Why is my time traveling to the second dimension such a weird rule story?

The black watch's mental link was activated again, linking Gao Hai and Shijo Maki's thoughts.

{Shijo Maki: So far, I haven't encountered any abnormal phenomena. However, although the types of books here are very rich, my aunt and I opened many books and found that there were many blank pages and many confusions in the number of words. We suspect that these books are actually the reproduction of memories, but the people who are the source can no longer clearly remember the books they have read, which leads to these books appearing like this}

On the other side, Shijo Maki, who is in the library on the first floor of the attached teaching building, is sitting in the reading area of ​​the library, flipping through the book in her hand while observing the surroundings from time to time.

Shinomiya Kaguya is sitting opposite Maki, and she also holds a few books and flips through the contents. In addition, next to Shinomiya Kaguya, Aoyama Nanami is sitting quietly, wearing glasses, and also holding a few books and flipping through them.

The library area on the first floor of the attached teaching building is the one that these three players are responsible for investigating.

{Gao Hai: What you mean is that these books in the library are all reproductions of memories, so they will be affected by the source of their memories? }

Takahashi took Hayasaka Ai and Yotsuya Miko downstairs, and continued to ask Maki in the mental link.

{Shijo Maki: That's right, I searched the bookshelf area carefully several times and confirmed that all the books that my aunt and I had read can be found here, and they are exactly the same as in my memory. In addition, I found some Chinese and English books, as well as some strange books that look hard to tell what they are, and they look particularly strange. Now we are flipping through these books and trying to find any clues from them.}

Reappearance of memory?

Speaking of which, I have heard others say that the students who turned into strange things look and sound like the players' classmates in the past. So, if we can find strange books in the library that all players can't recognize, maybe we can get some useful clues.

Thinking of this, Takahashi quickly made a decision.

{Gao Hai: I can't find anything useful here without actively violating the rules, so we will come to you, and we will work together to see if we can find more books that look problematic}

{Shijo Maki: Okay, Haijun, be careful when you come over, we don't know when those things will attack us}

While talking, Gao Hai walked out of the dormitory building and immediately noticed that Xiong Mi and Jian Bing had occupied half of the basketball court on the outdoor court and were playing with several weird students. It seems that the two of them are trying to actively integrate into some weird activities and intend to take the initiative, but after a little observation, Gao Hai found that there is obvious repulsion in the actions of those weird students. After getting the ball, they don't intend to play with Xiong Mi and Jian Bing at all. They will do their best to prevent the two from grabbing the ball, and even hit the two hard and try to attack their eyes, back of the head and other parts. It's just because the two players are both Red Moon level, so they can still take the initiative under the extremely repulsive behavior of these weird students.

Just like in Fujika Middle School, Sister Xiongmi always takes the initiative to take on the dangerous parts of the dungeon strategy. This behavior, which is close to confronting these students head-on, can indeed produce great stimulation and may test useful information, but if something goes wrong, she and her companion can only face the power of the monster at close range.

Gao Hai did not stop, and his eyes met with Xiongmi and Jianbing from a distance. After nodding to each other, he continued to move forward.

Hayashibe Kenta of the [Red Knot Society] went to the indoor court alone. At present, there is no message reply in the communication obsession, and it is not clear whether the situation is good or bad. Goto Ichiri sneaked into the venue area alone, and at the same time used the guitar obsession to create several clones to investigate the various roads of Yeluoshan Middle School. Fujiwara Chika went to the swimming pool with another member of the [Red Knot Society], Nanakawa Ren.

So far, all the areas of Yeluoshan Middle School have been visited by players. However, Gao Hai was very suspicious that this investigation would still not yield any results.

Maybe it would be until the middle of the night before they could get in touch with the things that they had never been able to get in touch with before.

"Hmm..."

Jizi, who was following Gao Hai, frowned slightly at this time.

It seemed that she felt someone's gaze.

She turned her head slightly, first looked in another direction, and then turned her gaze to the other side very obscurely. Her gaze just passed the source of the gaze, and it turned out that the other party was in the main teaching building.

There was no way to determine which floor the gaze came from. The feeling of being watched was already quite vague, almost fleeting, and now it was completely unfeeling.

What was going on?

The girl couldn't confirm whether she was being watched by a strange creature or something else. The feeling of being watched came suddenly and disappeared quickly, so that she couldn't clearly confirm the situation.

But the only thing that was certain was that this feeling must not be ignored as an illusion.

Jianzi immediately reached out and grabbed Gao Hai's sleeve, gently tugging twice, and then tugging a little harder, in order to hint to Gao Hai and remind him that something was going to happen.

"..."

Gao Hai did not say anything.

Two light hits, one heavy hit... Well, according to the agreed code, does that mean that Jianzi can't be sure of the specific situation?

