See the Law of Deception

Chapter 239 Heredity (45)

"died?"

Luo Yu retrieved the weights and looked around the room with some wariness.

"It seems so." Lu Jinzhao felt the shadow puppet land on Xiang Liang's corpse and indeed found no information about a living person, thus confirming that the other party was indeed dead.

However, the mission proved this even more quickly.

The words on the arm slowly disappeared, signifying that the mission was complete.

Once this was confirmed, everyone relaxed. Luo Yu looked at Xiang Liang's corpse with a puzzled expression: "Didn't he carry any supernatural items with him?"

[Tan Meng] had already attached itself to Xiang Liang's body to search for the corpse. Soon, it found an item on the corpse that was filled with the aura of a ghost.

It was a small glass candy jar, about the size of a palm, containing about a dozen candies of different colors.

Lu Jinzhao didn't know what this thing was for, but there was no doubt that it was a supernatural item.

In addition, a rusty scalpel was pulled out from Xiang Liang's sleeve.

Judging from the aura emanating from the two supernatural items, the glass candy jar made Lu Jinzhao feel more uncomfortable, suggesting that its source was more powerful than the scalpel.

Tan Meng brought the two items back to Lu Jinzhao. Luo Yu, seeing this, seemed thoughtful: "Why didn't you use them?"

"Perhaps the conditions aren't met?" Lu Jinzhao held the two newly acquired supernatural items, not knowing their function yet, and could only put them in his bag for the time being.

"Perhaps it was used, but didn't have much effect?"

If the supernatural item has a very limited function and is primarily used to affect ghosts, it might not have been able to save Xiang Liang's life in the situation just now.

However, they are currently unaware of the specific function of these two supernatural items and are unable to analyze them.

No one objected to Lu Jinzhao taking those two items directly.

"I need to take care of his body. You wait for me outside?" Unless absolutely necessary, Lu Jinzhao didn't want to perform the art of skinning in front of others.

Fortunately, just like the supernatural items that were taken away, the others tacitly agreed that Lu Jinzhao could handle the corpse she had killed, no matter what she wanted to do.

After Luo Yu and the others left the courtyard, Lu Jinzhao prepared to skin Lu.

However, now thanks to Tan Meng, a shadow puppeteer with a unique understanding and use of "human skin," Lu Jinzhao no longer needs to peel off a complete human skin by hand. Tan Meng's technique is much better than hers.

All it takes is to wrap the skin around the corpse once, and then a whole piece of skin is peeled off.

Because Lu Jinzhao had pre-defined which parts she didn't need, the skin was peeled off exceptionally perfectly, and she didn't even need to remove the bones herself.

However, it's not appropriate to leave a skinned and beheaded corpse here like this.

Lu Jinzhao thought of the corpses burned in the pit. It was just ordinary flames, yet they burned the corpses until nothing was left.

She controlled the shadow puppets to bring oil and firewood, and set the corpse on fire in the open space of the courtyard.

The flames weren't particularly hot, yet the corpse was burning fiercely.

Lu Jinzhao even saw the corpse being melted by the flames.

This is very illogical, but she even controlled "ghosts" to move corpses.
After waiting for a while and seeing that the body had burned to near completion, Lu Jinzhao turned and left the courtyard.

Outside the door, only Tian Lei and Luo Yu remained; Luo Yu's teammates were no longer there.

"I told them to go and see if anyone was taking the opportunity to search for the villagers." Luo Yu saw Lu Jinzhao open the door and come out, and her gaze fell on the burning Xiang Liang behind her.

"Have you sensed anything? Xiang Liang's destiny should now be integrated with the village," Lu Jinzhao asked.

Luo Yu shook her head: "Not yet. Perhaps we haven't broken any taboos?"

"But what taboos will there be after Xiang Liang's death?" Tian Lei asked, somewhat puzzled. She was fairly familiar with Lu Jinzhao and would occasionally blurt out something like, "Can't we play card games or something?"

Lu Jinzhao gave her a speechless look: "Do you think we're going to play cards here?" Luo Yu, on the other hand, was seriously analyzing: "It might be related to something like drawing cards?"

There was no way around it; Xiang Liang's fate was different from the previous person's. It wasn't a clear "door" or any other object, but rather a card draw.

It's really hard to predict what will happen when you integrate into the village.

However, being uncommon also means that it won't be triggered frequently.

Luo Yu thought for a moment, then casually took something out of her pocket.

Nothing.

"It seems this isn't the most troublesome part."

What Luo Yu had just thought of as the most troublesome thing was that doing anything related to "taking" or "extracting" might trigger Xiang Liang's fate, but it seems that this is not the case now.

"Since we don't know, there's no need to look for it deliberately."

Lu Jinzhao did not intend to immediately test out the taboo that Xiang Liang had created.

It's very simple. They don't know whether Xiang Liang's integration into the village after his death only involved the cards he had just drawn, or whether all of them were integrated, leading to random punishment after violating a taboo.

If so, there might be some cards among Xiang Liang's deck that could cause big trouble.

She had used a "luck-changing" remedy, but was unsure when misfortune would strike.

Rather than testing the waters, it's better to avoid it.

This is the same attitude she has towards the villagers: rather than asking them questions, she prefers to avoid them by knowing nothing.

"I'm planning to go somewhere else. We'll meet again later." Lu Jinzhao didn't intend to stay with Luo Yu forever.

This surprised Luo Yu. She had previously informed Lu Jinzhao of the whereabouts of her teammates, intending to exchange information with Lu Jinzhao. However, Lu Jinzhao did not buy into it at all.

"Okay." Although Luo Yu was surprised, she simply smiled.

Just in case, she suggested, "Why don't we meet and exchange information before tonight?"

Lu Jinzhao agreed: "Come here at 8 o'clock to meet me."

After thinking for a moment, she added, "If another task comes before 8 o'clock, then we'll see how it goes. If the task is complicated, we'll meet earlier."

If it's another similar task, then we'll have to think about it carefully.

“Okay.” Luo Yu readily agreed.

She seemed very willing to work with Lu Jinzhao.

Lu Jinzhao knew why. Luo Yu wanted to survive as much as possible while protecting more of her teammates. Therefore, she needed an ally from another city to cooperate with and share the risks.

Just like killing Xiang Liang.

If she hadn't collaborated with Lu Jinzhao, and it had just been her teammates, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

Lu Jinzhao didn't mind.

The benefits are mutual; she also needs the convenience that Luo Yu and her teammates bring.

After parting ways with Luo Yu, she turned to Tian Lei and asked, "Is there anything strange about the movements of the others?"

Tian Lei frowned slightly: "Someone has been standing still for a long time, and I'm not sure what she's doing."

She could only sense location and whether someone was alive or dead; she couldn't sense anything else.

(End of this chapter)