Chapter 90: Phone Call From Lin Lin
After leaving the train, Lu Jinzhao returned to her rented room.
She checked her mobile phone, and there was a missed call from one day ago, from her childhood friend.
She opened the text messages and sure enough saw quite a few messages sent by the other party.
The last one asked what had happened to her, why she wasn’t replying to messages, why the phone couldn’t be reached, and to call back if she saw it.
After reading the messages, Lu Jinzhao called her back.
The call was quickly picked up, and Lin Lin’s slightly sweet voice came from the other end: “Chao Chao, what’s wrong with you?”
She was certain that Lu Jinzhao not replying to messages or answering the phone meant something had happened, rather than simply ignoring her.
In fact, that was indeed the case. Although the two had gone through a period of “Cold War,” after there was a way to reconcile, their many years of friendship quickly warmed up again.
Lu Jinzhao thought for a moment and just said: “There are some things, not easy to talk about, don’t ask.”
Lin Lin frowned on the other end of the phone upon hearing this but didn’t press further, just saying: “I was originally calling this time to invite you to meet up this weekend, but now it looks like it’s too late.”
Lu Jinzhao was a bit puzzled: “Isn’t it troublesome to come back from the capital?”
No need to rush back and forth by plane on such a tight weekend schedule just to meet once, was there some reason?
Sure enough, Lin Lin’s next sentence explained: “What if I said, I’m going to do something very dangerous.”
“I thought at least we should meet once. I just went back yesterday to see my parents.”
Now it was Lu Jinzhao’s turn to frown.
“What is it?”
“Not easy to say.”
Now it was Lu Jinzhao’s turn to find this phrase familiar.
Hadn’t she just said this a few seconds ago?
This weirdly familiar feeling.
Lu Jinzhao paused, then asked in a joking manner: “You’re just a student, what could be so dangerous that it feels like you’re leaving last words?”
“Could you really die?”
Who knew, after she asked this seemingly joking question, Lin Lin weirdly fell silent.
Her friendship with Lin Lin could be said to have started from the time they wore split pants, although the development of their friendship wasn’t smooth sailing, and there was even a competitive relationship at one point, with some strange competitive mentality during puberty, and in the senior year of high school they were thoroughly distant, but overall, they were people who understood each other very well.
Lin Lin’s silence made her realize she had hit the mark.
“.You’re not joking?” Lu Jinzhao couldn’t help but confirm again.
“Would I joke with you about something like this?” She heard Lin Lin’s sigh.
Indeed, although Lin Lin was more playful than her, more outgoing in personality, and often joked with her, she always knew her limits and wouldn’t make up things like this.
Lu Jinzhao held her mobile phone and asked another question: “Are you going abroad?”
Lin Lin let out a sound of surprise: “Why ask that? I’m not going abroad, I don’t even have a passport.”
“Are you going to do multi-level marketing?”
“.No!”
“Then you don’t want to live anymore?”
“.I actually quite want to live.”
Lu Jinzhao heard Lin Lin’s helpless laugh, but at this moment she couldn’t laugh at all.
In her heart, she already had an idea, but unusually, she felt a bit lost, unsure whether to ask it out loud.
Why had Lin Lin suddenly changed so much, saying things like changing destiny, then suddenly going to a strange city, and now saying these strange things?
In Lu Jinzhao’s heart, an answer was already faintly forming.
Perhaps Lin Lin had already encountered the things she was now experiencing back in high school.
But she herself at that time hadn’t noticed at all.
Of course, if the train’s influence on ordinary people was something she could notice, that would be seeing a ghost.
And when Lin Lin’s abnormalities were connected by her, weren’t they also things that only happened after she became a passenger?
A feeling of powerlessness spread in her heart. She thought, was it really such a coincidence?
“Do you have to do that thing?” She asked a question that she herself felt was nonsense.
She recalled their last meeting, when Lin Lin had no idea that she had also become a passenger.
From a passenger’s perspective looking at Lin Lin, there were actually quite a few flaws, or rather, she hadn’t really tried hard to hide them, after all, the train would automatically reduce the influence.
Now telling her these things was probably thinking that after the call ended, even if she was anxious right now, she would gradually forget this phone call.
Even if she died, whether parents or friends, none would feel excessive sadness because of it.
Rather than saying it was farewell to family and friends, it was more like farewell to herself, to everything as Lin Lin.
“Yeah, I have to go.”
She heard Lin Lin’s answer: “But it’s fine, um, if I come back alive, there might be big gains, then I’ll come find you to play again.”
Lu Jinzhao’s brows were tightly furrowed: “What are you saying?”
Who talks to their childhood friend like this?
So scary.
“Aiya, just treat it as me joking.” Lin Lin said laughingly: “Not talking anymore, I have things to do~ Hanging up!”
The call was quickly hung up. Lu Jinzhao stared blankly at the ended call interface, her finger lightly tapping the back of her mobile phone. She was pondering why Lin Lin had suddenly said these things.
She began searching her memories, those that she had once ignored but gradually became clear after becoming a passenger.
But the transaction with the parchment had made many of her memories blurry. She could only recall that Lin Lin had probably shown some expressions of wanting to speak but stopping during eye contact with her, especially on the day Gaokao ended, but at that time she hadn’t said anything.
So why say these things today?
It meant she felt this mission was very likely to kill her.
Therefore, the mission difficulty must be very high.
She recalled Lin Lin suddenly returning to Yuncheng. At that time, it wasn’t just meeting her; she had also met with others.
Lu Jinzhao suddenly thought of something and opened the forum.
Sure enough, she quickly saw a post on the homepage.
[A new death platform is about to open. According to the list, there are a total of 14 passengers boarding this first-class train this time!]
[14 people is quite a lot for an ordinary platform, but for a death platform, in this number, probably quite a few are cannon fodder. How many can come out alive is hard to say.]
[The specific personnel list hasn’t been leaked, but it’s already confirmed that there are a total of 11 first-class passengers and 3 special class passengers entering the platform this time.]
[Place your bets. Can this death platform produce a new special class?]
“.It’s this one.”
Lu Jinzhao immediately confirmed that the thing Lin Lin was going to participate in was most likely this [death platform].
From what she said, she wasn’t a special class passenger but a first-class passenger, so she felt she would probably die.
But if she could come back alive, she could become special class, which was the “big gains” she mentioned.
