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

What I just felt—whose memories and power did they originate from? No, this feeling…it wasn't just one; I seem to be influenced by multiple strange forces. Could these dreams reveal any hidden information?

Mountain God... Fox Queen...

In that bloody scene just now, I saw the fox spirit, holding a child, looking just like a deity like Guanyin, the goddess of fertility. Although her true nature is completely opposite to her appearance, just looking at the surface... wait, this strange feeling... I seem to have seen something similar when I encountered that eerie creature, the mountain god of Little Black Mountain?

hum-

My thoughts, which had just cleared up for a short while, have become chaotic again for some reason.

Something is influencing Gao Hai's self-awareness.

Something he couldn't see, something that was separated from him by a certain distance, yet something that had already established a connection with him in some substantial way.

At first, the feeling was very slight, so slight that Gao Hai couldn't perceive what it was at all, but he vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

But then, the instant the crimson light exploded in the darkness, he immediately realized he had encountered something.

Flowers.

Crimson flowers bloom in the darkness.

One vine after another began to spread, and more blood-red flowers bloomed, displaying a terrifying yet beautiful crimson hue.

This thing appeared again, taking the initiative to come to Gao Hai when he was completely unprepared.

hum-

The ear-piercing noise continued.

The dark world was gradually replaced by a blood-red world.

More and more crimson flowers bloomed, gradually approaching Gao Hai's location, closing in from all directions.

That was His breath.

That was His intimate aura.

That's love.

That was flawless love.

Regardless of the ultimate outcome for humanity, at least for now it can still be called love, pure love.

Yes, isn't this the most perfect love?

What could be more beautiful than such wonderful love?

……

But it won't work...

This thing must not be accepted here...

Reject it...reject it...it must be rejected...

At this moment, Gao Hai's consciousness was more focused than ever before, and his mental energy was completely concentrated, like an indestructible fortress protecting his thoughts.

We can withstand it!

In what seemed like only a few seconds, yet also like several hours had passed, Gao Hai took a deep breath, confirming that he was able to resist that thing.

Perhaps because the encounter was in a dream rather than in reality, or perhaps because some kind of seal had not been completely broken, the power of the blood-red flower did not directly destroy Gao Hai as it did in the second playthrough. Instead, it was successfully resisted and expelled from Gao Hai's mental world.

The blood-red color slowly disappeared without a trace.

Complete darkness enveloped everything again, as if nothing had ever happened, and everything had returned to normal.

But why did I trigger the power of the Blood Flower again?

I've already adjusted my memories, and from the third playthrough until now, the power of the Blood Flower hasn't bothered me.

Gao Hai vaguely sensed that something was amiss.

Then, he suddenly sensed a peculiar aura.

An aura that should have been by his side, but disappeared in this third playthrough, and whose location has yet to be found.

He could sense that the other person was rapidly approaching him.

{senior!}

The shouts drew rapidly closer in the darkness.

{Senior! Senior! Senior!}

It seemed very excited, but at the same time, it was like a malfunctioning machine, repeatedly playing the same sentences one after another, making it unclear what was going on.

Is that aura approaching me now, or is it Yotsuya Miko?

In the darkness of his dream, Gao Hai tried to find the source of the voice, to find where Yotsuya Miko should be. But in the blink of an eye, he found himself in a completely new place, a place he didn't have a strong impression of, but which seemed familiar yet strangely familiar.

It's a rather simple girl's bedroom, it seems... to be Miko's bedroom.

Gao Hai blinked, sat up from the bed in the bedroom, and looked around.

That's right, this is Yotsuya Miko's house, and this is her bedroom.

Gao Hai hadn't actually been to this place much. In the real world, he had only entered this bedroom a few times when he visited Jianzi's house, but he had never stayed there for an extended period of time.

Despite saying that, Gao Hai actually had a very deep impression of this place. The reason for this deep impression was a strange dream he had almost every night during his breaks between dungeons. In that dream, Gao Hai would always see Yotsuya Miko, and he would always become intimate with her. The place of intimacy was usually Miko's own bedroom, just like the one he was seeing now.

So why did I come to this place, and why did I see this scene?

Thinking this, Gao Hai turned his head and saw Jianzi opening her arms and hugging him tightly.

"Um?!"

Before he could even utter a questioning sound, the girl's head came up to him, and then, just like it had happened countless times in his dreams, Takami and Miko started playing a game of tying cherries into knots.

