God's Imitator

The next morning.

The time had already passed 8 AM, so the Gallery had already selected the basic rules.

Before leaving his room, Lin Sizhi specifically checked, and fortunately, the basic rules he designed last night had been selected.

This meant all God’s Imitators would have to design games within the rule framework he provided.

Lin Sizhi came to the hall and found quite a few people were already waiting.

Once everyone had arrived, Wei Yinzhang, as usual, shared this invitation’s information with everyone.

Li Renshu couldn’t help but frown, ”A selection-type game that all players must participate in?

”A fixed 30% elimination... that’s a very high elimination rate.

”And God’s Imitators will also be eliminated at 20%?

”That means God’s Imitators not only have to design games and meet specific requirements, but also obtain sufficient earnings when participating in games themselves.”If either condition isn’t met, they’ll die.”

The expressions on other players’ faces were also somewhat grave.

Although in previous selection-type games, it was often weaker communities that had more deaths and Community 17’s situation was relatively optimistic, this time after all, everyone was forced to participate.

Moreover, a 30% mortality rate was indeed somewhat frightening.

What’s worse, with God’s Imitators themselves under great elimination pressure, would they choose to transfer all the pressure onto players? Would they all design games with particularly high mortality rates?

These were all unknowns.

And the unknown itself was most capable of making people feel fear.

Fu Chen quickly asked, ”Then what exactly are the basic rules this time?”

Wei Yinzhang hesitated slightly and didn’t directly state the exact rules, because she wasn’t too sure which of this information could be explicitly stated and which couldn’t.

If she said the wrong thing, something not very good might happen.

So after deliberation, Wei Yinzhang decided to only reveal part of the information.

”Simply put, the general mode is like this:

”Over the next five or six days, each God’s Imitator will design their own game unit.

”After the game officially starts, players will be scrambled and randomly matched to some of these game units.

”But after being matched to these game units, players aren’t forced to participate. They can self-select within a certain range.”

Li Renshu said thoughtfully, ”That means this game is more like a game lobby?

”Each God’s Imitator is equivalent to setting up a stall in this lobby.

”Players might not be able to visit all the stalls, but can still choose stalls to play games within a certain range.

”Then does that mean ultimately, the final elimination list will be decided based on players’ and God’s Imitators’ earnings?”

Wei Yinzhang nodded, ”Yes, you can understand it that way.”

Fu Chen said somewhat worriedly, ”In that case, could there be a situation where ’player mortality exceeds 30%’?

”To avoid dying themselves, God’s Imitators will definitely desperately increase game difficulty, right? After all, the more players they kill, the higher their earnings. The higher the earnings, the less likely they’ll fall into the final 20% and die.

”In that case, player mortality might very likely exceed 30%, right?

”Unless the Gallery stipulated from the start that only the final 30% of players would be eliminated. If it’s a baseline 30% elimination with no upper limit, that’s truly unimaginable...”

Wei Yinzhang hesitated slightly, then said vaguely, ”Looking at the basic rules, this possibility does exist.

”If players who fail to achieve the goal don’t reach 30%, then they’ll be ranked by earnings from high to low, directly eliminating the final 30%.

”But if players who fail to achieve the goal exceed 30%, for example reaching 35%, then all 35% of those players will be eliminated.

”God’s Imitators have a different set of rules, but overall, they also need to earn more visa time from players.”

This was yet another very bad piece of news. Everyone’s expressions were somewhat grave.

In other words, this time the Gallery seemed to have made up its mind to continue the killing spree. In the most optimistic situation, players would still have 30% mortality.

Now they could only pray that the dying players would mainly come from other communities.

Yang Yuting sighed, ”This God’s Imitator is really ruthless. Could it be made by the ’Shelter Game’ God’s Imitator again?”

Wei Yinzhang hesitated, ”That’s hard to say.

”Because this time, the basic elimination rates for players and God’s Imitators were set by the Gallery, directly written in the initial game invitation and can’t be changed.

”No matter which God’s Imitator designs the basic rules, they must satisfy these two elimination rates, otherwise they definitely won’t be adopted.

”I actually think this God’s Imitator still carries some goodwill and mercy.

”I can’t explain the specific reasons, but from the point that ’players can freely choose game units designed by God’s Imitators’, considering other rule details, I vaguely have this feeling.

”So the situation isn’t that terrible. It hasn’t reached the point of despair yet.”

Li Renshu asked again, ”Then in the next few days, what can we do?”

Everyone looked toward Wei Yinzhang, obviously hoping she could give some hints.

Because the game unit Wei Yinzhang designed would inevitably also be selected for this game. Although they might not necessarily be matched to it, what if?

Of course, everyone also knew this thinking actually had the suspicion of ’rigging operations’ and itself carried great danger.

The more situations like this arose, the more rational they needed to be.

Wei Yinzhang was actually already revealing as much information as she could. If she stated the specific plan, she might very likely cross the line.

After serious consideration, Wei Yinzhang said, ”My suggestion is that everyone can study the gameplay of basic gambling tools and card games.”

Li Renshu was somewhat surprised, ”Hmm? Are you saying there are similar requirements in the game invitation’s items?”

Wei Yinzhang shook her head, ”No. This time there aren’t too many restrictions on the game units God’s Imitators design, nor is there obvious bias.

”The item list also doesn’t show any particularly special content.

”The only requirement is that each God’s Imitator’s designed game unit can’t be too large or too complex.

”That means this game will consist of many small games with relatively simple structures put together.

”So I speculate that a large number of God’s Imitators will definitely adopt a ’last-minute cramming’ design method, choosing to simply modify some classic gambling tools and card games before submitting them.

”Because this situation is relatively special, the approval standards are very, very lenient, so the game design itself isn’t that important. What’s important is earning as much as possible compared to other God’s Imitators.”

Everyone couldn’t help but suddenly understand.

Although in this situation they couldn’t speculate on the Gallery’s intentions, they could speculate on other God’s Imitators’ intentions.