[{"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-324":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},749052,993,"Chapter 324: The Nature of the Game Has Changed","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-324",324,"\u003Cp>Time returned to the present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing Chen Ran mention that this involved space, the Three-Star female player quickly figured out all the connections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The entire joint plan is full of Wallfacer attributes. For example, the players on the first floor don't know who is who just now, and the players upstairs don't know which cat on the first floor cleared the stage, much less which cat on the first floor died.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Then what comes next is all sorts of deception among everyone. Mice deceiving cats, first-floor players deceiving upstairs players, upstairs players deceiving first-floor players. They've already built the framework for a three-layered deception.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, at this point, anyone could see that Lin Xuan was a paranoid gambler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because there was still a fourth layer of deception, namely cats deceiving mice. And this cat had to be a fake cat—after all, Lin Xuan was a mouse, yet he handed this layer over to Gao Lan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps in his view, Chen Ran and the Youth were opponents; Short and Fat was a Four-Star Captain with Distance-Free Technique but was crushed by Chen Ran, so he was afraid he wouldn't think of this layer; Big Gold Tooth's allegiance was unknown. So he could only choose Gao Lan. To be exact, he chose the Senior in Gao Lan's consciousness, expecting him to deduce all the plans and tell Gao Lan before Chen Ran used his skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, facts don't necessarily change according to human will. The Senior did deduce it, but before he could tell Gao Lan, he was reported offline by Chen Ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps the Senior also never expected that Gao Lan wouldn't be able to figure out such a simple question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a paranoid gambler!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Han Bing's death will likely trigger a series of chain reactions, however...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It's none of my business anymore.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Since the mice have already broken through the blockade on the first floor, my best option is to clear the stage in the dungeon. There are still ten doors left in the Initial Secret Room that can be entered. As long as one door involves a spatial transfer, the lie on my body can be erased. I can only gamble.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking up to here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three-Star female player asked a question she had been unable to figure out all along: \"According to the rules, cats have immortal bodies. But up until now, I haven't understood what the point of having an immortal body is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran pointed towards the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three-Star female player froze for a moment, then smiled bitterly and shook her head: \"So that's how it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mice could rapidly go downstairs by relying on the Ghost State, while cats could use the elevator to rapidly go downstairs. But in that case, the mice would jam the elevator on a certain floor, preventing the cats from rapidly going down. At this time, the cats could choose to jump straight down the elevator shaft to rapidly descend. Since they had immortal bodies anyway, they wouldn't die from the fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a fair game!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three-Star female player looked at the four people preparing to go upstairs. Their standing positions were very strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she was deducing earlier, the four people were still about three meters away from her, with the Youth in the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as she deduced, these four people had silently moved to stand in front of one another, and eventually, all four were about one meter away from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'To clear the stage, I inevitably have to touch someone. Do they all want me to touch them?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No wonder Chen Ran would explain things to me. Is this an attempt to raise my favorable impression of him so that I'll touch him to clear the stage?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Ugly! Does he really think I'm some naive little girl who hasn't seen the world?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three-Star female player shifted her gaze back and forth among the four people, ultimately settling on the Five-Star Youth, and stepped forward to touch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are a cat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant she was deflected by the Liar-Slayer's protection mechanism upon touching him, the Youth immediately Confirmed her identity, and both their bodies began to fade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three-Star female player cleared the stage, while the Youth entered the Ghost State, slipping into the ceiling and vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his head to look at the remaining two: \"Were my actions just now very obvious?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It couldn't have been more obvious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It can only be described as ugly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two gave fair assessments. In truth, for Veteran Players, what they tabooed the most was Emotional Deception. There was nothing harder to accept than an emotional betrayal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the eighth floor, the second gunshot from downstairs caused the four people to freeze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qian was shocked beyond belief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I can't figure it out!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How could there be a second gunshot downstairs?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Judging from the sound, the person who died should be Han Bing on the sixth floor.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This, this, this...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear began to spread. At this moment, the benefits of Heart Cultivation became apparent. Ye Qian hurriedly Suppressed her Mental State, forcing herself to calm down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Han Bing is dead.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Moreover, from the time we decided to leave Han Bing on the sixth floor until now, only two minutes have passed.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In other words, the time he was coaxed into lying was not within these two minutes.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And since he had been following us to search the floors all along, the time he was coaxed into lying should be during these past few rounds of searching, yet he rarely spoke along the way.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qian carefully recalled the words Han Bing had said while searching the floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I remember he said to Qiu Yinong: 【Your skill can reset time】.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Qiu Yinong is fake!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Since when?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'When the Fitness Blogger used his skill and the Secret Room went dark, Lin Xuan transformed into Qiu Yinong.