See the Law of Deception

Chapter 235 Heredity (41)

After Xiang Liang finished speaking, he left quickly without waiting for anyone else to react.

The people in his city looked at each other, believed his words, looked around, and then dispersed in different directions.

"Shall we go too?" Tian Lei whispered in Lu Jinzhao's ear.

Instead of immediately deciding whether to leave or not, Lu Jinzhao asked her, "Can you still find out the location of other people?"

Tian Lei nodded immediately: "Yes."

"No rush."

She thought for a moment and then told Tianlei to pay attention to the positions of other people, especially the overlapping positions of passengers.

Regardless of Xiang Liang's motives for sharing his foresight with the crowd and then scattering them, he was certainly not lying.

At least, they didn't lie about having a mission coming up soon.

His cautious nature means he wouldn't pay too much attention to irrelevant people. Dispersing the crowd must be a relatively "safe" approach for him.

What is he afraid of?
Are you worried that if everyone gathers together after the mission arrives, it will pose some kind of danger to you?
He is a Special Grade, but not a weak and isolated one. Even if he is cautious, he shouldn't be this careful, unless he actually knew about the upcoming mission through his abilities, and the mission was unfavorable to him.

Sure enough, a new task appeared just two minutes later.

[Within 3 hours, conspire to kill one special-grade or ten villagers.]

The moment she saw the mission, a flash of inspiration struck Lu Jinzhao, and she understood why Xiang Liang looked so alarmed.

This is because this mission is clearly aimed at the highest level.

It blatantly tells all passengers: the platform is where death is born.

The key to the mission lies in the word "conspiracy".

It's no longer just a solo mission, no longer just about protecting yourself; it puts all the passengers on the same boat, where they must fight for the ship's sinking.

A task that seems simple can actually be found to be insidious if you look closely.

First, there's the choice of whether or not to do the task.

At first glance, this task seems like the more "cost-effective" option.

Since it's a "conspiracy," it means everyone has to find a way to complete it, even if other passengers complete it, it's still considered as if you've completed it yourself.

So instead of spending a lot of money to get rid of the mission, it seems we can still pin our hopes on other people.

Even if the task is difficult, there are other people with us, so we can surely complete it, right?
Even so, those who choose not to participate in the task will still face a problem after being exempted from the task:
Are we supposed to watch the person doing the task kill ten villagers?

Given the critical importance of the number of villagers, even to the point that those with influence were willing to forgo searching for crucial clues in order to preserve the villagers' numbers, could these people who weren't doing their tasks really just stand by and watch others kill the villagers?

They must have felt a sense of imbalance.

"Then why should I exempt myself from the mission? Killing the villagers isn't difficult."

Therefore, those who are exempt from the mission will definitely not want to see the villagers killed. They would want the Special One to die. Since they want the Special One to die, why would they exempt themselves from the mission and waste money to buy their lives, instead of joining the team that kills the Special One, or not rushing to exempt themselves from the mission and quietly waiting for other Special Ones to choose?

Those who choose to do the task from the beginning face two choices: villager or top-tier?

Without a doubt, the Class 1 passengers would be more inclined to kill the Special Class, since the target isn't them. To ensure the number of villagers and to save their own lives, it's better to lose one Special Class who won't help them than ten villagers!

As for the top-tier ones...
It's worth noting that the four top-level officers who came in are still alive.

Before entering, Lu Jinzhao had already heard Yun Cheng and Lin Lin's speculations that part of the purpose of the Death Platform was to "clean up the special-grades," so these special-grades should have been mentally prepared long ago.

Rather than killing villagers to increase the danger level of the platform, it's naturally better for the other special-grade enemies to die.

As for Lu Jinzhao, this "unconventional combat force," her attitude is the clearest: she will definitely choose to kill a Special-Class enemy.

Given all these factors, what appears to be a multiple-choice question actually has only one answer.

[Kill a Special Class.] This is actually a bit strange. According to the information Lu Jinzhao obtained about the Death Platform before entering, there are very few missions on the platform that require passengers to actively fight other passengers. All the missions are related to ghosts.

But if the act of killing the passenger is itself related to ghosts, then it's not surprising.

Even if it's a Class A death sentence, there are bound to be hidden dangers, but compared to the greater number of villagers who would die, Lu Jinzhao still prefers Class A deaths.

Xiang Liang's purpose in having everyone disperse is now quite clear.

In his "premonition," he was chosen as the target.

But things are never that smooth sailing; there will always be people with more unique ideas.

For example, if you think that the number of villagers is not too small, killing 10 is within the tolerance range, which is better than having one less special-grade villager in your city.

Some might argue that killing a Special Class member is no easy task, as it weakens the overall combat capability of the passengers and could potentially lead to the deaths of even more people. They might suggest killing 10 villagers instead.

Or perhaps they thought that if a fight broke out between the passengers, several people might die, and since they were also considered half villagers, wouldn't their deaths be equivalent to the deaths of the villagers?

According to this calculation, compared to dying in internal strife, killing villagers was not actually killing 10 people, but only a few.

It's all possible.

The clash between the two factions resulted in even more casualties.

The chosen Special Agent who was sacrificed might have another idea: kill those First-Class agents who weren't exempted from their missions, and if he kills enough of them, the other Special Agents won't bother him anymore.

Because it's no longer worthwhile.

Instead of continuing to kill him, it's better to finish off the remaining heads and leave behind more supernatural power.

As for why Xiang Xiangliang was chosen, it's probably because his current combat strength is not good.

Although it is very versatile, because drawing one fate can sometimes be equivalent to several, it is very dependent on luck!

Perhaps someone knew that Xiang Liang's luck in the cards wasn't good at the moment, so he was chosen.

In his premonition, his situation must be quite bad, perhaps even near death.

But now, Xiang Liang is not a good choice.

He could have easily wasted some of his supernatural power reserves to shuffle and redraw the cards, and he deliberately scattered the crowd so that the other special-level beings couldn't swarm him. Even if someone found him, who would dare to bet on what cards he drew?

Xiang Liang has saved his own life, but things have now gotten even more complicated.

"What do we do now? Who should we go to?" Tian Lei asked.

She clearly understood Lu Jinzhao's thoughts; Lu Jinzhao wouldn't kill the villagers, she would find a special agent.

"We'll wait."

Lu Jinzhao stood still in place.

Things are complicated, yet not so complicated.

Now we'll see which smart person comes knocking first.

As everyone disperses, how can those who share her thoughts after seeing the mission find their allies?
The village is small and lacks supernatural items with specific functions, so finding other non-target supernatural items is not an easy task.

unless
"So you're still here after all."

It was Luo Yu's voice. She didn't blindly follow Xiang Liang's orders; she also brought her teammates with her.

Before she left, she had observed carefully and noticed that Lu Jinzhao had been standing there the whole time, and even though everyone else was going elsewhere, she didn't seem to have any intention of leaving.

Sure enough, she's here now.

(End of this chapter)