Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

After walking through the dusty and cobweb-covered front hall and the desolate and dilapidated atrium, Carlodira clearly entered a large room on the first underground floor of the back hall.

The room had no door, and some wooden debris that could not be seen in its original form was silently scattered around the door frame. Inside, there were many empty stone shelves in an orderly manner. Judging from their shape, they should be bookshelves or something like that.

This room, which was not sure whether it was a library or a reference room, looked like it had been silent for many years. The thick dust almost covered the original texture and background of the furnishings, and the stale air made Carlodira, who did not need to breathe, feel unbearable.

Wearing two layers of air filtration magic, Carlodira followed the guidance of dream divination and walked as lightly as possible to an inconspicuous corner of the room against the wall.

Here, on the wall between the two shelves, a narrow door that was supposed to be a secret door opened wide, revealing a dark, spiral staircase leading to nowhere.

After looking at the stone door lying on the ground and split into two sections, and estimating the height and width of the secret passage, Carlodila decisively raised her hand to put on another layer of colorless and transparent flexible shield designed to prevent impact damage, and then stepped into the secret passage carefully.

——Nothing, just don't want to be embarrassed and covered in dust.

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After walking down the spiral staircase with no branches for about a hundred meters, what appeared in front of Carlodila was a straight, undecorated, empty but clean and spacious stone corridor.

At the end of the not-so-long corridor, there was an arch without a door, and on the other side of the arch was a dark, empty large round hall.

The rotunda was immersed in darkness that was difficult for ordinary people to see. Only around the huge polygonal altar-like structure in the center, which was sunken downward, were several circles of unknown mineral lamps placed in an orderly manner.

The light emitted by the mineral lamps was like a dim candlelight, barely able to illuminate the human figure in the center of the sunken structure that looked like a stone sculpture and a living thing.

Carlodira stopped outside the altar-like structure circled by the mineral lamps, narrowed her blood-red eyes, and silently looked at the purpose of this trip, the so-called "the only intelligent life within a radius of ten kilometers, the 'key person' of this trial mission".

Perhaps it was because Carlodila had been silent for too long. Standing motionless like a statue in the center of the sunken structure, facing the only entrance and exit of the round hall, the humanoid figure suspected to be "intelligent life" slowly opened her gray plaster-like eyes. As her stiff lips moved, a hoarse, low, and uncomfortable voice rang out:

"You are here, the goddess who saves the world."

"......?" Carlodila tilted her head slightly unconsciously, revealing a slightly cute confused expression that did not match her cool queen-like dress and temperament.

Over there, the humanoid figure was still talking to herself in a deep tone:

"We have prayed devoutly for a thousand years, and we dare not neglect it every day. Finally..."

"Stop!" Carlodila decisively interrupted the other party's incoherent, NPC-style and stereotyped lines.

"..."The plaster-like humanoid figure opened its mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then obediently chose to keep silent.

Seeing this, Carlo Deira said in a rather gentle manner: "I ask, you answer."

The humanoid nodded stiffly, with a small movement, and calmly lowered his gaze from Carlo Deira's knees to the tip of her boots.