See the Law of Deception

Chapter 246 Heredity (52)

One-third of the soul?
The moment she heard that word, Lu Jinzhao's brain seemed to trigger some kind of defense mechanism. She felt a splitting headache and a strong desire to refuse surged into her heart. Without thinking, she blurted out, "No!"

After she finished speaking, her headache subsided slightly, and she was able to catch her breath and begin to think about why she had refused so decisively.

The lamb tilted its head in front of her, seemingly unable to understand.

You're going to die.

The lamb said.

The sound was strange.
No, that's not right.

What sound is that?
She didn't hear the lamb speak at all; the words didn't just appear in her mind, or in her "cognition."

She thought the lamb had spoken, but it hadn't; the lamb hadn't even opened its mouth.

So Lu Jinzhao looked at it in confusion: "Are you my illusion?"

When the lamb heard this, its expression became very subtle.

Lu Jinzhao didn't understand why he could see emotions on a sheep's face, but clearly, the little sheep was in a bad mood because of his question.

I told you you were going to die.

It repeated itself, its tone unchanged, as if the emotional changes Lu Jinzhao saw on its face did not exist.

"You're my illusion. I don't believe what you're saying." Cold sweat dripped from Lu Jinzhao's forehead. Since the severe headache earlier, the hand pressing down on her back seemed to have become much lighter.

She felt that not only the lamb, but everything around her was an illusion.

Her instinctive refusal and the intense headache she felt earlier were warnings from herself.

The lamb's expression changed again. It stomped its right front hoof on the ground, as if it was a little restless. Lu Jinzhao had a feeling that this guy might be kicking him.
But for some reason, the lamb held back.

"I'm right in front of you, how could it be an illusion?"

【Chaochao, I've been with you since you were very young, from when you were very little until your parents passed away. I've been by your side ever since, and I still am now.】

Don't you understand? You and I have the closest relationship in the world.

You may not believe what others say, but you shouldn't disbelieve me.

It was trying to convince me, Lu Jinzhao thought calmly.

But it let it slip.

"My parents are dead? They just brought me to the ancestral hall, how could they be dead?"

The lamb suddenly stopped talking.

It became agitated.

"This is indeed an illusion." As Lu Jinzhao became certain of this, the hand pressing on his back became lighter and lighter.

The ancestral hall was also changing little by little in front of her, and the illusion here seemed to be about to fade away.

The lamb stared at her, extremely unwilling.

Those rectangular pupils were etched with Lu Jinzhao's image, as if they were a devil's pact.

Lu Jinzhao's mind became somewhat hazy, and some disordered, no, things she should have remembered flooded back into her mind. Truth and falsehood alternated in her mind, and Lu Jinzhao tried her best to grasp those memories that she considered "real".

As a result, the changes in the ancestral hall became more and more obvious, and the weight on her back gradually lessened to a level that she could bear.

She looked at the lamb and suddenly smiled: "I should thank you."

"Thank you for your stupidity, which made me realize that this place is fake."

The lamb looked at her, and Lu Jinzhao realized that she could see "resentment" on the lamb's face.

"You should thank me," it said.

If it weren't for me, there wouldn't be so many flaws here.

You should be like those people, unconsciously immersed in it, and then die.

Unfortunately, Lu Jinzhao had made a deal with it, so this place wasn't just Lu Jinzhao's "illusion," but her shadow puppet also helped her here.

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The lamb looked at her, finding it hard to believe that such an evil, chilling smile could appear on a sheep's face.

[Lu Jinzhao, do you think this is a good thing?]

The moment after the lamb finished speaking, before she could ask any further questions, Lu Jinzhao felt a blur before her eyes, and when she looked again, the lamb had vanished.

Lu Jinzhao suddenly came to his senses and realized that he had unknowingly entered a hallucination.

And now.
Her body still felt heavy, as if something was pressing down on her. She was forced to bend over, and her wrist, which had only a small cut, was now stretched forward and placed above her memorial tablet. The wound that should have healed was reopened, and blood was dripping down, staining her memorial tablet red.

The names on the memorial tablets now have more strokes.

Lu Jinzhao immediately withdrew her hand. As she straightened her bent back, something slipped off her back and fell to the ground with a thud.

She turned her head and saw a corpse.

She had seen the corpse's face before, on the roof beam.

And now, she's on her back.

When did you come down?

Did something throw her down, or did she get down on her own?

Lu Jinzhao couldn't be sure, and she couldn't care less about that now. She spent nearly ten minutes immersed in the illusion, and she didn't have much time left to complete the task. She had to move on to the next step.

Kneel three times.

In the hallucination just now, the "villagers" wanted her to kowtow.

Lu Jinzhao began to recall everything that happened in the hallucination.

She recalled seeing three corpses on the roof beams in the ancestral hall she had hallucinated, except that at that time they were standing in the ancestral hall as villagers.

It's likely that the three players' corpses weren't truly dead, but rather had become part of this village.

If she kowtows in her hallucination, she will likely lose herself from the moment she begins to have consciousness and become just like a villager.

The kowtowing during the hallucination probably won't count towards the mission. If she kowtows, she might not be able to exit the hallucination, and naturally, she won't be able to complete the mission.

If the hallucination of kowtowing makes her lose herself, what about in reality?
Moreover, the "little lamb" in the hallucination was clearly sheepskin.

That's not the lamb of the past, it's the sheepskin of today.

There is no doubt that the sheepskin invaded her illusions and tried to deceive her into exchanging more souls.

Is it really capable of doing this now?
Unfortunately, it was as foolish as ever, revealing too much in its words.

However, what it said at the end made Lu Jinzhao somewhat concerned.

Unfortunately, now is not the time to delve into those matters; she must complete her mission as soon as possible.

Lu Jinzhao manipulated [Tan Meng] to drag the fallen corpse on her back to the door, then let [Luck Transfer] bring her good luck for the next minute, and finally, [Substitute Death] began to take effect.

The wound on her wrist was blocked by her controlled ghost blood. Although this would prevent the wound from healing properly, at least for the time being, it would not continue to cause blood loss.

[Lu Jinzhao] stood on her shoulder, keeping his eyes on her back to help her watch out for anything unusual behind her.

She took two steps back, facing the memorial tablet, and then slowly bent her knees.

(End of this chapter)