"I am lying. Is that the truth, or a lie?"
If Chen Ran answered that it was the truth, yet the youth had already stated he was lying, then...
Chen Ran would be lying.
If Chen Ran answered that it was a lie, it ant the youth had just spoken the truth. Since he spoke the truth, yet Chen Ran claid he was lying, then...
Chen Ran would still be lying.
This was an unsolvable trap. Hearing this, the Judge's trio, who had intentionally lowered their presence earlier, could not help but burst into laughter.
"He finally fell for it!"
"I have to admit, he is smart, but he ultimately suffered from a lack of experience."
"He is dead for sure!"
Hearing their words, Chen Ran seed to realize his mistake. His face instantly turned pale, and he closed his eyes in despair.
Seeing his reaction, the youth revealed a victor's smile, thinking to himself, 'I almost blew it just now.'
To avoid any further complications, he raised his arm, aid the gun at Chen Ran's forehead, and enunciated every word clearly:
"You lied."
Amidst the smiles of the Judge's trio and the despairing gaze of Bai Xiuci, the youth slowly pulled the trigger.
Click!
The click of the jamd bullet was exceptionally piercing in the quiet Secret Room, and the heavy clatter of the pistol dropping to the ground rang out like a massive bell, jarring the minds of the five people present.
The smiles froze on the faces of the youth and the Judge's trio, their eyes locked blankly on Chen Ran as he bent down to pick up the gun.
"You lied."
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Ran raised his hand and fired a shot. The bullet struck right in the center of the youth's forehead.
"Wh... why..."
The youth died with his eyes wide open. Even as he drew his last breath, his gaze remained fiercely fixed on Chen Ran.
He needed an answer.
Chen Ran wore a peculiar expression. "I haven't even answered your question yet, and you already claid that I lied. So, are you lying, or are you lying?"
At this mont, Bai Xiuci recovered from her shock. She finally seed to understand exactly what kind of pit Chen Ran had dug in his verbal agreent with the youth.
Bai Xiuci looked at Chen Ran and asked uncertainly, "Did you know about the Liar's Paradox right from the beginning?"
"Of course I did," Chen Ran said, lighting a cigarette.
[So that was it!]
[Chen Ran's Rule: Each side asks a question. The person asked must answer and cannot say they do not know, nor can they answer with an irrelevant topic.]
[The Youth's Supplental Rule: The next person can only ask a question after the respondent has answered, and the questions cannot involve past personal matters.]
[In Chen Ran's rules, he deliberately did not specify how many questions each person could ask. If he asked eighty or a hundred questions in a row, how would the youth answer?]
[Thus, the youth added a supplental rule: The next person can only ask a question after the respondent has finished answering the previous one.]
[This supplental rule was the root cause of the youth's ultimate Judgnt failure.]
[Looking at the rules stated by both of them, neither specified a ti limit for answering the questions!]
[Chen Ran deliberately left it out, while the youth's judgnt was clouded by the phrase "must answer" in Chen Ran's rule.]
[Must answer does not an answer imdiately.]
[In other words, when facing the youth's Liar's Paradox, as long as Chen Ran kept his mouth shut, he was technically just thinking about how to answer. Since there was no ti limit in their rules, he could wait a hundred years to answer without breaking the rules, provided he did not speak during that ti.]
[Chen Ran's silence misled the youth into thinking he could not answer and had violated the "must answer" rule. Therefore, he determined that Chen Ran lied when proposing the rules.]
[As a result, the youth initiated a Judgnt against Chen Ran. The outco was obvious; the Judgnt was dood to fail.]
[So, here is the question.]
[What if the youth's supplental rule had placed a ti limit on answering?]
[Chen Ran would have stated the Liar's Paradox first!!]
[What if the youth had not underestimated his opponent and insisted on fighting over who got to ask the first question?]
[Then they would have argued endlessly until there was no conclusion, and the proposal for the Head-on Sniping Duel would have been rejected.]
[This ant that the very mont the youth agreed to the Head-on Sniping Duel, Chen Ran was already in an invincible position.]
[What an absolute monster!]
