Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 97 Substitute Death Surrender

"She said...this order must be completed before dawn..."

Jiang Jin immediately shielded Xiaoyu behind him and took out the pills for her to take.

At this moment, all the perfume bottles in the workshop trembled simultaneously, and liquid gushed from the bottle openings, condensing in the air into more blurry human figures.

Uncle, your hand!

Xiaoyu's scream made Jiang Jin tremble. Then he realized that his right hand was becoming transparent at an alarming speed, and he could clearly see the glass liquid flowing between his bones.

He didn't touch the glass bottle, did he?

He then took the pills, but found that the effect seemed to be minimal.

As expected, the cognitive stabilizing pills had almost no effect on the reincarnators.

But Jiang Jin later discovered that Xiao Yu's condition was not much better. Although her body was recovering from transparency faster than his, it was still much slower than Xiao Ya, A Jie, and others!
Logically, the pills should be very effective for minors! It seems... Xiaoyu has been exposed to a very high level of memetic contamination!

At this moment, Jiang Jin suddenly asked, "Xiaoyu, what is your full name? How do you write it?"

"Wang, Wang Shiyu, Wang as in king, Shi as in poetry, Yu as in rain!"

"Okay! Xiaoyu, go find the red basket! And also look for yellow gloves!"

"Okay...okay, Uncle!"

Without hesitation, Jiang Jin activated the ability of the "Deceptive Lawyer" to alter the rules!

Even the Reincarnation System couldn't detect it, and no one in the Reincarnation Camp could detect him activating this ability!

Staring at the conveyor belt in front of him, Jiang Jin gritted his teeth. He picked up an iron bar from the ground nearby, forcibly pried open the control panel, and inserted it into the circuit board. Sparks flew, the conveyor belt emitted a dying groan, and the filling machine stopped working.

At this moment, Xiaoyu brought over the red basket: "I'm sorry, Uncle, I haven't found the yellow gloves yet."

Jiang Jin discovered that Xiao Yu's hair and the left side of her face were also beginning to become transparent!
Jiang Jin immediately inserted his transparent right arm into the red waste bin...

Subsequently, the transparent arm began to gradually return to normal!
The rule that "fragile items can be recycled using red containers" has been altered by him to: "fragile items can be restored using red containers!"

Two words, each word adds up to 2% of the SAN value. Together with Xiaoyu, that's a total deduction of 8%!

His SAN value has dropped to 63.52%!

"Xiaoyu, put your face in!"

After Xiaoyu put her face in as well, sure enough, the "vitrification" on her body began to recover!
Indeed, a vitreous body is also a "fragile object"!
Jiang Jin knew that time was running out, so he simply let Xiaoyu sit in the waste basket, and then rushed towards the workshop door with the little girl as the emergency lights in the passageway flickered on and off.

As they rushed out of the workshop, moonlight shone on Jiang Jin's right hand—the invisibility had stopped, but occasionally a glassy reflection would flash beneath his skin. Finally, sirens began to sound in the distance, and Jiang Jin felt relieved; the cleaners should arrive soon.

“Remember, don’t touch any glass objects again unless you’re wearing yellow gloves.” After confirming that the transparency on Xiaoyu’s face had been completely reversed, he picked up the little girl. “I’ll take you back…”

Before he could finish speaking, the hissing sound of disinfectant spray came from afar, and three orange figures appeared near the workshop.

Those were three cleaners!
At this moment, they all came over with a bottle of disinfectant spray and sprayed it on Jiang Jin and Xiao Yu...

In that instant, Xiaoyu began to lose consciousness.

"I am a reincarnator!" Jiang Jin said to the two cleaners, "Please send me to the isolation zone immediately! I need to go to the instance trial right away!"

Then, his vision went black, and he lost consciousness due to the spray.

At this time, at the Dingyou Reincarnation Camp.

The Bloody Team's base.

"Uncle, Uncle..."

This was a fairly spacious room, filled with various skulls painted with runes and red candles.

A young man with Southeast Asian features is kneeling on the ground.

Deputy Regiment Commander Long Cang held a large machete in his right hand and pressed the young man's neck down onto a chair with his left hand.

"Xiao Wu, bear with it, I've arranged everything." Long Cang could sense the intense fear in the young man before him. "My blade is very fast, you won't feel any pain. With this one strike, you'll immediately advance to a LV3 sorcerer!"

"Uncle, I... I think we can wait a little longer..."

"The Bloodthirsty Team doesn't tolerate idlers! Last time we hunted Wu Qin, I was in seclusion, giving you a chance to prove yourself, but you failed to kill Wu Qin for Blood Lord! Last time we went to Qingtan Community, Jin Shumei also failed to find out who killed Wu Qin! Otherwise, Blood Lord could have personally helped you advance!"

"But, but..." The young man trembled with fear as he looked at the large cleaver in Long Cang's hand. "If this strike fails and my head is severed, I... I'll be..." "You should have expected this day when you chose the profession of sorcerer! As long as you can't advance, your SAN value will decrease and your potential will increase. Sooner or later, you will fall into the annihilation layer, and even your uncle won't be able to save you then!"

"Uncle, are you... are you sure? If you cut off my head with this stroke, can I really become a Level 3 Flying Head Slasher like you, instead of... going to meet the King of Hell?"

