See the Law of Deception

Chapter 113 Inheritance (19)

Opportunities are easy to find; after all, ghosts are stupid.

Even though they already knew she wanted to destroy the shadow puppets, once her body started to move backward, the ghost would transfer most of the control to her legs.

It's so stupid it's laughable.

But it is precisely because of this folly that people can have a sliver of hope when being hunted by ghosts.

"There's no need to think about the ghost's conditions for killing anymore."

Lu Jinzhao waited for his opportunity while sighing inwardly.

It might involve touching human skin, making shadow puppets, or something else entirely, but it doesn't matter, because the mission dictates that as long as they enter this platform, they will inevitably violate the taboos here.

Now, the more important thing to consider is the "pattern" of this ghost.

Or perhaps the rules.

At least, it wasn't an indiscriminate and unrestricted massacre.

For example, right now, it can't just enter the room and kill them; it has to lure them out.

They control their accompaniment, as well as the strength and weakness of the rhythm.

She needs to redirect the ghost's control over her legs during a moment of weakness in the rhythm, and seize the opportunity to shred the shadow puppet!

This is not difficult for the deer today.

Even if she had never heard this accompaniment before, the rhythm of a piece of music does follow a pattern.

The changes in volume in music can also be traced.

The opportunity soon arrived; after several loud strikes, the music noticeably weakened.

She seized a moment during the fall and suddenly pressed down on the scissors that were already placed on the waist of the shadow puppet!

A crisp sound of shearing.

The eerie human skin was easily cut in half at the waist by her.

The worst-case scenario anticipated did not occur.

But at the same time, Lu Jinzhao suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

A tear-like scar appeared around her waist, which was hidden under her clothes.

It was as if that scissor cut not only on the shadow puppet, but also on her body.

Fortunately, the shadow puppet was not completed, so it was not actually cut in half.

But Lu Jinzhao also felt that he almost really turned into two pieces.
Fortunately, as the shredded shadow puppets slowly drifted down, the ghost's control over her truly disappeared.

However, it did not completely disappear.

Most of the force had dissipated, but Lu Jinzhao felt that there were still some threads binding him, and the bindings were even located at the most critical bones.

She knew that the ghost's control over her wouldn't completely disappear just by cutting her skin, but the current situation was already pretty good.

At least tonight, she is unlikely to be in any danger.

Once she could control her body, the first thing Lu Jinzhao did was bandage her wounds.

Thankfully, she's barely alive right now and the bleeding isn't too heavy; otherwise, with such a severe wound, she would have lost too much blood in no time.

Thanks to her "persona" as a martial artist on this platform, even though her wounds were horrifying enough that she wasn't cut in half, Lu Jinzhao felt that her physical condition was surprisingly good, and she was more resilient than she had been on the previous platform.

With her waist bandaged, she could even sit behind the workbench and continue making shadow puppets instead of lying down to rest.

If it were before, she would probably be lying down by now.

Putting everything else aside, she genuinely liked the special aspect that this identity brought her.

After all, being a passenger means your body will be damaged at almost every station, and losing limbs is common. Having a strong enough physique is undoubtedly a great advantage.

"I wonder if those martial arts techniques from my memory will work in the real world."

Lu Jinzhao was carving a new shadow puppet while pondering.

Sheepskin, probably not expecting Deer to resolve the crisis so quickly tonight, jumped out somewhat restlessly. [You're really bold; aren't you afraid of being immediately declared a mission failure?]

"Will not."

Lu Jinzhao had resolved the crisis without wasting any supernatural items, so he was in a pretty good mood and even managed to say a few words to the ghost.

When there is a mission, they only need to provide the mission items at 12 o'clock every night.

The process was unsupervised.

Fu Xuesheng's test that day did indeed help her, showing her that even if she didn't complete the task during the day, nothing unusual would happen; she would only be "punished" when the deadline arrived.

Failure to complete the task is part of the taboo.

Their current task has no time limit; they only need to present the shadow puppets made from the dead to their master before they die.

Even if you destroy the quest item within the time limit, you will most likely not suffer any punishment.

After all, if you destroy the items, you'll have nothing to hand over, and when the time comes, you'll just die anyway, won't you?

Sheepskin was clearly dissatisfied with Deer's nonchalant answer today.

Aren't you afraid your skin won't be able to complete the mission?

Lu Jinchao said he wasn't afraid, but in his heart he was sneering. If he really couldn't complete the mission, Yangpi wouldn't have bothered asking the question!
Since we're not afraid of anything, why don't we go out and see what's going on?

“Speak like a human being, stop talking nonsense.” Lu Jinzhao could hardly hide his speechless expression.

【I can’t do it.】

"Then shut up and say less."

The patience that came with a good mood has run out.

【I don't! 】

As these words appeared, large swaths of blood-red characters began to appear before Lu Jinzhao's eyes, mostly meaningless words that obscured her vision.

She raised an eyebrow: "If you're quiet now, I'll consider giving you the metal box."

【OK. 】

Give it to me when you get back.

After saying those two sentences, Yangpi really quieted down.

Lu Jinzhao's lips twitched involuntarily.

It's obvious that this thing is so greedy for what's inside the metal box that it's completely lost its mind.

That makes it even less likely that I'll give it to them.

Accompanied by the annoying music outside the window, Lu Jinzhao worked hard all night until dawn, when the sound gradually subsided and eventually disappeared.

Lu Jinzhao looked up at the window, her neck already aching.

Sure enough, the music played all night.

And the daylight came later than the day before.

It is foreseeable that in the days to come, the time spent in darkness will become longer and longer each day.

The attacks from ghosts at night will become increasingly severe.

Tonight, apart from Lu Jinzhao, everyone else must have been quite exhausted, given that the anomaly lasted all night.

Considering that they would have to face ghosts to complete the mission, how many people could withstand the exhaustion from each and every one of these challenges?

Perhaps soon, some people will be unable to hold back any longer.

Either kill the person immediately for their skin, or try to complete the mission while you still have enough strength.

But regardless of which one, Lu Jinzhao must be careful.

Sunlight gradually streamed through the window into the room, falling on her workbench and on the new shadow puppets that were already finished and only needed to be assembled.