Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

After completing the formalities in the lobby on the first floor, Lei took the room card and went straight to the room on the 22nd floor with Night Crow.

Lei was lucky. The elevator only carried him, and there was no interruption along the way.

With a crisp sound of "ding--", the 22nd floor was reached.

Lei walked out of the elevator, subconsciously glanced at the corridor and the doors on both sides, and his footsteps immediately stopped.

"Is the 22nd floor of Anaki City Hotel... arranged like this?" Lei asked hesitantly.

Night Crow, who was too lazy to fly by himself and was forced to overcome his disgust for the smell of sweat, looked around with burning eyes on Lei's left shoulder, and answered with a mysterious joyful tone: "In theory, the decoration style of each floor is unified... Obviously, you are being talked about."

In front of him, the corridor of the modern hotel, which should have been golden and red, bright and atmospheric, turned into a dark red and black, torch candlesticks, and gloomy and retro Gothic castle style.

"..." Lei turned back to the elevator without saying a word.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Lei pressed the button, the elevator, which seemed to be operating normally, just wouldn't move.

With a sigh, Lei pressed the emergency contact button in the elevator car, and took out his mobile phone to try to ask for help from Team 7.

—— Of course, there was no signal on the mobile phone.

As expected, Lei put away the mobile phone and asked Night Crow: "Does your virtual mobile phone have a signal?"

"No." Night Crow, who checked the signal immediately, replied, "From this point, it can be seen that this strange story is at least very powerful in terms of information isolation."

"What should we do?" Lei asked with some worry.

He did not forget that Night Crow was a non-combat type that could not even open an ordinary door...

"There are three options in front of you." Night Crow answered calmly, "One, go out and see first; two, ask the gods for help directly and passively be labeled accordingly; three, do nothing and wait for rescue."

Lei frowned and thought for a moment, he could not help but asked: "You don't seem to be worried?"

Night Crow answered confidently: "I can be resurrected in the river of time even if I die, and I have the support of the Lord of Darkness and the Principle of Glory, so of course I am not worried!"

Lei was silent.

After hesitating for a while, Lei asked, "What does it mean to be passively labeled as a god?"

Ye Ya thought for a while and said, "It's actually no big deal. Most modern gods are quite open-minded and don't mind whether the 'believers' really believe in them... However, being too close to gods is a 'danger' for mortals."

Lei nodded, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled, and said with a firm look, "I choose... to go out and see first."

"Oh." Ye Ya nodded without any surprise, "Then let's go."

The so-called "protagonist" has some suicidal attributes. Lei, whose "personality" makes Ye Ya feel déjà vu, is obviously no exception.

...

At both ends of the corridor covered with dark red carpet, about two meters high, there is a torch inserted in the wall burning at a distance.

Lei walked forward carefully and as lightly as possible, ready to escape at any time.

- Although he didn't know where he could escape to if he really encountered something.

Soon, the room closest to the elevator and on both sides of the corridor arrived.

The door of the room seemed to be cast from brass, which had been oxidized and blackened, and some parts were even covered with mottled verdigris.

Lei found that according to his back to the elevator, the upper part of the copper door on the right hand side was engraved with the number "0001" in negative text, and the left side was "0002".

Obviously, that should be the room number.

Lei looked at the seemingly endless corridor in front of him and the quietly closed copper doors on both sides of the corridor, and then looked at Room 0001 on the right hand side.

After hesitating for a moment, the boy stretched out his hand with courage and held the single-strip door handle of the same material as the door, without a keyhole, and engraved with unknown complex patterns.

After waiting for a moment and confirming that nothing was activated, Lei took a deep breath and slowly turned the door handle.