Chapter 390: The Great Swindler: Lin Ou!

How should I address you?

Lin Ou.

Tell us about the world you are in.

Trick to death.

Wanting to trick a person to death is very difficult. It requires exquisite acting skills, as well as the ability to fool people.

I can ignore emotional interference, ignore the interference of Common Sense, and ignore the interference of feelings.

I have read many books.

And have extremely strong foresight.

'He is also a Heart Cultivator, and what he cultivates is Supreme Perfect Enlightenment.'

'But it seems a bit different. The several choices he created were all the kind of choices where it makes no difference whether the opponent suppresses their Mental State or not.'

'This is an expert at playing mind games!'

'Then I will...'

'Integrate my Mental State!'

'And play along with him properly!'

…

Sensing Chen Ran's change, Lin Xuan and Lin Ou smiled.

"Since you won't make a choice, let me help you," Lin Ou said.

On the ground, Qiu Yinong's body was constantly flickering. When the flickering stopped, the Liar-Slayer at her waist appeared in mid-air about a meter away from her...

Clang!

The black Liar-Slayer fell to the ground.

Without the Slayer's Sanctuary, and in a state of delirium, Qiu Yinong was in danger.

Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng were stunned.

Lin Xuan's skill...

Could be played like this?

"Such a good skill is like a toy in the hands of the real Lin Xuan." Lin Ou complained a bit, and then whistled.

Walking with an arrogant strut, he walked towards Qiu Yinong. Chen Ran blocked his way.

But the next moment, Lin Ou vanished into thin air in front of him and appeared behind him.

It was Lin Xuan's skill again!

Arriving in front of Qiu Yinong, Lin Ou squatted down, touched his pockets, and threw a speechless look at Lin Xuan.

"Oh, sorry, Lin Xuan's consciousness is resisting quite fiercely." After saying this, Lin Xuan vanished from his spot, appeared out of thin air beside Lin Ou, and handed him a dagger.

Lin Ou held the dagger across Qiu Yinong's snow-white neck and looked at Chen Ran with a smile.

"Please listen to the question: is this Qiu Yinong the real one, or from another space? There's no reward for answering correctly. If you answer wrong or don't answer..."

"I might slit her throat."

It was this kind of choice again. Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng looked at Chen Ran with some sympathy.

Lin Xuan controlled spatial skills, which meant that no matter how Chen Ran answered...

He would answer wrong!

Answering wrong meant lying. If Chen Ran didn't answer, Qiu Yinong would die.

Put simply.

This was a fatal question. Between Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong, at least one had to die.

'He's simply the devil!'

'A devil who toys with people's hearts!'

The gazes of everyone present gathered on Chen Ran, while Chen Ran...

Unhurriedly took out a cigarette case, pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep drag.

"Have you played enough?"

He then looked at Shu Renjun and the other one.

"Have you watched enough?"

Everyone had faces full of question marks. Seeing this, Chen Ran unhurriedly said: "First of all, I was spatially transferred by Lin Xuan's skill. After the spatial transfer, I was still wearing clothes. In other words, whatever the transferred person is carrying on them before the transfer, there is a high probability they will also carry it on them after being transferred to another space."

Saying this, he pointed at the Liar-Slayer that had detached from Qiu Yinong, his expression self-evident.

Chen Ran's meaning was very clear. Since the Qiu Yinong in this space just now carried a Liar-Slayer and had its protection mechanism, no matter what, or even if the Qiu Yinong in the other space threw her Liar-Slayer away, the real Qiu Yinong would still have a Liar-Slayer on her.

Therefore, the Qiu Yinong lying on the ground at this moment was not the real Qiu Yinong.

Chen Ran continued: "Secondly, I have to say, Lin Ou's ability to swindle people is exceptionally high. I almost fell for it."

Hearing this, Lin Ou raised his chin forty-five degrees upwards and said smugly:

"I like hearing that. Elaborate."

"Actually, as long as I am here, clearing this Instance is very simple, so simple that even I find it ridiculous."

Everyone waited for his following words, but Chen Ran wasn't anxious at all.

"No rush, let's drag it out a bit longer to give the real Qiu Yinong time to recover her spirit."

As soon as these words came out.

Shu Renjun, Hua Changsheng, Lin Xuan, and Lin Ou, the four of them raised their middle fingers at him in unison.

The Secret Room suddenly fell silent.

About ten minutes passed.

Lin Ou couldn't help asking: "You don't happen to want to drag this out until the two hours end, do you?"

"Are you anxious?" Chen Ran asked: "Actually, you already knew our simplest method of clearing the Instance, didn't you? You were playing me just now, so now I'm playing you too."

Lin Ou smiled bitterly: "Boring. This Instance is too unfair to me."

At this time, Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng also reacted and looked Lin Ou up and down.

'It really is!'

'There are two ways to clear the Instance.'

'One: Wait for two hours.'

'Two: Kill the BOSS.'

