Chapter 132: Substitute
The slight commotion Yan Xiaoyu caused before dying also attracted Lu Jinzhao’s attention.
When they looked over, they only saw a person with an unremarkable appearance, who looked like an ordinary passerby, trying to enter the office area but being stopped.
Lu Jinzhao had been somewhat concerned about it, after all, this was the platform, and any minor disturbance might have its meaning, but the incident was quickly settled, and that person just tried to enter and became quiet after being stopped.
Soon the security guard took her away, seeming like it wasn’t a big deal?
Such a thought naturally emerged in her mind, and she was almost about to ignore this minor matter, but her overly cautious personality still prevented Lu Jinzhao from completely letting it go, so she simply got up and walked to the colleague who had just stopped that person from entering, asking what happened.
That colleague looked speechless: “Oh, that person? Wanted to sneak in and directly seek a job from the boss. These unemployed vagrants are really going crazy day by day.”
Is that so?
Lu Jinzhao had never worked a job and didn’t know if what the colleague said could possibly happen, only feeling that something was off somewhere. She walked a few steps forward and looked outside, already unable to see that person’s figure at all.
“There shouldn’t be any problem.”
Such a thought quietly implanted itself in her mind, and Lu Jinzhao’s originally probing gaze slightly dispersed, no longer dwelling on this minor anomaly.
She returned to her workstation and checked the time; it had been less than two hours since they entered this platform.
“Why does it feel so calm?”
Zhou Zimo typed the last character on the keyboard, looked around, and said somewhat vigilantly.
“Our side being calm came at the cost of overdrawing luck; other places, who knows.”
While speaking, Qin Wan glanced toward the direction of the other group of passengers.
That place seemed quite calm as well.
But she was certain that something had already happened there.
Otherwise, her luck wouldn’t have made her trip and deliberately enter the company one step late.
“Should we go take a look?” Zhou Zimo asked.
He was never a brainpower player; he relied on experience and the life-saving ability brought by spirit possession, as well as the awareness to hug thighs.
However, for this platform, Qin Wan didn’t count as a thigh—her ability was very useful, but her qualities in other aspects were ordinary among high-level players, and the other was simply Lu Jinzhao, who had just obtained her fate and was participating in a Class B Platform for the second time.
“Looks like this platform has no thighs to hug; we can only rely on cooperation.”
Zhou Zimo had prepared himself for this, so seeing that his other two teammates had no intention of taking the lead, he could only offer his own thoughts, though he didn’t think his decisions would be very wise.
“Feels like we don’t need to rush? Let’s check during the funeral; everyone has to go, right?” Qin Wan thought for a moment and said.
Then she looked toward Lu Jinzhao: “Little Lu, any thoughts?”
Lu Jinzhao was somewhat surprised that these two would still ask for her opinion, and she didn’t hide anything, saying directly: “I also feel… that the anomaly might have already occurred.”
“If nothing has happened on our side now… I’d tend toward not doing anything else first.”
She was still of the cautious faction.
“Alright.” Zhou Zimo nodded; anyway, he hadn’t felt it was necessary when he suggested it, and since his teammates thought observing first was better, he naturally wouldn’t object.
“Speaking of which, do people from Fei Quan have anything special about them?” Seeing that this time’s two teammates were very friendly, Lu Jinzhao probed by asking.
She still remembered her teammate’s warning when they just got off the train.
Qin Wan had finished her tasks at hand, and her seat was right next to Lu Jinzhao’s, so she pulled her chair closer and said in a gossipy whisper: “You saw their clothes, right?”
Lu Jinzhao nodded.
“Those clothes are mandatory in Fei Quan—not for looks, more like a kind of… modern slave mark.”
Hearing the last four words, Lu Jinzhao’s brows furrowed slightly: “Slave… mark?”
“Right.” Qin Wan’s expression wasn’t great either: “They use the color of the clothes to distinguish people’s levels.”
“Low-level ones must unconditionally obey the commands of high-level ones; in Fei Quan, low-level people have no such thing as human rights.”
“Isn’t it absurd?”
“…Yes.” Though she said that, Lu Jinzhao didn’t feel particularly surprised.
On the contrary, Yuncheng’s kind of “harmony” had actually surprised her before.
After all, the train was such a cruel place.
“The atmosphere over there is very bad; people aren’t treated as people, and passengers have a hard time being constrained by law in the real world, so cruel things happen repeatedly, leading to Fei Quan’s passengers being more like livestock than people sometimes.”
“Though they can’t directly kill disobedient low-level passengers, tormenting, humiliating, killing their relatives and friends—isn’t that also a method to make people submit?”
As Qin Wan spoke, her tone couldn’t hide her disgust for these things.
“And once inside the platform, if you haven’t been obedient enough normally, you’re cannon fodder—no help, and it’s common to even deliberately get you killed when ghosts appear.”
“Three months ago, I was grouped with someone from Fei Quan too, that time…”
“One person was dragged off the train with all four limbs broken.”
“I think she probably had no life-buying money left to treat herself; if nothing unexpected, she couldn’t get back on the train and perhaps died inside the platform, which was actually a relief.”
Qin Wan shook her head: “So best not to get involved with people from Fei Quan; that place is rotten through.”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t ask the stupid question “Didn’t anyone try to stop it?” and instead once again sighed that Yuncheng was perhaps a “paradise” among all the stations.
“Our platform is really pretty good.” She probed.
“You bet.” Qin Wan immediately agreed: “Our platform’s atmosphere has always been pretty good.”
“It’s not that no one has tried to do something, but well…”
Qin Wan didn’t say the follow-up, just giving Lu Jinzhao a “you know” look.
Lu Jinzhao naturally understood.
Just as Fei Quan wouldn’t have “good people” trying to reform the atmosphere survive, Yuncheng wouldn’t have “bad people” trying to disrupt order survive.
To maintain order in a cruel world, what was needed most was sufficiently iron-blooded methods.
In a sense, the seemingly mild Yuncheng was also a one-man rule.
“Anyway, each platform’s atmosphere is very different; Fei Quan’s extreme style isn’t unique—even among extreme stations, Fei Quan is still considered to have order.”
“Some places are even more cruel and chaotic.”
“In the future, stay vigilant with passengers from other stations.”
Qin Wan earnestly instructed like an elder.
Lu Jinzhao smiled: “Got it, thanks, senior.”
