See the Law of Deception

Chapter 187 Production Completed
After hanging up the phone, Lu Jinzhao organized the materials Lin Lin had sent. For the next three months, she stayed at home, focusing all her energy on carving shadow puppets.

During this period, Lu Jinzhao slept very little, and his other basic needs were much less than those of ordinary people. Perhaps once the shadow puppet is completely finished, these needs will decrease.

This means that she can reduce the weight of the food and water she brings into the platform.

Fortunately, she did not receive any notification from the train during this period, and she was not selected to enter the platform. The train gave her a long break.

Although this was the calm before the death platform, it did give her ample time to prepare.

During the creation of the shadow puppet "Tan Meng", Lu Jinzhao was completely immersed in it. She had to put all her energy into it. Even though she could go three days without sleep now, as soon as she started making this shadow puppet, she would soon fall into severe fatigue and have to sleep to replenish her energy.

The moment the shadow puppet was completed, Lu Jinzhao felt as if an invisible, immense burden had been lifted from her shoulders, and the mental pressure that had been weighing on her mind vanished without her noticing, just as if she had just woken up and stretched out in a super comfortable way.

When she picked up the shadow puppet made by Tan Meng, it was still motionless, just an inanimate object. But when Lu Jinzhao held it close to her right index finger and pressed it against her index finger...
An invisible connection was established, and in the next instant, [Tan Meng] began to move as if awakened.

But it is no longer Tan Meng, but a shadow puppet belonging to Lu Jinzhao, a puppet.

So it first tentatively moved its legs and hands, then tilted its head, and then affectionately rubbed against Lu Jinzhao's fingers, trying to bury its body in Lu Jinzhao's palm.

Even when Lu Jinzhao picked it up, it didn't panic at all. Instead, it lay obediently on Lu Jinzhao's fingers like a cat or dog being petted by its owner. Its elbow, which was connected by a string, was bent and gently rested on Lu Jinzhao's fingers.

As its meticulously sculpted palm gently clasped Lu Jinzhao's fingers, Lu Jinzhao felt his body undergoing some slow changes with this movement.

This is a change brought about by an improvement in one's destiny.

The vast amount of energy and spirit she had expended while carving Tan Meng returned to her body in a miraculous way. Her vision and hearing seemed to be sharper, and her physical strength had increased, but her body temperature was dropping. Her pale skin was almost the same color as the shadow puppet in her hand, as if the shadow puppet in her hand was a larger shadow puppet herself.

Lu Jinzhao suddenly let go, and the shadow puppet in her hand reacted quickly, bouncing onto her shoulder and then sitting up on her shoulder on its own.

This shadow puppet is quite different from other shadow puppets.

Although it lacks "self-awareness," it seems to retain more "instinct."

This instinct makes it exceptionally close to Lu Jinzhao, allowing it to behave in ways that resemble those of a small animal, yet it absolutely obeys Lu Jinzhao's commands and is something that belongs to Lu Jinzhao.

It's like a tail that wags on its own.

"...It's not a bad thing either?"

To be more specific, the difference is that she can now command the other shadow puppets to pour her a glass of water. If she doesn't have the water temperature in mind, the other shadow puppets will just pour the water obediently, but this shadow puppet will adjust the water temperature itself according to her current mood.

Simply put, it's more intelligent.

Furthermore, after establishing clear contact, Lu Jinzhao learned more information about the shadow puppet.

Shadow puppets made entirely of "ghosts" possess a certain degree of self-repairing ability.

After all, ghosts cannot be killed, and tools made by ghosts are naturally the same.

They can break, but they can also be repaired. Repairs just take time, but that also means she doesn't have to worry about finding materials to fix the shadow puppet if it gets damaged.

"There are advantages to being a ghost after all," Lu Jinzhao couldn't help but exclaim.

Although the shadow puppets made from ghosts don't have the strange and bizarre abilities of those with destiny, their ability to self-repair is enough to offset all their other shortcomings.

"Next, we will complete the other shadow puppets as well."

In this way, she now had six shadow puppets: [Tan Meng], [Substitute], [Luck], [Silence], [Fake], and [Lu Jinzhao]. Even as she was about to enter the death platform, she felt somewhat more confident.

Whether it's "Substitute Death" or "Lu Jinzhao," she can escape this calamity. In other words, under the most ideal circumstances, she has three lives.

After [Substitute Death] became Lu Jinzhao's shadow puppet, it inherited Du Yu's strength and was also enhanced by Lu Jinzhao's [Shadow Play]. She can either have the shadow puppet attach itself to someone else to die in her place, or have the shadow puppet itself die in her place.

They could also use shadow puppets as a medium to make themselves die in place of others.

But she obviously won't do that.

In other words, when [Substitute Death] has a "physical form" and becomes a shadow puppet, it even makes up for the fact that Du Yu himself needs teammates to perform it.

Unfortunately, the "substitute death" method cannot allow other shadow puppets to take the place of death.

"As long as my destiny continues to strengthen, the shadow puppets I can use will also become more powerful."

This was a positive cycle, and it wasn't until Lu Jinzhao had a large number of shadow puppets in his hands that he truly felt the power of his destiny.

If she hadn't obtained the Ghost Bone and the [Tan Meng], the other shadow puppets she created wouldn't be as powerful as they are now; their range and abilities would automatically adjust based on the strength of her own destiny.

She is now more powerful than when their owners were alive, so she can use the full potential of these destinies when they were skinned.

Unfortunately, she is still unable to "surpass" the strength possessed by the original owner of her destiny.

"Perhaps, I'll have to wait until my destiny becomes stronger."

Having gone through the process of making [Tan Meng], the remaining shadow puppets were made much easier. When Lu Jinzhao finished making all the shadow puppets, four months had passed since she last entered the platform.

She had a premonition that the harbinger of the death platform was coming soon.

For the past few months, she has been in a "cold war" with Yangpi. She also asked Lin Lin, but there was nothing unusual about Lin Lin's life.

She wasn't sure what Yangpi meant by those words—was it just a threat, or did she really intend to do something? But judging from Yangpi's current behavior, she didn't seem to have the ability to influence Lin Lin, who was far away in the capital, unless Lin Lin and she happened to end up on the same death platform.

However, the train's "abnormality" seemed to be targeting only her. Lin Lin had just completed one Death Platform, and there was still a time difference in their operating patterns. If she were to enter the Death Platform again, Lin Lin should be unaffected as long as she stayed in the capital and did not come near the sheepskin.

(End of this chapter)