See the Law of Deception

Chapter 199 Heredity (5)

The sound of raindrops hitting the roof was particularly noticeable.

Tian Lei had already left. Lu Jinzhao told her to pay attention to how many memorial tablets were left in the ancestral hall and to try to linger there. If she started charging fees or sensed something was wrong, she should leave immediately.

Among all those who made it to the Death Platform, there were absolutely no fools. Knowing that one of the memorial tablets was missing, everyone would inevitably try to modify the task to get the fastest time. Judging from her struggle for time with others at the intersection, the task rules would provide a separate interval of about 4 minutes.

Therefore, based on Tian Lei's timing and her own guesses, she could roughly estimate how many memorial tablets would remain when Tian Lei arrived at the ancestral hall. What she needed to determine was whether anyone had tried to modify the numbers in the task and take away more than one memorial tablet.

Tian Lei returned quickly. She first informed Lu Jinzhao that less than ten seconds after she entered the ancestral hall, the fee was suddenly deducted. She had to take the memorial tablets and leave quickly. The number of memorial tablets she reported did not match Lu Jinzhao's prediction.

"Perhaps, there's a high probability that someone modified the quest and got an extra memorial tablet."

That person was probably someone with relatively ample funds to buy their life.

"Did you also encounter charges at the ancestral hall?" Tian Lei asked, somewhat puzzled.

“No.” Lu Jinzhao shook his head: “Then it’s probably a means for the mission to ensure that there is only one person in the ancestral hall.”

They changed the timing of the mission, which reduced the amount of time they could spend inside the ancestral hall.

But it was because of this that Lu Jinzhao was able to roughly confirm that someone had indeed taken more memorial tablets than they deserved.

“If one more memorial tablet is taken, then one more person will be left without one.” Tian Lei stated this fact without any emotion: “But those who take more memorial tablets are also taking risks, and their situation is not much better than those who do not take any tablets.”

“Indeed.” Lu Jinzhao nodded.

Nobody knows what the specific purpose of this memorial tablet is.

Taking one more is not necessarily a good thing.

Moreover, the fact that the memorial tablets were taken by mistake could not be hidden at all. In fact, it was not necessarily possible to hide who took them. After all, the order in which people entered the ancestral hall and the number of memorial tablets could allow other passengers to roughly determine who or which city was most likely to have taken them by mistake.

Everyone will be watching to see what happens to her.

As for the two people who are missing their memorial tablets, they will naturally be the focus of close attention.

"When you went there, what kind of people did you see, and which faction were they from?" Lu Jinzhao asked.

"When I went there, I met one person coming out, and another person I met when I came out was preparing to go to the ancestral hall. The one coming out was from the city with the most people, and the one behind me was from the warehouse next door."

The person assigned the task first was from Luo Yu's city. She was the first to receive the information and the first to share it with the others in the city.

Lu Jinzhao was the second one, and when he went back, he shared it with Tianlei. It was impossible for people from both cities not to get a memorial tablet.

Of course, Lu Jinzhao kept one possibility in mind:
In Luo Yu's city, they deliberately arranged for people not to take memorial tablets.

However, such an arrangement would necessarily require someone in the team to have a position so powerful that no one else could resist them. But according to the intelligence gathered by Tian Lei, the city where Luo Yu is located is not such a "hegemonic city".

However, we should also keep in mind the possibility that someone in their city might take an extra memorial tablet while another person doesn't, and then they might act accordingly.

"However, there are only four people in their city. The worst-case scenario for doing this is losing two people at once, so it's unlikely."

Moreover, even if someone is deliberately prevented from receiving a memorial tablet, only one person can be exempted. This means that in the city with the largest population and the city where the warehouse is located, someone will inevitably not receive a memorial tablet. "If only more people had come in," Tian Lei sighed.

If there are enough people, they won't just have to speculate, but will be able to take initiative and do something.

“Even if enough people come in, others may not necessarily act according to your ideas.” Lu Jinzhao obviously knew what she was thinking, probably what would happen if she used her teammates to avoid taking a memorial tablet or take more memorial tablets.

"That's true." Tian Lei sighed regretfully.

She disliked the violence in some extreme cities, and subconsciously felt that she would be one of the victims of violence, but she also longed for the right of those in high positions in those cities to order others to pave the way for them.

This would make it much easier for her to survive inside the platform.

As time passed, when the last person went to the ancestral hall and found it empty, before he could even break down, the blood-red mission text on all the passengers' arms slowly disappeared.

"It seems like tonight will end like this?" Tian Lei asked uncertainly.

If it were any other platform, she might have been wary and waited for the crisis to unfold, but the Death Platform was different. Only a very small number of passengers entered the Death Platform and the time spent there was very short. Most of the other passengers had to stay on the platform for a period of time, and the crisis unfolded gradually.

They need to explore on their own, and the platform will provide that time.

"I'm not sure. You can rest first. I won't sleep tonight." Lu Jinzhao had never been to the Death Platform before, but fortunately, she had a special physical condition and didn't have to face the physiological difficulties of other passengers.

"Tomorrow we need to walk around the village and ask the villagers for some information."

They need to figure out what genetics is all about.

The Death Platform is a series of missions that create a long crisis. To escape the crisis and survive, unlike other ordinary platforms, they need to figure out the cause of the crisis in order to find a way out.

Even if the path to survival is extremely subtle and difficult to detect.

However, one thing is the same as with ordinary platforms: even if the ghosts in the death platform have a so-called "origin", they are absolutely impossible to be redeemed or dealt with in some "harmless" way.

They are far more dangerous than ordinary platforms, and their level of terror is no less.

Furthermore, it is rumored that some of the ghosts on the death platform possess a degree of "intelligence," making them even more ferocious and difficult to deal with.

However, such ghosts usually appear more often in "sequels".

In other words, a certain death platform that appears repeatedly.

Just like horror movies have sequels, a very small number of death stations also have sequels.

Literally, such a platform is called a "circular line," but passengers often refer to it colloquially as "sequel."

Passengers who survive the first appearance on the platform will be selected for the sequel, and together with newly added personnel, they will enter the same platform to continue the mission.

And sequels are always more dangerous than the first.

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