Chapter 308: Trying to Steal a Chicken Only to Lose One's Rice

Known: Inside the Ice Room, only Chen Ran remained. The rest of the players, including the two players who had turned into ice sculptures, had all disappeared.

Question: Should he state a lie, use Eternal Kingdom, and break the spatial skill?

Answer: Impossible, not in this lifetime. Even if he banged his head against the wall and died, he still wouldn't state a lie and use his skill.

Chen Ran tossed away his cigarette butt, lit another one, and his voice turned cold. "I say, how much longer are you going to play this trick?"

"Don't think I don't know what your real killing move is."

Seeing no one answer.

Chen Ran tightened his clothes, took out a Sleeping Bag from his backpack, placed it on the ice layer, and checked the time. There were ten minutes left.

He smoked silently and waited quietly.

Time passed.

Three minutes left.

One minute left.

The two hours on the rules ended. The ceiling emitted the sound of mechanical operation, and a massive amount of cold air was blown in. Almost instantly, the temperature inside the Ice Room plummeted.

Chen Ran hid inside the Sleeping Bag, but this only treated the symptoms and not the root cause. If this continued, he would eventually freeze to death.

It was that saying again.

The essence of deterrence lies in mutual destruction.

Chen Ran was already prepared for mutual destruction. It just depended on how long Lin Xuan could hold out.

Half an hour.

An hour.

Two and a half hours.

Outside the glass door of the Ice Room, there was another Ice Room. And in this Ice Room, there was also a Sleeping Bag. Lin Xuan was hiding in the Sleeping Bag, shivering from the cold.

【Wait, is this right?】

【Actually, you should know that Chen Ran is gambling with you to see who freezes to death first.】

【No, no, no, I actually think Chen Ran might not be able to hold on much longer.】

【All of you shut the fuck up!】

【Why! Why isn't he using Eternal Kingdom even now? What is he afraid of?】

【Isn't that obvious? He definitely deduced that this is your true killing move against him!】

Simply put, if the spatial layer covering the Ice Room wasn't Chen Ran's original spatial layer...

He could totally state a lie first, then use his skill to break the spatial skill. Once the spatial skill was broken, Chen Ran would return to his own original spatial layer. During this process, he would have undergone spatial teleportation, so the lie on him would be erased, turning him into a non-liar.

But, if the spatial layer covering the Ice Room was his original spatial layer, after Eternal Kingdom broke the spatial skill, Chen Ran wouldn't undergo spatial teleportation, so the lie on him wouldn't be erased.

If the lie wasn't erased, as long as Lin Xuan saw Chen Ran, he could Judge Chen Ran.

This was Lin Xuan's killing move!

Leaving Chen Ran alone in the Ice Room was to make him state a lie and use his skill.

As long as he dared to lie, the moment the Ice Room and Lin Xuan's skill were broken would be the moment of Chen Ran's death.

Two Ice Rooms.

Two Sleeping Bags.

Two players.

Both were enduring, waiting to see who would cave first.

Whisperer's Escape Rooms followed the Decryption Protocol.

However, the Secret Room Chen Ran was in was created by Lin Xuan's spatial skill [Twin Cube], and even the clues were hidden by Lin Xuan in the true Ice Room Secret Room. Therefore, Chen Ran fundamentally could not decrypt this Ice Room.

Chen Ran couldn't decrypt the Ice Room created by the skill, but since this Ice Room was a Secret Room, it also had to follow the Decryption Protocol.

Therefore, decrypting the Ice Room created by the skill would become: the skill Ice Room would only be decrypted when the true Ice Room completed its decryption.

So, the subsequent decryption had nothing to do with Chen Ran. The crux lay with Lin Xuan.

The only thing Chen Ran could do was stall.

To see who could out-stall who!

There might be a question here. If the Lin Xuan in the true Ice Room wasn't the real Lin Xuan, and the real Lin Xuan abandoned this Lin Xuan, wouldn't that mean he could stall Chen Ran to death here?

Impossible!

If that were the case, wouldn't it be far too easy for Lin Xuan to kill a Liar-Slayer?

Trapping someone in an Ice Room and freezing them to death—regardless of how many Stars you have, you would die. Then he wouldn't need to meticulously lay out any plans; he could just do it effortlessly.

Therefore, the Lin Xuan in the true Ice Room must be the real Lin Xuan. There was no other possibility.

This was also the reason why Chen Ran dared to gamble.

Perhaps, this was also one of the flaws of Lin Xuan's six spatial skills.

The two sides had basically...

Started gambling with Face-up Cards!

Chen Ran held two Jokers and four Twos in his hand.

While Lin Xuan had a handful of terrible cards.

No matter how you looked at it, Lin Xuan was going to lose. Logically speaking, at this time, he should have retracted his skill to avoid suffering for nothing.

But Lin Xuan didn't do so.

He wanted to cripple Chen Ran!

An unknown amount of time passed.

Lin Xuan felt he had reached his limit.

"Liar-Slayer: Twin Cube!"

"Retract!"

…

In the living room of the First Dungeon Chamber.

Two Sleeping Bags appeared out of thin air.

Lin Xuan staggered out of his Sleeping Bag. At this moment, he didn't even have the strength to stand up, let alone think about problems. But...

The next moment, Lin Xuan's exhaustion vanished, as if he had recovered his peak condition in an instant. From an omniscient perspective, this was not the real Lin Xuan, but a Lin Xuan from another spatial layer.

Simply put.

For Lin Xuan to cripple Chen Ran, it was equivalent to crippling himself. However, Lin Xuan could let the Lin Xuans in other spatial layers help him complete the Instance.

But Chen Ran couldn't.

One had to admit, spatial skills were truly Shameless; it was practically playing dirty.

At this time, the sound of a zipper ringing out could be heard. Lin Xuan looked at Chen Ran's Sleeping Bag.

He saw Chen Ran slowly crawl out. Although his face was a bit pale, he wasn't unable to even stand steady like the real Lin Xuan.

Chen Ran stretched his body, somewhat stiffly lit a Cigarette, met Lin Xuan's shocked expression, and said with an odd expression, "Don't tell me Lin Xuan just hid in the Sleeping Bag the whole time without doing anything else?"

Lin Xuan was dumbfounded, only then noticing that Chen Ran's neck and hands were bright red.

Seeing this expression, Chen Ran asked somewhat uncertainly, "Could it be that Lin Xuan hasn't watched Ed Stafford's wilderness survival show?"

"There's ice in the Ice Room. Chisel the ice into crushed ice, strip off your clothes, and scrub your body with the crushed ice. It can promote blood circulation. I remember at the beginning of 'Ming Dynasty in 1566', when Feng Bao was frozen stiff, the eunuchs used snow to scrub his body. Could it be that Lin Xuan hasn't even watched this TV drama?"

Lin Xuan: "..."

He hastily drew his Liar-Slayer.

But opposite him, Chen Ran also drew his Liar-Slayer, pointing his gun at the ceiling.

"If you have the guts, then tell a lie. Gao Lan might have a skill on him, seemingly the soul of an expert. If you lie, I can just conveniently break his skill too."

Lin Xuan: "..."

'What exactly did I provoke?'

'If I don't suppress my Mental State, every action, every sentence from this guy is so fucking...'

'Making me feel terribly uncomfortable!'