Chapter 224: Lin Sanjiu Is The Real Malicious Ghost
Translator: Pluto Editor: Vermillion
Lin Sanjiu didn't anticipate that they would stay on the train for almost a month after they settled down. As a matter of fact, since they could see duoluozhongs, the train became the safest place for them. Due to its unique environment, it was also less likely that any sort of unexpected incident would occur. As such, under Lin Sanjiu's protection, the siblings converted one of the train carriages into their temporary living space and stayed on the train to recuperate.
After staying for such a long time on the train, Lin Sanjiu discovered that there was no end to the train journey. The map of the train route which was in the train carriage wasn't even reliable. Sometimes, the train would stop at the same station for more than ten times consecutively. Others appeared randomly after a few stops. On top of that, it was also impossible to figure how the direction of the train so they had no idea where the train was heading at any point in time.
The 'Kitty Provincial Hospital' station which they should have left behind long ago had already appeared five to six times. However, they had never seen that bicolor cat doctor again. Kisaragi Station and Bamboo Grove Mountains Station had also appeared twice. But most of the time, the train stopped at all sorts of stations with strange and bizarre names which were unfamiliar to them.
In this manner, Lin Sanjiu finally witnessed firsthand the difficulties of surviving in a B-Level world. In this one month, they had stopped at more than a hundred stations. However, during this time, they had only met slightly more than a dozen living people. They easily spotted the few newcomers to the world as they all had panicked expression and were obviously being tortured by the environment. When those newcomers first saw the siblings, most of them would show their delight. They had almost the same reaction as when Lin Sanjiu met Douglas.
As they had Lin Sanjiu with them, the siblings only gave these people some pointers and did not form a team with them. Other than the few newcomers, the other people, without exception, were all from the Twelve Worlds Centrum. It was very easy to differentiate between the residents from the Twelve World Centrums and the people who were transported from other worlds. The people who came from the Twelve World Centrums were a lot more easy-going. They were also more well-prepared in terms of resources. Compared with survivors who came from other worlds, they did not request to join the siblings. Instead, after they exchanged information with the siblings, they would bid them farewell decisively.
"There are very little people here," Reno, who had almost fully recovered from his wounds, subsequently explained to Lin Sanjiu, "The proportion of posthumans here is actually quite normal. The higher the level of a world is, the higher the proportion of posthumans who are from the Twelve Worlds Centrum. That doesn't mean that survivors from other worlds don't get sent to high-level worlds as frequently... It is just that they die very quickly. Due to the difference in the combat requirements or protective equipment, it is difficult for a person from a C-level world to survive in a B-level world. A B-level world can be considered the start of another tier. When you go to a world B-level and above, survival isn't a matter of the number of duoluozhongs that exist in that world. Your abilities or luck must be at an outrageous level, otherwise, you will die without preparing yourself adequately beforehand."
"And that is why residence from the Twelve World Centrum have a greater chance of survival. They must have trained themselves beforehand and prepared all sort of battle equipment and supplies." Lin Sanjiu nodded.
Rena was sitting beside them. When Rena's gaze inadvertently landed on Lin Sanjiu and saw the woman nodding her head, she instantly looked away. She quickly fixed her gaze at the dark skies outside the window. She didn't dare to look at Lin Sanjiu.
Recently, from acknowledging and treating Lin Sanjiu like a 'pet dog that they picked from the street', she now felt that Lin Sanjiu was a 'malicious ghost they picked from the street'.
"Come on, you haven't gotten used to it?" Reno chuckled as he showed a taunting face, "So, this is your weakness."
It wasn't really Rena's fault because Lin Sanjiu's recovery progress could be considered lightning fast over the past one month. Perhaps, that insane compression feat she attempted when she was caught by Silvan gave her a great boost. After that incident, she found that she had gotten a hang of her higher consciousness training. Not only did she generate a lot more higher consciousness, they also felt very much denser. She improved so much that instead of a grayish tint, the true color of her blood and skin was gradually coming back.
Yes. After her entire skeleton had been created, no one expected that her higher consciousness would start to sculpt Lin Sanjiu's every artery, vein, and flesh realistically.
The term flesh is just a generic term. Lin Sanjiu who was now sitting on a green seat already had some of the internal organs sculpted. Through her ribcage, one could see her heart and other organs. If it was just that, it wasn't that bad. However, recently, her higher consciousness had suddenly lost interest in developing her organs and started creating the muscles and tendons of half her body.
Thus, Lin Sanjiu now looked like a person who had been skinned. Half of her body revealed her bones and organs while the other half showed her muscles and tendons. If she walked on the streets at night, she would probably scare little girls so much they would cry.
Not to mention Rena, not even Lin Sanjiu would look at her own reflection in the window if she could help it. On the other hand, Mrs. Manas was full of praise of Lin Sanjiu's current appearance.
"If you can successfully revive yourself after this ordeal, you wouldn't definitely feel a big difference!" After checking Lin Sanjiu's condition thoroughly, she couldn't help saying excitedly, "The muscles and organs created by your higher consciousness are way stronger than before. Sigh! I just want to see what a single punch from you looks like now..."
"What's the use?" Lin Sanjiu who was still unable to talk could only hold a smooth conversation with Mrs. Manas. "According to your method, my higher consciousness only acts as a sort of superglue. My final goal is to get back to my original body..."
Mrs. Manas seemed stumped by Lin Sanjiu's question. She hesitated and thought for a moment before she sputtered a few unclear words. Finally, she simply said, "Anyway, it will only do you good."
"That's right. I think you're still hiding a lot from me..." Lin Sanjiu suddenly remembered about that matter. She had just started the subject when her mindscape went silent. Mrs. Manas was playing dead once again. Lin Sanjiu certainly wasn't satisfied with letting Mrs. Manas avoid her questions. She wanted to press the teacher for more information when she heard Reno calling her, "Hey. Hey! What are you thinking!" He got her attention abruptly.
Lin Sanjiu looked up and saw Reno staring at her. From his looks, he had probably called her a few times. "Did you hear what I said? What are your thoughts about that?"
" What thoughts?" Lin Sanjiu froze for a moment. She was occupied by her thoughts just now, so she didn't hear the siblings' discussion. Amazingly, Reno could read Lin Sanjiu's expression from the movement of her muscle tissues and mucous membranes. He frowned, "You weren't listening? We were discussing whether we should alig—."
Before he finished his sentence, the train braked suddenly. All of them fell forward from the inertia. The train made an ear-piercing screech before it came to a halt.