Chapter 202: Heredity
Lu Jinzhao walked together with this unfamiliar First-Class toward the warehouse.
“Do you think they’ll fight in a bit?”
Luo Yu’s voice sounded somewhat excited, as if chatting about some interesting gossip.
“Not sure.” Lu Jinzhao’s response was quite standard. In fact, she wasn’t brushing off the question; she really didn’t know if they would fight.
Without understanding either side of the potential conflict, Lu Jinzhao wouldn’t easily draw a conclusion.
“I bet they will.”
Luo Yu answered on her own.
She hoped they would fight; that was the most favorable situation for everyone else, and this “everyone else” naturally included her, Luo Yu.
“Maybe.”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t refute it, her tone carrying a bit of indifference. Anyway, whether they fought or not, it wouldn’t delay her from collecting information about the tablets. The number of tablets was limited; there would always be someone without a tablet.
Even if two people died due to the conflict, making the number of tablets sufficient, Lu Jinzhao believed someone would suddenly “lose” a tablet.
She had no interest in breaking up the fight and no intention of killing anyone for now, so she held a completely bystander attitude toward the result of this conflict.
As long as her goal wasn’t affected, that was fine.
Upon reaching the entrance to the courtyard where she lived, Lu Jinzhao saw that quite a few passengers had already arrived one after another.
Everyone seemed to know something was about to happen here and had rushed over.
She looked around but didn’t see Tian Lei.
Besides her, one person from Luo Yu’s city had come, while the girl from the Ancestral Hall had all her teammates present.
“You don’t have a tablet yourself, so why take another one from us? Isn’t that too unreasonable?”
Lu Jinzhao heard someone questioning.
It was one of the members from the warehouse team.
“Is this a place where reason matters?” the woman without a tablet said bluntly.
Her words were too straightforward, making the other’s face twitch. He didn’t know how to refute this seemingly shameless but actually very true question.
“We won’t give you a tablet. Go find it somewhere else. Didn’t someone take an extra tablet?”
The speaker clearly wanted to divert trouble, but he didn’t expect that the woman had already talked with Luo Yu before coming.
“Since someone in your group already didn’t get a tablet, one more shouldn’t matter, right?” the woman said unreasonably, her malice unmasked in her words. The atmosphere in the courtyard instantly grew tense.
With things said to this point, the conflict seemed unavoidable.
But the woman suddenly smiled and stepped back a few paces: “Just kidding, don’t be so tense.”
“I get it. You don’t want to. I’ll find another way. I don’t want to fight you all right now.”
As she spoke, she backed away, wanting to leave the courtyard.
The originally tense atmosphere became somewhat strange. Lu Jinzhao’s brow slightly raised; she felt this matter had become interesting.
She didn’t think the woman was joking. What reason did she have to suddenly give up?
Lu Jinzhao tried thinking from her perspective and reached a conclusion: If she had decided to take a tablet from this team and had just thrown out harsh words but then retreated, either she had encountered a terrifying power she absolutely couldn’t resist, or she had already succeeded.
No uncontrollable power in sight for now, so the woman had already succeeded?
Did she, or her friend’s fate, have an ability like [Remote Object Retrieval]?
Clearly, Lu Jinzhao wasn’t the only one who guessed it.
“Hey, check if your tablets are still there.”
The first to react from the warehouse side was the one without a tablet.
Ever since confirming she was that “lucky one,” she had fallen into deep panic. Last night, she hadn’t even slept well, constantly thinking about what to do.
Among her thoughts was whether she could use her existing supernatural item and fate to rob someone else’s tablet—steal it if she couldn’t rob it outright.
So she reacted the fastest.
The man’s face changed instantly as he talked with the woman. He hurriedly opened his backpack but didn’t see the expected item inside.
“Damn it! My tablet is gone!”
Sure enough.
Lu Jinzhao blinked, somewhat curious how the woman had done it.
Was it a supernatural item, or a fate?
What were the restrictions on using it?
Could it steal others’ supernatural items, or even fates?
It was a threat.
Sensing Lu Jinzhao’s current thoughts, [Nemesis] rubbed against the skin on her wrist. [Silence] also unwillingly crawled out a bit from Lu Jinzhao’s collarbone, revealing a head to “look” toward the outside world, as if searching for who the “threat” was.
[Lu Jinzhao] hid in her hair strands, looking toward the people behind her. Sometimes, through sensing her own shadow puppet, Lu Jinzhao felt like a pair of eyes had grown on the back of her head, but she actually couldn’t fully see what [Lu Jinzhao] “saw”—at most, she had a vague sense.
Her shadow puppets lacked self-consciousness but possessed an instinct similar to that of small animals.
“The real show is about to start.” Luo Yu, who had been standing beside Lu Jinzhao, suddenly spoke up.
Lu Jinzhao gave her a strange look, not understanding why she wasn’t going to her teammates’ side but instead standing with her.
The warehouse people had reacted and quickly chased out. The woman hadn’t gone far; in fact, she had only left the small courtyard, with no intention of escaping.
“Hey, give it back!” the man shouted angrily at her.
The woman looked innocent: “What thing?”
“Of course, the tablet you just stole!”
The woman looked even more innocent: “The tablet I stole? Are you joking? I have my own tablet. Why would I steal one?”
Impressive.
Lu Jinzhao applauded inwardly.
If it were her, she absolutely couldn’t say something like that.
She was still too weak.
[This woman is so bad.]
The parchment didn’t know what got into it, suddenly acting righteous, but the next second:
[Just like you.]
Lu Jinzhao: ?
Her mouth corner twitched slightly, as if wanting to say something but holding back.
“You’re shameless! What do you mean your tablet? That’s the one you stole from me!”
The man’s face visibly flushed with anger; perhaps he hadn’t experienced something like this much before.
But after saying that, he calmed down a bit. He knew such words were meaningless; in the platform, they could only vent emotions.
“No point talking more.” He looked up, his eyes revealing sharpness: “You should pay the price for what you’ve done.”
“Wait.” The woman suddenly raised her hand and asked: “Are you sure?”
“If we fight, it won’t just be between you and me. You should know this is only the second day we’ve been here.”
“Only one mission has passed.”
Fighting now would definitely be more loss than gain.
“I can’t worry about that.” The man knew it full well, but without a tablet, what difference was there from waiting to die?
Last night, he had still felt fortunate not to be the last one entering the Ancestral Hall, yet today this happened.
“Without a tablet, can’t you borrow one from someone who has one?” the woman suggested, seemingly helpfully.
“You definitely can’t borrow mine. Our city has two First-Class. You should think carefully about whose to borrow.”
As she spoke, her gaze glanced toward Lu Jinzhao’s direction.
Lu Jinzhao looked back at her with a somewhat puzzled expression, thinking, Me?
It’s been a while since I killed anyone.
Go for it, Yun Lili
