God's Imitator

”What is the Database?”

Lin Sizhi searched around on his personal computer and soon found a brand new icon that had just appeared: ’Database.’

This was something like an AI Q&A software, with just an input box where you could type questions and it would automatically generate answers.

Lin Sizhi thought for a moment and directly typed, ”Give me the list of all God’s Imitators in the Gallery.”

Soon, the Database gave a clean and straightforward reply.

[Sorry, this question does not comply with Gallery rules and cannot be answered.]

”Heh, I knew it.”

Lin Sizhi thought for a moment and changed the question, ”Give me the list of all audience members in ’King’s Judgment.’”

[Sorry, this question does not comply with Gallery rules and cannot be answered.]

”The total number of communities currently in the New World.”[Sorry, this question does not comply with Gallery rules and cannot be answered.]

Lin Sizhi was somewhat helpless, ”Then what exactly can I check with this basic access?”

He thought for a moment and entered again, ”Price of 500g apples.”

[In the community, the price of 500g apples is: 15 minutes of visa time.]

[In the real world, the price of 500g apples generally ranges from 4-20 yuan depending on regional, variety, seasonal and other factors.]

Finally, he got a definitive answer.

Lin Sizhi considered for a moment and entered another question, ”How many street lamps are there on 1 square kilometer of land?”

[In the community, this question does not comply with Gallery rules and cannot be answered.]

[In the real world, the number of street lamps on 1 square kilometer of land could be 0-1800.]

[Adding filtering conditions can provide more accurate data.]

”Somewhat humorous, do I need to ask you about real world conditions?”

Lin Sizhi’s original intention was to roughly estimate how many communities there were here by asking about the number of street lamps in the New World, but unexpectedly this couldn’t be checked either.

Instead, the data for the real world was very detailed, and if he continued asking, he could further refine these results.

After studying it for a while, Lin Sizhi made a precise definition of it: ”Toy.”

He closed the Database and continued viewing the Gallery’s notification.

[In seven days, the Gallery will open several different judgment games. You have been assigned six sinners.]

[In your desk drawer, there are criminal files for these six sinners, along with corresponding judgment results.]

[In this game, you may select 2-6 sinners from the six for judgment. At the same time, you may also set additional conditions to select 1 specific player from the sinner’s community to forcibly enter the game.]

[Other unrelated players may voluntarily participate in the game, with specific numbers determined by you.]

[You may freely choose whether to design this game.]

[But remember:]

[No matter how sinners evade, the Gallery’s judgment will eventually come.]

[The Gallery will evaluate all submitted planning documents and adopt the highest-scoring proposal to set up the game venue.]

[Now, the 120-hour countdown begins. Please make your choice.]

”From the description, it seems these six sinners don’t have strong connections.”

Lin Sizhi quickly determined this through the different descriptive information from two judgment game invitations.

The previous judgment game invitation made it very clear: the Gallery assigned judgment games by cases, and Lin Sizhi was assigned to ’Case C.’

All five sinners belonged to Case C, so they were forced to participate in the game, while the other 10 players voluntarily participated.

Therefore, smarter God’s Imitators should have realized then that the crimes of those five people were related but this judgment game was different.

Lin Sizhi was assigned six sinners and could select 2-6 of them to participate in the judgment game, which meant their crimes had no strong connections.

They might simply be similar types of crimes grouped into one category.

Lin Sizhi could even easily help some of these criminals escape this judgment: he just needed to select any two criminals for judgment.

The other four criminals wouldn’t need to enter this game at all.

This change in freedom might also be a manifestation of his elevated status in the Gallery.

However, the Gallery also gave a warning: No matter how sinners evade, the Gallery’s judgment will eventually come.

In other words, if Lin Sizhi let a certain sinner go this time, it didn’t mean they were safe.

New judgment games would still come.

Before this sinner actually entered a judgment game and survived, there would always be a sword of Damocles hanging over their head.

Perhaps next time the Gallery would give their file to another God’s Imitator for judgment.

Of course, whether a certain sinner had multiple crimes and would be arranged for multiple judgments was still unknown.

Besides this, the change in selection rules was also noteworthy.

Lin Sizhi could also select anyone from the sinner’s community to forcibly enter the game.

”This way, it’s more concealed for God’s Imitators to kill people.

”But this is mostly a privilege only excellent God’s Imitators have.”

Previously, it wasn’t easy for God’s Imitators to kill a specific player.

Because for screening-type games, the target might not register to participate, while for judgment-type games, it depended on whether the Gallery would select the target as a sinner but now, Lin Sizhi could completely design a judgment game, then force a player from the same community as a sinner to enter, burying traps targeting them in the judgment game.

This type of design where ”the drinker’s intent lies not in the wine” was now within the allowed range.

”Should I try it?”

Lin Sizhi couldn’t make a decision for now. He planned to first look at the specific list of sinners.

He took out the planning document from the drawer, roughly scanned it, and found it wasn’t much different from previous planning documents, except that the ’Available Props List’ column was much shorter than before but shorter didn’t mean fewer available props. On the contrary, most had become freely designable props, and the quantities had significantly increased.

Two props particularly caught Lin Sizhi’s attention.

[3. Computers with at most 5 system functions: 20 units.]

[5. Virtual outdoor scenes that can simulate real scenarios.]

Besides these, there were many customizable props with high freedom and large quantities.

Lin Sizhi took out the sinner files, first swept his hand across the desktop to spread out the files, roughly looked at these people’s names to see if there were any acquaintances.

This time the files noted which communities the sinners were in, and there was no deliberate concealment of crimes like last time.

This might be because these criminals didn’t belong to the same case, and deliberately concealing crimes would prevent God’s Imitators from determining the judgment game’s content, so all crimes had to be disclosed.

[Community 8, Tian Fan].

[Community 8, Jiao Hongtao].

”Jiao Hongtao? This seems like a player I encountered before in the ’Blind Date Game.’”

[Community 17, Su Xiucen].

Lin Sizhi’s movements stopped for a moment.

Then he took out this file separately and read it carefully.

[Su Xiucen, female, 52 years old.]

[Occupation: Retired worker.]

[To cure her husband’s lung cancer contracted during his time as a miner, despite knowing there was no hope of cure, she still sought medical treatment everywhere and prayed to gods and buddhas. Despite repeated dissuasion, she remained obstinate, ultimately losing both her family and fortune. The donated money became operating funds for fraud groups, causing more innocent people to lose their homes and fortunes.]

[Punishment result: Not yet judged]

Lin Sizhi looked at the content in the file and fell into deep thought.