See the Law of Deception

Chapter 220 Heredity (26)

Tianlei also lived in a village for a long time during her childhood. That poor and backward village deep in the plateau was an indelible shadow in her life.

She was particularly familiar with the village at night, and perhaps that was why she was momentarily distracted at this moment, recalling that not-so-pleasant past.

For Tian Lei, the words "home" and "hometown" meant pain, a cage, a hell where he was treated like livestock with no dignity, and a place where he had to be constantly on guard against danger.

Family members are dangerous. The mother is a seemingly harmless pig who is actually an accomplice; the father is a grumpy, irritable, cold-blooded, and fierce monkey; and the younger brother is a cruel, cunning, and inherently evil dog.

And she, she is a lurking snake.

One spring day, she awoke from hibernation and killed all the animals except herself.

At that time, she was not a passenger. At that time, she thought she was going to die. She was not well-educated, but she knew that murderers should pay with their lives.

So she ran away.

She knew that if she didn't strike first, she would be brutally murdered and suffer a terrible death.

She felt no regret whatsoever; she just thought: Why didn't I do this sooner?
After calming down, she took all the money in the house, and even rummaged through her parents' pockets in the pool of blood to take all the loose change. Then she changed into clean clothes, walked for 10 hours to the town's bus station, and bought a train ticket to leave the town.

Then, she boarded the train.

Her sins were erased, along with her sense of existence in reality.

"It's God's will."

For a time, she thought that way.

But now she realizes that she has simply stepped from one hell into another.

Whether it was fate or punishment, she didn't know.

But she had to live. She did even that kind of thing. No matter what, she had to live.

Perhaps because she inherited her mother's cowardice, hypocrisy, and selfishness, as well as her father's cruelty, cold-bloodedness, and ruthlessness, she lived longer than the others on the train.

However, she was very bad at socializing, which may be related to the fact that she lived with animals all her childhood. She was afraid of interacting with people because she was an animal and others were people.

Humans are terrifying.

Dangerous, and must be guarded against.

If she senses something is wrong, she must strike first, as she always has, in order to survive.

She has always done a great job.

Tian Lei's thoughts were somewhat uncontrollably flooded with memories of the past.

It wasn't until she had taken one step after another and walked halfway through the journey that she suddenly realized she shouldn't have had her memories stirred up at this time!

"wrong."

Her steps faltered for a moment, and Tian Lei's somewhat detached expression, lost in her memories, was instantly pulled back. The moment she realized that she had actually "distracted herself," cold sweat broke out on her back.

She had experienced other train stations with mountain villages as their backdrop, and even some more similar ones, but she never thought about the past.

After all, after killing her kind and escaping that place, Tian Lei felt that there was nothing worth remembering about it anymore.

She had no regrets, no resentment, no dissatisfaction, and no fear; she had fulfilled her mission.

Why am I suddenly thinking about those things now?
--clatter
Her footsteps echoed again in the dark village.

The sound is very faint, and when the sole of the shoe is rubbed against the dirt road, there is a soft, rustling sound.

But at this moment, Tian Lei did not make any move.

She paused briefly because of this amazing discovery.

As if displeased with her dazed expression, footsteps appeared behind her, urging her to continue quickly.

Tian Lei's eyelids twitched slightly, then she turned around without hesitation to look behind her.

Nothing.

The footsteps sounded like a pebble falling from nowhere. Tian Lei couldn't tell who threw the pebble or where it went after it landed.

A chill ran down her spine, but she didn't dwell on the footsteps she'd just heard. Instead, she immediately continued walking forward.

She had already traveled halfway, and her sudden descent into memories must have been some kind of prelude. She even thought that it was because of that memory that she was able to take those next steps.

Those footsteps were in sync with hers.
She walked quickly forward, taking notes as she went, constantly analyzing possible scenarios in her mind.

What exactly did I respond to?

What could cause the footsteps to appear?

"Follow my footsteps"

In the instant that a flash of inspiration struck Tian Lei, he stomped heavily on the ground.

She realized the key to the memory.

She was thinking about "heredity".

She pondered the traits she had inherited from her parents.

Is this the reason?

During the day, Lu Jinzhao said that there was something in the air in the village that would invade the passengers' bodies and brains if the ancestral tablets were removed from their bodies.

At night, she wandered the village because the memorial tablet had left her body. She couldn't help but recall the past and began to think about which traits she had inherited from her parents.

This is by no means a coincidence.

—Da, da
It was Tian Lei's footsteps, but if you listened carefully, you would find that in the clear footsteps, there was a sticky echo, as if it were tightly stuck to the back of Tian Lei's heels.

It was the same footsteps as hers, only 0.1 seconds slower, as if the toes of her feet had stepped into Tian Lei's heels, which was why the steps were so tight and synchronized.

If she hadn't been experienced and cautious enough, Tian Lei herself might not have been able to detect the "echo" hidden like a shadow in her footsteps.

Something was following closely behind her, or perhaps clinging to her.

That thing could make the exact same footsteps as her.

Tian Lei reached into her pocket. She had a lot of supernatural items among the passengers, most of which were things that could save her life, and she naturally carried them with her at this moment.

She felt a red envelope in her pocket.

This is a "longevity gift" red envelope. Instead of money, it contains a ghost's fingernails and hair, as well as a small clump of dirt.

Each time she uses the red envelope, she becomes more entangled with the ghost inside, and her lifespan is thus predetermined by that ghost.

When the red envelopes are used to a certain extent, a ghost will come to take her life. If she stops using the red envelopes, the ghost will also come after a certain period of time.

Unless, she transfers the red envelope to someone else in some form.

The next person whose money is transferred will inherit the "quota" that has already been used in the red envelope.

There are costs, but payments can be delayed, or even avoided using underhanded methods.

By controlling the use of red envelopes within a certain range and finding someone to transfer them, the other party will "exceed the limit" after only one or two uses, and will be forced to pay a price. Once the ghost takes the reward, the red envelope can be used again.

Sometimes, Tianlei would even deliberately inflate the usage of certain red envelopes.

But not now.

Now, she is genuinely using it to exorcise ghosts.

Can.
The moment the ghost was exorcised after the red envelope was used, the sticky, shadowy footsteps did not stop.

The red envelopes were also normal.

　Tianlei is a venomous snake, highly poisonous and very dangerous.

　　I am usually afraid of people and tend to avoid them. I have social anxiety and feel that I am weak.

　　However, if someone provokes her, she will kill without hesitation; if someone does something that makes her mistakenly believe she is threatened, she will also lash out.

　　For some animals, such as the law of the jungle, survival is the primary objective.

　　She was extremely deprived of love and wary of interpersonal relationships. If an ordinary farmer were to embrace her, she would undoubtedly be poisoned.

　　(End of this chapter)