See the Law of Deception

Chapter 157 The House of Evil Spirits (1)

Time was too tight; the leather at home was still drying and there wasn't enough time to make shadow puppets. She could only rush to the train station with the small, worn-out shadow puppets that had just been upgraded.

After thinking for a moment, she contacted Qin Wan and arranged to meet her on the way to the train station so she could borrow her pocket watch.

Qin Wan was puzzled that Lu Jinzhao needed to borrow a pocket watch so soon after she came out of the station. After Lu Jinzhao explained that she was going to come back into the station, Qin Wan's expression was quite interesting.

"Did you get your hands on some high-level supernatural item?" Qin Wan asked.

Her rank advancement wasn't gradual; after obtaining the pocket watch, she went to a Class A platform once, but afterwards, she spent most of her time on Class B platforms, occasionally participating in Class A.

"Don't worry, if you perform poorly on Platform A, the train will automatically adjust the difficulty and send you back to Platform B."

Qin Wan kept her word and actually lent her the pocket watch. Lu Jinzhao asked her if she was worried that if she died on the platform, she would lose the pocket watch forever.

Qin Wan also frankly said, "I will contact the other people who entered the platform with you and ask them to help retrieve it. I have a top-level officer behind me, and my destiny is very useful. They will not refuse to do me this favor."

"As for the fact that you're all wiped out, well, that's just my bad luck."

She couldn't possibly avoid all risks; when she made that promise, she had already anticipated that something like this would happen.

However, because it was Lu Jinzhao, she subconsciously felt that Lu Jinzhao wouldn't die so easily.

Of course, she could break her promise, after all, the pocket watch was so precious that if it were lost on the platform, it would be almost impossible to find it again. But Qin Wan believed that if she, as a passenger, could not live without the pocket watch, then it would be meaningless.

Her life, all her efforts to survive, were tied to a pocket watch, which was not a good thing.

Even with these thoughts in mind, Qin Wan still struggled internally when she handed the pocket watch to Lu Jinzhao.

She asked, "Do you need a little good luck?"

Lu Jinzhao glanced at the time and refused, saying, "If you borrow good luck in advance, you'll have to repay it with bad luck. I don't really like the unknown that bad luck brings."

She prefers to take a more cautious and steady approach.

Qin Wan was not surprised at all by her answer. Even after leaving the platform, Lu Jinzhao was still the same Lu Jinzhao.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that you can see a person's true nature most quickly inside the platform.

After handing the pocket watch to Lu Jinzhao, she sighed, "Perhaps I need to give myself some good luck."

May good fortune be with her so that she doesn't lose this pocket watch.

"That depends on you." Lu Jinzhao didn't know if such good luck would work, and she couldn't pin her hopes for life and death on such "external" factors.

Time was of the essence, so she only exchanged a few words with Qin Wan before boarding the train to the train station.

Before arriving at the underground platform, Lu Jinzhao was curious about what a Class A mission would be like and what kind of teammates she would encounter this time.
I've heard that Special-class battleships mostly appear on Class A platforms, since Death Platforms are so infrequent. Will we encounter a Special-class battleship this time?
However, Lu Jinzhao never expected that when she walked through the crowd to the quiet underground platform and pushed open the door of the waiting room, she would not see a single person.

The thought of "Am I too early?" vanished after seeing the waiting information.

[Train class arriving at this station: Class A]

[Passengers at Yuncheng Station this time: 1]

[List of personnel: Lu Jinzhao]

[This site: House of Evil Spirits]

Rumor has it that there's a haunted apartment building where anyone who moves in will die a violent death. One day, you enter this apartment building as a new tenant, and strange things start happening.

Can you uncover the truth behind the haunted house and leave this apartment alive?

[Survive in the haunted house for three days, and do not leave the apartment before the train arrives.] Lu Jinzhao confirmed that she was indeed the only passenger on the Yuncheng platform this time.

She had no teammates, or rather, her teammates were probably passengers from other platforms.

Most platforms are not close to each other, and even wary of each other. This makes it difficult for passengers on different platforms to cooperate closely, even on the same mission.

Is this the first time I've participated in a Class A platform event, and I'm going to have to fight alone?

"Give it your all." Lu Jinzhao took a deep breath at the platform entrance. She already had a premonition that this would be an extremely difficult task.

The train arrived, and Lu Jinzhao boarded it alone for the first time. After just one ticket check, her ticket had an extra thousand yuan to buy her life, so at least she didn't have to worry about not having enough money to repair her body.

Without his teammates by his side, and with no one to discuss the possible situations they might encounter during this platform mission, the carriage was unusually quiet, which made Lu Jinzhao feel a subtle sense of unease.

Despite it being a Class A platform, there was a considerable amount of waiting information. Even after she carefully analyzed the possible prompts in the waiting information, less than five minutes had passed.

With a little time left to do, Lu Jinzhao carefully observed the carriage once again.

Passengers know very little about the train. They can only board their assigned carriage after each ticket check and then disembark. During this time, they cannot leave the carriage or move around freely on the train.

There weren't even any "doors" inside the carriages, so even if passengers wanted to explore, they had nowhere to go.

But clearly, there was more than one carriage.

After looking around, Lu Jinzhao couldn't see anything unusual in the carriage, so he had no choice but to give up. At that moment, the train pulled into the station.

Upon arriving at the station, Lu Jinzhao got off the train without hesitation as soon as the doors opened.

After getting off the bus, she looked around and, sure enough, saw other people.

Besides her, there were three others.

The three people were very close to each other, and it seemed that they had just gotten off the train and came from different platforms.

"Everyone's here," one of them said.

After Lu Jinzhao got off the train, the train doors closed quickly, and then the train sped off towards the road where it was leaving.

The remaining tracks gradually disappeared as the train left, and the area became an ordinary road.

Before the four of them lay the target location for this mission: an old six-story apartment building.

Additional memories flooded back, but there was no extra content, only a brief sentence: as a new tenant, Lu Jinzhao had rented room 302 on the third floor, and she needed to move into the apartment before 6 p.m. today.

The time is 5:30.

We have half an hour to linger outside.

"Shall we get to know each other a little first?" A middle-aged woman not far away suggested, seeing that no one seemed inclined to enter the apartment immediately.

"Do you want me to tell you which platform you're from?" asked a girl who looked like a student, standing to Lu Jinzhao's right.

"I don't need this, do I?" The girl, who had a buzz cut and was about the same age as Lu Jinzhao, quickly refused.

The other three also turned their gazes toward her.

The fact that they refused to say which platform they came from clearly made them a little wary. After all, if it was just some ordinary, unknown platform, why would they refuse?
And those famous train stations, except in the capital, are all, without exception, inhumane stations.

People who come from there are definitely not people you can cooperate with.

(End of this chapter)