If it is the gaze of a strange creature, there is no reason to suddenly take a look and then ignore it. It's a bit strange, so don't act rashly.

Thinking of this, Gao Hai lowered his head a little, and met Jianzi's eyes beside him, and confirmed through the other party's secretly gestured gestures that the other party felt the abnormal direction from the main teaching building that had been searched repeatedly.

So soon, as Gao Hai and others stepped into the annex teaching building, a rescue team member secretly climbed out of the window of the annex teaching building, slipped into the main teaching building, and began to investigate it floor by floor.

On the surface, Gao Hai and others who seemed to have found nothing unusual had already stepped directly into the library. Among them, Gao Hai saw Zhenfei Kaguya and others at a glance, as well as dozens of books of varying thicknesses piled on the table where they were sitting.

Chapter 16: Spiritual Link Plan and Investigation in the Library

[Basic Rules for Library Students]

[1. You must use a student ID card to enter and exit the library. Those who do not hold an ID card are not allowed to enter and exit the library]

[2. Keep quiet in the library and do not make loud noises that affect others' reading]

[3. Smoking is strictly prohibited in the library. Lighters, cigarettes and other items are not allowed to be brought into the library. Students should consciously hand over the corresponding items to the front desk registration office when entering the library]

[4. Books in the library can only be read in the reading area. Unless they have been registered for borrowing in advance, they cannot be taken out of the library. Once the violation of taking out books is found, the students will be severely punished and prohibited from entering the library again]

[5 .Books marked as "valuable books" in the library are not allowed to be taken out of the library, and books marked as "library books" are not allowed to be borrowed without the permission of the school]

[6. The borrowing period of books from the library is 3 days, 5 days and 7 days respectively. Books cannot be returned beyond the pre-borrowing time. Books cannot be taken out again if the period is exceeded 3 times. Books that are not returned after 7 days are considered lost. Regardless of whether the books are returned or not, compensation must be paid at the price, and books cannot be taken out again]

[7. Books borrowed from the library are only for the use of borrowers. In principle, they should not be provided to others. If they are damaged or lost by others, they are considered the responsibility of the borrower himself]

As soon as he entered the library, Gao Hai saw a new code on the wall.

Subconsciously, Gao Hai turned his head to look at Yotsuya Miko, wanting to see if the other party saw anything different. But then he remembered that at this moment, even if Miko could see a different rule sheet, he would not be able to [understand] what the other party was talking about, so even if he took the initiative to ask, it would be meaningless.

The information blocking mechanism of this dungeon is too unfriendly to the information exchange between teammates. If Gao Hai wants to pass the dungeon smoothly, he feels that he may have to find a way to establish a mental communication with Jianzi and establish the special mental link that can only be established by the black watch. After all, only this mysterious [Key to the Unity of All Things] has the power to override the rules of the dungeon and ensure the smooth exchange of information.

Unfortunately, this link can only be established after he dies and when he is in the bloody city. In the two operations of Fujika Middle School and Zaodachi Elementary School, the former was because the depth of his relationship with Jianzi did not meet the standard and could not establish a mental link, and the latter was because Gao Hai finally chose to retain the memory instead of establishing a mental link after considering the situation. After all, although Gao Hai said that he wanted to solve it in one go at that time, he was still a little unsure in his heart, so he naturally couldn't do something like "I want it all".

But now, this matter is no longer impossible.

Now, Fujiwara Chika can be sure that they can establish a spiritual connection. As for Miko, although the relationship between the two is developing slowly, she has become a half-guest in the Blood City after all. Gao Hai believes that it is absolutely no problem for the two to establish a spiritual connection with each other. As for Kaguya... well, let's not consider Kaguya for now, let's think about Hayasaka first. To be honest, the relationship between him and Hayasaka is a bit forced, and it just happened to be the right time, so it just happened to deepen the relationship. However, to complete the establishment of the spiritual connection, Gao Hai believes that there should be no problem.

In other words, if he dies in the copy of Yeluoshan Middle School, uh, it should be 100% certain that he will die once, then after death, he will have to establish a spiritual connection with Chika, Miko and Hayasaka. In addition to the consumption of death rollback itself, Gao Hai needs to consume four rollback times in one breath, consuming a full quarter of the watch count to achieve this goal.

If it was in the previous copies, Gao Hai was sure that he didn't have the courage to consume the grids like this.

But now, it's not a bad idea to do so. Well, at least the connection with Miko can be done directly without much consideration.

After all, the recovery speed of his watch has now been shortened to once every 9 days.

Thinking of this, Gao Hai walked towards the real princess Kaguya while looking down at the black watch he was wearing.

At this moment, the only pointer on the watch was pointing to the position [1].

