See the Law of Deception

Chapter 198 Heredity (4)

At 12 o'clock, Lu Jinzhao saw that some people had taken the lead in moving.

She and the people from the other two cities did not take any action.

"It seems the mission will begin at 12 o'clock."

She remembered that the person who took the initiative was from the same city as Luo Yu.

Was she the first person chosen for the mission?
Lu Jinzhao left open the possibility that they could discuss and revise the schedule internally.

The ordinary-looking woman calmly walked towards the ancestral hall, and no one present chose to follow her.

They were all watching and waiting for her outcome.

The ancestral hall wasn't far from the intersection, but because there were no streetlights and it was raining, even though you could see a faint light from the hall in the distance, it was so weak that it could only indicate the direction. Even though the door to the ancestral hall was open, you couldn't see what was happening inside.

The few who remained thought they would have to wait a while, but to their surprise, they soon saw the first person who had gone to the ancestral hall rush out.

From the moment her figure disappeared outside the ancestral hall to the moment she came out, the entire process took less than a minute.

This means that there's very little she can do inside; she probably just takes the memorial tablet and comes out immediately.

After leaving the ancestral hall, she became hurried. In the rainy night, she disregarded her own disheveled state and, without even glancing at the other passengers waiting outside, quickly ran towards the house where her teammates lived.

What she was holding in her hand was a blank memorial tablet.

Lu Jinzhao sensed something was wrong and immediately began to change her time. It was 12:03, and she changed her entry time from 20 minutes to 04 minutes. Instantly, she felt a burning sensation on her arm, and then, her life-saving money was reduced by 500!

The modification was successful.

But just changing the time cost 500 yuan to buy a life?

From the time she left her room until now, she has only spent less than 100 yuan to save her life.

The moment the changes were finished, Lu Jinzhao heard a "tsk" sound from the person next to him, tinged with a hint of annoyance.

She thought that this person probably failed to change the time.

Being able to get the time point of 04 shows that her actions were the fastest.

I wonder if this person's goal was also 04 points.

The next second, the person tried to take a step forward, but after only one step, his expression changed drastically and he retreated.

"Did you try to go directly to the ancestral hall after failing to get the fastest time slot by changing your reservation, only to find that going forward would cost too much money?"

Lu Jinzhao immediately understood the meaning behind her actions.

Through these discoveries, Lu Jinzhao realized that the order in which people visit the ancestral hall is really important.

And the platform didn't really prevent them from discovering this.

At 04:00, Lu Jinzhao strode towards the ancestral hall.

The rain became finer, and the muddy road underfoot felt like a swamp that wouldn't sink. With each step, Lu Jinzhao could feel a pulling sensation from the ground, as if the soil was binding her feet, trying to make her grow together with this land.

The journey to the ancestral hall only took about two minutes, and nothing unexpected happened along the way. However, as Lu Jinzhao got closer to the ancestral hall and the lights inside became brighter, she couldn't help but feel a strange "attraction".

Just as warm light attracts people in the dark, and dry environment attracts people soaked by cold rain, she was somewhat "eager" to enter the ancestral hall.

But Lu Jinzhao knew that this was an illusion.

This attraction might involve the ghost at this event, so she can't afford to be careless.

Judging from the first person's experience, she probably didn't encounter any trouble inside the ancestral hall, otherwise she wouldn't have come out so quickly.

"It's also possible that she encountered something, but it wasn't fatal, or that her destiny protected her from it?"

Lu Jinzhao did not lower her guard because of this. The shadow puppet belonging to [Du Yu] was lying under her collar. The rain soaked her clothes, but the shadow puppet was not wet.

As Lu Jinzhao approached the entrance of the ancestral hall, she felt a warm aura even just standing outside.

It's like the warm air from the air conditioner blowing out from the doorway.

Even someone like Lu Jinzhao, whose body temperature is already low and who is hardly affected by the cold rain, couldn't help but feel the urge to go inside at this moment.

She paused slightly, then stepped into the ancestral hall without changing her expression.

The lamp in the ancestral hall was an old-fashioned light bulb with a wire attached, hanging from the roof beam. The interior layout was typical of any ancestral hall, with nothing particularly special about it.

The only thing worth noting is that the ancestral tablets that should have been placed on the altar are now all blank.

At first glance, Lu Jinzhao knew that this was the memorial tablet they were tasked with obtaining.

Even now that she has entered the ancestral hall, there is still no danger.

But after Lu Jinzhao had only looked at the memorial tablet for a few seconds, her breathing immediately became slightly rapid.

".I see?!"

She immediately stepped forward, reached out and took a memorial tablet, then quickly walked out of the ancestral hall and ran towards the room.

She saw another person heading towards the ancestral hall after she left the road.

She noticed the two men looking at her with slightly curious expressions as they hurriedly ran towards her.

"We have to hurry."

Braving the cold rain, Lu Jinzhao quickly ran back to her room. On the way, she saw someone rushing out from next door.

--boom
The door was quickly opened by Lu Jinzhao. Her breathing was still a little unsteady. Under Tian Lei's gaze, she quickly ordered, "Immediately change your mission time to the ancestral hall as fast as possible! Now, right now."

She reiterated.

Upon hearing this, Tian Lei showed no panic. Instead, she immediately lowered her head and then looked up, her expression slightly changing: "It's all done, but at the earliest, it will be 27 minutes later."

"Almost, there's still time."

Lu Jinzhao breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened?" Tian Lei asked, seeing that she had relaxed.

Lu Jinzhao looked at her, his calm tone sounding profound in the dim light.

"There aren't enough ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall."

When she entered the ancestral hall to observe the memorial tablets, she subconsciously counted them. After counting, she realized that there were only 14 tablets!
After the first person went in, she observed that the person had indeed only taken one memorial tablet and had not carried a backpack. This meant that there were only 15 memorial tablets in the ancestral hall!
There are 16 of them.

This explains why the mission didn't prevent them from realizing that the order in which they went to the shrine was important, but changing the time would cost them more money to buy their lives.

This is blatant malice.

If her and Tianlei's tasks were already low on the priority list, and they didn't have the courage to go to the intersection even if it meant risking being penalized, would people from other cities have informed them of this?

Absolutely not.

While not getting a memorial tablet doesn't necessarily mean certain death—after all, you can avoid it by modifying the quest or simply paying to cancel it—it's not good news that everyone else has one while you don't.

The fact that the mission included such a trap means that the memorial tablet is absolutely very important.

This mission may present various hidden dangers and risks, but **not completing the mission** is definitely the biggest trap!

(End of this chapter)