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

Get moving... get moving... get moving...

Get moving, my body!!!

"Ugh—"

Yurikawa Kagawa suddenly opened her eyes.

She opened her mouth wide and let out a painful whimper. At that moment, she felt intense pain all over her body, as if every bone in her body was being crushed.

But he is still alive.

I am still alive.

From dragging his broken leg to escape danger in the rainy night, to banishing the spawning monsters in the mansion, to falling into a rotting room, accidentally entering a dark factory, and finally returning to the factory after passing through a distorted city, how many life-or-death crises had he encountered in those few hours, and how many times had he woken up from unconsciousness?

It seems impossible to count them all; after all, there were just too many experiences this night. The sum of my life over the past ten years probably doesn't match the richness and variety of events of this one night. Of course, nothing could have been as dangerous as tonight.

Regardless, we must take action now.

"Ouch...it hurts so much...waaaah..."

Even the slightest movement causes excruciating pain to spread.

Turning her head, Xiaohua could see that she was still tightly gripping a cell phone in one hand, the life-saving device that Li Ling, the vice-captain of the Sunflower Squad, had given her. At this moment, the red light on the phone screen had gone out, returning to a black screen; it probably wouldn't be able to turn on for a while. It seemed that the fragment of that domain had protected her during her fall from the sky, preventing her from dying instantly.

As for where she has ended up now...

"This feeling, could it be..."

The touch from below was soft, and it still carried a faint warmth.

After a brief hesitation, Xiaohua slowly turned her head and looked behind her. She saw a pair of faces that had lost their luster and were covered with dried blood.

Lying beneath her was a young woman, probably in her early twenties.

She may have been a teacher, as she was dressed in a very formal teacher's uniform with a name card attached, bearing the mark of a certain elementary school.

If she was a teacher, then she must have been a very young, newly-minted teacher, right? And while she was alive, she must have been trying to help others, right? After all, in her hand, there was a extinguished lifesaving glow stick, and in her other hand, she was holding a child… or rather, half a child…

Xiao Hua climbed up from the quiet body and looked around. She saw more than twenty primary school students lying next to the young teacher, as well as several other teachers protecting the students and rescuers.

They had all quieted down, stopped breathing, stopped crying, and stopped feeling pain.

Just seeing this scene made the girl feel an indescribable chill run through her body.

"Why...why do such a thing..."

Incomprehensible.

I can't understand that "hospital" that claims to save the world, and I can't understand what that entity actually wants to do.

Is there any point in harming these innocent people and causing so many tragedies?

Why do such cruel things? Why, after creating such a terrible tragedy, still claim to be righteous?

And this factory, this terrifying factory that uses human flesh and blood as raw materials, what exactly can it produce in the end? Does the stuff ultimately forged in this way really have anything to do with the so-called "saving the world"?

Xiao Hua was unable to speak.

She only felt cold, as if the intense coldness had seeped into her bones from her skin.

The leisurely life of the past ten years shattered in the face of this bloody and cruel scene. She almost cried out on the spot, but she couldn't actually make a sound. She could only squeeze out a few difficult sounds from her throat, and then she stood there, not knowing what to do.

very scary……

These things... are truly terrifying...

Why did I have to go through something so terrible?

Are these nightmarish things real? Or am I just dreaming, having a terrible nightmare?

In a daze, the girl's consciousness began to show signs of disintegration and collapse. Having lost its protection, under the combined effects of continuous mental stimulation and physical pain, and under the twisted power permeating this land of death, she began to move towards complete collapse.

【■■……】

But then, the calling voice was heard again.

Even though the voice was so blurry, and it was impossible to hear the content of the voice clearly, the moment you heard it, you realized that the other person was calling you.

Right here.

【■■■■……】

There's no mistake, that voice is right here, right here.

slam-la-

A sound came from above and quickly approached.

Xiao Hua looked up and saw several corpses fall down, crashing heavily into a pile of bodies.

Her mind gradually returned to normal and became clear again.

Lowering her head, the girl struggled to her feet in the dark pit of corpses, her gaze regaining focus.

The place I am in now must be the place where the [factory] uses to store corpses.

Perhaps because she fainted after being knocked away by that dark monster, the strange creatures in the factory immediately identified her as a corpse and threw her into the conveyor belt along with the other dead people, bringing her to this place.

The reason for this situation is quite simple: Xiaohua is too weak.