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But the problem is, if Qiu Yinong is Lin Xuan in disguise, how do we explain finding Lin Xuan on the eighth floor during the first round?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Wait, during the first round, it was Qiu Yinong who searched the last room on the eighth floor.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In other words, when she searched the last room on the eighth floor, Lin Xuan reverted to his original appearance, and simultaneously, there was another mouse hiding in the room, who then transformed into Qiu Yinong's appearance.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Stealing the beams and replacing the pillars!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But there's a problem here. How did this mouse get upstairs?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'With Zhou Zhan guarding the first floor, the mice shouldn't have been able to come up.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Right, Chen Ran's skill can make items manufactured by players vanish.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Zhou Zhan is a Three-Star player; he needs to wear Sunglasses to prevent being attacked by the mice downstairs using Distance-Free Technique.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Chen Ran's skill made Zhou Zhan's Sunglasses vanish, Zhou Zhan was ambushed by Distance-Free Technique, leading to him falling unconscious, and a mouse ran upstairs.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This mouse is Gao Lan. After all, during the first two rounds of searching, we only caught Lin Xuan and Gao Lan.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Then here comes the question.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Is the current Qiu Yinong Lin Xuan or Gao Lan? We caught Gao Lan in the previous round when searching the 18th floor, so this Qiu Yinong must definitely be Lin Xuan in disguise.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And Han Bing said to the fake Qiu Yinong that her skill could reset time. Therefore, Han Bing told a lie and was killed by Gao Lan.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost instantly, both Ye Qian and the Three-Star player Guan Xiong thought of this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two immediately understood that they had already lost the initiative in this game. They simultaneously ran towards Qiu Yinong's direction, wanting to touch her to clear the Secret Room. Ye Qian was closer, but Qiu Hua suddenly blocked her path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan Xiong touched Qiu Yinong and was deflected by the Liar-Slayer's protection mechanism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time seemed to freeze at this moment. Ye Qian glared furiously at Qiu Hua, while Guan Xiong looked hopefully at Qiu Yinong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan Xiong was pulled into a white world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked across in panic. There were four Lin Xuans—expressing joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—and one expressionless Lin Xuan. This was Distance-Free Technique!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I knock on your mother's Gao Lan!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The angry Lin Xuan roared. Guan Xiong realized something was wrong and hurriedly fled the Distance-Free Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as he escaped the tiger's den, he encountered a pack of wolves. He appeared in another Distance-Free Technique, and opposite him were five Qiu Huas staring at him coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Confirmation, ahhhh! Why is there a three-minute Confirmation?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Why isn't Lin Xuan Confirming me!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan Xiong roared in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Right, use that!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking up to this point, he broke free from the control of Distance-Free Technique again, only to see Ye Qian's eyes, and was pulled into Distance-Free Technique once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the next moment, Guan Xiong's body slowly collapsed to the ground. In his thigh, there was a syringe stuck, and three words were written on the syringe:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Anesthetic】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qian looked at the collapsed Guan Xiong, gnashing her teeth in hatred. Three Distance-Free Techniques could cripple Guan Xiong's mind and coax him into a lie, but he chose to stall for time to pass the three-minute Confirmation by knocking himself unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Yinong (Lin Xuan) watched this scene, not knowing what to say. He turned to Qiu Hua and asked, \"Are Three-Star players really this intense?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of reaction speed, deduction ability, and adaptability was simply more than just a little bit stronger than One and Two-Star players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Hua chuckled lightly: \"If Three-Star players at the First Realm of Lingtai were that easy to kill, Hell wouldn't have this many players.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was indeed the case. If all the Infighting in the instances ended in either you die or I perish—where twenty players enter and only one or two come out—Hell would have emptied out long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Hell was so crowded was, firstly, Heart Cultivation, which made Three-Star or above players very difficult to kill. Secondly, matched teams would often choose to cooperate or establish Future Lies in advance to mind their own business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the instance matched with Chen Ran, Lin Xuan, and Qiu Yinong involved many factors, such as skills not being able to be exposed, tracking and hunting, as well as high-level gambits. This resulted in the instance they matched into being extremely intense, and the Infighting was fiercely fought to the death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan reverted to his original appearance and checked the time: \"According to the rules, there are about two and a half minutes left before entering the Ghost State. The current situation has more or less met my expectations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he said this, he was grinding his teeth so hard. He clearly could have kept acting, but with Han Bing's death, anyone could deduce his identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't need to say more about what to do next, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he finished speaking, without a second word, Qiu Hua and Ye Qian split up; one ran downstairs, and the other ran upstairs. Lin Xuan then spoke the password for Confirmation to the unconscious Guan Xiong: \"You are a cat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three people downstairs chose to take the elevator up. One got off at the 10th floor, one at the 13th floor, and one at the 15th floor. The above mice...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran, the Youth, Big Gold Tooth, Short and Fat, Gao Lan, as well as Lin Xuan, who would soon exit the Ghost State.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all on different floors, and they had all changed their appearances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would depend on who could deceive whom. Clearing the stage was not the goal. If they wanted to clear the stage, Qiu Hua and Ye Qian wouldn't be able to play anymore. From this moment on, the nature of the game had changed. The Law of the Bright Ocean had turned into the Law of the Dark Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>",2010,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.809Z",1,"novelbin.me","af202f91985222033ee133b962fe5e4b8c7d82492bc6f95ee4275906d7b4fe28","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-325","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-323",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]