Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

"You can almost assume that they are all dead." Night Crow said.

Lively opened his mouth and murmured, "How could this happen..."

"The reality of this world is so cruel." Night Crow said, "You should go home, kid."

"..." Lively hesitated for a moment, but still took off her apron reluctantly and walked away reluctantly.

——Since he knew that the gentle, beautiful, first-class cooking, and very homely black-haired, purple-eyed beauty was actually the incarnation of the "God of Death" in the strange story, the only remaining trace of reckless courage was thrown out of the sky.

Watching Lively leave, Night Crow turned to Talos and said, "Carl is still in the parking lot near the Humanoid Street. Shall we pick her up?"

Talos hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Climbing onto Talos's outstretched hand, she lifted it up and put it on her shoulder. Night Crow grabbed Talos's thick winter coat with both hands to fix his body, and closed his eyes to divine his current state and ability.

First of all, probably because the pollution of the original body has re-endowed the puppet's body with the "flesh and blood" attribute, the original abilities including flesh and blood magic are still there, without any changes.

In addition, based on the "puppet" attribute of this body, Night Crow has an additional ability called "marionette", which has two forms of expression. One is to use an invisible silk thread to remotely affect a living creature, so that the other party can perform specific behaviors unconsciously. This behavior cannot deviate too much from the other party's cognition; the other is to use a tangible silk thread to ignore the consciousness of a living creature and completely control the other party's body, turning the other party into a veritable "marionette".

Of course, these are not the key points. The real key point is...

Night Crow cried with a "wow" sound, "This doll body doesn't have the five senses in the true sense, ah ah ah——"

"Just delete the account and start over!"

Talos caught the mini doll that rolled on the spot and fell, and said as he walked: "But, can the 'life game' be saved by itself?"

"...It seems not." Night Crow lay on the palm of Talos' left hand and said sullenly.

"Hmm..." Talos pondered, "I seem to have encountered something like 'can turn dolls into people' before... Let me think about it..."

Night Crow's dark eyes lit up, climbed up and sat down obediently, looking up at Talos' chin expectantly.

"I remember it, it's something called 'Doll Heart'. It is said that as long as you get it, even a lifeless doll can really come alive."

"Doll Heart?" Night Crow thought about it and asked the main body to ask the logistics team.

"Well, it is said that only puppets, robots and the like can be used. I didn't pay much attention to it, so I don't know more details."

"It's enough to have a definite name." Night Crow patted Talos's finger.

As they talked, the two had already arrived at the gate of the community.

As the city center, the Golden Rose Community has many people even in the coldest early morning.

Talos waved and called a taxi, casually reported the address, and then hugged the mini Night Crow and closed his eyes to rest.

...

A small open-air parking lot near the Humanoid Street.

"...Where's the car?" Night Crow scratched his head.

Talos looked around for a moment and concluded: "It's gone... Carl got bored waiting and drove away by himself?"

"It shouldn't be. When no one is in the car, Carl can put himself into sleep... I should have installed a car phone as soon as possible." Night Crow said annoyed.

"What should I do now?" Talos asked.

Night Crow thought for a moment and said, "Call the Traffic and Security Bureau to ask?"

"But Carl's car can't be registered..."

"It should be no problem. They seem to be familiar with Carl's car."

"Okay."

...

The phone was picked up as soon as it rang, and Talos explained his dilemma concisely and clearly.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, and the tone was slightly strange: "The black Wuling car that can't be registered is right? This car is currently in our ×× Traffic and Security Branch... You can just come directly."

"...Okay." Talos hung up the phone in confusion and then called the city's taxi hotline.

...

While Night Crow was waiting for the car, Lenari had received information about the "Heart of the Doll" from the logistics team, and Campos said casually: "I met a group of car thieves and was sent to the Security Bureau by Carl."

"That shouldn't be in the Traffic and Security Branch?" Lenari asked casually while reading the information.

"Carl drove there by himself..."

"...Okay." Lenari held his forehead.

The so-called "Doll Heart" is a derivative of the strange story "Love Tree", which is not even strange.

The strange story "Love Tree" is a big tree that two people can hug and has red heart-shaped leaves. It appears randomly in green areas around the world.It is now relatively preferred to the green belts of human cities. Once someone sees it, as long as they voluntarily swear to it that they will love a non-living thing for their whole life, they can get a transparent crystal heart.

The crystal heart can only be charged by the emotion called "love" of living people. After charging, it turns red, which is the "heart of the puppet".

[Forever Gothic Lolita: It feels very unreliable.

Eat Ice Cream in Winter (Anthony): It is indeed unreliable. According to existing records, things that are given life by this "puppet heart" are very, very paranoid.

Forever Gothic Lolita: Blackened yandere?

Eat Ice Cream in Winter: Almost... Anyway, the end of the user is not very good.

Forever Gothic Lolita: Does the strange "love tree" only produce this "crystal heart"?

Eat ice cream in winter: That's not the case. The crystal heart is just a function developed by someone accidentally. The main rule of this story is "As long as two people's names are written on the left and right sides of a heart-shaped leaf at the same time, the two people will fall in love hopelessly". Well, it depends on the writer's cognition, and it has built-in same-name recognition.

Forever Gothic Lolita: It seems to be a very popular type for those who are in love.

Eat ice cream in winter: Yes, it is also popular with some people with unhealthy thoughts. It is one of the tricky stories that the seven teams strictly guard against.

Forever Gothic Lolita: What will happen if the same person is written with leaves multiple times, and the combination objects are different?

Eat ice cream in winter: Hmm... Have you heard of the "Yasasi Massacre"?

Forever Gothic Lolita:?

Eating Ice Cream in Winter: It's about this: there was a very popular man somewhere, who was loved by several women at the same time. It was hard to make a choice and they couldn't bear to refuse. Later, the women wrote their names and the man's names on the leaves of the love tree one after another...

Forever Gothic Lolita: What happened next?

Eating Ice Cream in Winter: Later, the man was divided into several parts, one for each woman... This incident was a sensation at the time.

Forever Gothic Lolita: ...

Eating Ice Cream in Winter: That's why I said this thing is tricky.

Forever Gothic Lolita: Let's not talk about the love tree. Is there anything that can give the doll a sense of smell, taste, and touch? Well, the doll has some flesh and blood attributes.

Eating Ice Cream in Winter: You should ask the High Tower Academy about this. The doll body of Valya, regardless of the outer skin, the core was customized by them, and can eat and drink normally.

Forever Gothic Lolita: I see, I'll go now. 】