Chapter 124: Second-hand Dealer
The girl named Countess Cat had already sent her a long string of messages.
Lu Jinzhao opened the chat window and felt like she was being bombarded with messages.
Most of the other party’s messages were meaningless, but Lu Jinzhao did see one interesting sentence.
【Are you chatting with Divine Calculator right now? Then remember to check my messages later.】
She felt this person was somewhat interesting, so she replied to Countess Cat: “Is there something wrong?”
Countess Cat immediately replied to her.
【Yes, yes, let me introduce myself. My name is Sang Yuanbo. My fate is related to transactions. I’m now Yuncheng’s biggest second-hand dealer.】
【After this, if you have anything related to the train that you want to sell or buy, you can come to me.】
【I have super high credibility! And great reputation too.】
【I can act as an intermediary, or directly buy from you or sell you what I have. As for price, it might be a tiny bit more expensive than privately trading with someone elsewhere. I swear, just a tiny bit, but trading with me is the safest.】
Lu Jinzhao looked at these words she sent and had a realization in her heart: “You’re Yuncheng’s biggest second-hand dealer. If I live long enough, I’ll know about you sooner or later. Why are you so enthusiastic toward me?”
Could a newcomer possibly have anything worth a merchant coveting?
【Because I sense you have very high value.】
Countess Cat’s reply seemed to carry deep meaning.
【All things have value in my eyes, and you—from the moment you joined the group chat, I noticed you.】
【You must have some very powerful supernatural item on you, or perhaps your fate is very strong and has great potential.】
【So I want to get to know you, best to do it early.】
As a “merchant,” Countess Cat rushing to approach her naturally meant she saw profit in it.
“So what do you use to buy or sell supernatural items here?”
【Money, supernatural props, fate, or even intelligence—all are possible. The most common transaction method is to tell me what you want and what you’re willing to trade for it. I’ll find suitable trading partners and methods, and charge a small intermediary fee.】
“Sounds not very profitable.”
The time and energy spent on this wouldn’t be small.
【But it will make my fate more powerful.】
【I need transactions, whether directly with me or ones I facilitate—as long as they succeed, it’s beneficial to me.】
【Unfortunately, ordinary transactions in the real world no longer have any effect on me.】
No wonder then.
Countess Cat spoke very directly, and Lu Jinzhao also understood why she didn’t hide it—knowing this, other passengers would feel more at ease choosing her.
Lu Jinzhao noticed she said “already,” which meant Countess Cat had once done many transactions in the real world to enhance her fate.
Countess Cat should be quite wealthy.
Yet in all these years in Yuncheng, she had never heard the name Sang Yuanbo.
It must be due to the train.
“Then if I have a very strange supernatural item—it’s a box I can’t open—and I want a method to open it, can you sell that method here?”
Lu Jinzhao thought for a moment and asked.
Countess Cat’s messages still came back quickly.
【Need to appraise it first.】
【Pick a time, let’s meet at a place. I’ll take a look at your box to know if there’s a method.】
Quite amazing—Lu Jinzhao was a bit curious about the principle, but considering it involved someone else’s fate, she didn’t ask further.
Even though she said that, Lu Jinzhao didn’t dare agree directly.
Perhaps Lu Jinzhao’s delayed reply let Countess Cat see something, as she sent a message.
【No rush on this. You can check things out first, contact me after confirming I’m reliable.】
“Okay, thanks for the trouble.”
Lu Jinzhao really didn’t want to meet her just like that.
She needed to observe a bit more.
After finishing the chat with Countess Cat, Lu Jinzhao opened the group chat and saw that everyone’s topic had shifted elsewhere, so she didn’t pay more attention and instead opened the forum core area to find that pinned post.
It was like an information summary inside.
Filled with humanity’s current known information about the train.
Lu Jinzhao read through them one by one; there was quite a bit she didn’t know before, like:
After advancing to second-class passenger, there’s a 50% chance the platform entered is a 【mixed platform】.
Meaning: This train won’t only carry passengers from one platform; passengers from other platforms may board to complete missions together.
The pinned post emphasized that passengers from other platforms vary greatly and need careful handling.
Unless special circumstances, try not to enter the inside of platforms in other cities.
As for what consequences that would bring, it wasn’t specified here.
Besides that, it especially noted: After obtaining a fate, you won’t get special identities anymore, and fate can’t be replaced by any means—but don’t be picky about fate because of this.
Passengers without fate must first obtain one.
No matter if it’s the strongest or most ideal—having one is what’s most important.
From these bolded lines, perhaps many passengers died because of this.
But indeed, fate isn’t like roadside cabbage. You see one this time and think it’s not ideal, want to wait—but who knows where the next encounter will be?
Waiting and waiting, and you wait yourself to death.
【No curse or supernatural item can force anyone to enter the same platform with someone specific—don’t believe such claims.】
Looked like another bloody lesson.
【Don’t try to enter other areas of the train, especially the cab.】
【Death platform can’t be avoided by any means. Upon receiving death platform notice, head to the platform promptly, or face something even more terrifying.】
“Death platform can’t be avoided? Does that mean other platforms can?”
“What methods? Fate, or supernatural items?”
【Try not to kill innocents indiscriminately in the real world—beware of karmic retribution.】
“There’s such a thing too?”
Though, indeed, passengers need restraint—otherwise, with the train’s “shielding” of passengers in the real world, committing crimes would be far too easy.
“But from this perspective, the train doesn’t seem so bad?”
No, not right.
Better to say, the train is very bad toward passengers, but toward ordinary humans who aren’t passengers, it’s not bad at all—even restraining passengers.
“Why is that?”
Lu Jinzhao frowned, feeling something odd.
If the train only had pure malice to send people to their deaths, why bother restraining passengers?
She thought again of the “evolution theory” some mentioned in the forum.
But Lu Jinzhao felt that was even more far-fetched.
Body hasn’t been feeling well these two days, severe menstrual pain, so updated less. Will write more after these days pass.
