[{"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-77":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},749305,993,"Chapter 77: The Hidden Fourth Rule","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-77",77,"\u003Cp>Liu Xing: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What a cold woman!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The Level and Oblique Tones are wrong.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If the colors of the floor tiles symbolize the Level and Oblique Tones, there are only two tones...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But there are four tile colors.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It is the phonetic tones!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Red, blue, yellow, and green should symbolize the first, second, third, and fourth tones.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In this game, the safe tiles that do not trigger the traps are determined based on the phonetic tone of each character on the left and right sides!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'However, Qiu Yinong was jumping just now, which means that every four tiles correspond to the tone of a single character.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Holy crap!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This feels like kindergarten knowledge.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'First tone, red!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Second tone, blue!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Third tone, green!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Fourth tone, yellow!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is a common labeling method for Chinese Pinyin tones to make it easier for students to learn.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xing looked to his left and right, silently noting that the Secret Room had forty-nine rows of floor tiles, with twenty tiles in each row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>980 tiles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If every four tiles corresponded to one character in the couplets, that was 245 characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, on the left and right walls...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excluding \"Three Lights are Sun, Moon, and Stars\", there were eighteen couplets left, each containing five characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That made ninety characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That left a gap of 155 characters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xing's expression turned solemn, figuring that these 155 characters must be hidden on the middle or rear sections of the side walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is a rectangular Secret Room, so I can only see the couplets up close...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If there are characters further down the walls, it will be very hard for me to make out what they are...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had the answer, he no longer hesitated and approached the starting point where Qiu Yinong had cleared the trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The starting point is on the left.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I should start with the couplet on the left. Furthermore, the line \"Seven colors are red, green, and blue\" that Qiu Yinong matched in the First Secret Room is also on the left.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In the first row, the colors of the first four tiles are green, red, yellow, and blue.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The first couplet on the left is \"An official resigns and departs,\" and its first character has the first tone.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The first tone is red.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, he jumped onto the second tile of the first row, which was red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After landing steadily, he waited for a moment. Seeing that no cutting lasers were triggered, he was instantly overjoyed and quickly looked at the character \"official\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Official\" was the first tone, so it was also red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth tiles in the first row, the red one was the eighth tile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xing: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So far!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swinging his arms to build momentum, he steeled his heart and leaped, landing securely on the eighth tile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly finished jumping through \"An official resigns and departs\" and was ready to proceed to the second row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when he looked up, he noticed that an additional couplet had appeared on the left wall:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All walks of life suffer from greed, anger, and ignorance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The myriad forms of sentient beings cannot escape greed, anger, and ignorance. Using 'greed, anger, and ignorance' to encompass 'all walks of life' makes perfect sense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the same problem remains. The Level and Oblique Tones are wrong. With so many, every time I finish jumping a couplet, a new one will appear on the left and right sides.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To verify this deduction, he looked at the phrase \"Two dynasties are brother states.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two\" was the third tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed to jump to the yellow tile. Just as he was about to leap, he suddenly froze, breaking into a cold sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I have finished the first couplet on the left, which brought me all the way to the far right...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Which means this time I have to start jumping from the first couplet on the right: \"A gust of wind, thunder, and rain.\"'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Sure enough, inherent thinking patterns can sometimes lead people to unconsciously make the wrong choices.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I need to practice Heart Cultivation!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The Heart Cultivation in the Liar-Slayer Alliance... It is said that the Common Sense Mind Cultivation Method can suppress Common Sense, enabling a person to discard subjective assumptions, objective facts, and even natural laws. During Common Sense reasoning, it forces one into a state of absolute rationality.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'However... Emotional Heart Cultivation, Common Sense Heart Cultivation, and Sentimental Heart Cultivation—the difficulty of exchanging for these three methods increases exponentially.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I heard that the requirement to exchange for Common Sense Heart Cultivation is to execute a Seven-Star Ghost Whisperer...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casting aside his distracting thoughts, Liu Xing continued and finished jumping through the right side's \"A gust of wind, thunder, and rain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he finished, another couplet appeared on the right wall: \"A hundred families of Husband, Wife, and Child.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'\"A hundred families of Husband, Wife, and Child\": Everyone plays one of three roles in a family—Husband, Wife, or Child.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That makes sense.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, Liu Xing jumped sequentially according to the matching couplets on both walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was obviously nowhere near as fast as Qiu Yinong. Like an ordinary person, he was somewhat uncertain about the second and third tones of certain characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever this happened, he would repeatedly deliberate, sounding out the character as it appeared in other phrases, such as:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two dynasties are brother states.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when he read \"dynasty\" out loud could he be sure it was the second tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Good thing it isn't testing flat or retroflex tongues, otherwise a guy from Sichuan and Chongqing like me...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Would really have no idea!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players who had stayed in Hell for a long time all shared a habit of muttering to themselves in their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Secret Room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Liu Xing walked out the door, he first saw the others resting with their eyes closed, then glanced at the scores on the door, shaking his head helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiu Yinong: 8 minutes and 24 seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xing: 76 minutes and 17 seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prompting everyone to open their eyes, the Young Heiress waved her hand and said speechlessly, \"To spend so much time in a normal-difficulty puzzle Secret Room... you are quite a piece of work. Hurry up and hand over your Chest Plate to her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xing's old face flushed red. He took off his Chest Plate and handed it to Qiu Yinong. At the same time, having lost his Chest Plate, he was allowed to reselect his faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xing chose the Red Camp, taking a red Chest Plate from the desk in front of the Young Heiress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caused Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong's expressions to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two exchanged a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If Qiu Yinong and I take turns playing and keep winning, all three captains will choose the Red Camp after losing their games.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Then...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Sooner or later, the Blue Camp will end up with no one left to play.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How will the game proceed when that happens?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Both successors are holding guns, and their muzzles are pointed at each other. That indicates this is a life-and-death game.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'However, according to the rules, Players can not only choose their own faction but also reselect their faction after losing a game.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Under such rules, the fates of the two successors are entirely in the hands of the Players.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If losing all Poker Chips equates to death, then as long as the Players manipulate things properly, whoever they want dead will die.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'For example, if they make the Middle-aged Uncle from the Blue Camp continually choose the Blue Camp after losing, and continually keep losing.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Then, it is only a matter of time before the Young Inheritor loses all the Poker Chips on the table.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The reverse is also true; easily making the Young Heiress lose all her Poker Chips would be a breeze.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If I were a successor, the first thing I would do is...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Discard this identity!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I see now. Earlier, I found it strange why both successors possessed Poker Chips and Chest Plates—two types of betting capital.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Losing the faction entirely equates to losing their identity.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Losing all the Poker Chips equates to losing their life.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Simply put, when there is no one left to send from the Young Inheritor's faction, he will no longer have the capital to continue betting...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'According to Common Sense at the gambling table, this is when one must leave the table. Which means...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The Young Inheritor can logically and justifiably forfeit his identity as a successor, and his life or death will no longer be under the control of the Players!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'After he leaves the table, who can take over his position and continue betting against the female successor?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Naturally, it would be someone with betting capital. The true betting capital is the Chest Plate; the Poker Chips merely determine ultimate life and death.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But there is a problem here. Assuming I take his place, the Blue Camp would still have no one to send. And without betting capital, I would not have the means to continue betting...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Therefore, there is a fourth rule in this game.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'One that has been hidden by those two!!'\u003C\u002Fp>",1549,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.808Z",1,"novelbin.me","d2f192c303da812dc5ecc309525b0db6439b12d66e5b2cc995d81384c197c61a","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-78","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-76",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]