Chapter 181: Message From The Death Platform
Sitting on the train home, Lu Jinzhao opened her mobile phone and began clearing messages.
The one who sent the most messages was Lin Lin.
She probably saw something from the message Lu Jinzhao had sent her earlier, so she first replied to the message saying she was safe, then sent a bunch of probing messages. Finally, probably because Lu Jinzhao didn’t reply in time, she even made time to return to Yuncheng but didn’t find Lu Jinzhao in school, so she confirmed something and directly asked:
[Chao Chao, when did you board the train?]
Lu Jinzhao looked at the long string of messages from Lin Lin and felt a slight stir in her heart. The other party’s cautious probing tone made her see how much Lin Lin cherished her, even though they had been in a cold war for quite a long time due to a “misunderstanding.” Thinking about it now, that was probably around the time when Lin Lin became a passenger, right?
But in Lin Lin’s eyes, she was still a very important person.
Lu Jinzhao answered this question, then sent another message.
[So you complaining about having bad relationships and conflicts with people at school was a lie to me?]
Once you’re a passenger, normal interpersonal relationships almost cease to exist, so how could there be bad relationships and conflicts with classmates? It would only be with other passengers on the same platform.
Lin Lin replied very quickly. After seeing Lu Jinzhao’s message, she immediately called.
“Chao Chao!”
The girl’s energetic and lively voice came from the other end of the phone, sounding somewhat urgent, as if she had encountered something bad, but the words she said were worrying about Lu Jinzhao.
“You’ve only just boarded the train for such a short time, how did you end up at a Class A Platform?”
This wasn’t a hard piece of information to find out. If Lu Jinzhao’s guess was correct and Lin Lin had successfully been promoted to First-Class…
“It’s a bit complicated to explain, but simply put, it’s because of a supernatural item I have.”
Lu Jinzhao answered her question first, then said: “So you lied to me?”
“Uh…” Lin Lin hesitated, thought for a moment about how to defend herself, found she couldn’t at all, and could only say softly: “There was no other method!”
Indeed, Lu Jinzhao fully understood. She asked this just to shift Lin Lin’s tense mood a bit.
As she expected, when Lin Lin’s attention was diverted by this question, the tension in her tone also dissipated quite a bit.
“Don’t worry too much.” Lu Jinzhao said: “I was able to promote so quickly, naturally because my life-preserving ability is pretty strong. Aren’t I alive and out now?”
“That’s true…” Lin Lin sighed: “I was originally thinking, even if I lose you as a friend and you won’t remember me anymore in the future, as long as you stay alive and well, that would be fine.”
She had originally thought she and Lu Jinzhao would be two parallel lines that had once intersected, with no further contact afterward, and it had taken her a long time to convince herself of the fact that they would gradually drift apart.
Even to avoid implicating her closest friend and family just in case, and to seek a chance of survival, she chose to leave home alone and head to the strongest platform she had heard about, Capital Station.
Now knowing that Lu Jinzhao had also become a passenger, although there was joy in her heart at the thought of traveling the same path again, and a sense of relief from long-suppressed fatigue at having someone to confide in, what followed was even more worry.
“How about I come back to Yuncheng…”
Back then, transferring to Capital Station was because she got an opportunity, and she spent all her savings to change her train ticket, gambling everything to seize that opportunity, which led to her current situation.
If she wanted to return to Yuncheng, she would also have to spend all her life-buying money to change tickets. In death platform train tickets, not leaving enough life-buying money is very dangerous.
Besides, she had already built up some connections in the capital. Returning to Yuncheng would reset everything, but for Lin Lin, the connections in the capital weren’t an issue; life-buying money was what she needed to consider.
The death platform is different from other platforms. Being called [death] naturally has its reasons. In the platform, passengers can spend life-buying money to make moves that “don’t conform to the persona.” Generally speaking, if assigned the “student” persona, in the death platform, even if hands and feet are broken, they have to crawl to the classroom for class, because they are a “student.”
But with life-buying money, they can bribe the teacher, say they’re sick and need to take leave, and the leave time depends on how much money there is.
They can even buy out the “mission” and not carry it out if there’s enough money!
But generally, few people directly buy out missions; that’s way too expensive. Most people buy details in the mission process.
For example, if students are to play pen fairy in the classroom at midnight, they usually won’t buy out the mission entirely, but buy the content of the pen fairy questions, or the requirement of going to the classroom at midnight, without completing the pen fairy. Splitting a mission like this requires relatively less money.
In the death platform, passengers generally face multiple missions, almost every one is “suicidal.” As long as there’s life-buying money, inside, they really can buy their lives.
Without money, they can only go “suicidal,” with no fault tolerance at all.
Even so, inside the platform it’s still extremely dangerous, dangerous enough that the train provides passengers with such conveniences. One can imagine how difficult it is to survive in a death platform without enough money in the train ticket.
Lu Jinzhao didn’t yet know these specific details. Generally, only after passengers upgrade to First-Class do seniors tell them the precautions for death platforms. After all, before leveling up, they’re likely to die anyway, so telling them early is useless.
But this is only for normal platforms. Some platforms’ “seniors” harbor some malice and deliberately don’t inform them of these things.
Yuncheng Station is naturally a normal platform. Madam Divine Calculator, who was contacting Lu Jinzhao, sent an urgent contact after learning she had entered a Class A Platform.
“Better not.” Even though Lu Jinzhao didn’t know these things yet, she still rejected Lin Lin’s suggestion to change tickets.
“Since you’re doing well at Capital Station, just stay there.”
Lu Jinzhao knew she had unusual secrets on her. She didn’t want Lin Lin involved. She was doing fine on other platforms.
“Let’s meet first and talk. I don’t have much going on lately. Come find you tomorrow?”
Lu Jinzhao paused, thinking of the messages on her mobile phone: “I might have something tomorrow. Let me check first, then message you to arrange a time?”
“Okay.”
Having decided to meet, many things didn’t need to be discussed over the phone. After hanging up, Lu Jinzhao opened messages again, first replying to Qin Wan’s message. After all, this person seemed really anxious, messaging her the next day asking: Still alive?
Next were Madam Divine Calculator’s messages.
[You entered the platform?]
[How did you enter a Class A Platform?]
[See a ghost]
[Message me back immediately if you’re alive out. Urgent matter to inform.]
Readers worried about heading to death platform so soon and the story ending, rest assured.
Death platform has quite a bit of content ovo and will load some new things
