See the Law of Deception

Chapter 44 The Long Street Slaughterhouse (5)

As time passed, all the passengers searched for traces of the rat.

This slaughterhouse has probably been neglected for a long time, so catching a few rats shouldn't be difficult.

Without suitable landmarks on the platform, passengers may find it difficult to know the exact time, and the time displayed on their watches or mobile phones after entering the platform may not be accurate.

Therefore, they relied more on the sky to judge the time.

Fortunately, the weather inside the station was normal for the time being. Based on the position of the sun, it was around 3 p.m. when I went out.

About two hours later, passengers who had caught the rat began to gather outside the main building of the center.

Judging that it was about time, Lu Jinzhao gestured to Wei Ling and said, "Let's go."

Wei Ling nodded. She had originally planned to walk into the building by herself, but for some reason, Lu Jinzhao followed her inside. However, she did not ask him anything.

However, seeing that the two were about to go inside, some people couldn't help but intervene.

"Huh? Are you going in now?" The one who spoke was a member of the largest group.

Lu Jinzhao ignored him, but Wei Ling turned to look at him and replied, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Just the two of you? That's too dangerous. Why don't we wait until everyone's here before we go together?"

As Lu Jinzhao had expected, someone suggested that everyone go together, and it was most likely that the largest group would be the one to suggest it.

Without Lu Jinzhao's prompting, Wei Ling had already refused: "No need, I don't think it's that dangerous."

She said it on purpose, of course, because her behavior in the waiting room had already given people a first impression of being "frivolous and reckless".

She wouldn't mind deepening it a bit.

As soon as she finished speaking, Wei Ling noticed that the way this person looked at her had become subtle.

It doesn't matter, that's not important.

She followed Lu Jinzhao into the building, and the person behind her gradually disappeared from sight. Inside the building, although it was still daytime, the light was unusually dim.

Wei Ling had become somewhat accustomed to always being in the dark during missions.

She saw Lu Jinzhao observing the layout of the building, so she looked up as well.

Unlike modern slaughterhouses, this slaughterhouse was obviously built relatively early. It lacks modern tools and has been neglected for a long time, resulting in truly worrying sanitary conditions.

Moreover, just like being in a horror movie, the rooms in this building were designed without any discernible pattern. The two wandered around the narrow concrete corridor for quite a while before finally finding the location of the slaughterhouse.

This spot is roughly in the center of the building, with sealed concrete walls on both sides and no windows, resulting in a lack of fresh air circulation and insufficient light.

The only light that allowed Wei Ling and Lu Jinzhao to see came from behind that open door, into the slaughterhouse filled with red light.

Just standing at the doorway, before even stepping inside, the two already felt an inexplicable chill and pressure.

It was as if the red light wasn't at the entrance of a slaughterhouse, but rather the gaping maw of a monster.

Lu Jinzhao stood outside the door and said to Wei Ling, "I won't go in with you. You can take this in."

She also gave Wei Ling the mouse that Wei Ling had given her.

Wei Ling was taken aback: "Does that mean you won't have any rats anymore?"

Lu Jinzhao nodded and said, "It's okay, this is also part of the experiment."

She needs to know what will happen if she doesn't interact with the rats.

Of course, she only dared to do this because she was certain of something. "Alright." Wei Ling raised an eyebrow slightly and took the mouse. "Then I'll go in."

"Oh, right." She paused in her steps toward the door, looking at Lu Jinzhao with a pleading look in her eyes: "Could you wait for me here? Don't go."

Although she appeared carefree, it was clear that she was still afraid inside.

Lu Jinzhao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll be waiting for you here."

After all, according to her prediction, Wei Ling might experience some surprises when she went in, but most likely she would be safe.

Even if she didn't hand the rats over to the butcher, she wouldn't be in much danger.

She deduced that Wei Ling was the only one who had to hand over the rats to the butcher today.

The clues provided by this platform are very obvious, and even the process of obtaining these clues is very procedural.

The 12 people, the rat and cow head on the meat ration ticket, the so-called correct animal in the waiting information, when talking to Wei Ling, she said that an indigenous person in her family also gave her a meat ration ticket, which required her to get the meat from the slaughterhouse before dark every day and go home.

With all this information combined, the true nature of this mission is self-evident.

If the indigenous person who gave the meat to the family doesn't get the meat back, something extremely terrifying will likely happen.

If the butcher isn't given the right animals every day, his fate will likely be grim.

They are all forced to gather here every day and offer up the right animals in order to have a day of peace.

"If my guess is correct, all I have to do is send the butcher a cow, which is not difficult."

After all, there are cattle inside the slaughterhouse.

But the most difficult part of this mission is clearly not here.

"This is troublesome," Lu Jinzhao sighed inwardly.

In her view, this mission was indeed much simpler than "Out of Control." As long as it was handled properly, there was no need to even face the threat of the ghosts.

This is the level of difficulty that should be expected for a Class C course.

On the other hand, it's even more troublesome than "out of control," and some people would probably rather face "out of control" than want to enter this platform.

"Wei Ling should be fine. Plus, we both have supernatural items, so it shouldn't be difficult for us to leave alive."

Outside the room, as Lu Jinzhao pondered her existing conjectures several times, Wei Ling had already entered the slaughterhouse.

She admitted that she wasn't as clever as Lu Jinzhao, unable to connect the clues and learn the truth about the platform as soon as she got them, but she was willing to take the risk of entering the slaughterhouse alone, which was also because she had guessed that delivering rats to the butcher wouldn't kill anyone.

Even so, fear is still unavoidable.

Especially when she first stepped into the slaughterhouse, she felt as if she had entered an ice cellar.

This is probably not a normal slaughterhouse. Under the scarlet lights, rows of unidentified meats hang inside.

They were strung together with iron hooks, hanging bloodily beside Wei Ling, making her feel as if she were in a labyrinth of flesh and blood.

She could only carefully move through this flesh and blood; the only sound in the room was the sound of her footsteps moving forward.

With each breath, the nasal cavity was filled with the smell of blood and flesh, and all that could be seen in the left and right eyes were dismembered limbs and bits of flesh.

Occasionally, she would accidentally brush past the dead flesh hanging nearby, and the cold touch sent shivers down her spine.

When she finally made her way to the depths of the slaughterhouse, she saw the slaughtering platform.

(End of this chapter)