Ren Yi subconsciously ran through a simulation in his mind.
Take Auntie Lu's 【Lu Family Courtyard】 as an example.
If he were Wang Zhixin, how would he clear that Instance after entering it?
The initial killing move of the Lu Family Courtyard wasn't that servant's note, but the completion requirements.
To be precise, it was the completion requirements that had been partially obscured.
Therefore, if this ability were used correctly, Wang Zhixin would have been able to immediately discover that there was a problem with the Instance's completion requirements.
"You will survive for three days in this Instance" did not mean that "surviving for three days would allow you to clear it."
That was a deliberately obscured, incomplete rule.
Following this line of reasoning, he would quickly realize that a servant should be diligent—not just doing any work, but taking on multiple roles simultaneously.
Once all the hidden tasks were completed, Auntie Lu would be bound by the rules and forced to promote him.
As long as he passed the final stage where "servants have no names," he could truly clear the Instance as a Participant.
Unfortunately, the Participant who possessed this powerful strategy-breaking ability had now abandoned the light for the dark, planning to run off and become an NPC.
"But if that's the case—"
Ren Yi suddenly thought of something. He looked up at Dr. Zhao, who had leaned in close and was staring at Wang Zhixin with great interest.
"Just now, why didn't you realize he was a fake?"
"That's because this Lie Detection ability only works on humans. For some reason, it can't be used on Instance bosses."
Wang Zhixin explained with some helplessness.
"Ah, it's probably that mental power system," Dr. Zhao chimed in lazily.
"We aren't humans, so we don't have things like mental power. Your ability naturally can't affect us."
Ren Yi felt enlightened.
"It's already very impressive," he praised sincerely.
Wang Zhixin had already been turned into one of their own by the rules, so naturally, the stronger he was, the better.
"So, in the final Instance of the Three Cities World back then, did you rely on this ability to find the loopholes in the rules and clear it successfully?"
Ren Yi couldn't help but be curious.
"That was part of the reason," Wang Zhixin said, fluttering his wings in a modest tone.
"Mainly, the strategy of the Instance boss at the time happened to be perfectly countered by me."
"Oh? What was its strategy?" Ren Yi's interest was piqued instantly.
"It pretended to be a human and mixed in with the Participants of that time."
A rare hint of pride crept into Wang Zhixin's tone.
"But my Lie Detection ability just happened to be ineffective against it. I immediately realized that it wasn't a human at all, but an Anomaly in disguise."
"So, by observing its actions and doing the opposite, I avoided a lot of danger. Then I found the correct way to clear the Instance and finished it."
After finishing, it looked up at Ren Yi, only to find him covering his face with a complex expression.
"Hmm? Mr. Ren Yi, what's wrong?"
"No... it's nothing." Ren Yi's lips twitched as he muttered softly, "I was just thinking, it's a good thing I didn't run into you in an Instance back then."
He quickly changed the subject, pulling his attention back to reality.
"Let's not talk about the past. Back to the present."
"Tell me specifically: of the things the Battle-Damaged Guy just said, which were true and which were false?"
Wang Zhixin gave a light hop, standing back on Ren Yi's shoulder, and lowered his small voice a bit.
"It's those few points I warned you about earlier."
The times he warned me?
Ren Yi closed his eyes, quickly reviewing the previous conversation in his mind.
The first part: the Battle-Damaged Guy wanted to challenge the God of Gamblers.
That was definitely the truth.
The second part: "For the sake of my life, I must do this; there is no way out."
A lie.
So that meant he either wasn't doing this for his life, or he had left himself a way out?
It was also possible it was both.
Regardless, he shouldn't be able to bypass the entertainment city's redemption rules.
The third part: regarding the method of betting against the God of Gamblers, using a simple game of guessing dice determined by luck.
The truth.
The fourth part: "The only thing I want to bet on is the invitation. The simpler it is, the less likely something will go wrong."
A lie.
What did that mean?
Was he going to make a different bet with the God of Gamblers on the spot?
But if he didn't propose it before the challenge and write it into the challenge terms, the God of Gamblers should be able to simply refuse.
Then, the fifth part.
Using three chips to quickly earn the wager, and that particularly pretentious line, "Three chips are enough," were the truth.
Correspondingly, he indeed had confidence, a trump card, and capital he could present.
That was also the truth.
Then, the sixth part.
His initial entry into the entertainment city and falling into the predicament of being a stowaway was an accident caused by his negligence.
This was a lie.
But if it was a lie, there were two possibilities.
One: his predicament wasn't an accident; he did it on purpose.
Two: he knew he would fall into a predicament and was therefore mentally prepared.
The seventh part, which he later took the initiative to tell Ren Yi: he would bear all the risks himself, and Ren Yi only needed to say one sentence to initiate the challenge.
This was the truth.
So his target probably really wasn't Ren Yi himself.
Then the eighth part: challenging the God of Gamblers in the entertainment city and dragging someone with 【Luck】 off their pedestal was very interesting...
Well, that was actually the truth too.
Finally, after the Battle-Damaged Guy finished his series of explanations on how to deal with the God of Gamblers' unreasonable 【Luck】 talent, Wang Zhixin had a particularly large reaction.
Wang Zhixin had used quite a bit of strength; Ren Yi had almost lost control over the material of his scalp, nearly letting it stretch like rubber.
That scene would have been a bit horrifying.
However, Ren Yi was a bit unsure which sentence in that section was a lie, or if they were all lies.
"So, that last reaction of yours—which sentence of his was a lie?" he asked the parrot on his shoulder.
"Was his plan for how to deal with the Luck talent fake?"
The Battle-Damaged Guy's way of dealing with it was to make a firm resolution in his heart to compensate the God of Gamblers with more chips afterward, thereby offsetting his Luck talent.
But this method also had a drawback: it depended entirely on the Battle-Damaged Guy himself.
He said he had made a firm resolution, but who could know for sure?
"That was indeed a lie." Wang Zhixin nodded his parrot head, the feathers on top swaying with his movement.
"But it wasn't just that sentence. There were lies in the ones after it as well."
"Was it the sentence before that, 'I don't think I can defeat Fate'?"
Ren Yi frowned and guessed, "Are you saying he actually believes he can beat Fate?"
"No, it's not that." Wang Zhixin shook his head.
"Then which sentence was it?" Ren Yi was somewhat confused.
In his memory, besides those few sentences, the Battle-Damaged Guy had hardly said anything of substance afterward.
Wang Zhixin was silent for a moment, then spoke in a tiny but incredibly clear voice:
"The very last sentence."
The last sentence?
Ren Yi recalled the last thing the Battle-Damaged Guy had said before Wang Zhixin pulled his hair.
He remembered it quickly, his eyes widening slightly, a hint of shock in his tone.
"You mean, when he said, 'I don't think I'll die here'..."
"That was a lie?"
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