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

One throwing knife after another shot out in all directions.

Kita simply took one step forward, and all the monsters that tried to attack her were pierced by throwing knives, then fell to the ground, unable to move.

As if by magic, another new throwing knife appeared in Kita's hand. She casually tossed it up and then threw it at the huge chandelier hanging from the ceiling.

A burst of crimson light erupted in the next instant, and in the blink of an eye, the chandelier vanished. It was nothing more than a giant eyeball, an eyeball that had been hanging from the ceiling, silently watching Kita.

Clearly, its disguise wasn't enough to fool the girl.

"Disgusting, shut up right now."

The girl spoke with disgust, and more throwing knives flew from her hand, aiming for the giant eyeball. However, they encountered some invisible obstacle midway, disappearing before the blades even touched the eyeball. Kita, who was watching this scene, was not surprised. He simply snapped his fingers, and the vanished throwing knives reappeared, easily overcoming the obstacle and piercing the eyeball, causing blood and spittle to splatter.

Buzz—whoosh whoosh—

In the blink of an eye, the monster vanished again, leaving only a few throwing knives that fell to the ground and disappeared without a trace.

It seems like I can hear a sound.

It was difficult to tell whether the sound was reciting words or muttering to oneself.

For ordinary players who haven't truly faced high-difficulty dungeons, their perception is naturally incapable of understanding these words. Just hearing such indescribable, distorted sounds is terrifying enough for them.

But Kita only needed to focus for a few seconds to understand the message in the voice:

I am a doctor, I am everyone's psychologist, I am everyone's psychologist.

I can heal all heartaches, I can heal all wounded hearts, I can heal these poor souls who cannot find happiness.

I want to save more people, I will go and save more people, I will do it, I will succeed.

But what should I do? What should I do? How can I find those who are sick? How can I search for them? I've seen so little, so very little, it's far from enough.

I understand now. I know what I should do. I've figured it out. I haven't seen far enough, so I'll gouge my eyes out.

Gouge out every single one of my eyes, gouge out all the eyes on my body.

They will walk into a world without hope and happiness before me; they will seek out the sick, my eyes, all my wandering eyes, before I do; they will find those who need my healing.

The sound of something nauseatingly putrid, filled with a sense of intoxication and a damp, pungent stench.

All the giant eyeball-like monsters are derivative monsters of that thing; they are things that were dug out of its own body and scattered outwards.

Kita knew that the thing was called "Psychotherapist," and was the true leader of the army of strange creatures that had invaded the real world from the "Hospital." According to Takami, it was a kind of monster that had already developed a certain level of thinking ability and could no longer be regarded as a complete ghost story.

I really don't know what kind of monster it is that can dig out hundreds or thousands of eyeballs from its own body and turn these eyeballs into derivative monsters, which are scattered all over the city and the entire edge space. Each one is at least at the Red Moon level and is so disgusting that it makes people want to vomit just by looking at them.

However, at least this one can keep it quiet for now.

whoosh-

With a gentle wave of her hand, the girl sent a throwing knife piercing the eyeball monster that had reappeared from mid-air, leaving a long gash.

whoosh-

Another throwing knife pierced the eyeball monster's body, precisely striking the hilt of the previous knife that had pierced the eyeball, pushing it further into the monster's body.

The deformed blood vessels began to thrash violently in an instant, and the indistinct babbling seemed to intensify as well.

But when the third throwing knife pierced the monster's body, its voice vanished instantly, and its movements became sluggish. In contrast, Kita himself was pale, clearly having expended considerable energy, but his spirit did not appear to be greatly damaged.

It's unbelievable that a blessing enhanced by bestowal could produce such a tremendous qualitative change.

Kita took a deep breath, steadied his somewhat disordered consciousness, and strode toward the aggregate of flesh and blood.

The surrounding light vanished in an instant, and complete darkness enveloped everything.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the light came on again, and everything around looked the same as before, except that the flesh node that should have been in the center of the hall had disappeared.

"You don't actually think this kind of trick would surprise me, do you?"

The red-haired girl's face showed no surprise, but rather a hint of disdain.

"I've experienced being tricked by fake traps more than once. From the moment I entered this place, I knew that you had put a fake core in front of me just to deceive me and force me to use my power."

She continued walking forward, heading towards the spot where the flesh and blood had once stood.

The monsters, whose movements had been restricted and impaled by the girl's blessing daggers, had mostly recovered and were now struggling to crawl toward Kita.

The girl, completely unconcerned, simply walked to the spot where the illusion had previously appeared and extended a finger.

She saw that the node was located here.

Therefore, that node must actually be located here.

The illusory phantom, forcibly captured by the power of blessing, is connected to the real node and thus given the status of "real" by Kita.

A crimson light burst forth in an instant.

The flesh and blood polymer that was not actually there was forcibly sucked in front of Kita, and then she, who was prepared, picked up her phone and directly absorbed it through the blood-red domain fragments inside, easily destroying it completely.

Kita calls this blessing power from the blood flower "Shadow Catcher," a peculiar power that she has yet to fully understand, only knowing that it seems to connect the real and the illusory.

This operation marks the first use of this blessing, and so far, the results seem quite good.

Rumbling--

Amidst the sounds of shattering, Kita's figure flickered and moved through the collapsed ruins. In just a few seconds, he moved outside the ruins and stood on a partially collapsed house not far away, watching the building where the flesh and blood node was hiding collapse and self-destruct.

