Chapter 36: Special Class Passenger
Seeing Wei Ling’s dazed state, Lu Jinzhao also knew that her brain probably wasn’t working well at the moment, so she didn’t immediately press her on many questions, but instead asked Wei Ling for her contact information, and the two agreed to meet in the city center the next day.
The underground station was as empty as ever, but clearly having only experienced two platforms, every time she returned to the station, even though it was as desolate as another world here, Lu Jinzhao would still sigh at the sense of security this empty platform brought to the passengers.
At least, standing here would make them feel a joy of safely returning to reality in their hearts.
“Then I’ll head out first, see you tomorrow.” Wei Ling dragged her fatigued body, which was about to close its eyes in the next second, greeted Lu Jinzhao first, and then turned to leave.
When Lu Jinzhao returned to the dormitory, her roommates had already gone to class, but her mobile phone was very quiet, no one sent any messages because she skipped class, even though attendance was taken, the teacher didn’t notice she wasn’t in the classroom.
Her passenger identity naturally gave her an extra barrier with others in reality, this barrier both provided her with convenience, yet profoundly made Lu Jinzhao realize that she was different from the people around her.
“Don’t think too much, as long as you stay alive and complete mission after mission, there will always be a method to leave the train.”
Her brain, fatigued from overexertion, fell into deep sleep in less than ten seconds after relaxing, and just when she thought she would sleep for a long time like last time, only six or seven hours later, Lu Jinzhao naturally woke up from her sleep.
She glanced at the time, and her brows furrowed.
Six or seven hours might be a very normal sleep time for some people, but she had just returned from inside the platform, both her brain and mind were utterly exhausted, she should sleep at least ten hours, right?
Moreover, the feeling after waking up wasn’t refreshed, her body was still unusually fatigued, her shoulder felt as if it had been carrying a heavy load for a long time, and even her brain, which should have recovered, was accompanied by occasional dull pains.
Her roommate had already returned to the dormitory, and seeing her get up, came over to talk to her, accidentally touching the back of her hand in the process.
“Huh, Little Lu, why are your hands so cold? Are you sick?”
Cold?
Lu Jinzhao herself had no sensation, but she realized that the persistent fatigue and the coldness of her body were probably both due to her exchange with the parchment.
She could only go along with her roommate’s words and say she was sick.
When she was washing up, she looked up at herself in the mirror, and Lu Jinzhao noticed a subtle sense of discomfort.
The her in the mirror, for some reason, made her feel a bit off.
Clearly her features were no different from before, but it just looked wrong.
She couldn’t tell if it was really a problem or just a perceptual abnormality.
But the exchange with the parchment had clearly had a huge impact on her.
“Looks like I need to find a method to resolve this as soon as possible.”
Leaving aside the fatigue in her body for now, the uncomfortable strangeness of herself in the mirror made Lu Jinzhao feel even more uneasy.
She opened her mobile phone and bought a flight ticket back to her hometown, then went to meet Wei Ling at the appointed time.
When she saw Wei Ling again, the other party’s complexion had improved a lot, though her eyes still didn’t have the same spirited look as before participating in Loss of Control.
As soon as she sat down, Wei Ling couldn’t wait to complain that she had been dreaming all day, in the dream she kept waking up from illusions, only to find herself still in an illusion, tormenting her greatly.
“I feel like after this mission, I must find a method to get a supernatural item that can resist illusions.”
“Even sitting here now, a thought pops up in my brain to complain.”
“Is this real? Have I really gotten out? I’m not still in an illusion, am I!”
Lu Jinzhao listened silently, could only sigh that Wei Ling’s PTSD was much more severe than hers.
“Where can supernatural items be obtained?” she asked.
Wei Ling naturally knew that Lu Jinzhao had called her out today to learn more information, and before answering, she couldn’t help but sigh: “When I woke up today and thought about what you said, I even felt like I was still dreaming.”
“How could you have only participated in two missions?”
After saying that, she didn’t waste more words: “Supernatural items are only produced in one place, inside the platform.”
“Generally some things related to ghosts, like the rumored disc that hosts a ghost, the rope a ghost used to hang themselves before death, the radio from a ghost’s home during life, and such.”
“Also ghost’s hair, the clothes a ghost wore on their body, the mobile phone a ghost used to make a phone call, etc.”
“Anyway, anything with supernatural properties and connected to ghosts could be a supernatural item.”
Wei Ling added while speaking: “What I said is just a part, supernatural items are varied, the higher the level of the inside the platform, the more likely supernatural items appear, lower levels, like there was a Class D Platform that produced very useful incense ash.”
“And for high levels, rumor has it that a first-class passenger holds a very powerful ghost’s finger, when facing danger he only needs to tear open a bit of the seal on the finger to be saved by that ghost’s aura, just don’t know what the price is.”
Later Wei Ling gradually added information on how to identify if the thing in front of you is a supernatural item, how to bring it out, and most crucially, Wei Ling said:
“Some powerful supernatural items are themselves a ghost, or a part of a ghost.”
“So you must be careful using them, supernatural items aren’t those handy props from novels.”
Itself a ghost?
This made Lu Jinzhao think of the parchment.
But she didn’t say more, instead changing the topic to ask: “What does the seat class on the train ticket mean?”
“This is to distinguish passenger level.”
“From what I know, there are only five levels total, representing the unseated newbie period, seats from third-class to first-class, and the most special special class passengers.”
When Wei Ling said the words “special class,” her tone became much more serious.
“The level on the train ticket represents the highest level train you can board.”
“Class D is the most numerous, and also the level with the highest mortality rate.”
“As for special class, I haven’t seen one yet. Legend has it that Yuncheng Station only has two or three special class.”
“Right, you don’t know yet, do you?” she remembered something.
“Yuncheng Station now probably only has just over three hundred passengers, of course, I mean currently alive ones, if you count the dead, who knows how many.”
“Ours here is just a small platform.”
“It’s said that some big platforms have thousands of ordinary level passengers alone, and special class could fill a table for a meeting.”
Wei Ling spoke with some envy in her tone, Lu Jinzhao thought she was envious of the words “special class.”
“As for level promotion, generally speaking, you need to complete at least three platform missions at the current level before there’s a chance of promotion.”
At this point, Wei Ling’s tone became a bit puzzled, because Lu Jinzhao’s appearance broke the norm.
She said a lot more, and finally, she gave Lu Jinzhao a forum URL.
“This is the communication address for Yuncheng Station passengers, try to avoid meeting stranger passengers offline, after all, you don’t know what their personality is, what thoughts they have.”
“Passengers, even if they commit crimes, because of the train’s protection, it’s hard for anything big to happen.” she reminded.
“After staying on the train long enough, few have normal disposition.”
After finishing these serious matters, Lu Jinzhao curiously asked: “Are you very envious of special class?”
Wei Ling nodded: “Yeah, because special class… are very powerful.”
“They have the ability to confront ghosts, even suppress ghosts!”
“Most importantly, the special class train ticket has a privilege that everyone wants to have.”
