Chapter 94: Prelude To The New Mission
“What did you make me dream about?”
Lu Jinzhao felt the memory related to the dream slowly fading, but the lingering emotion was still echoing in her chest.
That was not the fear left from the previous nightmare, but an indescribable feeling of melancholy.
The parchment did not answer.
Lu Jinzhao was silent for a moment, and only after the lingering emotion completely disappeared and the memory related to the dream became blurry did she realize belatedly that the parchment had not answered her question.
The parchment was of course not one to answer every question, but this dream was created by the parchment, and it should not be so silent at this moment.
Something was off.
“Who was that woman?”
The parchment remained silent.
“What was that place?”
The parchment was still silent.
Lu Jinzhao suddenly had a flash of inspiration: “Did this dream go beyond your expectations?”
If this dream was a nightmare prepared by the parchment for her, she should not have only been frightened to this extent. Even though she could not recall most of the dream’s content now, Lu Jinzhao vaguely remembered a very special woman, and the entire dream was somewhat “inexplicable.”
“You can’t create nightmares anymore, can you?”
Seeing the parchment remain silent, Lu Jinzhao unleashed her ultimate move.
Sure enough, the next second, this ghostly thing could not hold back.
[Nonsense!]
[Today was just a little lesson for you.]
“As expected, the dream lost control, didn’t it?”
The parchment fell silent again.
Lu Jinzhao sometimes felt that this ghostly thing was utterly stupid.
However, why would a real-world dream lose control?
Her intuition told her that what she had dreamed of earlier was very important, but she had little autonomy in that dream. Even though it felt like a long time had passed in the dream, upon waking, there was not much actual content to recall.
Most crucially, what caused the dream to lose the parchment’s control?
From a pure nightmare to that kind of dream?
The parchment was undoubtedly “powerful.” Had she recently come into contact with anything powerful enough to rival the parchment?
Lu Jinzhao thought it over but could not arrive at an answer.
“Strange.”
Another matter without clues had arisen. Unfortunately, she had not seen the woman’s appearance at all, nor heard anyone’s name, but she could roughly guess that the place in the dream was inside some platform.
After pondering several times, some guesses flashed through Lu Jinzhao’s mind, but none gave her the feeling of “this is it.” Her usually reliable intuition provided no answer at this moment.
Perhaps she had not guessed correctly at all?
“Forget it.”
Lu Jinzhao sat on the bed and sighed. Since she could not guess the correct answer now, she decided to set the matter aside for the time being; worrying about it at this moment would not lead to any progress.
Anyway, there were not just one or two problems on her that she had not figured out. Lu Jinzhao had a bit of the flavor of not fearing more lice when there were already many.
The most important thing at hand was still the next platform mission. She now only hoped that the difficulty of the next platform mission would be as she wished.
In the following days, Lu Jinzhao’s life briefly returned to the appearance of an ordinary person.
Several times, when she woke up in the morning from a nightmare feeling her brain somewhat groggy, she would have a bout of laziness, the common thought of “maybe I won’t go to class today.”
Because she was a passenger, as soon as this thought arose, she could skip class without any consequences, as no one would blame her anyway.
But Lu Jinzhao did not do that.
It was not that studying was particularly important, but that she did not want to indulge the growth of “laziness.”
In these days, Lu Jinzhao discovered that her former roommates would still greet her when they saw her on campus. They had not completely forgotten her existence; they just did not remember her skipping classes or suddenly disappearing.
After resting for ten days, Wei Ling asked to meet her.
The first thing after meeting was to sigh that it was great—they were both still alive.
Then she chattered on, complaining to her about what had happened in this mission.
The mission Wei Ling participated in was still a [C]-grade mission, but surprisingly, she encountered that woman who had survived the slaughterhouse with them.
Fortunately, this mission did not require infighting among passengers. She chose to cooperate with that woman. Although it was still perilous, she only paid the price of losing one arm and successfully survived.
This was indeed a very low price inside the platform.
Unfortunately, she had not obtained a new supernatural item.
And according to Wei Ling’s own feeling, she was probably not qualified to go to a higher-level platform.
Before parting, Wei Ling looked at her and sighed: “I don’t know when we can enter a platform together next time. I hope you can keep living.”
With this plain and simple blessing, Lu Jinzhao smiled: “Try harder, and maybe you can team up with me again.”
Clearly, both were passengers of the same level, yet she told Wei Ling to try harder. Wei Ling was not surprised to hear this; she knew that Lu Jinzhao was smarter than her, more “powerful” than her, and her promotion speed would also be faster than hers.
She also knew that encountering each other on a [C]-grade platform was not that easy.
At least, both needed to reach second-level first. On a B-grade platform, the probability of meeting acquaintances reportedly increased.
She felt that as long as Wei Ling was careful, she should have a high chance of success.
This rest period finally became somewhat normal.
Lu Jinzhao stayed in the real world for a full twenty-three days, and the weather had undergone some change, before she finally sensed an unusual change coming from the train ticket.
When she picked up the train ticket, she saw the scene she had been expecting.
On the train ticket, the train’s level was B-grade.
As she had expected, her platform difficulty had upgraded.
Lu Jinzhao looked at the time displayed on the train ticket, which was tomorrow, and her lips pursed slightly.
She felt no great joy of “getting what she wished for” in her heart; instead, she felt somewhat heavy.
“B-grade platform, huh?”
The difficulty would absolutely not be small.
Even though it was what she hoped for, she also knew that as the difficulty increased, the probability of death would rise at any time.
“I hope this platform has what I want.”
On the eve of departure, the parchment unusually did not create another nightmare for her.
Even though the nightmares made her spirit dazed upon waking in the morning, Lu Jinzhao had not tried to make the parchment stop.
She wanted to see if she could enter that strange dream again.
Unfortunately, she never entered it again afterward.
She did not know what the trigger medium was.
But today, the parchment suddenly showed “great mercy” by not using a nightmare to intimidate her, which Lu Jinzhao found somewhat strange.
“Why are you so kind today?”
[Kind?]
[Hehe]
[You can think of it that way.]
The parchment still had that sarcastic tone.
[Really looking forward to it.]
[New mission, very interesting, isn’t it?]
Upon hearing this guy’s words, Lu Jinzhao had a plan in mind.
This platform, the parchment had most likely tampered with it again.
This guy…
Promotion-level missions were already extremely dangerous for passengers. The first contact with a high-level platform was a hurdle, and the parchment still had to add fuel to the fire, making an already difficult mission even worse.
Lu Jinzhao did not know what this guy had done, only that it was undoubtedly trying to put her to death once again.
Entering the new platform tomorrow