It took Kita only about seven minutes from entering the area where the node was located to liberating the node.

It should be able to shorten the time a little more, since I'm still somewhat unaccustomed to my new body. But now's not the time to dwell on that. Hmm, I wonder how the others are doing.

While pondering, Kita turned around and prepared to go to the next location.

Then, she looked down at the ruins of the building beneath her feet, at the slightly swaying ground, and at the pebbles rolling in the ruins.

The commotion suggests that something lively is happening somewhere down there.

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Starving Girl's Struggle and the Waiters Under the Dim Light

Yuri Kawana felt like she was going to die.

From birth until now, she had never been this hungry, never experienced what it meant to be so hungry that she saw stars, her limbs went weak, and her stomach kept rumbling. But today, at this very moment, she experienced all of these sensations at once, so hungry that she could barely walk.

"Ugh...why...am I so hungry..."

The girl, lying on a cement platform, cried out in anguish, trying to prop herself up to stand, but after several attempts, she still couldn't manage it and could only lie limply on the ground.

I felt completely limp and couldn't move at all.

Ah, I'm so hungry...

Why am I so hungry? I ate so much before.

Even if you did a lot of exercise after eating, it shouldn't be to this extent, right?

The girl, her face full of sorrow, reached out her hand and crawled forward with difficulty for a short distance before collapsing again due to exhaustion.

I can't muster any strength.

I feel like my stomach and intestines are starting to shrink, it's so uncomfortable.

Why is this happening?

Could it be that I used too many superpowers, causing that golden light to be exhausted?

Xiao Hua suddenly realized why she was in this predicament.

After being captured by that terrifying monster whose appearance was obscured, she had used all her remaining supernatural power to escape. Although the golden light emanating from her body seemed to have no effect on the monster, Xiao Hua herself wasn't entirely sure how she had managed to break free. However, it was precisely because of her reckless outburst that the energy stored within her body for releasing supernatural power was completely depleted. Furthermore, the depletion of her energy had also drained her physical strength, resulting in her current immobile state.

"Ugh... I have to stand up... I have to stand up quickly..."

Xiao Hua mumbled pitifully, struggling to sit up from the ground.

In any case, dying in a place like this is definitely not a good idea.

Although the girl wasn't sure exactly where she was, she knew it wasn't a good place. Fortunately, the intense hunger didn't last long. After lying on the ground for a while, Xiao Hua regained some strength and slowly stood up. However, her legs were still a little weak when she walked, and she knew she wouldn't be able to escape if she encountered any monsters.

"The phone is gone... and the fragment seems to be gone too."

After regaining some strength, Xiaohua realized she had left her phone on the conveyor belt, and now had no idea where it was. The fragment of her consciousness that had been protecting her had shattered and dissipated during the fight against the indistinct monster. In other words, Xiaohua had lost all means of self-defense and was severely weakened. Frankly, she had no idea how she was going to survive in this situation.

Maybe I really will die here.

With these thoughts in mind, Xiao Hua slowly moved forward, supporting herself against the wall. She walked down a flight of stairs from the platform and entered a street, carefully observing her surroundings.

Judging from the surface alone, the girl would probably think of the scene in front of her as a quiet neighborhood with poor lighting at night.

The straight road stretched into the darkness, its destination unknown. The traffic lights at the intersections glowed with a dim red light, while most of the streetlights were dim, with only a few flickering dimly. The buildings on both sides of the road were mostly closed and their lights off, emitting no light at all.

It's very cold here.

Just like the rotten room and the dark factory I visited before, these distorted spaces outside the real world are always filled with a chill, so cold that it makes people shiver and feel a chill lingering in their bodies at any time.

This feeling was extremely uncomfortable, especially when walking alone in such an environment. Xiaohua had a strong sense of unease, as if someone might be following her. Although she looked back several times and found nothing wrong, the discomfort only intensified as she walked, to the point that her hands began to tremble slightly without her realizing it.

"call……"

No matter how many times I turned around, there was still nothing behind me.

Under the dim streetlights and the faint red glow of the traffic lights ahead, she walked alone the whole time.

But why do I still feel like there's someone else here?

My heart seemed to be racing, and I couldn't calm it down.

Even with clenched fists, the trembling in my arms couldn't be calmed down, and the discomfort of being in danger continued to irritate every inch of my skin.

Is there really a problem with this place?

Or is it my own problem?

The girl realized that just by walking a short distance in this dark environment, her mind had been severely oppressed, she had begun to lose her composure, and she was no longer able to rationally face the situation.

Previously, when she was protected by the mental fragments, although she felt fear and sometimes felt lost, she would never lose her ability to act or her judgment because of fear. But now, without that protection, Xiaohua finds herself perhaps more timid than she anticipated. Keep in mind, no monsters have even appeared to attack her yet; she's only walked a short distance at night, and she's already so nervous that she's almost lost her basic judgment.

Calm down, calm down quickly.

As Xiao Hua continued forward, supporting herself against the wall, she shouted to herself in her heart.

I was chosen by Mr. Gao Hai; he recognized my talent, ability, and potential as an outstanding newcomer. Therefore, I must believe in myself, believe I can do it, believe I can survive, and believe I can overcome the current difficulties!

The girl, who was cheering herself on with the gods in her heart, smiled slightly and continued walking slowly towards the traffic light.

And we've come this far, overcome so many difficulties. If we were to die now, all our previous struggles would have been for nothing. We can't give up, we absolutely cannot give up. Keep going, keep moving forward!