"In the end, these are just your words," Jiang Ran said coldly. "They prove nothing, only that you are very eloquent."
"Then just assume I lied!" Ma Dapao laughed nonchalantly. "Go tell the judge that 'Ma Dapao's' answer was a lie! That way you can pass the level, right?"
Jiang Ran knew that Ma Dapao was using reverse psychology, but even if he thought there was a 90% chance that the answer was wrong, he wouldn't tell the judge directly that Ma Dapao might be playing word games and that even more outrageous answers might follow!
In any case, he should at least get several answers before comparing them. This has nothing to do with Ma Dapao; it's just his consistent style of doing things.
"Then, I won't see you off."
Ma Dapao waved his hand, and the scene around him returned to normal. The two men sat on either side of the door frame, neither willing to yield to the other.
Jiang Ran stood up: "I'm about to leave, and you still won't tell me who you are?"
This true god before him had absolutely never had any contact with Jiang Ran before! Jiang Ran was certain of this, so He was definitely not any of the [Pope], [Great Sin], or [Ascetic]!
"No need, just think of me as 'Big Mouth Ma'."
When Ma Dapao closed his eyes and opened them again, his eyes were full of confusion and helplessness. He looked at the three of them suspiciously, said "You're sick," and then closed the door and went back inside.
Thus concludes the strategy for the first story character. Jiang Ran has received the "answer," an ambiguous one.
"Brother Jiang Ran... just who is this Ma Dapao? What he said is all lies..."
Jiang Ran put her hand on Yu Cheng's shoulder: "Calm down, it's just some misleading talk, just ignore it."
"But if he really is wrong... let's go tell the referee! What he said must be false! Right? How could we be lying?!"
"Let me go tell the referee! If it succeeds, our Dragon Kingdom will pass the test; if it fails... then it proves we're just a virtual entity, which is pointless..."
Yu Cheng's mind was in turmoil. Jiang Ran knew that during this conversation, the god behind Ma Dapao must have used some other means, and it was definitely not just a simple conversation!
Those with strong minds can resist being swayed, and those with great strength can resist some of the influence, but she is lacking in both aspects. If Jiang Ran had not accompanied her and she had come here alone, it is hard to imagine what the result would have been!
"Stop right there! Think it over carefully!"
To quickly bring Yu Cheng to his senses, Jiang Ran had to speak harshly: "Have you considered that the probability of the first person the referee told us lying is infinitesimally close to zero? Because if even one person dares to try, this instance will end here!"
"Ma Dapao might be playing word games! Because it was his wife who asked us to ask questions related to relationships. Although he made the answer seem infinitely broad, that sentence might just be an answer to a relationship question!"
"'Everything'? What 'everything'? That's too general, so it's unreliable. The target audience for his statement is different, so the answer will naturally be different. It doesn't mean that just because his statement is correct, we are false. That's just a flaw in our thinking!"
Yu Cheng's emotions finally calmed down a bit. Her face was red, and she seemed a little confused as to why she had acted so impulsively just now: "I'm sorry, Brother Jiang Ran, I have a... inexplicable feeling."
"It's alright. The opponent's strength is unfathomable. It's not your fault."
"Unfathomable... Is he even stronger than Miss Gwen?" Yu Cheng felt a chill in his heart. "Stronger than a near-god, for even you, Brother Jiang Ran, to describe him as unfathomable, could he be a true god?"
Jiang Ran did not answer immediately, but nodded slowly after a while.
He didn't intend to tell Yu Cheng the news directly, but if the other party guessed it, he didn't need to hide it.
"God, is that the being that created this place?" Yu Cheng stretched out a hand. "What then?"
[The Creator]?
Creator... Creator...
For some reason, these three words kept lingering in Yu Cheng's mind, and he couldn't shake them off no matter what he did!
"Hahaha! As expected of me, I'm so lucky! I've found the second seal!"
Rusger's voice came through the connection.
"Oh?" Jiang Ran was also pleasantly surprised. He had just finished dealing with the first character in the story, and he was already getting information about the second character? It has to be said that there are advantages to division of labor.
"Have you gotten your hands on the seal yet?"
"No, I just happened to see the seal on someone's body. It was that team of four White Eagles and Sakuras. I don't know what kind of luck they had to get a seal!"
Finding the seal might not be difficult, but according to Jiang Ran's speculation, each seal has a corresponding trial. For example, the little boy's glass bead. If he fails the trial, he will either not be able to get the seal or be killed on the spot by the monster!
The reason these four guys were able to get a seal was partly due to sheer luck, but not entirely.
They happened to stumble upon the two remaining ghost storytellers from India sneaking into a building, so they followed them in. Coincidentally, the two ghost storytellers failed their trial and were killed by the supernatural, which gave them the perfect opportunity to profit!
Of course, this doesn't mean they successfully completed the trial. That strange, extremely clever person deliberately made all four of them participate in the trial at the same time, and then caused them to fight amongst themselves. The trial required all four of them to complete the task in order to pass, but only two of them completed the task.
When the eerie creature was about to go on a killing spree, one of the White Eagle Kingdom's ghost storytellers, who possessed the ability to kill it, killed it. Unwilling to give up, they continued upwards and found the safe.
However, another person's talent allowed him to automatically crack password-protected parts of the ghost story world. In this way, the four of them successfully obtained a seal. They didn't dare to stay in the room and escaped through the window.
However, due to the infighting during the previous trial, the relationship between the four was obviously not as good as it was at the beginning. The seal was in the hands of the SS-level ghost story master from the White Eagle Kingdom. He kept thinking about whether he should find an opportunity to get rid of those two burdens from the Sakura Kingdom.
Rusger followed them quietly, but unfortunately, it was forbidden for ghost storytellers to kill each other here, otherwise his abilities would be top-tier combat talents.
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