See the Law of Deception

Chapter 218 Heredity (24)

There will be no reason to deduct the life-saving fee from the platform.

With no other tasks at hand, Lu Jinzhao immediately realized why her life-saving money had been deducted.

Go to the ancestral hall and take a blank memorial tablet with you.

The task of retrieving the memorial tablet from the ancestral hall has already been completed, but the task of "carrying it with me" continues to this day.

Only by removing the memorial tablet from your body within the time required by the mission will you avoid having your life-saving fee deducted.

This also made Lu Jinzhao stop his original plan to take back the memorial tablet.

As everyone knows, platform missions are all designed to kill passengers.

The use of life-saving money generally has one premise: to increase one's chances of survival.

Whether it's used to purchase information, acquire items, modify mission details, or arrive at the mission location ahead of time, all of these are aimed at increasing one's chances of survival.

This means that once the money to buy your life is deducted, the action you take at that moment will increase your chances of survival on the platform.

She never thought that the memorial tablet was just a "talisman." It was something they were tasked with taking away from their bodies. Could it really be something purely good?
The money deducted now to buy one's life is practically a blatant declaration that "keeping the memorial tablet away from oneself during the day is beneficial."

Memorial tablets represent the identity of "one of us" in the village. Keeping the memorial tablet away from oneself is also a way of distancing oneself from becoming one with the village.

"If you don't become a villager, you'll become a madman who loses his mind; but becoming a villager also represents a certain danger."

It's a bit troublesome.
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Ten minutes later, the money for the life-saving measure was deducted again.

Lu Jinzhao felt a sense of urgency. She didn't have much money, and with deductions at 10 points a day, she couldn't maintain her status of staying away from the ancestral tablets during the day unless she spent most of her money on this.

But once the money was spent, she lost control over the tasks ahead.

She needs to make a choice.

Should we allow for mistakes in the task, or spend the money on memorial tablets?

Lu Jinzhao made his decision after considering it for less than two minutes.

The first task was to get the memorial tablets from the ancestral hall, and the second task was to take the memorial tablets to the ancestral hall. Both tasks that had already been completed were related to the ancestral hall and the memorial tablets.

The importance of memorial tablets, in particular, is self-evident.

Making choices wasn't difficult for Lu Jinzhao; she was simply more concerned with whether she could complete the subsequent tasks without using the life-saving money.

The conclusion she reached was: No.

Even without being 100% certain, she chose to spend the money during the day away from the memorial tablets.

She could feel the ghost blood circulating within her body. She retrieved Tan Meng and placed it on her skin. The invisible invasions from the air slowed down again. They needed to pierce Tan Meng before they could touch her skin, and to enter her body, they needed to overcome the ghost blood barrier.

Therefore, in the short term, the strange supernatural forces in the air had almost no effect on her.

Having confirmed this, Lu Jinzhao told Tianlei about her discovery and plans, clearly stating that she did not intend to spend too much money on missions later, and also said that she hoped Tianlei could complete the missions before her.

Tianlei expressed her understanding.

“I still have a lot of money left, and you went on the first two missions, and the information you brought back was very important. I will try my best to go on the subsequent missions first.” She knew that she couldn’t just hide behind Lu Jinzhao. If she did that, wouldn’t anyone Lu Jinzhao brought along be able to play the same role as her?

She must demonstrate more value and gain more initiative for herself.

Fortunately, she had accumulated quite a bit of money to buy her life.

Lu Jinzhao's discovery was also very important to her.

She also approved of Lu Jinzhao's decision.

Although there is no more substantial evidence to prove that keeping the memorial tablet as far away from oneself as possible is a better choice, the deduction of the life-saving money and the requirements of the previous two missions are all efforts by the platform to express: the memorial tablet is very important, and one should carry the memorial tablet with them; keeping it away from the memorial tablet will bring danger.

This, on the contrary, makes people seem very suspicious.

While Tian Lei felt that Lu Jinzhao's idea made sense and was preparing to try it herself, she was also secretly worried: what if the platform was doing it on purpose?

Intentionally exploiting their thoughts to distance themselves from the memorial tablets.
But soon, she stopped thinking about the near-nested idea in her mind. If she kept thinking like that, the conclusion would keep repeating itself. Since she had more money to buy her life, she had more choices and more room for error.

She chose to trust Lu Jinzhao's judgment and stayed away from the memorial tablets as much as possible during the day.

At the same time, she would also set aside some money to buy her own life in order to meet the needs of the mission. She couldn't be as absolute as Lu Jinzhao; she needed more leeway. Although this might lead her into greater danger, it was precisely in such situations that the ability to "find a way out of a desperate situation" could be better utilized.

This is her way of survival.

Lu Jinzhao kept the memorial tablet away from her for a full five hours. Tan Meng was already somewhat listless, and the circulation of her ghost blood began to slow down. Only then did she put the memorial tablet away.

Humans are different from ghosts; the supernatural powers they possess are limited and need to be restored. They cannot be used without limit, a fact that Lu Jinzhao found regrettable.

As evening approached and night fell, Lu Jinzhao had a premonition that there might be a mission tonight as well.

Sure enough, just as she expected, the moment it got completely dark, Lu Jinzhao felt a familiar throbbing pain in her arm; a new task was about to begin.

Tian Lei frowned: "Can't you change the way you issue missions at the Death Platform?"

She disliked the feeling of her body acting strangely, as it made her feel like she was in an environment she couldn't fully control, leaving her completely insecure.

"Maybe when we lose our arms someday, we'll change our approach."

"Forget it then."

The burning sensation was as uncomfortable as ever. Only after the feeling that someone was carving words on his arm with a red-hot wire subsided did Lu Jinzhao finally see the new task at hand.

Between midnight and 5 a.m. tonight, without carrying memorial tablets, conduct a solo patrol within the village, walking at least 1000 meters on foot, avoiding repeating the same route, and without disturbing the villagers.

The first thing Lu Jinzhao realized after reading the task was the words "do not disturb the villagers".

What might happen on the patrol route that makes the mission specifically mark that the villagers should not be disturbed?
In short, it's not going to be a good thing.

"Great! This mission doesn't have strict time or order requirements, so I can go first."

And this was the first thing Tian Lei noticed.

Lu Jinzhao looked at her and saw her slightly bright eyes, so he smiled and replied, "Indeed, you'll have to work hard."

(End of this chapter)