[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h":3,"chapter-the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-110":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Eighteen Levels of Hell: Lying is Forbidden Here",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},749355,993,"Chapter 110: The Small Hotel Murder Incident (3)","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-110",110,"\u003Cp>'If the killer took the stairs, they would have run into me. Therefore, they did not take the stairs.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Instead, they went outside first and then scaled the wall to get back into their room. So...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Among the people present, the overweight nerd, who was the last to open his door, is highly suspicious.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon realizing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged police officer looked at the overweight nerd, noticing that while the hair on the very top of his head was dry, the rest of it was wet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This kind of situation usually means he tried to keep his hair from getting soaked in the rain by wearing a hat or wrapping a towel around his head, resulting in a dry crown while the rest of his hair got wet.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Furthermore, he isn't wearing pajamas. There are two possibilities for this. One, he isn't used to wearing them.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Two, if he is the killer, his clothes would definitely have gotten drenched in the heavy rain outside. But if he wore his pajamas over his clothes...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of inspiration struck the middle-aged police officer, but he did not rush to inspect the overweight nerd's room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overweight nerd shuddered in fright and hurriedly explained to everyone, \"It wasn't me! I'm not the killer! I didn't kill him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That is exactly what I needed you to say!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged police officer immediately strode into the overweight nerd's room. As soon as he pushed the door open, he saw a pajama top and pants discarded on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, they were soaking wet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the overweight nerd slumped to the ground and closed his eyes in despair. The police officer tossed a pair of handcuffs in front of him. \"You just said you aren't the killer. You should know the consequences of resisting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overweight nerd looked up, seeing that the others present had unconsciously reached for their waists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Left with no choice, he picked up the handcuffs and cuffed his own wrists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The police officer's handling of the situation was baffling. Shouldn't he have made the suspect surrender his gun before cuffing him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the group didn't pay much attention to it. After all, the overweight nerd had just lied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged police officer proceeded to handcuff the overweight nerd to the handrail at the bottom of the first-floor staircase, just as he had done before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone returned to their respective rooms once again, but weighed down by their own thoughts, they tossed and turned, unable to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Man lay on his bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pondered the events of the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There is a problem with how the police officer handled this case. First, he didn't ask for a motive, and second, he didn't ask about the murder process.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Actually, the overweight nerd wasn't the last guest to leave their room to check the situation.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There was one more person who never left their room from the very beginning!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The female police officer!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If she was faking her coma, then she had plenty of time to commit the murder.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'After the female police officer committed the murder, she could have run outside. Then, while everyone was out in the hallway investigating, she could have slipped into the overweight nerd's room through the window and planted the wet pajamas to frame him. Simultaneously, she could take away his actual pajamas, leaving him completely unable to defend himself.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There is also a second possibility: the killer took the stairs directly back to their room!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But, if the killer took the stairs, they would have run into the police officer who was the first to step out and investigate.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Is it possible that the middle-aged police officer is the killer?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If the middle-aged police officer is the killer, he knows the overweight nerd wasn't lying. Yet, he still handcuffed him on the first floor and deliberately didn't confiscate his gun.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'He is using him as bait!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If someone falls for it and sneaks down to the first floor in the dead of night to execute a Judgment on the overweight nerd...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon reaching this conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Man got dressed and got out of bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He left his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only to find that the overweight nerd was sound asleep, snoring away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tonight, apart from the overweight nerd, the other guests in the hotel found it difficult to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the second-floor corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Footsteps echoed as the door to one of the rooms was gently pushed open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You lied.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You lied.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! The sound of a gunshot rang out again, followed closely by the heavy thudding of running footsteps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This prompted the people who were already awake to immediately throw open their doors and check the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged police officer and the Little Girl opened their doors almost simultaneously, just in time to see the Old Man rushing up from the staircase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they saw...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corpse of the muscular youth lying in a pool of blood at the entrance of Room 207. The location of the bullet wound was very strange. Room 207 was on the left, but the muscular youth's gunshot wound was facing the staircase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was even stranger was that lying on the bed inside Room 207 was... the unconscious female police officer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Girl looked at the Old Man, her eyes asking a clear question: Didn't you arrange for the female police officer to be in Room 208? Why is she in Room 207?