Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

The Weaver of Ghost Stories.

This unexpected and powerful-sounding name instantly cheered Lenari up.

The materials provided by Team 7 for this commission included the complete transcripts of all members of the Women's Clothing Club from top to bottom by the Public Security Bureau.

In the transcripts, everyone said the same thing, claiming that the initiator of this "Slit-mouthed Woman Prank Cosplay Event" was their minister.

The young, handsome, wealthy, and mysterious third-generation rich "minister" whose hobbies were not recognized by the people around him also admitted that he accidentally initiated this event when he had a flash of inspiration and thought it was quite interesting.

In the past, the club had many similar activities, but this time, by comparison, because it involved strangers, it seemed to be a little too much... The minister sincerely expressed his willingness to do his best to compensate the victims of this event financially, and promised to be more thoughtful when organizing activities in the future, etc.

In short, in all the transcripts, no one mentioned the name "Weaver of Ghost Stories", and such an online name did not appear in the club's private website or chat room records.

In this case, of course, there is no so-called "no such person" situation.

There are various obvious conflicts in the member's previous and later memories.

Is it simply because of drunkenness? Or... some kind of influence, temporarily broken under the "debuff state" of "drunkenness"?

In any case, this is a very suspicious clue and should not be ignored.

Lenari took the special notebook of Team 7 sent by Anthony, and uploaded and edited the videos and photos of the drunk club member taken from different angles by several special cameras of Team 7, which were also enthusiastically given by Anthony, into an email and sent it to Anthony.

The letter of authorization clearly stated that Lenari was only responsible for finding suspicious points, and as for verification, that was the business of Team 7.

...

A few days later, Anthony informed Grote that the commission was successfully completed. ——The purpose of notifying Groot instead of Lenari was to let him drive over quickly and take people there. There was something to be explained.

It was still the same seemingly ordinary white-collar office, with the same set of sofa booths.

Anthony placed a few small cardboard boxes without any patterns and sealed with tape next to him, and motioned for the two people and the cat to sit down. After Elizabeth served the drinks and left, he said:

"Our people have verified that the 'Weaver of Strange Stories' does exist. The other party seems to have mastered some kind of remote and large-scale way to influence 'information'. At present, the only known way to break this 'influence' is 'drunkenness'..."

Lucia couldn't help but whisper to herself: "It's amazing..."

"It's really amazing." Anthony nodded, agreeing with Lucia's evaluation.

Lucia turned her head away and quietly stuck out her tongue at an angle that Anthony couldn't see.

Lenari touched Lucia's head and asked, "What's the matter with the club member's so-called 'no such person' that day?"

Anthony smiled kindly and replied, "The conflict between the dual memories and the serious drunkenness made that sentence the brain's 'automatic rationalization', which is also known as 'brain supplement'."

In other words, the point of "no such person" was indeed just that person's illusion.

Lenari nodded, indicating that he understood.

Anthony smiled again, pushed the pile of large and small cardboard boxes on the table forward, and said, "The higher-ups highly recognize Lenari's intelligence gathering ability and have approved several related equipment. You can use them to play."

Lenari was quite surprised. Speaking of equipment, Anthony generously gave him a lot last time...

Lenari turned his head to look at his guardian and asked for his opinion.

Groot nodded slightly, so Lenari took them all without hesitation and stuffed them into the dark realm.

Seeing Lenari accept the pile of cartons, Anthony picked up a carton on the sofa next to him and placed it on the table. He unpacked it and said, "Here is another gadget sent by the research department of the General Administration not long ago. It is a failure, but it is still qualified as a toy. Take it and play with it."

This is a compass-like thing, with a square bronze base and a round brass disk. There is no pointer. The base and the disk are covered with small and mysterious patterns.

Anthony introduced: "'Strange Talk Detector', well, that's the name, but it can't distinguish between superpowers and strange talks, weird things, and some natural phenomena, energy facilities, and special props. It is only worthy of being a toy. Even those whimsical people in the research department of the General Administration have given up on it."

"Here, just press the button in the middle..." Anthony said, poking a finger at the round device in the center of the compass.Decorated.

"Beep——"

The compass made an electronic sound similar to that of a fan remote control, and the golden brass disk turned. The three-dimensional image of this white-collar office composed of green lines was suspended, and several red dots were suspended in it.

Lenari counted a little, one, two, three...

There were a total of eight red dots in this small office, and the brightest one happened to be himself.

"It seems to be quite useful?" Lenari asked in confusion.

Anthony shook his head and explained: "This is because there are powerful shielding facilities outside this room, which makes this compass seem to be very useful."

"Once placed outside, high voltage electricity, blast furnaces, high-power electrical appliances, thunder, etc. will be regarded as false alarms by the compass... At present, this thing is useless in the city, and it can only be used as a reference in remote rural areas."

"You can see that it can't distinguish between superpowers and some alchemical items at all..."

"Alchemy?" Lenari asked curiously.

"Well... the Alchemy Association and the Magic Association have a rigorous knowledge system and inheritance compared to the loose, random, and bizarre superpowers. They are also relatively exclusive and not easy to contact." Anthony said, "If you continue on this path, little Lenari will deal with them sooner or later."

"Oh..." Lenari nodded and stopped asking.

Afterwards, the few of them chatted for a while and then said goodbye and left.

...

On the way back, Groot drove a detour to the suburban farmers' market and bought some live chickens and ducks, and even a live pig. He also rented a small yard to prepare for an experiment to see if Lenari's dark domain could pass through living things.

Lenari naturally supported this with both hands and feet.

The experiment went smoothly.

The results showed that there was no air in Lenari's dark domain, and living things could not breathe when they entered, but miraculously they would not encounter internal and external air pressure problems, and as long as the oxygen tank was well supplied, they could even stay in it until they died of starvation or thirst.

So, Grote happily included various types of oxygen tanks in the firm's regular purchasing list.