After Little Fire Dragon meticulously repeated, "The win condition for our team of three players in this instance is 'reaching Willow Town,'" Lin Yu felt a brief sound from the 【Lie Detector】.
This meant that what it said was indeed the truth.
Although 【Mind-Reading Binoculars】 and mental perception could also assist in lie detection, and Lin Yu could even rule out most deception situations simply by observation,
the 【Lie Detector】 didn't require judgment or operation; it determined truth from falsehood at the level of causality.
So, in this crucial moment, Lin Yu naturally didn't hesitate to use the 【Item】 and chose the most reliable way to confirm that the other party wasn't lying.
Lin Yu exhaled.
"Very well, no more questions now."
Deadshot nodded: "It seems that Mr. Clorazepate used some kind of lie detection method to verify the truth of what we said, right?"
"Of course."
Lin Yu didn't hide it.
Squirtle suddenly looked at Lin Yu warily: "Should we also test this guy…"
"No need," Little Fire Dragon said after thinking, "He said the 'reach Willow Town' condition first—if he was lying to us, how would he know what our win condition is?"
Lin Yu, on the other hand, argued against Little Fire Dragon: "That's not necessarily true, because if my win condition is 'preventing anyone from entering Willow Town within five days,' it's easy to deduce that the win condition of players hostile to my faction is likely to be entering Willow Town."
As Lin Yu spoke, Little Fire Dragon nodded: "I see."
Deadshot said: "Since you said so, I might as well test it!"
Saying that, this guy put away his gun and took out a Mo Crystal box with flowing light on its surface.
The box opened, and a white bat with tiny wings flew out.
Deadshot said: "Repeat it again."
Lin Yu also repeated the sentence, "The win condition for our team of three players in this instance is 'reaching Willow Town,'" and then the white bat flew to Lin Yu's side, circled twice, and returned to Deadshot.
Deadshot put it back into the box and said, "This is a variant of the 'Heart-Eating Bat Devil' from Night Valley Realm, which sucks up the insincerity people produce… it didn't react to you just now, which means that what you said just now was no problem."
After both sides confirmed that what each other said was true, they finally believed one thing…
"This isn't really a 'player-versus-player instance'…"
Li Nian said with disbelief.
"That's great," Squirtle also breathed a sigh of relief, "At least we don't have to face 'Thief'."
As he said that, Lin Yu shook his head.
"No, this may not be a good thing."
"If you're teaming up with the three of us, it means that the strength of this 【Instance】 is designed according to the strength of the six of us," Lin Yu said calmly, "The three of you should all be 'Tier 2'… Although I am 'Tier 1,' I can say responsibly that I should be considered to have the strength of 'Tier 2'."
"Six 'Tier 2's, or two teams of three… This means that if it's not a 【PvP Instance】, the pressure we face from the instance itself will be greater."
"And the reason why we judged this instance to be a 【PvP】 type is largely because the condition of 'reaching Willow Town' is too simple given our current situation, so we judged that more of the difficulty may come from other players… This means that this instance may be hiding more crises and problems than we currently understand."
Lin Yu analyzed logically, and Little Fire Dragon nodded repeatedly.
"That makes sense, perhaps this 【Instance】 is closer to the 【Puzzle Solving】 type than 【Survival】… At least it should combine many puzzle-solving elements!"
As Little Fire Dragon spoke, this sentence was also recognized by his two teammates.
"So, we'd better exchange our respective experiences," Li Nian said, supporting her chin, "It just so happens that we have indeed encountered some… some strange situations now."
Then, Li Nian briefly explained their experience of being mixed in with this caravan, and informed them of the abnormal attacks of the demons, the abnormality of the "goods" transported by this caravan, the living dead in Chen Family Fortress, and the peculiar incidents of the disappearance of the two镖师just now.
These experiences left Little Fire Dragon, Deadshot, and Squirtle dumbfounded.
"It feels like this instance is already quite strong," Little Fire Dragon said with emotion, "Seemingly dead but actually alive, seemingly alive but actually dead… and people who disappear for no reason."
"These sound very tricky."
As Little Fire Dragon spoke, Lin Yu looked at them and asked, "Did you have a smooth journey all the way… By the way, I haven't asked yet, how did you find this Chen Family Fortress?"
Hearing Lin Yu say this, Little Fire Dragon honestly answered: "The initial position of the three of us entering the instance wasn't at the place where the caravan met, but in a dilapidated Taoist temple. There was a skeleton in the Taoist temple, which looked like it had been dead for a long time—but now that you say so, we didn't check carefully, maybe that skeleton is also alive."
"In short, the clothes on the skeleton were relatively tattered, so it was easy to see that he had a tattered map in his arms, marking several routes to different human settlements."
"One of the routes leads to this Chen Family Fortress—and it's the closest one, so we came here first."
As Little Fire Dragon spoke, Deadshot also nodded and added: "The basic situation is as Little Fire Dragon said, but I want to add that the reason why we chose Chen Family Fortress wasn't a random choice, but because the map didn't mark a direct route to Willow Town."
"So, our goal is to ask for directions as soon as possible after going to the human gathering place—but unexpectedly, we met you directly here."
"The old man in Chen Family Fortress said that a caravan had already moved into the stone house in advance, and there were three people in the caravan who didn't look like locals like us, so we guessed that they might be the remaining players, so we came over to negotiate."
After Deadshot finished supplementing, Lin Yu nodded and raised a question.
"Can you show me your map?"
He took the map and deduced the location where Little Fire Dragon and his party first entered this 【Instance】 based on the route above.
The location of that Taoist temple seems to be not too far from Chen Family Fortress as the distance between my initial location and Chen Family Fortress.
This made Lin Yu a little puzzled.
"That's strange, why did you arrive later than us?"
