Chapter 203: Heredity
Lu Jinzhao thought of the glance that the woman who diverted trouble had given her before leaving the Ancestral Hall.
She was probably preparing to pull this stunt back then.
Lu Jinzhao’s face still wore a business smile, somewhat absent-mindedly thinking that Luo Yu had invited her to watch this good show, but she didn’t know if this was her planning.
【You have been provoked.】
【Only the incompetent get provoked by the weak!】
The parchment sneered.
Lu Jinzhao felt she was innocent; she had thought of this result, sensing that Luo Yu, this First-Class, had some unusual “interest” when facing her, and guessed that her disadvantaged combination with Tian Lei would inevitably attract some danger.
But she thought that those who entered should all more or less know the “train clearance theory,” knowing that those selected by the death platform were people the train deemed to have great potential.
Especially since other platforms had First-Class entering, and none were extreme platforms, they shouldn’t be unaware of this.
Ordinary passengers not knowing was forgivable, but among First-Class, this was not secret knowledge.
If so, with only two people entering, shouldn’t the seemingly most “disadvantageous” Yuncheng Station Platform be more cautious in facing them?
If it were her, she certainly would.
She would think there must be an advantage comparable to their numbers, and only then would the train allow only two First-Class Passengers from this platform during selection.
And when Lu Jinzhao herself was one of the two, she knew this advantage might not be against ghosts, but against “people.”
In any case, whether provoking her or probing her, they should be more cautious, right?
These two people were completely used as guns.
She didn’t speak, maintaining silence, quietly awaiting developments, with 【Silence】 also stuck to the inside of her wrist, quietly listening to her faint, almost nonexistent pulse.
Who is the planner?
Lu Jinzhao didn’t care about the two people in front of her, but was pondering who was the person standing “behind” this matter.
After being provoked, the man’s brain perhaps turned a few times, and the conclusion he reached was: compared to the group with two First-Class, Lu Jinzhao, who was currently alone, indeed seemed weaker.
As said before, inside the platform is not a place for “reasoning,” so the man turned his steps, looked at Lu Jinzhao, and spoke with an angry face: “Hey, give me back the tablet.”
He really dared to use the word “give back.”
The first to be stimulated by his words was not Lu Jinzhao, but the parchment and 【Tan Meng】.
【Humans, so shameless!】
【Give me back the ghost bone too.】
Lu Jinzhao: ?
Cursing humans for being shameless one moment, and immediately following up in real time the next?
Unlike the parchment’s disgust,
【Tan Meng】 immediately jumped out from Lu Jinzhao’s sleeve, followed by the scene Lu Jinzhao had seen on the platform before, the one that had terrified her at the time.
【Tan Meng】’s ghost skin suddenly stretched out, rolling forward like a shroud, rushing toward the man at a speed humans couldn’t dodge, and in the instant he had no time to react, it had already touched his skin.
“Wha!” He didn’t even finish his words; just one contact, and he had no way out.
Lu Jinzhao had used a death-grade item pocket watch to temporarily escape Tan Meng back then, but now, Tan Meng was no longer just a ghost; she had become part of Lu Jinzhao’s fate, and even had the death-grade item ghost bone as the main carrier. To escape her again, at least a death-grade item would be needed, and it would require supernatural confrontation with Lu Jinzhao, who possessed ghost blood, ghost bone, and ghost-made shadow puppet.
This man simply couldn’t do it.
He might have thought Lu Jinzhao was not easy to mess with, but facing life and death, compared to the woman backed by two First-Class, he still chose to target Lu Jinzhao, this “soft persimmon.”
【Tan Meng】 could shrink into a small skin, or expand again into a sky-covering human skin balloon; its limbs kept extending, and in less than a second, it had completely enclosed the man in its “body.”
Just like what Lu Jinzhao had encountered before, the originally robust man was being compressed inch by inch by an invisible force; inside, out of sight of the crowd’s gazes, his skin was dissolving. If no one saved him, in at most another five or six seconds, his fate would not withstand 【Tan Meng】’s erosion, and then his life would be taken.
Lu Jinzhao’s face still wore a business smile, her slightly drooping eye corners curving, like a blackened moon after pollution; this black moon expectantly looked toward the surrounding crowd, as if asking: Who wants to save him?
No one moved; everyone just looked here with uncertain, shocked gazes, watching and observing the result of this probe.
Lu Jinzhao felt a supernatural power like a dying struggle fall on her, probably something like “control”?
Unfortunately, that power passed through 【Silence】 first before seeping into her body; as the ghost blood in her slowly flowed, it easily dissolved the force trying to control her. Lu Jinzhao only felt like a mosquito had landed on her, bringing only a slight itch, unable to cause her any substantial harm.
Truly feeble.
Is this his resistance?
That was really… too bad.
The next second, massive blood suddenly surged from the crevices in the human skin tightly wrapping the man, like a shroud, accompanied by the already distorted and deformed wail from a human at death’s door, unable to open their mouth, only issuing from the throat.
That sound lasted only an instant.
Immediately after, like a thin-skinned, juicy fruit crushed by five fingers, large amounts of blood splashed in all directions from the “bandage” crevices, and Lu Jinzhao only felt a sense of satisfaction from 【Tan Meng】; the slight crack produced during the confrontation with the man’s fate earlier also healed at the moment his life dissipated.
The blood and death nourished it.
When it released the corpse again, shrinking back to shadow puppet form, accompanied by the sounds of blood water and minced meat falling to the ground, the crowd saw the man’s fate:
—That was an existence that no longer resembled any human form, only callable “meat paste.”
No skin, no intact internal organs or bones; all elements that could constitute a person had been crushed by irresistible gravity, indistinguishable, falling into a puddle of meat paste.
A trace of surprise appeared on Lu Jinzhao’s face, as if she hadn’t expected the result to be like this either; then, she blinked her eyes, gently turned her head, and cast her gaze on the woman who had diverted the trouble.
Only the stupid man who really set his sights on her would suffer punishment?
Of course not.
The behind-the-scenes black hand planning this matter, the executor carrying out this act, and the foolish person who fell for it should all be punished.
Lu Jinzhao thought this was necessary, to focus on dealing with ghosts later without frequent “human” trouble.
She needed to teach these people a lesson, needed the other “First-Class” to have reverence for her, instead of making such stupid probes again.
Sensing the owner’s mood, 【Lu Jinzhao】 crawled out along the collar, slowly climbed onto her cheek, and then, like an exquisite yet sinister tattoo, slightly turned its eyeball, locking onto her again in the woman’s already terrified gaze.
Hope this chapter is fine ()
