Chapter 303: Please Begin Your Performance

【Why do I feel like there's something wrong with Lin Xuan's spatial skill?】

Indeed, looking at it now, as long as players couldn't be certain they were from the same spatial layer, as long as they practiced Avoidance of Lying well, Lin Xuan's spatial skill seemed to have lost its effect.

【Put away such thoughts, or you will die a miserable death. But I can understand. Now, hand over control of the body to me.】

Gao Lan hesitated slightly.

His skill was very strong, but it had a fatal flaw. If he handed over control of his body and the person controlling it told a lie, he would also become a liar.

'Fine. Lin Xuan's skill seems very chaotic, without any pattern, jumping here and there. But I feel like all of these are Lin Xuan's setup. Furthermore, Four-Star teams, a Five-Star player, two Superegos, and one True Self... this is definitely not something I can meddle in.'

【Come on!】

…

In the third bedroom, the six Chen Rans smoked silently. The six Youths also showed no intention of retracting their skills. Short and Fat and the Big Gold Tooths were lost in their own thoughts.

In the Ice Room, the stalemate continued.

Chen Ran looked at the crowd and discovered that the number of people in the Secret Room had already reached twenty-five.

The two extra people who had just appeared were...

The Youth and Short and Fat.

The moment they saw Short and Fat, the eyes of Ye Qian's group of ten lit up, and they immediately walked over.

Chen Ran frowned and swept his gaze over the present players once more. He found that Gao Lan seemed a bit different. The previous Gao Lan had been constantly lowering his presence, but this Gao Lan had his chin tilted upward at a forty-five-degree angle.

'It seems the climax is about to arrive!'

'Who exactly is fake, and who exactly is real? Perhaps no one knows.'

'Lin Xuan has been running around in such a huge circle. I don't believe he would just drop a giant turd at the end.'

Silence, silence, still silence.

Everyone seemed to be scheming, like the tranquility before a great war.

As time passed.

The number of people in the Secret Room surged to twenty-nine. The four extra people were Gao Lan's four teammates.

With this.

The members of both Hunter Teams were all present.

Twenty-nine people.

In other words.

At least nine of them were fake.

Chen Ran frowned.

'I remember, I stated my skill effects in the third bedroom.'

Qiu Yinong frowned.

'I remember, I used the Combo Skill of the Distance-Free Technique and the Wheel of Time in the Dormitory Building.'

Gao Lan frowned.

'I remember, Gao Lan was immune to the invasion of the Distance-Free Technique in the Dormitory Building.'

The Youth frowned.

'I remember, Chen Ran stated his skill effects in the third bedroom.'

(Note the emphasis on the thoughts of these four.)

In an instant, the expressions of the four changed, becoming incredibly vivid, but they immediately suppressed them.

Bang!

The Four-Star Player Mo Shaocong was sent flying the moment he was about to touch Short and Fat.

Short and Fat had Slayer's Sanctuary!

That one point was enough.

…

Lin Xuan walked to the center of the Secret Room, cleared his throat, and said, "Perhaps you all have already noticed some clues. But the problem now is that you can't be sure which ice sculpture to shoot first. Why don't you look at your Watches? You don't have much time left."

The rule was to decrypt the Secret Room within two hours.

The crowd looked at their Watches and found that an hour and a half had already passed.

Only half an hour was left.

"I can explicitly tell you that I was created by Lin Xuan's spatial skill. Put simply, I can die. At worst, Lin Xuan will just use his skill to resurrect me again."

"In other words, don't even think about getting the answer from me. Simply because even I don't know what the answer is. If you don't make a choice quickly..."

Lin Xuan's eyes narrowed. Sweeping his gaze over the crowd, he said coldly, "You all will die!"

Analyzing the entire layout.

The Ice Room decryption was actually very simple. As long as they shot off the corresponding parts of the six zodiac ice sculptures based on the Twelve Deficiencies, it would be done.

