See the Law of Deception

Chapter 51 The Long Street Slaughterhouse (12)

The situation has become extremely tense, but no one is willing to make a move today.

Because this place is both the "colosseum" created for them by the platform, and they also have to complete the tasks assigned by the demon.

Even if everyone else is killed, if no one is left behind to complete the mission, it is no different from suicide.

However, for Lu Jinzhao, she only had one concern:
She and Wei Ling were not strong enough to clear the area.

"Since we can't fight now, let's clean up the mess," Lu Jinzhao said, pointing at the man whose target was "snake."

The woman with glasses looked at her: "What do you mean?"

“Meat!” Wei Ling said matter-of-factly, her words carrying a subtle sense of “you don’t even know that?”

Lu Jinzhao saw the woman with glasses clench her fist, presumably holding back a lot of things she wanted to say to Wei Ling.

"My question is, if we send him there, will the butcher agree?"

"Why not?" Lu Jinzhao asked, looking at her.

Clearly, the platform encourages them to kill each other, and there is a designated person in charge for the animals the butcher requests each day. Even if someone is killed and no animal is found that satisfies the butcher, the person responsible will be the dead man.

Moreover, and most importantly, once passengers discover that killing the day's tasker also allows them to get through the day, the roles of hunter and prey will inevitably become blurred, and conflicts and murderous intent will intensify.

This is the key point that makes Lu Jinzhao dare to make such a conjecture.

"Why don't we try throwing his body in there?" Wei Ling, though not very knowledgeable about this, still went along with Lu Jinzhao's suggestion.

But the woman with glasses clearly didn't agree with Lu Jinzhao's idea. She said, "Shouldn't we find the real snake and throw her in?"

As she spoke, her eyes seemed to glance meaningfully at Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling.

Clearly, she believed the snake was between the two of them.

Wei Ling couldn't help but laugh in anger: "Ha, you woman, so you're actually targeting people with the idea of ​​eliminating dissidents?"

However, she did not appear overly agitated to avoid arousing suspicion; the emotions she displayed were more sarcastic.

Lu Jinzhao remained unmoved, simply saying, "No matter how you guess, just throw his body in and we'll know the result, right?"

"If the butcher is not satisfied, everyone will naturally take action. Why do you need to stir things up?"

"Or rather, you actually don't want us to discover that dead mission participants can also generate flesh?"

Lu Jinzhao's words were like a fatal blow, and the atmosphere on the field visibly changed.

Upon hearing this, the bald man revealed his most blatant murderous intent.

Wei Ling's pupils dilated slightly, and she abruptly turned to look at Lu Jinzhao, wanting to ask her why she didn't tell her, so that she could kill the man and end the day.

But then she suddenly realized that if she had done that, there would most likely have been only one casualty today.

Could it be?

Wei Ling's expression suddenly froze, and she wondered if she had been too malicious in her assumptions about Lu Jinzhao.
After all, when things were out of control, she still thought Lu Jinzhao was a very gentle person, and shouldn't be like that.
Seeing the situation spiraling out of her control and not wanting it to become even more uncontrollable, the woman with glasses had no choice but to temporarily compromise, saying, "Okay, let's give it a try."

In fact, before Lu Jinzhao said those words, she had never even considered this possibility!

She simply wanted to make today's "snake" her new target.

Unexpectedly, Lu Jinzhao uttered this earth-shattering possibility! How did she come up with it?
Damn it, perhaps from the very beginning, the ally she should have won over was this woman who looked like a pretty face.

But regret was useless, and she had a vague feeling that Lu Jinzhao would not be easily won over.

It can only be said that her biggest miscalculation was that she did not immediately realize the true nature of this mission, thus missing too many opportunities to take control of the situation!

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she could not do anything underhanded and could only have her companion obediently throw the snake's carcass into the main building's slaughterhouse.

After she came out, she kept praying in her heart that the "flesh" would not appear.

Once the "meat" is actually produced, the situation on the field will develop in the worst possible direction!
The rest of the group will realize that her group doesn't fight amongst themselves; their target animals are all other people!

Those who were originally supposed to obediently become her prey will turn around and try to tear her apart and kill her.

However, things often develop in ways that people don't want to see.

The iron window for cutting the meat was opened less than ten minutes after the body was thrown in.

Large chunks of the dismembered corpse were thrown out; perhaps not as fresh as yesterday, the meat was visibly of lower quality.

Lu Jinzhao initially thought this way, but then realized that her subconscious assessment of the freshness of human flesh was rather bizarre.

"It's all the train's fault," she thought to herself.

The guess was confirmed once again, and Lu Jinzhao was relaxed, but the others looked preoccupied.

The woman, especially the one wearing glasses, looked particularly unwell.

"Ha! I never expected things to develop this way." The bald man laughed, picked up a piece of meat, looked at the woman and her no longer powerful team, said sarcastically, and then quickly left the slaughterhouse.

Seeing this, the others also picked up the meat and left one after another. In the silent atmosphere, murderous intent was spreading.

"Is that all for today?" Wei Ling picked up the meat and followed Lu Jinzhao out of the slaughterhouse, still feeling a little unsatisfied.

The conflict that broke out today was much more intense than when we first arrived yesterday.

Without the ever-present fear and despair of not being able to find a way out that was present in "Out of Control," Wei Ling found that she actually enjoyed watching the intense human conflicts that unfolded like a drama on the platform.

Especially when Lu Jinzhao said that even the dead could produce flesh, she felt an indescribable pleasure.

This reminded her of something said on the forum: the longer a passenger lives, the less human they seem.

Perhaps, the oppression of the train also caused her some psychological distortion.

"Tomorrow, the most likely target will be a cow." While she was still savoring the moment, Lu Jinzhao suddenly said as she stood outside her house.

"Huh?" Wei Ling's mind hadn't calmed down yet. She reacted for a moment before saying, "Isn't that your target?"

"What are you going to do?"

Is it sending in calves that already exist in the slaughterhouse, or is it killing people?
Based on her original impression of Lu Jinzhao, she would have thought that Lu Jinzhao would definitely choose the calf.

But after what happened today, Wei Ling couldn't be sure anymore.

Lu Jinzhao's image in her mind has been constantly changing, but it has undoubtedly become more and more "powerful".

Now, she doesn't think Lu Jinzhao will choose the more "humane" option, but rather the more "advantageous" one.

(End of this chapter)