Chapter 51: Chang Street Slaughterhouse
The situation became tense, but no one was willing to make a move today.
Because this place was both the “arena” the platform created for them, and they also had to complete the mission given by the ghost at the same time.
Even if everyone else was killed, if the person needed to complete the mission wasn’t left alive, it would be no different from suicide.
However, for Lu Jinzhao, she had only one concern:
Her and Wei Ling’s combat power was not sufficient to clear the field.
“Since no one is fighting now, let’s clean up the aftermath.” Lu Jinzhao pointed at the man whose target was “snake” and said.
The glasses woman looked at her: “What do you mean?”
“Meat!” Wei Ling said matter-of-factly, her words faintly carrying a subtle sense of “you don’t even know this.”
Lu Jinzhao saw the glasses woman’s fist clench, undoubtedly holding back many words she wanted to say to Wei Ling in that fist.
“What I’m asking is, if we send him over, will the butcher agree?”
“Why not?” Lu Jinzhao looked at her and asked.
Obviously, the platform encouraged them to kill each other, and every day the animal required by the butcher had a corresponding person responsible, even if that person was killed, if no animal satisfactory to the butcher was found today, the person responsible for it would be that dead person.
Moreover, most importantly, once the passengers discovered that killing the task-bearer of the day could also get them through the day, the positions between hunter and prey would inevitably blur, and conflict and killing intent would come even more strongly.
This was the most crucial point that gave Lu Jinzhao the courage to make such a guess.
“Just toss his corpse in and try.” Although Wei Ling didn’t fully understand this, she still went along with Lu Jinzhao’s words.
But the glasses woman clearly did not approve of Lu Jinzhao’s idea. She said, “Shouldn’t we find the real snake and toss her in?”
As she spoke, her gaze meaningfully looked toward Lu Jinzhao and Wei Ling.
Obviously, she thought the snake was one of the two of them.
Wei Ling couldn’t hold back and laughed angrily: “Ha, you woman, so you’re still thinking of eliminating rivals?”
But she didn’t show too much agitation, to avoid arousing suspicion from others. The emotion she displayed was more sarcasm.
Lu Jinzhao remained unmoved and just said, “No matter how you guess, tossing his corpse in first will show the result, won’t it?”
“If the butcher is not satisfied, everyone will naturally take action next. Why do you need to stir things up?”
“Or rather, you actually don’t want us to discover that a dead task-bearer can also produce meat?”
Lu Jinzhao’s words were practically devastating. Visibly, the atmosphere in the field changed.
The bald head man revealed the most straightforward killing intent after hearing this.
And Wei Ling’s pupils also dilated slightly. She abruptly turned her head to look at Lu Jinzhao, wanting to ask why she hadn’t told her, so she could directly kill the man and end the day.
But she suddenly realized that if she did that, today’s casualties would probably only be one person.
Could it be?
Wei Ling’s expression suddenly froze, and she wondered if she was being too malicious in speculating about Lu Jinzhao.
After all, during the loss of control, she still felt that Lu Jinzhao was a very gentle person and shouldn’t be like that.
Seeing the situation developing in a direction she couldn’t control, and not wanting the scene to become even more uncontrollable, the glasses woman could only temporarily compromise: “Fine, let’s try it first.”
In fact, before Lu Jinzhao said this, she hadn’t even thought of this possibility!
She had simply wanted to make today’s “snake” the new target.
But she hadn’t expected Lu Jinzhao to voice this earth-shattering possibility!
How did she think of it?
Damn it, perhaps from the beginning, the ally she should have pulled in the most was this woman who seemed like a vase.
But regret was useless, and she faintly felt that Lu Jinzhao wouldn’t be easily pulled in.
It could only be said that her biggest miscalculation was not immediately realizing the essence of this mission from the start, missing too many opportunities to control the situation!
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, she couldn’t do anything underhanded and could only have her companion honestly toss the snake’s corpse into the slaughterhouse inside the main building.
After coming out, she kept praying in her heart, hoping the “meat” wouldn’t appear.
Once the “meat” really came out, the situation on the field would develop in the worst direction!
The remaining people would realize her group wouldn’t fight internally, and their target animal was all others!
People who were originally supposed to obediently become her prey would also turn around and try to tear her apart and kill her.
But things often develop in directions people don’t want.
Less than ten minutes after the corpse was tossed in, the iron window for distributing meat was already opened.
Large chunks of cut-up corpses were thrown out from inside. Perhaps not as fresh as yesterday’s, the quality of the meat was visibly worse.
Lu Jinzhao first thought this way, then felt that subconsciously evaluating the freshness of human flesh was really a bit too weird.
“It’s all the train’s fault.” She thought this in her heart.
The guess was verified again successfully. Lu Jinzhao’s mentality was relaxed, but the others’ expressions were clearly preoccupied.
Especially the woman wearing glasses; her complexion was particularly awful.
“Ha! I really didn’t expect things to develop to this point.” The bald head man laughed loudly, picked up the meat, looked at the woman and her no-longer-powerful team, mocked them with a sentence, and then quickly left the slaughterhouse.
Seeing this, the others also picked up meat and left one after another. In the silent atmosphere, killing intent was spreading.
“Is it just going to end like this today?” After picking up the meat and following Lu Jinzhao out of the slaughterhouse, Wei Ling still felt a bit unsatisfied.
The conflict that erupted today was much more intense than when they first arrived yesterday.
Without the fear constantly spreading in the loss of control and the despair of not seeing a way to survive, Wei Ling found that she actually somewhat liked watching the dramatic intense human conflicts unfolding inside the platform like scenes from a play.
Especially at the end, when Lu Jinzhao said that dead people could also produce meat, it gave her an indescribable pleasure.
This reminded her of what the forum said: the longer passengers lived, the less human they seemed.
Perhaps, under the train’s oppression, she had also developed some psychological perversion.
“Tomorrow, the target will most likely be calf.” While she was still savoring it, Lu Jinzhao suddenly said this standing at her doorstep.
“Eh?” Wei Ling’s brain hadn’t calmed down yet. She reacted first, then said: “Isn’t that your target!”
“What do you plan to do?”
Send in the calf already in the slaughterhouse, or kill someone?
Based on her original impression of Lu Jinzhao, she would think Lu Jinzhao would definitely choose the calf.
But after today’s events, Wei Ling couldn’t be sure anymore.
Lu Jinzhao’s image in her heart kept changing, but undoubtedly becoming more and more “powerful.”
Now, she didn’t think Lu Jinzhao would choose the relatively “humane” option, but rather the more “advantageous” one.
