Chapter 60: Qiu Yinong's Liar-Slayer Skill!

Qiu Yinong woke up on the floor.

Within her body resided the memories of the Middle-aged Woman. Without a second thought, she walked up to the mirror to establish the secret room's looping mechanism.

However.

She paused when she noticed that the text written on the mirror was completely different from what was in her own secret room.

'I knew it. Why else would we need to chant that weird command when shattering the glass bead?'

'So the command was fake all along!'

'But why would the person who left the message in my secret room do such a thing?'

'Looking at it now, I only chanted it while sitting in the chair and receiving the electric shock.'

'Which means my statement—"I am helping others recover their memories and bodies"—was true.'

'But if I had chanted it before sitting in the chair, that would have been a massive problem.'

'I see!'

The Middle-aged Woman wiped away all the existing text on the mirror and replaced it with the exact words Chen Ran had written in her secret room.

However, when she reached the part about the command...

She changed "I am helping others recover their memories and bodies." to...

"My name is Wang Cuifen."

'Either the person in this secret room is trying to screw me over, or someone in another room is.'

'Now it is my turn to return the favor!'

The wings of the butterfly fluttered just like that, causing the command in every single secret room to be continuously rewritten.

The ultimate result of this manipulation was that almost everyone managed to deduce the truth:

'If this is an amnesiac soul exchange, how did the person who wrote these words know my name? There is definitely something fishy going on!'

Consequently.

Those whose memories matched their bodies no longer dared to sit in the chair to exchange memories again.

Meanwhile, those whose memories did not match their bodies gritted their teeth, ignored the commands entirely, and continued sitting in the chair to swap.

Gradually.

Number 1's memory aligned with their body.

Number 2's memory aligned with their body.

Number 4's memory aligned with their body.

Number 8's memory aligned with their body.

The initially chaotic scramble of bodies and memories across every secret room miraculously corrected itself. Furthermore, it completely deterred anyone from recklessly venturing into other rooms.

Until finally, Number 18 and Number 20 found their correct match as well.

All ten individuals had their memories fully restored, including the ones they had lost during the continuous loops.

At the exact same time.

The ten secret rooms merged into one, bringing everyone together into a single, unified space.

This secret room.

It contained ten chairs, a single mirror, a sofa, and a coffee table.

Resting on the coffee table were ten books.

The group stared at each other in shock, but before anyone could speak, the secret room plunged into pitch-black darkness.

Four gunshots rang out.

"Liar-Slayer: Grain in the Ocean!"

"Liar-Slayer: Autumn Begonia!"

"Liar-Slayer: Skillfully Guiding!"

"Liar-Slayer: Rising Step by Step!"

Four Liar-Slayer skills were activated simultaneously. The remaining six players frantically tried to recall the faces and attire of everyone present the moment the ten secret rooms had merged.

Chen Ran furrowed his brows.

'What is going on?'

'Why do I only remember the faces of eight people in my memories?'

'Who is the ninth person?'

'That means one of the four skills just used has the ability to erase the wielder's appearance from the minds of other players, or severely diminish their presence.'

'Sigh, what a disaster!'

'During my amnesia, I left deceptive commands in four different secret rooms.'

'Qiu Yinong must have done the exact same thing.'

'Which means out of the eight players, four fell for the trap and spoke a lie.'

'Terrified that we would notice the clues and invoke Judgment upon them, those four struck first and activated their Liar-Slayer skills.'

Shortly after.

The secret room was bathed in light once more, but the sight that greeted them was enough to make their eyelids twitch uncontrollably.

Inside the secret room...

There were suddenly over a hundred more people. Chen Ran did a quick count. Good lord, there were five exact replicas of him. Including his original self, there were six Chen Rans in total.

Out of the ten people, nine had been duplicated five times over. Only one person remained entirely uncopied. However, the moment anyone noticed him...

They would immediately forget him the very next second.

They would look at him again, register his appearance, and then forget him in the blink of an eye.

Completely and utterly wiped from their minds!

The group frowned. They had only managed to identify the effects of two Liar-Slayer skills. What about the other two?

Right at that moment.

"Everyone, tell me... since we arrived in Hell, how do you think our living relatives, close friends, and lovers are faring?"

The speaker was obscured by the numerous Phantom Images, making it impossible to distinguish who was talking.

But a moment later.

Chen Ran's eyes widened. The number of people in the secret room multiplied once more. He saw...

