See the Law of Deception

Chapter 217 Heredity (23)

By the time the body was burned, it was already noon.

Lu Jinzhao declined the villagers' friendly invitation to lunch and returned to the courtyard with Tian Lei.

At this moment, only she and Tianlei were in the small mud house. Tianlei had already told her about what he had seen and heard that morning on the way. When the woman tried to kill her "teammate", she seemed to have completely lost her mind and seemed to have become very strong, but she did not use any supernatural items or destiny.

This reminded Lu Jinzhao of Xu Ming. When Xu Ming killed an ordinary villager, he did it himself, without using fate or supernatural items.

It seems they had indeed lost their minds and had no idea who they were.

"Has anything happened with the person who took the extra memorial tablet?" Lu Jinzhao asked.

If those without a memorial tablet become unconscious "madmen," what about those who have an extra memorial tablet?

Unfortunately, they cannot currently determine who took the extra memorial tablet, or whether there was any subsequent exchange with anyone. They can only judge by observing the condition of the other people.

"I haven't noticed anything yet." Tian Lei shook her head. She had been paying attention, but apart from the two people without memorial tablets, the other passengers didn't seem to be acting strangely.

If the memorial tablet is simply a "talisman," then taking one more doesn't seem to be a problem.

But Lu Jinzhao wouldn't be so naive as to think that.

We can only wait any longer.

"Now, help me with an experiment." She took out her memorial tablet: "In a moment, I will remove the tablet from my body. Pay attention to my condition. If you find that my condition is not right and I cannot take the tablet back by myself, you must bring it back to me immediately."

Upon hearing this, Tian Lei almost immediately understood Lu Jinzhao's intention.

She was initially surprised that Lu Jinzhao, who now held the dominant position in the two-person team, was the one to conduct such a dangerous experiment instead of letting her do it. Then she immediately realized that this must be due to Lu Jinzhao's personality.

They had spent some time together, and through Lu Jinzhao's deliberate displays, she had come to understand that Lu Jinzhao was someone who liked to be in control of everything. Her desire for control, along with her clear understanding of her own abilities, led her to make this decision.

When conditions are right, Lu Jinzhao should make his own judgments and confirmations, rather than relying on "second-hand" information.

Tian Lei nodded in agreement, feeling both happy that she hadn't been asked to do anything dangerous, and also hesitant, wondering if it was because Lu Jinzhao didn't trust her enough.

But she immediately denied it: "She asked me to help watch over the memorial tablet, so she must trust me enough."

The complex emotions in her heart swirled around several times, and when she finally calmed down, she still couldn't come to any conclusion. But such "entanglement" was commonplace for Tian Lei, and she didn't pay much attention to it.

Lu Jinzhao took out the memorial tablet, which had two or three twisted scratches of varying depths. One of them appeared suddenly the next morning, and the other was left when the tablet was grabbed by a ghost in the ancestral hall last night.

Although she told Tianlei that she would ask for his help if she couldn't retrieve the memorial tablet, Lu Jinzhao didn't intend for things to get out of control. If she sensed something was wrong, she would immediately retrieve the tablet and stop the experiment.

Saying it that way would make Tianlei feel that she trusts her enough.

[Tan Meng] emerged from Lu Jinzhao's cuff and jumped to the ground. Lu Jinzhao loosened his grip on the memorial tablet, and the falling tablet was easily caught by [Tan Meng], who had been waiting for a long time. Then, [Tan Meng], with her short legs, carried the memorial tablet, which was taller than herself, and walked step by step towards Tian Lei.

When the area was still within 5 meters, nothing unusual happened. However, the moment Tan Meng walked out 5 meters with the memorial tablet, Lu Jinzhao immediately sensed a change!

It was a subtle change, quite different from what I had seen in the ancestral hall the night before.

It was as if clouds were slowly drifting in from a clear sky, and the gentle breeze was gradually getting stronger. The fallen leaves underfoot made a slight, almost inaudible cracking sound as the pressure increased.

Lu Jinzhao sensed that the "air" was changing.

The "air," which was originally harmless and no different from the real world, suddenly changed.

It's not a change in smell or temperature, but something more invisible, something that's hard for ordinary people to detect. It might not even be air at all, but a change in something that exists in the air.

It went from harmless to dangerous, as if the air was suddenly filled with tiny needles. These needles, even smaller than a hair, slowly pierced Lu Jinzhao's body with an irresistible force. They were piercing her skin, trying to bury themselves in her flesh and muscle, and take root in her brain.

Even though they were moving very slowly, and hadn't even finished piercing her skin, Lu Jinzhao already felt a kind of stinging pain. It wasn't coming from the skin that was being invaded, but from her brain. Her subconscious sensed a huge crisis and was reminding her in this extreme way.

The memorial tablet was placed behind him during the day, and the ghost did not appear.

What appeared was something they, as passengers, had never noticed, something that permeated every inch of the village at all times.

A strong sense of crisis, as if she were exposed to a spotlight, made Lu Jinzhao feel uncomfortable. She even felt that she had entered "another place". Even though nothing had changed around her, Lu Jinzhao felt that the world she had just been in was not the same as the one she was in now.

She didn't immediately take back the memorial tablet; she was still waiting, waiting for more unusual events to occur.

She was able to resist the intrusion of invisible substances in the air, and that's when the ghost blood came into play.

However, Lu Jinzhao sensed that if she continued to expose herself to the "air," her reserves of supernatural abilities would be insufficient to resist the invasion indefinitely, and she would eventually lose her effectiveness.

But she also has Tan Meng to cover her skin, plus the ghost blood, which doubles her resistance and allows her to last longer.

However, Lu Jinzhao did not use Tan Meng at the moment, but deliberately allowed some of the unknown substances in the air to invade.

She tried to move around, but at that moment she was like a giant magnet, constantly attracting the "needles" in the air, or perhaps she was swimming in a pool full of needles, and she couldn't escape unless she took the memorial tablet.

However, apart from this slow intrusion that Lu Jinzhao felt was extremely dangerous, there were no other abnormalities after the memorial tablet left his body during the day.

Just when Lu Jinzhao thought it was about time to stop, she suddenly felt a burning pain in her arm.

She looked down and her brows immediately furrowed.

Her life-saving money was reduced by 10 points?
(End of this chapter)