Chapter 41
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[Comments - 14]
Anonymous 1 : So it wasn’t only telling lies..
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : This is f2reaking creepy, seriously. It answered the last question truthfully..
Anonymous 3 : How much of it is a lie, and how much is the truth..?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : We’ll have to figure that out somehow..
Anonymous 5 : At least we know there’s something behind Room 36.
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : For real; we’d better conquer it before then.
Admin : Let me know if you run out of food, Daebung-nim. Since you told me how to enter, I’ll bring food in.
ㄴ Author : Oh, wouldn’t that reduce the number of Returns you have left, Admin?
ㄴ Admin : Thanks to Daebung-nim conquering “The First-Floor Roommate Doesn’t Die” last time, I currently have one extra Return.
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : Look at the head mod sneaking in a brag, lol.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Ah~~~ I’m so jealous of you, head mod~~~~~
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : For real! I think the head mod is being outrageous! Let’s just freeze his paycheck this week.
ㄴ Admin : It’s not like that.
ㄴ Anonymous 7 : The head mod denying it because he’s afraid he won’t get his stones, lol.
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“...”
With the community closed, I silently stared at the anomaly in the suit.
‘So it wasn’t only telling lies..’
The one who answered 36 to the question 20 + 10 + 6.
Since its answer was clearly the ‘truth’..
Didn’t that mean this anomaly suffered no penalty even when it told the truth?
In other words..
‘How many truths has it answered to my questions..?’
That meant the anomaly calling itself a guide had been toying with us..
‘This is giving me a headache..’
I didn’t know what its plan was.
The first time I asked a question related to the number, it answered 38.
In the next room, it answered 37, and in this room, 36..
Just as I began thinking that we had to conquer this place somehow before anything happened in the rooms after Room 36.
“...”
The woman from Room 1001, who had been silently staring at the anomaly in the suit..
“..You know, Daebung-nim.”
“Yes? Go ahead.”
“Isn’t something.. strange?”
“What seems strange?”
“I.. I mean, the guide’s fingers.”
She told me that something about the guide’s fingers was strange.
However..
‘..What changed?’
No matter how I looked, the anomaly’s fingers didn’t seem strange.
Just as I was about to dismiss the woman from Room 1001’s words as my imagination.
“..?”
She slowly got up from her seat and walked toward the door with no trap behind it.
Then..
“Could you.. trust me just this once?”
She casually asked me to trust her.
‘Well, we’re still quite a ways from Room 36.’
We didn’t seem to be in such a dangerous situation yet.
Besides, simply holding out here until we ran out of food.. didn’t seem like a very good plan either.
“Let’s go. I’ll lead the way.”
We moved forward again—
“No. This time.. I’ll lead the way.”
“..What?”
“This is my choice, isn’t it? I said I’m going because.. I want to..”
Creak—
The woman turned the handle of the closed door and opened it as soon as I stood up.
‘That’s the woman who was sobbing and bawling?’
Was this the sense of incongruity that arose when other people saw me?
I felt a strange emotion at seeing the woman who had cried that she wanted to live suddenly act bravely.
But soon, I realized that this was a positive emotion.
“This is the next room.”
“Let’s go.”
I followed the woman, who seemed to have steeled herself, into the next room.
‘The room still hasn’t changed.’
Beyond the exact same scene, as if everything had been stamped with a repeat mark..
Plop..
“..!”
I could see one of the anomaly’s fingers lying on the floor between the two doors, exactly as it had fallen.
Along with that.
“..It disappeared.”
“..So its finger really had changed.”
“Yes, something about it felt.. precarious.”
Leaving behind the anomaly’s finger that had vanished like smoke.
The anomaly in the suit..
“It’s changed to four.”
It was now holding up only four fingers.
“It seems its fingers fall off when it tells the truth.”
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[New Information on the Liar Horror Story]
(Photo)
The anomaly’s fingers are down to four.
It seems one finger fell off because it answered truthfully in the last question of the fifth room.
[Comments - 10]
Anonymous 1 : Whoa, fuck..! You took another step forward?
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : Look at Daebung’s courage.. You moved forward in that situation? LMAO
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : For real, even the head mod was just sitting there thinking we should stay put and figure out a way, but you went forward again, lol.
ㄴ Author : I didn’t go. The woman from Room 1001 suddenly said she saw something and left.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Why is she becoming more and more like Daebung..?
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : *Suck*.. This isn’t a good sign..
ㄴ Author : ? No, wait. You laughed when you thought I moved forward, so why are you worried when she moved forward?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Because she’s a woman.
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : Yeah, because she’s a woman.
ㄴ Anonymous 5 : Are you jealous, Daebung? How cute~
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‘Yeah, this is what a community is supposed to be like.’
A community that was incredibly useful to everyone else.
A community that wasn’t helpful to me in the slightest.
Yeah! This is what a community is! Exactly!
“Whew..”
Somehow, ever since I came in here, I seemed to be sighing way too much.
Anyway.
“First, we should make all those fingers fall off.”
Since it seemed we were getting closer to a way to conquer this place.
We agreed that our goal was to cut off all of the anomaly’s fingers.
