Chapter 27: Loss Of Control
“But if we don’t go now, there won’t be a chance later!”
The time for the sacrifice was less than two hours away. After the sacrifice was completed, it was impossible for anyone to dare go to the altar.
Lu Jinzhao knew this, but she was even more aware that going to the altar now was absolutely not safe.
“We still need to find a method to ensure the smooth sacrifice, right?”
The person next to Zhang Junjie was still chattering on, and the anxiety on his face was genuine. After all, two lives had probably already been lost by now.
The accident happened without any omen even when they were vigilant.
This kind of danger without any omen was what the passengers feared most.
In his perception, he probably felt that if the sacrifice had another problem, his survival chance would greatly decrease.
Lu Jinzhao shook her head inwardly. Ensuring the smooth sacrifice—this point had long been marked with a question in her heart.
In her view, all the previous proposals from the crowd for the smooth sacrifice were based on the guess that “if the sacrifice doesn’t go smoothly, there will be big problems.”
But now, before the sacrifice had even started, two people had already died. As long as one’s senses were sharp enough, they should realize that no matter whether the sacrifice went smoothly or not, their remaining time wouldn’t be easy.
Even, those who were bolder would conclude that “whether the sacrifice goes smoothly or not is completely unimportant now.”
Since the ghost was already killing before the sacrifice began, even if the sacrifice succeeded, would the ghost really calm down immediately?
Almost impossible.
Unless, to ensure the smooth sacrifice, a huge price had to be paid, such as more lives.
Therefore, in Lu Jinzhao’s eyes, what was important now was to figure out the ghost’s killing pattern.
What behavior was the source of the crisis?
The altar was undoubtedly dangerous, but was the danger really the point of the sacrifice not going smoothly?
But she herself couldn’t directly enter the altar. Just like with Summon Ghosts back then, she only stood at the door to observe, rather than directly entering the room where Lin Shuyue was.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Jinzhao spoke: “Finding a method to ensure the smooth sacrifice is indeed something that needs attention, but the ones who should ensure this point the most right now are the two of you, right?”
“.What do you mean by that?”
Lu Jinzhao’s words were practically putting the two on the fire to roast. Even Zhang Junjie subconsciously felt anger and a panic of the situation somewhat losing control upon hearing this.
“Didn’t you think about it before you went in?” Lu Jinzhao’s slightly calm tone carried a faint doubt.
“Think about… what?”
“That the ghost’s target might be selected first from those who have entered the altar, and you two who have gone in twice would be its top choice?”
“You also saw illusions, right? Are you sure you weren’t targeted by the ghost?”
Zhang Junjie felt a chill in his heart upon hearing this.
To say he hadn’t thought about it at all before going in?
Not really.
He had guessed as much, but at the time, what was more urgent in his heart was wanting more clues, and that fluke mentality that the situation wasn’t too serious yet, at least since the sacrifice hadn’t been held.
“Even if entering the altar might be wrong, the sacrifice hasn’t started yet? It should be fine, right?”
“If I go in now to get more clues, I’ll be one step ahead.”
“There is definitely risk, but the risk of going in now is much smaller than after the sacrifice succeeds, right?”
Under the boost of these various thoughts, he ignored that initial sense of crisis.
Now that Lu Jinzhao had pointed it out, he couldn’t continue pretending.
His original plan was to stop the sacrifice from having accidents together with everyone, but now, what this girl in front of him meant was clearly that she wasn’t planning to take the risk and was pushing the entire task onto the two of them!
Zhang Junjie’s mouth twitched: “With just the two of us, we probably can’t ensure the sacrifice will definitely go smoothly.”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t plan to say much more to him, only saying: “Then you two need to hurry and find people willing to do this with you.”
The implication was that she clearly wasn’t among them.
Zhang Junjie’s complexion became extremely ugly. He hadn’t expected a quiet little girl who had always been silently following behind everyone to jump out and embarrass him at a time like this.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” He looked at Lu Jinzhao with a gloomy expression, his tone full of threat.
Lu Jinzhao didn’t answer. Zhang Junjie finally said: “Aren’t you afraid we’ll do nothing and drag you down with us?”
“If we’re dying, everyone dies together!”
His words were harsh, but Lu Jinzhao didn’t believe it, only reminding him: “That would still be you two dying first.”
“….Fine, fine, fine. Consider me underestimating you. Just wait and see!”
Zhang Junjie gave Lu Jinzhao one last look, as if to etch her face firmly in his mind, then turned and headed toward the altar with his companion.
After they were far away, Wei Ling poked her head out and looked around a few times before turning to Lu Jinzhao with full curiosity and asking:
“You’re too bold. Aren’t you afraid of offending him, and him tripping you up later?”
“And what if you run into them inside the platform later? It’ll become very troublesome, right?”
Lu Jinzhao looked down at the dirt road and sighed: “You said it yourself—later.”
Wei Ling’s brows jumped: “From what you’re saying, you think they won’t have a later?”
Lu Jinzhao didn’t answer immediately upon hearing this. She slowly raised her head to look in the direction they left, then turned to look straight at Wei Ling, her eyes carrying a bit of pity.
“If I said I think they’ll die without a doubt if they enter the altar again, would you believe me?”
Wei Ling was stunned for a moment.
“I believe you, but why?”
Lu Jinzhao shook her head: “Actually, I’m not 100% sure either, but we’ll know soon enough.”
“.”
Wei Ling reacted after a while, her eyes widening: “You’re using their lives to probe whether your guess is right?”
Such a ruthless heart, such a decisive judgment.
But… Wei Ling didn’t dislike doing this. After all, wasn’t she keeping Ye Jingyun by her side with the intention of using her to scout the way at key moments?
This time Lu Jinzhao didn’t shake her head, just calmly stating: “I didn’t deceive them or lie. I just stated the most likely situation.”
Go or not, it all depended on those two’s judgment.
But from the looks of it now, their decision was to enter the altar and ensure the smooth sacrifice.
She hadn’t dug a pit, but she had gone with the flow.
Wei Ling didn’t speak again. Lu Jinzhao’s heart wasn’t as calm as her expression at this moment.
Clearly just a month ago, she was still an ordinary freshman, but today, could she really watch someone go to their death without changing expression?
In the previous instance, she was still startled by the ghost, but after just one instance’s experience, she could feel that even facing the ghost directly, she wouldn’t panic to the point of a blank mind anymore.
She had adapted so quickly that even she herself was surprised by it.
Warning, I really can’t write a good girl protagonist (())
