God's Imitator

Evening.

Lin Sizhi returned to his room and habitually opened his laptop to take a look.

Normally, new game invitations would appear about 3 days after a game ended, leaving two to three days for design time. Consecutive game invitations appearing wasn’t common.

When there were no game invitations, generally no other information would appear on the computer either.

But at this moment, there was a new pop-up window.

[Hello, Lin Sizhi.]

[The Gallery will update a new rule.]

[God’s Imitators can spend ’1,000,000 minutes of visa time’ to purchase one ’Special Game’ design opportunity.]

[Special Games will possess the following characteristics:]

[1. You can designate any player in the New World as a target and view their player profile.][2. You can select up to 10 players, but at most 1 player can bear serious death risk. On this basis, each additional person requires an extra expenditure of ’100,000 minutes of visa time.’]

[3. When the review fails, the proposal will be returned, but it may be revised and resubmitted an unlimited number of times until it passes review.]

[4. After the game passes review, it will not open at a fixed time. The target player will be forcibly drawn into the game directly, and other unrelated players will not receive any notification.]

[5. Death penalties cannot be exempted by any means or items outside the game (including but not limited to community Death Exemption Tickets).]

[Whether to design a ’Special Game’ completely depends on the God’s Imitator’s personal choice.]

[Good luck!]

Lin Sizhi froze for a moment, then read through these rules carefully again, after which he fell into brief contemplation.

Although from the text content, all God’s Imitators could use this rule, it would most likely become a privilege enjoyed only by the top-level God’s Imitators.

1,000,000 minutes of visa time was an extremely exaggerated astronomical figure.

After all, one Death Exemption Ticket was only 300,000, and often required a relatively strong community’s entire membership pooling money together to gather enough.

Converting this, this visa time was already enough for a player to live in the New World for 2 years.

Given the current frequency and intensity of games, this basically equaled a huge sum one didn’t need to worry about using up at all: the probability of dying directly in games was far higher than exhausting visa time.

Players found it very difficult to gather such a large sum of visa time because every game’s earnings had an upper limit, and often judgment-type, screening-type, earnings-type, and elimination-type games would appear in rotation.

To avoid death risks, players might only participate in one or two games within a month.

Moreover, players also didn’t dare bring that much visa time into games. If they encountered a mechanism like ’Shelter Game’ that directly deducted money by percentage, the visa time they worked hard to save would be completely wiped out.

If left in the community, it would need to be stored through the community fund, and it was also difficult to guarantee other players wouldn’t be tempted by the wealth.

God’s Imitators could rapidly harvest players’ visa time through games. As the unquestionable elites in the Gallery, their speed of accumulating visa time would definitely be much faster.

But the problem was, if they weren’t S-rank God’s Imitators, too much visa time might very likely expose them.

Like Wei Yinzhang openly revealing herself in the community and establishing some irreplaceable role might temporarily solve this problem, but hidden dangers might still exist.

Overall, only God’s Imitators who had designed S-rank games could hide their visa time, and the visa time they accumulated would inevitably be abundant. Only they would be more likely to utilize this rule.

And once selected by this rule, players would be extremely dangerous.

Because the God’s Imitator designing the game could directly view player profiles and see the player’s crimes as marked by the Gallery.

Moreover, they could modify and submit unlimited times until passing the Gallery’s review.

The game also wouldn’t open at a fixed time and wouldn’t even send advance notification. This meant the selected target player might very likely participate in a completely unexpected game with no preparation whatsoever, without any preparation time.

And this type of game also couldn’t use any death-exemption items to avoid death.

This point was actually reasonable. After all, the God’s Imitator buying this opportunity had already spent 1,000,000 minutes of visa time. If players could simply avoid death with 300,000, the God’s Imitator would instead become a sucker.

Of course, being selected into such a game didn’t necessarily mean certain death, because God’s Imitators also had to leave sufficient escape routes within the game, otherwise the Gallery wouldn’t approve it.

But compared to all other types of known games, this kind of ’Special Game’ would inevitably be the most dangerous type.

”What would my player profile and crimes be?”

Lin Sizhi had some simple guesses, but ultimately couldn’t determine how the Gallery would judge.

...

The next morning, Lin Sizhi got up as usual and ate breakfast in the hall.

Other players gathered in small groups of two or three, many discussing tonight’s gathering.

Obviously, for the vast majority of people, food was a topic with the greatest common denominator. Very few people could be completely indifferent to good food.

At noon, everyone had already begun lively shopping.

Yang Yuting and Qin Yao volunteered to show off their culinary skills improved during this period, so they also purchased certain raw materials from the vending machine.

Zheng Jie, Dai Yifan, Li Jiang, and others also volunteered to help clean the kitchen and assist.

Li Renshu suggested everyone could symbolically make some dumplings. Although they could purchase them directly from the vending machine, what was more important was the process.

As for those high-end dishes difficult to make themselves, they would purchase them directly from the vending machine, only they had to wait until near the official start of the gathering to bring them to the table to maintain the dishes’ best temperature and taste.

Just talking about these household tasks, Zhou Guifen was definitely the most skilled, but everyone unanimously required her to do nothing, which made her feel somewhat unaccustomed.

Shen Xing took her place bustling in the kitchen with everyone.

Cai Zhiyuan and Yang Hui were also in the hall, though these two temporarily couldn’t find good tasks to help with and could only chat while standing by.

Lin Sizhi read a book by the floor-to-ceiling window.

After a while, Qin Yao came out from the kitchen and sat down across from Lin Sizhi.

”Hm? Do you need help with something?” Lin Sizhi put down his book and asked.

Qin Yao shook her head, ”No need. Things in the kitchen are basically all done. Yuting is preparing to make some cakes and baked things. The raw materials are all prepared. Next we just need to bake them in the oven, so there’s nothing else to do temporarily.

”However...”

Qin Yao hesitated slightly and lowered her voice, ”Just now when it was only Yuting and me in the kitchen, I subtly probed her a bit.

”She said she probably won’t enter the five-person group.

”Lawyer Lin, for you, this shouldn’t be good news, right?”

Lin Sizhi looked at her, ”Hm? Why do you say that?”

Obviously, compared to the initial situation, Qin Yao’s political awareness had also improved significantly.

Although Lin Sizhi hadn’t disclosed anything about this matter to her from start to finish, Qin Yao still deduced through the previous community situation and possible changes that the next person for the five-person group might be Yang Yuting.

And Li Renshu privately finding Yang Yuting to talk couldn’t possibly avoid everyone’s eyes. Of course, she also didn’t deliberately avoid it. This wasn’t a very important secret.

Qin Yao lowered her voice and continued analyzing, ”Well... I’m thinking this way.

”Now in the five-person group, if we clearly divide it, it should be Li Renshu and Cai Zhiyuan standing closer together, you and Yinzhang standing closer together, right?

”So it’s roughly a 2:2 state. Li Renshu’s side manages more matters, you have more influence in games, so it basically leans slightly toward Li Renshu, but overall it’s still balanced.

”So the fifth person in the five-person group becomes the ’swing vote,’ right? Whichever side they stand on, that side’s voice clearly increases.

”If it’s Yuting, she might lean toward being centrist?

”But if it’s Li Jiang, I feel that him entering the community should have been at Cai Zhiyuan’s instigation, right? Or the two should have cooperated in the ’Tarot Game.’

”Overall, if Yang Yuting doesn’t enter the five-person group and Li Jiang enters instead, it shouldn’t be good news for you and Wei Yinzhang.”