'But to kill the BOSS, you don't necessarily have to trick him into a lie, you can directly...'

'Kill him!'

'Anyway, he doesn't have the Slayer's Sanctuary, whereas we do.'

'In other words...'

'Only we get to hit him. If he dares to fight back, he'll be bounced away by the Liar-Slayer.'

Shu Renjun: "..."

Hua Changsheng: "..."

The expressions of the two made Lin Ou feel very satisfied. He looked at Chen Ran: "How is it? My hypnosis isn't bad, right? Obviously such a simple method to clear the Instance, yet under my operation, it made you guys temporarily unable to think of it."

Chen Ran gave him a thumbs up.

He was sincerely full of admiration.

Just relying on operation and eloquence to lead all the players astray, this was what defined a tier.

Carefully reviewing his operations, one would find that he didn't give you time to think at all.

Or rather, your thinking would only stay on the choices he provided.

This was his true hypnosis!

For example:

In funny videos on the internet, kindergarten teachers often take out a bunch of apples and bananas and ask their students: "If you see your teacher fall into a river, do you eat the apple first or the banana first?"

Although Lin Ou was far, far smarter than the teachers, and the players weren't ignorant kindergarten students, the essence was the same.

It was nothing more than changing a retarded question into a high-level playstyle.

Of course, the steps were also much more complicated.

The steps: Touch Chen Ran, display his own IQ, state his Superego Mental State, and then perform a series of fancy operations—occupy Lin Xuan, cripple Qiu Yinong, give choices, talk about useless but profound-sounding topics, continue giving choices, show off spatial skills, coerce, etc.

One must know that only about five minutes had passed in the Instance at that time, and he had completed this series of wild operations. He forcefully stuffed a massive amount of information into the players' minds, simply not giving them time to think about how to clear the Instance.

Moreover, the essence lay in that every time he gave a choice, he would give everyone time to think about that choice. This was very outrageous, a bit like a teaching professor: 'I've finished explaining this knowledge point, take your notes.'

So, everyone was taking notes, thereby forgetting to let their minds wander.

In short, it was still that phrase: the gap in tiers was too big. In front of Lin Ou, they were like a group of primary school students.

But, among this group of primary school students, there was an irritable boy named Chen Ran. When he integrated his Mental State and used the Highest Goodness is Like Water...

Faced with the choices, he very much wanted to beat to death this devil who toyed with people's hearts.

With this thought, everything suddenly became clear at once, and he immediately thought of the Instance-clearing method he had overlooked: beat Lin Ou to death!

…

Shu Renjun took out a paring knife from his bag.

Seeing that Hua Changsheng didn't have a weapon, he took out a police baton from his bag and handed it to her.

They were just waiting for Chen Ran's Eternal Kingdom.

"Cough cough, I'm someone who is afraid of pain, can I surrender and lose half?" Seeing the two rubbing their fists and wiping their palms, Lin Ou's mouth twitched.

Even at this point, he was still running his mouth.

"What do you think?" A rare anger of being toyed with appeared on Shu Renjun's face.

Seeing this, Lin Ou put away his expression and looked at Chen Ran extremely seriously:

"Say thank you."

Chen Ran thought about it, secretly agreeing that after this Hell Instance was cleared, he indeed had to properly review this game, there would be huge gains.

"Thank you," Chen Ran said solemnly.

"Since that's the case, then do me a favor. The person who created me is the Big Gold Tooth. Does he think he's worthy of controlling me? After you clear the Instance, find an opportunity to kill him."

"I can." Chen Ran nodded.

"Seeing how straightforward you are, I'll give you two hints. As long as you deduce the biggest Deceiver's Tongue of the 18th Level, you can freely use Eternal Kingdom without needing lies anymore, and this Deceiver's Tongue is related to the Unity of Man and Heaven. Also, you must guard your time, otherwise you will die."

Faced with such explosive news, Chen Ran of course chose to... pretend he didn't hear it.

He looked at Qiu Yinong, who had opened her eyes.

He felt that the real Qiu Yinong should have recovered a bit of spirit. With her personality, she would use the Wheel of Time to recover quickly.

Thus, he pulled out the Liar-Slayer and pointed the gun at the ceiling. Before pulling the trigger, he glanced again at this bizarre opponent Lin Ou. He was thinking that if they had a fair duel, he should be able to have a 3-to-7 ratio against him—being played to death seven times in three seconds.

He cultivated Supreme Perfect Enlightenment, yet was not bound by Heart Cultivation. It was very bizarre.

Seeming to see through his doubts, Lin Ou said indifferently: "Haven't you heard that if you understand one key principle, you master everything? The three types of Heart Cultivation will ultimately lead to the same destination, pointing to the True Self. That is the ultimate goal pursued by us intellectual battle players."

"That seems to make sense." Chen Ran nodded and then didn't hesitate anymore, pulling the trigger.

"Ghost Whisperer: Eternal Kingdom!"