Chapter 233: Time Paradox

"What do you mean?" A flash of disappointment flickered in Diwu Zeyi's eyes and passed.

"Then I will explain it more clearly!"

"Diwu Zeyi and the person calling themselves the 9th True Self Player, you wouldn't think that just because I'm a Newbie, I'm easy to deceive, right?"

"Time Paradox!"

"The future is uncertain, but the past definitely cannot be changed."

"Simply put, no matter how mirages are manufactured or my cognition is tampered with, it is impossible to kill me, this future Chen Ran, on the past Instance timeline."

"Otherwise, I, this Chen Ran from the future Instance, wouldn't appear on this past Instance's timeline."

"Since I appear in the future Instance, that explains that I won't die on this past Instance's timeline."

"Diwu Zeyi can at most only trick out my lie."

"Therefore, the conclusion can be drawn that Diwu Zeyi, on the past Instance's timeline, fundamentally cannot trick out my lie."

"So, I don't understand why he still wants to do this?"

Hearing this, the expressions of Diwu Zeyi, Qiu Yinong, and the BOSS all sank.

"And that so-called 9th True Self Player, saying their Skill can change future destiny, really treating me like a Newbie who understands nothing."

"My future overlaps in time with their past, therefore they cannot change the past, which is that part of the future where my time overlaps with theirs. In other words..."

"The words they spoke highly likely obscured the specific effect of [Bright Moon of Qin]."

"Friendly reminder, the reason I use [highly likely] is to perform an Avoidance of Lying."

Chen Ran's meaning was very simple: The 9th True Self Player's Skill...

Fundamentally cannot change destiny!

"Is that so? Then my Skill, how should you explain it?" Qiu Yinong asked.

Since time travel wouldn't change destiny, then Qiu Yinong previously using the Wheel of Time multiple times to trick out opponents' lies would definitely not be established.

But in fact, Qiu Yinong indeed utilized the Wheel of Time to trick out many lies.

"Very simple, Qiu Yinong's Skill is to create multiple timelines, rather than reincarnating on the same timeline."

"Otherwise, as long as the Skill ended, she would be judged as lying."

"But in fact, when the Skill ended, she wasn't judged as lying..."

"Which is the best proof!"

Chen Ran lit a Cigarette, looked around at the three people and the surrounding scene, and said faintly: "Since I won't have a lie tricked out in the Past Instance, then that can explain that the conclusion I deduced is definitely the correct conclusion."

"The conclusion is: I am currently still at the station in the Past Instance."

"The real Diwu Zeyi also didn't go to the next station to decrypt Twin Pavilions."

"Now, you should know why I rarely open my mouth to speak, right?"

"I just want to see, how is Diwu Zeyi going to trick my lie out?"

"If I guess correctly, Diwu Zeyi roughly wants to utilize this so-called Qiu Yinong to talk with me and carry out Lie-Judgment."

Chen Ran took a refreshing puff of his Cigarette, the corners of his mouth curving slightly as he mocked: "Diwu Zeyi, I think you don't understand me enough. Before I died I was a novel author. The construction of scenes, plots, and dialogue is my strong suit."

"Sometimes I think, if my Skill was a mirage-type Skill, you really might not necessarily have lived until now."

Yes, giving a novel author a mirage Skill that all players publicly recognized as the trashiest, to a novel author...

It would simply be a divine Skill.

For instance, to Chen Ran, it could be described as adding wings to a tiger. Let alone killing his way through Hell, he had the confidence not to fear any player he could be matched with, even if the other party was two Stars higher than him.

After all, before he died, he ate this bowl of rice.

By the same logic.

Constructing virtual scenes and character dialogues was Chen Ran's strong suit, so seeing through the mirages of virtual scenes and characters...

Was also his strong suit!

Before using Eternal Kingdom, he didn't believe anything.

Even in the first layer of the mirage, when he didn't know the effect of Eternal Kingdom, he also hadn't thought of shooting anyone, or having too much dialogue with anyone, much less was it possible to speak a lie.

...

At the station, the black and fat player stared fixedly at Chen Ran, who was talking to himself within the mirage, his face gradually becoming terrified.

'Motherfucker!'

'What kind of monster is this?'

