Chapter 149: Caught!

Zhou Chen:

'Turned Upside Down: Describes speaking or acting in a confused, disordered, and chaotic manner without any sequence.'

'No sequence?'

'Does it mean there is no sequence in speaking, or no sequence in acting?'

Reaching this point in his deductions, Zhou Chen felt his brain could no longer handle the strain.

His mental state had first been dealt a heavy blow by Li Zhitong's Skill. Then, Long Hui had entered the fray with a Deceiver's Tongue and another Skill. Immediately after, it was revealed that someone among the ten of them was lying, and a lie told after a Deceiver's Tongue was broken at that, followed by two more Skills.

He felt that if he continued thinking, he would sooner or later lose consciousness and faint.

However, he had come prepared. Knowing this would be a tough battle, he had specifically packed a few bottles of Recovery Potion in his bag to soothe his nerves and nourish his brain.

However...

Zhou Chen was greatly alarmed.

He inserted the straw, but just as he was about to drink, another bizarre scene unfolded...

The Recovery Potion in his hand vanished!

Very quickly.

The hand supporting his backpack felt something solid. He opened the bag and looked inside, only to find the Recovery Potion with the straw already inserted resting right there in his backpack!

Consequently, he cautiously asked Dorje, "Captain, did you just see me put the Recovery Potion back into my backpack?"

As soon as these words came out.

Everyone looked at him weirdly, simply because he had just...

Already asked this exact question!

An ominous feeling surged into everyone's hearts as they carefully recalled Zhou Chen's strange behavior from moments ago.

'Action One: Zhou Chen unzips his backpack and takes out a bottle of Recovery Potion.'

'Action Two: He inserts the straw but does not drink, and then puts the Recovery Potion back into the backpack.'

'Action Three: He looks through the contents of his backpack and asks Dorje a question.'

'The reason for categorizing it like this is because Action Two is completely illogical.'

'Inserting the straw without drinking is the first motion. Putting it back into the bag is the second motion.'

'From his question to Dorje: Did I put the Recovery Potion back into the bag?'

'It can be concluded that he lost the memory of putting the Recovery Potion back into the bag.'

'Then, Action Three is...'

'Him looking through the backpack is the first motion. Asking Dorje is the second motion.'

'Therefore, he lost the memory of asking Dorje, which led to him asking Dorje again.'

'By the same logic, in Action One, he unzips the backpack and takes out the Recovery Potion.'

'Two motions. This triggered Dorje's Turned Upside Down, immediately causing him to lose the memory of taking out the Recovery Potion...'

'In summary, Turned Upside Down: whether speaking or acting, as long as two motions are completed, the memory of the second motion will be lost.'

'Logically speaking, this should be an Id Tier Skill, but Dorje's gun is brown.'

'Which means it is an Ego Tier Skill.'

'Therefore, Turned Upside Down is not deleting the player's memory of the second motion.'

'Rather, it is...'

'Changing the sequence in which the brain receives feedback information from the first and second motions.'

'Simply put.'

'Under normal circumstances: the brain first receives feedback from the first motion, then receives feedback from the second motion.'

'Turned Upside Down: the brain first receives feedback from the second motion. But at that exact moment, you have not yet performed the second motion, so the brain cannot receive any information. It can only receive the feedback from the first motion.'

'The logic behind this is that it does not delete the memory of the second motion, but rather prevents the brain from receiving the feedback of the second motion.'

'The difference is, to delete a memory, the second motion must be completed first before its memory can be deleted.'

'Not receiving the feedback means that you will not have any memory while in the very process of performing the second motion.'

'It is just like downloading a file.'

'The former is: deleting it after it finishes downloading.'

'The latter is: unable to download it at all.'

'If one does not figure out the underlying logic here, they are very likely to fall into a massive trap!'

Chen Ran took out his Cigarette Case, and a Cigarette appeared out of thin air in his hand.

He pulled out his Lighter, and in the next moment, his actions automatically skipped right to the state of igniting the flame.

He had just lit the Cigarette.

When he realized the smoke had already filled his lungs.

'Damn, this Skill is interesting. It is like a time skip.'

'But the problem lies right here. If someone else is speaking at the same time I am performing the second motion, then my brain will not receive the contents of what that person is saying either.'

'This Skill is an absolute counter and a perfect match for Long Hui's Silent Seal.'

'As long as this Skill is active, the Players present have absolutely no idea whether they have spoken their deductions within the five minutes, engaged in conversation, or if their Common Sense has been erased.'

'It is a perfect match!'

'And it is an absolute counter because Long Hui cannot determine whose Common Sense has been erased. Therefore, he cannot premeditate and target them with a Common Sense Lie.'

'What is even more fatal is that raising the gun and speaking the command count as exactly two motions.'

'Without the memory of the motion of speaking the command, the Player will proceed to speak the command again, and then fire the gun.'

'Which once again satisfies the condition of two motions.'

'Upon firing the gun again, they will find themselves unable to pull the trigger...'

'Unable to pull the trigger, wouldn't the Player start to doubt if there was a flaw in their own deductions?'

'What the fuck!'

'Three Skills. One requires you to speak within five minutes. One triggers an unknown effect upon one or three successful deductions. And one prevents you from receiving feedback from a second motion.'

'How is anyone supposed to play this?'

At this moment, a sense of despair welled up in Chen Ran's heart. Were Three-Star Players truly an insurmountable chasm?

Countdown: 35 seconds.

He turned his head and said to Qiu Yinong, "You should have deduced Dorje's Skill by now too, right?"

"You already asked me that," Qiu Yinong replied faintly without even turning her head.

Neither of them felt surprised; conversing like this was a way to bypass Long Hui's Skill.

But suddenly!

Chen Ran noticed that the reset countdown on his arm had changed to... 6 minutes!

'What does this mean?'

'Oh, right. It must be Diwu Zeyi's Emperor Emerges from the Three Rivers weakening Long Hui's Silent Seal Skill.'

'Changing the 5 minutes to 6 minutes.'

'That means, during the time I first asked Qiu Yinong, Diwu Zeyi spoke his Secret Room deductions, triggering Emperor Emerges from the Three Rivers to weaken the effect of Silent Seal.'

'If Diwu Zeyi asks me what he just said, I cannot answer, and I certainly cannot say I do not know, otherwise...'

'It would trigger a Common Sense Lie!'

'Thank goodness it didn't weaken my intelligence, or else I feel like I might as well write my will right now.'

'Fuck, fuck, fuck!'

'These three Skills are enough to make anyone's head spin. The slightest misstep will result in death.'

'I must deduce who the liar is!'

'The one who constructed the Deceiver's Tongue is either Long Hui, Li Zhitong, or Lin Xiuyuan. It's one of those three.'

'Long Hui can be ruled out.'

'As for the other two...'

Chen Ran thought quietly, occasionally glancing at the countdown on his arm.

A short while later.

He completely froze in place. His expression turned bizarre, and his gaze became incredibly complex.

'The liar... got screwed over by me this badly?'