Chapter 194
Translator: Pluto Editor: WMX
When the usually nurturing Mrs . Manas swore out loud, Lin Sanjiu's shock far exceeded the teacher's . Lin Sanjiu found herself momentarily dumbfounded . Unfortunately, due to her current form, which was just a brain in mid-air, no one could see her emotions from the folds in her brain's white matter .
After quite some time, she explained hesitantly, "I-I just thought that it'd be good if I could convert my body into a card . . . so, I touched it with my 'head' and it really became a card . . . "
After calming down for two minutes, Mrs . Manas finally understood what had happened .
Usually, after Lin Sanjiu changed something into a card, she would keep the card in her body . After that, it would appear in a 'catalog' in her brain—which was her card inventory . However, without her body, where would the items be kept?
"Where did her/my body go?"
Both Lin Sanjiu and Mrs . Manas became anxious . Following Mrs . Manas' advice, Lin Sanjiu floated close to the ground . With a single thought, her body appeared from nowhere and fell to the ground with a thud . Lin Sanjiu didn't even notice that there was a small cut on her temples because she was too shocked . After both of them discussed for some time, they were still unable to understand how it worked .
Seeing that they could not make sense of it by discussing, Mrs . Manas warned Lin Sanjiu not to be rash and disappeared once again . Lin Sanjiu figured that Mrs . Manas probably planned to check the entire 'brain form' she was now in before returning .
Lin Sanjiu was a little worried about the situation, but being able to store her own body was a good thing . She floated gently to her body and 'touched' it . It instantly became a card again . In any case, keeping her body with her was the safest bet .
Without Mrs . Manas talking to her, Lin Sanjiu flew unsteadily around the train carriages . The flickering fluorescent lights in the train were caused by a man who was scuttling along the ceiling of a train, like a gecko . Whenever he scurried past one of the fluorescent light, it would go out . Once he left, it would light up again . Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but wonder if her previous experience with flickering lights were all caused by such a man—but she had no idea what sort of urban legend this 'fluorescent light man' was from .
Looking at her Teru Teru Bozu, she guessed she couldn't keep it any longer . The woman, who was dangling from the Teru Teru Bozu, had buried her head in it, so her sinister face was showing through the cloth . Lin Sanjiu could only see the two black eyes of the originally cute, smiling face on the doll following her—as a brain . For a second, Lin Sanjiu was afraid that the woman would suddenly reach out to grab her .
The other passengers were sitting silently in their seat and did not even bothered looking at the floating brain in the air . After Lin Sanjiu roamed about the train, she found out that there were 'people' in the driver's cabin as well . Every now and then, she would see some of the passengers shifting a little in their seats . However, considering the current situation, the unique duoluozhongs in Kirasagi Train Station were not interested in attacking her in this state .
With some thoughts in her mind, she drifted back to the carriage where she died . She tried to call Mrs . Manas a few times but she did not receive any reply . Lin Sanjiu floated in mid-air absent-mindedly . As her mind wandered to the problems about her future, she didn't immediately notice when the old woman on the seat in the carriage suddenly moved .
"So, this explains things . . . " Lin Sanjiu couldn't help sighing after she eyed the old woman for a few seconds . The old woman's limbs were very stiff and she seemed to have difficulties coordinating her movements . The old woman stood up rigidly . Her body was stuck in the position where she was bending over at a 90 degrees angle . She maneuvered in a way that almost seemed as if her back was breaking . The old woman reached for the newspaper that Lin Sanjiu had thrown to the ground and stuffed it back into the crevice between the seat .
That was the same paper that warned new passengers not to get down the train . Lin Sanjiu understood its significance after thinking about it for some time . In the past, someone must have written that message and stayed on the train for some time . The person eventually found out that there was something terribly wrong with the train but was harmed before she could finish writing her contradictory warning . The first piece of advice had been turned off by the spirits on the train and placed in an easily noticeable spot . In order words, the paper with the original piece of advice had been used as a trap .
But Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out why the ghostly old woman would suddenly remember to return the newspaper to its original position . Could it be—
"Good news!" A loud exuberant broke her chain of thought . It was Mrs . Manas .
"I have already check your current condition thoroughly . I know what is going on now . . . " she sounded happier than before Lin Sanjiu died, "It isn't your time yet . Plus, this is great for you!"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you are currently in this brain form because you had expended almost all your higher consciousness . It can only protect and surround that portion of you . After you died, though you do not have your body, your higher consciousness is still gradually recovering . You can't see it yourself, but with that little bit of recovered higher consciousness, you created a small pocket at the back of your brain . Your card is currently kept there . That is to say, your card didn't disappear, your consciousness just hid it . "
"But my other cards are in my body, right? Like my knife, special items . . . Without my body, is this anything to be happy about?"
Mrs . Manas voice immediately turned cold and she spoke sternly to Lin Sanjiu, "I wanted to point this out long ago . . . As a posthuman, don't you think you are over-reliant on your items and your physique? Any other person who can activate [Defence Forcefield] could probably maintain it for a week, whereas you are unable to handle things without your special items . . . You don't even bother working on your abilities . "
Lin Sanjiu considered what Mrs . Manas said and she couldn't help feeling a little ashamed . Honestly speaking, her fighting style in battles had not changed much from the time she killed Ren Nan with a kitchen knife . The differences were perhaps that the weapons she used had improved and she had become agiler .
"Now that you have become a form made of higher consciousness, this could be an opportunity for you," Mrs . Manas was very positive about it . "From today, I will coach you to use your higher consciousness . You will have to practice your overall proficiency using it, controlling its amount and strength . Once you can use your higher consciousness to sculpt an exact replica of your body . . . No, that wouldn't mean you are alive . I mean, by then, we can see if you can link the replica created by higher consciousness with your actual body . . . "
"So higher consciousness can be used as an all-purpose adhesive?" Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this conclusion . However, she couldn't deny that seeing hope in her current situation made her feel much better .
"Anyway, duoluozhongs are uninterested in you now and posthumans are unable to see you . You have 14 months to work hard . . . " Before Mrs . Manas could finish her sentence, her words were proven wrong .
At the same time, the noise of the train traveling on the tracks quietened . Without any other warning, the train had stopped at a station . The train doors opened .
"There are many of them here in this train . . . Huh? Why is there a brain here?"
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