See the Law of Deception

Chapter 233 Heredity (39)

[48 hours until train arrival]

Unable to find the villagers, and based on the current situation, it seemed unsuitable to locate them, the surviving passengers planned to search other parts of the village more thoroughly for any useful clues. Just then, a countdown suddenly appeared on their arms.

No one expected it.

Everyone stopped. Most people looked excitedly at the countdown on their arms, but a few people's expressions turned serious.

Is the train coming?

"Is the mission about to end?"

"Is this Death Platform time-limited? Did we survive the hidden time limit?"

"Or is it that we have enough missions?"

Everyone was speculating.

"I don't think so."

"Then why...?"

"Does the 'Death Platform' announce the train's arrival time? I've never heard of such a thing before."

The expressions of the special agents present were somewhat somber, with Xiang Liang's brows furrowed even more: "Because this has never happened before."

Telling someone in advance how long they have left to leave alive is incredibly kind; what kind of death platform would offer such a gesture?

The death platforms they experienced could only be judged by the deafening whistle of the trains before they entered the station, indicating whether it was time to leave.

Sometimes, in critical situations, one must find a way to escape while trapped and board the train within the time limit, a situation that can be described as a narrow escape from death.

Should passengers be notified in advance to prepare?
There's absolutely no such thing as a free lunch!
It seems that what will happen in the next 48 hours makes the platform staff believe that without prior notice, they have no chance of survival whatsoever!

Luo Yu looked up at the silent village and the silent mountains, knowing in her heart that the next 48 hours would be the final deadline for life and death. The only thing she could do was to save as many teammates as possible while ensuring her own survival.

However, Luo Yu did not have high expectations for this, and was even mentally prepared for all her teammates to die.

After all, the platforms have existed for so many years, yet each platform still has very few top-tier stations.

The train will clear out passengers who have reached a certain level.

Luo Yu looked up at the several special-grade officers and saw the same caution in their eyes. She then looked at Lu Jinzhao, somewhat surprised yet not surprised, as this first-grade officer's expression was also full of vigilance; she had already sensed danger.

What will happen?

Luo Yu stood among her teammates, pondering the possible sources of danger. She hadn't used up much of her supernatural power reserves so far, and the initial attacks by the ghosts on the Death Platform weren't too difficult for a Special Grade like her to handle.

Therefore, she became even more cautious; there was no reason why the danger posed by a death platform was less than that of some high-level platforms.

Unlike Luo Yu's worries about the danger that might appear at any time, Lu Jinzhao knew a piece of information that no one else knew, thanks to the sheepskin transaction.

[Can do everything, can't do anything]

Her previous interpretation of this statement was that although passengers could do anything on this platform without any obvious restrictions, in reality they couldn't do anything and everything they did was wrong.

Furthermore, the phrase "can do anything" also implies to some extent that she has to do something, even if it's wrong, she can't just sit and wait for death.

Now, the countdown has begun, and the menacing presence of the platform is no longer hidden. I'm afraid nothing will happen to Lu Jinzhao next!

There will be no potential dangers or crises. We will just quietly pass through our final days, and then everyone will die here without knowing anything.

If they do nothing.

You can do everything, and you can't do anything, but you also can't do nothing. Are you kidding me?

This is practically forcing them to make mistakes without giving any limits on how far they can go. They might accidentally exceed what they can afford to pay.

Something has to be done, but what should be done?

"Genealogy? Is there a genealogy in this village?" Lu Jinzhao asked, looking at the others.

The information she was unaware of might be known to other passengers.

"Have!"

"I know!"

Surprisingly, some people actually knew.

He was a Class 1 passenger, or one of the two remaining in the warehouse.

Her face showed a mixture of excitement and anticipation, along with a hint of unease; her emotions appeared quite complex at that moment.

"How did you know?" Tian Lei asked, peeking out from beside Lu Jinzhao.

"I felt a sense of crisis and wanted to do something, so I went to the village chief. He was quite easy to talk to and gave it to me right away."

Lu Jinzhao was somewhat indifferent. No wonder she found nothing at the village chief's house and ancestral hall; it turned out someone had taken it beforehand.

"We're just handing over the family tree to you like that?" someone asked, puzzled.

"Maybe it's nothing important."

Ignoring everyone else's speculations, Lu Jinzhao took the family tree handed to her and began to look through it.

In fact, as the man said, this family tree was nothing special; it looked like an ordinary family tree and did not record any strange events or any statements that seemed like clues.

This is just an ordinary and normal family genealogy.

"I've checked it, and I didn't see anything unusual."

"It can only be seen that the population of this village has never been very large since the beginning of the family genealogy records."

Lu Jinzhao quickly flipped through the entire genealogy book. Her extraordinary memory told her that, indeed, the genealogy book seemed normal at first glance.

As this person said, the village's population has not increased much since the beginning of its genealogy records, and sometimes it even needs to intermarry with outsiders to maintain its population.

“Indeed.” Lu Jinzhao first affirmed her opinion, then added, “But there are still some things to be aware of.”

Lu Jinzhao handed the family genealogy to Luo Yu, who was walking over.

"The village's population has indeed not increased much, but it seems that some people in the village always die. The genealogy does not record the specific reasons, only the ages, which include people of all ages."

"This is true in any era."

"Many members of the clan die, but whenever the death toll rises, the village will intermarry with outsiders to increase the village's population."

"Therefore, the number of people in the village has always remained within a relatively stable range, occasionally increasing, but never falling below a certain number."

"So can we speculate that when the village's population drops to a certain limit, something bad will happen, and therefore the villagers are deliberately controlling and maintaining it?"

Luo Yu flipped through the family genealogy. Unlike Lu Jinzhao, she couldn't simply glance at it and memorize all the contents, nor could she analyze the changes in the village's population at different stages. However, she agreed with what Lu Jinzhao said.

After all, the fact that the mission required them to kill villagers was enough to show that the villagers' deaths were not a good thing.

(End of this chapter)