Chapter 185: Searching For Clues
During Lin Lin’s recounting, the car arrived outside the residential community.
She followed Lu Jinzhao back home and looked around the place with some curiosity.
On the car ride, she had already told Lu Jinzhao about her fate. Lu Jinzhao didn’t hesitate and brought her to the workroom.
“Let me show you my fate.”
Lin Lin was somewhat surprised: “You can see it directly like this?”
This is pretty rare.
Pushing open the door, Lin Lin walked into the workroom.
The workroom’s window was sealed, but the lights were very bright. She could see the things placed inside at a glance.
Those were several pieces of human skin and human bone. The desk was neatly arranged with various carving knives and tools. At a glance, the scene was even somewhat grotesque.
But Lin Lin didn’t even change her expression. She even approached closer with a face full of curiosity: “Is this a shadow puppet?”
“Did you make it?”
“So impressive!”
Lu Jinzhao naturally didn’t think she would feel discomfort or disgust at the scene before her. She walked to the workbench and introduced it to Lin Lin: “Yes, my fate allows me to make shadow puppets and use them.”
“The specific effects depend on the raw materials of the shadow puppet. For example, this one—the skin and bone were given to me by a teammate from one of my platforms. Her fate was luck transfer.”
After Lu Jinzhao finished speaking, Lin Lin blinked: “What an impressive fate. Way more useful than mine!”
“When I get back to the capital, I’ll mail you a portion of my skin and bone.”
Lu Jinzhao nodded: “Okay.”
Silence is also very powerful—powerful in its comprehensiveness. Even facing an illusion, maintaining silence can preserve a moment of clarity at critical times. If the ghost isn’t powerful enough, it can’t even drag the fate holder into the illusion.
The same applies to the ghost’s other attacks. Simply maintaining silence gives oneself more survival space.
“So how did you become a passenger?” After touring Lu Jinzhao’s workroom, Lin Lin looked at her and asked.
Lu Jinzhao thought for a moment and told Lin Lin about the events of the day she first got the train ticket.
Naturally, this included the parchment, but she concealed the fact that she had traded her soul with the parchment.
“She must know you.”
After hearing it, Lin Lin came to a definitive answer: “She doesn’t seem like someone who randomly pulls an unlucky person onto the train. She was targeting you.”
“Why would she do that? Who told her to do it?”
“I’m also very curious about that, but unfortunately, I haven’t found any useful clues.” Lu Jinzhao sighed. Even to this day, she still hadn’t found anyone in the passenger group who knew her roommate.
“Could it be your parents?” Lin Lin proposed a hypothesis.
“As you said, if they are most likely passengers, isn’t that possible? After all, they even left you things.”
“It’s not impossible, but there’s one problem I haven’t figured out.” Lu Jinzhao frowned slightly: “If they were passengers, when did they become passengers? When did they leave me those things? As passengers, how long did they live?”
“To leave behind such a supernatural item, it has to be first-class at least, right?”
“But I didn’t find their names in Yuncheng’s current passenger records.”
“If it was them, why do it?”
“Why use your roommate’s hand to do it?”
“And how did they manage to complete this plan so many years after their death?”
There were too many inconsistencies in this.
So, Lu Jinzhao found it hard to confirm this guess, but she also felt that the possibility wasn’t completely zero. After all, anything involving the train had too many unknowns and mysteries.
“Could it be that your parents weren’t locals from Yuncheng at all, just like me, so that’s why they can’t be found in Yuncheng?” Lin Lin proposed another idea.
This could also explain why Lu Jinzhao had never met her parents’ relatives or friends, and why they always lived in other places for long periods.
“Then why did they come to Yuncheng?”
Why did they leave her in Yuncheng?
Was there some special existence in this place?
“Anyway, I’ll investigate it first.” Lin Lin clapped her hands. “You definitely don’t want me to change my ticket to return to Yuncheng, so staying in the capital works perfectly to help you investigate this.”
“You know I don’t want that?” Lu Jinzhao looked at her amusedly: “Then why come over to discuss it with me?”
“Wasn’t it just a chance to meet?” Lin Lin muttered: “You’re my only good friend now!”
Perhaps because she had actively severed her friendship with Lu Jinzhao back then, the people around her had gradually drifted away one by one. Even after going to the capital and meeting some fellow passengers who no longer ignored her, Lin Lin didn’t choose to develop another friendship and instead actively isolated herself.
Because of that, when she encountered Silence, her first reaction was that this fate was very suitable for her current self.
A while ago, when she returned to Yuncheng because of the death platform message and met Lu Jinzhao along the way, to some extent, she was “acting” like her past self.
Hearing her words, Lu Jinzhao turned slightly and looked into Lin Lin’s eyes: “Then thanks for the trouble, flying over to see me.”
She said flying was troublesome, but it was more than just that.
“Not bad.” Lin Lin blinked her eyes. Those beautiful eyes no longer held the innocence and liveliness of high school; they carried a bit of fatigue, but still shone brightly: “If it’s to see you, I wouldn’t feel tired even after another day on the plane!”
“I don’t plan to go abroad for now.” Lu Jinzhao replied indifferently.
Unless something unexpected happened, Lin Lin’s eyes curved into crescents: “Hey, you’re so annoying. Is that what I meant?”
The two chatted a few sentences that didn’t quite match up, and the atmosphere became especially harmonious for a moment, but the interrupter always appeared regardless of the mood.
[Your relationship with her is really good.]
[You care about her a lot.]
The parchment, which had been unilaterally given the cold shoulder, suddenly appeared. The blood script floating in the air revealed undisguised malice.
Lu Jinzhao’s brows lifted slightly, but only for an instant. She then shifted her gaze as if nothing had happened.
“What’s wrong?” Lin Lin noticed her brief distraction.
“Nothing, I just seemed to see a mosquito.”
[?]
[What do you mean?]
Lu Jinzhao ignored the parchment’s subsequent string of questions and curses, turned her head, and asked about Lin Lin’s next plans.
Learning that she had no plans and didn’t want to go out, she continued making the shadow puppet. Lin Lin just quietly stayed by the side watching her carve the shadow puppet, occasionally looking down at her mobile phone as if replying to some message.
“I asked someone to help inquire. There should be news soon.” Lin Lin looked up and said.
Hearing this, Lu Jinzhao looked at Lin Lin innocently: “Who did you ask? Your friends? Didn’t you say I was your only friend?”
Lin Lin said expressionlessly: “Acting skills negative 100 points. You’re banned from the entertainment industry.”
“You’re my only good friend, but I still need to maintain basic social ties with other passengers. You know, since we have to enter platforms together.”