His parents!

His classmates!

His friends!

"Ran-er, didn't you die? Am I dreaming?" his mother approached him, her eyes rimmed with red.

'This skill seems somewhat similar to Baili Qiangsheng's ability.'

'Yet, it feels even stronger.'

'Just now, after hearing that person's words, I subconsciously thought about my parents, my friends, and my relatives...'

'Moreover.'

'When the secret room went completely dark, I immediately tried to recall the appearances of the ten people present.'

'If the other five did the exact same thing, then they were also visualizing all ten people.'

'Which makes exactly sixty replicas!'

'In other words, this skill can physically manifest Phantom Images of whoever the players are thinking about.'

By now, there were nearly two hundred people crammed into the secret room. Strangely enough, the room itself seemed to expand to accommodate the growing crowd.

At that moment, Qiu Yinong leaned in close, frowning as she whispered, "What should we do?"

Chen Ran completely ignored her.

'The reason I chose Qiu Yinong as my teammate was precisely because of her personality.'

'When coordination isn't required, she absolutely never bothers me. She just acts like a bystander.'

'But when we do need to work together, a single glance from me is enough for her to catch on instantly.'

'The real Qiu Yinong would never sidle up to me to helplessly ask: What should we do?'

Chen Ran turned a blind eye to the illusion of his mother standing right in front of him, keeping his gaze firmly locked onto the one person who didn't have any Phantom Images surrounding them.

'Stare at him!'

'Wait, why am I staring at him?'

'Keep staring at him!'

'Who is he?'

'Stare at him!'

'Stare at who?'

Chen Ran continuously forced reminders onto himself, his hand subtly sliding toward his waist.

Jiang Cheng felt entirely numb as he realized that every single person was glaring straight at him.

Not knowing exactly who he should be mad at, he simply cursed out loud, "Screw you, you absolute moron! How the hell do you have a skill like this? It makes me look like an idiot, doesn't it? I'm honestly so done!"

He was suffering a complete mental breakdown.

Jiang Cheng's skill, Grain in the Ocean, reduced his overall presence. Whether it was other players or other Liar-Slayer abilities, it was incredibly difficult to detect him.

But.

Someone had just unleashed a skill capable of manifesting Phantom Images of imagined people.

This made things incredibly awkward.

Every other person was surrounded by illusions of their imagined friends and family.

He was the sole exception.

No matter how low his presence was, standing out like a sore thumb in a crowd made it practically impossible for him to go unnoticed.

Looking down the barrels of ninety Liar-Slayers aimed directly at his chest, Jiang Cheng sighed in exasperation and slowly raised his middle finger at the crowd. "A bunch of morons!"

"You lied."

Ninety voices recited the command as ninety fingers simultaneously pulled their triggers, yet only nine distinct gunshots echoed through the air.

'The number of players is back to ninety again?'

'It's probably because the three people who just used their Liar-Slayer skills thought of the ten original people once more.'

'Otherwise, they would be far too easily exposed.'

At that moment, a voice broke the tension. "Swear a Future Lie promising not to invoke Judgment upon anyone who lied during the memory loops, and we will retract our skills. Otherwise..."

Those words contained a hidden agenda.

If the others agreed to the condition, it meant those players would be completely immune to Judgment for the entirety of this Instance.

No one uttered a word.

In truth, they were all waiting for Chen Ran, Qiu Yinong, and the Middle-aged Woman to state their positions.

After all.

The three individuals still maintaining their skills were teammates of the three respective captains.

The Middle-aged Woman stayed completely out of it. Her Liar-Slayer skill had already been exposed, so her best course of action was to keep a low profile.

That left Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong. Naturally, it was impossible for Chen Ran to use Eternal Kingdom right now.

"Sigh."

Out of the nine Qiu Yinongs, one stepped up to Chen Ran, wielding the Pure Black Liar Killer.

It was an incredibly beautiful Liar-Slayer, its surface a shifting iridescent black that seemed to encompass the vastness of the cosmos itself.

"The reason I never told you what my Liar-Slayer skill was before is because my skill command is very unique."

At this point, she entirely shed her usual icy demeanor. A distinct glimmer of emotion surfaced in her eyes.

"Did you know? After obtaining this skill, I actually believed that no one in this world could ever pass Judgment on me!"

She raised her gun, aiming it squarely at the ceiling.

"I lied!"

"Liar-Slayer: Wheel of Time!"