Chapter 568: Lin Xuan: I Am Illiterate

This was a Secret Room.

There were five people in the Secret Room. Each of them obtained an identity card.

Namely: Swindler, Liar-Slayer, Psychopath, Normal Person, Multiple Personalities.

According to the rules.

Swindler: If you can make everyone believe you are not the Swindler, you win.

Liar-Slayer: If you can kill a liar, you win.

Normal Person: If you can make everyone believe you are a non-normal person, you win.

Multiple Personalities: If your identity is not discovered within two and a half hours, you win.

Psychopath: If everyone believes you are a normal person, you win.

Whoever wins first clears the level, and the other four are fully penalized with obliteration.

Since the five people knew each other, their appearances had all transformed into the identical looks of a person with a commonplace face. But the colors of the clothes they wore were different:

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue.

According to the order of clothing colors, everyone has a three-minute opportunity to speak in each round. There is no upper limit to the rounds.

Little Red, that is the one in red clothes, glanced at his own identity card, then looked at the other four people, and couldn't help but frown, saying: "I am wearing red clothes, I will speak first. Looking from the mechanics of this Secret Room, the Psychopath is the most special; he needs us to believe he is a normal person..."

Speaking up to here, Little Red was as if he had been frozen in place, temporarily losing focus. When he came back to his senses, he looked around in confusion, and seemingly without leaving a trace in his own opinion, glanced at the rules.

Only then did he say: "I'm wearing red clothes, I'll speak first. From the mechanics, the Psychopath is very special; only if we believe he is a normal person can he clear the level. So when we vote, if we don't vote for the same person, wouldn't that mean there's a high probability he won't be able to clear it?"

Hearing this, the four people frowned, simply because when Little Red was speaking, he repeated the content.

It was very possibly caused by a secondary personality taking over the body, but...

Little Orange lit a cigarette, and looked at Little Red with disdain: "I feel that there might be a problem with your logic. First we must determine in the Psychopath's clear condition, the so-called 'normal person'—is it exactly the 'Normal Person' displayed on the identity card, or a normal person as we understand it in a general sense?"

"Simply put, if it's the former, there's nothing to say; but if it's the latter, the Swindler is a normal person, and the Liar-Slayer is also a normal person."

Hearing this, Little Red was startled. Yes, among the five identities, only the Psychopath and Multiple Personalities were not normal people. Then if the Psychopath wanted to disguise himself as a normal person, he could disguise himself as one of these three different identities: Normal Person, Liar-Slayer, Swindler.

"Moreover, there's also a catch regarding voting."

"Looking from the mechanics, the votes of each round are to be tallied."

"Then, if the results of our five votes, for example: there are votes for Little Red, Little Yellow, Little Blue, and Little Green being the Swindler, but there are no votes for me being the Swindler. As such, wouldn't this mean that in your eyes, I am fundamentally not the Swindler, but if I am the Swindler, I would be able to trigger the clear condition?"

The four people frowned. His meaning was that when voting, there couldn't be uniqueness.

Simply put, one could vote for three out of the five people as the Swindler, then out of the remaining two, even if one was the Swindler, it wouldn't trigger the Swindler's clear condition.

But if the voting result was that four out of the five people were Swindlers, then the remaining one would be judged as [We believe he is not the Swindler]. But the problem was, what if he actually was the Swindler? Then it would trigger the clear condition.

There was a hidden mechanism, namely: the results of the voting couldn't appear unique.

It was Little Yellow's turn to speak. He looked at the four people and revealed a large smile:

"I am the Liar-Slayer!"

After speaking, he no longer spoke more. The four people's hearts were startled, and they couldn't help but frown.

Little Red lit a cigarette and pondered.

Next it was Little Green's turn to speak.

He glanced at Little Yellow, then swept his gaze over the other three people present, and asked in reply: "Everyone, I want to know, among the five people present, is there anyone who is not a Liar-Slayer? Don't tell me, there are Ghost Whisperers among you, right?"

Hearing this, Little Red widened his eyes, and everyone suddenly looked at Little Yellow.

Thinking up to this point, Little Red looked at the other three people, only to discover in astonishment that the three of them had no change in expression, as if they had long known that what Little Yellow said was ambiguous.

That's right, Little Red was Lin Xuan. At this moment, he was in a Mental State tempering Secret Room specially tailor-made for him by the Bartender. The Secret Room was different every time, but what was the same was that in the previous ninety-nine times, he had been tricked by Chen Ran into telling a lie.

This led to his mentality completely exploding.

Of course, besides Chen Ran, there were also Qiu Yinong, Jiang Zhe, and the Bartender. However, they were all from other spaces, not the real persons themselves.

Because Chen Ran's Mental State was too high, Lin Xuan didn't allow him to suppress his Mental State.

But even so, Lin Xuan had been continuously getting abused these past few days, leading to him now feeling like everyone looked like Chen Ran. The phrase from Chen Ran constantly echoed in his mind: You lied.

Someone didn't want to let him stay calm.

Little Green continued saying: "Sigh, some people ah, perhaps having been tricked into telling a lie too many times, can't distinguish whether the words spoken by certain people are ambiguous. What I want to say is: Buddy, it's already like this and you still aren't suppressing your Mental State?"

