See the Law of Deception

Chapter 100 Inheritance (6)

"What the hell is this thing trying to do?"

Lu Jinzhao looked at his arm with lingering fear; a bright red mark remained where the human skin had crawled across it.

She touched it lightly, and pain instantly struck.

It's like being poisoned.

Lu Jinzhao frowned slightly, sensing that things were getting a bit complicated.

It wasn't that she wasn't alert, but the human skin moved too quickly and silently. She had only just closed her eyes when the human skin had already climbed onto her arm.

It's really impossible to guard against.

Lu Jinzhao recalled the extra three years he had experienced and had no idea how to solve the current situation.

That makes sense. This isn't some puzzle-solving dungeon; it's a supernatural platform. There's no way they'd get anything good out of them.

"We need to check if anyone else has experienced this."

Even though she had a premonition that the anomaly was probably not limited to her area, she still needed to confirm it herself.

After placing the seemingly restored human skin back on the wooden frame, Lu Jinzhao closed all the doors and windows of the room and went out.

After thinking for a moment, she walked toward the location of Fu Xuesheng's room that she remembered.

This old house is very large. If only five people live there, even if all five of them are awake and moving around in the house, they may not run into each other. Therefore, Lu Jinzhao did not encounter any other passengers along the way.

When she arrived at Fu Xuesheng's room, the door was closed. She knocked on the door, and within ten seconds, Fu Xuesheng came over and opened it.

Lu Jinchao noticed that her already somewhat listless expression had become even more sour.

Fu Xuesheng glanced at Lu Jinzhao, his gaze falling on the red mark on her arm, and then he said knowingly, "You've come to ask me if anything unusual happened last night?"

Before Lu Jinzhao could answer, she raised her other arm, which was slightly behind her back: "Yes, yes."

He sighed as he spoke, looking utterly exhausted.

On the inside of her raised arm, there was a red mark exactly like Lu Jinzhao's.

Now, Lu Jinzhao is certain that every passenger in every room will be attacked by the human skin unless that person stays up all night and keeps staring at the human skin.

"Okay." Lu Jinzhao nodded and prepared to leave.

Fu Xuesheng didn't try to stop her. After Lu Jinzhao left, she went to the backyard. The backyard seemed no different from when she came yesterday, but when Lu Jinzhao lifted the lid on the water vat again, she found that the head inside was gone.

It can be confirmed that there are only five living people here, and they would not move the head unless someone did it intentionally.

So, who took the head?

Lu Jinzhao thought of the skinned corpse, but there was no blood in the backyard, so it shouldn't be that one.

Just in case, she went to her master's room again.

The corpse remained quietly in the center of the wooden table. The blood had stopped flowing from it, but its flesh was still exceptionally fresh.

Despite the weather not being cold, it seemed as if some strange entity was keeping its flesh and blood fresh.

If you were to reattach human skin to it, it might be indistinguishable from a fresh corpse.
The moment the thought crossed his mind, Lu Jinzhao paused.

They believe the body is "fresh" because of what Dr. Ji Xiangchen said, but what if the body has always been this "fresh"?

Did it die when they arrived at the old house?
The more they discovered, the more ominous they felt this place was.

Lu Jinzhao closed the door and went back to her own room.

The human skin was laid out to dry on the wooden frame, looking quite harmless, but Lu Jinzhao knew that this thing, like the sheepskin she wore, was no good. She leaned closer to examine the human skin and discovered that it had dried considerably overnight.

"Isn't this inefficiency a bit off?"

Judging from this, the skin really can be dried overnight.

Rather than saying it was air-dried, it's more accurate to say it was completely dried out.
Is it because it wasn't attached to me?

She recalled the moment she peeled the human skin off her arm; back then, the skin wasn't so dry.

If her hypothesis is correct, then the reason why the human skin was always moist when it was on the master was because it was stuck to the human flesh.

It only withered slowly after it was peeled off?
"What exactly is this thing?"

They're going to use this to make shadow puppets? Absolutely, absolutely something bad is going to happen.

Even knowing that something bad was going to happen, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and continue.

At lunchtime, Lu Jinzhao arrived at the restaurant and, unsurprisingly, saw his fellow students there.

"I'll take care of the food," Zhong Sui said, taking on the responsibility. "But don't expect it to be delicious, just make do."

"It's good enough that you can eat, thank you for your hard work." The others were not ungrateful.

The food was the same as what they had been given when they entered the platform yesterday; according to their memory, it was enough for half a month.

"Are we going to have to stay here for half a month?" Ji Xiangchen frowned slightly, clearly worried.

"Probably not." Huo Ye shook his head. "If there's a test every day, we can leave very soon."

After all, the production process of shadow puppetry only involves the steps of leather making, drawing, carving, coloring, shaping, and assembly.

six days.

This was the time he had anticipated.

After a quick meal, the group discussed what had happened the night before.

As Lu Jinzhao predicted, everyone's skin suffered an unexpected damage.

Most of them had human skin stuck to their bodies, but Huo Ye noticed it as soon as the skin got close.

"As expected, you really need to have the right destiny to get by on the Class B platform." Ji Xiangchen looked at Huo Ye with envy in his eyes.

These words made Lu Jinzhao turn his gaze in that direction as well.

Destiny.

This is one of the main reasons why she wanted to come to the advanced dungeon.

Did one of my teammates already possess a destiny?

According to information obtained from the forum, it is not true that you will quickly obtain a destiny after upgrading to level 2 passenger. Even in high-level dungeons, special "characters" are rare, and most people do not have much money to buy a destiny. Sometimes, even if you encounter a very good destiny, you cannot afford it.

Some people know that you can only buy one fate, since a person only has one life, and once you buy it, you can't change your fate. So they are extra cautious and unwilling to buy a fate casually.

If you keep watching and watching, you'll eventually die from it all.

Therefore, even among second-class passengers, only a minority possess this destiny.

She was quite lucky; on her first visit to the VIP platform, she encountered one.

Unfortunately, once a destiny is purchased, it cannot be resold.

Huo Ye didn't refute Ji Xiangchen's words. He also felt that what the other party said was right. Even with supernatural items as an aid, one still needed to have a certain ability to fight against ghosts in order to survive in the platform.