'Carefully recalling Chen Ran's words, aside from the conclusion which is in an affirmative tone, the rest of the words all use vocabulary for the Avoidance of Lying.'

'Moreover, at the very beginning, he kept emphasizing [With my current condition]. Did this even evade Future Lies?'

'For example, without the words [With my current condition], when Chen Ran broke away from the mirage and then had to go to the next station, then he would definitely have a Future Lie.'

'But the words [With my current condition] exactly evaded the Future Lie.'

'After all, his current condition is being in a mirage, unable to go to the next station.'

'Simply water-tight!'

'Listening to his words, he and Diwu Zeyi both come from this Instance in the Future.'

'And he mentioned the Time Paradox.'

'Since he comes from the future Instance's timeline, then he definitely won't die on this Past Instance's timeline.'

'This, this, this...'

'Are you a fucking devil?'

The black and fat player stiffly turned his head, looking at the gloomy-faced Diwu Zeyi.

'Bro, why don't we forget it, this guy is a bit bizarre.'

'Wait!'

'A lie was tricked out of me by him, and when tampering with Chen Ran's cognition, I also spoke a lie.'

'Doesn't that mean I'm definitely dead?'

'However...'

The black and fat player looked at the surrounding corpses, Diwu Zeyi whose expressions were shifting between clarity and doubt, and Chen Ran who had seen through the double mirage.

'Anyway, with my aptitude, sooner or later I will die in some Instance.'

'Before I die, being able to witness this kind of high-end match, I should be able to close my eyes in death.'

Diwu Zeyi sighed deeply.

He silently fished out his Cigarette Case from his pocket. After thinking about it, he handed a Cigarette to the black and fat player, lit it for the black and fat player first, and only then lit his own.

"Sigh, your Skill is very good. Being able to cooperate with me until now explains that you only have a bit of a problem with grasping details."

"If it weren't that you are destined to die in this Instance, bringing you out of the Instance, I might have also received a reward from the Level Master."

"What a pity..."

The black and fat player smoked his Cigarette and smiled bitterly: "The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward. Geniuses in Hell, how numerous they are. I am merely a wave that is about to pass away. However, I think..."

Looking at Chen Ran.

"He might be able to live for a very, very long time."

Hearing this, Diwu Zeyi nodded: "This kind of thought, I have also had."

It was very strange. Opponents who were previously fighting to the death with all sorts of calculations were now leisurely smoking Cigarettes here, talking like friends.

Simply because...

Players in Hell fundamentally didn't have so-called hatred. What they had was only...

Collisions in thought.

Clashes in stance.

Enemy and self in survival.

To put it bluntly.

Committing evil while alive, pitiable after death.

When you come out to play, sooner or later you have to pay it back.

Dying early is early liberation.

After finishing a Cigarette, the black and fat player patted his butt and got up, looking at Chen Ran: "Since he could deduce the mirage under circumstances with no evidence, that explains that the Time Paradox definitely exists. Continuing to waste time like this is meaningless. Will you kill me to make the Skill disappear, or will I withdraw the Skill and let him kill me?"

Diwu Zeyi couldn't help but look at him with a bit more respect.

Players with this kind of awareness...

Are already very rare.

If it were other players, they probably would still be thinking about continuing to tamper with Chen Ran's cognition, endlessly conducting Lie-Judgment.

This is just like when the crystal has already been smashed by others, yet still thinking about continuing to operate.

It is nothing more than wasting time.

For Diwu Zeyi, not only did he verify the Time Paradox, but he also truly and vividly felt Chen Ran's potential. Continuing further had no meaning.

Diwu Zeyi got up, adjusted his clothes, and solemnly asked: "Name?"

"Gao Sheng, thank you."

Asking for a name was giving the opponent the utmost respect. Gao Sheng understood his meaning. He drew his Liar-Slayer, pointing the Gun at Chen Ran:

"Liar-Slayer: Flowery Language."

"Withdraw!"

Bewilderment flashed through Chen Ran's eyes. The Hospital scene accordingly disappeared. Looking at the two people in front of the bench, his line of sight landed on Gao Sheng.

Just quietly looking like this.

To Chen Ran, other than Eternal Kingdom, he believed nothing.