See the Law of Deception

Chapter 248 Heredity (54)

Lu Jinzhao's condition was not good at the moment. Her blood was flowing backward, she had severe subcutaneous bleeding, and her internal organs were displaced. However, her physical condition was already extraordinary, and she was no different from a half-corpse, so it did not have a great impact on her.

When she returned alive to Tianlei, she saw that Tianlei visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

".Very good."

Whether it was the fact that Lu Jinzhao had returned alive and could bring her mission information, or the fact that Lu Jinzhao was alive in general, she felt it was all wonderful.

Shen Yi's expression, however, was somewhat somber. Lu Jinzhao had already returned, so it seemed that her teammate was now confirmed dead.

Actually, she had already had a mental expectation when she saw her name appear on the family tree, but she still vaguely retained a possibility, but now, even that possibility has been cut off.

She traded her family tree and a supernatural item in exchange for being present when Lu Jinzhao recounted the mission to Tian Lei.

This supernatural item is a wind chime. It comes from a Class C station and is not a powerful supernatural item, but it is a rare warning device.

It makes a sound whenever a ghost appears around it.

Its side effects are almost non-existent; the ringing may damage hearing, but hearing can be restored by returning to the train.

Its drawback is that the ringtone cannot be masked. Sometimes, it's like a cell phone that can't be silenced, so not only can you hear it, but other people and even ghosts nearby can hear it too.

Furthermore, it can only warn of ghosts that are already present in the vicinity; if it is just a supernatural attack, it will not be triggered.

Overall, it's a very useful tool.

Considering the misfortune that might follow, Lu Jinzhao accepted the wind chime.

After briefly recounting the dangers he encountered during the mission, it was already close to the mission's deadline.

She emphasized the things that might happen during hallucinations, only omitting the part about the lamb, while explaining the rest as clearly as possible.

At the very least, try to prevent the people in front of you from dying, so as to add more help to this village.

Soon it was Tianlei's turn to complete the mission. With Lu Jinzhao's experience as an aid, and the fact that she had made ample preparations before entering the platform, including carrying items to resist illusions, she did not perish in this mission.

However, when she returned alive, she was clearly not in good condition.

Three fingers on her left hand were missing, leaving only her thumb and index finger. Her left eye was missing, leaving only a bloody hole. Her body looked as if it had been splashed with red paint, but the strong smell of blood emanating from her as she approached told others that it was not paint, but blood.

"Are you alright?" Shen Yi asked hesitantly as she looked at the person who staggered closer.

"Thank goodness, I won't die." Tian Lei raised her blood-stained face, which was almost unrecognizable, and gave a smile that could have been considered sweet. Shen Yi's eyes twitched slightly, and she quietly took a step back.

Lu Jinzhao frowned: "Let's stop the bleeding first."

Tian Lei's constitution seems to be only slightly better than that of an ordinary person. At this moment, the area where her finger was severed is still bleeding continuously. If left untreated, it will probably become very troublesome.

Shen Yi left while Lu Jinzhao was stopping Tian Lei's bleeding; she was next.

She survived thanks to enough information and prior preparation. Throughout the night, Lu Jinzhao kept an eye on the changes in the family genealogy. By the time the sky began to lighten, only six people remained who had not yet been added to the genealogy.

Lu Jinzhao, Tian Lei, Shen Yi, Bai Pei, Luo Yu, and her last teammate Fu Xia.

Three were awarded the Special Grade, and three were awarded the First Grade.

There are still survivors in every city. The city with the largest population has only one Special Grade survivor left, while the city with the fewest survivors, Cloud City, is still alive.

The survivors reunited after the mission, but Luo Yu's face was devoid of any smile. She had wanted to protect her teammates as much as possible, but now, with only a few hours left before the train arrived, she had only one teammate left.

She couldn't even guarantee that her last teammate would survive.

The six survivors huddled together. They stopped searching for the villagers and stayed on the road leading away from the village, waiting for time to pass and for the final crisis to arrive.

Everyone knows that things won't end there.

Time ticked by, and with only one hour left before the train's arrival, the burning pain that everyone dreaded returned to their arms.

That was the last and most dangerous mission.

However, this mission is somewhat different from others.

[The inherited sins are resurfacing; you have nowhere to escape. For every villager you kill, you gain immunity to one taboo; kill all villagers, and you become immune to all taboos at this platform!]

The moment they realized the mission, everyone's breathing became heavy.

At the end of the mission, eight large characters were written:
Cleanse your sins, and you will find a way to live.

"What does this mean?" Luo Yu's last teammate, a girl named Fu Xia, looked at the brand on her arm with some confusion.

The mission was actually giving them a way to survive?

This has never happened before!

“It’s a trap,” Lu Jinzhao immediately concluded.

“That’s right.” Shen Yi nodded: “Killing a villager exempts you from one taboo, but killing another person adds another taboo, so it’s essentially the same.”

“If other people are involved, and others are also killing villagers, then it is more likely that killing one person will create two, three, or even four more taboos.”

"It's not worth it," Luo Yu said, taking a deep breath.

“Unless…we kill all the villagers,” Fu Xia tentatively said.

“That’s the purpose.” Lu Jinzhao shook his head: “The mission wants us to kill all the villagers.”

It offers a seemingly achievable solution, but in essence, it still wants the passengers to reduce the number of villagers.

"The mission defines our killing of the villagers as cleansing sins, but what exactly are the villagers' sins?" Bai Pei, who spoke the least, focused his attention on the last few words.

"Perhaps they are human by day and ghosts by night, constantly bringing in new people to continue the village?" some speculated.

Lu Jinzhao did not participate in the discussion on this topic.

She was thinking, this is the definition the mission made, defined as cleansing sins, but whether it is the train, the mission, or the platform itself, is it something great and righteous?
Are the "sins" they define truly sins under universal human values?
Or is it a distorted, polluted, or completely unrecognizable concept?

She didn't want to follow the task's prompts and think in a conventional way.

"But in any case, the mission will not be faked or deviated from. As long as we really kill all the villagers, we can really be exempt from the taboo. It won't be difficult to get on the bus alive without breaking the taboo!"

Fu Xia came to a conclusion: she didn't want to think about what this sin was. Now, everyone only had two choices: either face the unknown dangers ahead and fight for their lives, or kill the villagers to gain immunity.

Her choice was to target the more vulnerable villagers during the day.