[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h":3,"chapter-the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-296":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Eighteen Levels of Hell: Lying is Forbidden Here",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},748974,993,"Chapter 296: A Lesson Learned","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-296",296,"\u003Cp>As the words fell, the atmosphere turned tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twenty people were all dangling roughly two meters below the level of the floorboards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This distance was extremely dangerous because it fell outside the protection range of the Liar-Slayer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one could be certain if they would be sneak-attacked while climbing up—perhaps having their ropes cut, being struck by long-reach weapons, or even burned by a flamethrower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, whoever climbed up first would undoubtedly become the target of everyone's concentrated fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran also considered what would happen if he fired off the Eternal Kingdom right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after thinking it over, the penetrative power of the Eternal Kingdom was too strong. Everyone would be teleported back to their original spatial layers, and they wouldn't fall to their deaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the Five-Star Ghost Whisperer's skill was likely a Secret Room as well. As long as the Youth used his skill, they wouldn't fall to their deaths either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, no one had provided Chen Ran with a lie, and he couldn't possibly tell a lie himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, the twenty people swung their bodies in mid-air, playing like they were on a swing set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Chen Ran collided with another Chen Ran, they triggered the Liar-Slayer's protection mechanism. Since both Chen Rans were the active party, they were deflected away from each other the moment they were about to touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, because the other end of the rope was secured to the steel frame of the Iron Cage, the two Chen Rans swung in a circular arc pivoting on that fixed point. Their bodies leaped high into the air, crashing into the upper section of the Iron Cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All twenty players crashed onto the upper sections of the Iron Cages in unison and took the opportunity to grab the steel frames. Just a moment ago, they were hanging below, but now all of them had not only successfully \"reached the shore\" but also secured a solid foothold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they all stood on top of the three different stone spheres.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem now was, how were they going to escape this Secret Room?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is a Secret Room, but it is also a bedroom.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'From the previous deduction, the third person fell to their death. In other words, this is a building, and a high-rise one at that.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'According to Common Sense, every bedroom in this type of building should have windows.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But there are none here.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So, there is only one possibility: the windows were blocked by the Ghost Whisperer's skill.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How do we determine the orientation of the windows?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Earlier, when we were in the living room, the main door was facing west. Since this is a residential building, outside the main door would be the hallway. A wall facing a hallway generally wouldn't have windows, so there would be no windows on the west wall.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If this house is not the first or last apartment on this floor, then there wouldn't be windows on the north or south walls of this bedroom either.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The windows are on the east!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Moreover, the east gets ample sunlight. It's unlikely they would install the windows facing north or south.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently, all twenty people almost simultaneously locked their gazes onto the east wall of the Secret Room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since it was a wall created by a Ghost Whisperer, they couldn't break through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now they were in trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There is a problem here. Whether it's an Instance Secret Room or a player's Secret Room, they all follow the Decryption Protocol. If the windows are blocked by the Ghost Whisperer's skill now, doesn't that mean...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It violates the Decryption Protocol?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Unless... the presence or absence of that wall doesn't affect the Decryption Protocol of the Secret Room.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In other words, by the end of the decryption, that wall will definitely be destroyed.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The twenty of us definitely can't destroy that wall, so it can only be destroyed by the Secret Room itself.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So the question arises.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Under what circumstances would something inside the Secret Room destroy the east wall?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six Chen Rans couldn't help but frown as they looked down at the stone spheres under their feet. When the stone spheres smashed down earlier, they dented the floorboards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even if the Iron Cages disappeared, the stone spheres beneath their feet wouldn't roll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, there was still some distance between the Iron Cages and the east wall, and all the floorboards across that distance had vanished. Even if the stone spheres could roll, they would fall straight into the sinkhole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the positions of the three Iron Cages had to be mentioned. The first Iron Cage—the one the six Chen Rans were standing on—was on the left side of the Secret Room, closest to the east wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second Iron Cage was in the middle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third one was close to the west wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the stone spheres wouldn't roll over to smash the east wall, only one possibility remained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An explosion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The explosions of the other two stone spheres most likely won't affect the east wall, since they'd be blocked by the stone sphere in the first Iron Cage.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Therefore, the stone sphere that will explode is the one in the first Iron Cage!!!