[{"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-381":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},749259,993,"Chapter 381: I Want to Verify the Deck","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-381",381,"\u003Cp>Fortunately, the four of them had taken Wallfacing aspects into consideration when designing their Instances previously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three who registered returned to their seats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their consciousness arrived in the virtual world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a Secret Room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the middle of the Secret Room, there was a gambling table. Standing by the gambling table was a youth wearing a suit and a bowtie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Lin Xuan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him, Chen Ran and Shu Renjun both glanced at Hua Changsheng. The latter muttered: \"Each one is more pretentious than the last.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Lin Xuan was definitely an NPC.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, there was a problem here. Was he simply an NPC, or the Instance BOSS?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the rules, the Instances created by players had to conform to Hell's Instance rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, the problem was, Hell Instances had major Instances, meaning one main and two branch Secret Rooms; but there were also minor Instances, for example, like the Cat and Mouse Game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A major Instance must have an Instance BOSS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A minor Instance does not have an Instance BOSS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the three could not be certain whether this NPC Lin Xuan was the BOSS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very obviously, Lin Xuan knew in advance that he could not register for his own Instance, which was why he pulled this trick to disgust the three of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if Lin Xuan also participated, then if the NPC was the Instance BOSS, it couldn't satisfy the condition that a BOSS is someone who has died once. That meant it couldn't satisfy the rules of a major Hell Instance and could only be a minor Instance. Therefore, he would just be an ordinary NPC.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By not participating, he could arbitrarily set whether this Lin Xuan NPC had died once or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for reasoning that the Instance doesn't have lies?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't joke around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the rules of the Instance created by the player were identical to Hell's Instance rules, which included the rule that reasoning in an Instance doesn't constitute a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, this was a player Instance after all. Over here, your reasoning in the Instance didn't constitute a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once you left the player Instance, your previous reasoning errors would become lies and return to the real world with you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were three seats in front of the gambling table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three sat down randomly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dealer, Lin Xuan, was shuffling the cards. From the looks of it, it should be Texas Hold'em.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran's eyes lit up. The previous few Instances they encountered, although they also had gambling tables, none of them were proper card gambling. This time it seemed he could finally show off his superb gambling skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a pile of Poker Chips on the table in front of all three of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The minimum denomination was 10 chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maximum denomination was 50 chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Counting them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each pile was exactly 1000 chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While shuffling, Lin Xuan said: \"Consistent with normal Texas Hold'em rules, each round the three players make a fixed bet of 10 chips as the ante.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking up to here, Lin Xuan pulled out a Revolver, along with several dozen bullets, and amidst the grave expressions of the three, placed them on the gambling table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the end of each round, the player with the most chips will load one bullet into the Revolver, spin the cylinder to chamber it, and fire a shot at the head of the player with the fewest chips in that round.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the gunshot fails to kill, the bullet is unloaded, and this bullet will be kept by the person with the most chips. Once a player keeps more than six bullets, they will fully load the Revolver's cylinder with bullets and fire a shot at their own head.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clear condition: When the eighteenth round ends, if all three players are alive, the Instance is cleared.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the three were startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked at the revolver. This model of revolver could hold six bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one bullet was loaded per round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the player with the fewest chips each round had a 1\u002F6 probability of dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the same person had the fewest chips for all eighteen rounds, then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He\u002Fshe had a 300% probability of dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the clear condition was actually that all three must survive at the same time to clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn't all. If someone had the most chips for seven consecutive rounds but failed to shoot and kill the person with the fewest chips, the person with the most chips would also die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This rule was extremely disgusting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was very simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Newtonian gravity, when a revolver is loaded with only one bullet and the cylinder is spun before chambering, that bullet will be at the bottom of the cylinder due to the influence of gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first two shots have a high probability of firing empty, and the third shot has a high probability of firing the bullet. This is also the reason why in Russian roulette, the person taking the third shot usually has the highest probability of dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this wasn't absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the person with the most chips actually had a higher probability of dying than the person with the fewest chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rules of Lin Xuan's Instance were a bit troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all, according to the clear conditions, when the eighteenth round ended, the three players had to be alive to clear this Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To achieve this condition, they could only take turns winning. Each person wins six rounds, and each person has the fewest chips for six rounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, each person had to take six shots from the revolver. But purely from a probability standpoint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With six shots, there was a very high probability of dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was basically certain that if they followed this plan, the three of them would die if they dared to gamble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, outside of this plan, if anyone dared to win one more round, they would definitely die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, in Texas Hold'em, betting is done in turns, and they couldn't simultaneously fold to make the chips the same every round, so there were no loopholes to exploit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that the rules of Lin Xuan's Instance blocked the players from all sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, Lin Xuan's Instance did not conform to the rules of Hell Instances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Instance shouldn't have been created!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, it had already been created...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This proved it conformed to Hell's Instance rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Namely: there must exist a clear solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Figuring this point out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three's expressions relaxed slightly. Chen Ran lit a cigarette: \"I want to verify the deck.\" (Spoken with a Chinese-American accent.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Did this guy watch too many God of Gamblers movies? At a time like this, he still has the mood to joke around.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the deck verification ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three threw in the 10-chip ante, and Lin Xuan began dealing the cards, two cards per person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three community cards:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>6 of Hearts, 7 of Hearts, Ace of Spades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shu Renjun turned over his hole cards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a pair of Aces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, this hand was extremely good. It could form three-of-a-kind with the cards on the table. But anyone who has played Texas Hold'em knows...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The various ways a pair of Aces can die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Check.\" Shu Renjun was the first to act, and he chose to check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As mentioned before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are three kinds of gambling skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One: rely on luck. But luck is hard to say. Relying on luck will eventually result in losing everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two: rely on cheating techniques. But this trick can only be used occasionally, as something will eventually go wrong sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three: rely on momentum. Through psychological warfare, you suppress the other party with your imposing manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Aces, a God-tier hand. Shu Renjun definitely wanted to play it. But as an expert, he must check on the first street and strike on the second or third street to maximize his profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hua Changsheng frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hole cards were:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>6 of Spades and 7 of Diamonds. It could form two pairs with the cards on the table. If the next two cards had a 6 or a 7, her win rate would be very high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, she didn't know what the next two cards were!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's right, she didn't know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, she had watched the entire process of Lin Xuan creating the Instance, so she should know what cards Lin Xuan would deal and what the hole cards of the two men were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chen Ran had just verified the deck, shuffling the cards, causing her hole cards and the cards on the table to be different from what she knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Perhaps this is the Wallfacing attribute of Lin Xuan's Instance. As long as someone verifies the deck, the Instance's plan will deviate from its original trajectory.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without an omniscient perspective, Hua Changsheng at this moment was just an ordinary player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Check.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both players checked, and it was Chen Ran's turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was alive, he had watched many peak Texas Hold'em tournaments. He knew that often, the better a person's hole cards were, the more likely they were to choose to check in the first round and only choose to raise in the second round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If both of them had bet, he would have dared to directly go all-in, but since both of them checked...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He instead had to be careful.\u003C\u002Fp>",1587,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.809Z",1,"novelbin.me","c0aa2f9449b6e98c0c21baf0033658356eea5cd7fbd6d2c57fe0a8cb8be430f1","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-382","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-380",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]