See the Law of Deception

Chapter 260 Heredity (End)

Even if the memorial tablets still have unknown uses, they cannot return to the ancestral hall now.

"No, perhaps we don't need to return to the ancestral hall."

Lu Jinzhao suddenly looked up; she realized something.

But the next second, everything went black before her eyes.

She can't see anything anymore.

Her heart skipped a beat, and Lu Jinzhao realized that the taboo of "thinking" had once again come knocking on her door.

Without any warning, just as her left calf suddenly disappeared, she lost her sight again.

She can no longer speak, see, or walk; simply standing still is a constant violation of taboos.

It's almost equivalent to a doll waiting to die.

"There's no time left."

They wasted too much time here; the train was only ten minutes away from arriving at the station.

Having lost their sight, their other senses seem to have become more acute.

She could feel Tian Lei's trembling body beside her, the sobs she was suppressing due to pain, her rapid breathing, and even her overly tense emotions.

How can we get her out of here alive?

How to break the game?

She touched everything in her backpack and found her answer.

Carefully recalling my entire experience after entering the platform, everything started with the memorial tablet, and everything revolved around it. So now, the memorial tablet should also play its role!
She boldly discarded the first idea she had just considered and affirmed the second.

Even if the memorial tablet is fixed, it still serves a purpose.

What role do memorial tablets play?
The platform has already provided the answer, and they have all witnessed it firsthand.

Villagers.

Memorial tablets can help them gradually integrate into the village and acquire the identity of villagers.

Villagers are not restricted and do not violate taboos.

They cannot truly become villagers until the very last moment, and in this final moment, only by becoming villagers completely might they have a glimmer of hope.

She suddenly remembered what the sheepskin had said.

It can do everything, and it can't do anything.

They can neither become villagers nor are they obliged to become villagers.

In this village, where taboos are as numerous as hairs on a cow and as inescapable as a net, only those who are not bound by these taboos can escape alive.

But now, how can she and Tianlei fully become villagers?
Lu Jinzhao took out the family tree from his backpack.

Every passenger who died and became a villager had their name appear in the family genealogy.

The names of the surviving passengers are not listed on the document.

But just because someone automatically appears in the family genealogy after death doesn't mean their name can't be written in while they're alive, right?
With a memorial tablet and being included in the family genealogy, isn't he just a member of the villagers?

Writing names into a family tree carries immense risk, and this family tree, which automatically displays the names of deceased passengers, is clearly no ordinary object.

But their identity as villagers can also be represented by memorial tablets with incomplete names, which may mitigate this risk.

Lu Jinzhao believes that if the names on the ancestral tablets are complete, it may be truly difficult to escape the constraints of being a villager if those names are now written into the family genealogy.

But the incomplete names on the memorial tablets are their only hope.

She made her decision, her dark eyes turning to Tian Lei, and even though she couldn't see anything, she tried her best to be sincere:
"I have a plan that will put us in a very dangerous situation, but once we get through it, we can leave alive."

"Why don't you use your life-saving skills here?"

【A chance to survive】—what a fitting destiny for this moment! Tian Lei may not have the sheepskin, but she has this destiny. As long as her will to live is strong enough, Lu Jinzhao believes this destiny will bring her a way out.

She didn't type; she just said it aloud.

The stand-in shattered, which was expected.

The air was quiet for a moment. She knew that Tianlei was weighing her options. No matter how much she showed trust and reliance, in the end, someone with Tianlei's personality could never completely let down her guard. But in the end, she agreed.

Without further hesitation, Lu Jinzhao opened the family genealogy, turned to the last page, where there were no names. In the darkness, she blindly wrote down the two characters: "Heavenly Tears".

As the name was spoken, she felt Tian Lei's breathing change beside her.

She stopped trembling, stopped whimpering in pain, and her breathing became extremely even, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

"Heavenly Tears?"

no respond.

This was a dangerous sign, but Lu Jinzhao did not stop writing. She immediately wrote a second name on the family genealogy: Lu Jinzhao.

As soon as the character for "deer" appeared, she sensed something was wrong.

Her hands began to go limp, and a sudden wave of drowsiness washed over her. Her consciousness began to blur, and she knew that if she relaxed her guard even slightly, she would immediately fall into a deep sleep.

[Tan Meng] enveloped her body, [Lu Jinzhao] clung tightly to her and began to protect her from all attacks, and [Ke Xing] joined her in holding a pen and wrote her name.

Lu Jinzhao persisted and finished writing his name.

As the last stroke of the character "朝" was completed, the character "克星" shattered suddenly, and she immediately lowered her head and lost consciousness.

