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

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From afar, the dull thuds of corpses falling off the conveyor belt could already be heard.

Xiao Hua carefully raised his head amidst the pile of corpses and discovered that the dozens of conveyor belts in this factory eventually converged at a very large, dark conveyor belt leading out of the factory.

Is that the direction of the warehouse?

The girl silently observed the situation outside. Because many strange creatures were still rioting around, she didn't make any rash moves and remained hidden among the pile of corpses. After observing the surroundings, Xiaohua determined that she wouldn't have a chance to escape before leaving the factory on the conveyor belt. Only after entering that dark area would she likely have a chance to leave the conveyor belt.

"……Um?"

The itching sensation in her ankle startled Xiaohua slightly.

She looked down and saw that a cockroach had crawled onto her foot, so she quickly reached out and swatted it away.

How disgusting! Why are there cockroaches here? I've never found any insects in piles of corpses before.

Xiao Hua frowned as she watched the black and yellow cockroach hurriedly scurry under the corpse of a young woman who had been cut in half at the waist and skinned. Then, she suddenly turned her head to look behind her and saw cockroaches crawling and scurrying among the pile of corpses.

How can there be so many cockroaches?

And these cockroaches look...why do they look so familiar, like I just saw them not long ago?

"Hey?"

Xiao Hua suddenly realized something.

She turned her head again to look behind her, at the corpses crawling with cockroaches.

And among those corpses, the woman who was raising her head and staring at her.

No, that's not a person.

It was a doll that resembled a middle-aged woman. It was naked, but apart from the head, which was relatively detailed enough to indicate gender, the rest of the body was simply a crude block of wood with moving mechanisms, and there were no obvious gender characteristics.

At that very moment, as Xiaohua discovered it, the puppet's body trembled slightly. Then, it actually reached out its hand and began to crawl through the pile of corpses, quickly approaching Xiaohua's location.

Xiao Hua: "...?!"

When the girl first saw the doll, she was actually a little confused and didn't quite understand what was going on.

But then, seeing the thing crawling rapidly toward him and feeling its icy aura aimed directly at him, Xiao Hua suddenly realized what was happening, gasped, and immediately turned around and started running on the conveyor belt.

Whether or not she would be discovered by the strange creatures searching the surrounding area was no longer important. The "Mother," who should have been in the room instance, chased her out of the instance and followed her all the way to this place. In this situation, Xiao Hua could not think any further and could only run for her life with all her might.

[Intruder...Intruder discovered...Cut...Slice...Chop...]

The strange broadcast started again, its distorted voice carrying a hint of fanaticism.

All the monsters turned their gazes, looking at the girl running on the conveyor belt with their heads, some intact and some already mangled.

The power of the Crimson Domain should have protected Xiao Hua from being discovered, but after the alarm sounded, the strange creatures searching the factory were obviously enhanced with enhanced sensory energy, to the point that even the sound of Xiao Hua's footsteps on the conveyor belt could be detected quickly.

So they started screaming.

So they opened their mouths wide and let out a silent shriek, pointed their fingers in Xiaohua's direction, and ran madly along the conveyor belt.

Something's presence began to draw closer.

After these strange creatures rioted, something unusual seemed to be guided and began to move towards this place.

Xiaohua couldn't sense what it was; she didn't have a strong enough sensory ability, only a vague premonition.

Even this vague premonition made the girl clearly aware of the danger of that thing, and what fate awaited her if that thing found her.

Boom!

The girl, having reached the edge of the conveyor belt, suddenly jumped up and then landed heavily on the large conveyor belt below.

By this time, she had run out of the factory grounds and entered the huge, dark conveyor belt that led to an unknown destination.

Behind Xiaohua, one corpse after another fell from the factory's conveyor belt, into the large black conveyor belt, and slowly moved forward.

"Huh...huh..."

Xiao Hua stood up. She wasn't good at running to begin with, and was already panting heavily, but she still quickly got up and ran to avoid being caught up by the puppet monsters behind her.

【■■——】

It sounded as if some noise was coming from a very distant direction.

The girl, who was running faster, didn't notice the sound. She simply quickened her pace and looked back from time to time, using the red light of her phone to confirm the location of the cockroaches and the doll mother crawling among them.

【Medical■——】

Then, the sound became clearer.

This time, Xiaohua noticed the voice, and she suddenly realized that the fear in her heart was far stronger than she had expected. It was so strong that it didn't feel like she was escaping the doll-like monster that she had already encountered, but rather like she was trying to escape something far more terrifying, something that had never even appeared in front of her before.

