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

Therefore, Gao Hai inexplicably triggers the rules of the supernatural entity on his own, and inexplicably falls under the curse of the paper doll. This is why Zhen Fei and the others can smoothly reach the mountain god temple, only to lose their ability to move due to a single sentence from a villager. This is because, given their debt to the village, it's a logical and expected outcome, conforming to the established rules.

Li Family Village… Liu Family Village… what two opposing villages? These villagers could probably travel to another village in another dimension at any time if they wanted. They are living people, yet not entirely living people. These people and this Red Moon-level instance coexist and thrive together. They possess reason and can, to a certain extent, manipulate strange powers. They use the instance's power to lure outsiders in, then use its rules to kill them, turning them into some kind of sacrifice, thereby gaining their own benefits?!

So he thought the villagers wouldn't know about the bomb he released, but they actually knew all along that the source was him, which is why they cursed him and isolated him because he was dangerous and uncontrollable, preferring not to use him as a sacrifice.

And this paper figure... the curse... a curse specifically targeting the body... and mind...

So that's how it is... I never would have guessed... it would be like this...

Ha... this is really...

Gao Hai's consciousness was almost completely extinguished.

Kita's shouts had become muffled and indistinct, as if they were far away.

From Miko's perspective, several burly villagers, both men and women, had already approached with knives, ready to kill, skin, chop, and plate them.

It seemed as if villagers were watching him from the sidelines, observing him coldly. It appeared that these villagers would continue to monitor him until he was truly transformed and died.

Haha ...

You guys... really enjoy watching it, right?

You... you want to take a knife... and cut up Princess Zhenfei and the others, right?

The second bomb is activated, targeting the mountain temple space where Zhenfei and others are located, with no specific target designated for immunity.

The third bomb is activated, targeting the high seas, with no specific target immune to damage.

Fourth...tsk, my blood has been completely transformed, making it impossible to condense the fourth bomb. Looks like I'll have to let you off a little easier this time...

Now, I hope you enjoy these fireworks...

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Boom, boom, boom! ! !

The power of blessing was released violently, accompanying Gao Hai's last fading will.

The surging light and flames engulfed everything in an instant, spreading wildly with a roar.

The earth trembled violently. At that moment, both the village filled with countless paper figures and the mountain god temple where many villagers gathered exploded in the flames and were shattered by the violently spreading shockwave.

At that final moment, what Gao Hai heard was a violent explosion that almost destroyed his hearing in an instant, and a barely perceptible laugh.

【Ah】

Despite the terrifying and violent explosion, the laughter could not be completely concealed and still clearly reached his ears, making Gao Hai feel a chill run down his spine.

laughter……

That was...whose...laughter...?

Saw something.

Even though his body and consciousness were shattered and dissipated in the explosion, he could still clearly see something.

Burning flames, broken trees, collapsed temples.

And the unharmed, towering statue of God, gazing at him with a smile playing on its lips.

Hehehe

Chapter Twenty: The Blessing Power of Resurrection and the Unscrupulous

Little by little, consciousness gradually cleared from the hazy, indistinct light and shadow.

It seems you can see the burning flames, the ruins of villages shattered by the violent explosion, and the forest that has been charred black.

I can't feel my body.

But the ego has not completely collapsed.

Sight...hearing...remain to some extent, but touch and smell have been completely lost. But that's for the best. Just looking at the dense smoke and flames around us, we can already imagine the high temperature and choking smell here, so not being able to feel them is a good thing.

In short, it seems that he is not dead yet.

Gao Hai regained consciousness in his dazed state and realized the truth.

Why am I not dead yet?

The body had already vaporized and annihilated in the ultra-high temperature and shock wave of the bomb, leaving no trace.

Even with the physical attributes of a Red Moon-level player, one would still be incredibly vulnerable to the explosive power of aerial bombs—a lethal weapon created by modern human civilization, and a blessed version at that—making survival virtually impossible.

Of course, this was Gao Hai's own choice. After all, if he hadn't done it, his girlfriends would have been disemboweled and used as sacrifices by those strange villagers, something he could never accept. As for himself, under the curse of the paper figures, more than 90% of his body had already been transformed into a paper structure, reaching an irreversible and certain death state, so self-destruction wasn't a bad thing.