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six Chen Rans were so frightened that their legs grew weak and numb. They felt as if they had lost a couple of ounces in weight; the stone sphere under their feet was like a time bomb, making their hearts pound with panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of them had suppressed their Mental States.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if they suppressed their Mental States, the optimal solution would be to use the Eternal Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, they could have five Chen Rans stand in the very front, and the sixth Chen Ran hide behind the five of them, tell a lie, and activate the Eternal Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eternal Kingdom would return them to their original spatial layers. At the same time, because they underwent spatial travel, their lie would be erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the optimal solution, and they could pull it off with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the opponents in this Instance were too strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So strong that he found it absurd. The Hunter Teams hadn't even used their skills yet; if he dispelled the spatial skill just like that, they would fall into a passive position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether in this space or the others, as long as the one who died wasn't the Fitness Blogger, it would achieve the goal of breaking up a team. Most likely, it would still break up a Hunter Team. Therefore, the absolutely logical, optimal solution was ironically the worst possible move here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It really is impossible to defend effectively!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No wonder no one rushed to take the first Iron Cage earlier. So they already knew it would explode.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'A Common Sense trap...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'A Three-Star Instance really is completely different from the previous Instances. As far as this Secret Room goes, it's riddled with a massive number of Common Sense traps.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Actually, if you analyze it carefully, many clues have been hiding in plain sight from the start.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Like the position of the main door, the missing windows, the locations of the Iron Cages, and so on.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'They were already subtly telling the players that the first stone sphere would explode.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But I completely overlooked these things—the most common elements found in One-Star and Two-Star Instances.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'My loss is entirely justified!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the Youth spoke in an eerie tone, \"I've seen plenty of players like you—those who dare to challenge a Three-Star Instance right after just reaching Three-Star. The two alliances once compiled statistics on this. The survival rate of such players in Three-Star Instances...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is less than one in a thousand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, you're stronger than them. Those players couldn't withstand the Distance-Free Technique at all, and amidst extreme Mental Overdraft, they died to Common Sense traps.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, he pointed at Short and Fat. \"Take a guess. Why did he use the Distance-Free Technique on you for no reason? Did you think you got the better of him earlier? In reality, the seeds were already sown.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed. Epiphanying the Distance-Free Technique, constructing the World of the Heart, and using the Distance-Free Technique all drained a massive amount of Chen Ran's mental energy. This was exactly what caused him to make a blunder when choosing an Iron Cage just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Short and Fat didn't know about the Iron Cages, the seeds were already planted. Due to the drain on his mental energy combined with his lack of understanding of Three-Star Instances, Chen Ran was bound to slip up eventually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, those players who ran a Three-Star Instance right after reaching Three-Star were probably killed off by this group of Veteran Players using the exact same method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Reveal your skill!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My intuition tells me your skill is incredibly strong, and I want to see it.\" A trace of fanaticism flashed in the Youth's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were undoubtedly telling everyone that he intended to kill every single person in the Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple: the more you know, the faster you die. He hadn't wanted to know too much earlier because the situation was unclear, but Short and Fat had ignored his warning and trapped Chen Ran. Once Chen Ran was caught in the trap, he was bound to use his skill. In this situation, the Youth could no longer control the outcome—or rather, he hadn't been able to control it from the very beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was entirely predictable that Chen Ran would be pushed to such a brink. This was a process every Three-Star player would experience when running a Three-Star Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beep! Beep! Beep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone sphere under their feet chimed in at the perfect moment with the countdown ticking of a time bomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to be urging Chen Ran to reveal his skill quickly; otherwise, all he could do was wait for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this sound, the people on the other two stone spheres had already climbed down to the far side of their respective spheres to avoid being injured by the explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn't a single player in the six Chen Rans' field of vision, meaning they could tell a lie and use a skill without any reservations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, once the spatial skill was broken, they would return to their respective spatial layers, and the lies on them would be erased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spatial skills were different from time skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Qiu Yinong's skill was broken, she would become a liar. But with spatial skills, as long as the player underwent spatial travel, their lie would be wiped clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even if Chen Ran told a lie and used the Eternal Kingdom, he would revert to being a non-liar. Of course, the same applied to Lin Xuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with this situation, the six Chen Rans...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seemed to have no choice left...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also seemed they could still put up a struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>",1844,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.809Z",1,"novelbin.me","eb42fbec32cea122128780686bf408192322fed619188b936c7c5942cac4e8c8","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-297","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-295",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]