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

Then there's no reason to stop, let's just finish it all in one go!

Xiao Hua's movements became faster and faster.

At this moment, she completely abandoned her girlish reserve and began to devour the food on the table with great gusto.

Small, finely chopped vegetables are simply poured into the mouth.

For relatively large pieces of food, just pick them up and bite into them directly.

They would pick up and drink soup or similar foods.

Xiaohua had never tried such a hearty way of eating before, but it felt wonderful, truly wonderful. Especially as she increasingly felt the warmth building up in her body and sensed a certain power awakening with each bite, she couldn't stop.

As for the eerie shadow behind her, it hadn't made a move yet, seemingly just silently observing. But if Xiaohua turned to observe, she would notice that the shadow was swaying slightly, as if Xiaohua's single-handedly consuming food for several people had somehow impacted it, causing some kind of malfunction in its operation.

"call……"

Finally, after spending more than half an hour, the more than twenty dishes of various sizes on the table were all turned into empty plates.

Having accomplished this feat, Xiao Hua picked up a tissue from the table and wiped his mouth, his expression revealing undisguised satisfaction.

I wonder if I'll ever have another experience like this, where I can eat to my heart's content without any worries.

Regardless, at least this time, Xiaohua was truly satisfied. She had never eaten so much food in one go without worrying about being stuffed. This feeling was simply wonderful. This eerie world didn't seem so bad after all. Although the underworld could truly be the underworld, the problem was that this place provided food. And it was genuinely delicious food, not some cheap and shoddy stuff, but dishes made with real care.

"Thank you so much, it's delicious!"

Xiaohua bowed deeply to the dining table to express her gratitude. When she looked up again, all the bowls and chopsticks on the table had disappeared, leaving only a clean table.

Was it cleaned up so quickly? Ah, no, no, I can't think like that. The world where ghost stories appear is inherently unreasonable. These plates should have disappeared.

So, did that thing disappear too?

Still a little worried, Xiaohua slowly turned around and quickly confirmed that there was nothing behind her. No, it wasn't completely empty. In the room behind her, Xiaohua found a kitchen apron hanging on the wall. It looked old and dirty, covered in grease stains, so much so that the colorful patterns on the apron had been stained and faded.

This apron is...

Sensing something, Xiao Hua walked up to the apron and noticed a crumpled piece of paper in the apron pocket.

Upon taking it out, the oil-stained paper had a few lines of neat handwriting. Even though the paper itself looked worn by time, the writing was still very clear, although the content was somewhat boring.

[In the morning, I got up to check on my daughter's condition.]

I need to leave before 10 a.m. to buy groceries; I need to prepare lunch for four people today.

Before leaving, I reminded my son to take good care of his younger sister. Will he listen?

Lunch must be prepared before 12:10 PM.

After finishing the meal, I washed the dishes, cleaned the kitchen, and kept an eye on my daughter.

[Continue to take care of my daughter this afternoon, feeding her formula on time, making sure the timing is accurate.]

Cooking starts at 5:50 PM and must be finished by 6:30 PM.

My husband comes home in the evening, and we eat dinner together, but he doesn't do the dishes.

[Continue to take care of your daughter in the evening. You can temporarily take her out to crawl on the floor or let her learn to walk.]

I go to bed at 11 pm, preparing for nighttime urination, as my husband and son both have difficulty taking care of my daughter.

[Today's schedule is roughly planned.]

When will I finally be able to truly fly?

Aside from the last sentence on the note, the content seems to simply reflect the time someone spent in a day.

But because of that sentence, Xiaohua vaguely sensed that something was amiss. Although the girl herself couldn't quite interpret this information, the emotion contained in this sentence, so different from the previous one, was enough for her to guess some possibilities.

Apart from the note, there seemed to be nothing else in the room that caught anyone's attention.

So Xiaohua's gaze finally fell on the second exit of the room.

Completely different from the door we just came through, this one was a crack that had been carved into the wall, an entrance to what, according to the map, seemed to be a passageway leading to the toy room.

Chapter Fourteen: Miko Yotsuya's Decision and the Process of the Curvy Girl's Card Hole Play

Splash—splash—

In the gloomy rain, a faint red light flickered, illuminating two figures who had stopped in front of a mansion.

"Huh...huh..."