【Lu Jinzhao!!! !!!】

A sharp, disgruntled sound woke her up.

Lu Jinzhao opened her eyes and saw her younger sister standing at the head of the bed, looking at her with displeasure.

younger sister?

Does she have a younger sister?

Such doubts arose first, and then I naturally felt that of course I had a younger sister.

【Are you still not up? Are you trying to dump all the work on me?!】

Her younger sister looked at her with extreme displeasure, then slammed whatever she was holding at her, as if she were trying to murder her rather than wake her up.

It was rough, but it didn't hurt much.

Lu Jinchao got out of bed and looked around with some confusion.

This is her home, a small village nestled in the mountains, where her ancestors have lived for generations.
Questions always kept popping into her mind.

She walked outside and saw the familiar courtyard and village. This familiarity gave her a sense of security. She thought, maybe I'm still not fully awake?

Suddenly, a spider landed on her shoulder.

Lu Jinzhao was startled: "What is that?"

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it wasn't a spider at all, but a shadow puppet connected by a silk thread.

It's small and not particularly exquisite in craftsmanship, but you can tell that the little girl carved in the shadow puppet is sweet, though her expression is too serious.

--Snapped.

The shadow puppet suddenly slapped her across the face.

It didn't hurt, but it left Lu Jinzhao feeling completely bewildered.

A word suddenly popped into her mind: nemesis.

What do you mean?
Where did the spider come from?

The younger sister walked over, her face full of disgust. She reached out and grabbed the shadow puppet on Lu Jinzhao's shoulder, then stomped on it. When she moved her foot away, the shadow puppet was gone, replaced by a dead spider.

What are you spacing out for?

The younger sister frowned and approached her.

Are you sick?

My sister's expression turned strange, as if she were disgusted, but she still asked:
Where do you feel unwell?

She wanted to ask her sister if she felt unwell, because her sister's approach brought a chilling coldness, as if a large block of ice was approaching.

In the instant her thoughts wandered, another spider landed on her shoulder.

--Snapped!

Another slap.

Lu Jinzhao suddenly covered her face, somewhat confused.

When her younger sister saw another spider on her shoulder, her face suddenly turned extremely ugly. She raised her hand to grab it, but Lu Jinzhao instinctively stopped her.

"etc."

Seeing her sister's expression as if she needed an explanation, Lu Jinzhao didn't know what to say; her mind wasn't clear at the moment.

What's wrong with you? If a spider crawls into your clothes, you'd better not ask me to find it for you!

Her younger sister looked at her with dissatisfaction. Seeing that Lu Jinzhao remained unmoved, she became furious and had no choice but to change the subject.

Do you remember what you promised me?

Lu Jinzhao shook his head: "I don't remember."

Then the younger sister showed a smug expression.

You must carry me to school today.

The school was at the village chief's house. The children in their village never went out; they only went to school in the village. But her younger sister looked to be about the same age as her, and her legs were perfectly fine.

Why should I carry it?

Upon hearing this, the younger sister's brows furrowed again, and she glared fiercely at Lu Jinzhao:
This is what you should do!

Lu Jinchao discovered that her younger sister had a terrible temper and was always angry.

“Okay.” Not wanting to argue with a bad-tempered person, she picked up her sister.

strangeness.

So light.

It felt like carrying a wisp of air on my back.

Are people really that light?
And it's so cold.

The younger sister clinging to her back felt like a cold chain tightly binding her, making Lu Jinzhao shiver uncontrollably. Only the spider clinging to her shoulder provided warmth like a hand warmer, preventing her body and mind from freezing.

She wanted to ask her sister if she was sick, but when the words came to her lips, she realized she didn't know what to call her sister.

So she asked:

"Little sister, what's your name?"

The younger sister tilted her head slightly, puzzled, as she leaned against her back.

[A sister is just a sister, she doesn't have a name.]

"wrong."

Lu Jinzhao shook his head: "Everyone has a name."

The younger sister's expression turned impatient.

Who said that?

I don't have a name!

Then you're not human!

This thought suddenly appeared, extreme and unreasonable, yet it startled Lu Jinzhao.

Her brain seemed to finally receive the signal, and her previously confused expression gradually cleared up.

“No,” she said again.

I don't have a younger sister.

The non-existent person, the flaws that shouldn't exist, and the imperfect name prevented her from immersing herself in this illusion.

“Get down,” she said.

"I want to go out."

The world began to shake violently, and the illusion collapsed.

The younger sister was put down, and her face turned extremely ugly and angry. She looked at Lu Jinzhao as if she were looking at a traitor.

She got angry again.