When Gao Hai just cleared the Zaoli Primary School dungeon, the black watch absorbed the broken weird objects and obsessions after the dungeon was broken, and the pointer returned to the position [2]. Then, because it absorbed a large number of derived obsessions, even though those obsessions were quite low-end and almost non-existent, the watch's recovery function was still greatly improved, so that the pointer returned to the position [1] the next day after Gao Hai returned to reality.

Next, as long as he can get through today safely, by tomorrow, the black watch will be able to recover one more grid of rewind times, and the pointer will directly reach the position [0].

Gao Hai can see that the weirdness of the Yeluoshan Middle School dungeon is all hidden, so this time's strategy task is likely to last for a long time. And coincidentally, the black watch he has can automatically recover. So once the strategy is not going well, Gao Hai is even confident that he can use the method of dragging corpses to repeatedly attack by delaying time and eliminating self-memory. Of course, the premise is that there is enough time in this dungeon for him to do this.

But that was the worst-case scenario. Now, he should consider how to use his first life.

{Takahashi: What's the situation?}

While thinking, Takahashi had walked to the front of Zhenfei, sat down beside her and asked through the mental link.

{Shijo Zhenfei: We haven't found any valuable clues yet, but the three of us are far from completing the investigation of the library. You go to each bookshelf and look again to see if there are any clues.}

Shijo Zhenfei nodded slightly, replied to Takahashi in the mental link, and quickly wrote down the words in a notebook she brought in advance, and showed it to Miko and Hayasaka beside Takahashi, telling them what to do next.

Considering that there is no specific standard for [No loud noises] in the library rules, everyone can only think in a more strict direction as much as possible. So Maki simply tore open her notebook, gave each of Gao Hai, Jianzi and Hayasaka a piece of paper, and then took a pen for each of them, and then wrote a sentence "Be careful", and then continued to focus on the books she brought.

Seeing this, Gao Hai did not hesitate, and took the two girls to act quickly, returning to the bookshelf area of ​​the library to start searching.

Of course, even in this situation, the three did not act separately, but still maintained a state of joint action, ensuring that they could notice each other at any time, and did not have any idea of ​​dispersing and acting alone.

"..."

Gao Hai could hardly hear his own footsteps.

The floor of the library seemed to be made of some special material, so that there would be almost no sound when the footsteps fell. Gao Hai did not know what the principle was, but under the white light, he felt a little obscure heaviness when walking in the silent bookshelf area.

The face under the bed in the dormitory building... the new recruitment form of the ghost story club in the teaching building and the voices in the toilet... So far, except for the cafeteria, the two places I have visited have shown some abnormalities to a certain extent.

So, will there be abnormalities in the library? If so, in what way and in what appearance will they appear?

Hualala--

Take out a book and open it. Just as Zhenfei said, the book looks normal on the surface, but the content seems to be misprinted, and there is almost no sentence that can be read normally.

Gao Hai then changed several books, and then found that some books have more or less readable parts, but these contents often have a lot of unclear places, and will be abruptly interrupted, and there is even no connection between the upper and lower sections. The types of books are varied, from culinary works to miscellaneous strange novels, to various professional books, and some books that Gao Hai has no idea what they are. It can be said that it is a mess.

Can't find any clues.

After searching for more than 20 minutes, Gao Hai was not surprised to find that he only found a bunch of nonsense, and there was nothing valuable in any of the books.

I have to admit that although there has been no danger in this mission so far, Gao Hai has felt a strong sense of frustration. This is the first time he has encountered such a copy that no matter how you investigate, you can't find anything useful.

Hayasaka on the side silently checked the books on the bookshelf on the other side. She carefully flipped through almost all the books on this shelf, but like Gao Hai, she couldn't find any valuable clues.

Perhaps, trying to find clues from these books is not a wise idea?

As Kaguya's attendant, Hayasaka asked herself that this was not the first time she encountered various tricky problems. Especially in recent times, the young lady who was just beginning to fall in love was even more stupid than she expected, forcing her to find ways to create opportunities for her young lady to get closer to Gao Hai. Although this process brought a considerable degree of trouble to Hayasaka, it more or less opened up some ideas for the girl who had always followed the rules.

Hayasaka looked down at the slightly old bookshelf. After a brief hesitation, she began to think and tried to regard the situation in which the players in front of her could not find clues as another difficult problem set by Kaguya Shinomiya, so as to find a possible solution.

First of all, the series of investigations that began in the morning did not yield any results. The only thing that can be known is that Miss Goto encountered danger when she acted alone, and the others did not find any abnormalities from beginning to end (Hayasaka did not know about the Life Club and the Strange Story Club due to information blockage). In Hayasaka's view, this continuous failure of investigation can be declared a dead end, which means that other solutions must be found.

Secondly, the situation of Miss Goto can be regarded as a small hint. She encountered danger when she acted alone and used some extraordinary power. In the absence of other conditions, Hayasaka felt that [acting alone and showing a special side] could be regarded as a symbol of danger. Once the player meets this characteristic, dangerous things may happen, so that the powerful old player is forced to delete his memory to pass the level.

