See the Law of Deception

Chapter 265 I'm not a sheep, I'm a ghost
"Tell me about it. I'm in a good mood now that I'm back alive, so maybe I'll want to treat you better?"

Actually, I just wanted to hear a joke.

After the sheepskin's subtle signs of intelligence began to emerge, it was occasionally able to understand the hidden meanings behind human speech.

I don't believe you would be so kind.

It said solemnly.

Lu Jinzhao disagreed with its view: "Don't you ever have times when you're in a good mood and want to do something good?"

Without pausing or even thinking, the answer to the question came out of the sheepskin:

【No.】

He then added a sentence.

You won't have it either.

I don't believe you.

Really not!

“I clearly helped others, didn’t I?” Lu Jinzhao retorted.

But you will never help me.

This is real.

However, Lu Jinzhao said, "Who knows? Maybe it's just a small thing, and I don't mind."

Sheepskin hesitated for a moment.

【That】

If you're really that kind, could you...?

[Give me some of your soul? Not even a third, how about a tenth?]

Lu Jinzhao did not hesitate for a moment.

"cannot!"

Then what did you say?!

"What you were thinking about has nothing to do with my soul?"

You don't understand!

How am I supposed to understand if you don't tell me?

Perhaps it was the sense of security she felt upon returning home after the sudden tension that gave Lu Jinzhao a bit more free time. She was determined to pry something out of this devilish thing today.

I won't tell you.

The sheepskin's mouth is very hard.

"Speaking of which, why do you want my soul?" Lu Jinzhao stopped pursuing the current question and suddenly steered the conversation to its core.

"I am a ghost, and I want your soul to possess your body. Is that so hard to understand?"

"Playing dumb again."

She had previously hinted at this question indirectly, but Yangpi hadn't given an answer then. However, her reaction revealed some information.

"Why must it be my soul?" Lu Jinzhao asked.

【? 】

Who said that?

Who says it has to be your soul?

Don't flatter yourself. If you weren't the first person I met, I wouldn't even bother with you!

"Then why was I the first person you met?"

Lu Jinzhao did not correct its seemingly boastful words, but instead followed its logic and asked further questions.

How dare you ask that!

【If it isn't!】 It seemed to realize something and suddenly stopped.

But that's enough.

"As my talisman, aren't you necessarily me?"

Lu Jinzhao didn't press for what it wasn't, but instead phrased it differently, thinking that the sheepskin couldn't be bypassed.

really.

I am not your lucky charm!

I came here to kill you!

Lu Jinzhao was unsure whether Yangpi's statement about "coming to kill her" referred to their encounter at the train station or something earlier.

She recalled the extremely strange state the sheepskin had described when it mentioned the person who had turned it into a supernatural object, so she deliberately asked:

"Oh, so you've become like this because you were stopped from killing me?"

I would have already killed you.

it says.

His words were full of malice.

"Then why am I still alive?" Lu Jinzhao pressed.

The sheepskin suddenly fell silent again, no longer speaking.

But it has already revealed enough information, so much so that even Lu Jinzhao is surprised at this moment.

She deliberately asked questions based on information she herself wasn't sure about, yet received a response that the sheepskin was an affirmative one. The sheepskin had existed for many years before it became "sheepskin."

The sheepskin itself was taken from a dead lamb. Although her childhood memories were vague, after that serious illness, her memory was no different from that of a normal person.

Lu Jinzhao does not believe that he died after that.

The closest she had ever come to death was during that illness, when she had almost completely lost consciousness.

Thinking of this, Lu Jinzhao recalled the hallucination on the platform, where Yangpi, dressed as a lamb, tried to bewitch her, and how, after she woke up from her memories of the patrol mission, Yangpi impatiently asked her questions and even offered to make a deal.

That memory was of a serious illness she suffered as a child, during which she drank a bowl of miraculous medicine and recovered quickly.

But after she gradually recovered, the lamb slowly fell ill and died not long after.

"Are you a lamb?"

Lu asked this morning.

I am not a sheep, I am a ghost.

What's the difference between saying this and admitting it?
A sheep cannot suddenly turn into a ghost unless it was not an ordinary sheep to begin with.

She recalled the sheepskin's extreme attitude.

A ghost was stuffed into the body of a sheep, and later made into a sheepskin. If it were just an unconscious ghost, it would not feel anything.

But when it traded its soul with itself and gained a third of a "human" body, it began to feel anger.

It comes from the platform of death.

But why kill her?
She was just an ordinary child at the time and had never been to a train station before.

"The bowl of medicine I drank in my memory, the bowl you kept asking me about, is it related to you?" Lu Jinzhao pressed on.

Sheepskin fell silent again.

But Lu Jinzhao already understood that every time it remained silent, it meant that the topic had been brought up.

Why did you want to kill me?

Lu Jinchao intuitively felt that this was the key.

There's no reason why.

The sheepskin gave a cold reply.

"Because of my elders?" Lu Jinzhao ignored it and continued talking to himself.

"I don't have the normal conditions to interact with you, so it can only be through my elders."

"They were passengers too. Did they do something? A curse or something? Did it affect their children?"

The sheepskin remained silent.

"So, at some death platform, they encountered a curse that involved me as their blood relative. At that time, I couldn't resist the ghost, so someone turned this curse, which is you, into a little lamb that follows me."

"This is a temporary harmless treatment."

Lu Jinzhao's thinking became increasingly clear.

"But doing so does not break the curse; it is only a temporary solution."

"You still exist, and the ghost cannot be killed, even if you turn into a lamb."

"You said you had already killed me, but I came back to life. Why is that?"

What exactly was that bowl of medicine?
Sheepskin remained silent, but Lu Jinzhao no longer cared and continued to ponder.

“Even though I’ve almost died once, the curse hasn’t been broken. The curse continues, so you have to stay by my side forever.”

"So, you can only make a deal with me, want only my soul, and try your best to kill me."

"Because you yourself are a curse that binds me?"

I am not a curse, I am a ghost!

The sheepskin seemed to have been struck by something, and the distorted exclamation mark in the air seemed to reveal its turbulent emotions at this moment.

"So I have to go to the platform."

Lu Jinzhao suddenly came to a conclusion.

“My elders were unable to completely remove you from me, and you, you are a ghost. You almost killed me once. My elders are gone, and no one knows if you will have that chance again.”

"They probably think that only by becoming a passenger themselves and having the ability to protect themselves can they try to find an opportunity to deal with you."

“No.” Lu Jinzhao suddenly denied what he had just said.

Lu Jinzhao recalled the words her roommate, who had fallen from the building, said: "I wasn't trying to hurt you."

Her becoming a passenger was orchestrated, and the fact that the sheepskin was crafted into its current form—a tool filled with malice yet capable of saving her life at times—demonstrates this.
"If I don't become a passenger, I probably won't have many years left to live?"

They weren't unaware that Sheepskin might have another chance to harm them; rather, they were convinced that Sheepskin would kill her again, and that the only way for her to survive was on the platform.

Sheepskin wanted her dead, but also wanted her back on the platform, so he was happy for her to become a passenger.

Am I right?

You think you're so smart?

"Sheepskin suddenly said."

I can mercifully tell you, yes, you guessed part of it, but so what?

Do you know how many you guessed correctly?

It seemed to be laughing.

One-tenth.