But in the end, she did nothing. She just looked at Lu Jinzhao with indifference and disappointment, as if Lu Jinzhao had abandoned her and her family.

But this was fake. Lu Jinzhao was not swayed at all. After all, this younger sister only looked cold and dangerous, not pitiful.

"At least, you should act a little more pitiful, right?"

Even as the world crumbles, Lu Jinzhao still has the leisure to think like this.

As if experiencing an unprecedented earthquake, the village began to collapse, and she fell into darkness along with the cracks in the earth.

After the feeling of weightlessness subsided and her brain experienced a moment of dizziness, she "landed" again.

Pain was radiating from all parts of her body, and her vision was still completely black. However, her regained senses told Lu Jinzhao that the blindness and pain were caused by the attack she had suffered from a vengeful ghost, not by a major earthquake.

The hallucination dissipated, and the non-existent sister vanished as well, along with the chilling sensation that had been clinging tightly to her.

Instead, there was a real, warm human body that was right beside her, close to her.

It is tears from heaven.

Lu Jinzhao heard her tense breathing and felt her gaze on his face.

"She was watching me, watching to see if I was waking up from the hallucination."

Lu Jinzhao's eyelashes fluttered, and then she immediately heard Tian Lei's surprised voice.

"you're awake!"

She spoke without hesitation, and her breathing remained unchanged after she finished speaking.

This shows that speaking did not lead to her being attacked again.

"Hmm," Lu Jinzhao tried to say.

nothing happened
She tentatively manipulated her shadow puppets, but only [Luck] and [Tan Meng] remained; the others were all shattered.

She stood up and tried to take a step forward.

Nothing happened.

When taboos can no longer bind them, this place is just an ordinary little mountain village.

"It's really healed." Tian Lei's tone was filled with the relief of surviving a disaster.

"We don't have much time left, the train is almost here, shall we go?"

Lu Jinzhao asked, "Where are the others?"

Tian Lei shook her head: "I didn't see them after I woke up. We were in a hallucination for at least ten minutes. Maybe they're gone? Maybe."

died.

Tian Lei woke up faster than her? Lu Jinzhao was a little surprised. Was she too slow?

"I can't see anymore, can you take me out?" she asked tentatively. Tian Lei's tone became a little nervous upon hearing this: "I told you I was still thinking about how to ask you. Don't worry, I will definitely take you back to the car!"

Her tone was different from when they had met before; she seemed less hesitant and more confident.

She supported Lu Jinzhao's arm, using it as a makeshift crutch to guide her and help her walk.

As Lu Jinzhao approached the village entrance, he heard a familiar whistle in the distance—the sound of a train arriving at the station.

She suddenly asked, "Do you still want to make a deal with me?"

Tian Lei looked at her in confusion and hummed in agreement, not knowing what she was talking about.

Sheepskin, who knew what she was talking about, didn't reply, remaining as silent as if she were dead.

Although it never lived.

He was so smug before, as if he had her completely under his control, but now he's silent and pretending nothing happened.

"It's nothing," Lu Jinzhao said.

"Oh." Tian Lei nodded, looked around, and said proactively, "Hey, I see it."

Bai Pei and Shen Yi sat on the edge of a field not far away, both of them seemingly exhausted.

"I didn't see Luo Yu, and that woman is gone too."

"They were looking at us too, and they seemed quite surprised."

Tian Lei seemed to be talking more, or perhaps she was only talking more to her.

"The train is here."

The roar came from afar, but even so, Lu Jinzhao's tired nerves remained tense.

Perhaps only when she actually boards the train can she let her guard down.

The hum of the tracks grew closer until it stopped right in front of her.

"Arrived."

Tian Lei explained everything in great detail.

"They came over, and it looked like they wanted to say something."

Lu Jinzhao could probably guess what they wanted to ask.

Sure enough, the only question Bai Pei and Shen Yi asked as they approached was, "How did you manage to come back alive?"

Their gazes toward Tian Lei and Lu Jinzhao were filled with confusion.

Tian Lei tilted her head slightly, her eyes wary, and refused to say a word.

Although Lu Jinzhao was blind, he turned his head to look at the two of them following the sound and gave them a slight smile: "Lucky, right?"

Although they were curious, they couldn't get Lu Jinzhao to talk about it because he was unwilling to.

After making that desperate gamble, they survived, but they had nothing left.

"Goodbye." After Lu Jinzhao finished speaking, Tian Lei helped her into the train.

Only after the train doors closed, and her body was being repaired and her vision was restored, did Lu Jinzhao finally lean back in her seat and completely relax.

　what!

　　(End of this chapter)