Chapter 198: Heredity
As soon as 12 o’clock arrived, Lu Jinzhao saw someone take action first.
She and the people from the other two cities had no actions.
“It seems the mission starts at 12 o’clock.”
This person who took action first, she remembered, was from the same city as Luo Yu.
Was she the first person selected by the mission?
Lu Jinzhao kept the possibility that they had internally discussed and mutually adjusted their times.
This woman of ordinary appearance temporarily calmly walked toward the Ancestral Hall, and no one present chose to follow.
They were all observing, waiting for her result.
The Ancestral Hall was not far from the intersection originally, but because there were no streetlights and it was still raining, even though a little light belonging to the Ancestral Hall could be seen from afar, that bit of light was really dim, only able to guide the direction. Even though the Ancestral Hall door was open, it still couldn’t let people see clearly what was happening inside the Ancestral Hall.
The few people left thought they had to wait a while, but unexpectedly, soon they saw the first person heading to the Ancestral Hall hurriedly run out.
From her back disappearing at the Ancestral Hall Entrance to her coming out, the whole process took less than a minute.
This meant that there were very few things she could do inside, probably just taking a tablet and immediately coming out.
And after this person left the Ancestral Hall, she also became hurried. In the rainy night, she completely ignored her own dishevelment, didn’t even look at the other passengers waiting outside, and quickly ran toward the house where her teammate lived.
What she was holding in her hand was exactly a blank tablet.
Lu Jinzhao smelled something wrong. She immediately started changing her own time. At this moment it was 12:03, she changed her entry time from 20 minutes to 04 minutes. In an instant, a burning sensation came from her arm, and then her life-buying money instantly decreased by 500!
Modification successful.
But just changing the time actually cost 500 life-buying money?
From leaving the room to coming here until now, she had only spent less than 100 life-buying money.
The instant she finished changing, Lu Jinzhao heard a “tsk” from the person beside her, with a bit of annoyance.
She thought this person probably failed to modify the time.
Being able to get the 04 time slot meant her action was the fastest.
She didn’t know if this person’s target was also 04 minutes.
The next second, that person tried to step forward, but after just taking one step, her complexion changed drastically and she retreated back.
“Failed to grab the fastest time by modifying, so tried to go directly to the Ancestral Hall, and then found out that going forward would cost too much money?”
Lu Jinzhao immediately understood the meaning of her actions.
Through these discoveries, Lu Jinzhao realized that the order of going to the Ancestral Hall was really important.
And the platform didn’t hinder them too much from discovering this.
Time reached 04 minutes, Lu Jinzhao stepped toward the Ancestral Hall.
The rain became denser, the muddy road underfoot like a swamp that wouldn’t sink. Every step Lu Jinzhao took, she could feel a pulling sensation from the ground, as if the soil on the ground was entangling her feet, wanting her to grow together with this land.
The trip to the Ancestral Hall only needed about two minutes of road. Soon, no accidents happened on this stretch, but as Lu Jinzhao got closer to the Ancestral Hall and the light inside the Ancestral Hall became more obvious, she involuntarily felt a inexplicable “attraction”.
Just like warm light attracting people in the darkness, a dry environment attracting people soaked by cold rain, she felt somewhat “impatient” to enter inside the Ancestral Hall.
But Lu Jinzhao knew this was an illusion.
This attraction perhaps involved the ghost of this platform. She couldn’t let her guard down.
But from the first person’s experience, she shouldn’t have encountered any trouble inside the Ancestral Hall, otherwise she wouldn’t have come out so fast.
“It could also be that she encountered something, but it wasn’t fatal, or her fate blocked it?”
Lu Jinzhao did not lower her guard because of this.
The shadow puppet belonging to [Du Yu] was lying under her collar. Rainwater wet her clothes, but the shadow puppet was not soaked by the rainwater.
Lu Jinzhao approached the Ancestral Hall Entrance. Just standing outside, she seemed to feel a warm breath.
Just like the warm air from an air conditioner blowing out from the door.
Even for Lu Jinzhao, whose body temperature was already very low and whom the cold rain hardly affected, at this moment she couldn’t avoid the impulse to go in.
Her footsteps paused slightly, then she stepped into inside the Ancestral Hall without changing expression.
The light in the Ancestral Hall was an old-style bulb connected by wires and hanging from the beam. The internal layout was just like a typical Ancestral Hall, nothing special.
The only thing worth noting was probably the offering table where ancestral tablets should be placed. At this moment, it was full of blank tablets.
At first glance, Lu Jinzhao confirmed that these were the tablets the mission wanted them to take.
Up to this moment, even though she had already entered inside the Ancestral Hall, no danger appeared.
But after Lu Jinzhao carefully looked at the tablets for just a few seconds, her breathing immediately became slightly rapid.
“So that’s how it is?!”
She immediately walked forward, reached out to take a tablet, then quickly walked out of the Ancestral Hall and ran toward the room.
She saw another person heading to the Ancestral Hall after she left this road.
She saw the two people looking at her with slightly curious expressions as she hurriedly ran.
“Must be fast.”
Braving the cold rain, Lu Jinzhao quickly ran back to the room. On the way, she saw a figure rushing out from next door.
—Bang
The room door was quickly opened by Lu Jinzhao. Her breathing was still a bit unsteady. Under Tian Lei’s gaze, she quickly commanded: “Immediately change your mission time, change to the fastest speed to go to the Ancestral Hall! Now, right away.”
She reiterated.
Tian Lei, upon hearing this, showed no panic, but immediately lowered her head. When she raised it again, her complexion changed slightly: “Changed, but the fastest is still 27 minutes later.”
“About right, should make it.”
Lu Jinzhao breathed a sigh of relief.
“What happened?” Tian Lei asked only after seeing her relax.
Lu Jinzhao looked at her. Her calm tone seemed deep and dark in the dim light.
“The tablets in the Ancestral Hall… there aren’t enough.”
When she entered the Ancestral Hall to observe the tablets, she subconsciously counted them. After counting, she realized there were actually only 14 tablets!
She had observed the first person who went in after coming out, and she indeed only took one tablet and didn’t carry a backpack, so this meant there were only 15 tablets in the Ancestral Hall in total!
And there were 16 of them.
This explained why the mission didn’t hinder them from noticing that the order of going to the Ancestral Hall was important, but modifying the time cost more life-buying money.
This was naked malice.
If her and Tian Lei’s mission ranking was originally at the back, and they didn’t have the courage to go to the intersection risking deducting money, would people from other cities tell them this message?
Absolutely not.
Although not getting a tablet didn’t mean certain death—after all, it could be avoided by modifying the mission or simply spending money to cancel the mission—but if others all had tablets and you didn’t, that wasn’t good news.
And the mission setting such a trap meant that the tablets were absolutely important.
Various hidden dangers and dangers might arise during this mission process, but [not doing the mission] was absolutely the biggest trap!
