Chapter 165: House Of Evil Ghosts
Lu Jinzhao looked at her: “I want to ask too, what exactly are you going to do?”
Are all the passengers from other platforms mentally unstable?
She always felt that her teammates this time were too weird.
“What do we want to do? We want to complete the mission and leave here.” Qiu Tian said matter-of-factly.
Isn’t this nonsense?
Lu Jinzhao’s body suddenly leaned forward, getting closer to Qiu Tian: “Do you know each other?”
Qiu Tian’s expression froze: “What are you talking about?”
Lu Jinzhao looked at her stiff expression and smiled: “I just thought it was strange. It’s already a Class A Platform, so why would someone make the atmosphere so tense before the mission even starts?”
“You’re doing it on purpose?”
Deliberately performing for her to see.
But this performance had flaws, which instead made her feel a sense of dissonance.
They’re not professional actors after all.
“Can you answer?”
The black-haired girl leaned in closer: “What do you want to do?”
“You misunderstood.” Qiu Tian couldn’t help but step back two steps, creating some distance.
Lu Jinzhao straightened up, her smile slightly restrained, her tone returning to normal: “Misunderstanding? It’s fine, I don’t care what you want to do, as long as you don’t provoke me, so don’t bother me either.”
As for cooperation, she had completely decided not to cooperate with these people.
“Aren’t you curious?” Qiu Tian suddenly asked.
“Not curious.” Lu Jinzhao answered decisively.
She really wasn’t curious about what relationship they had or what they wanted to do. The reason she cared and probed was only for her own sake. If she eliminated the threat to her, she truly didn’t care at all what these strangers were thinking or plotting.
“But I’ll be watching you.” she said honestly.
Lu Jinzhao sensed a dangerous and weird aura from these three people. She felt that they seemed to intend harm toward her.
“You’re just saying it out loud like that?” Qiu Tian was somewhat surprised.
“It doesn’t affect anything.”
She only said she would watch them; she hadn’t said that if there was an opportunity or necessity, she would kill them.
Lu Jinzhao wasn’t sure if it was paranoia, but she didn’t mind striking first.
“Alright, you should indeed be careful.” Seeing her sincerity, Qiu Tian seemed somewhat moved: “That Auntie Duan, I really don’t know her, but she just tried to pull me and Tan Meng together. She seems genuinely unhappy with you.”
“As for Tan Meng and me, we’ve only cooperated once, far from being familiar.”
“Just in case, I think you shouldn’t really go alone. Even if Tan Meng and I have any plans, the train comes first, but that Auntie Duan is different.”
Qiu Tian was hinting that Lu Jinzhao should stay with her and Tan Meng if possible.
But Lu Jinzhao didn’t believe it.
Even though Qiu Tian’s words sounded sincere and this person seemed the most trustworthy of the three, she still didn’t believe it.
“Okay, thank you, I’ll consider it.” Lu Jinzhao smiled, her tone especially sincere.
But after saying that, she showed no intention of grouping up with anyone and turned to head to the third floor.
Left behind by her, Qiu Tian’s face was shrouded in the shadows of the stairwell. The look in her eyes as she watched Lu Jinzhao’s back seemed to be covered in a layer of shadow as well.
The conversation with Qiu Tian made Lu Jinzhao even more certain of one thing.
These teammates were completely untrustworthy and had to be guarded against.
They definitely had some plans.
What were they?
And why?
It seemed that before even entering the apartment, these teammates had already made a decision.
The only time they had to discuss was right after getting off the train.
And she was the last one to get off.
But what was the point?
At that time, nothing had even started yet, right?
Could it be that someone’s fate was particularly unusual, or that the backlash from a supernatural item required her to kill other passengers?
Both were possible. In any case, she had to stay vigilant against these people.
Lu Jinzhao returned to the third floor.
Before opening the door, she took a deep breath, adjusted her mindset, and then pushed the door open.
The room was indeed in a completely new state.
The ground covered in dust and the white cloth that hadn’t been lifted at all.
This was Room 3.
“I previously guessed that the room and the apartment each had issues, but clearly the room’s changes follow the apartment’s.”
“Now, I need to verify one last thing.”
She entered the room, closed the door, then lifted the two white cloths and let them fall to the ground, walked back to the door, opened it, and went to the first floor.
On the way, she saw her teammates looking at her with strange gazes, like they were looking at someone who had done something wrong.
But Lu Jinzhao didn’t think she had done anything wrong.
She walked to the blackboard on the first floor. After seeing the content on the blackboard, her breathing subtly paused for an instant.
[No Killing Allowed]
The rules had changed, and there was only this one.
This was Blackboard 4.
“No killing allowed?”
This rule was too weird!
If this was a rule that had to be followed, why would such a prohibition on killing appear inside the platform?
This fundamentally contradicted the essence of the platform and the ghosts’ instinct.
“Or is this just a rule for tenants, and the ghosts don’t need to follow it.”
Even so, it was still weird. She had experienced a platform like the slaughterhouse that encouraged or even guided passengers to kill each other, and after going through so much, Lu Jinzhao could confirm that every platform hoped to see passengers killing each other.
Otherwise, why would the waiting information on the [Inheritance] platform mislead them into thinking only one person could survive?
“If the rules prohibit passengers from killing each other, does that mean the ghosts’ power in this platform has exceeded the limits?”
That’s why they needed to restrict humans from killing each other.
This rule didn’t make Lu Jinzhao feel reassured at all; she only felt that the air inside the apartment seemed to grow colder.
“But now, one thing can be confirmed.”
Something that had left her slightly puzzled.
The node of the space change was most likely the instant she entered the room and then walked out.
She wasn’t sure if it was an issue with this Room 302 or something else. If possible, she had to try entering other people’s rooms and walking out.
But at the same time, another concern arose.
“So far, no repeated blackboards. Should I cherish this apartment with the no-killing rule?”
“No.”
After thinking it over several times, Lu Jinzhao rejected the idea.
No killing allowed, but there were plenty of ways to strike inside the platform.
“Still need to verify it as soon as possible.”
A sense of urgency spread in her heart. The apartment that kept jumping spaces, the seemingly passenger-friendly rules, the weird noises at night, and the strange teammates—when combined, they actually gave Lu Jinzhao a premonition that if she didn’t hurry, everything might be too late.
