Chapter 239: Twin Pavilions Station (3)

The right side of The Tunnel.

Chen Ran lit a Cigarette and looked towards the middle of The Tunnel. There were... two black shadows.

One was sitting.

One was lying down.

He carefully stepped forward, seeing their appearances clearly at a distance of about one meter from the black shadows.

The one sitting was Diwu Zeyi.

The one lying down was the black and fat player.

The black and fat player was shot in the glabella.

"Did you kill him?" Chen Ran asked.

"Actually, when I discovered that The Tunnel was filled with a large amount of dense fog, I planned to kill him."

"Reason?" Chen Ran asked.

"At the station, you didn't abolish Gao Sheng's opportunity to Judge himself. Weren't you just wanting to borrow my hand to kill him?"

"Continue." Chen Ran said.

"Not abolishing his opportunity to Judge himself, and at the station, he provided you with a lie, you discarded the opportunity to Judge him and successfully used Eternal Kingdom. In other words, Gao Sheng discarding Judging himself to use his Skill, you can't stop him."

"You cannot use Eternal Kingdom, nor can you Judge him. If he wants to use his Skill, you can only watch helplessly."

"Of course, this is also a link in your plan. Waiting until he finishes using his Skill, you would deliberately pretend to have a lie tricked out by him. I think you would say [Before I died I hadn't violated Criminal Law] in the cognitive mirage."

"He would believe you are lying, and would highly likely withdraw his Skill to join hands with you, finding me and tricking out my lie."

"If I didn't want to be passive, I must kill Gao Sheng in advance."

"In other words, when you didn't abolish Gao Sheng's Skill, it meant that Gao Sheng's final outcome would highly likely be killed by me."

"How about it, is the result of my deduction the result of your plan?"

This was Chen Ran's open scheme, an open scheme targeting Gao Sheng, ensuring Gao Sheng would inevitably die.

Chen Ran nodded: "Correct, but I didn't kill Gao Sheng. You just said you also didn't kill Gao Sheng. How did he die?"

"I also want to know." Diwu Zeyi took a puff of his Cigarette, saying perplexedly.

Suddenly he thought of something, looking at the Cigarette dangling in Chen Ran's mouth.

"Your Lighter..."

Speaking up to here, he paused for several tens of seconds before continuing: "In the Meteorite Mirage, your Lighter should be out of fuel."

Saying so, he fished out a Lighter from his pocket and tossed it to Chen Ran: "We are both smokers, we should know the importance of a light. This is the Lighter I borrowed from you before."

Taking the Lighter Diwu Zeyi handed over and carefully observing it, Chen Ran discovered with astonishment that this was the one he snatched from Baili Qiangsheng.

He couldn't believe it, and checked it again.

"Rest assured, this Lighter is the one you lent me."

Hearing this, Chen Ran's hand unconsciously reached towards the Liar-Slayer at his waist.

'I remember, Diwu Zeyi previously said [Not giving it. If you have the ability, then from my corpse, grab the Lighter back.]'

'Although this sentence, looking at it from the context at the time, wouldn't constitute a Future Lie, he actually returned it to me now?'

"Since we are both smokers, do you think I wouldn't prepare a few extra?" Chen Ran waved the fully-fueled Lighter in his hand, and returned Baili Qiangsheng's to Diwu Zeyi: "I think you were right. I should grab this Lighter back from your corpse, so..."

"You keep it for me first."

Diwu Zeyi didn't take it. Chen Ran slowly withdrew his hand, saying uncertainly: "You seem to really want to leave the Lighter with me?"

Having said that, he tossed Baili Qiangsheng's Lighter onto the ground to the side.

The two fell silent.

'Diwu Zeyi said he didn't kill Gao Sheng, and in my design, Gao Sheng would inevitably be killed by Diwu Zeyi.'

'Now Gao Sheng is dead.'

'And was also shot in the glabella. He was absolutely Judged to death, it was not any trap or the like.'

'I have witnessed Diwu Zeyi's gun-drawing speed. I can be certain that Gao Sheng was exactly killed by him. But why did he deny it?'

'He wouldn't be stupid enough to tell such a substandard lie in front of me.'

'Then the question comes, Diwu Zeyi, who shouldn't actively lie in front of me, actually told a clumsy lie in front of me.'

'Why?'

Thinking up to this point, Chen Ran looked at Diwu Zeyi, rapidly reaching his hand out to touch him.

The next moment, Chen Ran was bounced away.

Diwu Zeyi completely paid no mind to this behavior of his, still smoking his Cigarette.

Climbing up from the ground, sitting back in his original position again, Chen Ran was horrified in his heart.

'He is a player.'

'And he has Baili Qiangsheng's Lighter.'

'I can also be certain that I am not in the cognitive mirage of [Flowery Language].'

'Conclusion: He is the real Diwu Zeyi.'

'In other words...'

'He is the player Diwu Zeyi, and doesn't have the memory of killing Gao Sheng.'

'If this is a player's memory loss caused by the Secret Room, why didn't I lose my memory?'

'Also, why is he persistent on leaving the Lighter on my person?'

'Take it one by one.'

'First, exclude mirages. All kinds of mirages can be excluded.'

'Secondly, if it's reincarnation copying like in [Lonely Revenge], at the moment they were born, it should be Diwu Zeyi shooting Gao Sheng dead, or Diwu Zeyi living and Gao Sheng being in a state of death.'

'If it was Diwu Zeyi shooting Gao Sheng dead, I definitely would have heard the gunshot.'

'But, I didn't hear it just now, so him shooting Gao Sheng dead can be excluded.'

'If it is that Diwu Zeyi was alive when he was born, and Gao Sheng was dead when he was born.'

'Then, logically speaking, Diwu Zeyi would have the memory of [from my corpse, grab the Lighter back].'

'After all, that was the memory during the decryption in the Spleen Ward. If he was born in The Tunnel, he would definitely have Diwu Zeyi's memory from the Spleen Ward.'

'With Diwu Zeyi's IQ, he wouldn't return the Lighter to me, letting me perceive the clues.'

'Therefore, decryption similar to reincarnation copying can be excluded. This Diwu Zeyi was fundamentally not copied.'

'Mirages and copying are all excluded.'

'What else?'

'Erasing memories?'

'Also impossible. I search my memory. From arriving at The Tunnel, there hasn't been any Vulnerability Window in between.'

'There also doesn't exist a situation where the pictures in my mind skipped frames to other pictures.'

'That proves that my memory doesn't have any editing, which means there is no situation of memory loss.'

'Mirages, copying, and memory loss are all excluded one by one. What else?'

'Time!'

'Could this Diwu Zeyi be the Diwu Zeyi from the future timeline?'

'Also unreasonable. The Diwu Zeyi from the future timeline would have his memory of killing Gao Sheng, therefore the future can be excluded.'

'The past?'

'If this Diwu Zeyi is the Diwu Zeyi from the past timeline, it's also not too reasonable. For him, Gao Sheng would definitely be tricked by me and join hands with me. As long as he sees Gao Sheng, he would definitely kill Gao Sheng.'

'In other words, whether it's the Diwu Zeyi from the past or the future timeline, he would unhesitatingly kill Gao Sheng.'

'In summary, time can be excluded.'

'Mirages, copying, memory loss, and time are all excluded. What is left?'

Deducing up to here, Chen Ran quickly thought of the next possibility, his scalp instantly turning numb.

'What's left is...'

'Space!!'