Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

In the afternoon, Night Crow woke up with a yawn and found Lei holding a drawing board and a pencil. He looked serious and earnest. He didn't know what he was drawing.

Out of curiosity, Night Crow flapped his wings and flew to Lei's shoulder. He looked over and was stunned: "Are you drawing yourself?"

"No, it's not me." Lei denied with a serious expression.

The young man stopped the unfinished sketch in his hand, put down the pencil, reached out to turn to the first page of the drawing book, and slowly turned the pages one by one to Night Crow, and asked: "Do you recognize this style of clothing?"

"Is this... a kimono?" Night Crow tilted his head in surprise, "Where did you know this kind of clothing?"

"You really know it!" Lei was overjoyed.

"Well, I met it in... a netizen's chat room." Night Crow almost blurted out the word "Black and Red Theater", but fortunately he changed his words in time.

Lei didn't care about the awkwardness in Night Crow's words, and asked excitedly: "What kind of clothing is this?"

"Kimono, of course it's the clothing of the country." Night Crow shook his head and said.

"The country?" Lei frowned and asked in confusion, "I'm pretty good at history, but I've never heard of such a country?"

"That's right, I haven't heard of it. As early as more than 800 years ago, the country was swallowed up by the strange story "God Hidden Mist." Night Crow said, "The land of the country cannot be found on the modern Green Star map."

"But..."

"There is no but. Although the country is only an island country with a small total area, it is a country with a name after all. If it suddenly disappears with the land, it will be difficult to explain to the people of the surface world. Simply block the news and let it fade with time, becoming a false legend with only a few words left."

"..." Lei was silent, and then scratched his head slightly distressed.

Seeing this, Night Crow flew to the drawing board, tapped the sketchbook fixed on the drawing board with his claws, and asked in confusion: "What are you doing...?"

The weight of a crow that is smaller than an ordinary adult crow is obviously nothing to Lei Yi now.

The young man's left hand holding the drawing board did not tremble at all, and he took a sip of the black tea on the table with his free right hand and said, "I dreamed about it."

"Dream?" Night Crow frowned.

In the environment of Green Star, dreaming about something you have never seen or imagined is not a good thing.

"It's like this..."

Lei told the two dreams he had last night in detail.

"Hmm..." After a moment of silence, Night Crow said uncertainly, "It sounds like a maple tree monster."

"I know maple trees, but monsters?" Lei repeated the unfamiliar term blankly.

"Similar to extraordinary creatures... Of course, there are many differences." Night Crow said.

After thinking for a while, Night Crow added: "Monsters are actually the specialties of Xiaguo's civilization circle that has already left Green Star."

"More than a thousand years ago, Xiaguo ascended and took away almost the entire civilization circle, but for some reason, it left behind Heguo, one of its vassal states..."

"The reason is no longer traceable, and it is not important. After all, Heguo has been completely swallowed up by the strange story 'God Hidden Mist'."

"..." After hesitating for a moment, Lei asked, "What if, I mean if, that Heguo still exists inside the 'God Hidden Mist'?"

"There's nothing strange about this." Night Crow said, "How can the Green Star Federation unify Green Star?" Today, there are actually many different kinds of 'countries'. "

"The common point of those 'countries' is that they are small in size, either in secret places similar to different spaces, or simply inside the ghost stories..."

"Is that so..." Lei nodded thoughtfully, and then he turned to ask, "Then, is it possible for those 'countries' to communicate with the outside world?"

"Of course it is possible, but it won't be easy, otherwise, they would have been unified by the Green Star Federation long ago."

"That's right." Lei, who has learned history well - although it is just the so-called "history" that has been processed by countless layers - nodded in agreement.

Looking at the sketchbook that has been used up 70% or 80% at his feet, Night Crow flew onto the table and asked with interest: "Do you want to explore that country?"

"It's not an adventure, it's just 'tracing the origin'..." After a pause, Lei said frankly, "I really want to know what I am."

"This is simple, call Eve later, and I will take you to trace the origin of the 'matrix'." Night Crow said.

"Thank you." Lei thanked sincerely.

"You're welcome. After all, I'm also very curious." Night Crow said, suddenly changing into a sinister villain face, and said sinisterly, "But before thatBefore... There have been too many Super Power Factories recently, I'm going to blow one up for fun."

"...Ah?"

After a moment of confusion, he realized what Night Crow was saying, and Lei quickly dropped his drawing board, attacked unexpectedly, hugged Crow, and advised in a panic:

"Super Power Factories are not just cats and dogs, even Team 7 can't do anything to them, you must stay calm!"

Night Crow, who didn't expect to be "caught", was confused for a moment, and subconsciously began to struggle: "I'm calm! Let me go!"

"No! Unless you calm down!"

"I told you, I'm calm!"

"You can't fool me, it doesn't look like it at all!"

"(▼皿▼#)!"