See the Law of Deception

Chapter 212 Heredity (18)

Early morning of the third day.

Lu Jinzhao still hasn't slept. Last night, around 3 a.m., the warehouse next door became quiet, and no one made a sound after that.

Early in the morning, Lu Jinzhao left his room and went to the courtyard gate, waiting for the woman who had broken the memorial tablet to come and fulfill the agreement.

As dawn broke, the warehouse door opened, and the man named Xu Ming, who had not received a memorial tablet, walked out of the warehouse.

Hearing the noise, Lu Jinzhao turned around and looked at the warehouse entrance, where he saw Xu Ming, who was clearly in a strange state.

His face was too pale, covered in sweat, his black hair stuck to his forehead, and his T-shirt was soaked with sweat and looked a bit sloppy. The extremely obvious dark circles under his eyes made him look somewhat overly tired. Lu Jinzhao felt something was amiss; she really hadn't heard any sound of exercise that could make him sweat so much.

He looked up at the doorway, his expression sinister, but his eyes were somewhat vacant, not as if he were possessed by a ghost, but more like he was just too tired.

Anxiety, fatigue, fear, and an indescribable urgency.

Something was urging him on.

As he passed by Lu Jinzhao, he didn't give him a second glance, which was a bit unusual, considering that Lu Jinzhao had killed his teammate and destroyed a memorial tablet just yesterday. But at this moment, he didn't care at all.

Not long after he left, his teammates also came out of the room. When they saw Lu Jinzhao, one of them looked wary, but they had more important things to do, so they just nodded to Lu Jinzhao and then hurriedly chased after Xu Ming in the direction he had left.

It seems they're going to follow Xu Ming.

What happened last night?
Xu Ming's unusual behavior was obvious, and it seemed that something unexpected might happen today.

Lu Jinzhao looked up and remembered the direction they left in, and continued to wait in the same spot.

A thin layer of mist shrouded the mountain village in the morning, and the faint smell of burning firewood could be heard in the crisp air, indicating that someone had already started making breakfast.

The person Lu Jinzhao was waiting for arrived a little later than she expected, but as she got closer, Lu Jinzhao knew why she was late.

She was like a second Xu Ming, pale-faced, soaked in sweat, and dazed.

Unlike Xu Ming, she experienced some health problems.

Some obvious problems that can be directly observed.

Her body was undergoing some kind of distortion, as if she had been subjected to unbearable radiation. Small parts of her skin were ulcerating, her nails were developing longitudinal ridges, and her eyes were cloudy. To make matters worse, Lu Jinzhao felt that her head was a size larger than yesterday.

Lu Jinzhao spoke to her with some caution, telling her to stop and preventing her from getting any closer.

The woman obediently stopped, a look of pain on her face. She looked at Lu Jinzhao with confusion and asked, "What's wrong with me?"

Lu Jinzhao replied to her, "Don't you know that yourself?"

The shadow puppet lurked beneath the coat, constantly on guard against any unexpected events. Lu Jinzhao's eyes carefully observed the woman's changing expressions, and his senses were alert to his surroundings, so that he could detect anything amiss immediately.

Upon hearing Lu Jinzhao's words, the woman fell silent for a moment, as if she were thinking. However, her head, which was a size larger than yesterday, was even less efficient than yesterday.

She thought for a long time before slowly saying, "I failed."

Her voice was filled with confusion and a hint of resentment: "I tried to steal the memorial tablet from my teammates as they were completing their mission, but I failed. I was too scared to go back, so I just found an empty room in the village to stay in."

"When I woke up today, I felt unwell."

As she spoke, her right hand unconsciously fell onto her left arm, her fingers digging into the skin, making a cracking sound. She had broken the festering wound, and blood was slowly flowing from her fingers, but she seemed completely oblivious. "It's a little itchy."

The woman spoke expressionlessly, her fingers moving with increasing force. Lu Jinzhao could see that her fingers had even penetrated deep into the flesh.

She was "infected" by something.

She was sweating just like Xu Ming, but her condition was much worse. Was it because she was being punished for breaking the memorial tablet?

Lu Jinzhao calmly advised, "You should go back and check on your teammates; they'll be worried about you."

She wasn't sure what this almost "infectious" thing was, and just in case, it was best to avoid too much contact with women.

She now knows there is no memorial tablet and that damaging it will bring misfortune.

As for persuading her to go back and check on her teammates, that was simply throwing the bomb back at her.

Does she still remember the person who was by the woman's side back then? Does she not know the woman's plans and intentions?

The person testing her might be someone from the same city as the woman.

Let the people in their own city worry about how to deal with this obviously strange person.

Upon hearing Lu Jinzhao's words, the woman's cloudy eyes flickered, and the tapping of her fingers slowly stopped. She lowered her hand, her fingernails filled with blood and bits of flesh, and said, "Okay."

The woman turned and left.

"It still retains human thought, but it's very dull. It seems to have lost its sense of pain. Its body is decaying, and its brain is enlarging. What does this mean?"

Lu Jinzhao watched her retreating figure, lost in thought.

She turned back and went into the room. Tian Lei was also about to go out. Lu Jinzhao told her what had just happened, and then asked Tian Lei to follow the woman to observe what happened next. She herself went in the direction Xu Ming had left.

More than what would happen after the woman returned to her teammates, Lu Jinzhao wanted to know what Xu Ming, whose "infection symptoms" were milder, was doing at the moment, and what kind of changes he would undergo.

Perhaps some information can be obtained from the process of the mutation.

As for women
She's beyond saving.

Lu Jinzhao made his judgment for her.

Because the village is small, it's quite easy for Lu Jinzhao to find people in this kind of place, since she's fast enough and has good eyesight.

After leaving the courtyard, she quickly caught up and first saw the two figures in the warehouse. They were standing outside the villager's courtyard, their backs slightly stiff and motionless.

Lu Jinzhao made no attempt to conceal his footsteps and quickly approached.

The two men clearly heard her approaching, and when they turned around slightly and saw that the person was a passenger, their serious expressions relaxed slightly.

what happened?
Lu Jinzhao walked forward and then saw a scene that surprised her.

The gate to the courtyard was wide open. Inside the courtyard, one person was standing, and another was lying on the ground.

The standing man was Xu Ming, covered in blood, his face contorted in a grimace, wielding a sickle and swinging it downwards. The person lying on the ground was just an ordinary villager.

Xu Ming committed murder?!