Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

"Chewed" the petals in his mouth, the taste was really not good...

Quickly walking to the edge of the coffee table, Night Crow spit the petals in his mouth into the trash can.

On the side, Apophi, who was sitting behind his desk with his eyes closed and pretending to be the "boss", saw this, got up and went to the kitchen next to him to open a few small bags of different kinds of shelled nuts, poured them into a plate and brought them out to the coffee table.

Seeing this plate of fragrant nuts, Night Crow's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to pick one up before Apophi put it down.

Hmm, it smells so good!

At this time, Lucia, who had been silent since the beginning, seemed to be thinking about something, suddenly raised her head, looked directly at Night Crow with her emerald green eyes, and asked seriously: "Can your 'Time Ship' carry people?"

"..." Night Crow paused with a large almond in his mouth, and he hadn't had time to eat it.

I was careless...

While eating the almonds in his mouth, Night Crow thought quickly and gave a quick answer: "Yes."

Sure enough, Lucia took a deep breath and asked seriously: "I have something I want to know anyway... Can you take me back to the 'past' to see?"

"Of course." Night Crow said briskly, "But the 'past' I can take you to see is just a simple 'image' that cannot be interfered with."

"That's enough." Lucia stood up and said seriously, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, you are my boss, my food, drink, housing, transportation, and fun all depend on you." Night Crow also said "seriously".

...

Anaki City is close to the sea, with developed fisheries and water transportation.

Apophi held a crow in one hand and a cat in the other, and teleported to a relatively "remote" offshore.

After flying a distance, the Night Raven landed on the sea and turned into the Night Raven with a rather cool appearance. It condensed its crow body projection on the bow and turned to the man and cat floating close to it and said: "Come on, let's go."

Apophi landed on the bow deck as he said.

The dark sails were blown up without wind, and the Night Raven gradually became transparent as it moved forward, and soon disappeared completely.

…

In the boundless and illusory silver-white river, the Night Raven slowly went upstream.

On the bow deck, the Night Raven flew up from the beak-shaped ramming angle of the bow, landed on Apophi's right shoulder, and lowered his head to ask the black cat lying in the arms of the young man: "Is there a specific time?"

"Yes." Lucia stood up in Apophi's arms and looked forward, "Green Star Calendar July 4, 2032, 9 am, Inesel City... is the predecessor of today's Phantom City."

"So specific? That's convenient." The Night Raven said, and the three-masted sailing ship suddenly accelerated and sailed into the strange fog ahead.

...

Green Star Calendar July 4, 2032, an ordinary day.

The pitch-black Night Raven sailed steadily on the land of Inesel City, bumping into buildings as it encountered them, and arrogantly walked in a straight line all the way. "Rampant" is not enough to describe it.

Looking at the strange yet familiar city around her, which looked like an old photo, Lucia looked around, trying to relieve her tension by "appreciating the scenery", but she almost burst into tears.

Seventeen years ago, the sudden disaster that turned Inesel City into a phantom city almost destroyed everything Lucia missed.

When the Radiant Truth was unsealed after the aftermath, she set foot on the land that should have been her "hometown" again. It was five years later, and all that appeared in front of Lucia was the completely unfamiliar Phantom City.

Indeed, the new Phantom City still recognized the past title deeds and property ownership, and even gave all the victims an incredibly generous "demolition compensation" because of the land occupation by the Obsidian Holy Tower, but...

Lucia raised her head and forced herself to hold back the tears that were about to burst out.

She really still missed that home...

...

In the center of Inesel City, behind the most prosperous commercial street.

The Night Raven stopped here, and the position of the bow deck was just level with the door of the "rumored office".

Looking at the familiar door a few meters away, Lucia hesitated for a moment and asked softly: "Can I go over and take a look?"

"No!" said the Night Raven, "I have said before that as passengers, once you leave the range of the Night Raven, you will be lost in this "past", and disappear from the world from then on, and even I will find it difficult to find you."

"Then..." Lucia opened her mouth hesitantly, her emerald eyes were both timid and hesitant.

"Have you forgotten? This is just an "image", I can take you through the model." The Night Raven said helplessly.

"..." Lucia lowered her head slightly embarrassedly.

She did forget, or rather, her heart was too confused, and her mind was also confused for a while.