However, this was a Whisperer's Escape Room, and Lin Xuan had added many Common Sense traps.

For example, the glass door, the ice layer, the countdown timer, etc. These were nothing much.

Everyone present was an elite among Three, Four, or Five-Star Players. With normal deduction, they could figure out the aforementioned Common Sense traps.

The crux lay in the people and the ice sculptures.

People: Who was real and who was fake? If they treated fakes as real, wouldn't they be utterly screwed over when establishing Future Lies later?

Ice sculptures: It could be deduced that only four ice sculptures could not be shot. The identities of the other two that couldn't be shot were unknown.

Logically speaking, since a Whisperer's Escape Room also followed the Decryption Protocol, there must be clues within the Secret Room to deduce the remaining two ice sculptures that couldn't be shot.

But what if Lin Xuan's teammates arrived here before everyone else and hid the clues that could deduce those two...

That would create the current situation where they fundamentally could not deduce it.

After all, Lin Xuan's teammates were also here to solve the puzzle, so hiding clues was perfectly normal.

As for touching the ice sculptures to see which ones had Slayer's Sanctuary?

Meaningless.

The ice sculptures transformed from players were not the ones that couldn't be shot. This point had to be absolutely clear.

Rather, they were the ice sculptures that definitelycouldbe shot.

Thinking of this.

Chen Ran felt he should be able to deduce which two ice sculptures were players.

'The players who turned into ice sculptures have highly likely already discarded their Liar-Slayers to prevent us from touching the ice sculptures and learning who is a transformed player.'

'Without Slayer's Sanctuary, they will be killed by the Prop Gun.'

'Therefore, the ice sculptures formed by those two cannot suffer fatal injuries.'

'The remaining eight ice sculptures: rat lacks a brain, ox lacks teeth, tiger lacks a neck, rabbit lacks lips, dragon lacks ears, horse lacks toes, monkey lacks cheeks, rooster lacks kidneys.'

'To shoot the rat ice sculpture with the Prop Gun, one must shoot at the rat's head. If it's transformed from a player, they will be killed by the Prop Gun. Therefore, it's not the rat.'

'By the same logic, shooting teeth, neck, lips, cheeks, or kidneys would result in either a fatal injury or a severe injury.'

'That only leaves ears and toes. The dragon and horse ice sculptures are transformed from players.'

'Suppress Mental State!'

'Overturn all the above deductions! This is a trap constructed by Lin Xuan!!'

Chen Ran took a puff of his Cigarette. He realized Lin Xuan had set up a massive amount of traps in this Secret Room.

In other words, this Secret Room should be his trump card.

'Since it's a trump card, the ones he wants to eliminate... must be the players in the same spatial layer as the real Lin Xuan.'

"I say, brothers, are you still deducing here? You don't have much time left. Once the two hours are up, the ceiling will spray a massive amount of cold air and freeze you to death right here." Lin Xuan played with his Liar-Slayer and spoke with a beaming smile.

The crowd noticed that the color of this Lin Xuan's Liar-Slayer was dark ink.

'It seems in this Secret Room, Lin Xuan has used a spatial skill unknown to us.'

'Unknown skill, unknown decryption, unknown players. His methods are truly ruthless!'

'No wonder the Deceiver Alliance also treats him like a precious treasure.'

'Right now, the only breakthrough point is to use skills to extort the decryption answer.'

'This is exactly the result Lin Xuan wants. One must know, inside the Secret Room, there are...'

'Two Hunter Teams!'

"Haha, satisfying! Yes, this is exactly it—the feeling of having the entire situation grasped in the palm of my hand!" Lin Xuan danced with excitement. "Kids in front of the TV, pay attention. The program playing next is the Infinite Brawl Skill Battle. Parental supervision is required."

He looked at the crowd again, his gaze landing on Short and Fat's team, and extended a hand:

"Please begin your performance!"