God's Imitator

While everyone took notes, they couldn’t help but feel genuinely impressed.

Many people hadn’t expected that from the pitifully scarce information Wei Yinzhang had provided, they could actually analyze corresponding strategies.

Of course, this strategy wasn’t necessarily completely correct. The specific situation would still need to be confirmed after entering the game.

But regardless, having such a general direction beforehand would definitely prevent players from being too bewildered upon entering the game and help them avoid many detours.

Of course, this was also thanks to the abundance of intelligent people in Community 17. If the same information Wei Yinzhang provided were given to some weaker communities, perhaps no amount of brainstorming would yield any results.

This discussion had gotten off to a good start, so soon more people began to speak freely.

Although no particularly constructive proposals were put forward, they still supplemented many details.

It wasn’t until most of the conceivable possibilities had been discussed that everyone dispersed with their completed notes to slowly digest the information.

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Two days later, in the morning.The players had each finished breakfast and were waiting in the hall.

Soon, information appeared on the large screen.

[Good morning, all players!]

[The ’Gallery’ will open in 1 hour.]

[The name of this game is ’Self-Selected Game’, and the game objective is ’Screening Players and God’s Imitators’.]

[This game will mandate full participation from players in Communities 1 through 20 and all God’s Imitators.]

[Please be prepared, players.]

The game invitation was very brief, but it did provide additional information.

Previously, the objectives of screening-type games had always been ’Screening Players’, but this time the objective had changed to ’Screening Players and God’s Imitators’.

If a player was smart enough, after seeing this line, they could also deduce some key information.

Because the objective of ’Screening God’s Imitators’ meant that God’s Imitators would also have a corresponding ’assessment mechanism’ in this game. If players could vaguely guess what the specific assessment mechanism was, and then guess what changes God’s Imitators would make when designing games to cope with this assessment mechanism, they could gain an early advantage in the game.

Of course, players with this kind of sensitivity should be in the minority.

For the players of Community 17, they didn’t need to worry about this point, because Wei Yinzhang had previously revealed some information, and they had already conducted thorough discussions through brainstorming.

Li Renshu looked at Wei Yinzhang, ”You can refuse the invitation now.”

Wei Yinzhang nodded and said to the large screen, ”I refuse this game invitation.”

[Player No. 2 Wei Yinzhang of this community has chosen to exercise the First Player privilege and refuse the game invitation.]

[Invitation refused successfully. The ’Refuse Invitation’ function of the First Player identity card will enter a 30-day cooldown.]

Seeing this information, Wei Yinzhang let out a long breath.

She no longer had to enter this game as a player. She only needed to achieve the God’s Imitator’s objective to be safe and sound.

Moreover, no ’Player Replacement’ information appeared on the large screen either.

According to the item description of the identity card, after a player refused an invitation, whether or not to replace the player, and specifically whether to replace from within the community or from other communities, depended on the rules of this game invitation.

This game required full participation. Except for players who could use identity cards to refuse invitations, other players would not remain in the community, so there would be no replacement.

Li Renshu instructed, ”Yinzhang, while you’re in the community, you can also observe the specific game rules through the special function of the identity card.

”If you think it’s necessary to provide advice, just provide it directly. Even if it doesn’t help, it doesn’t matter.”

Wei Yinzhang nodded, ”Yes, although this possibility is low, I’ll keep an eye out.”

According to the rules everyone had established, when more than half of the players in the community who weren’t participating in the game believed ’advice should be provided’, advice could be provided.

Now only Wei Yinzhang remained in the community, and she was also the player holding the identity card, so she could provide advice whenever she wanted.

If there really was suitable advice to give, the players of Community 17 wouldn’t be stingy with 100,000 minutes of visa time. This money could come from the luxury goods fund.

After holding the identity card, Wei Yinzhang could simultaneously see the game rules in the hall, but the problem was that the players would be separated.

As a God’s Imitator, Wei Yinzhang already knew that each player in the community would be in a separate game hall, and players from the same community would be completely unable to meet.

In this situation, she had no way to accurately determine which specific player would encounter danger.

If she gave advice randomly, situations like ’originally safe players receiving advice’ or ’players in danger not receiving advice’ would very likely occur.

In that case, spending 100,000 would be very uneconomical.

So Wei Yinzhang didn’t make any promises. She could only decide based on the specific situation after the game started.

Since it was a screening-type game, there was a default 1-hour preparation time.

Communities that couldn’t obtain partial information from God’s Imitators beforehand needed to use this 1-hour period to analyze strategies, but Community 17 didn’t need to.

Everyone reviewed the basic strategies proposed during the previous brainstorming session one last time, then each waited with apprehensive feelings for the countdown to end.

Soon, everyone except Wei Yinzhang disappeared from the hall.

Wei Yinzhang let out a long breath and looked at the large screen.

Because she held the First Player identity card, the large screen also began to synchronously update the various rules of this game.

However, the good news was that it didn’t just display the basic rules.

What first appeared on the large screen were the basic rules of the game hall. As a God’s Imitator, Wei Yinzhang had already seen this content.

Although she had only revealed a small portion to other players, she herself was already very familiar with it.

But the information displayed was more than just this.

Afterward, the large screen also displayed a total of 24 different game unit rules. Obviously, these were the ”assignments” submitted by the God’s Imitators.

Wei Yinzhang also saw among them the game she had designed, ’Worth Waiting For’.

Not only that, but the large screen also showed a list of 12 different halls. The list contained two pieces of information: the names of the six different game rooms in the hall, and the names of Community 17 players in the hall.

Besides this, there was no other content.

Wei Yinzhang couldn’t see what exactly players would experience in these halls.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Yinzhang took several sheets of white paper and began carefully reading the game room rules designed by other God’s Imitators, falling into thought.

She wanted to try analyzing the ecology of each game hall.

Since the six game rooms in each game hall were different and had a certain randomness, players’ choices would also differ.

For example, if a certain hall had a very simple game that additionally gave a lot of visa time, then the difficulty of that hall would suddenly decrease.

Conversely, if a certain hall was filled entirely with games that had extreme rules, little reward, and fierce competition, then the player mortality rate in that hall would be very high.

If it happened that a weaker player from the community was assigned to such a hall, then Wei Yinzhang would have to find a way to send advice to provide as much help as possible.

Although it might not necessarily be useful, she could only do her best.