See the Law of Deception

Chapter 103 Inheritance (9)

After saying goodbye to Fu Xuesheng, Lu Jinzhao closed the door.

She approached the workbench and placed the dried human skin on it.

Tentatively, Lu Jinzhao picked up the human skin and gently placed it on her arm. The next second, the human skin, which had been completely dried, seemed to come alive and spontaneously adhered to her skin.

But before the skin could do anything, Lu Jinzhao had already taken it away.

She was certain that even though the thing looked completely dead, she still couldn't let her guard down.

"Could this thing have some connection to you?"

Lu Jinzhao took out a sheepskin and placed it next to the human skin. From the outside, the two were quite different.

The sheepskin is somewhat casual, with a rough and heavy appearance, while the human skin is obviously much more refined.

Look closely, does it look like it? We're not even the same species! What connection could it possibly have with me?

Sheepskin clearly felt that Lu Jinzhao's words were a dig at it. Although it hadn't said a word since entering the station, it couldn't help but speak up now.

"Oh~" Lu Jinzhao gave a meaningful "oh".

“A sheepskin and a human skin, they’re both skin, so how can they not be the same species?” Lu Jinzhao said deliberately.

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If you don't understand, just shut up!

The sheepskin was clearly angry, but it didn't reveal anything more.

The deer retrieved the sheepskin today, seemingly lost in thought.

The sheepskin reacted somewhat strangely.

She remembered that at the funeral home, when she was trading with the wooden box, the sheepskin seemed somewhat exasperated and clearly looked down on it.

But she deliberately compared it to human skin, yet the sheepskin did not exhibit the same emotions as the wooden box.

In its understanding, this human skin, or rather, what this human skin represents, is not simple.
At least, the sheepskin didn't consider it lowly, but it didn't seem to value it much in its words either.

The results of the trial were mixed, but Lu Jinzhao didn't hesitate much before taking out the bell he had brought from the funeral home.

The train's warning is that this bell cannot be worn for more than ten minutes.

Lu Jinzhao was speculating what would happen if it exceeded ten minutes. She was also thinking that if she wore it on this platform and it caused some damage to her body, and she repaired the damage caused by these side effects after returning to the train, would the wearing time limit be restored to ten minutes on the next platform?
You'll only know for sure after actually using it.

However, the bell is very useful, and it seems a waste to use it when there is no danger, but Lu Jinzhao did not feel any reluctance.

She didn't even finish today's tasks first; instead, she planned to try it out first.

After placing the prepared tools within reach, Lu Jinzhao tied the bell to her ankle.

The moment the red rope was closed, a chilling aura spread from her ankles throughout her entire body.

At that moment, Lu Jinzhao felt as if he had become a corpse and was being pushed into the cold storage of the morgue.

Her body stiffened, but her thoughts remained unaffected. She could clearly feel her heartbeat stop.

Perhaps the blood flow has stopped as well.

Her body temperature might already be that of a corpse. She was indeed slowly "dying".

Lu Jinzhao did not act immediately; he even had time to stand still and think.

"Is this what it feels like to use other supernatural tools?"

Compared to the wooden box, the bell caused almost no discomfort when used initially, except for the cold.

But she knew that this was just the feeling after wearing the bell. Right now, her body had indeed stopped most of the physiological activities of a living person. Once the bell was removed, her body could not return to the state before she wore the bell.

Without further delay, she picked up the human skin from the table and stuck it to her arm.

The human skin showed no reaction whatsoever.

"It's not interested in me, which means my body is no longer a living person."

Having confirmed this, Lu Jinzhao picked up a knife and pointed it at her thigh. She prepared to remove the human skin from the front of her left thigh as a "replacement".

She couldn't remove the bones from her own body here, but at least she could use human skin; she couldn't use the skin of that corpse.

While skinning the animal, Lu Jinzhao pondered whether he could cut off his fingers to use as "bones," but after thinking about it, he rejected the idea.

Making shadow puppets is a delicate process, and she must keep her fingers.

Soon, she removed a piece of intact human skin from her leg. The process was not very pleasant to look at. She didn't have Ji Xiangchen's skills, so her thigh was quite bloody and mangled. Fortunately, because most of her body's functions had died, there wasn't much blood flowing out, and she didn't feel much pain.

However, the human skin peeled off her body was much more normal than the skin on her master's body. She chose to peel off the skin first because she had anticipated this. She needed to process her own skin first and give it time to air dry.

Even though Lu Jinzhao was quick and didn't seem to care much about himself, eight minutes had already passed by the time he finished skinning her.

Fortunately, this was within her expectations.

At this moment, when Lu Jinzhao looked at his body, he discovered tiny livid spots all over his body.

She quickly untied the bell, but even though she was prepared, the moment the red rope left her ankle, her body instantly became uncontrollable.

Instead of her limbs becoming soft, on the contrary, her limbs became incredibly stiff. She knew that this was probably "rigor mortis".

She could barely control her body to make any movement; the icy chill made her lips tremble, her heartbeat slow, and her breathing sluggish.

She now knows what the worst side effect of this supernatural item is.

After using it, she was almost unable to move a single finger for the next two hours!

She could only lie on the ground like a corpse, waiting for the blood to gradually flow through her body and bring back some body warmth.

Fortunately, during those two hours, she was probably no different from a corpse, and the human skin wasn't interested in her, so it didn't jump onto her.

Once her body temperature had warmed up slightly and she was finally able to control her body, Lu Jinzhao discovered yet another unpleasant side effect.

Her body seemed to have suffered some kind of irreversible damage; it was heavy and exhausted, like a car that had reached the end of its lifespan, with every part groaning in pain. Just starting to drive it looked like it was about to fall apart.

Her skin was as pale as a corpse. Even though she had regained the ability to move, her body temperature was still terribly low. She tried to exert herself, but found that she couldn't muster much strength.

The fact that not much blood was flowing from her skinned thigh was enough to show that her body had not yet fully recovered to the appearance of a living person.

"Inside this platform, this doesn't seem like a bad thing."