See the Law of Deception

Chapter 71 Wang's Funeral Home (11)

The daytime work was very simple; the only thing that seemed dangerous was collecting Chen Hai's body.

Once you've successfully completed these tasks, you'll have plenty of free time left.

Nothing unusual happened until nightfall.

When it was time to hand over the shift, Meng Ning was in terrible condition. Even though she was afraid of the coming of night, the exhaustion of her body and mind made it almost impossible for her to open her eyes.

"Go to sleep first. In your current state, even if something unexpected happens, you won't be able to react."

Seeing that Meng Ning was hesitant to go back to sleep, Xiao Ping could only offer this advice.

Meng Ning wouldn't be of any use with them and would only waste time. In this situation, she could easily become a burden, so Xiao Ping really didn't want her to come along.

"Okay, you guys be careful."

Meng Ning didn't want to be alone, but she really couldn't hold on any longer. Her head was spinning and her body was exhausted. She knew that what she needed most at that moment was rest.

After Meng Ning left, it was completely dark.

Inside the duty room, the two men waited for their patrol time to begin.

"Should we patrol in the same order they did yesterday tonight?" Xiao Ping asked.

Lu Jinzhao thought for a moment: "Let's change the order. The morgue should be last, and the memorial service should be before the morgue."

There were only two unusual occurrences last night, so we'll leave those two for last.

"Understood." Xiao Ping nodded.

"Just in case, we'll each carry two candles with us," Lu Jinzhao added.

There was no power outage last night, but that was only the first night we entered the station.

Time passed slowly, and Lu Jinzhao could feel her heart gradually rising, a tense atmosphere spreading in the small duty room.

During the day, you can occasionally see people at the funeral home, but once night falls, it's like entering another world. Not to mention guests, you can't even see a single staff member.

It was as if only a few passengers remained in the vast funeral home.

Tick
Tick
It's the sound of time passing by, little by little.

"That's about it." Lu Jinzhao glanced at the clock and stood up.

Xiao Ping couldn't explain why, even though when he first boarded the train, he thought that as the oldest and most experienced of the four, he would take the lead in the team during the mission.

But once on the platform, this dominant position was unknowingly taken over by the girl in front of him.

At first glance, Xiao Ping thought she would be a troublesome presence, but as the mission progressed, he was surprised to find that this girl with a somewhat gloomy temperament was actually quite calm and intelligent.

She is often much more decisive than me, and seems to have a good character; at least, she is willing to remind me.

Therefore, Xiao Ping was willing to temporarily follow her orders.

It was already 11 p.m. when the two men grabbed their equipment and left the duty room.

It was unusually quiet tonight. There was no sound of people, not even the wind. As Lu Jinzhao walked along the road, he could only hear his own footsteps and Xiao Ping's.

Their first patrol location was, as always, the service hall.

"what?"

Before even getting close, Xiao Ping uttered a questioning sound.

"I remember Meng Ning saying that the lights in the service hall were on when they were patrolling, am I right?"

His tone was tinged with doubt and uncertainty, and his expression turned somewhat grim after Lu Jinzhao nodded to confirm that he hadn't misremembered.

They were unsure if there were any requirements to turn off the lights in the service hall at night, so the pitch-black building in front of them suddenly became uncertain.

"Maybe someone forgot to turn it off after get off work yesterday?" Xiao Ping tried to come up with an excuse. "Let's go check it out first." Lu Jinzhao didn't hesitate for long.

They have to check on whoever turned off the light.

".good."

Even though Xiao Ping didn't want to get close, given the current situation, he had no choice but to follow Lu Jinzhao's footsteps and walk towards the dark service hall.

The two were quite familiar with the layout of the hall. Apart from the first day they came here, they had walked through the patrol area twice during the day.

The moonlight inside the platform was never bright enough, and the streetlights along the roadside could not illuminate the building at all. They could only observe this building, which was at least thirty years old, by the light shone from their flashlights.

When you approach this place during the day, you'll always see the renovated exteriors of the buildings. They're not exactly trendy, but at least they're clean and tidy.

However, when the two of them shone their flashlights on the wall, Xiao Ping felt as if he saw a fleeting, mottled mark on the wall, whether it was an illusion or the shadow of the tree falling on it.

It looks like some kind of dirt that can't be washed off.

But when he shone the light on it again, he couldn't see anything unusual.

"Is it an illusion?"

He looked at it for a long time, and there was indeed no trace of dirt on it. He must have been mistaken.

Just to be on the safe side, he asked Lu Jinzhao, "Did you see anything on the wall just now?"

He hoped Lu Jinzhao would answer that he hadn't seen anything, but...
"There seemed to be some trace, but I couldn't see it clearly; it just flashed by."

Lu Jinzhao obviously saw it too.

The service hall lights suddenly went out. Sure enough, something went wrong?

Things suddenly became more complicated. The service hall, which was safe last night, had undergone an unusual change tonight, and Xiao Ping hesitated.

“Doesn’t standing here count as patrolling? Can we please not get too close?” he asked.

Lu Jinzhao neither shook his head nor nodded, but simply said, "I'm not sure, but I'll go closer and take a look. If you don't want to go, you can wait for me here."

Why do I say that?

At a time when things were already tense, a line of blood-red words suddenly appeared in front of us.

[Telling him that this counts as a patrol, or telling him that it absolutely doesn't count and forcing him to go into the service hall, could have been disastrous. Why use such vague language?]

Lu Jinzhao's gaze sharpened as he extracted two pieces of information from Yangpi's words.

First, if you stand here and don't get close, it doesn't count as patrolling, and you'll die.

Second, entering the service hall will result in death.

Didn't the sheepskin know that saying this would reveal information to itself?

Lu Jinzhao lowered her eyes slightly, and then realized that she had said it on purpose.

Sheep Skin doesn't lie, but it's absolutely impossible for it to help her. Giving her this information would only be a way to harm her.

She needs to think about what traps are hidden in this information.

First, it can be confirmed that you cannot enter the service hall; simply looking at it from the entrance counts as completing the patrol.

After all, Meng Ning didn't go into the morgue last night.

But the prerequisite is that you must "get to the door," not just look at it from afar.

Looking at it this way, it seems that there is no trap hidden in this message?
Was the sheepskin merely guiding her to do something that would kill her companion?

Or perhaps they maliciously wanted to see her terrified?

(End of this chapter)