Chapter 157: House Of Evil Ghosts
Time was too urgent; the hide still drying at her home couldn’t be made into a shadow puppet in time, so she could only take the newly upgraded small broken shadow puppet and rush to the train station.
After thinking about it, she contacted Qin Wan and arranged to meet on the way to the train station to borrow her pocket watch.
Qin Wan was somewhat doubtful about her wanting to borrow the pocket watch just after leaving the platform not long ago, but after Lu Jinzhao explained that she was entering the platform again, the expression on Qin Wan’s face was quite colorful.
“Did you get some high-level supernatural item?” Qin Wan asked.
Her level increase wasn’t step-by-step either; after getting the pocket watch, she also went to a Class A Platform once, and afterward spent most of her time on Class B Platforms, occasionally participating in Class A.
“Don’t worry, if you perform very weakly in the Class A Platform, the train will automatically adjust the difficulty and send you back to Class B.”
Qin Wan was very trustworthy; she said she would lend her the pocket watch and actually did so. Lu Jinzhao asked her if she wasn’t worried that she would die in the platform and lose this pocket watch forever?
Qin Wan also frankly said: “I will contact the others who entered the platform with you and have them help retrieve it. I have a First-Class behind me, and my fate is very useful; they won’t refuse to sell me this favor.”
“As for all of you getting wiped out, then that’s just my misfortune.”
She couldn’t possibly bear no risk at all; when she made this promise back then, she had already anticipated that something like this might happen.
However, because it was Lu Jinzhao, she subconsciously felt that Lu Jinzhao wouldn’t die so easily.
She could of course also not keep the promise; after all, this pocket watch was so precious, and if it was lost in the platform due to a moment’s carelessness, it would really be almost impossible to find again, but Qin Wan thought that if she, as a passenger, completely couldn’t do without this pocket watch, then it actually had no meaning.
Her life, the efforts she made to survive, all tied to a single pocket watch—this wasn’t a good thing.
Even thinking this way, when handing the pocket watch to Lu Jinzhao, Qin Wan’s heart was still very conflicted.
She asked: “Do you need a bit of good luck?”
Lu Jinzhao glanced at the time and refused: “Prepaying good luck has to be repaid with misfortune; I don’t like the unknown brought by misfortune.”
She preferred a more steady and sure approach.
Hearing her answer, Qin Wan wasn’t surprised at all; even after leaving the platform, Lu Jinzhao was still that Lu Jinzhao.
On the contrary, it was inside the platform where one could see a person’s true nature most quickly.
After handing the pocket watch to Lu Jinzhao, she sighed: “Perhaps I need to give myself a bit of good luck.”
To let good luck bless her so she wouldn’t lose this pocket watch.
“That’s up to you.” Lu Jinzhao didn’t know if such good luck would work; she also couldn’t pin her hopes for life and death on such an “off-field” factor.
Time was pressing, so she only had a brief exchange with Qin Wan before boarding the vehicle to the train station.
Before arriving at the underground platform, Lu Jinzhao had been curious: what would the Class A mission be like, and what teammates would she encounter this time?
She heard that First-Class mostly appeared on Class A Platforms too, since the death platform frequency was too low; would she encounter a First-Class this time?
However, Lu Jinzhao never expected that when she pushed through the crowd to the silent underground platform and opened the door to the waiting room, she didn’t see a single person.
“Did I arrive too early?” This thought dissipated like smoke after seeing the waiting information.
[Arriving train level this time: Class A]
[Passengers boarding at Yuncheng Station Platform this time: One]
[Personnel list: Lu Jinzhao]
[This station: House of Evil Ghosts]
[Rumor has it there’s a haunted apartment; no matter who moves in, they all die unnatural deaths. Today, as a new tenant, you enter this apartment, and then strange events keep happening]
[Can you uncover the truth behind the haunted house and leave this apartment alive?]
[Survive three days in the haunted house; do not step out of the apartment main entrance before the train arrives.]
Lu Jinzhao confirmed that this time, the passenger at Yuncheng Station Platform was indeed only her.
She had no teammates, or rather, her teammates were probably passengers from other platforms.
Most platforms weren’t close to each other and even guarded against one another, which also meant that even in the same mission, passengers from different platforms had a hard time cooperating closely.
For her first Class A Platform, did she have to fight alone?
“Give it my all.” Lu Jinzhao stood at the platform entrance, took a deep breath; she already had a premonition that this would be an extremely difficult mission.
The train arrived, and for the first time, Lu Jinzhao boarded this train alone. Just after ticket inspection ended, her train ticket gained a thousand life-buying money—at least she didn’t have to worry about not having enough money to repair her body.
Without teammates’ company and no one to discuss possible situations in this platform mission, the carriage was exceptionally quiet, making Lu Jinzhao feel a subtle discomfort.
It was clearly a Class A Platform, yet the waiting information wasn’t sparse; even after seriously analyzing the hints that might exist in the waiting information, less than five minutes had passed.
For the remaining time with nothing to do, Lu Jinzhao carefully observed this carriage again.
Regarding the train, passengers knew very little; they could only board their own carriage after each ticket inspection, then get off, unable to leave the carriage during that time or move freely on the train.
There wasn’t even the “existence” of a “door” in the carriage; passengers couldn’t explore even if they wanted to.
But clearly, the train had more than one carriage.
After looking around, she couldn’t see any abnormalities in the carriage; Lu Jinzhao could only give up helplessly, and at that moment, the train entered the station.
Upon arriving at the station, after the carriage door opened, Lu Jinzhao got off without hesitation.
After getting off, she looked around and sure enough, saw shadows of others.
Besides her, there were three more.
The three were quite close to each other, and it seemed they had also just gotten off, from different platforms.
“Everyone’s here.” One of them said.
After Lu Jinzhao got off, the train’s door quickly closed, then the train rapidly sped away down the road.
The remaining tracks also gradually disappeared with the train’s departure, turning here into an ordinary road.
And right in front of the four was the target location of this mission: a six-floor old apartment.
Extra memory came; no extra content, just roughly one sentence: as a new tenant, Lu Jinzhao had rented room 302 on the third floor, and she needed to move into the apartment before 6 p.m. today.
The current time was 5:30.
There was half an hour left to stay outside.
“Shall we first briefly get to know each other?” A middle-aged woman not far away suggested, seeing that no one intended to enter the apartment immediately.
“Should we say which platform we’re from?” The girl standing to Lu Jinzhao’s right, who looked like a student, asked.
“No need for that, right?” A girl with a buzz cut about the same age as Lu Jinzhao quickly refused.
The gazes of the other three naturally turned to her.
Refusing to say which platform she was from clearly made them somewhat vigilant; after all, if it was just some ordinary platform without fame, why refuse?
And those very famous platforms, except for the capital, were without exception some rather inhumane platforms.
People coming from there absolutely weren’t suitable for cooperation.
