[{"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-385":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},749263,993,"Chapter 385: The Instance Created by Lin Xuan (4)","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-385",385,"\u003Cp>The third Secret Room of the Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan, Qiu Yinong, and the Big Gold Tooth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three waited quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking this opportunity to try and break through their Mental States, but the result was self-evident. Shu Renjun was able to break through to Unity of Man and Heaven due to his accumulation in Hell and his experiences before death; Chen Ran being able to break through was purely due to his writing habits before death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three opened their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the three whose consciousness had entered the virtual world, they checked their watches again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>20 minutes had already passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, those three were the strongest existences among the six, so why hadn't they cleared it yet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly what kind of Instance did you design?\" the Big Gold Tooth couldn't help but ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Instance I designed is a game of Texas Hold'em. The essence lies in that after each round ends, the dealer will take a rake from the winner's chips as a commission. The first round takes 10 chips, the second round takes 20 chips...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rake?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Qiu Yinong and the Big Gold Tooth didn't think much of it, but thinking carefully about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They immediately felt that this move of Lin Xuan's was simply a stroke of genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everyone knows, Instances created by Lin Xuan definitely have spatial problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, when Chen Ran and the other two discovered the decrease in chips, they would immediately think that they or the chips had undergone a spatial transfer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Instance was created by Lin Xuan, and not a Hell Instance, reasoning incorrectly constituted a lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, it was highly likely that the three would be tricked into a lie without even realizing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So sinister!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two gave Lin Xuan a thumbs up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not over yet.\" Lin Xuan delightfully took a puff of his cigarette: \"The first round takes a rake of 10 chips, the second round takes 20 chips, and so on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you guys think that they will assume the first round is transferring chips with Space Number One, and the second round is transferring chips with Space Number Two? In other words, once they follow this train of thought regarding spatial transfer to deduce, they will deviate further and further from the correct answer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the rules, the Instance is cleared when the eighteenth round ends and all three are still alive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But in reality, they can at most play six rounds together. A death will occur in the seventh round, unless...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless what?\" the Big Gold Tooth asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless they can see through the deceptive information I set up, and change their strategy before the sixth round to clear the Instance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Lin Xuan's narration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Yinong and the Big Gold Tooth also gradually understood the insidiousness of Lin Xuan's Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put simply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dealer's Rake: It would make the three think that there were other spaces in Lin Xuan's Instance. And once this deduction was spoken, even if the three cleared the Instance, they would return with a lie, which would then allow Lin Xuan and the other two to Judge them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shooting to Kill: This rule was the most useless, yet also the most useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was very simple. The person with the most chips shooting at the person with the fewest chips contradicted the condition that all three must survive to clear the Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply because, if it really could kill someone, then the condition of all three surviving to clear could definitely not be met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the revolver was definitely incapable of killing anyone. This shooting rule was the most useless rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, everyone was affected by their Superego, cherishing their own lives. Therefore, Chen Ran and the other two would lock onto this rule and try to avoid this rule harming themselves as much as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Chen Ran and the other two would focus their attention on this most useless rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it was the most useful rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the three wasted their time on this rule, then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Retaining more than six bullets would slowly swallow them up.\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>This sentence could be divided into three segments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First segment: 【If the gunshot fails to kill, the bullet is unloaded, and this bullet will be kept by the person with the most chips】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second segment: 【Once a player keeps more than six bullets】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third segment: 【they will fully load the Revolver's cylinder with bullets and fire a shot at their own head】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First segment: The person with the most chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second segment: A player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third segment: Their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These three terms could be said to connect the preceding and the following.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It easily made people feel like: If each player retains more than six bullets, they must fully load the bullets and shoot at themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality it was: If the total number of bullets retained by the three players exceeds six, they must fully load the bullets and shoot at themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three traps mentioned above:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dealer's rake, shooting to kill, and the total of six retained bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Must all be fully deduced before the sixth round, otherwise they would all die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, the dealer's rake was done after each round ended, and it had a regularity to it. But in reality, it was independent and had no correlation whatsoever with the other two traps, or even Texas Hold'em.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more fatally, one could follow this clue to deduce: it was a transfer of chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put simply, this was also a useless rule, yet the most deceptive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deducing along the lines of spatial transfer, their deduction would become increasingly skewed, until the seventh round arrived, and all would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't over yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the three deduced that both the shooting to kill and the dealer's rake were useless rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thereby choosing to lose everything and leave the table, this was when Lin Xuan's trump card appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two NPCs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Lin Xuan's settings, if the three wanted to lose everything and leave the table, then there must be one person who wins all the chips of the other two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever won everything from the other two, two identical copies of him\u002Fher would appear in the Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if Shu Renjun won everything from Chen Ran and Hua Changsheng, then two identical Shu Renjuns would appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of these two people would make Chen Ran and the other two think that a spatial transfer truly existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deduction would return to the starting point again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they persisted in their deduction, the setting of these two NPC Shu Renjuns was to stop Shu Renjun from surviving through 18 rounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put simply, the role of the two NPCs was to lose their hands, letting Shu Renjun win constantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the bullets retained by Shu Renjun exceeded seven, Chen Ran and the other two would all die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing the entire design logic, Qiu Yinong and the Big Gold Tooth were astonished to find that spatial transfer fundamentally did not exist in Lin Xuan's Instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was entirely a series of thought traps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, these traps were all laid out in the open. Even Hua Changsheng, with her omniscient perspective, didn't know the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was simply tricking people to the extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clap clap clap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Yinong and the Big Gold Tooth clapped sincerely, simply because they knew Chen Ran and the other two weren't a united front. Once someone deduced that spatial transfer didn't exist, they would definitely trick the other two into voicing out deductions about spatial transfer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(In the previous chapter, Shu Renjun organizing his words before speaking, and Hua Changsheng organizing her language and avoiding lies the entire time, were both attempts to trick the other two into voicing deductions related to spatial transfer, but they were interrupted by Chen Ran.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After clearing Lin Xuan's Instance, the tricked person would be directly Judged to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the applause, Lin Xuan was just about to take a puff with a smiling expression, when he heard...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third round of applause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran: Brilliant, brilliant.\u003C\u002Fp>",1407,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.809Z",1,"novelbin.me","f33b4bcda762986dc26e34daafb359343e7d0076f5a76364f6c16e672bca9d21","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-386","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-384",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]