See the Law of Deception

Chapter 137 The Substitute (11)

He'd rather go back to a place he felt was dangerous than be separated from them. That Du Yu...
Even Zhou Ziming, who considered herself not very bright, believed that her guess was correct: this person was definitely trying to trick them.

Therefore, when he received Qin Wan's hint to kill Du Yu, he agreed without hesitation.

Du Yu stayed close to them, so they didn't have much of a chance to discuss what to do alone. But with Qin Wan around, there were plenty of opportunities to put Du Yu in danger. Lu Jinzhao and Zhou Ziming just needed to act according to the situation.

When I got back to the company, I was not surprised to find that the once bustling building was almost deserted.

"Should we not go back?"

Just standing downstairs, you can feel the silence inside the building.

The security guard at the gate was nowhere to be found; he had abandoned his post even though it wasn't mealtime.

"Shouldn't we go check if there's anything unusual? Sitting around waiting to die isn't a good habit!" Zhou Ziming casually made up.

Du Yu looked at him as if she had swallowed a fly. She really wanted to ask Zhou Ziming if he was serious. Even if the stations were different, the rules of survival within the station should be the same, right?
But the other person had already stepped inside, so she had no choice but to follow.

Du Yu thought to himself, it's okay. Even if we really encounter danger, I still have three scapegoats by my side. If I can use this opportunity to figure out the taboos of this ghost, that would be the best.

It's a pity that those two good-for-nothings died too quickly, without ever being of any use, and even forced her to compromise and follow those three people.

But it's alright, as long as there are people around, her destiny allows others to "die in her place".

To be honest, when she saw the name of this platform, she felt that it might be an opportunity.

Her destiny is to "die in place of others," not to die in place of herself, but rather for others to be injured, chased by ghosts, or even die in her place.

Although there are many restrictions at present, such as there must be someone else within 20 meters of her when using the Fate, the same person cannot take the ghost's attack twice in a short period of time, she needs to consciously link herself with the person who is "taking her place" in advance, and the link lasts for only three minutes. Within three minutes, the supernatural attacks she suffers will hit that person first.

However, if the supernatural force attacking her is too strong, the link will break. But the ghosts on the Class B platform won't destroy her substitute link with a single blow.

What she sees as an opportunity is that this platform is called "Substitute." A substitute is someone who takes someone else's place, and isn't her taking someone else's place in death also about having someone else take her place?
Perhaps, she will have the opportunity to upgrade her destiny at this platform.

However, she was still unclear about where this opportunity lay.

According to what she had seen and heard, in addition to self-training and use, one could also enhance their destiny by using supernatural items with similar abilities, and by fighting against ghosts with similar methods of killing. If one survived the ghost's supernatural attack and then spent a certain amount of money to buy life, one could steal the ghost's supernatural power to replenish one's own destiny.

Ghosts related to "substitute death" are extremely rare; she had never encountered one before, but this time, it seemed there was some connection.

"If I manage to survive this demon, will I gain the ability to make others become mere puppets who die in my place?"

Du Yu felt there was a chance.

Her abilities made those who knew her extremely wary, believing her to be a jinx, and anyone who followed her was sure to die. However, Feiquan's strict hierarchy provided Du Yu with one useful substitute after another, allowing her to live a more and more comfortable life, and her destiny continued to strengthen.

You should know that when you first received this destiny, the range of your substitution was only five meters!

If she can leave alive, her destiny might be elevated once again.

Half the time has passed. Apart from hearing about the appearance of "another self" from Bai Xunyan, she hasn't really encountered any danger yet. There are still three people who can die in her place. If she uses them properly, she should be able to leave alive in the remaining few hours.

Du Yu had a well-thought-out plan. She even thought that if the three people in front of her were very capable, and not all of them died as substitutes, she would have to find a way to keep them here forever before they got on the bus.

She didn't really like these people. But in truth, she didn't actually like anyone at all.

She killed at least fifty, if not a hundred, people on the platform.

As for those people outside the platform, she disliked those weaker than her, finding them unlucky, and disliked those stronger than her even more, finding them pretentious, disgusting, and despicable!
As Du Yu walked into the company, she was still cursing those she disliked in her heart.

If a list could be compiled, it would probably fill her house.

Until she discovered that there was really no one in the company.

“I said, let’s leave,” she suggested again.

This is so strange. Even if they have a day off in the afternoon, it's only the employees on their floor who get the day off. This building is rented to several companies, and each floor is occupied by employees from different companies. How come it looks like there's no one on any floor now?
Did their colleague also die unexpectedly and they all go to the funeral?

That's impossible.

Everyone here is an experienced passenger. Even if they haven't gone inside yet, just by seeing this anomaly, they should know that it's definitely haunted inside.

“We’ll just go up and take a look. We don’t have any clues right now, and I don’t think just hiding will work.”

But these three people just had to go and see.

She wanted to argue, but the platform mission wasn't a strategy game, and she could avoid it for as long as possible. However, she had no say in the matter at all.

When they went to the floor where the company was located, they did not take the elevator, but took the stairs instead.

The moment Du Yu stepped into the company building, she suddenly felt a chill.

It was like a cold wind blowing through her body, making her feel cold to the core, even her bones felt chilled.

The discomfort made Du Yu pause, she shivered, and then unconsciously took two steps back.

It was an almost instinctive physiological reaction; she didn't even realize it until she had already stepped back.

Their numerous survival experiences on the platform have given these passengers an exceptionally keen sense of reaction when faced with imminent death.

She felt it just now.

That's the smell of death.

Even though nothing had happened yet, Du Yu's forehead twitched and her heart began to race.

She looked up and saw the three people walking ahead turning around to look at her because of her sudden pause.

They didn't speak or move; they simply stood in different positions and looked back at her.

The young girl who seemed the strangest to her, whose tone of voice made her most uncomfortable, stared directly at her with her dark eyes. The next second after their eyes met, she asked:
"what happened?"

"Why don't you leave?"

"Come here quickly."