Chapter 53: Chang Street Slaughterhouse
In Wei Ling’s imagination, she should be stirring up trouble with Lu Jinzhao today, making this mission more intense.
At the very least, it would be calm on the surface while secretly causing trouble in the dark.
No matter what, it wouldn’t be directly leading a calf away from the slaughterhouse and giving it to the butcher after arriving.
So, when Lu Jinzhao really led the skinny calf out from the cattle shed and hinted for Wei Ling to hold the rope and enter the main building with her, Wei Ling’s face couldn’t help but show a puzzled expression.
“Sis, are we really going to complete the mission?”
“Yes.” Lu Jinzhao nodded.
“Not doing anything else?” she asked.
Seeing Lu Jinzhao hum in agreement, Wei Ling felt a bit strange: “Why are you so kind today?”
“Kind?” Lu Jinzhao paused her steps: “If I were really kind, I should find a method to help others and try to let more people survive.”
“What I’m doing now is just completing my own mission and no longer getting involved in the conflicts between passengers.”
How could that count as kindness?
“I just feel that compared to your performance yesterday, you seem much kinder today.”
Hearing Wei Ling’s words, Lu Jinzhao couldn’t help but sigh.
Kindness?
Even now, her mind kept coming up with ideas on how to expand the casualties among the passengers. Her heart kept urging her to put the calf back in the cattle shed—she shouldn’t make such an “unintelligent” choice.
“I should make better use of the butcher’s broadcast today, steering the mission in a way that’s more advantageous for me. It doesn’t matter if all the others die—after all, I don’t know them anyway.”
“Especially that glasses woman and her little group. I’ve already made enemies with them, so I definitely can’t let them leave this platform and return alive to the train.”
Such thoughts kept surfacing in her mind, making her want to give up the rope holding the calf several times in just a few steps.
“Why do I have to do something that’s obviously not the best choice?”
“Anyway, this is the platform. Inside the platform, to survive, isn’t anything we do correct?”
“Killing a few people is nothing.”
Lu Jinzhao suddenly stopped.
“What’s wrong? Changed your mind?” Wei Ling turned back to look at her, her eyes filled with doubt.
“No.” Lu Jinzhao shook her head: “I just feel like I should set a bottom line for myself.”
She looked at Wei Ling.
She wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but she always felt that after befriending Wei Ling, her personality was also constantly changing. It was still okay during the loss of control, but this time inside the platform, the change was especially obvious.
Could she influence the people around her?
“Don’t overthink it.”
“Bottom line?” Wei Ling was puzzled: “What bottom line?”
“Having too much conscience and bottom line inside the platform isn’t a good thing.”
Hearing this, Lu Jinzhao smiled lightly: “I know that. I’m not trying to be a saint.”
She just wanted to try her best to make herself a “person”.
“So, what’s your bottom line?”
“Hmm.” Lu Jinzhao thought for a moment: “This one.”
Her finger pointed at the calf. Wei Ling was even more puzzled: “A cow? What kind of bottom line is that?”
“I mean, I’m now holding its rope instead of gripping a knife ready to kill someone.”
Wei Ling somewhat understood but not fully, yet she felt that if she wanted to maintain this companion relationship with Lu Jinzhao, with Lu Jinzhao in the “leader” position, it was a good thing for her to have conscience and a bottom line.
“Alright, I agree.” So Wei Ling nodded and didn’t ask more.
Although Lu Jinzhao planned to use a real cow to complete the mission, it didn’t mean she was ignoring everything.
She had Wei Ling hold the cow and enter the main building with her, with the purpose still being to confuse others. After all, the remaining passengers probably all thought her target was “rat” with the zodiac sign “snake”.
Doing this would undoubtedly put Wei Ling in a slightly more dangerous situation than her, but Wei Ling had no complaints about it.
The sight of the two leading the cow obviously drew the attention of the other passengers, and Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling’s “open play” caught the others off guard.
They all thought today’s mission would start with bloodshed and continue until someone died.
Even though everyone knew there was a cattle shed here with cows inside.
Everyone looked at Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling with strange eyes tinged with surprise, while the glasses woman’s complexion looked especially bad.
Her target was tiger.
If “cow” completed the mission, she would bear all the pressure.
She had to find “tiger” and kill him. If she couldn’t, she would face pressure from everyone else.
She really wanted to stop Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling from entering the main building right now, immediately—but she couldn’t.
If she stopped them, her own purpose would be revealed.
It would be better to let them complete the mission, so there would be no more conflict with those two.
She just needed to deal with the rest.
In the blink of an eye, the glasses woman had made her decision.
And at this moment, Wei Ling and Lu Jinzhao entered the main building again.
“Why do I feel like this place is different from when we first came in?”
Wei Ling handed the cow’s reins back to Lu Jinzhao, observing the main building left and right with some doubt.
A few seconds later, Lu Jinzhao gave the answer: “Wall surface.”
The wall surface had changed.
When they first entered, the walls inside the main building were somewhat dirty and messy, but there were no signs of peeling or cracks due to long-term disrepair. But now, Lu Jinzhao noticed that the wall surface seemed to have become damp.
As if soaked in sewage, a faint stinky smell emanated from the wall surface, the wall skin wrinkled as if soaked by tides, and occasionally pitch-black viscous liquid seeped out from tiny crevices.
It was as if this building was slowly rotting.
But the building wasn’t a living thing, just a dead object made of steel and concrete. Even if rotting, it shouldn’t react like this.
“A bit creepy.” Wei Ling looked closely at the wall surface and then said: “It doesn’t even feel like a wall surface anymore.”
“Don’t think too much, hurry up and complete the mission and leave.”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t have a good feeling about the main building’s current appearance. Staying here, her intuition always made her back feel slightly chilled, yet there was no specific source of “danger”.
It was as if danger came from everywhere, surrounding her with “danger”.
When she first entered the main building on the first day, she hadn’t had such a reaction to the building—only when looking at the slaughter room did she feel it was extremely dangerous inside.
Thinking this way, she suddenly realized that just stepping into the main building made her sense something wrong. Could the core and most dangerous slaughterhouse inside the main building still be as safe as when Wei Ling went in before?
