Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

Dark realm.

Lenari's true body was here, looking at the dead Corolla lying outside the tiny crack, and asked Kampers who was working hard: "How is it? Can you sense the true body of 'that strange story'?"

"No..." Kampers said a little dejectedly, "In fact, the city of Carmenante is very 'clean', and no strange stories, superpowers, or any other 'non-ordinary humans' have been found so far."

"In terms of the situation on Green Star, this 'cleanliness' is the biggest anomaly." Lenari said casually.

"Yes... but I didn't find anything." Kampers said listlessly.

"Wait." Lenari said.

...

At 12 o'clock midnight, the ancient giant bronze bell on the top of the retro-style clock tower newly built in Carmenante City in recent years rang on time, and the bell sounded heavy and distant.

Almost at the same time, Lenari felt that his consciousness was being pulled by something.

This pulling feeling was not strong, as long as Lenari wanted, he could break free at any time.

Lenari was hesitating whether to pull over and see or refuse for the sake of safety, when Kampers shouted excitedly: "Got it, got it!"

"A strange breath wave! Starting from the antique bronze bell in the big clock tower, it covered the whole city with the spread of sound waves! In addition..." Kampers paused, "At least 90% of the whole city are dummies..."

"Dummies? At least 90%?" Lenari was surprised.

"Yes, there are fake people everywhere." Kampers said, "If it weren't for the strange breath on the bronze bell that caused them to resonate a little, even I couldn't detect any abnormality."

Lena thought for a moment and said to Kampers: "When 'Carola' heard the bell, something was pulling my consciousness. It's not strong, and I can refuse it at any time."

"I won't respond to this now. You pay attention to the changes in Carmenante City and count which ones are real people."

"Okay." Kampers responded and fell silent, concentrating on observing the changes in Carmenante City.

...

After the 12 bells rang, everything stopped.

"The pulling feeling disappeared... What about you?" Lenari asked.

"The strange breath disappeared in an instant, leaving no trace." Kampers said, "Those 'dummy people' are the same, they are the same as the real ones."

"Only show clues in the 36 seconds after 12 o'clock midnight..." Lenari frowned slightly, hesitating.

After a long time, Lenari made a decision: "If I still can't find a breakthrough point after observing for another two days, I will respond to the pull and see."

"Isn't this too dangerous?" Kampers dissuaded.

"I understand... but if you only know how to dodge, you can't move forward." Lenari murmured, "Compared to humans who can only test the rules with their lives... I'm too comfortable."

"..." Kampers didn't try to persuade him again.

Simulated personality has its limits, and "it" is just absolutely obedient to Lenari's weirdness.

...

After breakfast, there is a rumor that there is an office.

"Meow! I just washed my hands! This time I must throw out an interesting place meow!" Lucia stood on her two hind legs, rubbed her paws, and was full of fighting spirit.

The small coin rolled and finally lay... Antarctica.

"Why is it Antarctica again..." Lucia lay on the table sadly.

Lenari's clone touched the black cat's head and said, "Antarctica is great, there are snow mushrooms to eat again! Also, we can try to find the frost mist flower that we didn't have time to find last time. It is said that it is also very delicious."

"But what if we sleep for another ten days or half a month..." Lucia was a little tempted, but she was worried.

"What are you afraid of? It's summer vacation now!" Lenari's clone said, "Even if it's not summer vacation, you don't have to go to class or work, right?"

"But..." Lucia was still a little hesitant.

"Have you forgotten that we all have the attribute of 'longevity'? Ten days and half a month is nothing." Lenari's clone said.

"... That's right!" Lucia suddenly realized.

The black cat stood up and said excitedly, "Let's go! Let's find the very delicious frost mist flower!"

"Let's go!" Lenari's clone responded enthusiastically and began to bless Lucia and Miles with the multifunctional shadow tulle she named "Shadow Dress".

…

Frost Mist Flowers are indeed very hard to find. Lucia ran around in the polar blizzard for a whole day, but didn't see a single petal. Instead, she found three more chewy, soft and delicious snow mushrooms.

There were still a lot of secret frost sesame sauces. When Lenari suggested giving each person one, Miles resisted the temptation and firmly refused.

Faced with the choice between supreme delicacy and "sleeping for ten days and a half a month", Lucia didn't hesitate.Difficult, decisively choose to eat the snow mushroom, a whole one!

——She wanted to share it equally, but unfortunately she couldn't eat it anymore...

Lucia wanted to grow up for the first time.

…

Carmenante City.

Near midnight, "Carola" was still lying dead in the single room that had been rented for half a year.

Funds? Oh, thanks to the sponsorship of the criminals.

The building next to the building next to the building next to this ancient city hotel is the tallest and most outstanding retro clock tower in the city deliberately built in the name of developing tourism. As soon as the bell rang, it reached Carola's ears almost without delay.

In the dark area, Lenari once again felt the feeling of consciousness being pulled.

What should be explained has been explained. Lenari no longer hesitated, relaxed himself, and let the pulling force take his consciousness to an unknown place.

…

A chaotic feeling of falling came, and time and space became ambiguous.

It is hard to say how long it has been, Lenari once again felt the existence of the "body".

"Ding--Welcome to the 'Trial of the Brave'." A mechanical, male-female electronic synthesized voice said.

Lenari: "..."

"The only condition for passing this 'Trial of the Brave' is to 'kill the devil'. I wish you a safe journey." After playing this sentence, the electronic synthesized voice fell silent.

At the same time, Lenari felt that a small amount of information with little content was sent to her "mind".

After repeatedly studying this small amount of information, Lenari didn't know what expression to make after a long while.

In the end, she just sighed and tried to connect to her true body-the dark realm.

The good news is that Lenari can still sense her true body and can "return to the city with one click" at any time; the bad news is that she can't contact Kampers smoothly.

Considering the 100:1 time ratio between this so-called "this world of the Trial of the Brave" and the real world, and the subtly inconsistent physical constants, Lenari was not surprised by this.

In addition, the reason why the city of Carmenante is almost full of fake people has finally been solved.

——Ordinary and extraordinary people summoned by the "Trial of the Brave" will leave behind an extremely realistic dummy of an ordinary person.

The dummy does not know that it is a dummy. It will continue to live rationally and nonchalantly according to the logic of the original. Except that it will not leave the city of Carmenante, there is almost no abnormality.