See the Law of Deception

Chapter 47 The Long Street Slaughterhouse (8)

Besides the man born in the Year of the Rat, three other people came and exchanged information with Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling. Only one of them immediately chose to stop the transaction after hearing Lu Jinzhao's question.

"She must have realized what was happening by now, right?"

Wei Ling watched the person leave and said, "But this means we've lost information on one more person. Is that alright?"

Lu Jinzhao shook his head: "That's not the key point."

While it's natural to want as much information as possible from others, the information they already have is enough to deal with what might happen next at this event.

"We're lucky; the zodiac animals on the meat tickets aren't hard to deal with. The trouble is with the others."

Wei Ling naturally understood the unspoken meaning behind Lu Jinzhao's words.

After figuring out that the key element was the Chinese zodiac, she immediately connected everything together.

Each of the 12 people has a meat ticket engraved with a different zodiac animal. They need to offer the butcher the correct animal every day. Today it's a rat, what about tomorrow?

Tomorrow will most likely be another one of the 12 zodiac animals.

So what happens when the correct animal is one that doesn't actually exist in reality?
For example, the dragon.

At this moment, is the passenger born in the Year of the Dragon the correct animal?

They were also required to bring meat home every day, effectively gathering all the passengers with their stored goods here daily, the purpose of which was obvious.

In Wei Ling's view, this platform is indeed simpler than "Out of Control". The way the ghost kills people and the malice of the platform mission are obvious. The biggest difficulty is not even the ghost's pursuit, but how to kill and avoid being killed.

Compared to what zodiac signs were on the tickets of other passengers, their first priority was to conceal their own zodiac sign!
Lu Jinzhao probably thought of these things almost as soon as he saw her hostage.

That's why she didn't hesitate to let me go with her at the door instead of exchanging information. She also deliberately brought the mouse in with her to confuse the situation and not reveal more information to the others present.

As expected, I made the right choice.

Thinking of this, Wei Ling quietly approached Lu Jinzhao and whispered, "So what's your zodiac sign? I'm a snake."

She believed that since they were already bound together, it would be advantageous for them to know each other's zodiac signs, so that they could better cover for each other when the butcher asked for the animal that day.

Lu Jinzhao confirmed that this platform was indeed very simple, even simpler than summoning ghosts for her. She was in a pretty good mood, so she said to Wei Ling, "Guess what it is. Here's a hint: it's an animal with horns on its head."

"sheep?"

Lu Jinzhao nodded.

Upon seeing this, Wei Ling laughed and said, "Are you actually a little lamb? You don't look like one at all."

Lu Jinzhao felt a little awkward when she heard this. Wei Ling's mention of the word "little lamb" reminded her of the little lamb she used to raise, and the sheepskin that was still in her pocket, but she didn't say anything more.

Fortunately, Wei Ling only made a joke and didn't intend to keep using this joking nickname.

When the two returned downstairs, there were clearly a few fewer people in the crowd.

It seems we've entered the main building.

Lu Jinzhao concealed his guesses very well, and the other small group that guessed the truth also tacitly kept quiet and did not remind the others who had not yet realized the problem.

Both sides had their own ulterior motives, and the only ones left were those who weren't smart enough and hadn't joined either side's group, who were used as cannon fodder.

Lu Jinzhao thought that perhaps they were also guessing that completing this platform task would not require 12 days.

Just like in "The Summoner," where she deduced that killing other passengers beforehand could reduce the difficulty of the mission, perhaps it would work here as well.

If a passenger whose zodiac sign must be submitted dies prematurely, and there is no one to perform the task, will it be skipped?
At least at the [Class C] platform, Lu Jinzhao did not believe that the tasker under this condition would disappear and the condition would randomly rotate to someone else.

This platform, in its simplicity, means that deducing its truth is easy, but its essence is incredibly cruel and bloody.

There will definitely be deaths in this mission.

And the quantity will not be small.

Once again, Lu Jinzhao felt the undisguised malice emanating from the platform and the train. This was definitely not the so-called "evolution" and "selection" that some people on the forum had speculated about. She did not agree with such speculation, but she still did not know what the train's existence was or what its significance was.

More important to her now than things that are so far away is...
Wei Ling completed her mission today. If she kills all the other passengers tomorrow, she will probably be able to complete the game solo.

She was certainly not the only one who could think of this.

Just because Wei Ling wouldn't do that doesn't mean others wouldn't.

Lu Jinzhao's only expectation now is that the butcher will need an "ox" tomorrow.

Passengers who have completed their mission will not have any conflict with it.

I just don't know if anyone here is even on this platform who has thought of this and actually intends to do it.

While she was pondering, the passenger who had exchanged information with her, born in the Year of the Rat, talked to his companion for a few words and then walked into the main building with a conflicted expression.

Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling merely glanced at each other indifferently, neither of them uttering a word to stop them.

They didn't know what she said to her companion, but this "companion" would inevitably become the object of their suspicion.

"That's fine too."

Lu Jinzhao heard Wei Ling beside him sigh as she spoke.

She was somewhat dazed. Wei Ling had experienced more train platforms than she had, while she had only experienced two, yet she felt a strong sense of change and indifference growing in her heart.

Having experienced more, Wei Ling has obviously changed a lot, but this change is slower than what I have experienced.

From her brief interactions with Wei Ling, she heard the other woman say things like she used to ask for leave from school to go home and help thresh wheat. She had been a good child, and perhaps she still was.

But inside the station, she could no longer be considered a good person.

What about yourself?
It certainly doesn't qualify.

"How are we going to get the meat?" The question from the person next to Lu Jinzhao interrupted his thoughts.

She turned her head and saw that the person who asked the question was the companion of the man born in the Year of the Rat.

His question was normal, but the timing was too delicate.

The man had barely stepped inside when he asked that question.
"This guy, he already knew, didn't he?" Wei Ling whispered from the side.

Lu Jinzhao nodded slightly. Wei Ling, having received her confirmation, looked at the man with an even more subtle expression.

"It should be from there, right?"

Someone pointed to a window next to the main entrance of the main building.

The window was square and not very tall, about the height of a person's upper body. It was closed from the inside at the moment, and below the window was an iron table.

"It looks like the meat will be thrown out from here."

He had barely finished speaking when, with a bang, the window was flung open from the inside.

Then came several more sounds of flesh colliding with metal, as pieces of bright red flesh, cut into small pieces, were thrown out of the window.

The meat looked very fresh.

It has a distinct texture and a bright red color.

Unfortunately.
"It seems the person is dead," Wei Ling sighed.

Lu Jinzhao was thinking that the people born in the Year of the Rabbit had escaped a calamity.

Who is born in the Year of the Rabbit?
Is it a companion of the mouse?

The person who tricked him into dying.

(End of this chapter)