Chapter 309: Tiga: I Return the Light to You! (Thanks to Dongyue Palace's Daba for the Tip)

He wanted to cripple Chen Ran, but ended up crippling the real Lin Xuan. And right now, both of them had their guns pointing at the ceiling. As long as Lin Xuan dared to tell a lie, Chen Ran would immediately break the spatial skill.

However, the real Lin Xuan was still recovering.

If the spatial skill were broken, with the real Lin Xuan's current condition, he would be completely out of the game.

It was incredibly stifling.

Unless one of the other four Lin Xuans could use a skill.

But everyone was smart. Lin Xuan's killing move had already been used. The players who hadn't had a lie coaxed out of them during the killing move wouldn't have a lie coaxed out of them no matter how much spatial teleportation through skills was used.

If Chen Ran were Lin Xuan, he definitely wouldn't continue with the layout at this point. Instead, he would persuade Qiu Yinong to join forces for a space-time Combo Skill, which might yield miraculous effects.

"How many died?"

Faced with Chen Ran's question, Lin Xuan found it somewhat hard to speak. "Two..."

If you were Short and Fat, and you discovered that the targeted player in the team wasn't the Slave, you would immediately realize that the Slave had already been targeted and most likely died. This meant Lin Xuan had achieved his goal of breaking up the team, so you would remind the targeted member not to state a lie.

Why could the Slave be abandoned?

Given the situation in the Ice Room, where everyone didn't know who was real and who was fake, they only had three choices:

Either Lin Xuan retracted his skill.

Or Chen Ran used his skill.

Or they used the Combo Skill.

Lin Xuan couldn't possibly retract his skill.

It was also impossible for him to target Chen Ran first. Therefore, when they discovered that the person being targeted wasn't Chen Ran, they knew that Chen Ran was fake and couldn't use Eternal Kingdom.

They only had one choice left: let the Slave lie and use the Combo Skill.

However, if the Slave lied, they would be Judged to death by Lin Xuan. This was a dead end.

Therefore, the Slave was bound to die. Since it was a certain-death ending, they could naturally be discarded to at least squeeze out some final value.

Although Chen Ran was mentally prepared, hearing [Two] still gave him a sense of powerlessness.

'Short and Fat is a Four-Star Hunter captain with rich experience in Infighting, so he's definitely hard to kill.'

'The Youth hasn't made a move yet; he can probably crush us.'

'Gao Lan seems to possess a mysterious powerhouse, which could be utilized a bit.'

About two and a half hours passed.

The Lin Xuan in front of him suddenly turned a bit pale and stared straight at Chen Ran.

The real Lin Xuan had returned.

Chen Ran made a gesture of invitation. Lin Xuan closed his eyes, and a voice rang out in his mind.

【Liar-Slayer: Rubik's Cube Universe!】

【Retract!】

【Liar-Slayer: Magic Cube World!】

【Retract!】

【Liar-Slayer: Centrifugal Space!】

【Retract!】

【Liar-Slayer: Spatial Stripping!】

【Retract!】

The next moment, sixteen people and two corpses appeared out of thin air in the Secret Room.

Qiu Yinong noticed that out of Ye Qian's group of three, only one had died.

She glared at Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I didn't know you were so fierce either. If I had known earlier, I should have sent them from our spatial layer to that Secret Room in the Dormitory Building."

Clearly, a blunder had occurred.

The Dormitory Building only had five floors. If Ye Qian's group of three were lying on the floor of each level, that would only account for five spatial layers of them. Ye Qian's group of three from one spatial layer hadn't appeared in the Dormitory Building.

Needless to say, it must be the Ye Qian trio from this spatial layer. Lin Xuan had wanted to solve them himself, but was interfered with by Short and Fat in the Ice Room. He might as well have teleported them to the Dormitory Building for Qiu Yinong to solve them using the simplest and most brutal method.

"My bad. It's the first time using space tactics, so flaws are unavoidable."

Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong frowned, slapping an "unreliable" label on this guy.

The crowd wasn't in a hurry to decrypt the Instance. After all, they had decrypted it in other spatial layers, so they were very familiar with the subsequent process.

The most important thing right now was to digest all the information from this Infighting, as well as the performance and logical thought processes of the other players.

Chen Ran pulled out Soothing Liquid from his bag and thought about what to do next while drinking.

'First, Lin Xuan should have used five different skills.'

'But only one flaw was discovered: that is, in the Twin Cube skill, the real Lin Xuan must be in the reference Secret Room.'

'Secondly, the Lin Xuans in other spatial layers stated they were merely created by the real Lin Xuan.'

'In other words, there are no so-called parallel worlds at all. The other Lin Xuans were all created by his skill, and once he retracts his skill, the other Lin Xuans will vanish.'

'Simply put.'

'When Lin Xuan uses a skill, the other Lin Xuans exist; when he doesn't use it, they don't exist.'

'But this is also where the problem lies: he must first create the other Lin Xuans.'

'Conclusion: Lin Xuan had already used a sixth skill long ago, and the effect of this skill does not disappear upon entering an Instance.'

'Is it a passive skill?'

'Deeper deduction.'

'Since it can be brought into an Instance, it means this passive skill only affects himself.'

'By the same logic, the flaw of the passive skill should also only affect himself.'

'In other words, Lin Xuan is constantly affected by the flaw of a skill at all times.'

Deducing up to this point, Chen Ran, the Youth, Short and Fat, Qiu Yinong, and Gao Lan all abruptly looked up at Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, having prepared for this, didn't dare to look into the eyes of these few people at all.

'Holy crap, these people all seem to be looking at me. I can practically imagine those gazes, as if they want to strip me naked.'

He thought for a moment and imitated Chen Ran in the Ice Room, putting on a pair of Sunglasses.

Chen Ran retracted his gaze.

'Forget it, I'll ignore this for now. Anyway, this guy is bound to get hit by a shot of Eternal Kingdom sooner or later.'

'Lin Xuan's skills have pretty much been exposed; his danger level has plummeted.'

'But I also can't rule out the possibility that he planted a spy among us—that is, one person is from another spatial layer. Still, as long as I'm careful of this, it shouldn't be a big problem.'

'But how should I deal with Short and Fat, the Youth, and Gao Lan?'

Chen Ran couldn't help but recall everything that happened within Lin Xuan's spatial skill.

'Wait!'

'In the Ice Room, Lin Xuan put on fifteen performances of the exact same script. In other words, he can build a stage for Infighting.'

'Qiu Yinong's skill can reset time, which means she can set how long the performance lasts.'

'The acting stage is set.'

'The performance time is set.'

'The actors are the victims.'

'What's missing?'

'A good script! A brain-burning script! A bizarre script!'

'Isn't this a coincidence?!'

'When I was alive, I was a fucking... street-tier novelist code monkey!'

'They are responsible for creating time and space, while I am responsible for writing Lie-Judgment scripts.'

At this moment, Chen Ran felt as if his Ren and Du meridians had been opened. Looking at the sinister Lin Xuan, he suddenly found this guy incredibly cute.

'How is this an opponent? This is clearly my long-lost biological brother from a different father and different mother.'

'The originally bleak future seems to have a beam of light shining in...'

'Is that you, Tiga? Have you returned the light you borrowed from me?'

'I see...'

'The possibility of winning this Instance!'

Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong exchanged a glance, both understanding each other's intentions. Not only did Chen Ran smile, but even Qiu Yinong, with her eternal ice-block face, revealed a hint of a smile.

Lin Xuan only felt his scalp tingle. The way these two looked at him made him afraid...