[Alice's Big Adventure Game!]
[Welcome to Alice's school! This is where Alice studies. We are going to play a game here, and we are going to become good friends here, okay!]
[Alice loves making friends the most. Alice wants to become friends with everyone, so let's all play a game together. After playing the game, everyone will be Alice's friends! Best friends forever!]
[The goal of the game is very simple, okay? You just have to find the thing Alice hid in the Teaching Building. It's a super, super easy and super, super relaxing game, so let's all come and play with Alice!]
[However, when playing a game, you must strictly follow the game rules, okay? So, next, you must memorize the rules. You definitely must not forget the rules, okay!]
[Rule 1: Everyone must protect the candle on their desk carefully. You must, must not let the candle go out, okay? If the candle goes out, a very bad, very bad Big Bad Wolf will come to trouble you. He will come 'Rawr-rawr-ing' to cause you trouble, okay!]
[Rule 2: When you are in the corridor, you must, must, must not run around wildly, okay? Otherwise, Mother Sheep will get angry. She hates people who make noise the most, so walk slowly. Walk forward slowly, okay!]
[Rule 3: Bad children especially love pranks. They always quietly follow you and blow out your candle when you aren't paying attention. But don't be afraid. As long as you shine your candle on their faces, they will run away immediately. Bad children are most afraid of fire, okay!]
[Rule 4: Teacher Turtle at the staircase walks very, very slowly every time he goes to class. If you meet the teacher, you must help him, okay? A child who helps the teacher is a good child. Only a child who helps the teacher is a good child, right!]
[Rule 5: Teacher Duck has always had poor sleep. He is easily woken up, so please, you definitely must not make loud noises, okay? We have to play the game obediently and quietly. We cannot cause trouble for others, okay~]
[Rule 6: Uncle Statue always likes to run around, and he is super, super enthusiastic. He wants to hug people whenever he sees them. If possible, please persuade him to return to the Biology Classroom, okay? It wouldn't be good if Teacher Turtle couldn't find him during class, okay~]
[Rule 7: Sister Flashlight patrols every night. She really doesn't like children who stay in the Teaching Building at night, so if you see her, you must run away quickly. Otherwise, if you get caught by Sister Flashlight, you will get scolded, okay~]
[Rule 8: During class time, you must stay properly inside the classroom and study. You cannot stay in the corridor, and you cannot skip morning reading, okay? Mother Sheep has very, very good hearing. If you don't study seriously, she will definitely hear you, okay!]
[Rule 9: You can only turn on the lights after the Morning Bell rings. If the Evening Bell rings, you must definitely turn off the lights. Everyone must save electricity. You cannot cause trouble for Principal Elephant and Inspector Giraffe, okay? This is a very good virtue, good children must abide by it, okay!]
[Rule 10: You can only leave the Teaching Building after you have found Alice's thing, okay? You must play the game properly to the very end. You definitely must not leave early, okay~]
[Rule 11: Cheating and spoilers are absolutely forbidden behaviors, okay? You cannot let good children who haven't played the game yet know how to play this game in advance, okay? If you do that, Alice will be angry. An angry Alice won't become good friends with you!]
[That's all the rules! Everyone, do your best, do your best, do your best! Let's come and play with Alice~]
[As long as you've played the game, everyone will be good friends!]
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Gao Hai's finger slid continuously across the screen; it didn't take him too long to finish reading this rule sheet.
According to the descriptions from players who successfully survived [Fujihana Middle School], this is a rule sheet that all players who enter the Teaching Building of Fujihana Middle School will inevitably receive at the very beginning. As soon as a player finishes reading the contents of this rule sheet, the Teaching Building will undergo a change, entering the 'Game Start' state.
However, regarding how to play this specific game, which specific situations these rules correspond to, or how to handle them—the forum posts did not say.
According to what people said in the replies below, it seems that once information related to this is written down and published for others to see—specifically by those who have not yet entered Fujihana Middle School to play Alice's game—it will immediately trigger a certain rule of Fujihana Middle School.
This leads to the player who wrote down this 'cannot be revealed' information being immediately pulled back into Fujihana Middle School. Meanwhile, for those players who saw this information, their next mission will be forcibly locked to [Campus Horror Stories], and their starting point will inevitably be within Fujihana Middle School.
When he saw this specific point, to be honest, Gao Hai was truly stunned for a long time. He then carefully examined the information in those few reply threads and even specially went to the forum to find some other posts introducing Red Moon-level instances before he finally understood this point.
For game instances that have reached the 'Red Moon-level', their rules can take effect directly in the real world.
