At this moment, Flower-Arm Man raised his hand and looked toward Goat Head. “Hey, referee, how should we count cases like this with fake names? Does it count as lying?”

Goat Head neither nodded nor shook his head. He simply said flatly, “I will not participate in any part of the process anymore. You only need to write down the name according to your own thoughts. You only need to remember that ‘the rules are absolute.’ In the end, I will personally carry out ‘punishment’ on the loser.”

The two words “punishment” resounded forcefully, making everyone shudder involuntarily.

“This, this proves I didn’t lie!” Tiantian shouted anxiously. “If I lied, I’d be dead now, right? Even if it’s a fake name, my fake name really is ‘Tiantian’!”

No one answered her. This was already the critical stage of life and death. No suspicious point could be overlooked.

“Then it’s my turn to speak next.” Flower-Arm Man curled his lip with an unwilling expression on his face. “If this lady’s story doesn’t count as lying, then mine definitely doesn’t either.”

“My name is Qiao Jiajin. I live in Guangdong and don’t have any particular occupation. Before coming here, I was collecting debts.”

Qiao Jiajin’s Mandarin was quite poor, so everyone could only listen carefully.

“Speaking of which, people nowadays are really interesting. When borrowing money, they promise everything. When it’s time to repay, they start crying about how pitiful they are.”

“Damn it, they curse us debt collectors as devils, as cold-blooded.”

“But that bastard should also think from another angle. When he was most helpless and needed money the most, it was I who extended a helping hand. When all institutions wouldn’t lend him money, it was I who lent to him. To him, I’m not a devil but a savior.”

“But how did he treat me, this savior?”

“He cried about how pitiful he was everywhere, saying how difficult things were for him, that he was swindled out of two million. He also denounced us debt collectors for being so cold-blooded, actually trying to use the sympathy of neighbors to resolve his predicament. But when he borrowed money, we signed a contract. All the interest was clearly explained to him. Now that he can’t repay, is that our problem?”

“Last night, I planned to teach him a lesson. I brought him to the rooftop of a tall building, but I didn’t expect an earthquake to suddenly happen. Originally, I didn’t want his life, but this bastard actually took advantage of the chaos to pull out a knife to try to kill me!”

“In the midst of all the confusion, he pushed me off the rooftop, and I hit a billboard. What happened after that… I can’t remember.”

After everyone finished listening to this man’s story, they all furrowed their brows.

And Tiantian seemed to have discovered something. She laughed angrily and said, “See! I knew why you were throwing dirty water on me! Turns out you’re the liar!”

“What? On what basis do you say I’m lying?” Qiao Jiajin said viciously.

“I’m in Shaanxi, you’re in Guangdong!” Tiantian pointed at him and said, “Your story was completely fabricated based on my story! There was an earthquake where I was, and you also have an earthquake. I was hit by a billboard, and you also happened to hit a billboard! If this isn’t lying, what is?”

“What do I care where you are? I just encountered an earthquake.” Flower-Arm Man glared and said, “If I concealed it and didn’t say anything, that would be lying! As for the billboard, it’s impossible for there to be only one billboard in the whole world, right?”

“Anyway, you’re the one lying!” Tiantian pointed at Qiao Jiajin and said, “Your profession is what bad people do anyway, so it’s not strange that you’d lie!”

“Heh, how is your profession any better than mine?”

Qi Xia looked at the two arguing intensely and felt this matter was indeed somewhat fishy.

Not because what either of them said was false, but because he had also encountered an earthquake.

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

In this world, could there exist an earthquake of such a large scope?

This earthquake spanned half the country, involving three provinces.

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

“Stop arguing. Let’s finish this early.” The muscular man sitting across from them stopped the two, then looked at the next girl. “It’s your turn. If we really want to judge who’s lying, we might as well wait until everyone has finished speaking.”

After hearing this, both of them snorted coldly and said nothing more.

The woman beside Qiao Jiajin timidly nodded and spoke. “Um… I, I’m called Xiao Ran. I’m a kindergarten teacher.”

It appeared this girl named Xiao Ran was quite frightened. Her voice was very small, carrying a tremor.

“Before coming here, I was accompanying a child while waiting for his parent. Originally, this child’s mother would come pick him up, but later I heard his mother had a serious illness—something growing in her brain—and needed surgery… So these past few days, it’s been his father coming to pick him up instead, except his father seems to often forget to come…”

“Yesterday it was already past 6 PM. Actually, I had long passed my off-duty time, but I don’t know why—that child’s father never answered his phone…”

“I didn’t know the child’s home address and couldn’t send him home, so I could only stand with him at the intersection waiting.”

“Actually, I also had something to do that evening… I had an appointment with a psychological counselor. I feel like I don’t really enjoy my current job. I hoped the psychological counselor could help counsel me.”

“But I didn’t expect to wait for several hours, and the evening meeting I’d arranged also fell through.”

“Just when I was spacing out, the entire ground suddenly began to shake. I was terrified… It took several seconds before I realized it was an earthquake…”

“The feeling of the earthquake was different from what I’d heard… The earth wasn’t jumping but swaying left and right. That feeling was like I was standing on a table, and then someone was constantly shaking that table…”

“The first thing I did was hold the child beside me in my arms, but I also didn’t know what to do. I saw in the distance that all three towers of Chongsheng Temple had cracked open… Fortunately, we were standing on open ground.”

“Immediately after, I saw an out-of-control small sedan racing rapidly toward us… I could only shakily run to the side while holding the child, but the shaking earth made me fall with every step I took.”

“When I finally fell, I hit my head… then directly passed out. When I woke up, I was already here.”

This was a narration without any remarkable points.

The only thing Qi Xia found strange was the “Three Towers of Chongsheng Temple.”

These three towers were in Dali, Yunnan.

Qi Xia gently stroked the card on the table. Although he covered those three words with his hand, he knew what was written there: “The Liar.”

So, could there be multiple liars?

If “the rules are absolute,” then what Goat Head just said—”there is one and only one liar”—was absolute.

Since he himself had drawn “The Liar,” it proved the others couldn’t possibly be liars. There was only one liar.

They were all telling the truth.

But these stories spanning three provinces were faintly connected together.

Not only the earthquake—even the content they narrated was also connected. Wasn’t this too strange?

At this moment, everyone’s gazes turned to the next person—that middle-aged man wearing a white lab coat.