However, right when Little Red suppressed his Mental State, the other four people all looked at him in unison.

Simply because, the other four people had never suppressed their Mental State from beginning to end. The change in Little Red's eyes naturally couldn't escape their eyes.

The four people gave him a thumbs up, as if saying: Ah Zhen, you're for real? Exposed so quickly, you're badass.

It was Little Blue's turn to speak.

"This Secret Room was prepared to temper a certain someone's Mental State, and also specially changed our appearances, just fearing that we would discover who the person tempering their Mental State was, and thereby focus our fire on him together. But that certain someone, having been fooled ninety-nine times in a row, seems to have absolutely no improvement at all. I feel that certain someone can take the card out of his pocket now. If it's not [Normal Person], I'll wash my hair doing a handstand."

Hearing this, Little Red looked at the other three people.

He only saw that the other three people were also looking at him with a dull and bored expression.

"Do you know how you were exposed?"

"A problem appeared in your mind, thereby causing problems in the words you spoke."

"[Only if we believe he is a normal person can he clear the level.] This is what you said just now. Combining the context, you should have only considered the identity card being a Normal Person, and didn't consider what kind of person is a normal person."

"You haven't reached the Second Realm yet, so I won't talk about accidental properties and essence."

"Just intellectually speaking, you were continuously tricked into telling a lie ninety-nine times by Chen Ran, leading to you caring too much about your opponents. You were guessing who was Chen Ran, or guessing exactly what identity cards we were, thereby neglecting to hide your own identity card. You subconsciously felt that the normal person was the Normal Person on the identity card."

"This kind of subconsciousness is the most lethal, because you ignored yourself. Thus, whatever identity you ignored, we can determine what identity card you are."

As the words fell, Little Red's face turned deathly pale. He tremblingly fished out his identity card from his pocket. Not holding it firmly, the identity card fell to the ground. On the front of that card it was written:

[Normal Person]!

This Secret Room was prepared for Lin Xuan to temper his Mental State. He couldn't even hide his own identity card, meaning he would forever be unable to clear the Secret Room. Naturally, there was no need to continue.

Little Orange gently waved his hand. The surrounding scenery disappeared, and the five people changed back to their original appearances.

Little Orange was the Bartender.

Little Yellow was Qiu Yinong.

Little Green was Jiang Zhe.

Little Blue was Chen Ran.

And Little Red changed back to Lin Xuan's appearance. He stared blankly at the ceiling, his eyes listless. He only felt the qi and blood in his body surge, almost unable to catch his breath. His vision darkened. Fortunately, he didn't collapse, otherwise he would have lost a huge amount of face.

However, being bloodily abused for a hundred rounds, having his mentality explode for a hundred rounds, and actually not being so angered that he vomited blood was already very rare. Just this kind of resilience alone was enough to make the four people look at him with newfound respect.

"Again!" Lin Xuan gritted his teeth, looking as if he refused to admit defeat.

"Rest for a while. Refusing to admit defeat is praiseworthy, but knowing clearly that you will lose, yet still continuing, that is being stupid. What you need to do now is adjust your state, and during this period summarize the essence of your failures to obtain a higher-level version of yourself." Chen Ran covered his forehead and spoke with earnestness and deep meaning. It wasn't that he had the habit of liking to act as a teacher to others, but rather...

It wasn't just him; along with Qiu Yinong, Jiang Zhe, and the Bartender who was pulled in to make a guest appearance, all had expressions of exhaustion. Under this kind of state, they were very prone to making mistakes, thereby unable to achieve the effect of tempering Lin Xuan's Mental State.

Lin Xuan was like a sulking child, sitting in the corner, smoking silently without saying a word.

Thinking up to this point, Lin Xuan's expression was a bit strange, and then he started to doubt his life.

Lin Xuan felt that his reading volume while alive had been quite a lot. He didn't quite believe in this heresy. He looked at Chen Ran who was smoking and said: "I'll say the first half of the original text, and you say the second half."

Chen Ran made an OK gesture.

Lin Xuan thought for a moment and said: "Those with mouths for goosefoot and intestines for amaranth, are mostly pure as ice and clean as jade."

Chen Ran replied instantly: "Those clothed in brocade and fed with jade, are willing to be subservient and obsequious."

"If the matter is not supremely grand, there is no way to startle people."

"If the case does not reach the masses, the merit will not be obvious."

"When you have not seen this flower, this flower and your mind return to stillness together."

"When you come to this flower, the colors of this flower instantly become clear, and you know this flower is not outside your mind."

"Who is not spoken of behind their back by others?"

"Which person does not speak of others in front of them?"

"The hidden dragon does not soar, distant as the rainbow."

"Advancing and retreating with basis, the dragon travels stealthily."

Lin Xuan didn't make a sound, silently withdrawing his gaze. He was really afraid Chen Ran would throw out a sentence:

[Increase the difficulty a bit].

Lin Xuan reached this conclusion, unexpectedly feeling a trace of absurdity. In his life before death, his knowledge reserve belonged to the upper level, but in Hell, he couldn't even reach the average level?

To be exact, he hadn't reached the average level of a Six-Star player's knowledge reserve.