See the Law of Deception

Chapter 250 Heredity (56)

Luo Yu went inside.

At first glance, this place looks no different from other villagers' homes, but upon closer inspection, she can detect subtle signs that many people have been here.

Even if covered up, the marks on the ground cannot be completely concealed.

It looks like they went to the woodshed?
But there was no movement in the woodshed at the moment. It was impossible for so many villagers to be crammed into the woodshed, and it was even more impossible for them to leave no trace of life except for their footsteps.

So there's a hidden world inside the woodshed?

Luo Yu pondered for a moment, then walked towards the woodshed.

When she pushed open the door to the woodshed, she couldn't help but frown.

This doesn't feel right.

She looked at the blisters that had appeared on the back of her hand; these were the result of the attack caused by breaking a taboo after opening the door.

But she had prepared before opening the door, and in theory, the attack should have been resolved smoothly, just like when she pushed open the courtyard door, but it wasn't.

The intensity of this attack exceeded her expectations.

The ghost's supernatural powers have become stronger?

No, it should be said that it is recovering?
Ghosts are different from humans. Ghosts are inanimate objects, unable to grow naturally, nor can they gradually become stronger over time, and they cannot continuously improve their destiny like passengers with a destiny.

Ghosts don't experience fluctuations in their state or depletion of their power like humans do. Therefore, their supernatural attacks don't suddenly become stronger or weaker. The "quantity" of each attack is static and doesn't fluctuate.

If a passenger encountered a ghost on a low-level platform three years ago, and the ghost's attack was quantified as "7 points", then three years later, the ghost's attack would still only be "7 points".

In the present-day village, when passengers die, their fates become taboo and are integrated into the village; this is the "mechanism".

This mechanism will make the demon stronger, but as the mechanism increases, the attack effect it brings remains fixed.

In other words, the intensity of the attack received after the door is opened should not change.

Unless the fact that "supernatural attacks gradually become stronger over time" is also part of the ghost's mechanics.

But that's too far-fetched, so far-fetched that Luo Yu felt her scalp tingle just thinking about the possibility.

This means that the ghost on this platform not only has the ability to kill passengers and turn their fates into taboos, but also has a mechanism in which its supernatural power will continuously increase over time.

This surpasses all the ghosts Luo Yu has ever encountered before!
With this mechanism, coupled with the fact that the demon cannot be killed, as long as the platform exists, the demon will continue to grow stronger.

"Absolutely impossible!"

She subconsciously refuted it in her mind; it wasn't that she didn't believe it, but rather that she was unwilling to believe the possibility.

But then she remembered the new taboo that had just been added, and the word "recovery" mentioned in the mission. Her brain, which had been shaken by the speculation, resumed functioning, and she immediately realized that she must have misunderstood.

Strength doesn't increase slowly over time; it recovers.

Perhaps the ghost on this death platform was too powerful, and the train suppressed it until the last hour, when the restriction was gradually lifted.

Thinking this, Luo Yu breathed a sigh of relief. She thought to herself, how could any ghost have a mechanism for double infinite growth? What would they be doing risking their lives?

She composed herself and went into the woodshed.

The woodshed was not large, and because it had no windows, it was extremely dark, but even in the darkness, it was clear that no one was hiding there.

At least not on the surface.

Luo Yu searched for a short while and found the traces hidden behind the pile of firewood.

"basement?"

It seems that the villagers are hiding down there? It's good that they're all down there; it'll make it easier to wipe them all out at once.

Such a thought flashed through Luo Yu's mind. Even though she still felt that killing the villagers might not be a "good thing," she couldn't refuse the conditions given by the mission.

She pushed aside the firewood and, under the gaze of the other passengers who followed her in, pulled open the door leading to the basement, revealing a dark entrance.

It's a downward staircase.

Judging from the appearance, this basement has probably been there for a long time, which means that this may not be the first time the villagers have used it.

"Shall we go down?" The passengers exchanged glances, then tacitly took out their lights and headed down the stairs.

Lu Jinzhao walked at the back of the group. The staircase leading to the underground was not narrow, as if it was specially made to be spacious because many people would come and go here when it was first built.

The staircase was long, and the basement was dug very deep, with four turns along the way. When they finally reached the bottom, they saw another door.

A faint light shone through the crack in the door.

It seems this is our destination.

Before the passengers could figure out how to open the door, it was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

Light shone out from inside, and Lu Jinzhao saw the village chief again, as well as the villagers standing behind her with serious expressions.

Lu Jinzhao could tell from their serious expressions that the villagers seemed to know why they had come.

If that's the case, why open the door so easily?
Just as this thought crossed my mind, I heard the village chief say in a heavy voice, looking at the passengers outside the door, "What you are trying to do is wrong. You can't keep killing your own kind."

She simply spoke these words, but given the demands of the mission and the passengers' perilous situation, their weight seemed exceptionally light.

Fu Xia ignored the village chief's words; her hand was already slightly raised. But Lu Jinzhao, who was behind her, had been carefully observing the old man the moment the village chief spoke. When she saw that the village chief had finished speaking and was simply standing quietly watching the passengers, she immediately realized something and quickly said:

"Don't move! Don't kill!"

As she finished speaking, the wind chimes at her waist jingled, and one of the arms of the "Substitute" suddenly snapped off.

She spoke, breaking a taboo, and was attacked by a ghost.

Shen Yi and Tian Lei also realized something and quickly stepped forward to stop Fu Xia. Although Fu Xia frowned slightly, she stopped and turned around to look at Lu Jinzhao with a questioning look.

Lu Jinzhao quickly typed out a line of text: She was not attacked.

The village chief spoke without violating any taboos.

Fu Xia didn't quite understand the sentence, but Lu Jinzhao could tell from her expression, so she typed another line.

The mission states that killing all the villagers will grant us immunity to the taboo, but are the villagers already immune?

She used the question mark (?) to indicate that she had doubts about the matter.

Fu Xia's expression changed slightly; she finally understood what Lu Jinzhao was trying to express.

They now understand that the mission is guiding them to integrate into the village and become one of the villagers.

Most of the passengers died during this process, and those who died have been recorded in the family genealogy and become members of the village.

Those who are still alive can only be considered "half" villagers.

This is naturally a good thing. If they are not villagers, they will not become ghosts and can return to the train while still maintaining their human identity.

But if they are ostracized by the village and break taboos because they are not villagers, then does the phrase "immune to taboos" in the mission mean that they will become new villagers the moment they kill all the villagers?

After all, the villagers seemed unaffected by the taboos.