See the Law of Deception

Chapter 181 News of the Death Platform

Once on the bus home, Lu Jinzhao opened her phone and began clearing messages.

Lin Lin sent the most messages.

She seemed to have gleaned something from the messages Lu Jinzhao had sent her earlier, so she first replied that she was safe, then sent a bunch of probing messages. Finally, probably because Lu Jinzhao didn't reply promptly, and even after taking time to return to Yuncheng but still not finding him at the school, she confirmed something and directly asked:

When did Chaochao board the train?

Lu Jinzhao felt a slight stirring in her heart as she looked at the long string of messages Lin Lin had sent. The cautious and tentative tone in which Lin Lin spoke made her realize how much he valued her, even though they had been in a cold war for quite some time because of a "misunderstanding." Now that she thought about it, that was probably when Lin Lin became a passenger.

But in Lin Lin's eyes, she was still a very important person.

Lu Jinzhao answered the question and then sent another message.

So you were lying to me about having bad relationships and conflicts with people at school?

They're all passengers now, and normal interpersonal interactions are practically nonexistent. How could they possibly have conflicts with classmates? They'd only have conflicts with other passengers on the same platform.

Lin Lin replied quickly; she called immediately after seeing Lu Jinzhao's message.

"Every morning!"

A girl's energetic and lively voice came from the other end of the phone. Her voice sounded somewhat urgent, as if she had encountered something bad, but what she said was that she was worried about Lu Jinzhao.

"You've only been on the train for such a short time, why are you going to platform A?"

This isn't hard-to-find news. If Lu Jinzhao's guess is correct, and Lin Lin has successfully advanced to Special Grade...
"The matter is quite complicated, but to put it simply, it's because of a supernatural item I have."

Lu Jinzhao answered her question first, and then said, "So you lied to me?"

"Uh..." Lin Lin hesitated for a moment, thinking about how to explain herself. When she realized that she couldn't explain herself at all, she could only whisper, "Well, there's nothing we can do about it!"

Indeed, Lu Jinzhao completely understood. She asked that question simply to ease Lin Lin's tension.

As she expected, when Lin Lin's attention was diverted by this question, the tension in her tone lessened considerably.

"Don't worry too much," Lu Jinzhao said. "The reason I was able to advance so quickly is naturally because I have a strong ability to protect myself. And now I've come out alive, haven't I?"

“That’s true,” Lin Lin sighed. “I was thinking that even if I lost you as a friend, and you wouldn’t remember me anymore, it would be enough for you to live well.”

She originally thought that she and Lu Jinzhao would be two parallel lines that had once intersected, and that they would have no further contact. It took her a long time to convince herself that she and Lu Jinzhao would gradually drift apart.

In order to avoid implicating his best friends and family, and in order to seek a chance to survive, he chose to leave his hometown alone and go to the strongest platform he had heard about, the capital station.

Now that I know Lu Jinzhao has also become a passenger, I feel a sense of joy at being "on the same road" again. I feel a sense of relief that I can confide in someone who has been suppressing my long-term depression and fatigue. But what follows is more worry.

"Maybe I should just come back to Yuncheng."

She switched to the Capital Station because she got an opportunity, and she spent all her savings to change her ticket, taking a gamble and seizing the opportunity, which led to where she is now.

If she wanted to return to Yuncheng, she would have to spend all her life-saving money to change her ticket. Not having enough life-saving money left on her death ticket was very dangerous. Besides, she had already accumulated some connections in the capital, but returning to Yuncheng would wipe out everything. However, for Lin Lin, connections in the capital were not a problem; the life-saving money was what she needed to consider.

The Death Platform is different from other platforms. It is called "Death" for a reason. On the platform, passengers can spend money to buy their lives to do things that are "unconventional to their character." Generally speaking, if you are assigned the character of "student," you will crawl to class even if your hands and feet are broken, because you are a "student."

But if you have money to buy your life, you can bribe the teacher to say you're sick and need to take leave, and the length of leave depends on how much money you have.

If you have enough money, you can even buy a "task" and not have to do it!
However, generally speaking, very few people buy the entire mission directly, as that would be too expensive. People tend to buy more details about the mission process.

For example, if students are asked to play Ouija board in a classroom at midnight, they usually don't buy the entire task. Instead, they buy the content that the Ouija board asks, or they complete the task of arriving at the classroom at midnight. If they don't complete the Ouija board task, the task is split up, and the amount of money required will be relatively less.

Passengers on the Death Platform typically face multiple tasks, almost all of which are "suicide missions." As long as you have enough money to buy your life, you can actually do so.

Without money, you can only "go to your death," with no room for error.

Even so, the platform is still incredibly dangerous, so dangerous that the train needs to provide such convenience for passengers. One can imagine how difficult it would be to survive on a death platform if one's ticket doesn't have enough money.

Lu Jinzhao was unaware of these specific details. Usually, the seniors would only inform passengers of the precautions for the Death Platform once they were upgraded to Level 1. After all, before they were upgraded, they would most likely die, so there was no point in telling them in advance.

However, this only applies to normal platforms. Some "veterans" at certain platforms may harbor malicious intent and deliberately withhold this information.

Yuncheng Station is a normal platform, and the fortune teller who was contacting Lu Jinzhao sent an urgent message after learning that she had entered the Class A platform.

"Let's not." Even though Lu Jinzhao was unaware of these things, she still refused Lin Lin's suggestion to change her ticket.

"Since you're doing fine at the capital station, then stay there."

Lu Jinzhao knew she had an unusual secret, and she didn't want Lin Lin to get involved. She was fine with Lin Lin staying at another station.

"Let's meet first and talk about it. I'm free lately, I'll come see you tomorrow?"

Lu Jinzhao paused for a moment, thinking of the messages on her phone: "I might have something to do tomorrow. Let me check first, and then I'll send you a message to arrange a time?"

"Row."

Since they decided to meet, there was no need to discuss many things over the phone. After hanging up, Lu Jinzhao opened the messages again and replied to Qin Wan's message first. After all, this person seemed quite anxious, sending her a message every day asking: Are you still alive?
Next came news from the fortune teller.

Have you entered the platform?

How did you end up on platform A?

[Seeing a ghost]

[Reply to me immediately if you survive; it's urgent.]

　Readers who were worried that the story would end so soon at the death platform can rest assured.

　　The Death Platform has quite a lot of content; ovo will also load some new things.
　　(End of this chapter)