Chapter 40: Chang Street Slaughterhouse
The time passengers take for each mission is not fixed.
Generally speaking, there will be a window period of about half a month to a month, and the higher and more dangerous the level of the experienced mission, the longer the rest time will be.
Therefore, Lu Jinzhao rested for a full twenty-four days before receiving the hint for the next platform mission.
From the information displayed on the train ticket, this platform mission is still Class C, not exaggeratingly promoting her to a Class B train. The time is 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, and as for the address, it has no reference value, still a place name that does not exist in the real world.
Items on passengers can be brought onto the train, but electronic products will most likely fail, and things used to repel ghosts in reality also have no effect at all. Plus, in most cases inside the platform, escape is required, so everyone doesn’t bring many things, just some water that can be drunk in a short time and food to replenish ability.
When sorting out equipment, Lu Jinzhao hesitated for a moment and did not choose to bring the box she brought back from her hometown.
She looked at the box, then took out the parchment and asked, “Did you interfere with the difficulty of this platform mission?”
After waiting for a while, the parchment gave no response.
But this was also a kind of answer. According to Lu Jinzhao’s recent probes of the parchment from time to time over the past twenty days or so, if it had done something “bad,” it was not stingy about informing Lu Jinzhao. It would even be very honest when the bad deed succeeded or was likely to achieve its purpose, even maliciously showing off by deliberately telling Lu Jinzhao.
So, its silence at this moment could only mean that the difficulty of this mission was normal, and it had not changed anything.
Lu Jinzhao did not think the parchment would suddenly be kind and let her experience a normal platform mission.
Had it suddenly become unable to do so?
Why?
Because it had devoured one-third of her soul?
No matter how you look at it, the variable seemed to be only this one.
But the parchment no longer changing the mission difficulty was undoubtedly a good thing for Lu Jinzhao.
And perhaps because in the last mission only she and Wei Ling survived, this time, after receiving Wei Ling’s message, she found that the two were on the same train.
Wei Ling: Great!
Wei Ling: A few days ago I had a nightmare that I went to the mission alone and died inside the platform
Wei Ling: I’m much more relieved now that you’re coming too.
Wei Ling is a smart person. After coming out of the platform and recovering, she realized that Lu Jinzhao was a very good cooperation partner, so she took the initiative to befriend Lu Jinzhao. Although Lu Jinzhao’s response was flat, it was clearly not resistant.
Therefore, although the two did not meet much in reality, they were already quite familiar.
The next day, Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling gathered at the appointed location and went to the train station together.
“I don’t know what the difficulty of this mission will be like.” Wei Ling felt a sense of foreboding.
Lu Jinzhao knew in her heart that without the parchment’s interference, this platform mission would definitely be much simpler than [Loss of Control]. But she had experienced too few platforms and found it hard to make horizontal comparisons, so she did not answer Wei Ling.
And Wei Ling’s personality did not require Lu Jinzhao to respond to every sentence; she could give herself a way out.
“It definitely won’t be as difficult as last time. I asked a familiar senior, and she said that the difficulty we had last time was almost approaching a Class B platform; it should just be a special case.”
“I just don’t know what the personalities of this time’s teammates are like.”
“We can probe a bit later.”
For Wei Ling, she was not afraid of offending teammates on the same platform. She was used to slightly probing teammates’ personalities with words before the train arrived, thereby observing who could be approached and who was best avoided.
Compared to offending people, she was more afraid of falling into a bad situation during the mission because of a shitty teammate.
Lu Jinzhao did not object to her approach, even though it would make Wei Ling seem very “stupid” in the eyes of most people.
After the two arrived at the underground platform, as always, just separated by an iron door, it was two completely different worlds.
As soon as Wei Ling stepped into the underground platform, her expression subtly changed from before. Her expression became more flamboyant, and her gestures were more aggressive than before.
Lu Jinzhao, on the other hand, remained as calm as ever.
They did not come too early, but not too late either. However, when the two pushed open the door of the waiting room, they found that quite a few people were already standing inside.
Wei Ling raised her eyebrows and unabashedly sized up the crowd in the room, saying, “Eh, why are there so many people this time?”
To be honest, this gave her a bad premonition inside, because last time when there were more people on the platform, it was [Loss of Control].
And this time, it looked… not fewer than [Loss of Control] at all.
But although she felt uneasy inside, Wei Ling did not show any timidity on her face.
As soon as she finished speaking, she carefully observed the reactions of the crowd in the room.
Most people’s reactions were as she expected, slightly furrowing their brows at her or completely ignoring her. Only one person, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, smiled and said, “Yeah, I was thinking earlier that this platform mission seems to have quite a lot of people.”
—This person is probably not to be trifled with.
Wei Ling instantly made a judgment in her heart.
Although she looked smiling and very kind, and kindly picked up her words, Wei Ling had already glimpsed a bit of cunning flavor from her simple words and actions.
She blinked her eyes and, to verify her guess, deliberately did not respond, instead turning her head to look at the waiting information.
In her peripheral vision, she saw that the woman who had spoken was still maintaining that kind expression, showing not the slightest displeasure at her rude action.
This confirmed it for Wei Ling: this guy was also a smart person.
She glanced briefly at the waiting information, then approached Lu Jinzhao and asked softly, “Did you notice anything?”
Hearing this, Lu Jinzhao showed a slightly helpless smile: “It’s just some waiting information. What could I notice?”
Wei Ling was overestimating her.
“Oh, okay.” Wei Ling was not disappointed; she was just asking casually anyway.
Lu Jinzhao could not see anything now, but she felt that she must have some thoughts in her mind. After going in, observe a bit more, and maybe she could figure it out.
Lu Jinzhao did not know what Wei Ling was thinking. Looking at the waiting information in front of her, she indeed did not get many clues, only because there was too little written on it.
[Arriving Train Level: Class C]
[This Station: Chang Street Slaughterhouse]
[Passengers This Time: Twelve people]
[A strong bloody smell seeps through the iron door, the shrill cries of livestock before death pierce the eardrums, in the dim shadows, the butcher raises the slaughter knife high, waiting for the next prey to be delivered]
[Transport the correct animal to the slaughterhouse to help the butcher complete the slaughter to finish the mission.]
The routine has started to enter a very weird state again
