See the Law of Deception

Chapter 227 Heredity (33)

"I'm sure my teammates weren't lying."

As he stepped out of the courtyard, Xiang Liang spoke in a slightly somber tone.

Even without his emphasis, Lu Jinzhao and Luo Yu already knew.

The problem clearly wasn't with his teammates, but with that villager.

"Do they turn into ghosts at night and become human during the day?"

"Can this still happen?"

Xiang Liang was clearly somewhat surprised.

I have never encountered anything like this in my previous experience at the platform.

"Perhaps it's because only here, only in this village, would a villager act this way."

This place is special.

The reason why the villagers cannot leave is obvious: perhaps they cannot maintain much of a "human" appearance in the outside world.

“Now there’s a problem.” Xiang Liang took a deep breath, his expression turning serious.

"If we also become villagers, will we inherit this strange condition—being a ghost at night and a human during the day, becoming unable to leave the village?"

Lu Jinzhao and Luo Yu both understood what he was worried about.

Ghosts cannot board trains.

If they become part of the villagers and are identified as "ghosts" by the train, they're doomed!
Through these past few days, they have become certain that the way to integrate into the village is through ancestral tablets, and if they don't want to integrate, it's simple: just don't take the tablets.

However, it's impossible to keep the memorial tablet away from one's body forever; the village will ostracize outsiders, and they will still die.

Thinking of this, Lu Jinzhao suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"This village."

Countless fragments flashed through her mind, piecing together a possibility.

The ghosts here are not "which one" or "who," but the entire village.

All.

No one says that ghosts have to look like "people". Aren't the supernatural items that passengers usually use also varied?

Therefore, it's not impossible that the village is haunted.

This explains the pervasive intrusion she felt during the day when the memorial tablet was away from her.

Because she was already inside the ghost's "body".

Following this line of thought, it could even be explained that the first two people died because of the village's killing rules: outsiders entering the village.

They looked like they had gone mad, but they had actually been attacked by the "village".

The village drives them "crazy," causing their bodies to mutate and their sanity to be taken away. But they gain a brief moment of clarity after killing the locals. Does this mean the "village" wants fewer villagers?

Therefore, after "going mad," he will attack the people in the village, and his aggressive desires become intense.

If the locals are not killed soon, it may be too late to save the situation, and the village will become their puppet.

Therefore, we can conclude that killing locals is what ghosts want to see.

What are the consequences of a local resident dying?
They turn into ghosts at night. Logically, a reduction in ghosts should be beneficial to passengers. However, under this assumption, the reduction in village ghosts is actually extremely detrimental to passengers.

Why is this?

What would happen if there were no people left here?
That must be something the villagers would do everything in their power to avoid, even if they were trapped here and turned into mindless ghosts at night.

This also reveals the true face of the "ghost" at this death platform.

"This is a bit troublesome."

Lu Jinzhao closed his eyes, feeling an unprecedented sense of crisis.

This time, the platform is truly more difficult than ever before.

It's not the difficulty of seeing a powerful, invincible demon, but rather the difficulty of feeling like you're stuck in a quagmire of death, unable to get ashore no matter what, and only able to watch yourself sink little by little.

Without a memorial tablet, you will be attacked by the village, and your sanity will be taken out, causing you to kill the villagers.

Killing villagers is unacceptable. Although the consequences are unknown, they will certainly be extremely detrimental. Carrying memorial tablets will gradually assimilate them into "ghosts," and ghosts cannot board the train—this is a form of slow death.

There is no third option.

Lu Jinzhao even began to hope that her judgment was wrong, that she was just overthinking things, that the village was just an ordinary village, and that the villagers were the only ones with problems.

She would rather have a powerful, very troublesome, and difficult-to-deal-with ghost appear next.

That way, at least she can devise a strategy.

"and many more."

She suddenly realized that if the problem was only as it was now, then the previous platform signs would not have been very useful.

Sinful bloodlines perpetuate sin, and no one can escape it.

The idea that no one could escape it is now easy to understand; once inside the village, indeed no one could escape unscathed.

But the idea that sinful bloodlines perpetuate sin has not yet been confirmed.

The existence of the villagers, even if they turn into ghosts at night, seems to have a "good" side.

Is it because the villagers here can turn into ghosts that they have an evil bloodline?

That's a bit too easy.
Lu Jinzhao felt that the truth might not be so.

But right now, there's really no other way to think of anything else.

She needs more clues.

"Did you find anything?"

Luo Yu's voice came from the side, and the relaxed expression she had maintained since getting out of the car was now clouded over.

"Yes." Lu Jinzhao did not hide anything: "I think there is a problem with this village itself, not just with the villagers. The loss of people may cause problems, but I cannot be sure right now."

Lu Jinzhao could not reveal all her speculations, but could only offer a reminder. She did not want to mislead others and believed that the current "downsizing" might not be a good thing.

After all, the passengers are also part of the villagers.

"Are these villagers turned into ghosts at night because of hereditary bloodlines?" Xiang Liang tried to analyze, clearly aware of the issue of heredity.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the people present changed drastically.

Simply because they suddenly felt a burning pain in their arms.

That's the feeling unique to when a mission is issued.

Now there's a new mission!

[You've discovered that the villagers are dangerous. Kill one villager within 2 hours.]

The moment Lu Jinzhao saw the mission clearly, it was as if she had been struck by a heavy blow. She almost immediately realized that this mission was extremely dangerous!

It's not that killing the villagers is dangerous, but that doing so would bring unbearable consequences for them!

"This task cannot be done." She looked at Xiang Liang and Luo Yu and said, word by word.

Or rather, not everyone can do it.

Someone with enough money to buy their life must step forward and cancel their mission.

Otherwise, the number of villagers would decrease too much.

This task, conversely, confirmed her earlier guess; it was most likely true.

We cannot allow the number of villagers to continue to decline.

Xiang Liang wasn't as quick-witted as Lu Jinzhao before, but the moment he saw the task, he seemed to understand something.

The mission was unlikely to benefit the passengers; the villagers during the day were no different from easy prey to these passengers who possessed destiny and supernatural items.

They were killed by passengers, so there was no risk of retaliation.

But how could the platform possibly issue such a task that's practically "gifted" to them?

This must be a trap.

(End of this chapter)