Chapter 199: Heredity
The sound of raindrops falling on the roof was particularly noticeable.
Tian Lei had already gone out. Lu Jinzhao told her to pay attention to how many tablets were left in the Ancestral Hall and try to stay longer inside the Ancestral Hall. Once the deduction started or she sensed something wrong, she should leave immediately.
Among all the people who could reach the Death Platform, there were absolutely no idiots. After learning the message that one tablet was missing, everyone would definitely modify the mission to get the fastest time. Based on her process of competing with others for time at the Intersection, the mission rules would give a separate interval of about 4 minutes.
Therefore, she could roughly calculate through Tian Lei’s time and her speculation in her heart how many tablets should be left when Tian Lei reached the Ancestral Hall. What she needed to confirm was whether anyone had tried to modify the number in the mission and take more than one tablet.
Tian Lei returned very quickly. She first informed Lu Jinzhao that not even ten seconds after she entered the Ancestral Hall, the deduction suddenly started. She had to take a tablet and leave quickly. The number of tablets she reported did not match Lu Jinzhao’s prediction.
“Perhaps, most likely someone modified the mission and took an extra tablet.”
That was probably someone with relatively ample Life-Buying Money.
“Did you also encounter deduction in the Ancestral Hall?” Tian Lei asked with some doubt.
“No.” Lu Jinzhao shook her head: “That is probably the mission’s way to ensure only one person is inside the Ancestral Hall.”
They modified the mission’s time, and the mission squeezed the time they could stay inside the Ancestral Hall.
But because of this, Lu Jinzhao could roughly confirm that someone really took an extra tablet.
“Taking an extra tablet means one more person without a tablet.” Tian Lei stated this fact without emotion: “But the person who took the extra tablet is also taking a risk; their situation is not much better than those who didn’t get a tablet.”
“Indeed.” Lu Jinzhao nodded.
No one knew now what the specific function of this tablet was.
Taking an extra one was not necessarily a good thing.
Moreover, the fact that a tablet was taken extra could not be hidden at all. Even who took the extra one might not be hideable, after all, the order of entering the Ancestral Hall and the number of tablets could allow other passengers to roughly lock onto who it was, or people from which City were most likely to have taken extra.
Everyone would observe her outcome.
As for the two people missing a tablet, they would naturally also be objects of close attention.
“When you went, what people did you see, and which Camp were they from?” Lu Jinzhao asked.
“When I went, I encountered one coming out, and another was someone preparing to go to the Ancestral Hall when I was leaving. The one coming out was from the City with the most people. The one behind me was from the Warehouse next to ours.”
The one assigned first by the mission, that is, people from Luo Yu’s City, got the information first and shared it first with others in her City.
Lu Jinzhao herself was second and shared it with Tian Lei when she returned. People from these two Cities could not possibly fail to get a tablet.
Of course, Lu Jinzhao kept a possibility in her heart, namely:
Luo Yu’s City deliberately arranged for someone not to take a tablet.
But such an arrangement would necessarily require someone in the team to have a position so powerful that others could not resist at all. However, based on the intelligence collected by Tian Lei, Luo Yu’s City was not such a “hegemonic City”.
However, this possibility should also be retained. It was also possible that someone from their City took an extra tablet, another didn’t take one, and then acted according to the situation.
“However, their City only has 4 people. Doing this, the worst possibility is losing two people at once, so the possibility is not great.”
Moreover, even if deliberately arranging for someone not to take a tablet, it would only be possible to arrange one, meaning that in the City with the most people and the City living in the Warehouse, someone was bound to not get a tablet.
“It would be good if more of us had come in.” Tian Lei sighed.
If there were enough people, they wouldn’t just speculate but could take proactive actions.
“Even if enough people came in, others might not act according to your thoughts.” Lu Jinzhao obviously knew what she was thinking, probably something about using teammates to find out what happens if someone doesn’t take a tablet or takes an extra one.
“True.” Tian Lei sighed with regret.
She disliked the violent phenomena in some extreme Cities. She subconsciously thought she would be the one subjected to violence, but she also somewhat longed for the right of those in high positions in those Cities to command others to scout for her.
This would make surviving inside the Platform much easier for her.
As time passed bit by bit, when the last person went to the Ancestral Hall and realized it was empty, not even having time to collapse, the mission Blood Script on all passengers’ arms slowly disappeared.
“Looks like that’s it for tonight?” Tian Lei was somewhat uncertain.
If it were other Platforms, she might vigilantly wait for the next possible crisis, but the Death Platform was different. The Death Platform had only a few very short times; most required passengers to stay inside the Platform for a period, and crises progressed gradually.
They needed to explore themselves, and the Platform would give such time.
“Uncertain. You can rest first; I won’t sleep tonight.” Lu Jinzhao had not entered a Death Platform herself, but fortunately her current physique was special, so she didn’t face the physiological difficulties of other passengers.
“Tomorrow we need to wander around the Village and ask Villagers for some information.”
Heredity, what exactly was going on—they had to figure it out.
The Death Platform was a long-line crisis strung together by missions. To escape death from the crisis, unlike ordinary Platforms, they had better figure out the cause of the crisis to find a way to survive.
Even if the way to survive might be extremely subtle and hard to detect.
But one thing was the same as ordinary Platforms: the ghosts in the Death Platform, even if they had a so-called “Source”, were absolutely impossible to be appeased or resolved in some “harmless” way.
They were more dangerous than ordinary Platforms, with terror levels even greater.
Even, rumors said that some ghosts in the Death Platform had acquired a bit of “Wisdom”, making them more ferocious and harder to deal with.
However, such ghosts generally appeared more in “Sequels”.
That is, Death Platforms that reappear.
Just like horror Movies have Sequels, a very small portion of Death Platforms also have Sequels.
On the surface, such Platforms are called 【Loop Line】, but passengers often verbally call them Sequels.
Passengers who survived the first appearance of the Platform will 100% be selected into the Sequel, entering this previously appeared Platform together with newly added personnel to continue the missions.
And Sequels are always more dangerous than the first time.
Feeling the temperature drop too suddenly, it’s cold, and my condition isn’t good quq
