Chapter 195: Heredity
On the day heading to the death platform.
Lu Jinzhao did not borrow the pocket watch from Qin Wan again; the return date from the death platform was uncertain, and she could not be sure she could return in time before Qin Wan entered the next platform. Besides, this time the only teammate was Tian Lei, and no one could be sure the pocket watch would not be lost.
[If you say some nice things to me now, I might give you some hints to make your death not so ugly, okay?]
When heading to the train station with the bag on her back, the parchment popped out cheekily.
This time it really felt that Lu Jinzhao was doomed.
Although it could not do anything more on the death platform, even without doing anything extra, it was enough to make Lu Jinzhao die several times over!
Lu Jinzhao ignored its garbage talk.
Recently, the parchment would pop out from time to time to say some garbage talk trying to provoke her, but overall it had little effect; it could not precisely hit the point that would break Lu Jinzhao’s defense.
Even if it occasionally said some words that made people feel a bit uncomfortable or somewhat concerned, they were brushed off by Lu Jinzhao’s acting skills.
Anyway, the parchment could not really provide her with any useful message, so she simply ignored it all.
Arriving at the underground station, Tian Lei was already waiting in the waiting room.
The information in the waiting room was no different from what they had learned in advance.
[This arriving train level: First-Class]
[This Yuncheng Station Platform boarding personnel: Two]
[Personnel list: Lu Jinzhao, Tian Lei]
[This station: Heredity]
[The sinful bloodline will continue the sin, and no one can escape.]
“Little Lu.”
Seeing her, Tian Lei no longer had the nervous and slightly timid expression from their first meeting; she could even call her name relatively affectionately, but when her gaze fell on her, there was always an inevitable hint of shyness—this was a habit she could not change.
Lu Jinzhao nodded to her to indicate she had heard. After reading the waiting information, Tian Lei came over; her face was slightly pale, most likely due to excessive tension from about to enter the death platform.
Tian Lei herself was clearly used to this tension; after approaching Lu Jinzhao, the tension weakened slightly.
She now regarded Lu Jinzhao as half a reliable teammate.
The reason it was half was first because she could not fully trust anyone, and second, she had not truly fought side by side with Lu Jinzhao inside a platform yet, so she always retained a bit of doubt in her heart.
But perhaps because of some habit formed over the past half month, being close to Lu Jinzhao did make her feel relaxed.
After all, most of the time they spent together, Lu Jinzhao could precisely know the limits of her tolerance for various things, and also make her rarely feel at ease about going out.
Accompanied by the mechanical roar, the train carrying death arrived.
Lu Jinzhao and Tian Lei walked to the ticket gate; this colossal thing still had its familiar appearance, and the hand extending from the ticket gate was no different from the first time they saw it.
The train ticket was taken by it and then returned, with the amount on it increasing from 4200 to 7200.
Her passenger level became First-Class, but only “quasi First-Class”; this required her to leave this death platform alive to truly promote and gain privileges.
This also meant that currently, she was still only a first-class passenger, and the train ticket could not provide her with a “gamble everything” opportunity.
Whether heading to low-level platforms or high-level platforms, or even the most special death platform, the train only gave them ten minutes.
Lu Jinzhao recalled in her mind the rules related to the death platform that Lin Lin had described, among which the most noteworthy was naturally the [mission].
Unlike other platform missions directly written on the waiting information, the missions in the death platform were real-time.
After entering the platform, it would notify the passengers of the current mission at uncertain times and locations.
The mission must be completed; if not completed, the train ticket would self-ignite, and the life of the train ticket’s owner would burn along with it.
Every mission on the death platform was extremely dangerous; it could be said that every mission absolutely carried the risk of death, and for passengers to avoid it, the best method was to “buy life”—the amount on the train ticket could be used to modify the “words” of the mission; each word was very expensive, and the price would increase based on mission difficulty.
In addition, the death platform had stricter requirements for “identity”: if a student, one must do what a student should do, but skipping class could exist too, as long as money was paid to avoid accountability.
Passengers would receive a large amount of life-buying money as a reward for each mission completed, but this reward would only be settled after returning to the train.
The train’s return time was uncertain and would change based on the mission progress of the passengers inside the platform, meaning passengers could not survive until the train arrived by modifying the “time” on the mission; the slower the mission completion, the more dangerous it became.
Ten minutes passed quickly, the train door opened, and Lu Jinzhao saw the place named [Death] for the first time.
This was the entrance to a village; the sky was drizzling lightly, the weather was quite gloomy, the clouds were pitch black and pressing down, seeming very close to the ground—looking up made one feel oppressed.
The ground was somewhat muddy from the rainwater; Lu Jinzhao smelled the earthy stench, seemingly mixed with other smells like the rot of plants and animals, blended in the rainwater and assaulting her nostrils.
The village was at the end of the road, about a hundred meters from where the train stopped; through the misty rain, it was not very clear, only blurry shadows and the towering, continuous mountains behind it could be seen, as if endless.
Lu Jinzhao stepped off the train, and the cold air immediately hit her body along with the rain.
There was wind here; the wind carried icy rain sticking to the body, and just standing there made one feel particularly uncomfortable.
Not to mention the wind was quite strong, blowing through the mountains and bringing eerie sounds, intermittent, like someone whimpering or wailing.
“This place is really ominous.”
A voice came from beside her; Lu Jinzhao turned her head and saw the doors of other carriages opening, with people gradually stepping down from the train one after another.
She thought of the House of Evil Ghosts; at that time, she only saw the “teammates” standing outside the train after getting off, and did not personally see them get off—this time she could confirm that these teammates were real living people who got off the train.
“It’s raining? I didn’t bring an umbrella; this rain won’t be a problem, will it?”
Another person who got off muttered.
“Even if there is a problem, we’ve all been soaked through.”
“What’s that smell in the air? Why does it stink a bit? Has someone already died in the village?”
“Are we going to stand here and discuss this?”
“Anyway, there’s no rule that we must enter the village at a specific time, right?”
Everyone was chatting animatedly, but only discussing with people from the same platform.
Start fiercely attacking the top-secret prison [Writer Assistant]! Target 6k daily!
Hope to clear the map, complete the mission, and successfully withdraw ()