Touko Yotsuya, who had been carrying Miko all the way, was already panting heavily. A few minutes earlier, she had carried her daughter and walked a considerable distance through the streets before finally reaching the coordinates given by her phone. This had taken a lot of her energy, and she was now almost unable to stand.

Miko did consider helping, but firstly, there was still an unbroken connection between her and others, and rashly using her power could be discovered; secondly, those strange collapses clearly contained some kind of rule power, and without knowing the specifics, Miko dared not act, not to mention that her power was not the type that could be used to strengthen ordinary people or to take them along.

"Don't rush in yet. Let me check from the outside that all the windows are closed."

Despite being blind, Miko compensated for this with her other senses as a player. After her mother recovered somewhat, she slowly walked around the building while talking to her. After confirming that there were no passages for interaction between the inside and outside of the mansion, she returned to the front door. After observing the surroundings again, she carefully used a wisp of mental energy to condense it into a mental spike and pierce into the interior of the mansion, then materialized it to trigger the doorknob.

After receiving the Blood Blossom Blessing, Miko's blessing was comprehensively enhanced. The mental spikes, which were originally only used to interrupt thought processes, gained the ability to materialize and could be used as weapons to directly attack enemies with physical forms. In this respect, it can be said that Miko has now escaped her status as someone who could only provide support and had no offensive capabilities. Of course, this offensive ability is not very useful in truly high-level games. For Miko, what is truly important is still her perception ability.

squeak-

The girl pushed open the door, went inside after her mother entered, and quickly turned around and closed the door.

As the mansion returned to its sealed-off state, Miko could sense the power that Takami had projected into the city taking effect. The "Rules of the House" began to act on the mansion, giving it the ability to resist the power of strange entities. However, since this house was not Miko's own home, nor was it a familiar place to her, the rules could only be enforced from the perspective of "Miko believing that this place already belonged to her," thus reducing the strength of the rules to a minimum.

Of course, if she fails this time and reloads the save, returning to this house, Miko will receive a higher rule bonus because she already has a basic understanding of the place. However, she doesn't need to consider that right now.

"Jianzi, rest for a while. If Xiaohua is here, I'll go find her."

The mother was worried about her daughter's condition and wanted to help her find a place to sit down and rest.

"It's okay, don't worry about me, Mom. This house isn't safe, so please don't leave my side. Xiaohua is... well, she shouldn't be in any immediate danger. I'll find a way to get her out."

However, Jianzi simply placed a light hand on her mother's shoulder, causing the latter to sit on the ground. Jianzi herself also bent down and sat on the ground in the first-floor corridor, bathed in the faint red light emitted by her phone.

I can sense Xiaohua's presence.

At the same time, one can also sense that part of the house's structure has indeed become a different space.

Seeing that Zi subconsciously wanted to try to find Xiao Hua's exact location using her own strength, she quickly realized something and showed a surprised expression, followed by an awkward, wry smile that was both funny and exasperating.

I'm afraid I can't help Xiaohua much.

This strange object, which occupies part of the house and transforms it into a dungeon area, should be at the Twilight level, with the strength of a Twilight-level core obsession.

Xiao Hua is now deeply trapped within the opponent's domain, making it difficult to pinpoint her exact location from the outside. Given Jian Zi's current power, if she were to unleash her full abilities to search for Xiao Hua's location, due to the vast difference in their levels and the unstable connection between the alternate dimension and the real world, either her power would directly destroy the alternate dimension, killing Xiao Hua in the process, or it would sever the connection between the alternate dimension and the real world, causing Xiao Hua to fall into the actual instance space. There is no third possibility.

The fragment of the senior's crimson domain was still protecting Xiaohua, but its power was almost exhausted, which was why Xiaohua was able to remain in the other's deeper space. If the fragment's power were stronger, she might have been able to break free. Hmm... what should we do? It would be extremely difficult for her to handle the current situation alone; we must find a way to help her.

Wait, although my power level is too high to penetrate the domain of this strange creature, the fragments of the senior's crimson domain are indeed in that space. If I can use the connection between the fragments, perhaps I can send some information to the other party?

“Mom, let’s wait here and not go anywhere. I have a way to find and help Xiaohua, but we have to stay here until this house is really safe.”

