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

At this moment, the only living people left on the field are Qin Shou, who is at the very edge of the field, and Yan Hui, who had just wanted to give up but was saved by her companions.

If asked what the way to survive is, the answer is still no.

Perhaps they could do something once they reached the Red Moon level, but unfortunately they don't have that ability. Even if someone makes a sacrifice, it only slightly delays the death of others.

But that's alright, after all, as she said, there will be others who come after, right?

"Qin Shou, look for a door, a relatively intact one that's still usable!"

Yan Hui yelled at Qin Shou behind her and brought the two blood-red cell phones closer together.

hum-

With a piercing noise, the two red lights merged into one, and the color of this light became even deeper, like a surging sea of ​​blood.

That thing has already looked over.

The power of the two blood-red domain fragments merging was clearly quite eye-catching to the flesh-and-blood monster. Therefore, it immediately turned its gaze towards Yan Hui, causing her mind to buzz.

It can still hold on.

Yan Hui, whose nose and eyes had already started to bleed, trembled slightly but remained standing in place without backing down.

The mental fragments originating from Gao Hai in her mind protected Yan Hui's sanity at this moment, preventing her from being killed directly by the enemy's gaze.

"Go, Captain!"

The very next moment, accompanied by a powerful roar, Yan Hui turned around and saw Qin Shou throwing his explosive hammer at her from a distance.

He reached out and caught it without hesitation, then casually swung it around, scattering sparks and grease.

Yan Hui moved forward.

buzzing-

The combined power of the two overloaded crimson domains forcefully pushed back the surging blood from the vicinity.

Holding the giant hammer given to her by Qin Shou, Yan Hui began her charge amidst the burning flames.

boom!

The raging flames and blood mingled in an instant.

Intense pain surged through her brain, but Yan Hui gritted her teeth and continued to move forward under the protection of her domain, heading towards the location of the giant monster.

Countless surging bloodstains spread and wailed. The lingering images of those who had died in the ritual stretched out their hands, trying to trip Yan Hui up, trying to drag her into this hell, and leave her here forever.

[Captain...Captain, please save me...]

The mangled Lin Sen emerged from the blood and grabbed Yan Hui's foot.

Bang!

Then, in the next second, Yan Hui smashed the thing to pieces with a hammer, and it was burned to charcoal by the explosion.

“My team members are not like that. Don’t embarrass yourselves with this nonsense.”

Yan Hui, who was merely making indifferent comments, ventured into the depths of the churning pool of flesh and blood, directly reaching the enormous fused monster.

Click——click——

The fragments of his mind had shattered, unable to continue existing under the intense mental erosion.

But at this final moment, as the fragment exploded, Yan Hui also briefly received the highest level of mental protection, enough for her to withstand the gaze of this terrifying thing and continue forward.

where is it?

Where would this thing's obsession be hidden?

Yan Hui, whose eyes were stained blood red, was searching.

The crimson color filled her senses; at this moment, she could see almost nothing but shattered flesh. The fleshy monster that had been watching her moved as she approached, extending its rotten, splintered hand to try and grab her.

found it!

Yan Hui raised her head and looked up at the sky above the stage.

In the darkness, there hangs a heart suspended in mid-air, a heart stitched together from dozens or even hundreds of different hearts, constantly pulsating and beating.

"Qin Shou, he's up there!"

Yan Hui roared and swung the hammer with all her might, but in the raging flames, an even stronger force knocked the hammer out of her hand, and her hands were completely shattered from her elbows forward.

The protection of the Crimson Realm is nearing its limit.

Is the defense provided by the two fragments still insufficient in close combat against a core obsession of Red Moon level strength?

However, it doesn't matter if it ends now.

After all, Yan Hui had already seen the heavy door flying from a distance and crashing onto the metal support structure holding the heart. She also saw the special adhesive smeared on one side of the door to ensure it would stick to the support structure and not fall off.

Mr. Gao possesses the extremely special spatial artifact, the [Blood Key], which is currently being rotated among several groups of Red Moon-level players. This strange instance will eventually attract players of that level to investigate. Once those who enter can re-establish the Crimson Domain network, they will know of the door's existence and can use the [Blood Key] to directly eliminate the core obsession.

That's all there is to it for my squad.

From now on, we can only rely on other people.

Close your eyes.

Feeling the terrifying aura surging from the core obsession, and knowing that she had no way to survive, Yan Hui gave up resisting at this moment.

Behind her, Qin Shou, forced into a corner by the surging blood, had dug up the ground, placed his phone inside, and buried it. He was sacrificing protection in exchange for preserving this fragment of the Crimson Domain, ensuring that if anyone could rebuild the Crimson Domain network, they could receive the information left by the Minghuijian team through this fragment.

Splash—splash—

The surging blood spread amidst wails and cries.

The last two signs of life in this dark place vanished without a trace.

Meanwhile, outside the building, a slightly disheveled figure rushed out from the kindergarten gate, panting as he looked at the building in front of him.

"According to the last piece of information Ahai gave us, there should be six life forms inside the Dansu Company building. We need to find them as soon as possible."

Thinking this, Chika wiped the dust off her face, quickly stepped into the building, closed her eyes to carefully sense her surroundings, and then quickly confirmed the number of living people in the building.

"There is a faint aura inside the space upstairs. It must be Miss Liang."

"Inside the space downstairs, there exists... No signs of life were detected, but a fragment of the Crimson Domain remains unconsumed. Initiating reception of the information left behind by the fragment, reception complete... I see, the Minghui squad has been confirmed to be entirely wiped out."

If we had arrived a little earlier, perhaps things would have been different?