The Judge's trio stood frozen in place, their bodies trembling uncontrollably. The three exchanged glances, and Horse-Face imdiately shouted at Chen Ran, "You lied!"
Earlier, Chen Ran had asked the youth if others could question the Judgnt qualifications of the person holding the gun.
The youth had answered: Yes.
Horse-Face was in the sa group as the youth, so he naturally knew that the youth's answer was the truth: If the gun holder lied, others could question them, and the holder would lose their Judgnt qualifications, causing the pistol to drop.
Just now, when Chen Ran executed a Judgnt on the youth, he had to speak the Judgnt Command: You lied.
However, at that ti, Chen Ran was still facing the Liar's Paradox proposed by the youth.
His speaking was both initiating the Judgnt and answering the youth's question at the sa ti.
According to the Liar's Paradox, the mont Chen Ran opened his mouth, he was already lying.
Therefore.
Horse-Face questioned his qualification to continue the Judgnt.
However, the expected scene of the pistol dropping did not occur. It remained firmly grasped in Chen Ran's hand.
"Why didn't you lose your qualification?" Horse-Face asked in disbelief, his eyes wide.
Chen Ran lit another cigarette. "The answer is very simple. Take a guess. Why did I call my showdown with the youth a Head-on Sniping Duel?"
Chen Ran lit another cigarette. "The answer is very simple. Take a guess. Why did I call my showdown with the youth a Head-on Sniping Duel?"
"A Head-on Sniping Duel is a gaming term. In shooting gas, two players shoot at each other through the middle doors until one snipes the other dead. The youth died, so the ga is over!"
"You lied."
Chen Ran raised his hand and fired another shot. Horse-Face froze in place before slowly collapsing to the ground.
Chen Ran glanced at the hole in the shattered Horse-Face Mask torn open by the bullet, revealing the face of a middle-aged man underneath.
He sneered, "Just as I thought, you were only playing pretend!"
He shifted the gun, pointing it at the Judge who had been in charge of questioning and registration earlier. The Judge was so terrified that his legs went soft and numb. He hurriedly cried out to stop him, "I haven't told a single lie! If you execute a Judgnt on , you will lose your Judgnt qualification!!!"
Chen Ran did not speak. He rely pointed at the youth's corpse. Seeing this, the Judge slumped to the ground like a puddle of mud.
"When executing a Judgnt, the gun holder needs to speak the 'You lied' command. But if the Judgnt fails, then the command the gun holder just spoke becos a lie."
"You lied."
Chen Ran fired once more, and the Judge dropped dead instantly.
At this point, only three people remained in the Secret Room.
Chen Ran, Bai Xiuci, and Ox-Head.
Ox-Head threw away his Spiked Mace and pulled off his mask, revealing the panicked and terrified face of the Elder. "I have never lied, but I know I am not your match. Let's team up, and I will tell you how to escape this Secret Room!"
"You haven't lied?" Chen Ran asked in return.
Seeing the Elder's dumbfounded expression, Chen Ran felt it was necessary to help him jog his mory. "Earlier, when the Judge was questioning , what did I say to all of you?"
The Elder's pupils contracted sharply.
When Chen Ran was being questioned by the Judge, he had yelled at them, "I don't want to go to Hell, I really haven't killed anyone."
The response of Ox-Head, who was actually the Elder, was...
"You killed soone."
Chen Ran hadn't killed anyone, and he had stated that he hadn't killed anyone. Yet Ox-Head, who was the Elder, claid that he did. Wasn't this a Bold-Faced Lie?
"You lied."
Bang! Chen Ran fired his fourth shot, and the Elder fell dead.
Bai Xiuci's heart pounded wildly. Her previous Judgnt had failed, which ant her command was no longer just a command, but a lie.
Seeing Chen Ran kill four people in a row, she was so terrified that she hurriedly changed the subject. "How should we leave this Secret Room?"
"Since the youth knew that a failed Judgnt by the gun holder ant they were lying, why didn't he kill you?" Under Bai Xiuci's horrified gaze, Chen Ran slowly raised the gun.
And aid it right at her!!
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