Chapter 137: Substitute
She’d rather return to the place she felt was dangerous than separate from them. Du Yu, this guy
Even Zhou Zimo, who thought his brain wasn’t sharp enough, believed his guess was correct. This person definitely wanted to screw them over.
So, when he received Qin Wan’s hint to kill Du Yu, he agreed without hesitation.
Du Yu had been following them closely. They had no chance to discuss alone what to do, but with Qin Wan there, there were naturally plenty of opportunities to put Du Yu in danger. Lu Jinzhao and Zhou Zimo just needed to act according to the situation.
When they returned to the company, it wasn’t surprising to say. The originally lively building surprisingly had no one in it.
“How about we still don’t go back?”
Just standing downstairs, they could feel the silence inside the building at this moment.
The security guard at the door didn’t know where he had gone. It clearly wasn’t mealtime, yet he had left his post without permission.
“Isn’t it more necessary to check out the anomaly? Sitting idly by waiting for death isn’t a good habit!” Zhou Zimo casually blabbered.
Du Yu looked at him as if she had eaten a fly. She really wanted to ask if Zhou Zimo was serious. Even if the platforms were different, the survival rules inside the platform should be the same, right?
But the other party had already stepped inside. She could only follow.
Du Yu thought to herself, no problem. Even if they really encountered danger, there were still three substitutes by her side anyway. If she could figure out this ghost’s taboo through this, that would be best.
It was just a pity that those two wastes died too quickly. They didn’t play any role at all and even forced her to humble herself and follow these three people.
But no matter, as long as there were people around her, her fate could make others “substitute death” for her.
Honestly, when she saw the name of this platform, she felt it might be an opportunity.
Her fate was [Substitute Death]. It wasn’t her substituting death for others, but others substituting injury, being pursued and killed by ghosts, or even death for her.
Although there were currently many restrictions, such as when using the fate, there must be other people within twenty meters of her. The same person couldn’t continuously substitute two ghost’s attacks for her in a short time. She needed to consciously link herself with the “substitute death” person in advance, and the link lasted only three minutes. Within three minutes, any supernatural attacks she suffered would hit that person first.
But if the supernatural power attacking her was too powerful, the link would also break. However, the ghost in a Class B Platform wouldn’t destroy her substitute death link in one strike.
And what she thought was an opportunity was that this platform was named [Substitute]. Substitute, replacing others, and her substitute death wasn’t also making others replace her?
Maybe she had a chance to upgrade her fate inside this platform.
It was just that she didn’t know yet where this opportunity was.
According to the messages she had seen and heard, besides training and using it herself, fate upgrades also involved using supernatural items with similar abilities, successfully surviving under a ghost’s attack after fighting a ghost with a similar killing method, and then spending a certain amount of life-buying money to steal the supernatural power from the ghost to fill her own fate.
Ghosts related to [Substitute Death] were really rare. She had never encountered one before, but this time, there seemed to be some connection.
“If I successfully survive under this ghost’s hands, can I get the ability to make others completely become puppets that die in my place?”
Du Yu felt it was promising.
Her ability made everyone who knew her extremely wary, thinking she was a lone star of disaster. Whoever stayed by her side was doomed to die. But Fei Quan’s strict level system gave Du Yu one useful substitute death tool after another, making her live more and more comfortably, and her fate continuously strengthened.
To know, when she first got this fate, the substitute death range was only five meters!
As long as she could smoothly survive and leave, her fate might get another upgrade.
Half the time had already passed. Besides hearing from Bai Xunyan about traces of “another self” appearing, she hadn’t really encountered any danger yet. Now there were still three people who could substitute death for her. As long as used properly, she should be able to leave alive in the remaining few hours.
Du Yu planned very well. She even thought that if these three people in front of her were very powerful and not all the substitute death consumables died, before getting on the vehicle, she must find a method to make them stay here forever.
She didn’t like these people very much.
But in the end, she actually didn’t have anyone she liked anyway.
The number of people she had harmed to death inside the platform was at least fifty, if not a hundred.
As for outside the platform, those people in Fei Quan, the ones weaker than her, she didn’t like them and found them unlucky. The ones stronger than her, she disliked even more, thinking they were pretentious, disgusting, and deserving of death!
Walking into the company, Du Yu was still viciously cursing these people she didn’t like in her heart.
If she could make a list, this list would probably fill up her room.
Until she discovered that there really was no one inside the company.
“I say, let’s still leave.” She suggested again.
This was too weird. Even if there was a holiday in the afternoon, it was only the employees on their floor who had the holiday. This building was rented to several companies, with different company employees working on each floor. How come now it looked like there was no one on any floor?
Could it be that her company’s colleagues also died unexpectedly and all went to the funeral?
Impossible to think about.
Everyone was experienced passengers. Even without going in, just seeing this anomaly, they should know that there was definitely a ghost inside.
“Let’s just go up and take a look. We have no clues now. I don’t think just blindly hiding will work.”
Yet, these three people insisted on going to see.
She really wanted to retort that platform missions weren’t strategy games; hiding for a moment was a moment. But she had no say right now.
When heading to the floor where the company was, they didn’t choose the elevator but took the stairs.
The instant she stepped into the company floor, Du Yu suddenly felt a bit cold.
Like a gust of chill wind blowing through, directly penetrating her body, making her feel cold from the bottom of her heart, with chill seeping even through her bones.
This discomfort made Du Yu pause her steps. She shivered, then involuntarily stepped back two steps.
This was an almost instinctual physiological reaction. Even after stepping back, she only then reacted.
Multiple survival experiences inside the platform had given them passengers especially sharp reactions when facing impending death.
In that moment just now, she felt it.
That was the smell of death.
Clearly nothing had happened yet, but Du Yu’s heartbeat sped up.
She looked up and saw the three people walking ahead turning back to look at her because of her sudden stop.
They didn’t speak or move, just standing in different positions, turning their heads to look at her.
The young girl who gave her the weirdest feeling and whose tone made her most uncomfortable opened her pitch-black pupils and stared straight at her. In the next second of eye contact, she asked:
“What’s wrong?”
“Why aren’t you walking?”
“Come over quickly.”
