Chapter 276
, 8 hexagrams
Chapter 276 The Eight Trigrams
"really."
The fortune teller didn't show any frustration; instead, he raised an eyebrow: "Everything was within my calculations!"
Lu Jinzhao inexplicably recalled the sentence she had once sent her: "Actually, it's not that much, you don't believe me, do you?"
Was it really within the calculation?
"Now that the announcement of the Death Platform has arrived, you should all start preparing. If the rest of you have nothing to say, then today's meeting is adjourned."
Ji Xinyue stood up, thought for a moment, and added, "Just in case, ask anyone else if they have received this announcement."
The others nodded. Tian Lei hesitated for half a second, and seeing that Lu Jinzhao probably wouldn't leave, she decided to slip away first!
Although Lu Jinzhao was here, there were still too many strangers, and she wasn't a key person. Sitting next to her made me feel uneasy, so I decided to leave.
"Um," she leaned closer to Lu Jinzhao, "if you have something to do, I'll be going now?"
When Lu Jinzhao nodded, she seemed to have received some kind of pardon, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and quickly left.
After the others left, the fortune teller checked his phone, then looked up at Lu Jinzhao: "There are quite a few train tickets to Anning City. How about we take a look?"
"Now?" Lu Jinzhao did not refuse immediately, but instead pondered the purpose of the fortune teller's suggestion.
“Yes.” The fortune teller nodded. “Now that we’ve been chosen, we’re not afraid to enter Anning City again.”
"Furthermore, I also want to see what the train station in Anning City looks like now."
The main question is, what do they look like in the eyes of these top-level experts?
"This time, the platform's stop is clearly in Anning City, which is a first."
The fortune teller's eyes grew more serious: "All the locations that appeared before do not exist in reality. Even if there are occasional locations that seem similar, they only exist in movies or novels and are not, in essence, real world locations."
"But I've calculated the odds for Anning City this time."
"Is it possible that it is based on the current Anning City, or perhaps it is Anning City in another dimension?"
Have you calculated it again?
“Okay,” Lu Jinzhao agreed.
Now that they have been selected, they will definitely have to take a train to get there, and the place where they get off will most likely be Anning City Railway Station.
"Consider it a preliminary reconnaissance trip," the fortune teller said. "Give me your ID number, and I'll buy the tickets."
Lu Jinzhao read out the number, then suddenly thought of something: "Can passengers board the train without buying a ticket?"
It will be ignored anyway.
After buying the tickets, the fortune teller looked up at her and said, "Yes, if we want, we can enter most parts of the world, as long as we don't make a sound or deliberately do anything strange to attract attention."
"Oh right, places that are too heavily guarded won't work, unless you use supernatural items or the assistance of fate."
They are, after all, only those with a faint presence, not completely invisible people.
"I've bought it. It'll be ready in half an hour. Let's go, we need to hurry."
On the way to Anning City, whether it was to share gossip or to relax, the fortune teller told Lu Jinzhao a few pieces of gossip.
“In some cities where no one really cares, passengers can do whatever they want, unlike us who have to buy tickets and abide by morality and law when we go out. In those places, as long as you don’t kill anyone, you can do whatever you want.”
"It's fortunate that there were few passengers, and the higher the strength, the higher the risk of death, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble would have occurred."
"You should know a city called Feiquan."
Mentioning the name Feiquan activated Lu Jinzhao's memories. It was someone she met at the [Stand-up] station who brought her a shadow puppet.
What impressed me most was that the people on that platform didn't seem to be in good spirits, and the class distinctions between passengers were very obvious. "Recently, a passenger over at Feiquan became emperor."
When the fortune teller spoke, his expression was quite subtle. Lu Jinzhao, upon hearing this, couldn't quite control the muscles in his face, revealing a "what are you talking about?" look.
"You heard me right, it's the emperor."
The fortune teller affirmed.
"Her destiny is extremely lethal to the living, and she also has good defensive capabilities. In a place like Feiquan, which is already chaotic and where passengers bully each other, her destiny is obviously very suitable for becoming a leader."
"There's a rumor that when she first became a passenger and hadn't yet received her destiny, she was badly bullied by the veteran passengers at Feiquan."
"But this is the norm. In Feiquan, the old bully the new, the strong bully the weak, it's a mess."
The fortune teller shook his head as he spoke.
This directly led to the extreme strength of the passengers in Feiquan. The passenger survival rate was almost half that of Yuncheng. All the surviving high-level passengers were ruthless and had almost no moral conscience left. Apart from sharing the same bad habits, there was basically no friendship between them.
That place was a complete battlefield.
"The first thing this emperor did upon becoming a special-rank official was to announce his ascension to the throne."
"Sounds ridiculous, right? But it actually works in Feiquan."
Her fist is the biggest, making her the invisible emperor among the passengers; now she's just openly proclaiming this "privilege."
"Can all the people in Feiquan really listen to her?"
"How could that be!" The fortune teller shook his head: "Those people over there are rebellious by nature; who would submit to whom?"
"They're all people who crawled out of the mud, so why is she the emperor and they're just subjects?"
"There's no way to kill her right now, so we can only listen to her for the time being. Let's wait and see; there's more to come."
The fortune teller's tone was somewhat detached, and she recounted the story in a lighthearted manner, treating it merely as a source of amusement on her journey to her destination.
She didn't care about Feiquan or its passengers; she only cared about Yuncheng, where she lived.
This side of him is completely different from the cheerful person Lu Jinzhao first saw through the screen.
"Hey, we're almost there."
The train slowly came to a stop; in the real world, the train had arrived at Anning City Station.
After getting off the train, Lu Jinzhao once again felt the damp and cold air coming towards him. The stuffy and oppressive air seemed to be squeezing the platform, much stronger than what he had felt at the airport.
"This is the train station in Anning City. I asked them, and they said that people from Anning get on and off the train at this station."
Anning City has no underground platforms and two stations, one in the east and one in the west. However, the fortune teller did his homework in advance and bought platform tickets for passengers who usually get on and off the train.
Upon arriving here, breathing in the stuffy air of this platform, Lu Jinzhao suddenly felt a dull ache in her arm.
The death platform notice, which had supposedly disappeared, seemed to reappear at this moment.
She lifted her sleeve and saw that several blood vessels had appeared on her skin, struggling and wriggling beneath it as if trying to break through some kind of restriction.
This platform won't be very long, but it's quite important because it's part of the main storyline, so it will include some background story elements.
(End of this chapter)