Not even a player, and not even touched by the aura of the monsters a few hours ago, Yurikawa Hana, even with her awakened supernatural powers, could only contend with Twilight-level monsters at most. From the perspective of the [Hospital] monsters, she was unbelievably weak. Especially since Kazama Ren had disguised her with [Death Makeup], further weakening her living aura. This meant that the monsters didn't distinguish her from the corpses at all, simply throwing her into the pile of bodies without any difference.

【■■■■……】

That voice was still calling to him.

Xiao Hua was able to realize that it was the existence of that voice that allowed her to maintain her rationality and prevent her from being distorted by this place of death.

The other party was right below these corpses.

It was buried there at some unknown time, waiting to be awakened, waiting to be activated.

And she was the one who could awaken the other person.

Reaching out, the girl pushed aside the body of the girl who had cushioned her fall, revealing more corpses beneath.

It's still deeper inside.

That voice is buried deeper, waiting for me to awaken it.

The girl struggled to lift an old man's body, moved it aside, caught her breath, and then bent down to clear a path through the pile of corpses.

We must find it.

I need to find that thing as soon as possible.

Then they moved the bodies of the children aside and removed the body of the mother who had tried to protect her children.

"what……"

Xiao Hua saw a faint red light coming from beneath the corpse.

The light was so faint it was almost extinguished, yet so warm, so gentle that it was impossible not to immerse oneself in it.

Then she remembered that this was the first cell phone she owned, the one that belonged to her, given to her directly by Gao Hai—a fragment of the Crimson Domain.

The fragment was lost in the factory, and no one knew where it was. Xiaohua thought it was impossible to find it again and had given up on getting it back.

But now she has found it again and clearly felt the connection between her and it, felt the power that Gao Hai had given her, felt the power that was so close at hand, and only required her to respond.

“Mr. Gao Hai… so this is where you are.”

The girl held out her hand.

She reached down from the piles of corpses, toward the dim light.

Although it was still far from the actual location of the light, and although at least several dozen corpses would need to be moved before it could possibly reach the red light, Xiao Hua's body spontaneously ignited with golden flames. The flames passed directly through the fragmented remains, bypassing the dead and reaching the red light, thus awakening the dormant domain fragments and activating them once again.

This time, the power of the Crimson Domain could be felt with absolute clarity the moment it was activated. It could sense the aura of the dead surrounding them from all directions—the flesh and blood of innocent people who had died under the cruelty of the [Hospital] and who could not even rest in peace in death.

Om-!

Then the rampant red light began to spread.

The stain spread continuously from the piled-up corpses, one after another, towards the surrounding area.

All of this could be accomplished in a very short time, so by the time the strange creatures moving around sensed the presence, the entire burial pit was already covered in blood-red light.

Om-! !

Sitting on the corpses, Xiao Hua closed her eyes, letting the golden flames burning on her body merge into the blood-red light, and letting the blood-red light fill her body, repairing the wounds and fatigue left by the bumpy journey.

She could hear the dull, humming sound of the fragments as they absorbed the remains of the dead to grow stronger.

She could also sense that as the enormous number of corpses were absorbed by the fragments, the connection between the fragments and Gao Hai's original body, which was nowhere to be found, was being continuously strengthened and expanded. A stable passage was forming, a passage large enough for the real world to extend even more power in, and it was now gradually taking shape before Xiao Hua's eyes.

The next moment, a sound rapidly approached from behind.

Before Xiao Hua could react to the sound of the wind, she had only raised her head slightly when a chill ran down her spine.

Oh dear, what am I doing...

Looking down, he discovered a black shadow had pierced through his abdomen, and dark red blood was spreading, soaking his clothes.

Compared to the pain, the feeling of weakness and powerlessness spreads through the body first.

Xiao Hua felt her body suddenly lose all strength and was about to collapse onto the gradually crumbling pile of corpses.

The second gust of wind came rushing in from above, giving Xiao Hua no chance to catch his breath and intending to kill him instantly.

Om-! ! !

The third bell rang out at that moment, solemn and heavy as if announcing the arrival of a sacred moment.

……

There seemed to be some sound coming from afar.

She could sense it, but due to the overly strong obscuring effect, she could only vaguely perceive a few things and could not directly understand what had happened.

As for the source of the cover-up, it is clearly the [psychologist] right in front of us.

“Miss Angel, don’t give up, don’t give up the fight, they are not your parents, they are not your family.”

Seeing that his son was shouting loudly and looking anxious, he was unable to offer any support.

At this moment, she was already at her limit simply by protecting the incapacitated Kita. This was unavoidable, as she had previously fought against the "psychologist" and had already been severely injured. Now, hundreds or even thousands of eye-shaped monsters were densely distributed all around her, and just defending against these monsters had exhausted all of her strength.