"Hell level."
Hearing this, Chen Ran nodded.
However, both of them shared a tacit understanding and were in no rush to sit in the chairs.
The Young Inheritor said, "The door to the Secret Room was wide open just now, so you could hear our conversation. To be honest, among this batch of Players, you are probably the smartest one. I will give you ti to refute my Deceiver's Tongue."
Chen Ran did not fall into his verbal trap. He chuckled lightly and replied, "Refute is a strong word, but I can certainly deduce a few things."
However, Chen Ran's next words filled the Young Inheritor with dread.
"If I am not mistaken, from a certain perspective, a second Successor does not exist at all."
The Young Inheritor's pupils constricted, but he quickly regained his composure.
"What do you an?"
With a Cigarette dangling from his lips, Chen Ran looked the Young Inheritor up and down, speaking in a peculiar tone. "In the Second Chamber, we deduced that the Old Man and the second Successor were imprisoned in the Basent. But I imagined countless possibilities and still couldn't figure out how the second Successor escaped the Basent. After all, there were no direct clues indicating the process of the second Successor escaping the Secret Room."
"Therefore, I made a bold deduction. When you were alive, if the first Successor lived, the second Successor lived. If the first Successor left the Basent, the second Successor could escape the Basent."
"Back in the First Secret Room, I found it strange. Why would the Instance design an Hourglass where half the Glass Beads retained their numbers while the other half lost theirs?"
"Stop talking!" The Young Inheritor's face grew incredibly dark.
Chen Ran ignored him, casually tossing away his cigarette butt with a pointed look. "You see, I've smoked all the tobacco in this Cigarette. If I wanted to keep smoking, I'd just be puffing on the filter, which burns the mouth. So, I have no choice but to throw it away like trash."
"After all, to , the filter holds far less value than the tobacco."
The Young Inheritor stared blankly at the discarded cigarette butt on the ground, a wave of profound sorrow washing over him. Just as he was about to retort...
A refreshing coolness spread through his mind, instantly snapping him back to his senses.
"Did it lose its effect? That must be the power of your Liar Hunter Skill, right?" Chen Ran remarked with mock pity when he saw the clarity return to the young man's eyes.
While speaking.
He withdrew the hand that had reached for his waist, thinking it was a pity. If The Youth had resorted to an Emotional Lie, even though he couldn't kill him yet, he could have shattered his Three Flowers Converging at the Peak.
"However."
Chen Ran abruptly shifted the conversation. "Your Skill might keep you clear-headed, but does your sister possess it as well? If not, you better tell her to be careful. After all, there's a chance she might end up joining to play the Escape Room Ga here."
It was a textbook example of kicking a man where it hurts the most.
Seeing his silence, Chen Ran pressed the attack. "If my deduction is correct, people in your condition must have suffered inhuman abuse or so other form of tornt during childhood, right?"
Despite those words, the Young Inheritor's eyes remained completely lucid.
'It seems that Three Flowers Converging at the Peak doesn't just keep him clear-headed; it also grants him immunity to emotional interference for its duration.'
Realizing this, Chen Ran lost interest in rubbing salt in the wound. He walked over to the chair and sat down, then raised an eyebrow at The Youth.
To his surprise, the Young Inheritor also pulled out a Cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and said, "If I am not mistaken, you desperately want to kill . But you also need to lose this Escape Room Ga to ensure your teammate isn't forced into an endless losing streak by constantly choosing her faction, which would cause her to lose all her Poker Chips and get killed by a Gun."
"You want to kill , yet you can't allow to lose the Escape Room Ga. The best approach would be to trick into telling a lie before sitting in the chair or right when the ga ends, so you can imdiately subject to Judgnt upon the ga's conclusion."
"So right now, you must be like a cat on a hot tin roof—extrely anxious."
"I imagine you are praying hard that this isn't a ti-limited Secret Room. If it has a ti limit, and I wait until the final second to clear it, you would have to be slower than to intentionally lose the ga, aning you'd completely run out of ti."
"This is where it gets interesting. Do you know why I activated my Skill early?"
"If a ti-limited Secret Room appears, there's a high probability you'd create a situation forcing to clear the room early."
"That's why I used Three Flowers Converging at the Peak ahead of ti. It keeps my mind clear and prevents my emotions from being swayed by you. I am quite curious—what will you do next?"
Chen Ran shrugged nonchalantly. "I will probably just pray that this Escape Room Ga doesn't have a ti limit."
Hearing this, The Youth smiled faintly and asked out of the blue, "Do you like to gamble?"
When Chen Ran didn't answer, he continued:
"Third-rate gamblers rely on cheating, second-rate gamblers rely on psychological warfare, but first-rate gamblers rely on pure montum and presence."
"Obviously, my montum is far above yours right now. That ans this Escape Room Ga is highly likely to be a ti-limited one."
"Tell , if I wait until the final second to clear it and intentionally lose the Escape Room Ga, your teammate will likely lose two Poker Chips. Given this lesson, Geng Hao and Liu Xing might learn from you and enter the ga early as well. They will keep winning, and I will keep losing. Eventually, your teammate will lose all her Poker Chips and get killed by a Gun. And since you've previously uttered a Future Lie..."
"You'll die too. Wouldn't that be a single misstep ruining the entire board?"
The minds of the two n clashed fiercely within the Secret Room, both trying to shatter the other's Psychological Defense Line and set the stage for the Escape Room Ga.
However, because the fourth rule had been hidden earlier, Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong were at a natural disadvantage.
This triggered a chain reaction, practically holding Chen Ran's feet to the fire right now.
Chen Ran pulled out his Cigarette Case and extracted a Cigarette. Just as he was about to light it, he heard:
"Look at you, anxious again."
The Young Inheritor's words made Chen Ran's hand involuntarily tighten its grip around the Cigarette Case.
'Damn it, stealing my lines!'
Seeing him like this, The Youth added, "Oh, I just rembered. You need to walk out of this Escape Room Ga alive, yet you also need to lose the ga. Does that an I can lie as much as I want during the Escape Room Ga without any consequences?"
Chen Ran, who had been in the middle of pulling out a Cigarette, froze. A faint, almost imperceptible smirk graced his lips, but a second later, he furiously smashed the Cigarette Case onto the ground.
"Are you done talking? Are we going to play this Escape Room Ga or not?"
Seeing him fly into a rage out of humiliation, the Young Inheritor said coolly, "There's no rush."
The Youth's intention was obvious; he wanted to let Chen Ran's frustration build and compound his emotional instability.
As long as his emotional state was compromised, the probability of making mistakes during the Escape Room Ga would increase.
At this mont, staying silent was the best choice. The Youth smoked quietly, while Chen Ran appeared sowhat restless and agitated.
After a long and agonizing wait, The Youth finally flicked his cigarette butt away. Just as Chen Ran thought he was going to sit down in the chair...
The Youth pulled out another Cigarette.
He lit it.
Looking at Chen Ran, he said, "It's still early. Allow to smoke one more."
Chen Ran: "..."
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