Even if you are not within the range of the instance, as long as you satisfy the rules of the instance itself, the supernatural forces existing within such instances can still directly kill you, or drag you into extremely dangerous perils.
"Holy crap, is this serious..."
Although he knew the rank of 'Red Moon-level' definitely had its unique aspects, Gao Hai really hadn't expected that an instance of this level would actually possess the power to directly interfere with reality to such an extent.
The only good news was that, so far, the activation conditions for Red Moon-level instance rules appearing in the [Sacrificial Game] basically all took 'knowing of its existence' as a prerequisite. Therefore, even if ordinary people and players in the real world did something that satisfied the conditions, they would remain safe and sound because they didn't know the matter was related to a specific instance.
It was just like the game rules of this Fujihana Middle School. If Gao Hai had absolutely no knowledge of any [Campus Horror Stories] instance, then even if someone spoiled the entire game process for him, only the other party would suffer calamity. Gao Hai himself would not encounter any problems at all.
It would only be when he learned a certain amount of information from some channel and realized that what the person speaking to him earlier had revealed was actually intelligence on the [Campus Horror Stories] instance—only then would he be locked onto by the rule power of this instance.
And this was one of the differences that existed between 'Red Moon-level' instances and instances of the other two ranks.
Apart from this, instances of this level also possessed a second difference from ordinary instances: this level of instance would occasionally experience a 'Descent' phenomenon.
The posts didn't have particularly detailed introductions regarding this phenomenon, supposedly because the 'Descent' manifestation of every Red Moon-level instance was different. However, even so, there was one unique commonality: near the location of the Descent, a red moon that only players could see would appear.
Furthermore, as long as this phenomenon occurred, surrounding players—regardless of whether they saw that red moon or not—would generate an intense thought to flee the area. Therefore, aside from those actively seeking death, basically no players would be harmed by a 'descending' instance.
The omen of a Descent phenomenon would generally last for about half an hour to an hour, enough for players within the area of influence to flee. Once the Descent phenomenon actually occurred, it would usually last for less than a minute before everything ended.
Under normal circumstances, tens to hundreds of people near the Descent location would vanish, taken away by the power of the Descent. Where these people went, and what kind of ending they met, could be said to be already destined.
However, this didn't cause much of a stir, because this was caused by the power of anomalies. Therefore, no one would notice the disappearance of these people. The family and friends of these vanished individuals would also continue their mundane and ordinary lives after forgetting the missing persons.
"That really makes one uncomfortable..."
After finishing reading these things, Gao Hai couldn't help but evaluate it in his heart.
[Campus Horror Stories] had now been downgraded by the Sacrificial Game to a Dim Night-level instance, but it still possessed the abilities of 'Rules taking effect outside the instance' and 'Irregular Descents'. The forum recorded a total of three Descents for [Campus Horror Stories], each occurring within a middle school or university. After the Descent ended, inevitably, all students of a certain class would vanish. The number of disappeared persons recorded so far was 85.
He continued to browse through the recorded intelligence information of this instance, and soon he flipped to those 12 opening game hints of Fujihana Middle School.
Based on his experiences in the two games, Shirakawa Apartments and Red Nut Gray Hole, Gao Hai already understood that the opening hints often involved the core obsession within the instance, touching upon some critical and hidden information. For Gao Hai, who had to achieve a perfect clearance, this information was very important.
However, before Gao Hai could earnestly read these hint messages, a text message popped up. He clicked open the message and found it was sent to him by Kaguya Shinomiya.
It seemed the other party had finally found the time to reply to him regarding the invitation for an in-person meeting from her brother, which he had informed her about earlier.
Gao Hai had informed Kaguya of this matter via text immediately after Ai Hayasaka left. Of course, he didn't expose the existence of Hayasaka herself; he only said that a strange male had found him and issued the invitation.
And now, the message Kaguya replied with was very concise, directly asking if he was free to take a call.
It looked like this matter had made Kaguya somewhat anxious, more or less?
So Gao Hai temporarily closed the forum page, pulled up his contacts, and called Kaguya directly.
Less than a second after the connection was made, Kaguya picked up immediately.
"Hello, hello. I've already told you about the matter. If you have any thoughts, speak them now."
Gao Hai placed the phone to his ear and spoke directly.
"...Tonight, I will go with you."
After a moment of silence, a reply came from Kaguya's side.
Hearing the trace of complex emotions revealed by the young girl in this response, Gao Hai merely raised an eyebrow. He replied with a simple "Okay" and said no more.
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