with its limbs and most of its organs severed and enveloped in black matter.

I finally saw it for real.

The so-called "monitors" look like.

The surgically created live chunks of flesh, combined with mutilated parts from students of Nightfall Mountain Middle School, and crucial divine blood.

The power of the spirit manifested in the real world, and these half-dead people were manipulated into entering Yelu Mountain Middle School in the "dream," and were also projected to two other schools through various means, becoming the eyes that monitored these three places.

The body that moves in Bydos is actually just another layer of dream, only this dream is deeper. It is a dream manifested in neon that continues to dream, thus returning to the false body formed by Bydos.

However, the line between falsehood and reality is not very important here.

Therefore, performing further brain surgery on the "dream within a dream" to more precisely control those "dreams" located in the neon area—something that sounds incredibly incredible—is indeed a feasible operation within this research institute.

Urian... Kenichi Egaya...

How these two madmen reached this cooperation is now difficult to ascertain in detail. However, it is certain that Kenichi Egani was fully aware of and tacitly approved of the appearance of those "dreams" at Yoruyama Middle School. From this perspective, it can be argued that Kenichi Egani has effectively betrayed the stance of "Takamagahara," which is enough to demonstrate just how insane this guy, who has now become part of the "Kwaidan Club," has gone for that elusive ideal.

Gao Hai, or rather Jian Zi, lowered her head once again, looking at the churning sea of ​​blood.

In that sea of ​​blood were many corpses, incomplete and gradually dissolving.

The vast majority of the bodies were undoubtedly those still wearing school uniforms. Conversely, there were significantly fewer bodies dressed as test subjects or in protective suits. Furthermore, among the student corpses, a large proportion were clearly female students. This suggests that Eriko Asamoto likely played a significant role in the operation of this blood pool.

More and more information began to flood into my consciousness.

It was clear that Miko's consciousness was suffering severe damage, and even with Takami's protection, her will was nearing its limit.

Of course, Gao Hai's own situation wasn't much better.

{Hold on...}

The part of myself is being torn apart little by little.

Memory, personality, emotions... everything that makes up [Gao Hai] is crumbling bit by bit in the face of this irresistible, absolute power.

That is the blood of God.

He is not God himself.

He has no will of his own.

He does not have any specific purpose for action.

It merely exists here, nurtured by human greed and arrogance, like bacteria spreading and expanding, growing into its current form.

That's all...

That would be enough to completely shatter Takahashi and Miko's mental defenses, utterly disintegrating them here.

However, we cannot back down yet; it is not time to give up.

{Hold on...}

Gao Hai continued speaking to Jianzi through the mental link.

We'll see it soon.

He could already sense that he was about to see that thing.

That thing hidden at the very bottom of the blood pool, something that has never seen the light of day.

That crucial thing, lost from the abyss, needs to be returned, needs to be given back to the gods.

Things that shouldn't have been taken out of the hotel, things that shouldn't have appeared in this world.

It's still here.

This is the very thing that drove Urian mad, making him arrogantly want to exercise divine authority.

【Haijun, you've finally arrived?】

Dark red chunks of meat floated to the surface from the blood.

【Haijun, let's be together forever】

There was a surging, viscous, dissolving flesh and blood that touched his body.

what.

So I've already arrived here?

In a daze, Gao Hai temporarily escaped Miko's perspective and realized that he had fallen into the blood-red tide.

"Gurgle...woo..."

His body sank underwater.

The rate of dissolution of the skin and flesh accelerated again.

From all directions, layer upon layer of things resembling rotten flesh and pulp had already surrounded them.

{Senpai...uh...senpai...}

Jianzi clearly realized the situation with Gao Hai, and the originally stable blessing link began to fluctuate slightly.

{Continue...find that thing...}

The link was re-established in the next moment.

The girl sensed Gao Hai's stubbornly persistent consciousness.

And his body was being dissolved little by little, gnawed away bit by bit, leaving it fragmented and broken.

Plop... Plop...