[{"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-135":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},749384,993,"Chapter 135: The Second Cannon Fodder is Out!","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-135",135,"\u003Cp>\"Zhou Chen, you go!\" the burly Tibetan man ordered without looking back, calling upon one of the two Two-Star Players in their team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chen remained silent. The moment he took his first step forward, his mind began racing wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is very strange.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Why did that One-Star teammate, whose name I do not even know, suddenly get so angry? Why did he initiate a Judgment on Lin Xiuyuan?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Furthermore, I cannot shake the feeling that there is a flaw in Lin Xiuyuan and Li Zhitong's deductions. Their reasoning was far too simplistic, like an answer haphazardly pieced together from scraps.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Dorje clearly knows something is wrong, so why did he still send me out?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These doubts automatically surfaced as glaring inconsistencies in his racing mind the moment his foot hit the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took his second step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Wait, we seem to have all overlooked a crucial detail, and that is...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just two steps, Zhou Chen had deduced most of the underlying logic. Now, all he had to do was verify his theory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked briskly to the entrance of the supermarket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at the two corpses lying outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief moment of thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually slipped on a hazmat suit, pushed open the inner door to enter the vestibule, and cracked the outer door open just a sliver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw the scene outside, his expression shifted dramatically. First came anger, then deep contemplation, followed by sudden enlightenment, and finally...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolute terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to shove the outer door wide open, but it was blocked by the youth's corpse. Zhou Chen cursed inwardly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Son of a bitch!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately kicked the outer door open and stepped over the youth's body. Looking around, his gaze locked onto a specific direction. His pupils shrank drastically as he frantically tore off his helmet, greedily gasping for air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, Zhou Chen desperately clutched his own throat. As if the oxygen had been instantly vacuumed away, he began to suffocate and fell stiffly to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was dead!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the supermarket, the others completely ignored Zhou Chen's sudden demise and turned their attention to the youth's team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although those four individuals were still hiding behind the crowd, they all wore faint, mocking smiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Lin Xiuyuan and Li Zhitong immediately shifted their gaze, looking back at the burly Tibetan man with a trace of helplessness in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dorje pondered for a brief moment before speaking. \"Li Zixin, you go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zixin was a One-Star Player, and she had long since collapsed to the floor in absolute terror. She knew perfectly well that in this instance alone, there were two overt Three-Star Players and at least a dozen Two-Star Players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she had to rely on herself, there was no way she would leave this instance alive. Therefore, she had no choice but to obey Dorje's command. If she lost him as her backer, the other players could easily get her killed in a secret room trap without her ever uttering a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the sorrow of the weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How did I end up in Hell?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Oh, right. Because of jealousy, I murdered my roommate and was sentenced to death.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I do not understand.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'While I was alive, I was already punished by the law and cleansed of my sins. Why was I still sent to Hell?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her life flashed before her eyes like a fleeting glance, scene after scene surfacing in her mind. Realizing this was an ominous omen, she hurriedly forced away those distracting thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the others before her, she donned a hazmat suit and carefully pushed against the outer door. However, Zhou Chen's corpse was blocking the way, allowing her to only open a tiny crack. Peeking through that narrow gap...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw that right outside the supermarket, barely three meters away, was a solid wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Embedded into that wall was a gigantic screen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the footage playing on that screen showed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purple poisonous gas!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zixin's mind blanked out for a split second. Then, her eyes widened in horror as she stared unblinkingly at the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hahahaha!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So that is the truth!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So that is the truth!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Liars! Liars! Liars! A bunch of godforsaken liars!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What pirate dividing the gold coins!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What Xuanji Diagram!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What double door locks!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Fake! Fake! It is all fake!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Even those three corpses lying outside the supermarket are fake! They are just playing dead!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is not the instance at all!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The Ghost Whisperers! They entered a minute earlier and meticulously set up this scene. The moment we arrived, their Whisper had already been formed!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No wonder Lin Xiuyuan and Li Zhitong both announced, \"I am going to begin my deduction,\" right before they started. They were secretly warning each other: I am about to start lying, so do not mess with my act!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Dorje must have spotted the flaw. He deliberately chose not to warn us because he wanted to weed out the dead weight from our team.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That means this entire trap was a joint operation between the Ghost Whisperers and the elite Liar-Slayers! Their goal was to kill off the logically challenged One-Star Liar-Slayers early on, ensuring they would not be dragged down by idiots in the real secret room!