God's Imitator

Wei Yinzhang’s words weren’t hard to understand.

Because ’Owl’ Lin Sizhi’s performance within the game was strong enough, he definitely wasn’t a marginal figure in his original community. After Wei Yinzhang joined, she would have a very reliable ally.

A community’s philosophy often depends on the strong within the community.

Compared to Community 6, which leaned more toward elitism, Wei Yinzhang judged that the community Lin Sizhi belonged to was more likely to be close to her own philosophy.

Moreover, even with her Imitator identity exposed, Community 17 was also safer than Community 6 because Lin Sizhi was strong enough.

It was like animals: the more powerful the beast, the more stable its emotions.

After listening to Wei Yinzhang’s introduction, everyone felt quite amazed.

Wei Yinzhang joining Community 17 was obviously the result of multiple factors working together, but from the outcome, this was undoubtedly a win-win.

Of course, in the long term, whether the Imitator’s addition would have unexpected effects on Community 17’s current ecology and power structure couldn’t yet be determined.

Li Renshu continued, ”Tell us more about the process of obtaining Imitator identity and the Gallery’s specific invitation mechanism. We still know nothing about these things and are just guessing.”Wei Yinzhang nodded, ”Alright, then I’ll start from the very beginning.

”I was different from other players. Before entering the New World, in that initial space, I received a test to ’obtain Imitator identity.’ The test content was to design a game to judge a criminal.

”This should be the first batch of games everyone saw after entering the community.

”Because it was an initial test, the actual passing standards were relatively low, and they were all single-player games. Looking at the specific rules of this batch of games, everyone should be able to discover this commonality.

”The person being judged that I encountered was a degenerate gambler who gambled away his family fortune, causing his parents to die from overwork and illness.

”At the time, I didn’t think too much. Time was also limited, so I designed a relatively simple game called ’Loaded Dice.’”

Everyone immediately found the specific game rules for ’Loaded Dice’ on the large screen.

Wang Yongxin was somewhat surprised, ”It’s actually an A-rating game like ’King’s Judgment’? Then you have two A-rating games. That’s quite impressive.”

Wei Yinzhang waved her hand, ”No, actually the ’Loaded Dice’ game content is very simple. I’ve always felt its rating is somewhat inflated.

”If I had to say, ’Loaded Dice’ belongs to the lowest type within A-rating? While ’Fool’s Game’ should belong to the relatively high category within A-rating.

”The rules are roughly like this:

”The player is locked up, with only their hands able to move.

”In front of them is an axe and a loaded dice.

”The dice has six faces, respectively ’arm,’ ’leg,’ ’chest,’ ’lower abdomen,’ and two ’unharmed.’

”Throw the loaded dice three times to gain freedom.

”If after throwing the dice, the face pointing up is a body part, they must use the axe to cut a wound at least 3 centimeters deep on the corresponding body part, but they only have one chance.

”Cutting deeper is fine. If it’s too shallow, that dice throw is invalid.

”If there are a cumulative 2 invalid throws, they suffer instant death punishment.

”If they roll ’unharmed,’ they don’t need to cut.

”At the same time, the rules also stated that this is a special loaded dice, so the probability of each face isn’t the same. The more times thrown, the higher the probability of ’unharmed’ appearing.

”Or they could also choose not to play with the dice and directly use the axe to chop off one joint of their pinky finger, which would count as clearing the game.”

Cai Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said, ”Let me guess, there should be a word trap here.

”It only said that the probability of each face of the loaded dice is different, and that the more throws, the higher the probability of ’unharmed’ appearing. But it didn’t say what the initial probability of each face is.

”So actually, although this six-sided dice has two ’unharmed’ faces, which at first glance seems like a one-third probability, it’s actually far lower than that.”

Wei Yinzhang nodded, ”Mm, the actual setting is that each ’unharmed’ face on the loaded dice has a 5% probability, totaling 10%, and with each throw, the probability increases by 1%.

”You guessed it so quickly?”

Cai Zhiyuan waved his hand somewhat helplessly, ”This is nothing. After all, having seen many games, when I see this kind of rule, I immediately think of word traps.

”After all, other God’s Imitators have used this technique too.

”But if it’s a player who just arrived in the New World and hasn’t seen these tricks, they’re still very likely to fall for it.

”So what happened to this criminal in the end?”

Wei Yinzhang spread her hands, ”He died.”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, ”Ah?”

Wei Yinzhang was also somewhat helpless, ”Speaking of this matter, I also find it a bit absurd.

”Actually, at the very beginning, I had no intention of killing him at all.

”Although I really hate gambling degenerates, to be honest, I also didn’t think he had reached the point where he must die.

”My initial idea was very simple: let him wake up himself, stop gambling, grit his teeth and use the axe to chop off one joint of his pinky finger. That’s the simplest method to clear the game.

”As a gambling degenerate, he should understand very clearly what the four words ’loaded dice’ mean. I had clearly told him this wasn’t a fair game at all.

”If he remained obstinate and still wanted to gamble on the probability of the dice showing ’unharmed,’ then each additional gamble would result in punishment.

”Of course, even if he didn’t cut off a section of his pinky finger, he could also choose to use the axe to cut three wounds at least 3 centimeters deep on his body, which would also end the game.”

Wang Yongxin thought about it, ”If it’s just three wounds, although very deep, they probably wouldn’t be fatal.

”He could use his own clothes to simply stop the bleeding first, then after arriving at the community, use the initial visa time to purchase a medical kit to bandage himself. Other players in the community could also provide certain help.

”But this also depends on his specific physique and whether he’s decisive.

”If this judged criminal is relatively fat, then cutting a 3-centimeter wound on the thigh, stomach, or chest wouldn’t be too difficult.

”But if he’s relatively thin, it would be more troublesome, because there’s only one chance, so he would have to be quite ruthless.

”He should have failed to cut deep enough twice in a row, which is why he suffered instant death punishment?”

Wei Yinzhang nodded, ”Yes.

”Originally, I added the rule ’two cuts that are too shallow will trigger instant death punishment’ to create some urgency.

”If the player could cut however deep they wanted, or could cut multiple times in a row, it would result in the game lacking urgency and might not be able to make him wake up.

”Two times before triggering instant death also counts as having some margin for error.

”But what I didn’t expect was that after the game ended, when I entered the game venue, I found he had already died.

”I was quite frightened at the time.

”Later, I gathered my courage to examine the wounds on his body and figured out exactly what happened.

”He was on the heavier side.

”From the wounds on his body, he should have thrown the dice four times in total.

”The abdominal wound wasn’t deep enough. The depth of the thigh and chest wounds was sufficient.

”I guess he probably rolled the abdomen on the first throw, but it was his first time using an axe. He wasn’t mentally prepared and couldn’t bring himself to be ruthless enough, so the wound depth wasn’t sufficient. He violated the rule once, and it didn’t count.

”After that, the two times on the thigh and chest were deep enough.

”The last time, he should have rolled the arm. But because there was less flesh on the arm, the axe was blocked by bone, resulting in not reaching 3 centimeters. This was the second violation and triggered instant death punishment.”