Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

After collecting all the food and drinking water that could be found in the house, Night Crow turned his eyes to the bathroom that was not closed.

Without Night Crow's urging, Lei carried the clothes drying rod that he had brought at some point and walked into the bathroom cautiously.

The bathroom was quiet, and the ventilation window that should have been open was closed. Other than that, everything was normal.

"...Sure enough, there is no water." Lei, who had expected this, did not feel disappointed, but rather a sigh of relief.

"There is no water in the toilet either," said Night Crow, who had poked his head out to take a look.

"…Even if there is, it is impossible to use it!?"

"Think more broadly. Your real body is a tree now. What's wrong with watering it with toilet water? Besides, this toilet is very clean. If you are really at the end of your rope, it is totally fine to drink it."

"…" Lei was choked for a while and ended the topic forcefully, "But it has no water now, so there is no point in discussing this."

"Yeah." Night Crow nodded in agreement and said, "The room has been searched. Should we open the doors and windows now?"

"…Don't you need to divine whether there is any danger first?" Lei hesitated.

"I've divined. It's safe to open the door or the window." Night Crow said, "As long as you don't stay at the 'boundary', there will be no danger."

Lei nodded and held the clothesline tightly in his hand: "Then start from the window."

Glancing at the light plastic clothesline again, Night Crow couldn't help but say: "I say, you are a tree demon, right? Isn't it better to just turn a branch out than this cheap plastic pole?"

"The problem is, I can't do it!" Lei said helplessly.

"... Forget it, you get out of the way, I'll do it!"

Rolling his eyes, Night Crow landed and switched to a formless body.

——When the formless body switches back and forth, it defaults to the previous appearance.

Putting on Lei's "leather suit", Night Crow stretched out his palm with his palm facing up and exerted force silently.

With a suspicious, slight "click" sound, a sharp spear-like wooden stick grew out from the palm of Night Crow and fell off in a few breaths.

Raising his hand to catch the falling wooden spear, Night Crow casually threw it to Lei, who was a little dumbfounded, and said, "Take it, put down the poor clothesline."

"..." Lei subconsciously weighed the maple spear, and then silently put the clothesline in a corner where it would not get in the way.

"So, why are you more familiar with my body than I am?!" Lei couldn't help but complain.

"This is the benefit of having a solid foundation in mysticism." Night Crow shrugged and looked at the window again.

"Although the divination shows no danger, you should not stay too far away from me." Night Crow warned, "The divination results may not be reliable, just in case."

"I understand." Lei nodded, holding the wooden spear, and followed Night Crow two steps behind.

Taking a deep breath, Night Crow reached out and pulled open the closed wooden blackout window painted white.

Outside the blackout window, there is also a closed transparent glass window.

Outside the transparent glass window that would not block the view, the garden that should have appeared did not appear as expected, and...

At the other end of the window was another room, like another room that was a mirror image of this room.

After observing the room opposite the glass window for a long time in silence, Lei sighed and murmured, "Not good, very bad..."

Night Crow also sighed, "Looking at this, this weird story is probably the type of 'sleeping to death'... Let's go and look at the door again."

"Yeah."

...

It turns out that not only the door, but also the other side of the bathroom ventilation window are mirror-like rooms, the only difference is the "mirror" perspective, and...

"Did you find it?" Lei frowned and said, "There are no 'living things' in those mirror rooms."

"Yeah." Night Crow nodded, "Such a large potted plant, only a pot left is still very conspicuous."

"So, if we go over there, will it trigger some instant death rules?" Lei asked solemnly.

"The divination results show that we are safe... Anyway, if we stay in this room for more than four hours, there will be great danger. There will be no worse situation."

"..." Lei thought for a moment and suggested, "Why don't we stay in this room for about two hours and then go to the 'other side'."

"That's what I plan to do." Night Crow nodded.

...

Two hours and two hours passed quickly.

In the mirror room opposite the door, Night Crow and Lei looked at the original room solemnly. It decayed and shattered into glass-like fragments in just a few breaths.

Outside the broken room, there was a starry black sky.

Before Night Crow could take a closer look, the starry black sky disappeared, and aA room that looked exactly like the previous one appeared in front of the two.

"... It seems that this is really the type of 'trapped to death'..." Lei muttered.

Night Crow nodded: "Let's go, we'll go over there."

"Okay."

...

More than seven hours ago, Obsidian Holy Tower, the inner hall of the temple on the top of the tower.

"Glory, my clone has lost contact..."

"Strange story 'Infinite City'." The calm and indifferent voice of Glory's reason sounded out of thin air, "As long as they don't stay in the same room for a long time, there will be no danger."

"What is the rescue method?"

"The degree of isolation between the inside and outside of the 'Infinite City' is very deep, and we can only wait for the moment when it 'preys' again."

"... Is the food and water inside safe?"

"Safe."

"That's fine." Lenari was relieved instantly and picked up the high-end magic textbook next to him again.