Chapter 4

At this moment, the man with the tattooed arm raised his hand and looked at the goat-headed figure: "Hey, referee, how do we count someone who uses an alias? Is it considered a lie?"

The goat-headed figure neither nodded nor shook its head, but said indifferently, "I will no longer participate in the process. You only need to write down your names according to your own judgment. Just remember, 'the rules are absolute.' In the end, I will personally impose 'punishment' on the loser."

The word "punishment" was spoken with such force that everyone couldn't help but shiver.

"This, this means I didn't lie!" Tian Tian said anxiously, "If I had lied, I would be dead now, right? Even if it's an alias, my alias is really called 'Tian Tian'!"

No one answered her. It was now a critical stage of life and death, and no doubt could be overlooked.

"Then it's my turn to speak," the man with the tattooed arm said, his face unwilling, "If this lady's story doesn't count as a lie, then mine definitely doesn't either."

"My name is Qiao Jiajin, and I live in Guangdong. I don't have a job. Before coming here, I was collecting a debt."

Qiao Jiajin's Mandarin was poor, so everyone had to listen carefully.

"People these days are really interesting. They promise everything when borrowing money, but start crying when it's time to pay back."

"Damn, they call us debt collectors devils and heartless."

"But that guy should also think from another perspective. When he was in his most helpless and desperate need for money, I extended a helping hand. When no institution would lend him money, I did. To him, I am not a devil but a savior."

"But how did he treat me, his savior?"

"He cried everywhere, saying how hard he had it, that he was cheated out of two million. He also harshly criticized us debt collectors for being heartless, trying to use the sympathy of the neighbors to solve his own problems."

"But when he borrowed the money, we signed a contract, and all the interest was clearly explained to him. Now that he can't pay, is it our fault?"

"Last night, I was going to teach him a lesson. I took him to the rooftop of a high building, but unexpectedly, an earthquake suddenly happened. I didn't want to kill him, but this guy actually pulled out a knife and tried to kill me in the chaos!"

"In the chaos, he pushed me off the rooftop, and I hit a GG sign. After that... I can't remember anything."

Everyone frowned after hearing the man's story.

Tian Tian seemed to have noticed something and said angrily, "See! I knew you were the liar! Why did you try to smear me!"

"What? How can you say I'm lying?" Qiao Jiajin said fiercely.

"I'm in Shaanxi, and you're in Guangdong!" Tian Tian pointed at him, "Your story is just a copy of mine! I had an earthquake, and you had one too. I was hit by a GG sign, and you hit one too! Isn't that a lie?"

"Who cares where you are? I did encounter an earthquake," the man with the tattooed arm said, glaring, "If I had hidden it, that would be a lie! As for the GG sign, there can't be only one GG sign in the world, right?"

"You're just lying!" Tian Tian pointed at Qiao Jiajin, "Your job is something only bad people do, so it's not surprising that you lie!"

"Huh, is your job any better than mine?"

Qi Xia looked at the two people arguing intensely and felt that something was indeed suspicious.

It wasn't because one of them was lying, but because he had also experienced an earthquake.

He was neither in Shaanxi nor in Guangdong, but in Shandong.

Was there an earthquake of such a large scale in the world?

This earthquake spanned half the country, involving three provinces.

If what they said was true, wouldn't this be an unprecedented disaster?

"Stop arguing, let's finish this quickly," the muscular man sitting opposite them said, then looked at the next girl, "It's your turn. If we really need to judge who is lying, let's wait until everyone has spoken."

The two people grunted and fell silent.

The woman next to Qiao Jiajin timidly nodded and said, "Um... I, I'm Xiao Ran, a kindergarten teacher."

The girl named Xiao Ran seemed very scared. Her voice was small and trembling.

"Before coming here, I was waiting with a child for his parents. The child was usually picked up by his mother, but she was seriously ill and needed surgery... so his father has been picking him up for the past few days, but he often forgets to come..."

"It was already past six in the evening, and I had already finished my shift, but for some reason, the child's father wouldn't answer the phone..."

"I didn't know the child's address, so I couldn't take him home. I could only stand at the intersection and wait with him."

"Actually, I had plans that night... I had an appointment with a psychologist. I didn't really like my current job and hoped the psychologist could help me."

"But I didn't expect to wait for hours, and my appointment was canceled."

"While I was distracted, the ground suddenly started shaking, and I was terrified... It took a few seconds for me to realize it was an earthquake..."

"The feeling of the earthquake was different from what I had heard... The ground wasn't jumping, but swaying from side to side. It felt like I was standing on a table, and someone was shaking it continuously..."

"I immediately hugged the child, but I didn't know what to do. I saw the three towers of Chongsheng Temple cracking in the distance... Fortunately, we were standing on an open ground."

"Then, I saw a car speeding towards us out of control... I could only stagger and run with the child, but the shaking ground made me fall with every step."

"Finally, I hit my head when I fell and passed out. When I woke up, I was already here."

This was a rather unremarkable story.

The only thing that made Qi Xia feel strange was the "three towers of Chongsheng Temple."

These three towers are in Dali, Yunnan.

Qi Xia gently touched the card on the table, covering the three words with his hand, but he knew it said "liar."

So, could there be multiple liars?

If "the rules are absolute," then the goat-headed figure's statement that "there is only one liar" must be absolute.

Since he had drawn the "liar" card, it proved that the others could not be liars, and there was only one liar.

They were all telling the truth.

But the stories spanning three provinces were subtly connected.

Not only the earthquake, but even the content of their stories were linked. Wasn't that strange?

At this moment, everyone's attention turned to the next person, the middle-aged man in the white coat.