Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

The sea where the "God-hiding Mist" lurks.

Under the watchful eyes of several warships and research vessels around, the Peace three-masted fake sailboat slowly sailed out of the thick fog.

On the bow deck, Hongfeng stood quietly, his bright red eyes looking straight ahead, his eyes calm and composed, making people feel that this was an ancient tree that would stand like this until the end of time.

On the same deck, farther back, Lei looked at Hongfeng, who seemed to be in a wrong state at the bow, but also seemed to be fine, and couldn't help asking Night Crow, who was fishing with a fishing rod:

"Is Hongfeng... okay?"

"He? He's fine, he's starting to grow divinity." Night Crow said casually, and suddenly started to reel in the line, even though there was no movement under the water.

"Divinity?!" Eve, who was also a little worried, exclaimed.

"Nothing to be surprised about. Hong Feng has been in the critical state for a long time. He has not made any further progress. It is simply because the internal support of the Hidden Mist is not supported." Night Crow explained casually, and his expression became more and more focused on reeling in the fishing line that had caught nothing.

"'Sublimation'..." Eve muttered to herself, looking more and more worried.

Lei scratched his head subconsciously, wanting to say something but stopping.

"Don't worry, Hong Feng has indeed reached the critical state for many years, but the contact with the serious rules has just begun. It is not so easy to really take that step."

Night Crow comforted him half-heartedly, staring at the empty fishhook that had already come out of the water with interest and brilliance.

Lei finally noticed the abnormality of Night Crow.

"That fishhook..." He asked hesitantly, and took a step forward to cover his sister who lacked relevant experience and did not understand the situation behind him.

"It's no big deal." Night Crow said lightly. Lei was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but the second half of the sentence from the fake dragon girl almost choked him to death, "It's just an evil god."

"...What?!" Lei was dumbfounded and subconsciously glanced at the back of his left hand.

Well, it just happened to fill up a large grid and... what the hell? !

The red-haired young man's eyes widened.

The young man's overly obvious movement successfully attracted Night Crow's attention. She looked back at Lei in confusion, and moved her eyes down along the other's line of sight, and finally fixed on the extremely conspicuous "Mission Mark" pattern on the back of the young man's left hand.

"It's just a large grid? Tsk tsk..." Night Crow said somewhat gloatingly.

"Why..." Lei's eyes were straight, and his lips were even trembling, "It was obviously not even half of the previous small grid..."

"I think you should go back and talk about the 'chance encounter' incident immediately!" Eve said with a serious expression. Compared with the still inexplicable fishhook, she was obviously more concerned about Lei's personal interests.

"But..." Lei subconsciously glanced at the bow.

"Don't worry!" Night Crow stared at the empty fishhook with a sharp gaze, "The evil god I caught is enough to resolve your 'mission'."

"Oh..." Lei responded woodenly, and a sense of relief of "as expected" surged in his heart.

Eve stared at the empty fishhook blankly, and finally couldn't help asking: "So, what kind of evil god is it?"

"Dice evil god." Night Crow said casually.

"......?" The brother and sister had the same confused face.

Night Crow shook the fishing rod in his hand, and the empty hook swayed lightly in the sea breeze: "Remember what happened when the Peace first entered the 'God Hidden Mist'? This is the one at that time."

"But there is nothing on the hook?" Lei asked subconsciously.

"This is the interesting part." Night Crow's red lips curled up slightly, becoming more and more interested.

At this time, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of hard soles stepping on wooden boards, a lazy voice that seemed to have just woken up sounded from the side: "Lenari, don't bully Lei... Where is Night Crow? Where did she go?"

"!!!"

Suddenly hearing such a "truth", the two siblings were shocked, and finally stopped the subconscious action of retreating, and sweat broke out in their hearts.

Lenari, who was exposed by her best friend, puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction, and then turned back to her black-haired, black-skirted gothic lolita look, and explained casually: "She was invited to the Federal Academy of Sciences."

Lucia, who was lying in Apophi's arms, was stunned for a moment: "Federal Academy of Sciences? What is she doing there?"

"Being studied." Lenari shrugged and said, "After all, the divinity of the 'Sea Moon Goddess' includes 'tide' and 'dream' in addition to 'night' and 'moon', which makes the design of the 'artificial moon' more complicated than the previous 'artificial sun'."

"...Okay." Lucia shook his beard and turned his eyes to the empty fishing rod floating in the air, "What's wrong with this fish hook?""I just caught an evil god." Lenari said, as if he was talking about what to eat for dinner.

Lucia looked at the empty fishhook floating in the wind again and again: "But there is nothing on the fishhook?"

"Because He is not in the present world." Lenari replied.

"Then where is He?" Lucia asked.

"A special... well, 'different space' doesn't seem to be accurate... horizon? Dimension? Forget it, just use the omnipotent 'different space'!"

"In short, He is hiding in a special different space, where there are no complete and formed rules, and everything that exists is almost a chaotic reflection of the present world."

"And the reflection of my fishhook in that different space is now hooking Him."

Lenari explained happily.

"Emm..." Lucia pondered for a moment and asked, "I'm a little curious, when did you learn such... um, 'high-end' operations?"

"Well..." Lenari thought for a while and replied, "My 'real body' woke up once before, and that time blurred the boundary between 'me' and 'real body'..."

"Now 'me' is hard to say 'just a chaotic dream'."

"..." Lucia shook her beard again, and some instinct from beyond the boundary of reason screamed to warn her that she shouldn't think too much and shouldn't explore.

Lucia always listens to advice.

So, the black cat decisively changed the subject: "Why do you want to hook people with a fishhook?"

"Uh..." Lenari was stunned for a moment, hesitantly said, "It looks delicious?"

"...What?"

"Cough." Ignoring the brother and sister who failed to control their expressions, Lenari coughed fakely, trying to cover up the embarrassment, but to no avail.

"Well... I didn't think too much about it at the time... I saw it, and I was fishing, so I hooked it..."

The great Lord of Everlasting Darkness looked around, with a guilty look on his face.

"..." Lucia was at a loss for words.

On the side, Apophi silently watched the sea, while Lei and Eve lowered their heads, concentrating on counting how many patterns there were on the wooden board under their feet.