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this realization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zixin's entire body ran ice-cold. At long last, she fully understood the absolute laws of survival in Hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To hell with teammates!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To hell with allies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To hell with being members of the same alliance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as there was even a chance you might drag me down in the future, I must kill you first!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In Dorje's eyes, I am clearly nothing more than an expendable pawn...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Since that is the case!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a darkened expression, Li Zixin returned to the supermarket. She tore off her helmet, smashed it fiercely into the ground, and furiously drew her Liar-Slayer, aiming it directly at Li Zhitong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I remember earlier, you specifically claimed, 'I have already deduced the unknown answer.' Am I right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhitong nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zixin fell deep into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'When I... No, the moment the very first player stepped out of the supermarket and saw nothing but a solid wall outside, the Whisper underwent Lie Breaking.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Li Zhitong and Lin Xiuyuan both declared that they had deduced the unknown answer.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Since this entire scenario was set up by their group of Ghost Whisperers, they must have known the puzzle's solution before we even arrived.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Therefore, the statement \"I have deduced the unknown answer\" instantly transformed into a lie after the Lie Breaking!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Therefore, the statement \"I have deduced the unknown answer\" instantly transformed into a lie after the Lie Breaking!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'However, when that One-Star Player initiated a Judgment against Lin Xiuyuan earlier, the Judgment completely failed.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Why is that?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I cannot figure it out!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I really cannot figure this out! Ahhhh, my head feels like it is going to explode!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Where exactly did I go wrong?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you cannot figure it out, then calm your mind and think it through slowly. Anger will only cause further deviations in your deduction,\" Dorje's gruff voice echoed right next to Li Zixin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd was somewhat astonished. No one expected Dorje to actually speak up and guide her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this elaborate trap, the two teams of Ghost Whisperers initially intended to completely deceive the two teams of Liar-Slayers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, upon seeing the wretched five-man group tacitly allow their captain to perform, they realized that those five rats had already seen through the scam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, they shifted their focus to reducing the numbers in the burly Tibetan man's squad, aiming to screw over as many members as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Zhou Chen also chose to play dead. This proved that he, too, had managed to see through the true trump card hidden within this deception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two teams of Ghost Whisperers suddenly realized that the overall caliber of the players in this instance was astonishingly high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was ridiculously high!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, successfully killing off the two One-Star Players in the burly Tibetan man's team would be an acceptable outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that Dorje had suddenly intervened, if Li Zixin successfully grasped the crucial clue, only one person would have been effectively eliminated... This was an outcome the two Ghost Whisperer teams would find entirely unacceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Li Zixin's perspective, her feet were being held to the fire. If she simply gave up and played the ostrich by hiding her head in the sand, it would mean...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was entirely useless. Even if she somehow survived this current crisis, Dorje would not care whether she lived or died later on. After all, she would have proven she held no value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Li Zixin desperately needed to prove that her underlying logic was completely sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pondered for quite some time—so long, in fact, that the three individuals playing dead outside the supermarket felt there was no longer any need to keep up the charade. They simply stood back up and casually strolled back inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So that is the truth!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lin Xiuyuan and Li Zhitong, neither of you knew what the other team was secretly plotting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lin Xiuyuan was deducing the scheme orchestrated by Li Zhitong and his team.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And Li Zhitong was deducing the scheme orchestrated by Lin Xiuyuan and his team.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because of that, even though the Whisper underwent Lie Breaking, the statement you both made earlier—'I have deduced the unknown answer'—was technically not a lie!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment those words left her mouth, she saw...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eighteen gun barrels aimed directly at her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait a minute!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zixin was so terrified her soul nearly left her body, but she still screamed at the top of her lungs to halt their Judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I just... want to know... how I was wrong... before I die,\" she stammered, her voice trembling violently from absolute dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dorje extended a finger and pointed directly at the two lines of text written on the wall behind the checkout counter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you had read the original text, you should try to recall it. Do you remember what those two lines of poetry actually said?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do... not remember.\" Li Zixin closed her eyes in utter despair. She had originally wanted to show off her intelligence, prove her worth, and earn Dorje's permanent protection. She never expected that she would only end up thoroughly humiliating herself instead.\u003C\u002Fp>",1729,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.808Z",1,"novelbin.me","35352591c942a2ff29189fe6f919924033b0189a53a993bc5e624d0212931746","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-136","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-134",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]