So, summing up these two points, plus what Ms. Fujiwara said before, the unique [atmosphere] of neon, and the fact that the two core obsessions of Yeluoshan Middle School, [Eriko Asamoto] and [Koji Morihara], who had not undergone any abnormal changes, had both suffered school bullying before, perhaps if players want to know what is hidden deep in this dungeon, they have to find the invisible and colorless [atmosphere] in this dungeon.

But how can such a thing be found?

While thinking, Hayasaka put a completely blank book back on the bookshelf, and then keenly noticed that there was someone standing behind the bookshelf.

The bookshelf of the school library is hollow, so if people on both sides take away the books in the same position, they can see each other. And Hayasaka was in the process of picking up a book and putting it back, and saw a pair of feet on the opposite side of the bookshelf through the gap between the books.

Something is wrong.

Hayasaka quickly recalled that since she stood here, the person behind the bookshelf has been standing there, and has not moved from beginning to end. Every time she took a book or put it away, she could see the feet motionless in the same place through the gaps between the books.

This situation is very abnormal. Although the students in this school are actually disguised as weird things, the actions of those things are no different from those of living people. They will never stay in the same place motionless. Even if a student is absorbed in reading, at least there will be ups and downs in breathing and the movement of turning pages, and the body will not remain completely still.

But every time she saw the person behind the bookshelf, the other party's position has not changed at all.

That's right, just by sight, Hayasaka can determine that the distance between the person's left foot and the pattern on the nearest tile is 1.07 cm, the distance between the right foot and the left foot is 4.23 cm, and the degree of opening and closing of the two feet is 57.4 degrees. These data have not changed at all in more than 20 minutes. It can be said that the person behind the bookshelf is like a sculpture, and there is no movement at all.

This is obviously completely inconsistent with the actions of the weird things in the copy of Yeluoshan Middle School.

Reaching out his hand, Hayasaka patted Takahashi and Miko on the shoulders, signaling to them that he had found something.

Then, Takahashi carefully protected Miko and followed Hayasaka, and the three of them moved slowly and came to the corner of the bookshelf.

While Takahashi was ready to call for rescuers immediately, use suppression bombs and release the spiritual field, Hayasaka took a step forward and moved to the other side of the bookshelf, looking at the position where the person on the opposite side of the bookshelf should be.

Empty?

The girl slightly widened her eyes and was somewhat surprised to find that there was no one behind the bookshelf.

If that's the case...

She quickly returned to the position where she first found the other person and took a book away again, but the person was no longer visible in the gap between the bookshelves.

Gone?

Hayasaka, who thought she had found something, was a little discouraged at this moment.

Takahashi, who didn't find anything unusual, suddenly frowned at this time.

Through the induction of the rescue team badge, he just found out that the rescue team member Lao Guo, who he sent to sneak into the main teaching building, had been killed.

Chapter 17: When the dark night falls, the person who awakens with the abyss (Bythos)

14:00

Return to the main teaching building and enter the fifth class time.

Gao Hai found that his mood had gradually calmed down, and he didn't feel as irritable as before.

Probably because he realized that it was meaningless to be irritable, so he just muddled through the time and waited for things to change.

Hayasaka was still a little unconvinced. When she was in the library before, she thought she had found a clue, but the person standing behind the bookshelf never appeared again, which brought some shock to the girl. For this reason, Gao Hai comforted her for a while, and then tried to take her to the dormitory building rule sheet and the main teaching building rule sheet to see if she could see the survival rules, but she found that she could only see the basic rules at the beginning.

As for whether the library rules have changed in Hayasaka's sight, Gao Hai has no way of knowing this. After all, even if there is a change, it is not noticeable from his own perspective. This extremely distorted information blocking rule leads to the fact that players who know the deep rules and do obtain intelligence can only fight alone and have no way to cooperate effectively with other companions. This is really disgusting.

However, after learning about the "atmosphere" from Fujiwara Chika, think carefully, this rule that makes it increasingly difficult for players to cooperate and explore, maybe... is actually the embodiment of the "atmosphere" in this copy.

The more you are unwilling to go with the flow like those weird students, the more you are unwilling to pretend that everything is normal and integrate into this beautiful atmosphere on the surface, the more you try to find those hidden bad things, the more you will be isolated and helpless, and you will be unable to communicate normally with others, and you will receive more and more serious rejection and even attacks. As an external manifestation of this, as a manifestation of the distortion of the rule of the strange world, it is this information blocking mechanism.

If you think about it this way... well, it's even more disgusting.

Gao Hai couldn't help but start to suspect that this mechanism might further deteriorate as players obtained more and more information and became increasingly unable to communicate with their companions, which might bring him huge trouble.