CHAPTER 281: CHAPTER 241: IT’S EASY TO SEE THROUGH LIES

"You’re bold enough to teach, but I don’t dare learn..." Li Zheng smiled and drew his sword: "Such clumsy lying tactics, you better not embarrass yourself!"

"Wait a minute!"

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

"Oh, sure, all truths."

Li Zheng stepped forward leisurely and said: "Rule number one of lying, mix some truths in your lies to make it seem credible."

"I believe that most of what you said about Misaka Tsuchiemon is true. As long as I verify it on channel sixty-seven, I won’t doubt you much."

"You’re quite gutsy, daring to use my hands for a kill?"

"No, you misunderstood! That’s a misconception!" Kato Junwa, like an innocent person wronged, urgently opened the door, trying to explain: "You can’t assume I’m deceiving you just because historically our two countries had some diplomatic issues, right? From start to finish, I never uttered a lie!"

"Diplomatic issues between two countries?" Li Zheng’s foot abruptly halted, and a surge of anger flared up in his chest, rushing to his mind.

This Mud Furnace bastard actually dares to say that was just a diplomatic issue?

Courting death!

The hand holding the sword cracked audibly, a dangerous aura enveloped Li Zheng, stirring up a wave of fury.

At this moment, Li Zheng wished to rush over and tear Kato Junwa into pieces with his longsword.

Crunch!

A pain shot through his right wrist, a cool sensation spread throughout his body from the bracelet, gradually dispelling his furious emotions.

His mind cleared, Li Zheng snapped awake, surprised that a single sentence could trigger hidden negative emotions within him?

This kind of emotion, capable of influencing consciousness, seemed to have grown significantly without him noticing.

Struggling to suppress the remnants of his emotions, Li Zheng pulled up the corner of his mouth into a cruel smile: "No rush, I haven’t finished playing hard to get, and you’re already seeking death?"

Seeing this, Kato Junwa immediately restored the entrance door to a state with only a narrow gap, a single eye peeking out, hiding a look of disappointment.

Li Zheng ignored him, speaking to himself: "Actually, your flaw was there from the start."

"First, you lied about the cause of death being to the left of the postern."

"The last person he saw before he died was me. As his superior, you should know this."

"Yet when I asked who killed him, you said you couldn’t reach him the next day and only then found out he was dead."

"How is that possible?"

"As his superior, upon knowing he fell into my hands, wouldn’t you monitor his status in real-time? How could you wait until the next day to contact him?"

"So, the answer is you know very well it wasn’t me who killed him."

Kato Junwa argued: "Even if you didn’t kill him, maybe it was one of your channel’s other players, or perhaps he died at the hands of a monster?"

"Hmm, reasonable, but unfortunately... you don’t quite understand our channel, the intelligence work is lacking!"

Li Zheng raised his index finger: "First, although I’m not familiar with every top player on channel 879, I do know some. If any of them secretly killed him, there’s no way it would escape my notice."

He to the left of the postern wasn’t a Bloody, so if anyone killed him, they would become flagged.

Li Zheng contacted a few people most likely to have killed him, and none of them were flagged.

The key point is, when he left, Li Zheng saw the door and the environment behind it was safe, eliminating the possibility of dying by a monster’s hand.

Though the chance of him encountering a roaming monster isn’t ruled out, Li Zheng felt this direction isn’t very important, what’s important is the second point.

Li Zheng raised his middle finger: "Second, I never said it was you who killed him; I just pointed out your behavior of contacting him the next day is unreasonable."

"It doesn’t make sense for you to contact him only the next day, regardless of who ultimately killed him! So your eagerness to justify yourself, doesn’t that suggest a guilty conscience?"

"I..."

Kato Junwa wanted to say more, but Li Zheng interrupted, continuing: "The most important point, perhaps you haven’t even realized?"

Putting away two fingers, he gripped his longsword tightly again: "Another rule of lying, if you haven’t thought through the content of the lie, repeat the question posed by the other party."

"I asked several questions, and you instinctively repeated keywords from my questions, stopping only when I inquired about information concerning Misaka Tsuchiemon."

"Though you paused intentionally before revealing information, it was too deliberate, failing to hide your prepared intelligence meant to incite strife at this meeting."

"So... now another question arises: why were you so sure I would come for you, and even prepared an enemy organization’s intelligence in advance?"

Li Zheng looked around: "Moreover, you found such a suitable room to stay in, seemingly prepared to defend against attacks on capsule residences, what are you afraid of?"

This small room perfectly counters Li Zheng’s usual tactic of using his capsule residence to crash another’s.

Wasn’t William indirectly killed in such a manner?

Just as Li Zheng can detect this method, so can others.

Especially flagged players, who find it easier to notice that their larger capsule residences have an advantage over smaller initial residences during a collision.

"I didn’t know you were coming to find me, my reason for staying overnight here is quite simple." Kato Junwa didn’t seem nervous at all, "Our channel only has us two people, and when the leaderboard refreshes in the morning, both our names will appear on it. I’m a Mud Furnace person, you’re from Dragon Country, of course, I need to guard against you!"

"Guard against me?" Li Zheng laughed: "You’re not going to bring up historical diplomatic issues again, are you?"

"Come on, trying to anger me to make me mess up in combat is a transparent tactic."

"Not even the third-rate authors on some of our country’s novel websites write such simple plots, you don’t think I’m stupider than those third-rate writers, do you?"

Though at first, he did fall for it, he couldn’t show it on the surface.

Actually, at first, Li Zheng didn’t suspect Kato Junwa. He mainly came out of curiosity about why Kato Junwa appeared in a channel supposedly devoid of players.

And to incidentally ask if he knew anything about who controls black creatures to attack players.

Kato Junwa’s actions were riddled with holes, even attempting to provoke Li Zheng with a phrase unacceptable to Dragon Country players, seeking to anger him.

One could say Kato Junwa was courting death.

Even if it were just because of that phrase, there was no way Li Zheng would let him go easily today; a harsh lesson was inevitable.

"Well? Do you have anything more to say?" Li Zheng shook the longsword in his hand, "If not, it’s time for me to send you on your way."

Kato Junwa, realizing further arguments were futile, decided to strike first: "Since you’ve seen through me, then prepare to die!"

Clatter!

The door swung open, and the right hand that had been concealed behind it unveiled an outrageous-looking sniper rifle, aimed at Li Zheng, and pulled the trigger!

Boom!

A thunderous roar like a cannon blast, and Li Zheng was instantly shattered into pieces.