At this moment, the tattooed man raised his hand and looked at the Goat Head. "Hey, referee, how should we handle cases where people use aliases? Does it count as lying?"The Goat Head neither nodded nor shook his head, simply saying, "I will no longer participate in the process. You just need to write down the names according to your own judgment. Just remember, 'rules are absolute.' In the end, I will personally administer the 'sanction' to the losers."The word "sanction" reverberated strongly, sending shivers down everyone's spine."This... This proves that I didn't lie!" Sweetie exclaimed anxiously. "If it were a lie, I'd be dead by now, right? Even if it's an alias, my alias is really 'Sweetie'!"No one answered her. It was now a matter of life and death, and no doubts could be overlooked."Then it's my turn to speak." The tattooed man sneered, looking reluctant. "If this lady's story isn't considered a lie, then neither is mine.""My name is Qiao Jiajin, living in Guangdong, with no specific occupation. Before coming here, I was collecting debts."Qiao Jiajin's Mandarin was not very good, so everyone had to listen carefully."People nowadays are really interesting. When borrowing money, they promise everything, but when it's time to repay, they start crying foul.""They call us debt collectors devils, heartless.""But that jerk should also think from another perspective. When he was most helpless and needed money, it was me who extended a helping hand. When all institutions refused to lend him money, I lent it to him. To him, I wasn't a devil but a savior.""But how did he treat me, his savior?""He cried everywhere, saying how tough his life was, how he was cheated out of two million. He condemned us debt collectors for being heartless, trying to use the sympathy of neighbors to solve his predicament. But when he borrowed money, we signed a contract, and all the interest rates were clearly stated. Now that he can't repay, is it our problem?""Last night, I was going to teach him a lesson. I tied him up on the rooftop of a bar, but I didn't expect an earthquake. I didn't want to kill him, but that jerk took advantage of the chaos and pulled out a knife, ready to kill me!""In the midst of chaos, I grabbed him and we fell off the rooftop, hitting an advertising billboard. I don't remember what happened after that."As everyone listened to this man's story, they furrowed their brows.Sweetie seemed to have realized something and angrily said, "See! That's why you're trying to blame me! It turns out you're the liar!""What? Who says I'm lying?" Qiao Jiajin retorted fiercely."I'm in Shaanxi, and you're in Guangdong!" Sweetie pointed at him. "Your story is clearly copied from mine! I had an earthquake, and you had one too. I got hit by an advertising billboard, and you miraculously did too! If this isn't lying, then what is?""I don't care where you are! I did encounter an earthquake," the tattooed man said, glaring. "If I had concealed it, that would be lying! As for the billboard, is there only one billboard in the whole world?""In short, you're the liar!" Sweetie pointed at Qiao Jiajin. "Your profession is what bad people do, so lying isn't surprising!""Heh, what makes your profession any better than mine?"Zixia looked at the heated argument between the two and felt something was indeed strange about this situation.It wasn't because one of them was lying, but because he had also experienced an earthquake.He wasn't in Shaanxi or Guangdong, but in Shandong.In this world, could such a widespread earthquake exist?This earthquake spanned half the country, involving three provinces.If what they said was true, wouldn't this be an unprecedented disaster?"Stop arguing and end it soon," the burly man sitting opposite them interjected, then glanced at the next girl. "It's your turn. If we really want to judge who's lying, let everyone finish their stories first."The two fell silent upon hearing this.The woman next to Qiao Jiajin nodded timidly and said, "Um... My name is Xiao Ran, and I'm a kindergarten teacher."It seemed that this girl named Xiao Ran was quite frightened, her voice trembling."Before coming here, I was waiting with a child for their parents. Initially, it was the mother who would come, but then I heard she got seriously ill, with something growing in her brain, needing surgery... So, in the past few days, the father started coming instead, but he seemed to forget often...""Yesterday, it was already past 6 p.m., actually well past my working hours, but for some reason, the child's father wasn't answering his phone...""I didn't know the child's address, so I couldn't take him home, and we just stood at the intersection waiting.""Actually, that evening I had plans... I had an appointment with a therapist. I feel like I don't really like my current job, and I hoped the therapist could help me cope.""But I didn't expect to wait for hours, and the evening appointment was ruined.""When I was lost in thought, suddenly the ground started shaking, and I was terrified... It took me several seconds to realize it was an earthquake...""The feeling of the earthquake was different from what I'd heard... The ground wasn't jumping, it was swaying from side to side, like I was standing on a table and someone was shaking it constantly...""I immediately held the child next to me, but I didn't know what to do. I saw the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in the distance cracking... Luckily, we were standing in an open space.""Then, I saw a runaway car rushing towards us... I could only sway and hold onto the child, trying to run to the side, but the shaking ground made me fall with every step.""Finally, when I fell, I hit my head... and then passed out. When I woke up, I was already here."It was a rather unremarkable story.But the only thing that struck Zixia as odd was the mention of the "three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple."These three pagodas were in Dali, Yunnan.Zixia gently touched the card on the table. Although he covered the three words with his hand, he knew it said "liar."So, could there be multiple liars?If "the rules are absolute," then what the Goat Head just said, "there is only one liar among all storytellers," must be absolute.Since he drew the "liar" card, it meant the others couldn't be liars; there could only be one liar.They were all telling the truth.But these stories, spanning three provinces, seemed to connect.Not only the earthquakes but even the contents they described were linked. Wasn't that too strange?At this moment, everyone's gaze shifted to the next person, the middle-aged man in the white coat.
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十天的毁灭
Paranormal"When I thought it was just an ordinary day, I found myself trapped in the land of doom. When I thought all I needed was to keep participating in the death games to escape, I realized that people began to help me."