The young man's name was Longwu, but his real name was Nattawut Wansaive. He had illegally immigrated from Thailand with his uncle. Membrane contamination is severe throughout Southeast Asia. In East Asia, only China has a relatively better situation.

Of course, as things stand, the memetic pollution in Muxu City is getting more and more serious. If this continues, Long Cang thinks that this country will eventually become like the United States and Japan.

"Uncle, I've made all the arrangements for you! My elder brother and sister-in-law are both dead. No matter what, Xiao Wu, you are the hope of my Wang Saiwei family. I will make sure you live! Don't worry, with this one cut, you will definitely survive!"

He had been planning this for a long time.

He conceived this wicked plan when he encountered the four children collecting bottles.

He obtained a set of work clothes from the Membrane Pollution Monitoring Department, then deceived and lured the children into the glass factory, cast a curse on them, and gave them a potion mixed with Xiao Wu's blood, claiming it was the latest drug from the Membrane Pollution Monitoring Department.

Although the use of any active professional skills in the real world is strictly prohibited, the regulations are merely theoretical; it is ultimately people who enforce them. In the Reincarnator black market, there are items that can bypass the monitoring of the Reincarnation Camp, or one can simply bribe the monitors to turn a blind eye.

First, Long Cang cast a silencing spell on them. This spell prevents the victim from revealing specific secret information in any form (language, writing, suggestion, mental transmission, etc.). If they try to reveal it by force, the spell will be triggered, causing the victim to temporarily lose their voice, become mentally confused, experience a sharp drop in SAN value, or even suffer a backlash and die. In this way, their testimony will be completely invalid.

The conditions for performing the spell are to obtain a lock of hair or a personal item from the recipient, and to use four resentment crystals as a medium to inscribe the secret content into the curse talisman. The duration of the curse depends on the caster's strength (a LV3 curse caster can maintain it for 1 year, and a LV4 caster can maintain it for up to 5 years).

The only way to break the curse is for a higher-level sorcerer to remove it. Of course, the curse will automatically become ineffective after the caster dies.

Another option is to surrender in place of someone else.

Of course, the Reincarnation System doesn't allow the use of substitution spells for advancement, otherwise it would be incredibly easy. Therefore, Long Cang has put in a lot of effort for this.

In a typical substitution curse, the caster pre-selects a "scapegoat." When the caster suffers fatal damage, the curse automatically triggers, transferring the damage to the scapegoat. Each time it triggers, the curse must be cast again. The curse requires a living creature (such as a black cat or crow) as the vessel.

This time, however, he needs to use magic to help his nephew advance to the level of Flying Head Sorcerer, so he has to resort to extraordinary means.

First, you need to consume 1 Resentment Shard and sacrifice 30% of your SAN value.

Secondly, after inflicting the substitution curse on the four children, they still need to enter the red-code restricted area.

After sacrificing the shards of resentment, the substitution spell can become a rule-based skill, specifically a skill called [Meme Substitution].

The Resentment Crystals are incredibly precious. It was only because Long Cang was the vice-captain that he was allocated two Resentment Crystals!

This skill utilizes the characteristics of meme contamination to cover up the rule of death of a surrogate within a red-code restricted area.

This [meme substitution] allows Long Cang to remotely sense the life and death status of the four children, and at the moment he cuts off Xiao Wu's head, he can make the substitution take effect on them, causing all four children to be beheaded at the same time!
They died in the red-code restricted area. Due to meme contamination, their deaths caused the rules to be overwritten, which could deceive the reincarnation system and make it mistakenly judge that Xiao Wu had died! Then Xiao Wu could be decapitated but not die, and he could become a flying head curse.

Then he said, "Don't move, Xiao Wu! If you don't master the Flying Head Curse, you definitely won't be able to survive the next terrifying dungeon! Your uncle is doing this for your own good! One day, we will return to our hometown!"

Then, he raised his knife and swung it down fiercely, instantly severing Long Wu's neck!
However, after Long Wu's head was cut off, Long Cang received a notification:

"Reincarnator Cangchai Wangsawei, your professional skill [Meme Substitute] has failed."

The four scapegoats you cast the curse on have been cleaned up by the cleaners and removed from the red-code restricted area.

Upon seeing this scene, Long Cang felt his blood rush to his head!
"No!!! Xiao Wu! You were wrong, you were wrong, start over!"

He rushed to the head of his nephew, which he had personally chopped off, picked it up, and was about to hold it around his neck!

"Xiao Wu! Xiao Wu! You're wrong, you're all wrong, let's start over, let's start over!"

But where might there be a chance to start over?

Even for reincarnators, their SAN value is instantly reset to zero the moment their head is severed. They are not data-driven entities in the game, and once physical damage reaches a lethal level, the SAN value protection mechanism becomes meaningless.

"Do not!!!"

He watched with his own eyes as his nephew's Reincarnator Watch turned into a skull key!
Not long after, the static on the TV screen appeared, and the cleaner showed up!
Normally, fighting or even killing within the Reincarnation Camp would result in being removed by the cleaners. However, Long Cang had previously applied for and reported his advancement in Flying Head Slash, so the cleaners would not remove him.

At that moment, the cleaners arrived with body bags to take away Xiao Wu's body!

He couldn't stop it either.

Even a Level 5 Reincarnator who dares to attack a cleaner will surely die!

"The cleaner...who contacted the cleaner? Whoever it was, I'll kill you! I'll slaughter your entire family, leave no one alive!!!"

(End of this chapter)