To be honest, Gao Hai was quite surprised that he could still maintain his thinking ability given the situation. He was certain that he had lost the complete brain structure necessary for normal human thought, and his entire brain might have been gone. However, he only felt that his thinking speed had slowed down and he had difficulty thinking normally, rather than becoming a vegetable. Thinking about it carefully, it's quite amazing.

Could it be that because he has been continuously strengthened after becoming a player, he has to some extent overcome the weaknesses of the human body, and even if he loses the organs, muscles or nerves corresponding to the control of bodily functions, he will not die immediately, but can temporarily endure it through a more mysterious non-material structure such as the [soul]?

Gao Hai felt that if these questions were given to a scientist to study, they might be able to produce dozens of top-notch papers.

But that's a problem for later. The key question now is, why am I still alive?

The raging flames showed no signs of going out anytime soon.

The ruins of those buildings showed no signs of being repaired.

In other words, it must have happened shortly after the explosion, within about 10 minutes.

Andres's blessing no longer sensed the presence of Maki and the others, but there was nothing he could do about it, since he was the one who killed them this time.

Thinking about it carefully, this seems to be the first time I've sent my wives to heaven... no, to be precise, it's the second time already. The first time was when Chika was liberated from her profound transformation at Yoruyama Middle School. Haha, why did I even bother remembering something like this, something that just thinking about it makes me feel uneasy...

Well, speaking of which, I've also been killed by my own girlfriend a few times, so does that mean we're even?

While pondering, Gao Hai continued to try to activate his existing blessing power, attempting to ascertain his current situation.

Then, very quickly, he found the reason why he was still able to stay conscious.

It is Eriko Asamoto's blessing.

This core obsession from Yelu Mountain Middle School bestowed its main blessings upon Gao Hai and Goto Ichiri. Goto Ichiri received the highest level of blessing, thus retaining the guitar, the object of his obsession. Gao Hai's spatial coordinate blessing differed from the others; he could not only teleport without being observed, but also teleport and fully revive even without anyone confirming his survival status.

It turned out to be the case.

Because I was vaporized in the intense heat and light of the bomb explosion, no supernatural beings came to confirm whether I was dead or alive.

Once I'm actually killed in the explosion, because my body will have vaporized, even if something comes to investigate, it won't be able to confirm my death because it can't find my body. Therefore, by dying through vaporization, I can activate this blessed immortality and maintain my existence for a period of time.

Wow, that's interesting. This blessing can be interpreted from this perspective.

In the midst of these reflections, the power of blessings has already been activated.

After receiving this blessing, Gao Hai naturally couldn't help but set the coordinates for the spatial teleportation beforehand. In fact, he had already completed the coordinate setting shortly after entering the instance, and his location was not far from the notice board in the [Li Family Village] space.

At the time, he thought that the place in the ghost story instance where he could get the first rule table should be relatively safe under normal circumstances, so it could serve as a return point. He could easily change to a more suitable place later. However, it turned out that he was being driven forward step by step, and it seemed that he had very little room to maneuver from beginning to end. Even when he sent out the "Teacher" to investigate, he didn't get many valuable clues.

However, in the end, this first playthrough was flawed from the very beginning, so it's only natural that it ended this way.

hum-

open one's eyes.

Gao Hai had already spotted the notice board not far away.

His body has been restored to its full strength under the power of the blessing. In addition, it seems that because the previous evaporation of flesh and blood eliminated the curse of the paper doll, Gao Hai's restored body is completely normal, a flesh and blood body without any problems.

Well, it's not entirely without problems, since all the clothes are gone and it's a bit chilly.

"Can't the clothes be restored? This blessing doesn't quite understand the way of harmony."

As Gao Hai was reflecting on this, a rescue team uniform materialized around him, the team badge on his chest gleaming. Then, the figures of police officers appeared beside him. He stood up, turned his head slightly, and picked up the invitation that had fallen beside him, which remained undamaged even after the explosion, and put it in his pocket.

