Chapter 230: Bite You to Death

Click!

The sound of a Bullet jamming seemed exceptionally ear-piercing in the Basketball Court.

Number 21 stared blankly, lost in thought.

"You didn't lie?"

"Could it be that my deduction was wrong?"

"How is that possible!"

"Ah ah ah, why, why is it like this, exactly why is this?"

The contradiction between reality and deduction, one being thought, one being fact, was like two torrents crashing into Number 21's mental world.

He collapsed on the ground, holding his head and rolling, roaring who knows what, his expression becoming distorted due to pain, until he fainted.

He looked towards the team.

His gaze coldly swept over the remaining clones, and he said sinisterly: "I want to see who else will play tricks on me. Number 21 is your outcome."

"Continue the roll call!"

"Chen Ran Number 22!"

"Chen Ran Number 22?"

Coach Chen Ran flew into a rage, looking at Chen Ran Number 22 whose expression was indifferent in the team.

"What do you want to do again?"

Hearing this, Number 22 didn't panic or rush. He fished out a Cigarette Case from his pocket, pulled one out, lit it, took a deep breath, and puffed out clouds and mist.

"Before we start, let me first stack a few settings for myself." Number 22 said in deep thought.

"Number one: The words I'm going to say next are all my hypotheses."

"Number two: These words can be me talking to myself, or they can be me making up a story, not directed at any person or object."

"Number three: If the content I speak mentions certain people, don't misunderstand, I am telling a story. You might just have the same name as the person in my story."

Having said that, Number 22 looked at coach Chen Ran and said with a smile: "Alright, I have already evaded the possibility of me lying next. Now we can have a good chat. Like them, it's still that same sentence: this kind of trick of yours fundamentally can't fool me, better give up."

"Tell me about it." Coach Chen Ran was like he was looking at a mental patient, covering his forehead.

"There are two cognitions in my mind."

"Number one: My name is Chen Ran, I have a pure white Liar-Slayer Pistol, and the Skill is called Eternal Kingdom."

"Number two: There is a person's Skill that can make me believe parts of his words."

"In other words, that person who can make me believe his words, very likely utilized this Skill to tamper with my cognition."

"But, there are three kinds of things he cannot tamper with. The first and second kind have nothing much to be said, they are the two cognitions I just mentioned."

"The third kind..."

"Is my IQ!!"

Coach Chen Ran said perfunctorily: "Ah yes yes yes you are a big smart guy, and then?"

"Since the Guns at our waists are called Liar-Slayers, as the name implies, it is to kill people who lie, but..."

"The Guns also have Skills. My Skill is called Eternal Kingdom, and that person's Skill can make me believe the words he speaks."

"Then..."

"Do the Guns at your waists also possess a kind of Skill?"

"What use is a Skill?"

"Since Liar-Slayers have Skills, then the Skills should be related to slaying liars."

"Two situations. Either the Skill assists in using the Liar-Slayer, for example if a liar hides behind cover, the Skill can directly penetrate the cover to kill the liar."

"Or, the Skill is used in coordination with Lie-Judgment. For example, if you haven't lied, but I can utilize a Skill to manufacture a scene, or a mirage or something similar, to trick a lie out of you."

Speaking up to here, Number 22 Chen Ran narrowed his eyes with a mocking curl at the corner of his mouth: "Which one it specifically is, shouldn't need me to say any more, right?"

"Since there exists a Skill that can make people believe the words he speaks, then it cannot be the first kind, but the second kind."

"The Liar-Slayer's Skill is used in coordination with Lie-Judgment."

"So, my deduction is that it should be like this: the person who can make people believe his words first used this Skill to proactively tamper with a lot of my cognition, for example, scene cognition, visual cognition, memory cognition, etc."

"As the saying goes, the Great Dao is fifty, Heaven evolves forty-nine, and humanity escapes as the one."

"This Skill cannot tamper with identity cognition, nor the cognition of this Skill, otherwise this Skill would be too invincible."

"Then, the question comes, why would I know the effect of this Skill?"

"My deduction is that this Skill should have an activation condition: the Skill's effect must be told to the one hit in advance."

"Alright, next, I will continue with the plot deduction from just now."

"That person first used the Skill, tampering with a lot of my cognition."

"Next, what he needs to do is trick a lie out of me and kill me."

"Just now, you kept emphasizing that we are Chen Ran's clones. But if I am Chen Ran, when I speak those words, it would be judged as a lie."

"So..."

Chen Ran Number 22's eyes changed, staring sharply at coach Chen Ran, enunciating word by word:

"You are that person! That person who used the Skill! That person who wants to trick a lie out of me and wants to kill me!"

Having said that, he drew his Gun, pointing it at the completely speechless coach Chen Ran.

"You are that person, but in my line of sight, you look exactly the same as me. That means you tampered with my vision. For example, you said to me that you look exactly the same as me, your Skill took effect, I believed your words, and so in my line of sight, you look exactly the same as me."

He also looked around: "These people also look exactly the same as me. They might truly exist, or it could be that you made me believe they truly exist, and that they look exactly the same as me."

"Truly a good Skill, good effect, good story, good background, good setting, doing all this just to trick a lie out of me?"

"But I, Chen Ran, sometimes don't even believe myself. How could this kind of trick of yours possibly deceive me?"

Facing the pitch-black muzzle, coach Chen Ran didn't panic or rush, pulling out his Cigarette Case, lighting one, and taking a deep breath:

"Then what are you waiting for? Just now I spoke quite a few lies. You also know the Liar-Slayer's usage command. Fire."

Number 22 Chen Ran narrowed his eyes, flicked away the Cigarette butt in his hand, and looking at coach Chen Ran's indifferent face, said: "You..."

"You think I'm stupid?"

"Eternal Kingdom!"

Having said that, Number 22 pulled the trigger, only to find that he hadn't used the Skill as he had imagined.

He thought for a bit.

"Liar-Slayer: Eternal Kingdom!"

He still didn't use the Skill.

He thought for a bit again.

"Liar-Killer: Eternal Kingdom!"

"How is that possible?"

Seeing him begin to doubt himself, coach Chen Ran said faintly: "I said it before, this Liar-Slayer is voice-controlled, and the command is [You lied]. You want to use the Skill but don't dare to speak the command, so of course you can't use Eternal Kingdom."

"Impossible!" Number 22 wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense from him: "According to what you say, then the Bullet fired, is it to kill the liar, or to use the Skill?"

"Oh, is that so? Doesn't that mean I lied again? Come shoot and kill me!" Coach Chen Ran teased.

Number 22 pondered for a moment.

"In Number 18's cognition, he said he himself was called Xu Lang. Just now Number 21 used the Liar-Slayer but didn't kill him."

"Three possibilities. One, Number 18 is real. He lied, but Number 21 is fake, so he couldn't kill him."

"Two, Number 18 is fake, Number 21 is real. The real cannot kill the fake."

"Three, both are fake, therefore neither can kill the other."

"Since you all look exactly the same as me, that means this trap is used to kill me, to be precise it's..."

"To kill Chen Ran!"

"Reaching me, it still hasn't ended. That explains that Chen Ran is not among the first 21 people."

Thinking of this, Number 22 suddenly turned the muzzle, pointing it at Number 24 Chen Ran.

"Speak! Your name!"

"What do you mean?"

Number 24 Chen Ran was slightly bewildered, having a feeling of eating melons until it landed on his own head.

"Say your name. If you don't say it, even if I can't fire the Gun, I'll bite you to death." Number 22 fully revealed his viciousness, very much having a posture of wanting to fight to the death.