Chapter 61: Time Reincarnation

Ten Secret Rooms merged into one, and everyone appeared in the same Secret Room.

Inside this Secret Room.

There were ten chairs, a single mirror, a sofa, and a coffee table.

On the coffee table rested ten books.

Nine people looked at a corpse on the ground, looking at each other in dismay. Right at that moment, Qiu Yinong raised her gun.

"You lied."

"You lied."

"You lied."

Three shots rang out, and three people dropped dead. She then aimed the muzzle at the Middle-aged Woman.

The bullet jammed. Qiu Yinong immediately pointed the muzzle at the ceiling.

"I lied."

"Liar-Slayer: Wheel of Time!"

...

Ten Secret Rooms merged into one, and everyone appeared in the same Secret Room.

Inside this Secret Room.

There were ten chairs, a single mirror, a sofa, and a coffee table.

On the coffee table rested ten books.

Six people looked at the four corpses on the ground, looking at each other in dismay. Right at that moment, Qiu Yinong swiftly raised her gun and aimed it at the Middle-aged Uncle.

"You lied."

The bullet jammed. The Middle-aged Uncle's eyes went wide, as did the others', but before they had time to pass Judgment on Qiu Yinong...

She pointed her gun at the ceiling.

"I lied."

"Liar-Slayer: Wheel of Time!"

...

Ten Secret Rooms merged into one, and everyone appeared in the same Secret Room.

Inside this Secret Room.

There were ten chairs, a single mirror, a sofa, and a coffee table.

On the coffee table rested ten books.

Six people looked at the four corpses on the ground, looking at each other in dismay. Right at that moment, Qiu Yinong swiftly raised her gun and aimed at Liu Xing.

"You lied."

The bullet jammed. She immediately pointed the gun at the ceiling and said coldly,

"I lied."

"Liar-Slayer: Wheel of Time!"

...

The Middle-aged Woman and the three captains were subjected to Judgment one by one during the Time Reincarnation, but these four had indeed never told a lie.

Every attempt ended in a failed Judgment.

"I lied."

"Liar-Slayer: Wheel of Time!"

"Stop!"

...

Ten Secret Rooms merged into one, and everyone appeared in the same Secret Room.

Inside this Secret Room.

There were ten chairs, a single mirror, a sofa, and a coffee table.

On the coffee table rested ten books.

Six people looked at the four corpses on the ground, looking at each other in dismay. Just as they were about to ask questions, several segments of memories suddenly flooded their minds.

The first memory: All ten people were present. Four used their Liar Hunter Skill, and after various mental battles, Qiu Yinong used hers.

The second memory: Qiu Yinong killed three people, failed the Judgment on the Middle-aged Woman, and used her Liar Hunter Skill again.

The third, fourth, and fifth memories: Qiu Yinong failed every Judgment and used her Liar Hunter Skill each time.

Dead silence filled the Secret Room.

The three captains and the Middle-aged Woman were startled at first, then horrified, and soon their bodies were trembling uncontrollably.

Chen Ran lit a cigarette and took a deep drag, the smoke obscuring the shock in his eyes.

'Let me get this straight.'

'Her command phrase is: I lied.'

'The subtext being: I lied, and you had better not have lied.'

'Through continuous Time Reincarnation, she can single out and subject everyone to Judgment one by one, even if she is not sure whether the target is lying...'

'Just pass Judgment first and ask questions later!'

'If the Judgment fails, she simply sacrifices one opportunity to cast Judgment on herself and uses the Wheel of Time to reset time again.'

'If she dares to do this, it means no one else can pass Judgment on her lie.'

'Why is that?'

'It is the timeline!'

'Simply put, a Player may have told lies when they were alive, but Players in Hell cannot pass Judgment on the lies told during their past lives.'

'All because the timelines are different.'

'By the same logic, the previous few timelines no longer exist, and in this current timeline, Qiu Yinong has never told a lie.'

'In other words, the only ones who could pass Judgment on her are our past selves from the timeline where she actually lied. On the timeline where she hasn't lied, there is absolutely no way we can successfully pass Judgment and kill her.'

'This Skill...'

'Is invincible!'

'However, that invincibility comes with a catch. As the ancient saying goes: the laws of the universe are never absolute; there is always one path left to exploit.'

'Just like my Skill, which also seems invincible. But once it is used, I am forced to compete with my opponent purely on intelligence, mindset, and knowledge.'

'Her Skill must be the same.'

'The flaw lies in the command phrase.'

'If someone knew her Skill and command phrase in advance, and passed Judgment on her the exact moment she uttered "I lied"...'

'She would die.'

'Of course, that hinges entirely on grasping the perfect timing. If she is given even a split second to fully activate her Skill, not even a bullet of Judgment already in mid-air would be able to harm a single hair on her head.'

'If the first Judgment fails to kill her, any subsequent attempts would be even more impossible.'

'The reason is...'

'Suppose she resets time, rolling it back five minutes. Our memories, thoughts, emotions, Common Sense, and feelings would also be temporarily reset to five minutes ago.'

'The moment she withdraws her Skill is the moment we regain our memories, thoughts, emotions, Common Sense, and feelings...'

'Failing to kill her with Judgment the first time means the second time is just a Time Reincarnation of the first.'

Thinking up to this point, Chen Ran's expression turned peculiar.

'These are all the results caused by her Skill, but what if...'

'What if I used the Eternal Kingdom to break her Skill? Wouldn't she be completely screwed?'

'Ahem!'

'I shouldn't think like that. We are still teammates, and I can't do anything detrimental to our unity.'

'Furthermore, her Skill is extremely important to me. If I ever fall victim to a Future Lie, she can reset time back to before I utter the Future Lie.'

'Not only that.'

'When time is running out, she can reset time and repeatedly remind me within the loop to think about the problem from different angles.'

In almost an instant, Chen Ran had sorted out the advantages and flaws of Qiu Yinong's Skill, as well as how they could coordinate its use.

He gave her a thumbs-up.

She shot him a massive eye roll.

"How is this possible? Your Skill is at least at the Superego level! How could the Liar-Slayer Alliance be at ease letting you team up with a Newbie to clear an Instance without any protection?" The Middle-aged Woman had been in Hell for a few months, and she knew exactly how crucial such a divine Skill was in the conflict against the Deceiver Alliance.

To put it bluntly, the Liar-Slayer Alliance should be worshipping her like a sacred ancestor.

Once she fully matured, she would become an absolute nightmare for the Deceiver Alliance!

Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong remained silent. They merely stared at her and the other three captains as if looking at complete idiots.

A chill ran down the spines of the four.

'That's right!'

'She belongs to the Liar-Slayer Alliance. Once her Skill is exposed, the Deceiver Alliance will hunt her down with insane and endless pursuit.'

'There is a high probability that she tampered with the Liar-Slayer Alliance's Form. The higher-ups in the alliance know she has a Skill, but they don't know exactly what it is or what effects it possesses!'

'Now that she has exposed her Skill right in front of us, it means...'

'These two never planned on letting us leave this Instance alive!!!'

Seeing their flickering expressions, Chen Ran pinched his cigarette between his fingers and pointed it at them.

"I have to remind you, my Skill can ban a Player from using their own Skill for an hour. When you use your Skills in this Instance, you had better be careful..."

The four of them: "..."

The four understood that by saying this, Chen Ran was telling them that from now on...

No one should even think about using their Skills!

They would have to rely on their mindsets, knowledge, intellect, and Infighting to decide the victor—and to determine who lives and who dies.

This is Hell; there are no good people here.

There is only the collision of ideals, the clash of ideologies, and the ruthless divide between friend and foe in the struggle for survival.