Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 242 It's Easy to Spot a Lie

"You dare to teach, but I dare not learn..." Li Zheng smiled and drew his sword. "You'd better not embarrass yourself with such clumsy lying skills!"

"Wait a moment!"

Seeing Li Zheng draw his sword, Kato Junwa panicked again and hurriedly shouted, "I'm telling the truth!"

"Yes, that's all the truth."

Li Zheng took a step forward and said leisurely, "One of the rules of lying is to mix some truths into your lies so that your lies can withstand verification."

"I believe that most of the information you gave about Misaka Tsuchimon is true. As long as I verify it on Channel 67, I will have no doubts about you."

"You've got some nerve, daring to use me to kill someone?"

"No, you've misunderstood! That's prejudice!" Kato Junwa, like an innocent person who had been wronged, hurriedly opened the door, trying to explain: "You can't subconsciously assume I'm lying to you just because our two countries have had some diplomatic issues in the past, can you? From beginning to end, I haven't told a single lie!"

"A diplomatic issue between the two countries?" Li Zheng suddenly stopped, a surge of anger rising within him, rushing straight to his mind.

This mud-covered chicken actually dares to say that it's just a diplomatic issue?
court death!

The hand gripping the sword cracked, and a dangerous aura surrounded Li Zheng, stirring up a surge of anger.

At that moment, Li Zheng wished he could rush over and tear Kato Junwa to pieces with his long sword.

click!
A sharp pain shot through his right wrist, followed by a cool sensation that spread throughout his body via the bracelet, gradually calming his rage.

As his mind cleared, Li Zheng was startled to realize that he had triggered the negative emotions hidden deep within his heart with just one sentence.

This emotion, which can influence consciousness, seems to have grown considerably without us even realizing it.

Struggling to suppress the last vestiges of his emotions, Li Zheng forced a cruel smile: "No rush, I still have some bravado left to show, and you're already looking for trouble?"

Upon seeing this, Kato Junkazu immediately restored the door of his residence to its previous state, leaving only a crack, revealing a pair of eyes that concealed deep disappointment.

Li Zheng ignored him and said to himself, "Actually, your flaws were there from the very beginning."

"First of all, you lied about the cause of death being slightly to the left of the guard gate."

"The last person he saw before he died was me, and as his superior, you should know that."

“But when I asked who killed him, you said you couldn’t contact him the next day and that’s when you found out he was dead.”

"How is this possible?"

"As his superior, shouldn't I have been monitoring his condition in real time after learning that he was in my hands? How could I have waited until the next day to contact him?"

"So, the answer is that you know very well in your heart that I was not the one who killed him."

Kato Junkazu then retorted, "If you didn't kill him, it could have been another player in your channel, or even a monster?"

"Hmm, that makes sense. It's a pity... you still don't know our channel very well. Your intelligence work is inadequate!"

Li Zheng raised his index finger: "Firstly, I don't dare say I know every single one of the top players in Channel 879, but I do know some of them. If they secretly kill Gangmen Pianzuo, they definitely won't escape my eyes."

The person to the left of the gate is not a bloodthirsty individual; if someone kills him, he will become a red-named individual.

Li Zheng later contacted several people who were most likely to have killed the guards on the left side of the gate, and none of them had turned red.

Most importantly, when Li Zheng left from the gate to the left, he checked the gate itself and found the area behind it to be safe, with no possibility of dying at the hands of monsters. Although he couldn't rule out the possibility of encountering wandering monsters to the left of the gate, Li Zheng felt that this particular route wasn't important; the second point was crucial.

Li Zheng raised his middle finger: "Secondly, I didn't say that you killed the man on the left side of the gate. I only said that you contacted him on the second day, which is unreasonable."

"Regardless of who ultimately killed the man on the left side of the gate, it's unreasonable that you only contacted him the next day! So why are you so eager to defend yourself? Are you hiding something?"

"I……"

Before Kato Junkazu could say anything more, Li Zheng interrupted him, continuing, "The most important point, you probably haven't even realized it yourself, have you?"

He lowered two fingers and gripped the longsword tightly again: "Another rule of lying: if you haven't thought of the content of your lie, just repeat the question the other person asked."

“I asked you a few questions, and you almost always subconsciously repeated the keywords from my questions. You only stopped doing this when I asked about Misaka Tsuchimon.”

"Although you deliberately paused for a while before revealing the information, it was too deliberate and could not hide the fact that you had prepared his information in advance and were ready to reveal it to me during this contact, with the intention of using someone else to do your dirty work."

"So... now another question arises: why are you so certain that I would come to you, and even prepared intelligence on a member of an opposing organization beforehand, waiting here?"

Li Zheng looked around: "Besides, you found such a suitable room to stay in, as if you were guarding against a method of attacking the capsule dwelling. What are you afraid of?"

This cramped room perfectly countered Li Zheng's usual tactic—using capsule homes to smash other people's homes.

Wasn't William killed in this way, in a very different sense?
If Li Zheng can discover this method, others can too.

In particular, players with red names are more likely to find their larger capsule dwellings, which are of higher quality than their initial dwellings, giving them an advantage in collisions between the two dwellings.

"I didn't know you would come looking for me. My reason for staying here overnight is simple." Kato Junkazu seemed completely unfazed. "There are only the two of us on the entire channel. When the power rankings are updated in the morning, both of our names will be displayed. I'm from the Muddy Land, and you're from China. Of course, I have to be wary of you!"

"Being wary of me?" Li Zheng laughed. "You're not going to bring up historical diplomatic issues again, are you?"

"Save your breath. Your plan to provoke me and make me make mistakes in battle is obvious."

"Even third-rate authors on some Chinese online novel platforms have written similar plots. You don't actually think I'm stupid enough to be worse than those third-rate authors, do you?"

Although I did get infected at first, I couldn't show it openly.

Actually, Li Zheng didn't suspect Kato Junwa at first. He came to him mainly out of curiosity as to why the other party would appear in a channel where there shouldn't be any players.

And by the way, is it possible to know who controls the nocturnal creatures to attack players?

As a result, Kato Junwa's actions were full of loopholes. He even used words that Chinese players would find unacceptable to provoke Li Zheng the moment he saw through him, trying to anger him.

It can be said that Kato Junwa brought this upon himself.

Even if it's just because of that one sentence, Li Zheng won't let him off easy today; he'll definitely give him a severe lesson.

"Well? Do you have anything else to say?" Li Zheng brandished his longsword. "If you have nothing to say, I should send you on your way."

Kato Junkazu seemed to know that further arguing was useless, so he decided to strike first: "Since you've seen through me, then you can die!"

Wow!

The door opened, and a right hand, which had been hidden behind the door, held up an extremely exaggerated sniper rifle, aimed at Li Zheng, and pulled the trigger!
boom!
With a deafening roar like cannon fire, Li Zheng was instantly blasted to pieces.

(End of this chapter)