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Man looked completely bewildered and cast a suspicious glance at the middle-aged police officer, who was currently inspecting the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I switched them,\" the middle-aged police officer said. \"The escaped woman still hasn't been caught. I was worried she might target my partner, so I moved my partner to my room, and I slept in hers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dropping that explanation, the middle-aged police officer walked over to the staircase and looked down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overweight nerd was still handcuffed to the handrail, looking up at the second floor with immense curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged police officer retracted his gaze and glared sharply at the Old Man. \"Where were you when the gunshot rang out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Man's expression looked grim. He had already realized that something was wrong, so he could only reply, \"Before the gunshot rang out, I was sleeping in my room.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The moment the gunshot echoed, I got out of bed and opened my door, only to see you running up from the staircase. I want to know, how exactly did you manage that?\" the middle-aged police officer pressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Man opened his mouth several times, but ultimately said nothing, simply smoking his cigarette in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A short while later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Old Man was also handcuffed to the handrail on the first floor, less than half a meter away from the overweight nerd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the first floor, just as the middle-aged police officer was about to head back upstairs to his room, he suddenly noticed the Little Girl standing at the top of the stairs on the second floor, staring down at him with an eerie expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Girl raised her arm, aiming the muzzle of her gun right at the middle-aged police officer, and sneered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You lied.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! A bullet burst from the chamber, striking the middle-aged police officer dead center in the forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged police officer collapsed onto the stairs, and the pistol at his waist dropped to the ground. The gun, which had previously been a normal color, was now tinged with a faint trace of red. A moment later, the pistol vanished entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a faint trace of red began to surface on the Little Girl's gun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overweight nerd and the Old Man handcuffed to the handrail frowned. During his deduction, the middle-aged police officer had exclusively used words like 'possible,' 'probably,' and rhetorical questions. There was absolutely no way he could have told a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How exactly did the Little Girl figure out that the middle-aged police officer was lying?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap, tap, tap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Girl slowly walked down the stairs and sat on the sofa like a grown adult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You two must be very confused about how I determined the police officer was lying, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's true that he didn't lie during his deduction, but he lied in the story he told at the very beginning...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying this, she pointed at the ground, gesturing toward Chen Ran's corpse, which still hadn't been moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He sneaked downstairs in an attempt to kill the woman who had been handcuffed earlier. In other words, according to his deduction, that woman was lying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(The woman: Lin Jiabei.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(The Youth: Chen Ran.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What was the basis for his judgment? It's very simple. The police officer said he saw a white car, while the woman claimed she was driving a red car.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That means, excluding the police car, there were a total of two vehicles parked in front of the muddy patch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One belonged to the Youth, and the other belonged to the woman. The Youth knew exactly what color his own car was. Let's deduce what color the Youth's car was.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it was white, then the handcuffed woman wasn't lying, and the Youth would have had no reason to sneak downstairs in the middle of the night to execute a Judgment on her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it was neither white nor light red, but some other color entirely, then it would mean that both the woman and the middle-aged police officer were lying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The woman was already handcuffed and didn't even have her gun on her, reducing her threat level to near zero.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that case, the Youth should have first passed Judgment on the middle-aged police officer, and then judged the woman to death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But he didn't do that. Instead, he chose to first judge the woman, whose threat level was virtually zero.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This proves that, in his deduction, the middle-aged police officer wasn't lying at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That leaves only one possibility. The Youth's car was light red, and in his deduction, the woman's car was white.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only under those circumstances would it lead to a situation where the middle-aged police officer was telling the truth while the woman was lying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And that is why the Youth sneaked downstairs in the middle of the night to pass Judgment on the woman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, the problem lies right here. Looking at it from the woman's perspective, she drove up to the muddy road after the Youth did.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She saw the light red car left behind by the Youth. Earlier, when facing the police officer's interrogation, she claimed she was driving a light red car. If that statement was a lie, then the Youth would definitely know she was lying. The cost of telling such a lie would be far too high; it would be equivalent to handing her life over to the Youth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Therefore, she wouldn't lie about that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This means the woman was also driving a light red car. The two vehicles parked in front of the muddy road, besides the police car...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Were both light red!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that case, the only person who could possibly be lying is the middle-aged police officer! There was no so-called white car to begin with!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1872,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.808Z",1,"novelbin.me","82bec6338ab2de7a3e1d38eb68d9db39e84a63406052329f4a31ea7bb6740bd4","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-618","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-617",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]