Chika wanted to say that, but she knew there were no "what ifs" in this world. At this stage, when Gao Hai couldn't intervene in the instance, everything that had already happened was irreversible.

So, all she can do now is try to rescue the last remaining woman, Yamada Ryo.

As for the last message left by the Minghui squad—the shortcut that could directly break the core obsession—this information might play an unexpected role in the upcoming battle. After all, this instance wasn't originally supposed to be a Dark Night-level instance, and that core obsession shouldn't actually have been the core of this instance.

Having already touched upon part of the truth in the deepest part of the kindergarten area, Chika has seen those things. While she fell into the doctor's trap, she also caught the doctor's true colors. The remaining key is simply how to use this information to achieve the desired effect.

While pondering, Chika began searching for a way to break through the spatial barrier and reach Ryo's area.

But before she could take any action, an unsettling aura suddenly appeared in her senses.

"This aura is..."

The girl's eyes widened, and realizing something was wrong, she quickly sped up her movements.

That was the scent of a doctor.

And it's different from the previous one; this is the aura of another [doctor].

At this very moment, in the upper echelons of Dansu Company, the aura of the second [Doctor] is spreading, approaching Yamada Ryo's coordinates.

Chapter Sixty: Yamada Ryo's Escape Moment, the Psychologist, and Fujiwara Chika's Rescue.

Yamada Ryo felt that he must have done something terrible in his past life, otherwise there would be no reason for him to encounter so many unpleasant things.

The agony of dying and being resurrected three times is another story, but she had barely managed to hold on until the power was restored. Just as she was about to return to the top floor to use her magnetic card to open the boss's office door, a strange flying photograph appeared out of nowhere and began to hunt her down. Completely unprepared, Ryo was nearly killed on the spot. In the nick of time, she managed to escape by crashing through a wall with sheer force.

Then, pursued by that photo, Ryo had no choice but to try to deal with it in the office building after the lights were turned on. Inevitably, this attracted various strange creatures active in the building. During the chase, Ryo felt that every breath he took was a brush with death.

Fortunately, having already experienced this once, Liang successfully escaped to the smart door, unlocked it, took the elevator, and returned to the top floor.

To be honest, Liang thought she was finally safe and could catch her breath. But then she saw the eerie photo slowly squeeze through the gap in the elevator door. The rotting woman in the photo smiled at her, and then the thing lunged at her.

Ryo really didn't want to relive the experience of dealing with a deadly monster in the cramped elevator. To avoid its attacks, she had no choice but to smash through the elevator doors, rush to the main entrance, unlock the door with her magnetic card, and immediately turn back to close the door after entering the reception area behind it, trying to lock the thing out.

Then the photo squeezed in through the crack in the door again.

This is completely unreasonable.

Liang remembered clearly that the ghosts were completely different when the lights were off and when they were on. Theoretically, they were in different spaces and shouldn't be able to contact each other. Moreover, the area behind the smart door was always a near-restricted area for the ghosts active in the office building. Normally, since Liang had already entered this area, no ghosts should have followed her in. But no matter what she thought, the ghost in the photo showed her no mercy and relentlessly pursued her no matter where she hid.

After being used, the dominoes will take up to half an hour to return to the user.

At this moment, Yamada Ryo herself had no way to restrain the strange object in the photo, and being relentlessly pursued, she had no chance to investigate her surroundings. It could be said that simply escaping had exhausted all her energy.

Snap—crackling—bang—

The chaotic noise continued to echo in the reception hall.

To escape the attack of the eerie photograph, Liang jumped around in the rather luxurious reception hall, kicking over sofas, smashing coffee tables, and knocking various valuable ornaments to the ground.

In less than a few minutes, the original reception hall was almost completely destroyed, leaving only a mess on the floor.

Even though Ryo had tried her best to avoid the thing and do everything she could to stop it, the strange photo was still chasing after her. The woman's face in the photo was rotting and making strange noises. At the same time, Ryo inexplicably felt that the distorted face in the photo was gradually turning into her.

This can't go on. This thing has no limit to its stamina, and I've already expended a lot of energy in the continuous chase.

The panting girl looked ahead; the photo was still slowly flying towards her, approaching at a speed that seemed slow, but would be quickly overtaken if she hesitated even slightly.

Is this photo really a photo trick?

Liang suddenly had this question in her mind.

Although it does indeed resemble a photo ghost in appearance, and its behavior pattern matches the type of moving photo ghost mentioned in the table, it completely ignores restrictions on different floors, turning lights on and off, and is not subject to access control. No matter how you look at it, it's just too strange.

As Mr. Gao Hai said, strange creatures are born from humans, and they cannot erase their origins, so they must have corresponding characteristics.

Therefore, if this strange entity was transformed from an employee—whether it was the kind of employee who toiled like a slave and was ultimately eliminated by higher-ups, or the kind who aided and abetted wrongdoing but still couldn't escape death—it shouldn't have been able to so easily enter the area behind the smart door. After all, Dansu Company is clearly the kind of company that emphasizes the hierarchical difference between upper management and employees; such a company would never tolerate employees easily entering the management's activity area.

So, is this photo actually a ghostly figure created from a high-ranking company executive? Is that even possible?

Liang continued to dodge while pondering the possibilities in her mind. But no matter how she thought about it, she felt that this situation was unreliable.

After all, during the chase downstairs, she had traversed the office area and circled the building quite a bit. During that time, the photo-image ghost had been chasing her, and it's impossible that the other ghosts attracted to it hadn't noticed its presence. But neither the pursuers nor the employees seemed to notice the photo-image ghost; not one of them reacted to it whatsoever.