Chapter 186: Shadow Puppet In Production
Lin Lin stayed in Yuncheng for two days. During that time, the people she asked sent back messages, but no information related to Lu Jinzhao’s parents was found.
“It could also be that the names are wrong?”
Lu Jinzhao hadn’t held much hope for this anyway and just said, “It’s fine, don’t worry. Things are already like this anyway.”
“Maybe after I enter the death platform, I can get some clues?”
She said half-jokingly, half-seriously.
“That’s not auspicious.” Lin Lin shook her head. “Anyway, I’ll go back first and check more carefully. The skin and bone matter should be mailed to you in a couple of days.”
After all, she had no method here to turn herself into a corpse state. She still needed to return to the capital and use other people’s supernatural items.
After Lin Lin left, another two days passed, and Lu Jinzhao finally finished making the shadow puppets for Qin Wan and Du Yu.
With [Luck Transfer] and [Substitute death], the sense of urgency in Lu Jinzhao’s heart finally eased a bit.
At this time, the materials that the Divine Calculator had promised her also arrived.
“You can call this material [Fake].”
“We considered the special nature of your fate and specially found this for you.”
“As the name implies, it can imitate other fates. Although there will be flaws, once imitated, it can be used continuously, and replacing it is also simple—just imitate another fate.”
“And here, there is a list of fates that are willing to be provided for you to imitate.”
The things sent by the Divine Calculator greatly exceeded Lu Jinzhao’s expectations. This was indeed a material that was quite suitable for her.
After all, she already had several shadow puppets with different functions in hand, and she had many alternatives in mind for what she needed. With [Fake], she could imitate the most suitable fate based on the advance notice from the death platform.
This material was given very generously, with enough left for repairs. The Divine Calculator was indeed very sincere.
“After all, the powerful people willing to provide you with materials can’t keep waiting forever for when you need them and then figure out a way to give it to you, so a fake is actually quite suitable.”
The Divine Calculator explained.
“I understand.” Lu Jinzhao nodded. “I’m very satisfied with the fake.”
“Alright, contact me whenever you want to imitate one. Any on the list will do.”
After the Divine Calculator left, Lu Jinzhao carefully looked over the list and immediately spotted [Nemesis].
A fate she really wanted.
Its versatility was too strong— a fate that could play a role in almost any situation. However, Lu Jinzhao did not decide to imitate Nemesis right away.
Since her next platform was destined to be the death platform, that meant she had a month in advance to prepare. She already had versatility with Lin Lin’s [Silence]. Perhaps a fate with more targetedness would be better.
After all, it was a fake, so the ability had flaws.
After completing the initial skin preparation work for the fake, Lu Jinzhao began preparing to tackle the shadow puppet making for [Tan Meng].
She had a premonition that after turning this ghost into a shadow puppet, her fate would inevitably upgrade again.
Although fates had no level distinctions, as the number of uses and proficiency increased, their power would indeed slowly grow. And now, the new shadow puppets she made, thanks to the fate upgrade, were no longer afraid of ordinary water, fire, or sharp items.
This meant that these shadow puppets, which seemed unremarkable, could no longer be destroyed by ordinary people. To “kill” them, one needed supernatural power.
“Why does it feel a bit like ghosts?”
However, her shadow puppets could be killed, while ghosts could not. She was still far from that.
The two shadow puppets climbed up Lu Jinzhao’s pant legs onto her body on their own. In the end, each chose a wrist to stick to, like two bracers or strange tattoos.
Lu Jinzhao took out Tan Meng’s skin. This was a skin that had already been processed by the train, so no skin preparation was needed. But the trouble was, when she placed this skin on the tool bench and was about to use the carving knife, she felt a kind of resistance.
This skin was “refusing” to be shaped, to be carved.
Lu Jinzhao raised her eyebrow slightly. “This isn’t up to you.”
This wasn’t your apartment, it was her house.
As she controlled the carving knife to make the first cut on “Tan Meng,” she felt a slight buzzing in her brain accompanying that cut, and a bit of her energy seemed to be drained. This meant the number of cuts she could make on this skin in a day was limited.
“As expected… the estimated three months was right.”
A few days later, she received the materials sent by Lin Lin, which were very heavy.
Upon opening and looking at the materials, Lu Jinzhao frowned and called her. “Are you okay? Why so much?”
“Isn’t that for your spares?” Fortunately, Lin Lin sounded not weak on the other end.
“…I didn’t know there was such a thing as spares?”
“I know my own fate. The usage frequency will definitely be high. Maybe one platform will ruin one, so I mailed you a bit more materials. Don’t worry, I’m fine here. I won’t die. I can repair next time I board.”
Things had come to this, Lu Jinzhao had no choice. She couldn’t mail these things back and tell her to stuff them back, could she? Would that even work?
“Consider my feelings a little too. I almost thought you disassembled yourself and mailed it to me.”
“Maybe in a bit I’ll splice myself together from the shipping box and crawl out to scare you to death!” Lin Lin intimidated.
“…Then should I not soak you in the water basin?” Lu Jinzhao’s tone hesitated.
“Uh…”
“Didn’t you see the package and get shocked, worried, sad, anxious, tears? Then call me, crying and begging me not to hurt myself too much?”
Lu Jinzhao: ?
“You directly soaked my corpse in a water basin?” Lin Lin questioned her.
Lu Jinzhao: “Please don’t say it like that. It sounds a bit perverted.”
“And it’s not a corpse, it’s some bone and skin.”
Soak a corpse in water for a few days—would her house still be livable?
She said, “And this is your fault too, right? There’s still bloodstains on it. If I don’t process it right away, there’ll be big problems in this weather.”
Lin Lin disagreed. “Blaming me is unreasonable. After all, having me process my own bones—isn’t that a bit much?”
“Speaking of which, being a passenger is subtle in this way. You can openly mail someone’s skin and bone.”
The delivery person wouldn’t check the contents at all. Even if it was explosives, it might go through.
It seemed similar things had happened before.
“Next time I’ll try crawling into a shipping box myself and see if I can mail myself over.” Lin Lin said whimsically.
“Absolutely not!” Lu Jinzhao immediately refused loudly. “I don’t want to receive that kind of package!”
“Hey, what do you mean? You don’t want to see me?”
Lu Jinzhao gave her a side-eye. “Live transport—even as a passenger, you’d have to go through the pet channel, right?”
She just thought doing that was too bizarre. The platform was bizarre enough; reality shouldn’t have such strange situations, okay?
Don’t act however you want in reality just because you’re a passenger!
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