See the Law of Deception

Chapter 301 New Life

Chapter 301 New Life (22)

Ning Jianwei paused slightly; Lu Jinzhao's question was also the question she wanted to know, but...

"It's too early to tell anything yet."

Lu Jinzhao wasn't sure if she genuinely didn't know or simply didn't want to talk about it, but the fading of supernatural power was actually difficult to completely conceal, after all, this was the Death Platform.

"I have something to attend to, so I'll be leaving now, everyone."

It was the fortune teller who suggested leaving again.

This wasn't the first time, but this time, everyone looked at her with a hint of curiosity.

What is it about the death platform that requires repeatedly leaving the team and acting alone?

Is she hiding some secret?

The fortune teller, seemingly oblivious to the suspicious and probing gazes of others, chuckled and shook her head, preparing to head downstairs. But someone spoke up to stop her, their voice tinged with a hint of probing:

"Wait a minute. What are you going to do?"

Lu Jinzhao was not surprised that someone would ask questions. Even though there were no obvious elements of conflict between passengers on this platform, life and death were at stake, and anyone's strange behavior would attract attention.

The fortune teller wasn't angry at the question, but she didn't pay any attention to it either. She only paused slightly when she heard the words "listen to me." After hearing the full question, her expression changed for a moment, as if a deep-seated indifference surfaced. But it was only for a moment before she returned to her normal demeanor and walked away as if she hadn't heard anything at all.

"Eh?"

The person who asked the question was surprised to see that the fortune teller simply ignored her and walked away, but did not say anything more.

After all, this is a platform, not reality, and her question was just a casual probe.

"Aren't you curious about what she's going to do?" the fortune teller asked the others in a low voice after he had walked away.

Lu Jinzhao didn't shy away from the question: "I'm just curious."

She was indeed quite curious.

However, since the fortune teller didn't seem inclined to speak, she couldn't question him, since they weren't enemies.

However, Lu Jinzhao did not expect that soon, the fortune teller would come to find her himself.

After they finished their tasks and went their separate ways, it looked like it was about to get dark when the fortune teller suddenly appeared out of nowhere and found her.

"Hello?" The fortune teller, with his somewhat unreliable demeanor, suddenly appeared in front of her from around the corner.

At this moment, Lu Jinzhao had not yet returned to her temporary residence for the past few days. After parting ways with the others, she took advantage of the time before dark to check the other nearby buildings and confirmed that every room in each building had a television capable of playing videotapes.

At this moment, Jiang Tingzheng volunteered to check the building across the street, while Lu Jinzhao and Lin Lin had just finished checking the situation inside the building in front of them.

"What's wrong?" Lu Jinzhao wasn't startled by her suddenly jumping out from around the corner.

"There's something I'd like you to see." The fortune teller pouted regretfully, then pulled his hand out from behind his back, revealing a newspaper.

"What?" Lu Jinzhao asked curiously, wanting to take it, but the fortune teller suddenly pulled his hand back from holding the newspaper.

"You have to promise me that you'll let me know if you have any thoughts after reading the newspaper."

She said, "This is an exchange of intelligence."

The sky darkened again on the platform. What would normally be a slow sunset was accelerated many times over on the platform. The passageway, which was originally illuminated by the evening glow, quickly became dark. The fortune teller's face, which was already backlit, became visibly blurred during the brief confrontation.

“Okay.” Lu Jinzhao agreed after only a moment’s hesitation. The reason she hesitated was because the person who proposed the exchange was the “Divine Calculator.” She must have foreseen something, and she knew that this was information she didn’t want to easily tell others.

But at this moment, more information is more important.

Lu Jinzhao received the newspaper. The changes in her body also affected her vision. In the darkness of the platform at night, where there were no streetlights or other light sources, she could see almost nothing.

Lu Jinzhao turned on his phone's flashlight and shone it on the newspaper, where he saw the news headline.

An ancient village was damaged by an earthquake; rescue workers discovered strange items.

Just by looking at the title, Lu Jinzhao already had a premonition.

Upon closer inspection of the relatively short news article, Lu Jinzhao confirmed that the so-called "ancient village" was the place she had seen in her dream, the place where [New Life] first appeared.

The news report stated that only a few people remained in the village, mostly elderly, who had perished in the earthquake due to their physical limitations. The strange items found by the rescue team were some shattered pottery jars.

The report stated that because the earthenware pot was shattered, its contents spilled out. The reporter couldn't make out what it was; it looked like a black liquid with some lumps. More importantly, the contents smelled terrible and seemed to have been rotten for a long time.

In this earthquake, only one little girl survived in the entire village, and this girl's name was Chunsheng.

A journalist interviewed the surviving girl, who was named that because she was born on March 27, in spring.

Lu Jinzhao narrowed her eyes slightly. She glanced at the date of the report; it was April, springtime.

What a coincidence! I was born in spring, and I survived the disaster as a survivor, also in spring.

This newspaper looks quite old; it's covered in dust, as if it was pulled out from the bottom of a box. The year of publication...

This was the year that the word "new life" first appeared.

This was certainly not a normal newspaper, but something that appeared as a clue. For the other passengers, the most valuable clue in the newspaper was this Chun Sheng.

Clearly, she is most likely the woman from room 401.

But what the fortune teller wanted to ask was naturally not something so obvious.

Lu Jinzhao flipped through the other reports in the newspaper but found nothing of value.

She didn't hide anything, but simply stated her thoughts.

“I think the ancient village mentioned in the newspaper is the place where this platform first appeared. My mother was there at the time.”

"Those pottery jars were once videotapes."

Lu Jinzhao only said these two sentences, but they already revealed a lot of information.

If the other person wasn't a fortune teller, she wouldn't even have said that one thing about her mother.

“Okay, I understand.” The fortune teller nodded, her eyes fixed on Lu Jinzhao in the darkness: “I’ll tell you one more thing.”

"Ning Jianwei and the others are still getting weaker."

"I've finished reading!" Jiang Ting's voice came from the stairwell, sounding breathless from the exertion of going up and down the stairs. She held up the flashlight of her phone and shone it over, illuminating the fortune teller's face, which had fallen into darkness.

Lu Jinzhao didn't see the casual smile on her face from before. Her expression was unusually serious now, and her eyes seemed to be filled with some heavy emotions as she looked at Lu Jinzhao.