Chapter 1622 So cunning and wicked!

Graargon took out a torch-like lighting tool from his storage container, lit it in his hand with a whoosh, and took two steps forward to enter the passage.

But after realizing that Babayak hadn't followed, he stopped at the entrance and looked back.

They discovered that Babayak was already kneeling on the ground, silently bidding farewell to Li Yun, the Great Demon.

It wasn't a big deal originally.

Lower-ranking demons often show respect to higher-ranking demons, and similar behaviors are common.

But the problem was that Babayak did it, while Gerargon didn't.

In a side-by-side comparison, it seems that he, Gerargon, has ulterior motives.

Fortunately, Li Yun, the Great Demon, didn't seem to care.

He simply waved his hand, as if to shoo them away, and said, "Until we meet again."

The two Gobelins entered the passage one after the other and disappeared from sight.

Evelyna watched the two leave, a look of surprise reappearing on her face:

"Holy crap! This door really is the exit from the ruins?"

"Hehe, I told you you were lucky, you could even guess right!"

Lu Li rolled his eyes:

"You're kidding me!"

"I already said it's all speculation; we only resort to guessing when there's absolutely no other way..."

"No, you really deduced it?" Evelina asked, her face full of suspicion.

"Then explain it to me, okay?"

"I'll tell you on the way," Lu Li said, turning and walking back the way he came.

Seeing this, Evelyna asked in confusion:

"Hey? Isn't the exit of the ruins behind the guard on the left? Why are you going back?"

“We’re not going with Babayak,” Lu Li said without turning his head.

"Hurry up and catch up, don't waste time."

"Oh right, Xing Anlin just said that Babayak and we should split up... Hey, wait for me!"

As she murmured to herself, Evelina immediately followed in Lu Li's footsteps.

After she left, the stone door behind the guardian statue slowly closed, the light on the surface of the bronze bell went out, and everything returned to its original state.

The two groped their way through the dark passage and soon returned to the area where they had participated in the quiz game.

However, unlike when I left, this place is no longer a completely independent and enclosed space.

There were many scattered stones and a broken stone statue of armor next to the cave.

Looking up, you can see a large hole in the ceiling that was originally full of mechanical components.

A strange orange light emanated from outside the cave entrance; no one knew what it was.

"Heh, that saves trouble." Lu Li raised his hand and patted his storage item, then took out the flying carpet again:

"I was thinking that it would take a lot of effort to find the exit after I got out..."

Evelyna was afraid that Lu Li would abandon her, so she quickly jumped up after him.

As a result, because she was moving too hastily, her body pressed directly against Lu Li's back.

Then, because the flying carpet was rising and the center of gravity was unstable, they simply hugged each other to maintain their balance.

Obviously,

At this moment, the succubus lady no longer cared about the proper conduct between men and women; only one thought occupied her mind—

Figure out Lu Li's strategy for breaking the deadlock.

"Tell me quickly, how exactly do you push through the left door to leave the ruins?"

"Let's just make an assumption." Lu Li stared at the light above the cave entrance, which seemed to be frozen, and said calmly:

"No matter which guard I ask, the result is always one of two things: 'truth' or 'lie'."

“My question is, ‘Will another guard tell me which door leads safely out of the ruins?’”

"If the guard's answer is true, then it will surely repeat the other guard's 'lie,' thus pointing out the stone door from which there is no way to leave the ruins;"

"But if I ask the guard who is the one who will lie, then it will definitely lie and give the opposite answer from the other 'truth' guard, which will also point to a stone door that cannot leave the ruins."

"So whether the guard I questioned was telling the truth or lying, the answer was the same: he pointed to a stone door from which there was no way to leave the ruins."

"So as long as you choose the other stone door, you can leave the ruins safely."

"The setting of the bronze bell ringing and the lie and the truth switching places is just a smokescreen to confuse the public, and there is no need to consider it at all."

"Eh...I see?" Evelina blinked, clearly not quite following Lu Li's train of thought.

However, she soon gave up on thinking about it.

Because she discovered another detail that was even more noteworthy.

"Since you already knew that one question would reveal the true exit, why did you have me and those two Gobelins test the guardian statues before?"

"You even said there was no need to consider the sound of the bronze bell at all, and you yourself specifically recorded the number of times the red and blue lights flashed alternately..."

"Isn't this just pointless and unnecessary?"

"I was just trying to get a better deal..." Lu Li replied somewhat helplessly.

"Previously in the quiz game, we could only answer questions, not ask them."

"You finally got a chance to ask questions freely, don't you have any questions you really want answered?"

"That's a game designed by the gods, with unlimited knowledge reserves, almost omniscient and omnipotent."

"The fact that you can get a definite answer no matter what question you ask is itself a very rare opportunity."

"Oh...now that you put it that way, I understand." Evelyna said with a sudden realization, then expressed considerable regret.

"Unfortunately, we have too few players."

"If we had more, we might be able to find out which guard gave the 'truth,' and then we could ask where the treasure is buried, and we'd be rich..."

Lu Li's lips twitched, and he thought to himself, 'Is that all you've got?'

Then he poured cold water on Evelina:

"Don't even think about it. No matter how many players we have, we can't possibly confirm which guard is giving the 'truth'."

"As the bells toll, 'truth' and 'lie' switch places. Although it's just a misleading setup, it's very effective in preventing us from pursuing goals outside the game."

"Three tests have verified that after the bell tolls, the positions of 'truth' and 'lie' are swapped, completely randomly."

"Your get-rich-quick scheme is probably going to never come to fruition in this lifetime."

Evelyna let out a very disappointed "Ah!"

"Why are all these gods just like you? Giving people hope and then cutting off their path in life, all of them so wicked and cunning..."

Lu Li smacked his lips, about to reply.

But seeing the cave entrance above getting closer and closer, they gave up the idea of ​​continuing the conversation.

He gave Evelyna a few simple instructions, then leaped up and grabbed onto the hole in the ceiling.

With another push, his body nimbly disappeared into the frozen orange light.

The succubus was left alone on the flying carpet and immediately panicked.

"Hey?! Why are you going off like that? Wait for me!"

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