She thought she was escaping the doll, so she didn't notice that her fear response had become abnormal until she heard the voice she'd just heard. So, what exactly is it that I'm instinctively terrified of? That it's causing me to almost lose the energy for normal thinking, and I'm just instinctively trying to run away?

The doctor... is here to help you...

An incredibly gentle girl's voice, which sounded like it was not much older than me, suddenly rang in my ears.

"..."

There was no time to turn back.

There wasn't even time to blink.

From the moment Xiaohua truly became aware of the other person's presence to when the other person appeared beside her and spoke, the time was so short that Xiaohua had no time to react at all, not even to confirm what the other person was.

boom--

In the next burst of crimson light, the girl was violently thrown onto the conveyor belt by the impact, her back slamming heavily down. Her vision went black, and even breathing became extremely difficult.

"Cough...cough..."

Don't be afraid... the doctor will help you...

Before Xiaohua could recover, before she could even climb off the conveyor belt, the sound approached again.

The Crimson Domain had clearly been successfully triggered, and the opponent had been successfully repelled.

Unlike the strange creatures they had encountered before, this enemy seemed to have only been repelled and hadn't suffered any damage at all. Before Xiao Hua could even recover, the enemy launched another attack.

Boom! ! !

The second burst of blood-red light was even more powerful than the first.

The intense wind pressure directly blew more than a dozen corpses into the air, causing them to fall off the conveyor belt and disappear without a trace.

Xiaohua slammed hard onto the hard conveyor belt again, this time almost fainting. Her head was a complete mess and she couldn't think straight.

My hands... I'm too weak... I won't be able to hold them steady like this...

"Cough!"

The girl vomited up the acid from her stomach, tears streaming down her face, and tried to get up again.

Doctors... will never abandon their patients...

But that nightmarish voice, as if it would never change, gently rang out beside the girl once more.

Rumble, rumble——

The rampant crimson light erupted with unprecedented intensity.

Clearly, this crimson fragment protecting Xiaohua possessed a degree of autonomy, realizing from its previous two defeats that its opponent this time was no ordinary foe, far from being a mere twilight or dark night-level weakling. Therefore, the terrifying power it unleashed nearly tore apart the extraordinary conveyor belt, sending a large number of corpses flying, even briefly creating a crimson tornado above it.

Then, the red-glowing phone fell off and rolled to the side of the conveyor belt.

Xiao Hua herself was thrown backward by the gale, landing directly in the darkness outside the conveyor belt, and falling straight into the bottomless abyss below.

My phone...I lost it...I need to...

The girl, who was completely unable to withstand the intensity of the confrontation, was now close to losing consciousness.

Her ribs were almost completely broken, and her muscles and bones were damaged in the violent impact, leaving her almost completely unable to move.

But Xiaohua had not yet lost consciousness.

Protected by that mental fragment deeply embedded in her mind, even with such severe damage, her consciousness stubbornly remained on the verge of collapse, and she did not actually fall into a coma.

So she knew what she could still do in this situation.

hum-

Golden light, like flames, burned and spread, covering Xiaohua's body.

This stemmed from the innate power of the girl's soul, which stubbornly activated at this moment to repair the damage to her body, enhance her physical strength, attempt to restore her to a healthy state, and prepare for the moment of her fall to the ground, which could come at any time.

[Doctor...is here to save you...]

Then, the sound came closer again.

What on earth is this?

Why is it so terrifying?

Xiaohua wanted to ask a question, but she knew that the terrifying thing approaching from the darkness would not give her a chance to answer. So, at this moment, there was only one thing she could do.

"Get away from me!!!"

Golden light erupted from the girl's body, unleashing its full power towards the approaching object.

In a dazzling flash, Yurikawa seemed to transform into the sun, appearing exceptionally radiant in this dark abyss.

Then, the light went out the next second.

Come on... I'll take you... to see a doctor...

It easily extinguished the girl's flames. In the darkness, the thing stretched out its small, white hand, grabbed Xiao Hua's arm, and easily froze the girl's energy of resistance, making her body stiff and unable to move, as if she were wearing an invisible shackle.

Huh...?

The unexpected situation left Xiaohua completely stunned.

Despite knowing that this enemy was far more powerful than any she had encountered before, Xiao Hua found that her all-out attacks were completely ineffective. She couldn't even force the enemy to retreat a single step before exhausting herself. This stark contrast left Xiao Hua at a loss for how to react.

"what……"

Can't speak.

My body felt as if it had been petrified, completely unable to move, and I could only let this monster, which was shrouded in darkness and whose appearance I couldn't discern, grab my hands.

I...what should I do?