See the Law of Deception

Chapter 203 Heredity (9)

Lu Jinzhao thought of the woman who had shifted the blame to another woman, and the look she gave him before leaving the ancestral hall.

She was probably planning this all along.

Lu Jinzhao still had a professional smile on her face, but she was thinking absentmindedly. So Luo Yu invited her to watch this good show. She just didn't know if she had planned it.
You've been provoked.

Only the incompetent are challenged by the weak!

Sheepskin scoffed.

Lu Jinzhao felt that she was innocent. She hadn't been unaware of this outcome. She noticed that Luo Yu, a special-grade expert, had some unusual "interest" in her, and guessed that her weak combination with Tian Lei would inevitably bring some danger.

She just thought that everyone who came in should know something about the "train clearance theory" and that those chosen by the death platform were people the train considered to have great potential.

Especially since other platforms also have special access and are not extreme platforms, they should be even more aware of this.

It's understandable that ordinary passengers wouldn't know, but among the elite, this is not secret knowledge.

Given that only two people entered, shouldn't the Yuncheng platform, which seems to be the most "vulnerable," be more careful?

She would have done the same.

She would assume that there must be a significant advantage in numbers for the train to only allow two first-class passengers to enter from this platform during the screening process.

When Lu Jinzhao herself became one of the two, she knew that this advantage might not lie in facing ghosts, but in facing "people".

In short, whether you're provoking her or testing her, you should be more cautious, right?

These two people were completely used as pawns.

She remained silent, waiting for things to unfold. Silence was pressed against the inside of her wrist, quietly listening to her faint, almost nonexistent pulse.

Who was the planner?
Lu Jinzhao didn't care about the two people in front of him, but was thinking about who was the person "behind" this matter.

After being provoked, the man's mind probably went through a few turns, and he came to the conclusion that compared to a group with two top-tier members, Lu Jinzhao, who was currently all alone, did indeed seem weaker.

As mentioned before, the platform was not a place for "reasoning," so the man turned around, looked at Lu Jinzhao, and said angrily, "Hey, give me back the memorial tablet."

They really dare to use the word "still".

The first to be provoked by his words were not Lu Jinzhao, but rather Yangpi and Tan Meng.

Humans, how shameless!

Give me back my ghost bone.

Lu Jinzhao: ?

You criticize humans for being shameless, and then immediately follow suit, right?

Unlike the disgusting feeling of sheepskin,

[Tan Meng] immediately jumped out from Lu Jinzhao's sleeve, followed by the scene that Lu Jinzhao had seen on the platform, the scene that had terrified her at the time.

Tan Meng's ghostly skin suddenly unfurled, rolling forward like a shroud, rushing towards the man at a speed no human could possibly dodge. In the instant before he could react, it had already made contact with his skin. "What!" Before he could even finish speaking, with just one touch, he had nowhere to retreat.

To temporarily get rid of Tan Meng, Lu Jinzhao used a death-level item, a pocket watch. Now, Tan Meng is no longer a ghost, but has become part of Lu Jinzhao's destiny. She even has a death-level item, a ghost bone, as her main vessel. To get rid of her again, at least a death-level item would be needed, and Lu Jinzhao, who possesses ghost blood, ghost bones, and a shadow puppet made of ghosts, would have to engage in a supernatural battle.

This man simply cannot do it.

He may have considered that Lu Jinzhao was not someone to be trifled with, but when faced with life and death, he chose to target Lu Jinzhao, the "easy target," rather than relying on two top-tier women.

【Tan Meng】can shrink into a tiny skin, or become a human skin balloon that covers the sky and the sun. Its arms and legs keep stretching out, and in less than a second, it can completely enclose the man in its "body".

Just like what Lu Jinzhao had experienced, the once robust man was being compressed inch by inch by an unseen force. Inside, where no one could see, his skin was dissolving. If no one came to his rescue, in five or six more seconds, his life force would be unable to withstand the erosion of [Tan Meng], and then he would be taken away.

Lu Jinzhao still had a professional smile on his face, but his slightly drooping eyes were curved like a dark moon that had been polluted. This black moon looked expectantly at the crowd around him, as if asking: Who will save him?

No one moved; everyone just looked at them with surprised and uncertain eyes, observing and watching the outcome of this test.

Lu Jinzhao felt a strange, death-struggling power fall on her, probably with the function of "control".

Unfortunately, the power passed through the Silence before seeping into her body. As the ghost blood flowed slowly within her, it easily dissolved the power that was trying to control her. Lu Jinzhao felt as if a mosquito had landed on her, causing only a slight itch but not any real harm.

Really weak
Is this his form of resistance?

That's such a pity.

The next second, a large amount of blood suddenly gushed out from the gaps in the human skin that tightly wrapped the man, like a shroud, accompanied by a distorted and deformed wail that could only come from the throat when a human is dying and cannot open their mouth.

The sound lasted only a moment.

Immediately afterwards, as if a thin-skinned, juicy fruit had been crushed by five fingers, a large amount of blood splattered in all directions from the gaps in the "bandage," while Lu Jinzhao only felt a sense of satisfaction coming from [Tan Meng]. The slight crack that had appeared when she was fighting against the man's fate was also restored as the man's life dissipated.

It was nourished by blood and death.

As it released the corpse and shrank back into its shadow puppet form, accompanied by the sound of blood and bits of flesh falling to the ground, everyone witnessed the man's fate:

—It was a mass of flesh that could no longer be recognized as human form and could only be described as "meat paste".

Without skin, without a single intact internal organ or bone, all the elements that make up a human being were crushed by irresistible gravity, falling into a pool of flesh and blood.

Lu Jinzhao's face showed a hint of surprise, as if she herself had not expected the outcome to be like this. Then, she blinked, turned her head slightly, and focused her gaze on the woman who had shifted the blame.

Should only foolish men who actually set their sights on her be punished?
Of course not.

Those behind the scheme, those who carried out the act, and the foolish people who were deceived should all be punished.

Lu Jinzhao thought to himself that this was necessary so that he could focus on dealing with ghosts instead of frequently encountering "human" troubles.

She needs to teach these people a lesson and make the other "top-level" officials respect her, instead of making such foolish attempts again.

Sensing its master's mood, [Lu Jinzhao] crawled out from her collar and slowly moved up her cheek. Then, like an exquisite yet sinister tattoo, it slightly turned its eyes and locked onto her again in the woman's already terrified gaze.

　Hopefully this chapter will be alright.

　　(End of this chapter)