Wait, wait, wait, isn't something wrong? I'm already in a dungeon, how can I still be having this kind of dream?!

Gao Hai instinctively cooperated with Jian Zi for a while, and then subconsciously pushed her down onto the bed while holding her shoulders. He suddenly woke up and realized that he seemed to have gotten used to it.

No, this dream I'm having is too strange; I can't go along with it.

In non-routine dungeon moments, Gao Hai wouldn't do something like letting his second brother control the eldest, so he immediately planned to get out of bed to check the situation around him.

But before Gao Hai could react, in the brief moment of his stunned thought, Jian Zi grabbed Gao Hai's wrist, then forcefully flipped him over and pinned him to the bed. He even pinned down Gao Hai's hands with one hand and braced his legs with the other, unleashing an incredibly powerful force that rendered Gao Hai immobile.

what?

The unexpected situation left Gao Hai stunned.

Does this mean that the next development of this dream will involve forced gameplay?

As Gao Hai was thinking this, he saw Jianzi slowly lower her head, smile at him, and open her small mouth.

Then a blood-red flower grew out of the girl's mouth.

Chapter 51: The Twisted Love Revealed in the Dream and the Clues from Seeing the Child

To be honest, there was a moment when Gao Hai's mind went blank.

One second the girl was being affectionate with you, the next she suddenly showed her monstrous side. Even though Gao Hai's mental fortitude is now far beyond that of a human, he still doesn't know how to react to such a malicious situation.

However, no matter what he is thinking right now, the "girl" who is holding him down will not stop what she is doing.

Senior, I love you...

The girl lowered her head and kissed Gao Hai on the lips.

The wriggling vines in her mouth quickly spread out, extending all the way to Gao Hai's mouth and growing from his throat into his body.

"Well……"

There was no way to resist.

The creature before him, or rather, the thing appearing in the form of Yotsuya Miko, far surpassed Takahiro in physical attributes. Even though his willpower was extraordinary, and even though his mental strength in the dream far exceeded that of a Red Moon-level player, he was still powerless against this thing.

His hands and feet were held down tightly.

The power of the blood flower had already grown and spread within his body, taking root in his flesh and blood, and in his mind.

Even if they can still put up some resistance now, as these things penetrate deeper and spread further, the situation will likely only get worse.

【Senior...Senior...】

The girl's golden eyes were filled with a mesmerizing look.

Her strength seemed to have increased, so much so that Gao Hai felt like his bones were about to be crushed.

The surrounding scenery had changed once again, without anyone noticing.

The simple bedroom that once belonged to Miko Yotsuya has been transformed into a desolate wasteland overgrown with weeds.

The twisted vines were still spreading inside her body.

The murmuring sound grew clearer and clearer in my ears.

Senior... I love you... I love you...

Let's stay together forever... let's stay together forever with this flower that grows within us...

We can be inseparable forever... always together... forever... forever...

I can feel the gradual changes happening inside my body.

As the alien entity penetrated deeper, Gao Hai, whose body had already been eroded by it once during his second playthrough, found that his body seemed to resonate with it more easily and become more susceptible to its parasitism.

If I weren't in a dream where my mental strength is more prominent, I probably would have died much faster in the real world than I did in my second playthrough if I had encountered such an attack.

In other words, is the body's adaptation to this thing irreversible?

Gao Hai understood.

【Blood Flower】, this is a mystery, we don’t know what it is, and it cannot be changed by the black watch’s time rewind.

In the previous playthrough, he had already been parasitized by this thing. Even though he changed that fact by rewinding the game, returning to a state before he was parasitized, the Blood Flower had already memorized what Gao Hai's flesh felt like and the characteristics of his body.

Therefore, when he enters a new playthrough and encounters the power of the [Blood Flower] again, this strange entity that has memorized his body will be able to parasitize his body more quickly and control him more rapidly. Moreover, if Gao Hai cannot complete the game quickly, and if he has to go through multiple playthroughs, then with each encounter between the [Blood Flower] and him, this thing will continuously accumulate memories about Gao Hai, and may even completely break through all the weaknesses of his body and soul, thus achieving instant parasitism.

In other words, this is a life-or-death race. In the [Infant Cry Village] instance, with each death and restart, Gao Hai's growth and experience will no longer be limited to himself. This twisted entity, manifested as blood-red flower vines, will gain increasingly stronger special attacks against Gao Hai with each rollback. If he cannot overcome this obstacle, it will become increasingly invincible to him as the game progresses.

Ha, that's really funny.