Chapter 79: Wang Family Funeral Home
When lifting Xiao Ping’s corpse into the morgue cabinet, Lu Jinzhao looked at the red rope and bell tied to his ankle, and a bold idea came to her mind.
Seeing that she was slow to push in the layer holding Xiao Ping, Meng Ning felt somewhat puzzled and afraid: “What’s wrong? Is there some problem?”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t hesitate much and said directly: “I’m thinking, what if we cut off this red rope?”
Since the bell sound is the medium, what if there is no bell on the corpse?
Could this also be a solution?
If a passenger who came in was bold enough on the first day to cut off the bell on the corpse’s ankle, would they not have to face the ghost’s pursuit and kill before the last day arrived?
Such a thought was obviously too crazy for Meng Ning.
Horror appeared on her face, and she drew in a sharp breath: “This”
The words dragged on for about three seconds, then with a hesitant expression she said: “You can try it?”
Lu Jinzhao glanced sideways at her, feeling somewhat amused and somewhat sighing inside.
Meng Ning, this unremarkable girl who seemed somewhat timid and unexceptional, was actually quite interesting.
She didn’t immediately reject this suggestion because she thought doing so might really work, but her only saying to let Lu Jinzhao try it meant she was unwilling to do it herself, afraid that Lu Jinzhao might misjudge and bear the consequences.
She judged quickly, and the decision she made was sufficiently beneficial to herself.
So the person still alive and standing by her side now was her.
But the next second, Lu Jinzhao changed her tone: “But I don’t want to take this risk.”
“I’ve already decided to become deaf before nightfall, so there’s no need to deliberately destroy the bell.”
If she couldn’t hear, what difference did it make whether the corpse’s foot had it or not?
A hesitant expression appeared on Meng Ning’s face. Lu Jinzhao looked at her and felt that although she had potential, she was still too inexperienced.
She probably wanted to persuade her but didn’t know how to speak up; she wanted Lu Jinzhao to take this risk to probe, but she couldn’t skillfully use those mind games.
But she wasn’t stupid enough either, so she didn’t speak those shallow words of persuasion and instead chose to stay silent.
Lu Jinzhao suddenly smiled and directly cut the red rope on the corpse’s ankle.
The bell fell into the palm of her other hand. Looking at Meng Ning’s surprised gaze, she said: “Just kidding, of course I said I would cut it off and try.”
Meng Ning’s mouth twitched, her emotions extremely complex for a moment, not knowing what to say.
As Lu Jinzhao left, after hesitating several times, Meng Ning couldn’t hold back and asked: “Was what you said about joking including the thing about becoming deaf before nightfall?”
“Ah” Lu Jinzhao glanced sideways at her: “This one isn’t.”
Meng Ning was even more puzzled.
Cutting off the red rope like this wouldn’t it be taking the risk in vain for nothing?
Lu Jinzhao had no intention of explaining.
The “purpose” she stated was just one of them, even just something done in passing.
She really did intend to become deaf before nightfall, and cutting off the bell had an even more important purpose, or rather, the most fundamental reason she did it… was that she wanted to bring this bell onto the train to see if it would be a supernatural item.
Tied to a dead person’s ankle, the dead person revives at night as a ghost, and those who hear the sound will suffer pursuit and kill by the ghost—the bell, does it have the qualification to become a supernatural item?
Obviously it does.
But it still needs the train to determine.
According to the intelligence obtained from the forum, some supernatural items were already supernatural items inside the platform, but they might not be called by this name, called magical instruments, called Buddhist artifacts, called murder weapon, or something else. This kind of supernatural items that can play a certain role inside the platform, when brought out, can definitely become supernatural items, and often they are the kind with a smaller price.
Others are a bit harder to discover, namely items related to ghosts.
This
Lu Jinzhao decided to give it a try. She couldn’t always have only the wooden box as her one supernatural item, right?
Or wait for the supernatural item, like this wooden box, where the previous owner dies and it drops right in front of you?
One must know that all currently known supernatural items were all brought out from inside the platform. Since that’s the case, why can’t she herself bring a new supernatural item out?
Thinking of this, she thought of the parchment again.
She had already guessed the origin of the parchment countless times.
When she learned that all supernatural items came from the train, she also asked the parchment if it came from the train, but the parchment did not answer any of her questions.
When facing the question about the parchment, Lu Jinzhao really had no method to guess too much.
Because no matter whether the answer she obtained came from the train or not, there would still be a whole bunch of problems waiting for her next, none of which she could know now.
If it came from the train, then who brought it down, how did it get to my side, and why didn’t the person who brought it out keep it for themselves—what was their purpose?
If it didn’t come from the train, then why does it exist? Besides it, are there other things that exist in the real world?
The answers to these questions seemed very far away from her now.
She could only be more patient, even more patient.
“Alright, you go back and rest first.” Leaving the morgue, Meng Ning looked at Lu Jinzhao and said: “I will call you before nightfall.”
Lu Jinzhao believed that what she said at this moment was true.
Because Meng Ning is not an idiot, she knew that having a reliable teammate tonight was extremely important. Even if she coveted a supernatural item, she would not choose to kill her companion now for the sake of one supernatural item whose purpose she did not know and which could not immediately help her.
And Lu Jinzhao, even if she can walk today, still cannot do so as freely as before. She indeed needs rest now.
Lying on the bed, Lu Jinzhao quickly fell asleep, but she also set an alarm on her mobile phone.
Before nightfall, Lu Jinzhao was woken from sleep by the alarm clock. She hadn’t been fully awake for long when Meng Ning returned to the dormitory. Seeing her awake, she wasn’t surprised.
“It’s good that you’re awake. What do you plan to do now?”
She actually wanted to ask Lu Jinzhao how to make herself deaf?
There was no sound sharp enough here to cause them deafness, nor any disease that could suddenly lead to deafness. That left only physical methods, but the ears were connected to the brain, which was far too dangerous!
Lu Jinzhao seemed to see through her thoughts and said bluntly, “There is no foolproof method, nor is there a way to safely make oneself deaf.”
“The only thing that can be done is to be ruthless to oneself.”
Meng Ning understood. Her face twitched as she looked at Lu Jinzhao and asked, “If we lose our hearing, we won’t be able to communicate.”
What if they encountered some accident tonight? It would become difficult for the two of them to share information.
More importantly, they might miss some subtle signs, making themselves slow to react.
“But that’s still better than encountering a fierce ghost attack.”
Lu Jinzhao knew in her heart that Meng Ning didn’t fully believe her words, but that didn’t matter.
