God's Imitator

After waiting a while longer, a notification message appeared on the large screen, and the second phase of the game finally officially began.

Zheng Jie also used this time to rethink the strategy Cai Zhiyuan had taught him and thought ahead about what question he would ask when serving as question setter.

In the 4-person room, the last person to enter was Gao Jialiang, so he would be the first to serve as question setter.

Soon, a question appeared on the large screen.

[The 6th player from the community entered this room last and suggests that the third person to enter the room serve as question setter. Do you agree?]

[A. Yes]

[B. No]

[C. Doesn’t matter]

Zheng Jie looked at the right side of the screen. The two small boxes for ’Send Suggestion’ quickly displayed two ’A’s.

Obviously, the last player to enter the room wasn’t asking this question for an answer, but to transmit information.Because room owner Qian Li was the first to enter the room, she didn’t know what was happening outside, nor did she know which specific players would enter the room.

Especially, she couldn’t confirm whether the current question setter was an ally from the same community or a target from another community that could be harvested.

This question actually transmitted very clear information to the other two Community 1 players.

First, the community’s 6th player was Gao Jialiang himself. This was information only Community 1 players possessed.

After Qian Li saw the question, she could confirm that Gao Jialiang entered last. At this time there were 3 Community 1 players in the room. The scam shop was set up, and the third person to enter was a player from another community, a target that could be harvested.

If Zheng Jie and Gao Jialiang’s entry order were switched and Zheng Jie entered last, the three Community 1 players could also distinguish this.

Because Zheng Jie didn’t know Community 1’s code words, he would directly ask his prepared question for the first question. Then the three Community 1 players could directly choose unanimous options.

After confirming the players’ positions, what needed to be done next was very simple.

For the three Community 1 players, it didn’t matter at all how they answered this question. Losing a bit of visa time was fine.

After answering, the Community 1 players would definitely all choose ’not continue turn’, and the answerer identity would automatically transfer to Zheng Jie.

At that point, the three Community 1 players would harvest visa time from him.

Zheng Jie also looked at the information on the left. The uninvolved community players’ answers obviously had no reference value. They were probably also puzzled about why there were so many inexplicable questions.

After waiting a moment, Zheng Jie chose option B and submitted his answer.

[The correct answer to this question is: Players who agree choose ’A. Yes’, players who disagree choose ’B. No’.]

[The net earnings of the 3 answering players in this room are: 34000 minutes of visa time.]

[The question setter will pay out 34000 minutes of visa time.]

On Zheng Jie’s screen, his earnings for this question were also displayed: 14000 minutes of visa time.

After Cai Zhiyuan explained the specific values, Zheng Jie had already understood the game’s rules. Moreover, since there were only 3 answerers in the room at this time, it was easy to deduce.

Obviously, the other two players both chose A, while Zheng Jie himself chose B.

This question couldn’t be answered carelessly, because answering such questions carelessly might simultaneously trigger both ’wrong option’ and ’against conscience answer’ penalties. In that case, even with ’Free Person’ status, it would be a loss.

After entering the second phase, all rewards and punishments were doubled, and the amounts of visa time really made one’s heart race.

Obviously, the question setter had suffered a huge loss but according to game rules, the five players from the same community were actually sharing earnings and losses, so this wasn’t really a big problem.

[Answering players are voting on whether to change the question setter.]

Zheng Jie noticed that a choice to change the question setter appeared on the screen. He clicked ’No’, but it was useless because the two Community 1 answerers would definitely choose ’Yes’.

The question setter identity would still change to Zheng Jie.

[The question setter will be changed.]

[Your current identity is: Question Setter.]

[Please complete setting a question within 5 minutes.]

[Please note: If your question doesn’t conform to the rules, 20,000 minutes of visa time will be deducted and distributed equally among the answering players.]

Zheng Jie had prepared in advance. He spoke his question into the console, then revised it several times and confirmed it was correct before submitting.

[A 28-year-old male with migratory right lower quadrant pain for 8 hours, temperature 37.8°C, right lower quadrant tenderness (+), rebound tenderness (±), white blood cells 12×10/L. The most important confounding factor to rule out is: ( )]

[A. Debate over surgical timing for onset less than 24 hours]

[B. Whether mild fever suggests inflammation is not yet localized]

[C. Impact of atypical rebound tenderness on diagnostic accuracy]

Obviously, this was a professional question. Without relevant professional knowledge, it was unlikely to be answered correctly.

As the question setter, Zheng Jie himself couldn’t answer. The button section in the center of his console was grayed out and clicking had no effect.

But the left side of the console would still normally display the answering results from uninvolved players in the community. The pie chart kept changing.

After a minute or so, the pie chart initially took shape.

[A. Debate over surgical timing for onset less than 24 hours, 35.3%]

[B. Whether mild fever suggests inflammation is not yet localized, 33.2%]

[C. Impact of atypical rebound tenderness on diagnostic accuracy, 31.5%]

The proportions for the three options were very close and basically had no significant reference value.

Cai Zhiyuan had specifically instructed that if asking professional questions, they should set up some confusing options. They couldn’t let players without relevant professional knowledge look at them and be completely clueless.

In that case, it might instead cause uninvolved community players to ask professionals within the community, raising the proportion of correct answers.

From the proportions, the question Zheng Jie asked was quite confusing. Answerers couldn’t make inferences through the uninvolved players’ options.

Of course, the deadline for uninvolved community players to answer was 3 minutes, so there might still be slight changes to the pie chart afterward.

But just at this moment, the answer was automatically revealed.

[All answering players have submitted their answers. Settlement will proceed directly.]

[The correct answer to this question is: ’C. Impact of atypical rebound tenderness on diagnostic accuracy’.]

[The net earnings of the three players in this room are: 6000 minutes of visa time.]

[The question setter will pay out 6000 minutes of visa time.]

[Answering players are voting on whether to change the question setter.]

[The question setter will ’continue their turn’. Please continue setting questions.]

Zheng Jie couldn’t help but look somewhat grave.

”As expected, the question setter can’t see each player’s earnings or each player’s answers.

”The three of them will definitely choose to give completely unanimous answers and earn visa time from me.

”Fortunately, I prepared a contingency plan in advance.”

Zheng Jie hurried to continue producing the next question.