Chapter 125: Catastrophe
In the next few days, Lu Jinzhao was not in a hurry to do anything and did not choose to meet other passengers first.
Her original plan was to wait for Lin Lin’s message and meet Lin Lin first before talking about other things, but even though she had rested for more than half a month, Lin Lin’s phone call still could not get through.
Looking at the messages in the group, this death platform still had not ended.
“Is the duration this long?”
Lu Jinzhao’s mood was somewhat heavy, but what she could do now was only exercise her body every day, practice the inherited martial arts, and continuously learn more knowledge that might be useful.
What surprised her was that even though the martial arts knowledge she inherited did not exist in reality, or rather, there were similarities, but some parts were completely different, it actually worked.
Although it was not very noticeable, she could now punch and knock out her former self without any problem.
Things like “climbing onto the roof and lifting the tiles” were also easy for her, even without using a ladder.
If she wanted, she could even do actions that required special effects in kung fu movies.
“Power, speed, reaction ability have all improved, and the body’s resistance to blows is countless times better than before, but… when facing ghosts, apart from being able to run faster than ordinary people, she is still just a flesh and blood mortal.”
After all, this inherited martial arts was merely martial arts and could not make her cultivate any strange things.
However
Lu Jinzhao stretched out her right hand, her index finger originally casually bent; she deliberately pointed her index finger into the air, and saw a bit of black pattern like a tattoo exposed from her sleeve cuff sliding out following the movement of her index finger, as if an invisible thread extended from Lu Jinzhao’s index finger, manipulating it, letting it fall onto the table.
It was a rough shadow puppet.
In reality, she could still manipulate the shadow puppet.
However, the control range of the shadow puppet, as well as what it could do, were all much weakened compared to inside the platform.
Now, she could at most only control the shadow puppet to perform a play for her, or let it out to bite people; its power was about the same as a small dog.
Biting hurts a lot, but it’s not fatal, unless it bites special places like the eyes, which would have greater lethality.
And although her this shadow puppet counted as a small ghost, because the materials used were not good and the production process was also very rough, plus the fate holder Lu Jinzhao herself was not powerful enough, the means of this shadow puppet attacking people were quite limited; it was far from enough to deal with ghosts, but to deal with humans, it was already dimensional reduction strike.
It looked the size of a palm, but its speed was quite fast; although its attack method was physical and could only cause damage through tearing and biting, the instant it stuck to the body, the person would suffer erosion from supernatural power and fall into stiffness, just like Lu Jinzhao’s encounter in Inheritance.
Ordinary people fundamentally had no way to break the loss of control caused by a ghost getting close; even if it was just a small shadow puppet, falling on an ordinary person, it was a thousand-jin heavy giant stone.
Even using fire or water could destroy her shadow puppet, but they would not have the chance to do so at all.
Only supernatural can counter supernatural, which also means that now Lu Jinzhao wants to kill a passenger without fate or supernatural item inside the platform, she really only needs to move her finger.
In some sense, more terrifying than senseless and unwise ghosts.
But fortunately, she did not have that kind of fetish.
Moreover, her current level meant that her companions basically all had at least two supernatural items; even if she wanted to kill, she needed to consider it.
After all, she who manipulated the shadow puppet was not a ghost; her power was limited.
If the supernatural power confronting the shadow puppet was too strong, it would cause her finger bone to crack; if more severe, completely fracture, which also meant the “death” of the shadow puppet.
It was heard that some people’s fate was like a bottle of water; normally full, using fate power after entering the platform was like drinking it sip by sip; when the bottle was empty, it could no longer be used.
While hers depended entirely on the endurance of the “life rod”; if only cracked, it could be repaired and still usable, but if her finger was completely shattered or broken, it could no longer be used.
This was also Lu Jinzhao’s weakness.
As long as someone grabbed her, tied her hands, smashed her finger bone, it would break her fate and make her lose control over the corresponding shadow puppet.
Even though the finger she used to store the shadow puppet was harder, it was not indestructible.
“In that case, if someone cuts off my finger and brings it on the train, will it become a supernatural item…?” Lu Jinzhao suddenly had a wild idea.
“…No, still too weak.”
Even though through these days’ understanding on the core forum, she confirmed that her fate indeed counted as “outstanding,” one of the very rare fates that had decent offensive means and life-saving ability right upon acquisition, Lu Jinzhao was still not satisfied enough.
“The bell cannot be used in reality, then in the next mission, get another piece of my own skin.”
Supernatural items in the real world, apart from backlash and price, would basically also suffer weakening like fate; this seemed to be deliberate by the train.
And the wooden box had been like dead since she last used the parchment to bluff, motionless unless she actively fed it.
“Something feels off.”
She took out the parchment: “Did you threaten it?”
The parchment was unwilling to speak, so Lu Jinzhao held it and kept shaking: “Speak, or I’ll throw you into the restroom.”
[?]
[Disgusting!]
[Vicious!]
[Cunning!]
[Despicable!]
[You think this can threaten me?]
[Ha! I have no sense of taste, no sense of smell, no sense of touch; this is completely irrelevant to me.]
Then why are you so agitated?
No.
Lu Jinzhao suddenly realized, right, why was the parchment so agitated?
She always felt that if it was before, when she just got the parchment from the station, even if she said such threatening words back then, this guy would probably remain unmoved like a dead object?
At that time, the parchment gave her more of a non-living weirdness, with a very strong ghost feeling.
But now…
“Do you feel I’m humiliating you?”
[Aren’t you?]
This is what’s wrong.
A ghost, a ghost without living people consciousness, could it feel humiliation?
From her current understanding, ghosts would have strong killing desires, covetousness and greed full of malice toward living people, try to kill all who violated taboos; these were like ghosts’ instinct, a cold, unshakeable mechanism.
But ghosts would not have self-esteem, would not have human sense of honor and shame, would not be moved, and impossible to have emotion.
If it did, it was fake, and faked very poorly, not as “vivid” as the parchment.
After devouring one-third of her soul, the parchment obviously became less and less like a ghost.
This guy’s goal, could it be human thinking?
Lu Jinzhao subconsciously thought, if ghosts possessed human thinking and understood human emotion…
That would really be completely doomed; now passengers could confront ghosts partly because they were stupid, inflexible, intentions too straightforward, easy to see through.
A ghost with human thinking, plus the parchment’s own powerful ability…
It would simply be a catastrophe.
