Chapter 197: Heredity
“I have a few thoughts right now.”
Tian Lei thought for a moment before tentatively suggesting: “First, we go out now and head to the necessary path to the Ancestral Hall.”
“If our two mission times are different, then most likely, the others’ times are also different.”
Given the huge time gap between her and Lu Jinzhao, it was enough to arrange for others to head to the Ancestral Hall between the two of them.
And by going to the necessary path, they could see the others’ mission times and also observe more things.
“Second, considering this is the Death Platform, there probably aren’t many loopholes in the mission for us to exploit. We might not be able to go out, so we need to observe the situation next door.”
“Third, I think most likely we need to change the words on the mission, but we can’t modify it rashly, because…”
Tian Lei paused when she said “because,” carefully looking at Lu Jinzhao. Seeing that Lu Jinzhao had an encouraging expression to continue, she then picked up what she wanted to say earlier: “Because we have too few people and no more sources of information, this means we might need to use ourselves to probe the actual situation of this mission before making changes.”
This meant that a higher ranking was not advantageous.
No wonder Tian Lei had hesitated to speak.
“It’s fine.” Lu Jinzhao’s tone was calm. She guessed that Tian Lei might feel it was “unfair” because of this ranking, but even if they hadn’t formed an alliance, would Lu Jinzhao’s current ranking have changed?
No, she would still be the one with the higher ranking.
But now, Tian Lei could benefit from the information she provided.
But this mission was still ongoing, and Lu Jinzhao actually thought such an arrangement was just right. With this “indebtedness,” it would be more logical later to ask Tian Lei to do something.
Moreover, Lu Jinzhao had no intention of letting Tian Lei head to the Ancestral Hall before her.
“And also…” Tian Lei continued to add: “There are quite a few things we can modify in this mission, but I don’t recommend directly using money to cancel the entire mission.”
“We’re not locals of this village, but considering the theme of this platform, I think this mission might have some deeper meaning. We need to complete it.”
“So the scope of our modifications is time, blank tablet, and carrying it on us—these three points.”
“Among these three points, there are hidden fatal traps.”
“We might be able to try to find them and avoid them.”
Before Tian Lei said this, Lu Jinzhao had been encouraging and agreeing, but at this moment, she shook her head.
“I don’t think we can avoid them.”
“…Why?” Tian Lei looked at her with some doubt. In that instant, many thoughts flashed through her mind, even including whether Lu Jinzhao was saying this on purpose.
But Lu Jinzhao didn’t explain much: “I just don’t think the Death Platform’s missions are easy to crack.”
She was always cautious. When Tian Lei mentioned the three points had fatal traps, she had already thought of a more crucial point: what did the mission specifically stating [one] tablet mean?
This mission might determine the subsequent direction of the entire platform, Lu Jinzhao had such a premonition.
Therefore, she didn’t think they could avoid the traps set by the platform. She even thought that, if possible, all three points Tian Lei mentioned were traps!
The only way to avoid them was to not do the mission, but she didn’t have much life-buying money and couldn’t afford not to do the mission.
Moreover, even if she had enough, Lu Jinzhao didn’t plan to choose evasion in the first mission. While she still had leeway, she needed to be more proactive.
“Let’s first try if we can leave the room and go to the necessary path to the Ancestral Hall.”
The result of this probe came quickly.
The moment they tried to open the room door, Lu Jinzhao felt a subtle sense of pressure. It wouldn’t affect her much, but it was like the air pressure suddenly dropping rapidly, a dull feeling emerging around her.
Then, the spot on her arm where the blood script of the arm mission appeared suddenly felt a burning pain again. She saw the number 7200 appear on her arm, and then, as her hand approached the door handle, the number suddenly jumped.
7199
When she stopped her action, the slowly jumping number also stopped.
“It seems the mission doesn’t allow us to go.”
The mission’s requirements were also very clear: before the time point, passengers were not allowed to exploit loopholes to go to places closer to the Ancestral Hall.
It only allowed them to go to the Ancestral Hall one by one from their current location within the specified time, as required by the mission.
The Death Platform’s missions wouldn’t spell out all prohibited behaviors in long paragraphs, but would remind passengers in this way.
Passengers could make the mission rules more “lenient” by paying life-buying money. Similarly, missions with fewer words also made it easier for passengers to “modify” the mission content.
It was hard to say if this was good or bad.
But just because it wasn’t allowed, did that mean they wouldn’t go?
“You wait here for me. I’ll go out first to take a look.”
Lu Jinzhao gave herself 199 fault tolerance. If exceeding 199 during the process to the necessary path to the Ancestral Hall, she would immediately turn back.
At this moment, the time was not yet 11:50.
She opened the room door and walked out of the courtyard.
The blood script on her arm was slightly hot, the number decreasing bit by bit, but the speed was not fast.
This meant that in the platform mission’s rules, it didn’t consider this passenger behavior very important.
Then what was more important?
The way to modify the mission rules was simple: touch the train ticket, silently recite the mission to be modified in your heart twice in a row, and then the modification could be completed.
As for how much it would cost, you only knew after modifying!
This also meant there was no room for probing.
Just like now, as she stepped forward, the jumping number on her arm indicated her “life-buying money” was decreasing bit by bit. Taking action deducted money, without any advance deduction notice.
When she walked out of the courtyard, 10 points had already been deducted.
Not much.
If the deduction rate remained the same, it was enough for her to reach the intersection. After all, this village wasn’t big.
The rain was still falling, the sound masking other noises, but Lu Jinzhao heard the door opening sound behind her.
She turned her head and saw the person coming out from the Warehouse.
She remembered clearly that this was not the “leader” from that city in the Warehouse.
Seeing her, the other showed no surprise in their eyes, just nodded slightly in greeting. Lu Jinzhao responded, then turned with a thoughtful expression and headed toward the intersection.
When she arrived at the intersection to the Ancestral Hall, there was already one person standing there.
She didn’t continue forward but stopped here. Lu Jinzhao guessed that perhaps going further ahead required a higher cost?
At this moment, time was approaching 12 o’clock.
Lu Jinzhao silently stood a little behind this person, not going further.
Any further would be not the intersection, but the path leading only to the Ancestral Hall.
Two footsteps came from behind her.
They were passengers from the other two cities, each dispatching one person.
Without any prior discussion, each city had made such a decision.
There were still
