See the Law of Deception

Chapter 237 Heredity (43)

Ding Yan took a deep breath, walked to the door, and raised his hand.

Although the door was closed, it was not locked; it opened with a gentle push.

Ding Yan was very careful. After pushing open the door, she did not go in immediately, but stood still and felt the atmosphere.

Nothing happened.

It seems that Xiang Liang's trap wasn't set at "pushing the door"?
She carefully assessed her current condition, and then cautiously ventured inside.

Since she already knew it was related to the "door" and that she would be attacked if she went in or out, she had naturally taken precautions.

So, the moment she stepped into the courtyard, before the supernatural attack landed on her, she had already used her destiny.

This resulted in her only suffering minor burns, which were not serious. Although she still felt pain, these were only considered minor injuries.

"It seems... there's nothing wrong?" She walked around inside the door, somewhat puzzled.

"I didn't feel anything else." Apart from the supernatural attack inherent in the taboo of the door itself, she didn't feel any other attacks.
"Wait a minute." She sensed it more carefully, then said uncertainly, "It seems like there's something there. But I'm not sure."

Ding Yan found it hard to describe the fleeting feeling: "It was like being watched by something, but not a direct threat aimed at me."

"Can it be removed?" Luo Yu asked.

Ding Yan shook his head: "I can't do it myself. It's more of a feeling than a direct attack."

Luo Yu frowned. If even Ding Yan himself didn't know what this was, she couldn't use the Fate to help Ding Yan unless she herself felt the "feeling" Ding Yan was talking about, realized it, or came into contact with it, then she could use the Fate to target it.

Although Ding Yan's words were vague, she didn't think Ding Yan was mistaken.

This must be some kind of trick by Xiang Liang, but it's a card she doesn't know about.

So Luo Yu stopped looking outside the door and decisively stepped inside.

She held the scales in her hand, and after entering the room, she didn't even have any burns on her body.

However, once inside the door, her heightened sense of the supernatural made her realize that something was amiss with Ding Yan's words.

That certainly didn't seem like a typical supernatural attack; it was more like a transparent spider silk attached to them.

Unseen, intangible, and unbreakable, no one knows what the spider silk connects to. It seems harmless and weak, and brings no consequences. Its aura is extremely weak, even weaker than the aura of the useless supernatural items produced by the low-level platforms in Luo Yu's memory.

She tried to exchange the silk thread for the price of the heavens, and she succeeded. But the very next second after she cut it, another transparent, seemingly harmless silk thread stuck to her body.

Luo Yu realized that such a "severance" was meaningless.

She must find the source of the spider silk, the "spider".

She also tried to prevent herself from getting stuck in the spider silk, but the price she had to pay for this exchange was beyond her expectations. Luo Yu hesitated for a moment and did not choose to do so.

She looked at Lu Jinzhao and briefly explained the current situation to her.

Lu Jinzhao was curious upon hearing this. She stuck the [Tan Meng] to her body and went inside. However, what surprised her was...
The transparent, invisible "spider silk" passed through Tan Meng and stuck directly to her.

[Tan Meng] It cannot be stopped.

This is a supernatural power that is extremely precise and can even ignore obstacles.

It is almost non-aggressive, but it is difficult to stop.

Lu Jinzhao raised an eyebrow slightly. The shadow puppet representing "Lu Jinzhao" peeked out from the back of her neck, which was covered by her black hair. Then, the spider silk suddenly floated in the air, detached from Lu Jinzhao's body, and connected to the shadow puppet. Lu Jinzhao then tried the "stand-in" shadow puppet, but the "stand-in" could not attract the spider silk.

It seems that the accuracy of this spider silk is indeed very high.

However, Lu Jinzhao did not sense any aggression or danger from it; it was just as "harmless" as Luo Yu and Ding Yan had described it before.

Luo Yu frowned: "Although I don't know what it will do, let's be careful."

The courtyard was very small, with only three rooms inside. There wasn't much room for Xiang Liang to hide, not even a second floor.

Luo Yu didn't waste any time: "Xiang Liang, just come out already, don't waste any more time."

Her gaze was precisely fixed on the center.

A hoarse sound, like the cawing of a crow, came from the middle room. Then, the door was slowly pushed open, and Luo Yu and the others saw Xiang Liang standing in the middle of the room, as if waiting for someone to come to him.

The room was unusually dark, with the only light source being the newly opened door, making Xiang Liang feel as if he were standing in darkness.

He sighed, "I thought no one would come looking for me anymore, even though you all knew I would definitely do something to protect myself."

"Furthermore," he glanced at the people outside, "you're not going to find other top-tier agents, but instead bringing these people to kill me? Isn't that underestimating me a bit?"

A crow cawed as he spoke, and some people then noticed that a jet-black crow had landed on Xiang Liang's shoulder, almost blending into the dimly lit room.

With that cry, Lu Jinzhao clearly felt an invisible "suppression" descend upon her.

In that instant, the "connection" between her and the shadow puppet seemed to weaken.

Fortunately, when Lu Jinzhao transferred these to [Lu Jinzhao], the suppression dissipated.

Upon seeing the crow, Luo Yu blurted out, "You drew a crow? This card isn't very useful to you right now, is it?"

The Raven card is one of the cards that Luo Yu knows, because this card is quite "famous".

The raven has been seen as an ominous sign by humans in some parts of the past, but it is also regarded as a sacred bird in other parts of the world. Therefore, this card has two functions.

For Xiang Liang, it was a "boost," but for others, it was an "ominous sign."

Luo Yu sensed this "ominous" feeling, which not only made her fate slightly stagnant, but also meant that her attacks on Xiang Liang might occasionally encounter some "accidents," but overall, they would not have a decisive effect.

Ultimately, this is just a card with auxiliary functions.

Xiang Liang looked at her and said slowly, "You don't know what other cards I drew, but you should have sensed something was wrong. I advise you not to attack me anymore. There's still time. Why not kill ten villagers instead?"

"It's not a good thing for top-tier fighters to fight each other to the death."

Luo Yu shook her head: "To me, you are not as valuable as the villagers."

Xiang Liang's expression was grave: "It seems there's no other way?"

He put the cards together in his hand. On one of the cards was a beautiful butterfly with many spider silks attached to its wings. It seemed that if it fluttered its wings even slightly, it could make the spider silks tremble.

That was the other card he drew:

The Butterfly Effect

(End of this chapter)