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

[What's wrong with this? Are you being racist?]

The black guy then spoke fluent Mandarin, almost like his mother tongue, with a hint of displeasure in his voice.

But he just felt that he shouldn't have done it.

Gao Hai still felt that something was definitely wrong with the current situation.

Please, come out, open the door! We really don't seem to be doing anything wrong.

The woman with dyed hair spoke helplessly in Japanese, and the sound of banging on the door rang out along with her words.

Why do you keep insisting that you have no problems?

Gao Hai really wanted to ask that question.

Because we really don't have any problems.

Why don't you knock on the other two people's doors, but instead keep blocking our side?

【We knocked, but what can we do if they won't open the door?】

Then I won't open this door.

Why? Is it necessary to treat your neighbor like this? Open the door, we can talk things out.

What are we discussing? We don't even know each other, why would we need to tell you anything?

"What are you saying? Aren't we all neighbors? Neighbors should be friendly to each other, that's what everyone says, just ask others if you don't believe me."

I don't want to talk to you, you can leave.

"Don't be like that. We all live in the same place, let's be friendly. Open the door."

I told you, I don't want to communicate with you, and I won't open the door.

Open the door, open the door, open the door!

I already said I don't want to communicate with you, I don't want to... communicate?

It's like being dozed off when a bucket of ice water is poured over your head.

Gao Hai suddenly regained consciousness at that moment.

comminicate?

What kind of communication is this?!

He hasn't uttered a single word since then!

These damn things can see his thoughts directly? They can even converse with his thinking?! What the hell is that thing blocking the door right now?!

Turning her head to look at her side, Shijou Maki was still standing in the same spot, but Kaguya had already subconsciously taken a step forward. The expressions on their faces were sometimes serious and sometimes confused, as if they were talking to someone, even though neither of them opened their mouths.

Open the door, open the door, open the door!

thump -- thump -- thump --

The knocking, along with the voices of the three people, grew increasingly heavy.

Snapped!

Gao Hai reached out and patted Maki and Kaguya on the shoulders with a little force. The two were stunned for a moment, then quickly came to their senses, realizing at that moment that they had unconsciously acted strangely.

Open the door.

Boom!

A tremendously heavy slamming sound echoed as the floor trembled slightly.

Gao Hai took a step back, and by then he had retreated to the corner of the corridor, almost to the point where he could no longer see the door.

[Open the door]

Boom! !

The second banging on the door was so loud it sounded like a small earthquake.

Caught off guard, Gao Hai was shaken and ended up sitting on the ground.

Maki quickly reached out to grab the wall to avoid falling, while Kaguya stood firmly and immediately helped Maki back, still holding the wall clock she had taken down from the corridor earlier.

[Open the door]

Boom-! ! !

With the third heavy bang, all three were inevitably knocked to the ground again.

[Open the door]

[Open the door]

[Open the door]

The sounds from outside the door began to repeat themselves.

The tightly closed door trembled violently at that moment, and faint cracks gradually began to appear on the door frame.

The three people's voices had lost their distinctness, becoming overlapping, emotionless, and mechanically repetitive.

Open the door!

The three people outside the door shouted together and pounded on the door.

Open the door!!

The door frame gradually began to deform, and this iron security door, which should have been very sturdy, seemed to have a faint bulge emerging.

Gao Hai got up from the ground, one hand supporting himself against the wall, the other supporting Zhen Fei, whose body was trembling slightly, and together they looked ahead, wanting to retreat further.

Kaguya, who was slightly ahead, maintained a half-crouched posture to counteract the tremors inside the room and also planned to step back.

thump—

The heavy banging on the door rang out once again.

But this time, the sound made all three people in the corridor stop in their tracks.

[Open the door]

The three people's voices rang out simultaneously.

The sound rang out simultaneously behind the three people in the hallway, behind the closed door leading to the living room.

Click——click——

The wooden door, which was not very sturdy to begin with, made a cracking sound.

[Open the door]

Three completely overlapping shouts rang out from behind the door, from the living room, along with the sound of banging on the door.

Chapter 10: The clocks in every room are absolutely accurate.

What happened? What happened? What happened?!

Everything that is happening now has completely exceeded expectations.

The increasingly violent pounding on the door, accompanied by the emotionless, repetitive shouts of "Open the door!", the earthquake-like shaking of the entire corridor, and the involuntary dizziness spreading from my brain, all intertwined and played together like a chaotic symphony.

Gao Hai knew very well that panicking in the face of an emergency was pointless.

Being flustered won't make the enemy sympathize with you and slow down your actions. You can't let the emergency and dangerous situation be delayed. There is no pause button in reality. The faster you calm down, the more likely you are to come up with a solution and get out of the predicament.

But what to do?

The best experience he had in his life was standing up for a bullied student in school, fighting five thugs with a mop smeared with poop, earning him the nickname "Poop Mop Fairy." No one taught him how to deal with supernatural tales that defied common sense, especially when the rule list in his hands had expired two years ago, making it impossible to verify its validity, and he lacked any cheat codes like X-ray vision or invincibility, and even having two beautiful female teammates couldn't magically conjure them up to deal with the information.

Honestly, the rulebook says no responding, but who the hell knew this thing could even communicate and form a dialogue about inner thoughts?! Is the person who wrote these stupid rules out of their mind and deliberately hiding the key points, or are the rules in this godforsaken place really changing every day, evolving super-fast, huh?

"Why... are they knocking on the living room door?"

At this moment, Maki was completely panicked. She looked behind her in disbelief at the cracked, seemingly crumbling living room door.

She couldn't understand.

Just a second ago, those things were knocking on the front door outside in the hallway, but the next second they were inside the living room and starting to knock on the door between the living room and the hallway.

All her knowledge and experience could not explain everything at hand, nor could they help her find a reference for action.

It was only at this moment that the girl began to truly understand what "ghost stories" were.

Click!

The wooden living room door has a crack.

Blood was flowing out of the hole.

A foul, fishy smell was spreading.

Just like the living room that the three of them had just searched, it had now become a slaughterhouse, piled with blood-soaked limbs.

[Open the door!]

The three men's shouts seemed to ring directly in my ears.

It was as if three unseen figures were standing beside them, roaring at them.

Amidst the distorted sounds, vision seemed to blur.

It was as if you could see three shattered figures huddled behind the door, wailing and screaming in agony.

boom!

The wooden door was completely deformed and was about to be smashed open.

The corridor also took on a bizarre state at this moment, distorted beyond recognition like a projection from a funhouse mirror.

And the three of them, who were sitting on the ground at this moment, seemed to be twisting as well. Every cell in their bodies, their skin, flesh, and bones seemed to be slowly twisting into a grotesque shape.

"What the hell..."

Kaguya Shinomiya struggled to stand up several times, but she was unable to do so.

From the moment the things outside the door began to change, the three people in the corridor began to lose control of their bodies.

The world grows increasingly distorted, like a hallucination, and the limbs become weaker and weaker.