[{"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-90":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},749318,993,"Chapter 90: Guidance (2)","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-90",90,"\u003Cp>Chen Ran voiced the same deduction he had made in the future within the Fourth Dream Layer, causing Lin Jiabao's expression to turn incredibly unsightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do not know what you are talking about. Lin Jiabei has nothing to do with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiabao retorted stubbornly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, even if he lied, Chen Ran would not dare kill him inside the Secret Room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Chen Ran smiled faintly. Under Lin Jiabao's shocked gaze, he drew his Liar-Slayer and aimed it at the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Liar-Slayer: Eternal Kingdom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The room plunged into pitch-black darkness. When the light returned, it was as if nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Could it be that in his deduction, my Three Flowers Converging at the Peak only grants me three chances to be immune to Emotional Lies?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Is that why he used his Liar-Slayer in advance, preventing me from using my Skill next?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But I threw my Liar-Slayer away in the first scene. I do not have a Liar-Slayer on me right now, so he has no reason to do this.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After using Eternal Kingdom, Chen Ran looked visibly relieved. He sat up straight, cleared his throat, and finally spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just now, I found out from a waiter that this Cruise Ship has two shareholders. One is named Chen Yang, and the other has no name, which I assume must be the Old Man who adopted you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To me, Chen Yang is an incredibly detestable person. I imagine that in your heart, the Old Man who adopted you is also quite...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shut up!\" Lin Jiabao bellowed furiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, you dreamed of being an actor, yet across three Secret Rooms, there has not been a single clue proving that the Successor is an actor. That makes me very curious—did you truly live your life according to your own wishes before you died?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is just how this world works. Elders always hope their Child will live according to their ideals. Even though the paths they arrange for us are highly likely to be correct, history is nothing but a cycle. The pitfalls they stumbled into, we will highly likely stumble into as well. And our generation's children will probably continue the trend. Because of that, many children fundamentally disagree with their elders' arrangements.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you were their biological flesh and blood, you could simply voice your disagreement. But you were adopted. On one hand, you wanted to live life on your own terms, but on the other, you did not want to disappoint the Old Man. You must have been deeply conflicted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whenever you watched television, did you ever fantasize about what it would be like if you became an actor yourself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And just like that, a rift was formed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nostalgia constantly embellishes memory—what is loved becomes more loved, and what is hated becomes more hated. Whenever you recalled the Old Man arranging your future, did you resent yourself for not fighting back? Did you resent his arbitrary decisions?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every word Chen Ran spoke pierced into Lin Jiabao's heart like a needle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiabao slammed his hands on the desk and shot up, glaring furiously at the utterly nonchalant Chen Ran. \"I told you to shut up! Shut your mouth!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran completely ignored him and continued his verbal assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the second scene, when you realized I was fleeing the house, why did you not follow me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Admit it. You have an indecisive personality, constantly pinning your hopes on illusory luck. In the end, that is highly likely to harm both yourself and others. And so, a certain someone was born...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A ruthless and cold-blooded teenage girl persona.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To a certain extent, she is your protective persona. The reason she killed the Old Man is because, deep in your heart...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said shut up!!!\" Humiliated and enraged, Lin Jiabao drew his pistol, aiming it squarely at Chen Ran's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With bloodshot eyes, he muttered, \"Impossible! The person I hate most is Lin Jiabei! It is impossible! You must be lying! The one on the top floor is not Grandfather! It is Lin Jiabei!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran sneered, \"Still deceiving yourself? You lack a sense of security, so Lin Jiabei acts as your protector. If she is a protective persona, why would she kill the Old Man?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pausing, Chen Ran stared dead into Lin Jiabao's eyes, enunciating every word. \"It means that from Lin Jiabei's perspective, the Old Man posed a threat to you. Therefore, she had to kill him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person's mental collapse...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Often occurs in a single instant. Stripped of his Three Flowers Converging at the Peak, Lin Jiabao was utterly defenseless against Chen Ran's relentless verbal onslaught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly lowered the hand holding the pistol, completely unable to accept the harsh reality that, deep down, the person he resented most was the very Old Man who had adopted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What exactly are you trying to say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What I am trying to say is that in the first scene, the dreamscape manifested the people deep within our subconscious who could protect us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yet in this scene, it has manifested the people we loathe. Even though the person you loathe meant well and treated you kindly, a deduction is a deduction—it must be based on facts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Up until now, this Escape Room Game has not provided a single clue on how to clear it. Therefore, we must deduce the rules based on the premise of the movie Inception.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In Inception, the protagonist's team aimed to plant an idea into their target's mind. They escaped the dreamscape by relying on the feeling of weightlessness in their real bodies, as well as dying within the dream.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, we have already reached the third layer of the dream, which means we are in a state of deep sleep just like the protagonist's team. Dying here will cause us to plummet into the Fourth Dream Layer, making escape incredibly difficult.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If we want to escape, we have to exit this Escape Room Game using the exact same methods the protagonist and the target used to escape the dreamscape in the movie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having calmed down, Lin Jiabao grew thoughtful upon hearing this. \"Time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Correct. In the movie, they were awakened once the time was up. But the prerequisite was that they could not die in the third dream layer. Otherwise, they would fall into the Fourth Dream Layer—the deepest depths of the dream—where waking up in reality is practically impossible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, this is a time-limited Escape Room Game.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Ran abruptly shifted his tone. \"While it is true that this Escape Room Game is time-limited, based on our previous experiences with time-limited games, we must fulfill a specific condition. Only then will we return to the real world when the time runs out; otherwise, a deadly trap will be triggered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the same logic, this Escape Room Game must also require us to achieve a certain condition in order to return to the real world when the time limit ends.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiabao frowned in deep contemplation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In the movie, the protagonist's team wanted to plant an idea in the target's mind.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But looking at the film as a whole, it was actually a story about the target reconciling with himself, and the protagonist making peace with his own past.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Which means...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I need to reconcile with Grandfather, and Chen Ran needs to reconcile with Chen Yang. But these two people are merely manifestations of the obsessions deep within our subconscious. In essence, it is still about making peace with ourselves.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The problem is, according to the information Chen Ran gathered, the Men in Black are on the top floor.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In that case, if we want to see Grandfather and Chen Yang, we have to get past the Men in Black first.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And it does not end there. Since this Cruise Ship is in international waters, which are unsafe, it is equipped with its own armed security forces for self-defense.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In other words, Chen Ran and I have to split up. One of us needs to deal with the Men in Black, while the other holds off the incoming armed reinforcements.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No wonder Chen Ran bought a gun. He knew all along that things would come to this.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What should I choose?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about you head to the top floor and see for yourself?\" Chen Ran suggested. \"Go and see exactly what kind of vicious image the Old Man has taken on deep within your heart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1410,"2026-06-02T12:08:03.808Z",1,"novelbin.me","05368bea1349e32a217f51379c347054f4dd87c2d870793e30df67119f2be242","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-91","the-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-chapter-89",621,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-eighteen-levels-of-hell-lying-is-forbidden-h-cover.jpg"]