Chapter 188: This Platform: Heredity
Time passed bit by bit, and after Lu Jinzhao finished making all the shadow puppets in her hands, she kept waiting for the arrival of the death platform.
One day, while she was reading some folklore books, a deafening whistle suddenly sounded in the originally calm room inside; that was the familiar sound, one she wouldn’t forget even in her dreams, belonging to the train.
Lu Jinzhao looked up from the books and sure enough took out the train ticket, but before she could clearly see the change on the train ticket, a heart-piercing, bone-gouging pain suddenly came from her left arm.
A line of black, tiny characters as if drilled out from her flesh and blood appeared on her arm.
[Passengers please note, the train heading to Youxian Town will arrive at the station in one month. Please carry your luggage and arrive at the ticket gate on time to board.]
[This train number is: First-Class]
[This train stopping platform is named: Heredity]
[Sinful bloodline will continue the sin, no one can be spared.]
[Wish you a pleasant journey.]
These characters were very small, but as long as Lu Jinzhao’s gaze fell on them, even if she didn’t see them clearly, the information was clearly imprinted in her mind.
“.It’s finally here.”
Death platform.
After she read through this brief information once, the text on her arm suddenly disappeared, as if that agony had never happened.
She looked at the train ticket, and sure enough, the information on it had also changed: First-Class train, Yuncheng Station to Youxian Town, first-class seat.
And she still had 4200 life-buying money left; according to the information she had recently learned about the death platform, 4200 was actually a pretty good number on the death platform.
Even though the special platform would give 3000 life-buying money just for ticket inspection and boarding, there were plenty of places inside that required spending money.
No one could save up life-buying money on the death platform.
Less than two minutes after the message appeared, a message from the Divine Calculator came over.
[Death platform is here, you’ve been selected, right.]
[Have you thought about what fate to copy?]
This was also the issue Lu Jinzhao was pondering.
Just from the platform name and information, this mission seemed to be related to bloodline, to take place in some town.
But with just this information, it wasn’t enough for her to determine which fate might be the most useful.
[Haven’t thought it through yet.] Lu Jinzhao answered honestly.
Actually, there was a choice with extremely high versatility that wouldn’t go wrong, but compared to versatility, targetedness was definitely better.
[No rush, there’s still one month of preparation time. It’s a bit early to decide now; first see who else will enter the platform with you.]
[If nothing unexpected, they should let you meet in advance; then you can discuss and see if you can come up with any ideas, and make a decision based on those ideas.]
She had given Lu Jinzhao the list of all copyable fates, so the Divine Calculator didn’t offer personal subjective suggestions for Lu Jinzhao; she felt Lu Jinzhao might not be the type who needed others to help her make choices.
“Are there others in Yuncheng who were selected?” Lu Jinzhao asked.
[There is one, but]
The Divine Calculator seemed a bit hesitant.
[She’s first-class like you, but she’s been first-class for almost three years.]
Three years?
According to the previous information, if judged by the train as [has potential] after reaching first-class, the death platform would come very quickly; entering the death platform for the first time after more than three years meant the train judged this first-class’s potential as insufficient.
But she had lived for three years after becoming first-class, which was absolutely “long-lived” among high-level passengers.
[Her personality might have a slight issue, but as a teammate, uh… in some aspects, she’s pretty good?]
The Divine Calculator seemed unsure how to describe this first-class passenger.
This sparked a bit of curiosity in Lu Jinzhao: “Say something specific.”
[.]
[Alright, actually, she’s just a bit cowardly.]
[She becomes extremely vigilant on the platform, or rather, she plays it safe; she’s collected a ton of platform information, her brain stuffed with a platform encyclopedia, all to avoid accidentally breaking taboos.]
[Teaming up with her, you can mooch off her experience; she’s very good at evading risks.]
[But in return, she’s extremely, extremely cautious, with no team awareness at all; everything is just for her own survival.]
[Because she’s experienced many platforms, plus she cherishes her life greatly, her personality is a bit neurotic; you might need to be careful when interacting with her.]
[If she thinks a teammate poses a threat to her survival, she’ll immediately give up the teammate, trying to make the teammate make a mistake and get killed by ghosts, even if the teammate actually doesn’t truly threaten her, but as long as she thinks so.]
[This has happened not just once or twice, so now most high-level passengers don’t want to be on the same platform mission with Tian Lei.]
Cowardly, sensitive, easily triggered, and possibly with some paranoia.
“Sounds like a very hardworking person.”
The Divine Calculator was a bit surprised to see this message from Lu Jinzhao; she looked at the person beside her: “Rare for someone to hear about Tian Lei’s deeds and evaluate her as hardworking.”
“Seeing through phenomena to the essence, Tian Lei is indeed very hardworking to survive.” The person beside her didn’t look up, still busy with their task, just giving a faint evaluation.
The Divine Calculator shrugged: “But most people think Tian Lei is too unstable, a dangerous person, a ticking time bomb.”
“But the danger doesn’t truly come from her; off the platform, she’s just a somewhat cowardly ordinary girl, isn’t she?”
The Divine Calculator smiled: “Maybe.”
She neither denied nor fully agreed.
[Pray that this death platform doesn’t guide passengers to kill each other.]
She smiled and sent the message to Lu Jinzhao.
[That way, your teammate won’t bring you too much danger.]
Otherwise, Tian Lei’s fate would be quite troublesome.
“Borrowing your auspicious words.”
Lu Jinzhao put down her mobile phone, pondering what attitude she should take toward this teammate.
She had long prepared expectations for the mental issues common among the passenger group, but this teammate sounded even more special.
“Although her talent potential isn’t high enough, she survived on the platforms by herself for a long time and finally got selected by the train into the death platform, huh…”
Lu Jinzhao felt this teammate’s mood must be quite unpleasant right now.
For someone working hard to survive, nothing could make her feel more unease than being thrown into a nine deaths, one life environment.
The mobile phone screen lit up; it was a friend request from someone.
From Tian Lei.
[Hello, I’m Tian Lei, a selectee for the death platform.]
Though cowardly, she actively added a stranger’s friend because they were about to head to the death platform together.
“Sure enough, she’s a very hardworking person.”
