Chapter 209: First Step of Planning

In the patient room, Chen Ran, Qiu Yinong, and Diwu Zeyi slowly opened their eyes.

They subconsciously looked at the Blood Bags at the armrests; there was no blood inside.

At the same time, the three also felt their brains begin to return to normal.

Sitting in the chairs, quietly waiting for their bodies to recover, the patient room door was opened. Li Zhitong walked in, looking at the three with venomous resentment.

"Let's go, to the next patient room?"

Facing the BOSS's inquiry, the three threw him a look that said 'idiot'.

Ignoring him further, they each took out food from their bags to replenish their stamina.

"Are we still splitting up?"

Previously, Chen Ran's proposal was for the five people to split into two groups and go to different rooms to construct two Unknown Lies.

Chen Ran glanced at the two empty chairs. Lin Xiuyuan's corpse and Long Hui's corpse were already gone.

'Lin Xiuyuan's corpse was dismembered by the Bald Doctor. Long Hui's corpse, in the final round of the Secret Room's changes, was...'

'Devoured!'

'The disappearance of the two's corpses seems very reasonable, but just now we were...'

'In what state were we teleported into that Secret Room? First, we can rule out the soul.'

'In the patient room our blood was drawn, and in the Secret Room we experienced the side effects of having our blood drawn.'

'It should have been consciousness.'

'In other words, Lin Xiuyuan and Long Hui's corpses should still exist.'

Thinking of this.

Chen Ran crouched down and looked under the bed. This action made [Li Zhitong]'s pupils suddenly shrink.

However...

There was nothing under the bed. Chen Ran frowned and pushed open the patient room door again. Outside, the fifteen corpses had also vanished.

'How truly sickening!'

'The BOSS's Skill. As long as he hides the corpses well, even if he lies, we won't dare Judge him. However...'

'The corpses are in the Third Secret Chamber. By clearing the patient beds one by one, we will eventually find them.'

Sitting back down on the chair.

'The BOSS can lie wantonly, which means Diwu Zeyi can use his Skill multiple times.'

'I cannot use my Skill, and the incantation Qiu Yinong reserved in the Second Secret Chamber was also used up in the Secret Room just now.'

'With the BOSS here, Qiu Yinong also wouldn't dare speak the incantation to use her Skill again.'

'The Skills of the two of us are useless now.'

'This is tough!'

Chen Ran felt for his Cigarette Case and handed Diwu Zeyi a Cigarette. The latter took the Cigarette, pulled out the Lighter he had swiped from Chen Ran, lit Chen Ran's first, and only then lit his own.

Chen Ran glanced at the Lighter; that was the one he had swiped from Baili Qiangsheng.

"I'm not giving it back. If you have the ability, loot the Lighter back from my corpse," Diwu Zeyi raised the Lighter and smiled.

Responding to him was Chen Ran's middle finger.

'Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong's Skills are basically useless now, unless...'

'I use the BOSS's Skill to transfer my soul into another corpse, and they inflict fatal damage to my physical body...'

'If Chen Ran uses Eternal Kingdom, I will undoubtedly die. The BOSS's Skill would be broken, and since the BOSS lied previously, and Chen Ran using a Skill violates the Future Lie, and Qiu Yinong having all timelines converging on her also constitutes a lie, at that time, the three of them would engage in a chaotic shootout.'

'In other words, the only opportunity Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong have to kill me...'

'Is this and only this one!'

'As long as I don't use my Skill, their desire to kill me is undoubtedly an idiot's daydream.'

'I'm not in a hurry. At worst, all three of us leave the Instance alive. I can barely accept that, but for Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong, they will be very anxious!'

'I need to add some fuel to the fire. As long as I encounter a corpse, I will directly chop off its head.'

'As the corpses become fewer and fewer, the probability of the BOSS being Judged will become higher and higher.'

Diwu Zeyi took a drag of his Cigarette, glimpsing that Chen Ran was doing the same. The two looked at each other and smiled; it seemed both had prepared backup plans.

[Li Zhitong] frowned upon seeing the expressions on the two.

'Why do I have the feeling of being ignored again? Dammit ah ah ah ah ah.'

'For me...'

'Diwu Zeyi is not to be considered. He must die for me to have a chance to live to the end.'

'Chen Ran...'

'Also not to be considered. This guy is ostensibly a One-Star, but in reality, he rivals a Three-Star.'

'Qiu Yinong...'

'Although her performance throughout the entire Instance was very dazzling, she has always acted as an executor, not the true planner.'

'In other words, my ideal situation is for Chen Ran and Diwu Zeyi to perish together, leaving Qiu Yinong and me to compete.'

'The next patient room is [Heart], which is the most difficult of the five patient rooms.'

'There is room to operate.'

Thinking of this, the BOSS also lit a Cigarette and looked at Chen Ran and Diwu Zeyi. The three looked at each other and smiled, each harboring their own ulterior motives.

Qiu Yinong: "..."

'These three might be seriously ill in the head. They all smile so treacherously.'

'Long Hui is dead.'

'If Diwu Zeyi is tricked into a lie, he will perish together with me without hesitation.'

'Without the morbid conditions of the Secret Room just now, I will definitely die.'

'Then for me, the most ideal situation is to separate from Diwu Zeyi.'

'The BOSS and I go to one patient room, and let Chen Ran and Diwu Zeyi go to another.'

'But, Chen Ran...'

'Can he handle him alone? Diwu Zeyi's strength should be the ceiling among Three-Star players. This guy...'

'From his performance in the three Secret Rooms, he is simply flawless.'

'From a certain perspective, Dorje and Long Hui's deaths had his hand in them.'

'Sigh, leaving the strongest Three-Star player for the end. Perhaps this was inherently the result of Diwu Zeyi's intentional design.'

Three people smiled. Two smiled treacherously, one smiled not very smartly. Only Qiu Yinong had her brows tightly locked; she couldn't see the breaking point of the situation.

Chen Ran looked at [Li Zhitong]. "Which patient room has the highest difficulty?"

[Li Zhitong] hesitated slightly, then immediately said, "The second one."

Chen Ran nodded, then raised an eyebrow looking at Diwu Zeyi. "We go to the second one, and Qiu Yinong and the BOSS go to another?"

"Okay." Diwu Zeyi nodded indifferently. To him, he was the only Three-Star player left. He could be as reckless as he wanted.

Chen Ran turned his head again and stared closely at Qiu Yinong for a long time before saying:

"Do you know how the systems of the protagonists in novels are born?"

Qiu Yinong nodded.

She remembered there was a setting in the game story background she asked Chen Ran to help write in life.

'The amount of information is a bit large. I have to think carefully about what he wants to express.'

Both Diwu Zeyi and [Li Zhitong] narrowed their eyes, looking at Chen Ran.

Suddenly.

[Li Zhitong] drew his Liar-Slayer, pointing the muzzle at Chen Ran: "You lied."

He immediately pulled the trigger.

The Bullet jammed. Seeing the other three looking at him speechlessly, their expressions seemed to be saying: You scared the crap out of me.

[Li Zhitong] scratched his head awkwardly. "Uh, seeing everyone like this, I wanted to liven up the atmosphere."

Actually.

The BOSS's meaning was very clear: If you want to construct an Unknown Lie, you will not pass my stage.