Chapter 156: Fusing Ghost Bone, The Train’s Summoning
Lu Jinzhao had almost forgotten the parchment’s initially profound and unfathomable appearance. Ever since getting the iron box, this thing had grown more deranged day by day, and now, it could only resort to impotent rage.
As for which shadow puppet this palm bone would be used to make the life rod for, she had already made her decision.
It could only be her own shadow puppet.
In the last platform, the shadow puppet had been badly damaged, and even the finger bone had developed a crack. The materials she hadn’t repaired it with before had now come right to her door.
The life rod made from this bone would definitely have sufficient strength, and the materials for her own shadow puppet were the easiest to find, after all, it was the skin peeled from her own body.
Once she confirmed the train’s arrival time, she could put on the bell and peel off her own skin in the real world to repair the damaged shadow puppet.
The train’s repair function could be used as long as she was on the train, including the period right after boarding.
Higher-grade “bones” would make the produced shadow puppet more powerful, and would also make her, as the fate owner, more powerful, thereby turning the skin peeled from her body into better materials.
A practically perfect cycle would thus be achieved.
“Good, let’s do it this way, use it to make the shadow puppet’s life rod.” Lu Jinzhao deliberately said this out loud.
Sure enough, the next second, blood script that could be called “desperate struggle” appeared before her eyes.
【It cannot bring you additional ability, it has only residual power left, it’s just an empty shell, the trouble it brings far outweighs the benefits】
【Give it to me, I will be more useful than it, we can sign a contract!】
“No.” Lu Jinzhao refused with a smile.
As she spoke, she went to the workbench and opened the box.
Seeing that Lu Jinzhao was about to reach for the bone in the box, the parchment let out its final wail.
【Don’t do this, stop】
【I can tell you some secrets!】
【What do you want to know? Ask me】
When Lu Jinzhao saw the parchment saying these things, her fingertip was already hovering just one or two centimeters above the ghost bone, and she did indeed stop.
Of course, she had no intention of giving up just like that, but wanted to pry some words out first.
After the iron box was opened again, even though only a short few seconds had passed, the chilling aura had already filled the entire room.
The originally bright window seemed as if curtains had been drawn over it, and the desk lamp used to illuminate the workbench began flickering continuously as if there was a bad connection.
Just as Lu Jinzhao was about to open her mouth to ask the parchment something, the anomaly suddenly occurred.
The ghost bone, which should have been a dead object, suddenly trembled, and then, right after the parchment wrote a 【No】, it shot up from the bottom of the iron box like a bullet, instantly piercing Lu Jinzhao’s finger and embedding into her bone, shattering the original hand bone and lodging itself inside.
Intense pain exploded in an instant. Lu Jinzhao’s right index finger was like it had been hit by a shrapnel grenade; in the moment flesh and blood flew, Lu Jinzhao didn’t even have time to react to what had happened.
Until the ghost bone embedded in her shattered finger joint began fusing with her, her fate trembled because of this extremely precious material, she felt her current “limit” continuously rising, all because of these bones fusing with her.
Some “ghost” aura continuously flowed into her body through these bones, spreading throughout her body along with the blood flow.
Lu Jinzhao could feel her body temperature rapidly dropping. Even though she hadn’t put on the bell, her heartbeat was also slowing, and her breathing gradually weakening.
Fortunately, the body temperature didn’t drop to the level of a “corpse,” but it was definitely not normal.
In addition, the shadow puppet that had been quietly staying at her ankle, disguised as a tattoo, couldn’t hold back and poked its head out.
Lu Jinzhao’s craftsmanship in making it had originally been quite crude, but perhaps due to the huge change brought by the “life rod,” this tattered shadow puppet was also subtly changing.
To put it in words, the originally mediocre lines of this shadow puppet were becoming more and more refined, and the simple features surprisingly took on some of Lu Jinzhao’s charm.
An invisible thin thread connected it to the ghost bone that had become Lu Jinzhao’s finger joint, and the aura of the ghost bone continuously spread to the shadow puppet through this invisible thin thread.
The parchment completely stopped speaking, as if dead.
The pain from the finger bone shattering also eased as the ghost bone gradually fused into the finger. What remained was only the pain from the flesh and blood being blasted open, but due to adrenaline, Lu Jinzhao slowly started to feel it less.
She now realized what had happened, but she didn’t understand why this “supernatural item” was so proactive?
It was almost as if it was attracted to her.
Could it be because of her fate? Or did her parents leave behind something she didn’t know about?
Lu Jinzhao could feel that, just as the parchment said, after fusing these bones, she hadn’t gained any new “ability.” This palm bone had simply fused into her body as the highest-level material.
She could be sure that if she encountered those ghosts in the funeral home with bells on their ankles chasing her again, she only needed to release the shadow puppet to confront them.
Her shadow puppet had become a qualified little ghost because of the ghost bone.
The reason it was only those ghosts from the funeral home was that the “human skin” used as material was of too low a grade.
In addition, Lu Jinzhao’s fate had gained a huge boost from obtaining the best material. Now, after her shadow puppet landed on a person, not only could it make the other completely unable to move, but they would even be at her mercy!
In other words, she could temporarily turn living people into her shadow puppets through the shadow puppet as a medium.
Unless the other party used their fate or a supernatural prop for supernatural confrontation, Lu Jinzhao could manipulate their bodies like operating a marionette.
And to break free from her control through supernatural confrontation, unless… that supernatural prop could contend with the ghost bone.
That is, also “death-level.”
This meant that against humans, or rather against passengers, in a 1V1, she was almost invincible.
But her enemies were never her own kind. Against ghosts, her main body was still just a fragile human, but at least she now had a good means of self-preservation. As long as she didn’t enter a death platform, perhaps even a Class A platform, she could handle it much more calmly than before.
Lu Jinzhao was even thinking that just one piece of death-level material had given her an upgrade sufficient to control others. What kind of surprise would her fate bring if she got a few more pieces?
Could she one day even control ghosts?
Perhaps only then would she truly be able to contend with ghosts.
However, death-level materials only appeared in death platforms and were extremely hard to obtain. Lu Jinzhao didn’t dwell on this point for too long; the death platform seemed like something still some distance away from her.
However, the anomaly brought by the ghost bone hadn’t ended yet.
The moment these bones fully fused with her, Lu Jinzhao heard the train’s summons!
“How could…?”
She took out her train ticket, and the time displayed on it was shockingly one hour later!
And the platform level was Class A.
She had only been out of the platform for a day, and now she had to enter a platform again, and all of this was clearly because she had fused the ghost bone.
Even worse, the parchment had said that once she entered a Class A platform and became a first-class passenger, her next platform after coming out would inevitably be a death platform.
The danger she thought was still some distance away from her was now right at her doorstep.
No need to worry about entering the death platform so soon leading to the end; it’s still early, this is nothing yet.
