See the Law of Deception

Chapter 241 Heredity (47)

As the time drew near to the date she had agreed upon with Luo Yu, Tian Lei returned to Lu Jinzhao's side.

She shook her head, indicating that no other passengers had shown any abnormalities and no villagers had been found.

The only unusual thing now is the woman in front of me.

Since Tianlei left, she has made absolutely no move; in fact, apart from some physiological reactions, she has not made any further movements.

Perhaps because of her stiff posture, Lu Jinzhao even saw the twitching of her leg muscles, but even so, the woman remained motionless, as if she had completely lost consciousness and was only driven by bodily instincts.

Lu Jinzhao thought for a moment and then asked Tianlei to bring Luo Yu to the agreed-upon location to meet up.

Although he didn't know what the woman in front of him had gone through, Lu Jinzhao wanted to see if she would still have no reaction when the new mission was issued.
It was completely dark.

The village was already remote, and after the villagers hid, there wasn't even a single light. In addition, for some reason, the night was covered with dark clouds, and there was very little starlight or moonlight. Without an additional light source, it was almost pitch black.

Fortunately, the lighting equipment was still working; seeing the flashlight beam from a distance was enough to tell that someone was approaching.

On her way here, Luo Yu had already learned about the whole story from Tian Lei. She was not familiar with Xiang Liang's teammates, and this was not something she had planned. Therefore, she was particularly curious about the woman's condition.

When she followed Tian Lei to where Lu Jinzhao was, she immediately focused her attention on the woman who was still facing the wall and not moving.

"Do you have a way to determine her current state using her destiny?" Lu Jinzhao's voice came from the darkness.

"It's difficult, but I can only give it a try."

After all, her destiny cannot communicate with her; it can only be "judged," and even that judgment has its limitations.

She didn't know what the woman had gone through; what she wanted to weigh was the weight of the woman's current "life".

The answer was: extremely light.

Its weight is no different from that of a roadside stone.

“It’s just an empty shell, without a soul,” Luo Yu murmured.

“She was almost dead,” she concluded. “But her body was still alive, which was strange.”

As for the cause, she couldn't figure it out yet.

Although her destiny chart has broad applicability, it's not something that can be known for everything.

Lu Jinzhao was not surprised by Luo Yu's answer.

She had already guessed what was going on with the woman, and now it was confirmed.

Luo Yu did not come alone; her teammates followed behind her.

So far, no one in Luo Yu's team has died.

Comparing Xiang Liang's team and the warehouse team, Lu Jinzhao began to look at Luo Yu with new respect.

With less than forty hours left before the train arrived, they hadn't even figured out what "heredity" meant, and half of the passengers who had boarded had already died for various reasons.

"Perhaps there aren't many more tasks ahead."

Luo Yu seemed to have a premonition.

Lu Jinzhao has never been to the Death Platform before and does not intend to make any predictions about it.

However, before she could say anything polite to brush it off, the unexpected happened.

A new task has arrived.

At 12:10 tonight, go to the ancestral hall, return your memorial tablet to the hall, light three incense sticks, cut your wrist and smear your blood on the tablet, and kowtow three times to the tablet.

The moment Lu Jinzhao finished reading the task, a chill ran down his spine.

Simply because, after reading the mission, four words immediately came to her mind:
To acknowledge one's ancestors and return to one's roots.

On the first day, they took out blank memorial tablets from the ancestral hall. As they stayed in the village, their names gradually appeared on the tablets, and they slowly integrated into the village.

Now, the task requires them to return the memorial tablets with names engraved on them, as if they have now become full members of the village.

“It can’t be changed.” Luo Yu’s voice carried a hint of disbelief.

She paid a considerable sum to save her life, yet she was unable to be exempted from the task or change the rule of "returning the memorial tablet to the ancestral hall."

The only things she could change were the number of incense sticks, the number of kowtows, and whether or not to smear blood on the memorial tablet.

Even she didn't have enough money to make the changes, let alone the others.

But this task cannot be done.

It wasn't a premonition or a sense of crisis, but rather a judgment based on known information that this task couldn't be carried out.

But she had already spent too much of her life money at this station, which meant that she couldn't avoid this most deadly mission now.

“Once the memorial tablet is returned, I’ll probably really become a villager.”

And the villagers are said to turn into ghosts at night.

Even the "people" during the day cannot be considered real people; they may just be some kind of illusion or mechanism.

She can't gamble.

Ghosts cannot board trains!

But not doing the missions also means death.
Luo Yu did not panic. She quickly thought of a solution. No matter how you looked at it, it was a dead end. But even on a death platform, there would never be a situation where there was absolutely no chance of annihilation and no way out.

There must be another way.
Luo Yu's eyes flickered, and she already had a plan in mind.

She wanted to make an "equivalent exchange," using the extra, blank memorial tablet to replace her own and return it to the ancestral hall!

Regarding the mission, her current destiny is not strong enough. Weighing the mission and exchanging it will inevitably come at a heavy price, but it will definitely be worth it.

However, this means she can no longer use her destiny to help her teammates, but she can tell them the key points of this mission.

"Could this be the most dangerous spot on the platform?"

Luo Yu's teammates behind her looked pale: "So, you're going to turn us into villagers and disqualify us from boarding the train?"

"How to do this?"

As the person behind him asked, many solutions flashed through their mind.

Using someone else's memorial tablet?

No, the tasker wrote his own memorial tablet. He tried to change it by removing the word "himself," but failed. It seems he would have to pay a lot of money to save his life.

She didn't have Luo Yu's convenient destiny, but one of her supernatural items was a photograph that might be of some use.
It was a photograph of herself taken with a supernatural camera brought out from the sequel, The Platform.

The others were still discussing:

"The times are still different; it seems they want us to go in separately."

"However, changing the time costs less than other options, so time may not be important."

"The earliest is at 11:00."

"Each person was spaced 20 minutes apart, which gave us plenty of time to stay in the ancestral hall."

"After all, we have to go into the ancestral hall, place the memorial tablet, light incense, bleed, and kowtow."

"Perhaps we will encounter some danger at some point."

(End of this chapter)