Then we began firing questions at the anomaly in the suit once more.
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[Liar Horror Story Progress (2)]
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#6
Q : Is there a trap beyond the door I’m pointing at with my finger?
A : There is.
Q : What is 1 plus 1?
A : 35
Q : What is 1 plus 34?
A : I cannot answer that.
Q : So a pattern that has been used once won’t work again?
A : I do not understand the meaning of the question.
Q : You’re scared, aren’t you?
(It did not give an additional answer because it had four fingers.)
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#7
Q : Is there a trap beyond the door I’m pointing at with my finger?
A : There is.
Q : What is 275,000,012 plus 12?
A : 34
Q : You really are bad at math.
A : That is correct. I am not good at mathematics.
Q : What should I ask to lead you into telling the truth..
A : I always answer only with the truth.
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For now, our goal is to make all the fingers fall off, but I don’t have any good ideas..
Does anyone have a good idea for making it tell the truth unconditionally?
[Comments - 17]
Anonymous 1 : Is there even a question that can make it tell the absolute truth? Hmm.. It would’ve been convenient if we could just reuse methods we’d already tried.
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : There is. What’s it called again? The liar’s paradox.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Oh? What is it?
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : If I remembered that, I would’ve told Daebung first.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Daebung.. Cute. Makes me want to fool around with Daebung a little?
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : That’s not the important part, lol. LMAO, don’t talk according to your stream of consciousness, Anonymous 1, lol.
Anonymous 4 : I don’t think the liar’s paradox will work on that anomaly. If you ask, “Are you a liar?” and it answers, “No,” then it just ends there.
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : If it says no, it’ll simply mean, “I’m someone who only tells the truth.”
ㄴ Anonymous 5 : Cutting off its fingers will be hard with this.. Is there any good way?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Cut off its fingers? Daebung should be good at that.
ㄴ Author : Oh, come on, please;
Anonymous 6 : Daebung, even if you cut off a few fingers
Anonymous 7 : How about an ambiguous expression? There’s something Koreans say: “That’s a really~ great thing you’re doing.” It can be positive or negative.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Oh?
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : Ooh?
ㄴ Author : Thanks thanks thanks thanks. I’ll use this right away.
ㄴ Anonymous 8 : He says he’s going to toy with the anomaly without hesitation;
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Since I saw a decent comment among the community replies, in the final question of the eighth room, I asked.
“It’s a really~ great thing that you’re answering us. Right?”
I asked it in the distinctive intonation Koreans use.
Then.
“...”
The thing seemed to ponder my question as it looked at me..
“..I don’t know.”
Instead of answering only yes or no.
It had used a cheat code to get out of the situation.
“..Huh.”
I had put some thought into the question, but that thing had used its head too..
“It can’t be helped. Let’s go to the next room.”
After we failed to find the answer in the eighth room and moved on to the next.
Just as I was about to ask a new question.
“Hmm.. What would be a good question.. No, that’s not it. Wait.”
A moment ago..
I remembered that it had been deep in thought over my question.
I realized that the anomaly claiming to be a guide was the type to think about our questions to some extent.
“I have a question.”
Applying that fact, I immediately approached the thing holding up four fingers and decided to ask a question that might cause the anomaly pain.
“Aren’t you not unaware that you know you’re not not a guide?”
“...”
Now, what are you going to do, you liar?!
What answer will you give me?!
‘Well, this was also a question it could answer if it wanted to lie.’
Of course, this question could also be answered if it wanted to answer falsely.
I had asked it hoping it would feel a little pain from the agony of mental confusion..
“......”
The thing, which had remained lost in thought..
Crunch— Plop
“??”
It bent one of its own fingers and tossed it onto the floor right before my eyes.
On the anomaly’s face as it bent the finger and looked at me..
‘You’re playing this game like a real asshole.’ It looked as though it wanted to say that. Surely that wasn’t just my imagination.
Thinking we had found a way of sorts, I asked the next question.
“Oh.. You neither know nor don’t know whether there is a trap beyond the door I’m pointing at with my finger, and since you have to answer truthfully, after pondering what you should say, aren’t you going to answer, ‘No, I have to answer only with lies, so there is a trap here’?”
“I can’t.. answer that.”
“Huh? Its finger changed again.”
“So saying that you couldn’t answer was the truth?”
“...”
“Well, saying you can answer would also be the truth, and saying you can’t answer must also be the truth, since you can’t give an exact answer.”
Since the woman from Room 1001 said she could see that something had happened to the anomaly’s finger again.
I was about to use a mental attack and head for the intact room I had already confirmed, so I could check whether only two of its fingers remained in the next room.
“You still have two questions left.”
It told me that I still had two chances to ask questions.
At that moment, a hypothesis flashed through my mind.
“If I move on without asking a question, will your finger be cut off?”
I casually asked, just in case.
“..I don’t know.”
From the anomaly’s attempt to dodge the question without giving a clear answer, I was able to confirm it.
“I guess if we move on without asking a question, your finger gets cut off?”
“I also.. ..don’t know about that.”
In other words, if we moved on without asking a question, its finger would simply be cut off.
