Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

After Barlow pressed the call bell, a few minutes later, the door of the workshop was hurriedly pushed open from the outside, and then someone pressed the light switch next to the door.

Accompanied by a slight crisp sound of the switch being pressed, bright and soft multiple incandescent lamps lit up, illuminating almost every corner of the workshop.

"Teacher, you..." The visitor's subconscious question was frightened back by the unexpected visitor, and his eyes widened involuntarily.

After a few seconds of stunned, the visitor's eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, then picked up the coat rack placed by the door and took a defensive posture, and shouted nervously: "Monster! Get away from my teacher! Otherwise, I will not be polite!"

The visitor was about 40 years old, a tall man, with prominent cheekbones, a sharp chin, brown eyes, dark brown long curly hair tied loosely behind his head, and no beard. The overall look was mean, indifferent, and difficult to get along with.

- In fact, he was indeed difficult to get along with.

Just by hearing the voice, Lenari keenly identified that this person was the guy who hung up her phone rudely.

Seeing the visitor's actions and hearing the visitor's words, Barlow was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly turned black, and he angrily shouted: "Woodlow, these two or three are my guests, you must not be rude!"

The unexpected scolding made the middle-aged man Woodlow stunned for a long time: "But..."

"No buts! Put down that stupid coat rack, go drive the car out, I want to go out!" Barlow said without question.

The teacher said this, although he was full of questions, Woodlow still obeyed obediently, put the coat rack back in place, walked out of the door backwards with confusion and nervousness, and then strode away and went to the garage to drive.

- In any case, in short, follow the teacher's instructions and drive the car out first.

In the workshop, Barlow apologized to Lenari, Lucia and Valya: "I'm sorry, my disciple is not very smart..."

"It's okay, after all, your disciple's worldview has just been shattered." Lenari said indifferently.

Lucia and Valya would not care about this even more.

Barlow nodded, put the small piece of special material sample brought by Lenari back into the sample box, slowly stood up with the help of the table, and said: "Let's go, let's go to the door, Woodrow should have driven the car out."

...

The car that Woodrow drove out was a low-key black city off-road vehicle, and the space inside the car was quite spacious.

Lenari held Lucia in his arms and sat in the back seat. He carefully observed Barlow who was sitting in the passenger seat and asked kindly, "Master, it looks like you haven't eaten for a long time. Would you like some milk and a sandwich?"

When Lenari said this, Barlow suddenly realized that he was thirsty and hungry. He licked his lips and said shyly, "Then have a cup of warm milk and a sandwich."

After taking out the warm milk and hot sandwich from the shadow rift and handing them to Barlow in the front seat, Lenari said to Woodrow who was driving, "Do you know how to get to the seventh community?"

"There is a navigation system in the car." Woodrow said coldly.

Barlow frowned and was about to reprimand him. He saw Lenari shaking his head gently from the corner of his eye, so he reluctantly gave up, but he was still angry and had to eat.

Lenari didn't want to drive slowly into the city, so he said, "Then, we'll wait for you at the seventh district... Someone will pick you up at the gate of the district when the time comes."

Without waiting for the two doubtful people to ask, Lenari picked up the lily of the valley potted plant on the seat, sank into a strange shadow, and disappeared.

Although he was mentally prepared, Woodrow almost drove the car into the ditch when he suddenly saw this scene through the rearview mirror. "New hatred and old grudges" immediately caused Barlow to scold mercilessly.

...

Anthony's office in the basement of the seventh district.

"...That's the thing. I'll leave Valya to you these days." Lenari said, moving the small lily of the valley potted plant on the coffee table to Anthony's side.

Anthony nodded: "Don't worry... In the case of Barlow Douglas, Team 7 should indeed step in."

"In addition," Anthony looked around like a thief, leaned forward, and whispered, "The technical department will be grateful to you... There are several puppet lovers over there, and the one who is the most obsessed is a severely handicapped person who can't do handicrafts."

"..." Lenari blinked, not knowing what expression to make.

...

In the evening, Lenari and Lucia had just finished dinner in the No. 2 canteen and were enjoying their desserts when they unexpectedly saw Anthony appear at the door of the canteen with a thermos cup.

The appearance of one person and one cat was quite conspicuous among the few diners in the canteen.

Anthony found the target without much effort, walked straight over, pulled out a chair and sat down.

LuXia swallowed the caramel pudding in his mouth and said in surprise: "I thought you never left the underground base."

Anthony shrugged: "It's okay to come to the ground part... Of course, you can't leave the community."

The underground base of Team 7 occupies a much larger area than the seventh community on the ground, so Anthony said this.

Lenari, who didn't know the truth, asked in confusion: "Why can't we leave the community?"

Lucia said: "It seems to be related to a strange story. I don't know the details. Vivian refused to say it."

Anthony unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup, raised his head and drank the last mouthful of coffee in it, and said: "Groot didn't say it for your own good. This strange story is the type that will be entangled as long as you hear it."

Lucia was puzzled: "Then why didn't Vivian get entangled?"

"Well..." Anthony thought for a while and said, "Actually, it was entangled, but from being entangled to "creating an actual threat", many conditions must be met."

"Oh..." Lucia suddenly realized, then lowered her head and continued to eat caramel pudding.

Lenari pondered for a moment and decided to satisfy his curiosity: "I want to know..."

"No!" Anthony refused flatly, "No one is easy to deal with in ghost stories, so try to avoid them as much as possible!"

No, there are still some that are easy to deal with, such as "The Lost Gothic Lolita"...

Lenari refuted in her heart. Of course, she just pouted her cheeks slightly in dissatisfaction and didn't ask any more questions.

Anthony screwed the lid of the empty thermos cup, pressed the service bell on the table, and said to Lenari and Lucia: "I came up this time mainly to tell you that the candidate for the 'driver' has been decided, and to have dinner by the way."

"So fast?" Lenari said unexpectedly, and the spoonful of pudding that was about to be put into his mouth paused for a moment, and finally arrived at the destination smoothly.

Anthony said: "After all, the higher-ups have been arguing about this for a long time... Tomorrow morning, the three candidates will be in place, and you can come and pick one then."