See the Law of Deception

Chapter 207 Heredity (13)

Lu Jinzhao has no plans to change tonight's task for the time being.

Even though she knew very well that there would be danger tonight, she only intended to go and see for herself what kind of danger she would encounter.

She knew that the money she had to buy her life was not much compared to the more experienced passengers, and the first mission had already cost her 500 by changing the time. Tonight's mission clearly had many areas that could be modified. Before she could determine the most critical point, making arbitrary changes would only be a waste of her life money.

Moreover, she couldn't confirm how much the modifications would cost, and this was only the second mission. As time went on, the missions would inevitably become more and more dangerous, all of which forced her to be more cautious in using the life-saving money.

Now, let's try it with our own strength.

Her mission started at 12:30, while Tian Lei's started at 1:10. Judging from the time, Lu Jinzhao guessed that tonight's mission would also start at midnight. Combined with the fact that they could not travel in groups, it was clear that this mission still required passengers to enter the ancestral hall alone.

Therefore, there is no need to change the time point she occupied.

What she found most dangerous in the mission description wasn't the prohibitions, but rather the instruction to "place the memorial tablet at least 5 meters away from yourself."

On the night she received the memorial tablet, she and Tian Lei conducted an experiment. The tablet would automatically start deducting fees if it moved more than 5 meters away from her. Now that the mission requires the tablet to be away from her, it will no longer deduct fees, but that might not be a good thing.

She had a feeling that the most expensive part of this mission might be modifying the 5-meter area.

"Don't rush to make changes," Lu Jinzhao reminded Tian Lei, glancing at the approaching midnight.

“Okay.” Tian Lei nodded. With nothing else to do for the time being, she told Lu Jinzhao about what she had seen and heard that day.

The information she obtained in the village was largely consistent with what Lu Jinzhao had learned. Some details filled in the gaps in Lu Jinzhao's guesses, making her more certain of what she thought. What surprised Lu Jinzhao was that Tian Lei said she saw infighting break out at the platform with the largest number of people, and one person died.

What surprised Lu Jinzhao was not the dead, but that the women actually chose to fight amongst themselves, won, and were unexpectedly witnessed by Tian Lei.

Tian Lei looked somewhat ashamed and said, "But I saw it by stealth, um... I shouldn't have been discovered, right?"

Lu Jinzhao was aware of this. Tianlei possessed many supernatural items, most of which were for self-defense and as tools, including but not limited to those for tracking, spying, and eavesdropping.
It's the kind of thing that sounds really bad.

But collecting information is quite convenient.

"Isn't anyone stopping them from fighting amongst themselves?" Lu Jinzhao asked.

"Hmm," Tian Lei tilted her head slightly in thought, "It seems not. I can't be sure. I only saw two strange forces flashing."

"Oh, where were you standing, peeking?"

Tian Lei smiled shyly: "It's quite far."

As soon as she got off the car, she used the supernatural props in her hand to leave a mark on everyone present. The mark did not have much effect; it was meant to help people feel the supernatural power and their state of being.

It serves no other purpose, and is therefore extremely hidden and difficult to detect. It does not emit any supernatural fluctuations, as if someone has silently stuck a small piece of paper on your back.

But it does have a shape; it's a dark blue fingerprint left on the back. However, since very few passengers would be naked in front of others on the platform, it was difficult to notice.

When Tian Lei left her marks, she remembered the person each mark represented. This afternoon, she sensed supernatural fluctuations emanating from the imprinters of two marks. They had used destiny or supernatural tools; she couldn't tell. But soon, one of the imprinters died. It wasn't that the mark was erased, but that the person died.

She immediately went to check the surrounding area but did not sense any lingering ghostly aura.

Combining this with what Lu Jinzhao said after they met up, she could confirm that the internal strife must have stemmed from the memorial tablets.

She didn't tell Lu Jinzhao about the supernatural item, but she did tell him what she had discovered. Tian Lei thought to herself, "She didn't really hide anything."

Lu Jinzhao clearly understood her and didn't delve into how she actually "saw" it from a distance, which made Tian Lei breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, if Lu Jinzhao insisted on asking, she felt she would probably confess honestly, but she didn't want to be so honest.

Time passed slowly, and this time Lu Jinzhao did not leave the room too early. Instead, she opened the door and walked out of the courtyard about five minutes before her mission time.

As soon as she stepped out of the room, the blood-written words "life-saving money" on her arm clearly decreased by 1, but the decrease was very slow, probably because she left home late enough to be close enough to the mission time.

Two minutes before the mission begins, the money stops decreasing.

At this moment, only Lu Jinzhao was standing at the crossroads leading to the ancestral hall.

It seems that people at other stations also judged that tonight's tasks did not require "rushing" to do.

"After all, none of us are fools," Lu Jinzhao thought with some regret.

The time was almost up, so she walked towards the ancestral hall. When she arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall, the time was exactly one minute off.

According to Lin Lin and the fortune teller, tasks with a clear time limit will allow for an error margin of about 5 seconds. If the task is completed within the error margin, nothing will happen. However, if it exceeds 5 seconds, it may lead to uncertain "punishments," such as deductions from pay or direct task failure. The severity depends on the requirements of the task itself.

Five seconds is enough for Lu Jinzhao.

The ancestral hall door was closed, but Lu Jinzhao raised his hand and pushed it open.

A slight creaking sound came from the crack in the door, which was then easily opened.

At 56 seconds, Lu Jinzhao looked up into the ancestral hall and saw a figure from behind, a trembling figure kneeling on a prayer mat. She recognized him; he was a passenger.

At 57 seconds, the passenger jumped off the prayer mat in terror, crawled forward a few steps in a panic, grabbed the memorial tablet she had placed on the ground, and then, with trembling hands and feet, quickly stood up and ran out of the ancestral hall.

She passed by Lu Jinzhao, who was about to enter the ancestral hall. She saw the man's face, which was contorted with fear, and his trembling pupils as they brushed past each other, along with the panic that filled his entire body.

What happened to her inside the ancestral hall?
At 59 seconds, Lu Jinzhao had already placed the memorial tablet on the ground. She thought for a moment, and when 12:30 arrived, she did not choose to kneel on the prayer mat, but stood in the center of the ancestral hall. She wanted to see what would happen.
--boom
It was the sound of the ancestral hall door being slammed shut.

It wasn't the passenger who ran away who locked it; Lu Jinzhao heard her hurried footsteps as she ran off into the distance.

And there is no other living person here at this moment, so did he close the door himself?

(End of this chapter)