Chapter 89: New Supernatural Item
The train slowly started up, Lu Jinzhao felt a slight vibration, and Meng Ning ultimately failed to return to the train.
Lu Jinzhao spent life-buying money to repair the injuries on her body, and finally, after this platform, the life-buying money on her train ticket reached 2100.
At least she had broken through the 2000 mark, which was already a considerable savings for a passenger who hadn’t been on the train many times.
Although she had spent quite a bit of life-buying money to repair her body, it had to be said that the train’s service was indeed powerful; in just a few minutes, Lu Jinzhao felt her body had recovered to an extremely healthy level.
However, what was repaired was her body; her spirit remained listless.
But at least she no longer had to worry about her physical condition gradually deteriorating due to excessively little sleep until she could no longer bear it; anyway, every time she entered a platform and came out alive, she could repair her body.
When the train doors fully closed, on the seat marked with Lu Jinzhao’s name, a newspaper appeared.
The newspaper was placed on the tabletop, and Lu Jinzhao didn’t even notice when it appeared; she only knew that when she turned her eyes to the tabletop, she saw something that clearly hadn’t been there when she boarded.
But upon seeing the newspaper, Lu Jinzhao already knew what it was.
She had seen a description of this thing on the forum.
When she picked up the newspaper, as expected, she saw a picture of a candle and a bell tied with a red rope.
Next to the two pictures were lines of annotations.
“As expected. I guessed correctly.”
The candle and bell were both supernatural items.
When passengers bring supernatural items from inside the platform onto the train, a newspaper will appear, simply explaining the effects and side effects of this new supernatural item.
However, this only applies to new supernatural items brought out from inside the platform; if picked up from a dead passenger, there won’t be one.
Lu Jinzhao looked at the newspaper; the candle was indeed a supernatural item, and after being brought out from the funeral home, its effects seemed to have undergone some slight change.
[When you light it, the fierce ghost will be dispelled.]
A simple and clear explanation.
Lu Jinzhao clearly remembered that in the funeral home, even holding the candle couldn’t scare away the ghost with the red rope tied to its foot.
According to guesses on the forum, supernatural items undergo some kind of change after being brought onto the train, as if the train imposes bindings and rules on them; presumably, this candle was the same.
However, it had no side effects.
Instead, there was an increased burning speed.
[Burns extremely fast; dispelling a fierce ghost will increase the candle’s burning speed.]
[It cannot help you avoid overly powerful ghosts; please cautiously judge the timing of use.]
This explanation was quite detailed, even including precautions, better than Lu Jinzhao had expected.
Lu Jinzhao figured that although the candle still looked like it had more than half left, if she really encountered a fierce ghost’s attack, it would probably only be enough for one use; if the platform level were higher, it might have no effect at all.
However, it was at least a life-saving trump card, and with no side effects; as long as used properly, it could at least help her avoid one fierce ghost’s attack.
Compared to the candle, what was more noteworthy was the bell.
[Tie it on, and you are a dead person, also a living person.]
The bell’s explanation started with something a bit riddle-like, but the newspaper then detailed the bell’s specific effects.
[When you wear it, you will lose all the aura of the living, and ghosts will not attack dead people.]
[But please note, when you tie it on, you are also dying.]
[Never wear it for more than ten minutes.]
Lu Jinzhao looked on, frowning slightly.
This explanation was somewhat vaguer than the candle’s.
From this text, the bell was also a purely life-saving supernatural item; supernatural items are simply divided into three major categories: combat, life-saving, tools.
Combat-type items generally have strong attack power, whether against people or ghosts, while tool-type ones have stronger auxiliary effects, such as some supernatural items that dispel illusions.
As for life-saving ones, the wooden box she already had was a life-saving supernatural item; unexpectedly, the two she took out this time were also life-saving ones.
But. life-saving supernatural items are never too many.
The more life-saving methods, the greater the survival probability.
However, the bell’s side effect seemed rather significant.
Even just from the text, Lu Jinzhao sensed an ominous smell from the words [you are also dying].
The candle had no side effects because it was a one-time item and couldn’t dispel overly powerful fierce ghosts, while the bell was not one-time, and its effect could turn living people into “dead people” to avoid fierce ghosts, which was undeniably powerful, yet the platform that produced it was only [C] level!
Under all these conditions, its side effect couldn’t be minor.
Unfortunately, on the train, all supernatural items would lose effectiveness; otherwise, Lu Jinzhao could have tried it quickly before the train arrived at the next station.
“Gained two more life-saving supernatural items; that’s a good thing.”
However, the difficulty of her next platform would probably increase.
According to the experience summarized by seniors, passenger level increases and mission difficulty are generally based on personal ability and number of mission completions, and personal ability includes possessing supernatural items.
One post mentioned that if a senior has a friend who enters the train as a new passenger, it’s best not to directly give her overly powerful supernatural items, as this might cause the train to judge via the supernatural item that she doesn’t belong at her current level, thereby increasing her mission difficulty and leading to death.
And now, her mission count had left the newbie range, not to mention she now had three supernatural items; Lu Jinzhao had a premonition that the next time she stepped into a platform, it would probably be a [B] level platform!
It was said that platforms at this level would be completely different from the two lowest-level platforms, and [B] level platforms were also the entry to “high difficulty,” and the lowest fate would appear in [B] level platforms!
She was now not only troubled by the parchment, but the wooden box was also a tricky problem; perhaps, in a higher difficulty platform, she could find some method to resolve it.
While pondering, Lu Jinzhao realized she no longer resisted entering a higher difficulty platform; it wasn’t that she completely accepted the passenger identity and the dangers she faced, but compared to circling low-level platforms, she believed her current self should enter higher level platforms, raise her passenger level, find more clues related to the train, and resolve the trouble on her body.
And only when she escaped the [low-level passenger] identity could she truly converse with some senior passengers.
