God's Imitator

Zheng Jie was somewhat puzzled, ”These three rewards don’t seem equivalent at all!

”The third reward is far more precious than the first two. Who wouldn’t choose the third one?”

Wei Yinzhang was silent for a moment and said, ”Some people wouldn’t choose the third one.”

The others also quickly understood what this statement meant.

If looking at it from the perspective of the overall interests and collective demands of all community players, the third option was of course the best.

However, the person who truly had the decision-making power didn’t necessarily think so.

If the person making the choice at this moment wasn’t Lin Sizhi but someone else, like Wang Weidong, he most likely wouldn’t choose this option.

Because a player who could reach this step was definitely the biggest winner of the first stage, and also the player who won the most in the Gallery and controlled the most power.

He wouldn’t necessarily want to leave this place.

And if he himself decided not to leave, he most likely wouldn’t choose the third option, but would choose one of the first two.Because according to the game rules, after entering the next stage, the community would face varying degrees of reorganization, but the winning community could retain its original core group to the maximum extent.

If choosing the third option, the vast majority of players would choose to leave. Then the core group that this strong player had painstakingly built would fall apart, returning them to being a lone commander, which would instead put them at a disadvantage afterward.

If not wanting these players to leave, the best method would be to not reveal the existence of the third option at all.

Choosing one or two, the other players would also be very happy, and these were indeed sufficiently substantial rewards.

The strong player could use these rewards to further win people’s hearts, solidify the community structure, and prepare for the upcoming games.

If valuing efficiency and gains more, choose one and ’reward according to merit’ for players with different contributions. If valuing safety more, choose two and keep all five immunity tokens under one’s own control.

Regardless of which option, it would allow this core group to continue accompanying oneself in the Gallery to face new games and challenges.

If someone asked what exactly the third option was, it didn’t matter. One could just make up a reward of about the same level.

Because players simply couldn’t imagine that the Gallery would actually issue ’all members returning to the real world’ as a reward.

Wei Yinzhang said thoughtfully, ”However, once the strong player in the community truly makes this choice and conceals the third option, their mindset will definitely change.

”The seeds of deception and exploitation will take root and sprout.

”The Gallery really calculates everything. Even when issuing rewards, it doesn’t let players have peace.

”Lawyer Lin becoming the final winner is truly fortunate.”

She looked at Lin Sizhi, ”There’s also that ’special question beyond authority.’ Have you thought it through?

”You can only ask one, which means this opportunity is precious enough.”

Qin Yao was somewhat regretful, ”If that’s the case, I have more than one question I want to ask!

”Lawyer Lin, what do you want to ask?”

Lin Sizhi didn’t consider for too long. He quickly thought of his question.

”In the New World, does there exist some kind of ’mechanism to revive players’ or special rule?”

The large screen didn’t immediately display an answer, which led many people to mistakenly believe this was an invalid question.

But after two or three seconds, one simple word appeared on the large screen.

[Exists.]

The hall became very quiet. Clearly, the implications behind these two words were even more shocking than ’departure.’

At the same time, everyone quickly understood why Lin Sizhi used his only precious questioning opportunity on this question.

The ’New World’ was composed of the ’Community’ and the ’Gallery,’ and they were both supernatural existences. This point was very clear to all players.

For example, food produced through vending machines in the community, automatic clearing of rooms after player deaths, the Gallery being able to instantly arrange venues according to the God’s Imitator’s requirements...

All such rules emphasized this ’supernatural’ existence.

But regarding certain specific rules, the New World strictly adhered to reality’s rules to an extreme degree.

For instance, players couldn’t obtain supernatural powers, no mind reading, no divination, and no physical abilities that could exceed mortal limits.

The most special item that appeared in the community was the ’immunity token,’ but it merely mechanically offset the death penalty and prevented it from triggering in the first place.

’The dead cannot be resurrected’ was an indisputable iron law in reality. If completely following reality’s rules, then players who died in the Gallery also couldn’t possibly receive a second chance.

Therefore, the exact answer to this question was extremely, extremely important.

And this questioning opportunity was very likely the only chance to obtain a definitive answer.

Because this question even exceeded the God’s Imitator’s authority. If asked in other circumstances, the community or the Gallery would definitely not provide an answer.

Everyone remained silent, each thinking about different things.

On the large screen, the two words ’Exists’ disappeared, even making people instinctively doubt whether they had truly appeared.

[Please make a decision within 7 days (before the next stage begins) whether to depart and return to the real world.]

[The next 7 days will all be safe nights. Wish everyone a pleasant time in the New World.]

The original text information on the large screen disappeared and was replaced by a warm city background and a 7-day countdown.

Everyone remained silent for a long time. Obviously, this scene made them recall their first day arriving at the community.

The large screen had updated the community’s basic rules and displayed the ’Safe Night’ related notification.

After that, this notification never appeared again.

It was just that the players’ mental states had become completely different.

When seeing the word ’Exists,’ Wei Yinzhang instantly thought of many things. At this moment, she looked at Lin Sizhi and said, ”This kind of mechanism might indeed exist, but it must be very difficult.”

Lin Sizhi nodded, ”I know.

”But I can only ask one question, and besides, the difficulty doesn’t affect my decision.”

If Lin Sizhi had asked questions like ”Is there a relatively simple way to revive players” or ”Would reviving players be particularly difficult,” the answers obtained might instead contain some textual traps, and the information wouldn’t necessarily be accurate.

Or it might be judged as ’containing two questions’ and receive no answer.

So Lin Sizhi asked a 100% definite question. He only needed to confirm that a mechanism to revive players indeed existed in the Gallery. Even if the conditions for this mechanism were extremely harsh, it didn’t matter.

Or rather, precisely because it was extremely harsh, it matched Lin Sizhi’s expectations and matched its value.

Li Renshu looked around. Although they had only lived in this community for about three months, it felt like a long time had already passed.

Moreover, they had developed some feelings for everything in this community.

They had added and deleted rules many times, determined the community’s structure, and unlocked special items.

If they continued accumulating more community funds, perhaps new items would appear and the community’s form might undergo other changes, but all of this instantly turned to bubbles with the appearance of the departure rule.

Li Renshu said somewhat bitterly, ”The Gallery’s rules really change so casually.

”Whether it’s the suddenly updated ’Special Game,’ the ’changes upon entering the next stage,’ or the ’special reward for our community,’ they’re all like this.

”They indeed completely disrupted our expectations and arrangements, but they’re also indeed... a bit hasty.”