Chapter 266
Anning City, Linxian County
Chapter 266 Anning City, Linxian County
One-tenth?
Lu Jinzhao's expression remained unchanged, but he was deep in thought.
Even if it's only one-tenth, it means her prediction was correct.
So what else is there that she hasn't thought of, or hasn't encountered yet?
Just as Lu Jinzhao was pondering, her phone rang.
It was Lin Lin calling.
"I've found clues about your mother and father."
【What?】
Upon hearing this, it was not Lu Jinzhao who reacted first, but Yangpi.
"Where?" Lu Jinzhao asked directly, ignoring it.
Anning City.
Lin Lin mentioned a city that was quite unfamiliar to Lu Jinzhao.
She had never been there, nor had she ever imagined that her mother and father would have any connection with this city.
“They are likely locals from Anning. When are you free? I’m in Anning right now, why don’t you come over too?”
"Now."
Lu Jinzhao stood up from the sofa and immediately booked a ticket for the earliest flight, which was just one hour later.
"Okay, I'll wait for you at the airport."
After hanging up the phone with Lin Lin, Lu Jinzhao grabbed his things and left the house, only then did he have time to notice Yang Pi's strange behavior.
"You know my mother and the others are from Anning?"
Sheepskin was not satisfied with her question.
Whether I know it or not is none of your business.
"Such a bad temper, are you on fire?"
[Do I have a mouth? I'll eat! I can really eat! I'll be the first one to blow you up!]
"Wow, that's terrifying," Lu Jinzhao exclaimed expressionlessly.
It's good that you know.
Sheepskin gave her a serious warning.
Are you concerned about where I find out they're from?
Otherwise, he wouldn't have reacted so strongly after hearing Lin Lin's words.
The sheepskin remained silent.
“They’re not locals from Yuncheng. They were passengers. If we find out which city they were from, we might be able to find out which platform they worked at, and we might also be able to find out which platform you were taken from. Wouldn’t that be better?” Lu Jinchao asked.
Don't go looking for it anymore.
Sheepskin suddenly became very calm.
That's not a good thing.
Why should I listen to you?
[Very dangerous.]
Sheepskin said.
I can tell you, yes, they were originally from Anning City, but have you ever wondered why they fled Anning to come to Yuncheng?
[Very dangerous.]
It repeated.
"Isn't danger a good thing?" Lu Jinzhao asked, puzzled. "Danger makes it easier for me to die. You should be happy to see this." Besides, Anning City is dangerous, so dangerous that former passengers have fled, so dangerous that even Yangpi warned her. What exactly happened here?
Sheepskin only issued a warning and then stopped communicating with Deer Jinzhao.
The plane soon arrived in Anning City.
As soon as Lu Jinzhao stepped off the plane and into the air of Anning City, he sensed a subtle difference.
At first glance, it seems that the air is a bit murky due to the region and climate, and the sun does not seem as bright and scorching, as if it is covered by an invisible film that blocks some of the ultraviolet rays.
When skin comes into contact with air a lot, it tends to become sticky, as if there is too much moisture in the air. But if you rub your skin carefully, you will find that it is actually dry. That moist, sticky feeling is probably just an inability to adapt to the climate.
But here's the problem.
Anning is not too far from Yuncheng, not so far that their climates are completely different.
Rizhao wouldn't be that much different. Although the two cities differ in altitude, they are both inland cities and neither is on the coast, so it wouldn't be to that extent.
The air was stuffy, yet it carried an indescribable damp chill, making Lu Jinzhao want to put on a jacket. However, she looked at the other passengers getting off the plane and saw that no one seemed to be experiencing any discomfort with the climate change. It was as if this completely different feeling was unique to her.
Or perhaps, only she, as a passenger, possessed it.
Lin Lin was waiting for her on the arrival floor. After they met, she handed Lu Jinzhao a coat: "I think you'll feel a bit cold after you get off the plane."
"Is it because of the bad weather?" she asked as she took the coat and put it on.
“It’s probably not the weather.” Lin Lin shook his head. “I suspect there’s a problem with the station here.”
“The station?” Lu Jinzhao lowered his brows slightly.
"Let me take you somewhere first, and we can talk as we walk."
The place Lin Lin was taking Lu Jinzhao to was an abandoned school.
Linxian Vocational and Technical High School.
"Although becoming a passenger will reduce your presence, it doesn't mean you disappear. The traces of your existence will not be erased, but you will be ignored."
“But your mother and father are different.” Lin Lin paused here: “There are very few traces of them. Apart from those in Yuncheng, the rest, the earlier ones, were deliberately erased.”
“Using modern methods, it is almost impossible to find any flaws.”
Therefore, they have made little progress.
Until recently, she took a different approach and used a very special supernatural prop to find some clues.
"Here, take a look at this first." Lin Lin took out a photo and handed it to Lu Jinzhao.
It was a black and white photo, yellowed with age. The photo showed Lu Jinzhao's mother when she was young. She was smiling, but her smile was stiff and didn't look like a living person.
The overall atmosphere of the photo exudes an indescribable eeriness, sending chills down one's spine.
Although it looks like an old photo from the last century, the date it was taken in the lower right corner says it was taken two days ago.
The place where the mother was was right at the entrance of the Linxian Vocational and Technical High School.
"How did you get this photo?"
Lu Jinzhao touched the photo and was absolutely certain that it was a supernatural object.
"Do you know a supernatural gadget that's very famous among passengers? It's a camera."
“I know a little, but not much.” She recalled a photograph she had seen in the book [Genetics], which was supposedly taken by a paranormal camera.
"That camera was also brought out from the Death Platform. It was very powerful; it could photograph both the living and the dead."
“I took a picture of a piece of clothing that your mother wore when she was alive from your house, and that’s how I got this picture.”
It's amazing that the camera captured a fleeting moment of life from the clothes of a dead person, even though it wasn't actually wearing the clothes in the photo.
"However, the photos we get from taking pictures of the dead's belongings and corpses are not good things. We'll have to burn this photo after we look at it for a while."
“Okay.” Lu Jinzhao nodded. The instant she agreed, she seemed to see her mother’s lips turn down slightly in the photo, revealing a trace of sadness.
In that instant, Lu Jinzhao felt a pang of reluctance, and even had a thought: it's just a photo of her mother, it shouldn't matter if she keeps it, right? Her mother doesn't like having her picture taken, and she hasn't seen her in a long time.
But in the next instant, Lu Jinzhao came to his senses and immediately took out a lighter to burn the photos after getting out of the car.
The fire started spreading from the bottom of the photo, and when it reached the top, Lu Jinzhao saw his mother's young eyes being slowly consumed by the flames.
(End of this chapter)