Having made up her mind, Miko picked up her phone, channeled her mental energy into it, and spoke earnestly to her mother beside her. As for Touko Yotsuya, to be honest, she couldn't think of anything else to say or do at the moment, so she could only nod and sit down next to her daughter, occasionally glancing around cautiously to see if anything was amiss.

We were able to make contact, although we could only send a limited number of messages and the responses we received were vague, but we were indeed able to communicate.

Having confirmed that she could indeed use this fragment of the domain, Jianzi breathed a sigh of relief and quickly contacted Xiaohua.

It was at this moment that Jian Zi noticed that she could not only contact Xiao Hua through the fragment, but also use the power of the fragment to confirm the location of all the domain fragments distributed around this residential area, and to know whether there were any living people around these fragments.

There are still many survivors.

Because the outbreak occurred at night, and during extreme weather conditions of wind and rain, many people would keep their doors and windows tightly closed. Therefore, the rules of the home would be perfectly enforced in many residences after the disaster, meaning that unless the survivors themselves were distraught, the strange creatures on the street would be unable to harm them.

This is good news, but it's not enough. The interference from the strange forces in this area is growing stronger, and the influence of my predecessor's power is waning. Much intelligence cannot reach the survivors in time, and even if it does, it may be tampered with and distorted by the [Hospital]'s power. I am intertwined with my predecessor, our souls sharing a profound connection. If I act as a relay station in the Crimson Realm, the survivors who need protection will receive more accurate intelligence, and I can directly contact rescue personnel and tell them my location when they arrive in the area.

After a brief moment of thought, Jianzi acted swiftly without hesitation.

Meanwhile, Xiao Hua, who is trapped in the strange space, is facing a major crisis in her life.

"Waaaaah... Waaaah, how could this be..."

The girl was crying out in sorrow.

At this moment, she was lying on the ground, stretching out one hand, trying to move forward, but she could hardly move an inch.

A few minutes earlier, after showing off all the dishes in the food room, Xiaohua used her phone to examine everything in the room closely and confirmed that there was no such thing as a "treasure object." Then, she turned her attention to a crack in the room, the passage leading to the toy room.

At first, Xiaohua actually wanted to squeeze through sideways.

But when she actually turned sideways to try to pass through that area, she discovered that her software format did not meet the requirements and could not pass the test at all.

Left with no other option, Xiaohua had to lie down and try to crawl into the passage through the relatively wider section of the crevice. This attempt was initially successful; Xiaohua's head, shoulders, and hands all entered the hole smoothly. However, when she reached the lower sections, she encountered another problem with the software decoding.

"Woo...Woo..."

The girl, gritting her teeth, continued to try to push forward.

This process was extremely difficult, so difficult that Xiaohua felt like she could hardly breathe.

But in the end, after a soft "pop," she managed to move forward a considerable distance and was able to breathe again.

"Okay, let's keep going like this...wait, what?"

Then Xiaohua discovered that her buttocks were stuck.

"No...no way, have I gotten this fat? I don't think I've been eating that much lately."

Xiao Hua, who was almost in tears, kept muttering to herself as she gritted her teeth and squeezed her way in. After struggling for a while, she finally squeezed into the corridor behind the crack, panting heavily. The corridor looked very plain, with ordinary gray and white walls and floors.

This place seems to have a faint musty smell?

Xiaohua sniffed, vaguely sensing that something was amiss in the place she had arrived at. Unlike the places she had passed through before, she could feel that this corridor possessed its own will, as if actively rejecting her and refusing her prying eyes. This strange feeling sent chills down Xiaohua's spine, but remembering that she had to find her obsession and use the power of her phone to banish it before she could possibly escape, she took a deep breath and started walking forward.

Unlike the corridors she had passed through before, this one had a right-angle bend, so Xiaohua couldn't see the room at the end of the corridor directly. Instead, she had to walk a distance and turn the corner before she could see her destination.

Hahaha...hehehehe...

Faintly, one could hear children's laughter coming from ahead.

The sound came from the path ahead under the stark white lights, from the corner of this twisted corridor, as if it were slowly approaching.

step-step-

No, something is definitely approaching me.

As Xiaohua approached the corner of the corridor, she clearly heard footsteps coming from the other side of the corridor, as well as a chilling aura emanating from it.

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