Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

Inside the strange story "Infinite City".

Having witnessed the destruction of more than a dozen rooms, Lei finally couldn't help it.

"It won't work this way, shall we go a little further?" he suggested.

They have been captured by this strange story for more than 40 hours.

After going back and forth in several adjacent rooms, they barely figured out some basic rules.

1. In each room, once a living creature enters, even if it leaves immediately, it will trigger the "4-hour destruction countdown".

2. Those starry black "backgrounds" are not harmless. With "4 minutes" as the boundary, as long as the matter exceeds this limit, it will be unstoppably decomposed into elementary particles and then swallowed by the "background".

3. The room where the "destruction countdown" has been triggered gives people a different feeling. What exactly it feels like, Night Crow and Lei can't say.

Night Crow suspects that this "feeling" is forcibly given by this strange story, and the purpose is unclear.

In order to save energy, Night Crow has long turned back into a crow body that doesn't have to worry about hunger for thousands of years.

——Just because the crow body doesn't need to eat doesn't mean that the Wuxiang body doesn't need to eat either, even if it turns into the "crow spirit".

Night Crow has long confirmed that the "crow spirit" form of Wuxiang's body only copied the bad luck ability of the crow body, and that the "crow spirit" is closer to a living creature, a "mutated crow" than the crow body.

For example, the body of the "crow spirit" is like an ordinary person. If it doesn't eat for a period of time, it will start to get hungry, and this period of time is usually 12 hours.

Well, it is slightly more resistant to hunger than ordinary people, but not much.

"With the structure of this room suite, it may not be possible to come back if you go far away." Night Crow objected, "And you also found it, right? The farther the room is from the 'initial point', the lower the 'reduction degree'."

"I found it, but if we continue to stay here, it will not help us find the exit... That kind of 'change' may be the source of life." Lei said seriously.

"'Maybe'." Night Crow said, "It's risky."

"When you are in a strange story, 'change' is more likely to be not a good thing."

"Don't forget, our 'backup' is very powerful. Under this premise, delaying time and surviving as long as possible is the wisest choice."

"..." Lei was speechless.

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to continue to wait and see, and by the way...

"Teach me how to use power? While the situation is still safe." Lei asked in a negotiating tone.

Standing on Lei's left shoulder, Night Crow looked at the young man in surprise and nodded: "Okay."

Flying to the ground, switching to the formless body Lei version, Night Crow asked Lei: "Have you learned any combat skills before?"

After a brief recollection, Lei said: "There are quite a lot, boxing, Sanda, judo, etc., and some firearms applications."

"What about cold weapons?" Night Crow asked.

Lei thought for a moment and said, "Does a dart count?"

"Of course it does." Night Crow said affirmatively, "Then I'll teach you how to condense a maple leaf dart first."

As he spoke, Night Crow raised his right palm and placed it in front of him in a gesture of asking for something, so that Lei could observe it more easily.

As the subtle demonic power surged, a colorful red maple leaf slowly condensed above the palm.

Catching the fallen hard maple leaf and throwing it casually, Night Crow looked at Lei who was thinking and asked, "How is it? Did you see it clearly?"

"Sure enough..." Lei looked thoughtful and suddenly concluded, "I don't understand it at all."

"..." Night Crow pulled the corner of his mouth and simply pushed the maple leaf in front of Lei's face, "Take it! Observe carefully and imagine it well."

Lei carefully took the maple leaf with sharp edges, frowned, and said with some embarrassment, "Why is it imagination again?"

Night Crow switched to a crow body, flew onto the young man's left shoulder, and explained, "Monsters are originally quite idealistic. The development and application of demon power and magic, imagination is of course indispensable."

"...Okay." Lei, who had been proud of his outstanding logical thinking in the past twenty years, had to convince himself to face reality.

"So, where should I start to imagine?" Lei, who had no idea, decided to ask humbly.

"Well... the simple use of power is just like breathing and blinking for me..." Night Crow scratched his head with his wings in some embarrassment, "It's hard to teach you how to do it seriously..."

Lei also scratched his head: "But I really have no idea..."

"Let me think..."

After thinking carefully for a long time, Night Crow suddenly had an idea: "I got it! Have you ever seen a maple tree drop its leaves in autumn? Imagine that you are a fiery red maple tree, dropping its leaves...”

“I am a maple tree, dropping leaves…”

Lei murmured, closing his eyes and using meditation techniques to immerse his mind in the imagined scene as much as possible.