Chapter 62: Wang Family Funeral Home
Chen Hai spoke the most, chattering away to Lu Jinzhao as he explained: “Since the waiting information mentioned customs and eras, there must definitely be some of those old taboos mixed in.”
“While the mobile phone still has signal, we just searched some funeral-related taboos, here, these are them.”
“But there’s no time now, I took screenshots, you can look after we board, we’ve all seen this.”
Lu Jinzhao confirmed that her teammate was indeed releasing friendly signals.
Perhaps because there were few people, plus from the current waiting information, this mission was definitely a confrontation between passengers and ghosts, so everyone wanted to stick together as much as possible.
It wasn’t anything bad, so Lu Jinzhao didn’t show any rejection, she nodded mildly and said thanks.
Even though she could realize these things just by glancing at the waiting information, and she had crammed a lot on the related customs and taboos, all remembered in her brain, but it didn’t stop her from giving feedback after receiving the other party’s friendly signal at this moment.
“Phew,” she heard the sound of the person beside her letting out a sigh of relief.
“What’s wrong?” Lu Jinzhao asked.
“Ah, nothing, just when I saw you walk in, I thought you were the kind of person who’s hard to get along with.”
“But after communicating a bit, I found it’s not like that, so I relaxed.”
Chen Hai scratched his head and answered the question honestly.
The other two also nodded slightly, clearly, they thought the same.
“Do I look hard to get along with?”
Lu Jinzhao was a bit surprised, this was the first time she got this evaluation.
You know, she was always told things like “you look very gentle,” “you seem to have a good temper,” she never thought that one day she’d be said to be unapproachable.
Pretty fresh.
“Yeah, a little bit.” Chen Hai said euphemistically.
Actually, what he wanted to say more was: looks like she’d quietly kill others without a sound.
But he didn’t dare.
“Don’t worry, I’m not hard to talk to.” Lu Jinzhao smiled, her habitual mild smile dispelling the coldness brought by her pupils, at least when smiling now, she didn’t look like a female ghost.
A rumbling sound came from outside, Lu Jinzhao was already very familiar with this sound.
Familiar to the point that even if she dreamed of this sound, she’d immediately wake up from the dream.
This was the sound of the train arrival.
“Let’s go, board the train.”
Someone stood up after hearing the sound.
Looking at the three unfamiliar people in front of her, Lu Jinzhao thought of what the forum said, because Yuncheng’s passengers weren’t many, and most were concentrated at low level, so encountering acquaintances at low level happened sometimes, but not frequently.
But when the level increases, to the A and B levels, you’d slowly find that almost every mission would have acquaintances.
And at low level, because there were more people, higher attrition, and always newcomers joining, so most were unfamiliar faces coming and going.
Presumably, teaming up with familiar people again would depend on her luck.
Lu Jinzhao also got the train’s method of selecting newcomers from the forum.
One of them was what she thought of, touching the blank train ticket given by others would make one a passenger, but this was an extremely rare situation.
More often, the train consciousness does the selecting, mostly picking people in the 15-45 age range, and over that age, those with strong desire to survive would also be selected by the train.
As for within the age range, there seems to be no pattern.
While thinking, the ticket inspector’s hand reached out from the window.
Lu Jinzhao handed over the train ticket, for some reason, she felt that the fear and chill from the ticket inspector was less than before.
Could it be because she split her soul to the parchment?
In the blink of an eye, the ticket inspector returned the train ticket to her.
After ticket inspection, Lu Jinzhao’s life-buying money finally broke through the 2000 mark, reaching 2100.
Looking at the increased life-buying money, Lu Jinzhao couldn’t help but sigh, staying longer at the low-level platform is good too, so when going to higher-level platforms and encountering special fate, she wouldn’t be unable to afford it.
The carriage layout was as always, just with only four seats left.
Chen Hai lent his mobile phone to Lu Jinzhao, Lu Jinzhao looked at the various funeral taboos searched on it, which were mostly the same as what she got from the information during her few days of “cramming.”
After looking, she returned the mobile phone to Chen Hai and said thanks again.
“After going in, if there’s any discovery that can be shared, everyone can share more.” Office worker Xiao Ping pushed his glasses: “Of course, if I find anything, I’ll definitely share it with everyone.”
“If there’s anything you don’t understand, we can discuss more.”
“Although I’m not very smart, I’ll try my best to help everyone.”
Xiao Ping said this, but Lu Jinzhao heard it in her ear and didn’t take it too much to heart.
Although it sounded very sincere, but if facing a life-and-death crisis, who knows what would happen?
Maybe deliberately saying these to gain others’ trust and increase his own survival rate inside the platform?
Thinking this way, she then paused, realizing that upon hearing these words, her first reaction was to maliciously speculate about others.
But Lu Jinzhao didn’t plan to reflect on anything, speculate if she speculated, just treat it as her having strong vigilance.
Besides, she was only thinking in her heart, not planning to say something to disgust others.
The ten-minute ride soon ended, when the train stopped and the door opened, Lu Jinzhao saw the outside world scene.
The train stopped outside a funeral home.
Presumably that was the mission location.
Should say it’s worthy of a century-old family business?
Wang Family Funeral Home, just from the entrance, you could tell the scale was not small.
When they walked out of the train and saw more of the funeral home’s appearance, they were even more certain that its size was probably larger than a regular school.
“Are ordinary funeral homes this big?” Meng Ning asked.
“Not sure, I haven’t been to a funeral home.” Chen Hai shook his head.
Lu Jinzhao had been to one, but Yuncheng’s funeral home was obviously not as big as here.
A recruitment notice was posted at the funeral home’s entrance, the few looked at it, remembered the information on it, then pushed the door and walked inside.
Walking through the gate didn’t lead directly to the funeral home, but still had to walk a 100-meter-long cement road, with private cars parked on both sides, from the license plates, they should all be “local.”
After the cement road, the few arrived at the funeral home’s “service hall.”
“This place is pretty modernized.” Chen Hai couldn’t help but sigh.
Before coming in, he thought they’d arrive at some old-fashioned and eerie funeral home like in Hong Kong horror films, but didn’t expect it to be such a modern place.
“Don’t let your guard down, this place… probably stores quite a few corpses.”
What’s the most ominous thing inside the platform?
Naturally, dead people.
And here, there were large numbers of dead people stored, among them, the number of old men was the most.