{Hmm... I'm not dead? Ugh, what's going on...}

Kita Ikuyo's somewhat puzzled voice rang out beside her. As Takami recovered, the red-haired girl who had existed in Takami's consciousness naturally recovered as well.

Gao Hai didn't care too much about this. With most of his teammates already dead, leaving only himself, the little ghost, and Yi Li, whose whereabouts were still unknown, Gao Hai knew that he didn't have much room for maneuver anymore. The first playthrough of this dungeon was now completely ruined.

In that case, we don't need to worry too much about the success or failure of the next action.

This time, Gao Hai decided to storm the village directly.

Considering the bizarre and illogical rule previously displayed by the Li family patriarch—"If you receive benefits from us, you must repay them; if you don't, you must compensate us"—this instance is undoubtedly unsolvable unless its boundaries and loopholes are discovered. After all, whether you accept the gifts from [Li Family Village] or not, you will be judged as violating the rules, and your body will be controlled by these villagers, leaving you helplessly watching yourself die.

Gao Hai didn't believe that there were any flawless, absolutely invincible rules in this world, so he wanted to go back again. He wanted to use his life to test what the flaws in these little brats' abilities were.

Mr. Gao, the four girls... could it be that they've already...?

Because the two mental links were not interconnected, Kita did not witness Maki and the others being vaporized by the aerial bombs. However, she did see the two simultaneous explosions, and thus had a vague idea of ​​what might have happened.

Don't worry, they'll be fine.

Takami simply replied to Kita in a calm tone.

{Are you alright? No, I'm not a child, Mr. Gao. The explosion just now, they…}

Kita was taken aback by Takami's attitude, then frowned and retorted, but hesitated to make a definitive statement.

{When I said I'm fine, I really mean it. Weren't you always curious? I told you, right? I resolved all the core obsessions in the Nightfall Mountain Middle School dungeon in a very short time. This process seems incomprehensible to you, doesn't it? Soon you'll find out exactly how I successfully cleared it.}

As Gao Hai spoke, he and the police officer beside him, holding pistols, advanced toward the village ahead.

The "Teacher," who remained in the village, had re-established contact with Gao Hai through the rescue team badge. Gao Hai could clearly see that Li Family Village was now desolate, with almost no villager activity. Many villagers' corpses lay scattered across the ruined square, uncollected, and the houses were nearly deserted. Naturally, the activity of the players who should have been there was also almost imperceptible.

A significant portion of the village houses have collapsed, and the woodland leading to the mountain god temple is now a wasteland. The two aerial bombs that Gao Hai released in his desperate moment clearly affected Li Family Village on this side, causing even more severe damage to the village that had just suffered a major disaster.

It seems that, unlike the self-repairing [Liu Family Village], [Li Family Village], inhabited by living villagers, has difficulty self-repairing after being damaged. The loss of villagers seems to exacerbate the problem. Perhaps it's precisely because I released the first aerial bomb to disrupt the ritual earlier that [Li Family Village] exhibited such a violent and abnormal reaction, killing so many players as sacrifices and relentlessly annihilating Gao Hai's team, who might have gone further.

If that's the case, then these villagers seem quite vulnerable. Is it because even though this instance has established a supernatural mechanism that is extremely advantageous to them, practically invincible, they are ultimately just ordinary humans? But Li Ziyong has indeed been resurrected, so it's definitely wrong to simply understand them as ordinary humans. They should still be able to use various supernatural powers, but using these powers may require a huge price, so they don't use them easily in normal times.

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As Gao Hai pondered this, he slowly walked towards the village ahead.

He made no attempt to conceal his presence, swaggering forward openly. Therefore, Gao Hai was certain that he had been discovered by the villagers. And Li Ziyong and Li Duosun, if they had already resurrected, should be prepared to face his attack, right?

Gao Hai was still somewhat curious about how these villagers would deal with him.

The previous paper doll curse and isolation were already formidable killing moves, but two aerial bombs would still leave these guys with little advantage. Although Gao Hai only had one fourth aerial bomb left, which required sacrificing his life to activate, he estimated that the villagers weren't very confident and couldn't be sure how many aerial bombs he had left to use.

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