See the Law of Deception

Chapter 94: Prelude to the New Mission

What did you make me dream about?

Lu Jinzhao felt that the memories of the dream were slowly fading, but the lingering emotions still echoed in her chest.

It wasn't the lingering fear from the previous nightmare, but rather an indescribable sense of melancholy.

Sheepskin did not answer.

Lu Jinzhao remained silent for a long time. Only after the remaining emotions had completely disappeared and the memories of the dream had become blurry did she belatedly realize that the sheepskin had not answered her question.

Sheepskin is not one to answer every question, but since this dream was created by Sheepskin, it should not remain silent at this moment.

There is weirdness.

"Who is that woman?"

The sheepskin remained silent.

"What is that place?"

The sheepskin remained silent.

Lu Jinzhao suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Was this dream beyond your expectations?"

If this dream was a nightmare prepared for her by Yangpi, she shouldn't be frightened by just this. Even though she can't recall most of the dream's content now, Lu Jinzhao vaguely remembers that there was a very special woman and that the whole dream was somewhat "inexplicable".

"You've lost the ability to create nightmares, haven't you?"

Seeing that the sheepskin remained silent, Lu Jinzhao unleashed his ultimate move.

Sure enough, the next second, this thing couldn't hold back anymore.

【Nonsense! 】

This is just a small lesson for you today.

"So, it really was a dream that went out of control, wasn't it?"

Sheepskin fell silent again.

Lu Jinzhao sometimes thinks this thing is incredibly stupid.

However, why do dreams in reality get out of control?

Her intuition told her that what she had just dreamed about was very important. However, she didn't have much autonomy in that dream. Even though it felt like a long time had passed in the dream, when she recalled it after waking up, there wasn't much actual content.

Most importantly, what caused the dream to lose control of the sheepskin?

How did a pure nightmare transform into that kind of dream?

Sheepskin is undoubtedly "powerful," but has she recently come into contact with anything that can rival it?

Lu thought about it for a long time, but couldn't find an answer.

".strangeness."

Another thing remained a mystery to her. Unfortunately, she couldn't see the woman's face or hear anyone's name, but she could roughly guess that the place in her dream was somewhere on a train platform.

Lu Jinzhao pondered for a while, and some guesses flashed through her mind, but none of them gave her a sense of "this is it". Her usually reliable intuition did not give her any answers at this moment.

It seems she guessed completely wrong?
"never mind."

Lu Jinzhao sat on the bed and sighed. Since she couldn't guess the right answer at all, she decided to put the matter aside for now, as worrying about it wouldn't make any progress.

Anyway, she has more than one or two problems that she hasn't figured out yet, and Lu Jinzhao seems to have a "the more lice, the less they itch" attitude.

The most important thing right now is the next platform mission. She just hopes that the difficulty of the next platform mission will be as she wishes.

In the days that followed, Lu Jinzhao's life briefly returned to that of an ordinary person.

Several times, when she woke up from a nightmare in the morning and felt her mind was a bit foggy, she would have a kind of inertia, a common thought of "maybe I should skip class today".

Because she was a passenger, as soon as this idea came to her, she could skip class without any consequences, since no one would blame her.

But Lu Jinzhao did not do that.

It wasn't that studying was so important, but rather that she didn't want to let "laziness" fester.

In recent days, Lu Jinzhao has noticed that her former roommates still greet her when they see her on campus. They haven't completely forgotten her existence; it's just that they don't remember her skipping classes or her sudden disappearance.

After resting for ten days, Wei Ling arranged to meet her.

The first thing I did upon meeting them was to exclaim how wonderful it was that they were both still alive. Then I chattered on and on about what had happened during the mission.

Wei Ling was still participating in a [C] level mission, but unexpectedly, she encountered the woman who had survived with them in the slaughterhouse.

Fortunately, this mission did not require passengers to fight amongst themselves. She chose to cooperate with the woman. Although it was still dangerous, she only paid the price of losing an arm and managed to survive.

This is indeed a very low price to pay within the platform.

Unfortunately, she didn't manage to acquire any new supernatural items.

Furthermore, based on Wei Ling's own intuition, 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'll be able to go to the platform together again. I hope you live forever."

With a simple and unadorned blessing, Lu Jinzhao smiled and said, "If you try your best, perhaps we can be together again."

Even though they were passengers in the same class, she told Wei Ling to work harder. Wei Ling wasn't surprised to hear this. She knew that Lu Jinzhao was smarter and "stronger" than her, and would be promoted faster.

She also knew that it wasn't so easy for Class C platforms to meet.

At least, both of them need to reach level two first. Once they reach level B, the probability of meeting someone they know is said to increase.

She felt that as long as Wei Ling was careful, she would have a high probability of success.

This break has finally gotten a bit more normal.

Lu Jinzhao stayed in the real world for a full twenty-three days, during which time the weather changed slightly before she finally sensed the unusual changes coming from the train ticket.

When she picked up her ticket, she saw the scene she had been waiting for.

The train's class on the ticket is Class B.

As she expected, the difficulty of her platform appearance increased.

Lu Jinzhao glanced at the ticket and saw that the date was tomorrow, then pursed her lips slightly.

She felt little joy at her "wish fulfillment," but rather a sense of heaviness.

"A Class B platform?"

The difficulty will definitely not be small.

Even though it was what she wanted, she also knew that as the difficulty increased, the probability of death also increased at any time.

"I hope that what I want will be found on this platform."

On the night before her departure, for the first time ever, Yangpi didn't give her any more nightmares.

Even though nightmares would leave her groggy when she woke up in the morning, Lu Jinzhao did not try to stop the sheepskin.

She wanted to see if she could enter that strange dream again.

Unfortunately, she never went in again after that.

It is unknown what triggered it.
But today, Yangpi suddenly "took pity" and didn't scare her with nightmares, which Lu Jinzhao found a bit strange.

Why are you being so kind today?

[Kindness?]

【whee】

Just assume that's how it is.

The sheepskin still had that strange, unsettling smell.

I can't wait!

[New mission, isn't it interesting?]

Upon hearing this guy's words, Lu Jinzhao had already made up his mind.

This time, the sheepskin has most likely been manipulated again.

This guy.
The task of upgrading the level is already extremely dangerous for passengers. The first time they come into contact with a high-level platform is a hurdle, but then the sheepskin adds extra layers of trouble, making the already difficult task even more difficult.

Lu Jinzhao didn't know what this guy had done; all she knew was that it was trying to kill her again.

　Tomorrow we'll be moving to the new platform.

　　(End of this chapter)