“What? What makes you say I’m lying?” Brian Johnson said viciously.

“I’m in Shaanxi, you’re in Guangdong!” Emily pointed at him and said, “Your story is basically copied from mine! There was an earthquake where I was, and you just happened to have an earthquake too. I got hit by a billboard, and you also ran into a billboard! If that’s not lying, what is?”

“I don’t care where you are! I really did experience an earthquake.” The tattooed man glared and said, “If I hid it and didn’t say anything, that would be lying! As for the billboard, there can’t be only one billboard in the whole world, right?”

“In any case, you’re lying!” Emily pointed at Brian Johnson and said, “Your profession is something only bad people do, so it’s not surprising you’d lie!”

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

Ashley Carter glanced at the two arguing fiercely, feeling that there was indeed something odd about this matter.

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

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

Is it possible for such a large-scale earthquake to exist in this 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 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, why not wait until everyone has finished speaking?”

The two of them both snorted coldly at this and fell silent.

The woman next to Brian Johnson nodded timidly and began to speak: “Um… my name is Jason Clark, and I’m a kindergarten teacher.”

It seemed that this girl named Jason Clark was quite frightened; her voice was very soft and trembling.

“Before I came here, I was waiting with a child for his parent. It was always his mother who picked him up, but then I heard his mother had a serious illness, something grew in her brain and she needed surgery… so these days, it’s been his father picking him up instead, but his father often seems to forget…”

“Yesterday it was already past six in the evening, and I was long past my working hours, but for some reason, the child’s father just wouldn’t answer the phone…”

“I didn’t know the child’s home address, so I couldn’t take him home. I could only wait with him at the street corner.”

“Actually, I had something to do that night too… I had an appointment with a psychological counselor. I don’t really like my current job, and I hoped the counselor could help me work through it.”

“But I didn’t expect to end up waiting for hours, and my evening appointment was ruined.”

“Just as I was zoning out, the ground suddenly started shaking. I was terrified… it took me several seconds to realize it was an earthquake…”

“The earthquake didn’t feel like what I’d heard… the earth wasn’t jumping, it was swaying side to side. It felt like I was standing on a table and someone kept shaking it…”

“The first thing I did was hold the child in my arms, but I didn’t know what to do. I saw the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in the distance all cracking… Luckily, we were standing in an open area.”

“Right after that, I saw an out-of-control car speeding toward us… I could only stagger away with the child in my arms, but the shaking ground made me fall with every step.”

“The last time I fell, I hit my head… and then I blacked out. When I woke up, I was already here.”

This was a rather unremarkable account.

The only thing that struck Ashley Carter as odd was the “Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple.”

Those three pagodas are in Dali, Yunnan.

Ashley Carter gently stroked the card on the table. Although his hand covered those three characters, he knew it said “Liar.”

So, could there be more than one liar?

If “the rules are absolute,” then what the goat-headed man just said—“there is one and only one liar”—must be absolute.

Since he drew the “Liar” card, it proves that no one else can be the liar; there is only one liar.

Everyone else is telling the truth.

But these stories, spanning three provinces, are somehow connected.

Not only the earthquake, but even the details they described are linked. Isn’t that strange?

At this moment, everyone’s gaze turned to the next person—the middle-aged man in a white coat.

Chapter 5: Doctor

“I…” The man in the white coat seemed even calmer than the others; even the corpse on the table didn’t faze him. “My name is Eric Harris, I’m a doctor. You can probably tell from my clothes.”

He tugged at his dirty white coat and continued, “Before I came here, I was performing surgery on a woman. She had an intraventricular brain tumor, which was growing rapidly and had been enlarging for the past six months, already causing mild hydrocephalus. If we didn’t perform a craniotomy soon, her life would be in danger.”

“I chose a frontal lobe approach, puncturing directly into the ventricle under CT guidance. In fact, every time we do this kind of surgery, there’s considerable risk, but the woman chose to take the risk so she could be with her young son for many years to come.”