See the Law of Deception

Chapter 240 Heredity (46)

"When did she start staying here?"

Lu Jinzhao wasn't worried that Tianlei wouldn't be able to answer the question.

"We found Xiang Liang shortly after, around the time we entered the room."

The timing was accurate; as expected, Tianlei had been paying attention to these things.

"Let's go see what she's doing."

The person who remained stationary wasn't far away; after all, they had only walked for five minutes, and even if they ran, they couldn't have gone very far.

Soon after, Lu Jinzhao, led by Tian Lei, spotted that person.

It's just weird.

This person stood motionless in front of a wall, with his back to Lu Jinzhao and Tian Lei.

It was a low, earthen-yellow mud wall outside a villager's house. Lu Jinzhao checked it carefully and found nothing unusual about it; at least, there was nothing that would attract someone's attention.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Tian Lei didn't approach immediately, but called out to the back of the figure.

After the sound faded, the figure didn't react at all.

Not quite right.

This person is clearly not in a good state.

"Did you break some taboo?"

According to Tianlei, Xiang Liang was still alive when she remained still, so it wasn't a taboo that was newly incorporated after Xiang Liang's death.

Of course, it doesn't necessarily mean that a taboo has been violated.

“Let’s go take a look,” Lu Jinzhao said softly.

Tian Lei paused for a moment, the risks of stepping forward flashing through her mind, including the consequences of refusing Lu Jinzhao's request at this moment.

Two seconds later, she once again chose to obey Lu Jinzhao's instructions.

This choice has come many times since she entered the platform. Even though Tian Lei felt that she and Lu Jinzhao were friends and teammates who could trust each other, she still couldn't help but think in her heart as if it were an instinct: If I don't listen to Lu Jinzhao now, will she break off our relationship and find an opportunity to kill me?
Rationally, she believed in and trusted Lu Jinzhao, but instinct prevented her from truly getting close to anyone.

She can't just be a docile pet clinging to the farmer's wrist; she'll be waiting for the right moment to strike first against him.

Tian Lei stepped forward quietly, her footsteps very light, like a snake gliding silently across the ground.

She approached the person from behind and peeked out. The person didn't react, even though her voice wasn't quiet enough to be completely inaudible. It was as if the person was dead or deaf.

So Tianlei reached out and patted her shoulder.

no response.

"hello?"

"Hello?"

Are you listening?

Still no response.

She didn't feel that patting someone on the shoulder or greeting them violated any taboos.

It is safe for the time being.

So she went to the front of the figure and tried to see her face.

Inside the platform, this is actually not a safe action.

Because most of the time, passengers will see an unpleasant face, and may even get into trouble because of it.

When Tian Lei finally saw her face, sure enough, it wasn't a normal face. It wasn't that it was particularly terrifying, but rather that this person's eyes had no pupils, only a white expanse, as if she had rolled her eyes so hard that her eyeballs had completely rolled into her eyelids, and now only the whites of her eyes were visible.

Apart from that, there was nothing wrong with her facial features.

But the eyes alone are enough to suggest that this person is probably in some kind of supernatural predicament.

"Am I okay?"

Tian Lei hesitated for a moment before walking around her without violating any taboos.

The woman in front of her remained motionless, as if she could neither hear nor see anything.

Tian Lei frowned and returned to Lu Jinzhao's side: "She may have been attacked by some kind of supernatural power, or perhaps, she did it herself?"

"I'm not sure, I don't have the ability to investigate that."

“There are no taboos around her, and I walked around without triggering anything, so it can only have happened at a specific time.”

As for what exactly happened, she was curious, but she didn't have the ability to find out.

It would be great if there were some kind of supernatural gadget that could allow you to see what has happened within a certain range.

The person in front of him was a Class A passenger in Xiang Liang's city, and the only remaining person in Xiang Liang's city besides the surviving Special Class passenger.

But now, she's in trouble.

"What about the other top-tier one?" Lu Jinzhao asked.

“She used to move very quickly, probably looking for villagers, but she slowed down after Xiang Liang died. Now she’s alone near the back of the mountain.”

This is a normal movement trajectory.

He didn't seem to be the culprit who caused the person in front of him to lose their mind, so Tian Lei hesitated for a moment before saying those words.

Lu Jinzhao made no comment on this, but simply instructed her, "I will stay here. Go and see if the others have found any villagers."

Tianlei had tracked down other people's movements, and she needed to know if anyone knew the villagers' whereabouts; this was very important.

"Okay." After Tian Lei left, Lu Jinzhao checked the balance of his life-saving money, and without much hesitation, he had Tan Meng carry her memorial tablet five meters away.

There weren't many left, not enough to modify the task, so let's spend them all on the memorial tablets.

Lu Jinzhao did not have the idea that "there is only a little time left, so we might as well save the money."

Rather, it was precisely because she knew that time was running out and the hidden dangers in the village might soon erupt that she wanted to hurry up and spend the money.

The scratches on the memorial tablet have gotten deeper, perhaps from when it was carried with me during a previous mission.

Something is different.

When the memorial tablet is removed from one's body, the feeling of being invaded becomes even stronger, even accompanied by a chilling aura never before felt, as if a bottle filled with water has overflowed and is about to spill.

What caused the feeling to change?
The passage of time?
Or is the death toll rising?
As time passed and her savings for saving her life dwindled, but the sense of intrusion in the air didn't increase, Lu Jinzhao became certain.

The variable comes from the increase in deaths.

The sun gradually slanted down until it slowly disappeared behind the mountains.

The sky, which had been clear, turned orange, then gradually descended to blue as night fell.

Lu Jinchao began to worry about something.

The villagers hid very well during the day and were not discovered by the passengers, but what about at night?

If a villager who turns into a ghost at night is disturbed by a passing passenger, will he immediately leave his hiding place and chase after them?

More importantly, what will be the mission tonight?
She had no doubt that a mission would come tonight. The train's arrival time was already set, and there wasn't much time left for the platform and the ghost.

Put yourself in their shoes, what kind of task could truly retain these passengers?
(End of this chapter)