Chapter 180: Ghost Blood And Tan Meng
[Ghost Blood]
[Its only method of use is to enter a person’s body.
Once it fuses into the body, you will gain resistance to supernatural power, and your blood will also acquire certain ghost-exorcising abilities.
You can actively use it by cutting your skin to let out blood that you can control.
But correspondingly, once you fuse with the ghost’s blood, your flesh and soul will gradually undergo change, until you too become part of the apartment’s walls.]
A simple and easy-to-understand explanation; Lu Jinzhao had already made her decision by the time she finished reading it.
Even though its side effect seemed very troublesome—something other passengers would carefully consider, and even if they gritted their teeth and fused it, they would be unable to sleep or eat well—for Lu Jinzhao at this moment, it had a bit of the flavor of “too many lice, not itching.”
This side effect boiled down to the body being irreversibly changed starting from the fusion with ghost blood; the ghost blood was protecting, but also invading.
But Lu Jinzhao glanced at her own body: one-third of her soul had been given to the parchment, there was a section of ghost’s bone in her body, and she was also storing a wooden box inside.
Very lively.
Adding some ghost blood now wasn’t unacceptable either.
Her next platform was inevitably a death platform; she needed more self-protection abilities, even at the cost of expending her lifespan.
What’s more, the ghost blood wanted to contend for her body and soul, but could it contend against the parchment?
Lu Jinzhao felt curious about this.
She slit her wrist and placed it above the box; the ghost blood stored in the box surged madly into her body as if attracted.
This feeling was not unfamiliar to Lu Jinzhao; she had experienced it more than enough in 302.
It was just that compared to inside the platform, the ghost blood’s invasion at this moment seemed much more “harmless.”
But the strange sensation it brought and the changes to her body were especially obvious.
Lu Jinzhao could feel a surge of “airflow” inside her body circulating continuously around her blood vessels; every time it passed a place, this “airflow” would split off a small stream that stayed in place and drilled into her flesh and blood and meridians, continuously transforming her body.
But what surprised Lu Jinzhao was that the sensation of her body and soul being “separated” after trading with the parchment actually melted away quite a bit at this moment.
However, the price was that her body temperature became even lower, almost no different from a corpse; and when the ghost blood finished circulating once through her body, Lu Jinzhao felt her body temperature drop again—her heartbeat was still there, and even the speed of her blood flow seemed faster, but the feeling this body gave her was already very close to that of a “corpse.”
“This is actually a good thing for me.”
Once the ghost blood fully fused into her body, Lu Jinzhao felt her body become much lighter; if there was a mirror, she could see her currently slightly gloomy aura, pitch-black pupils, and the especially obvious blood vessels under her pale skin.
When someone observed carefully, they would discover that the blood vessels were not even bluish-purple, but a faint red.
Her appearance hadn’t changed, but her previously especially gentle-looking features now, even with a smile on her face, only made people feel a subtle horror.
When staring at others expressionlessly, this horrific feeling became even stronger.
This special temperament, while originating from the ghost blood and ghost bone stored in her body, also came substantially from changes produced by Lu Jinzhao herself.
After the ghost blood fusion was complete, Lu Jinzhao first skillfully peeled off a piece of her own skin; holding it in her hand, she immediately judged that this skin was useful.
Compared to her previous skin, its “toughness” was several times stronger.
Even in her perception, this could no longer be considered “human” skin.
Lu Jinzhao felt a subtle emotion in her heart, but she quickly suppressed this subtle emotion and continued looking at the newspaper.
Besides the ghost blood, she had one other item she brought out.
[Tan Meng]
[A skin named “Tan Meng”; as a ghost, it was obviously too greedy.
You can replace your own skin with it; you will have a ghost skin garment made by a ghost—it will wrap tightly around you to protect you, but it will also continuously constrict your body tightly until you die.
You can also control it to wrap others; every time it leaves the body, it will become tighter.
Be careful; this is a ghost, and it won’t have much patience to serve humans.]
Reading these descriptions, Lu Jinzhao thought of the time she was “wrapped”—it was clearly not a good experience, but if turned into power she could use herself, it was rather tempting.
However, Lu Jinzhao clearly wouldn’t let it just replace the skin of her body like this.
This was a top-quality material that was hard to obtain again.
Made into a shadow puppet, it wouldn’t affect these effects; it was just that the “bones” Lu Jinzhao currently had couldn’t form the main support pole for this skin, but fortunately she had ghost bone.
“I can use the bone shaved from 302 for my own skin.”
Although lowering the quality of the main pole would make the shadow puppet more fragile, the improvement in her own skin’s quality would compensate for that.
The bone from 302 wasn’t ghost bone; essentially it was just an ordinary human corpse bone that had lingered long in 302 and been stained by ghost blood, acquiring a bit of ghost’s aura—it was much better than ordinary human bones, but far inferior to ghost bone, with quality close to Du Yu’s bone.
Moreover, more importantly, once made into a shadow puppet, she wouldn’t worry about the ghost’s backlash.
It was just that her current fate wasn’t sufficient to support her quickly carving a ghost brought from a Class A platform into a shadow puppet; she needed to first complete the other skins in her hand to gain some “experience” for herself, and then spend a lot of effort and time to carve this skin.
Time-wise, as long as the train didn’t act up and gave her at least three months, she could probably complete it.
After fusing the ghost blood and reading all the information, Lu Jinzhao silently planned her next steps in her mind.
The most urgent thing first was definitely to remake her own shadow puppet, then Du Yu’s, then Qin Wan’s, and finally, she would start making Tan Meng.
Once all were done, next time she entered a platform, she could have four shadow puppets with different functions, plus ghost blood—her self-protection ability would absolutely be a huge upgrade compared to now, and with the shadow puppets and ghost blood all being offensive and defensive, she could truly be considered a first-class passenger.
Lu Jinzhao, who had felt slightly anxious from her rapid promotion, finally breathed a slight sigh of relief; after the train arrived at the station, she shouldered her bag and quickly left the platform.
Even though her clothes were dark-colored, the traces completely soaked in blood water were especially obvious, but in the vast Yuncheng train station, not a single person cast their gaze toward Lu Jinzhao; everyone collectively ignored this somewhat disheveled traveler, as if she didn’t exist.
Only after leaving the train did the signal recover, with the screen lighting up repeatedly showing a large number of messages—the mobile phone told Lu Jinzhao that she indeed existed in reality.
There was still today