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[Liar Horror Story Progress (3)]
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#8
Q : Is there a trap beyond the room I’m pointing at with my finger?
A : There is.
Q : What is 50 plus 3?
A : 33
Q : What is 50 minus 17?
A : I cannot answer that.
Q : It’s a really~ great thing that you’re answering us. Right?
A : ..I don’t know.
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#9
After confirming that the anomaly had pondered the question during the final question of Room 8, I decided to try asking a question that would be difficult to answer.
Q : Aren’t you not unaware that you know you’re not not a guide?
A : (After pondering the question for about a minute, it cut off its own finger.)
Q : You neither know nor don’t know whether there is a trap beyond the door I’m pointing at with my finger, and since you have to answer truthfully, after pondering what you should say, aren’t you going to answer, “No, I have to answer only with lies, so there is a trap here”?
A : I can’t.. answer that.
(Confirmed that its finger changed in response to the second question.)
(Just as we were about to move to the next room to check whether its finger had been cut off, the anomaly stopped us and said we still had two questions left.)
Q : If I move on without asking a question, will your finger be cut off?
A : ..I don’t know.
Q : I guess if we move on without asking a question, your finger gets cut off?
A : I also.. ..don’t know about that.
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#10
As soon as we entered the next room, we confirmed that only two of the anomaly’s fingers remained.
Q : Is there~~~ a trap beyond the room I’m pointing at~~~ or not~~?!
A : ..There is.
(Confirmed that its finger changed here.)
(Realized that the anomaly had tried to deceive us and put us in the trap room.)
We moved on to the next room without asking the second question.
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#11
Confirmed that only one of the anomaly’s fingers remained.
Q : Ttarararan~ Ttararan~ Ttararan~ Tta-kungjjakjjak Kungjjakjjak Ttararirarari Tti Ttara~
A : …
I’m taking recommendations for the final question.
Technically, we can move on without asking a question, but I’m annoyed with it and want to tease it a little, yeah.
I’m taking recommendations for a question that will really, seriously piss it off~~
[Comments - 17]
Anonymous 1 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Fucking lol. This is what makes Daebung Daebung, lol.
Anonymous 2 : Here we go~ Another victim of Daebung’s is about to join us~
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : ??? : Oh my~ Is another rookie coming in today?!
Anonymous 4 : That anomaly bastard, lol. Looks like there was a time attack for answering questions, lol. If it couldn’t answer within the time limit, its fingers would get cut off, so look at it spewing out any answer it could, lol.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : So that’s why it cut off its own finger, lol.
ㄴ Anonymous 5 : Conquering anomalies really is Daebung’s specialty, lol.
Anonymous 1 : Daebung, want to ask it this? “Would you die from a single punch from my knuckle?”
ㄴ Author : Why this?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : If it says you’d die from one punch from my knuckle, just turn it into an item, lol.
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ㄴ Author : Is Anonymous 1 a genius?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!?!
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Ahh~ An autograph? Sorry, no. I just happen to remember that Daebung made me an item from the anomaly in the Two-Person Night Watchman horror story.
ㄴ Author : Oh, right. I’d completely forgotten I made an item from that anomaly. I’ll give it to you when we get back. Hang tight.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Jackpot~~~~~~~~ I conquered a horror story thanks to Daebung and got one Return and 19,000 stones, and now I’m getting an item too?!?!?!?!?
ㄴ Anonymous 7 : Did you say you got 19,000 stones? From conquering a horror story?
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : Yep! If you kill an anomaly in a horror story, they convert that into stones too, lol. Since Daebung and I killed quite a lot of anomalies together, I got an absurdly sweet reward~~~~
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“If I sincerely swing this brass-knuckled fist at you, will you die instantly without being able to resist?”
“..No.”
“See you in the next room~.”
“...”
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[This f2cking anomaly bastard]
(Photo)
That bastard killed himself.
He killed himself, the f2cking f2ck f2ck
You f@cking @sshole, you @sshole b@stard, this is seriously f2cking—h0ly sh1t;’ㅗh0ly sh1t; fuuu...
This f2cking bastard, I’m going to yank out his guts and just give them back to him—
[Fuuuck; I can’t even make sense of this;’ㅗh0ly sh1t; fuuu]
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh f2ck, spit it out, you son of a b2tch!!!!!!
[Comments - 14]
Anonymous 1 : ??? Why? What happened..?
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : I’ll explain. Daebung-nim is so angry right now that he’s breaking down the door, so he can’t reply to the comments.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : ??????????????? What happened?
Anonymous 2 : Daebung-nim asked, “If I sincerely swing this brass-knuckled fist at you, will you die instantly without being able to resist?”
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : The anomaly in the suit answered, “No,” and then..
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : It opened the trap-room door and jumped straight into it.
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ㄴ Anonymous 3 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ㄴ Anonymous 4 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ㄴ Anonymous 5 : wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
ㄴ Anonymous 6 : LMAOOOOOOOOOO fuck, lol LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ㄴ Anonymous 7 : But Daebung is breaking down the door??
ㄴ Anonymous 2 : Yes.. He’s beating the door as hard as he can, telling it to spit out that corpse..
ㄴ Anonymous 1 : LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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