Chapter 77: Wang Family Funeral Home
Lu Jinzhao really had no time to pay attention to the parchment that was going crazy.
She felt she needed rest, needed a doctor, needed a painkilling injection, and best of all, the train would arrive in front of her in the next second, she would successfully board it, and spend life-buying money to heal the injuries on her body and the dizziness in her brain.
But this could only be a thought.
After vomiting, her body seemed a bit more comfortable, but only a bit. Lu Jinzhao tried her best to control her body so that it wouldn’t suddenly step into the grass beside her while walking, or collapse due to mental relaxation and inability to control her body.
For her now, even ordinary walking had become a strenuous task.
In her blurry memory, the her in the real world had never been so disheveled, but since boarding the train, she had even experienced worse situations.
【So pitiful.】
【Looks like she’s about to die.】
【Do you still have the strength to walk?】
【Why not lie down and rest for a while?】
【Just lie here like this, then die peacefully. I think that’s nice.】
The parchment started spouting ghostly things again.
As soon as she saw the distorted blood script in front of her, Lu Jinzhao wanted to vomit again.
“Can you shut up?” She originally wanted her tone to be harsher, or even fierce, but she really had no strength, so the tone that came out was exceptionally weak.
“Oh, forgot you’re a ghostly thing that can’t even make a sound.”
“Can only use some low-class means to show your sense of presence.”
She said several sentences in a row. Perhaps her brain was too dizzy at the moment. Normally, even with such biting words, she wouldn’t waste her breath on the parchment.
The parchment didn’t respond for a long while. Lu Jinzhao didn’t know what it was thinking, but its thought process definitely wouldn’t be like a normal person’s.
At least, the blood script that made her want to vomit in front of her had disappeared.
Lu Jinzhao staggered back to the duty room almost stumbling.
It was still the same as when she and Xiao Ping came out. Lu Jinzhao slumped into the chair, feeling somewhat fortunate in her heart that after the box ate part of a person, it would help stop the bleeding. Otherwise, whether she could still maintain clear consciousness now would be questionable.
However, when standing, she only felt like she was about to collapse at any moment. After sitting down, she clearly relaxed, yet her head became even more groggy.
Lu Jinzhao felt something was wrong. Perhaps she should have kept standing to force herself to stay awake, but when she tried to stand up again, she found she could no longer control her body somewhat.
She desperately needed rest.
Her brain was so groggy that even her line of sight became blurry, her thinking almost stalled. Lu Jinzhao felt like she was back in the midday class during her studying days. Endless sleepiness assaulted her mind. She didn’t dare really sleep, yet couldn’t resist.
She could only silently repeat in her heart “can’t sleep, can’t sleep,” but still couldn’t resist her thinking breaking off.
Until a certain moment, a moment she herself didn’t know, she completely lost consciousness.
“Wake up.”
“Wake up!”
“Can you hear me?”
“Can you open your mouth? You need to eat something.”
Someone kept calling by her ear. Lu Jinzhao felt something was being stuffed into her mouth.
In a daze, Lu Jinzhao controlled herself to barely open her mouth, and a piece of candy was stuffed in.
“Phew, good that you can hear.”
Lu Jinzhao felt she was still very sleepy. She thought if she relaxed her spirit now, in the next second, she would fall asleep again.
But no, she couldn’t sleep. She was still in the duty room, and the time now was probably not yet 3 o’clock. She still had several hours to spend alone in the duty room.
Thinking of this, Lu Jinzhao suddenly opened her eyes.
Sunlight shone through the glass into her eyes. It was clearly a signal representing “safety,” yet it made Lu Jinzhao break out in a cold sweat.
Last night, she had fainted without realizing it!
Alone, losing consciousness, staying in the haunted night for several hours!
Fortunately, after the ghost was driven away by the box, it didn’t come to attack her again. Otherwise, she might have died in her sleep.
The more Lu Jinzhao thought, the colder she felt inside.
An ordinary person’s body was really too frail against the platform mission.
Humans cannot fully control their physiological reactions. When the body weakens to a certain extent, even staying awake becomes a luxury.
The candy slowly melted in her mouth. Perhaps due to some psychological effect, Lu Jinzhao felt her body had gained a bit of strength.
Seeing her pale complexion regain some vitality, Meng Ning beside her also breathed a sigh of relief.
“When I just came in, I thought… you were dead.”
She handed the remaining candy along with a bottle of mineral water to Lu Jinzhao, but Lu Jinzhao only took the candy. Even though she was extremely thirsty, she didn’t dare drink water casually.
“You don’t know, you were sitting in the chair with a pale face, covered in blood, even your breathing seemed to have stopped.”
Meng Ning wasn’t exaggerating. In fact, when she first entered the door and saw Lu Jinzhao, she really thought she saw a corpse.
It was only after carefully observing for a while from the doorway that she discovered Lu Jinzhao still had faint breathing.
After coming in, she even found that Lu Jinzhao’s body temperature was abnormally low, her breathing extremely slow, as if… she had already stepped to the edge of death.
She almost didn’t hope Lu Jinzhao could wake up, but a miracle happened.
The person who seemed nearly half-dead in her eyes really opened her eyes.
She didn’t know why. Logically, with such low body temperature, such slow heartbeat and breathing, an ordinary person wouldn’t even be able to maintain consciousness, let alone wake up and even lift a hand to take the things she handed over?
It was as if a dead person had suddenly come back to life.
But this was the platform. Inside the platform, nothing could be explained by “science.”
She thought, perhaps Lu Jinzhao had some supernatural item she didn’t know about that was sustaining her life?
Several thoughts flashed through Meng Ning’s mind, but she suppressed them all.
“Thanks.” Lu Jinzhao said while unwrapping the candy.
Very strange.
While Lu Jinzhao controlled her limbs, she also felt it.
After waking up, her body was indeed still very weak, but it seemed after reaching a limit, it got stuck there.
Her body still showed many normal symptoms of excessive blood loss and shock, like her heart rate feeling a bit too fast now, breaking out in cold sweat all over, head still dizzy, heart palpitating, breathing becoming shallow and rapid, but…
Under so many negative effects, she could still barely move?
When taking the candy, she could feel the pain from the abrasions, the weakness of her body. Logically, with these negative conditions stacked, although not enough to kill her directly, she shouldn’t be able to move.
But something like a thread connected her limbs and brain, preventing her from completely “falling apart.”
This feeling was very odd. Controlling her body now was like there was some interval. Before, she didn’t even need to “realize” when using her body; actions happened naturally. But now, she needed to clearly issue a command in her mind for her body to react.
Although this process was quick, almost in the blink of an eye, it… still made her feel very strange.
She suddenly remembered the days right after completing the transaction with the parchment.
Those days, her body was abnormally uncomfortable, and the feeling of controlling her body was extremely similar to now.
Later, she had gotten used to that subtle sense of delay, but now, the “delay” feeling had intensified, and she had become even more unfamiliar with her own body.
