See the Law of Deception

Chapter 123 The Vague Past
Lu Jinzhao's words are becoming increasingly bold.

"It shouldn't have started with our transaction, right?"

She said, "From the first time you spoke to me, no, from the moment you came into my hands, you really didn't have a second choice."

“You didn’t suddenly become a supernatural prop; you’ve always been.”

Lu Jinzhao's words seemed to have struck a nerve, and Yangpi suddenly fell silent.

"If we look at you from the perspective of someone who has always been a supernatural being, we will find a problem."

“You are very powerful. You shouldn’t waste your time on someone like me who has been an ordinary person for so many years.”

If the sheepskin wants to find a sucker to devour the soul, is it really powerless?

will not.

If it really wanted to, it could find many people easier to kill than Lu Jinzhao.

"If you are free and you want human souls, you should know that I am a tough nut to crack after your first failed deal with me. You should go find someone else."

In [Summoning Ghosts], sheepskin had plenty of opportunities to find others to complete transactions, but it didn't do that at all.

At that time, they hadn't started trading yet, so theoretically they weren't bound together.

But the sheepskin remained, only following her closely, trying to make a deal with her.

Even after being repeatedly rejected, they did not change their approach.

"You can't possibly switch traders, can you?" Lu Jinchao asked definitively.

The sheepskin's tiny brain, perhaps no bigger than a little finger, was still resisting.

These are all your conjectures, your own presumptions.

"Then tell me, just say I'm wrong, and you'll immediately go find the next person to trade with."

I have already begun the transaction with you.

Lu Jinzhao couldn't help but laugh when she saw this sentence: "Really? Is that really the reason?"

She didn't expect to get any concrete answers from the sheepskin. She sensed the sheepskin's rejection and even detected a hint of disgust in it.

"It's really weird."

Did my parents bring you out of the platform?

She recalled that her parents said the amulet was made from the skin of a lamb, but she herself had never seen the skinning and making process.

How could an ordinary sheep be transformed into such a powerful supernatural object?

But was it really just an ordinary sheep?

Lu Jinzhao suddenly became uncertain, but in his memory, the sheep was indeed not strange at all. It ate when it was hungry, slept when it was tired, got sick, couldn't understand human speech, grew up slowly, and then died of illness one day.

But weren't her parents, who were otherwise quite ordinary besides being busy with work, not the way she thought they were?
Perhaps, many things about her childhood were not what they appeared to be.

What happened in the past?
"Are you and the things in this iron box both supernatural items left to me by my parents?" Lu Jinzhao asked with certainty.

She thought the sheepskin wouldn't answer, or would change the subject, but to her surprise, the other person replied confidently the next second:
【no. 】

"what?"

This time, it was Lu Jinzhao's turn to be surprised.

She was actually 70% sure when she asked, since the sheepskin was indeed given to her by her parents, who told her to treat it as a talisman and carry it with her at all times, saying it would protect her.

But the sheepskin actually refuted her.

【hehe. 】

Sheepskin sneered, offering no explanation.

"That's strange," Lu Jinzhao frowned. She thought she had seen through the outer layer of the fog, but she hadn't expected things to be different from what she thought. What exactly was that sheepskin?

Calling it a talisman isn't accurate; clearly, this thing wanted her dead, and a significant portion of her near-death experiences as a passenger was due to the sheepskin increasing the difficulty of the mission.

This thing even wanted to devour her soul.

By any measure, it was a ghost that harbored ill intentions towards her.

But it was indeed powerful, so powerful that it was not a supernatural item that a newcomer like her should possess. In fact, the train did not react as expected because she had the sheepskin. When the sheepskin was not causing trouble, her platform was operating normally.

Is there any loophole in this?

Lu Jinzhao couldn't understand it. He felt that although he seemed to understand some things, he was once again lost in a fog.

“Did my parents really die in an accident?” she asked.

The sheepskin remained silent.

"My parents were passengers too, weren't they?" This time, Lu Jinzhao didn't ask any further questions, but instead stated the answer definitively.

She opened the forum and searched for her parents' names, but found nothing.

That makes sense, though. Computers weren't common when her parents were that age. Maybe that's why she didn't leave her name on the forum?

When did they become passengers?

Before or after giving birth to oneself?

"I have no relatives or friends." She hadn't cared about these things before, but now, looking back, she realized something was amiss.

Her parents seemed to be "reclusive sages," and apart from the neighbors and friends she knew in the town where she lived as a child, she knew nothing about their past.

It was like a kind of neglect that she herself couldn't control.

Lu Jinzhao was shaken. She realized that she had overlooked many things. If she didn't actively explore them, she would never think of them. Even in ordinary times, they seemed to be isolated by a barrier, and she would hardly realize that there was a problem.

"That's why our house is so clean."

After their deaths, they left almost no trace.

is intentional.

"Don't my parents want me to investigate those things?"

So why keep the sheepskin?
She took out her phone and sent a message to the fortune teller.

"Senior, if I may ask, do we have any seniors on our platform who have been around for a very long time, at least twenty years?"

The fortune teller's reply wasn't quick, probably because he was on his way. It took Lu Jinzhao quite a while to see the reply.

"No, at least I've never heard of such a person."

Is that so?
"Thank you, sorry for the trouble."

If this path is blocked, how can she trace the past of her parents?

"What about other stations?" She remembered seeing on the forum that, in terms of scale, Yuncheng Station was just a small station.

There aren't enough people, and the surviving passengers aren't the veterans. But what if it were a larger platform?

For example, the Capital Station?

Perhaps, when Lin Lin comes out, she will have to meet with her.

"Since we can't get an answer for the time being, let's put these things aside for now."

Lu Jinzhao stopped worrying about these things and even decisively tossed the sheepskin into his pocket, hoping to avoid seeing it and getting annoyed.

She quickly organized her next tasks: first, to find materials for shadow puppets; and second, to find a way to open the iron box.

While doing these things, you can also gather information about your parents and deceased roommate.