God's Imitator

Outside the room, Jiao Hai said somewhat disdainfully, ”...This isn’t dangerous at all, isn’t it just getting hit a few more times?

”Even in the most extreme case, I could just lie on the table and keep pressing. I’d eventually press for three minutes. At worst, I’d just keep getting whipped, but it seems like I could still pass.”

Fu Chen considered for a moment, ”This is Chen Ran’s exclusive punishment after all. Perhaps the physical differences between male and female players will also be reflected in the punishment?”

The others said nothing, but compared to the previous tense situation, they all relaxed somewhat.

From Chen Ran’s exclusive punishment, it hurt a bit, but there was indeed no life-threatening danger.

Finally, when about 1 minute remained in the game, Chen Ran completed the game objective, cumulatively pressing the button for 3 minutes.

She let out a long breath and stopped pressing the button.

Although continuing to press the button could earn visa time rewards, obviously it didn’t mean much to her.

The reward was visa time, not funds.

If these two were confused, she might have to take several more lashes.Besides choosing a seat, this game basically didn’t have much strategy to speak of. Chen Ran was hit a total of about a dozen times. The specific count was already a bit unclear.

Shoulders, arms, thighs, back... many places were left with whip marks.

The mechanical arm seemed completely random when whipping, with no pattern, but since the back had the largest area, it was hit the most times.

After 1 minute, the game ended.

With a ”bang,” the room door opened again.

Chen Ran stood up from her seat and suddenly stumbled, nearly falling.

Only now did she increasingly feel a burning pain all over her body, especially the injury on her thigh, which made movement somewhat difficult.

However, after catching her breath a bit, Chen Ran still limped out of the room.

Fu Chen hurriedly went up to her, ”How are you? Are you okay?”

Chen Ran ignored him and silently returned to her seat.

...

At the same time, in the outer field.

After Chen Ran was selected to endure ’exclusive punishment,’ a broadcast also sounded in the outer field.

[Chen Ran selected for ’exclusive punishment.’ Wu Xiaomei automatically becomes the ’sharer’ for this round.]

[Please complete sharing before this round ends.]

Everyone looked toward Wu Xiaomei, but Wu Xiaomei didn’t speak immediately. Instead, she continued waiting at her control panel.

After the countdown ended, she immediately operated it and sent the available funds to Chen Ran.

Other players also completed their operations at their control panels.

Zhou Guifen chose to divide the funds into two portions, bound to ’repair shop’ and ’gas station’ use respectively.

According to game rules, if outer field players wanted to directly transfer funds to inner field players, they had to stipulate the usage conditions for the funds.

That is, they could only be used at a specific equipment.

On the control panel, there were also simple functional introductions for the five types of equipment, for example:

[Gas Station: Reduces car pen weight. The more times used, the more weight reduction.]

Only a short sentence or two. Although this also explained the purpose clearly, compared to the actual equipment seen by inner field players, a lot of information was missing.

They couldn’t see the specific design, couldn’t hear the specific sound effects, and couldn’t see the specific amount of funds needed to be consumed for each use.

Funds couldn’t be transferred during the 10 minutes before the first round started, but this also gave these outer field players sufficient time to think.

Zhou Guifen’s thinking was that the car pen she obtained wasn’t very good, so weight reduction at the gas station should be necessary.

Because from the game content, this front raise posture was very strenuous. The worse the car pen, the heavier it was, and thus the harder to control.

Moreover, Shen Xing was a female player whose strength was inherently inferior, so at least one or two weight reductions should be needed.

Additionally, from the inner field players’ actual performance, the probability of ’loss of control’ was higher than imagined, and the consequences were serious.

Then the ’repair station’ that reduced loss of control was also very useful.

When equipment was used multiple times, the funds consumed would increase, so the first batch of funds should definitely be used on different equipment.

...

Wu Xiaomei was this round’s ’sharer.’ She came to the venue, still looking worriedly at the large screen.

Chen Ran had already entered the room and was receiving punishment, while Wu Xiaomei’s expression was full of worry.

”I love my child very much.”

Wu Xiaomei looked at Chen Ran on the large screen, tears slightly glistening in her eyes.

The other players looked at each other. Obviously, this was an almost absolutely safe statement.

From the game’s start until now, all outer field players should agree with this statement.

This way, other players wouldn’t be forced to cast opposition votes for Wu Xiaomei but could vote freely.

But everyone waited for a while, and the system broadcast didn’t sound.

Obviously, this statement was too brief and didn’t meet the requirements in the game rules.

Wu Xiaomei considered for a moment and continued, ”I still remember when Ranran was little, she was especially well-behaved and sensible. She was like a little angel, always circling around me calling ’Mommy, Mommy.’

”When she was little, she recognized and learned characters very quickly. She was especially smart. When the neighbor’s children still couldn’t speak clearly, she could already recognize dozens of characters. The neighboring parents were especially envious.

”She always sat at the table, quietly learning characters. At that time, I was really the happiest person in the world.”

This time, the system broadcast sounded.

[’Sharer’ has completed sharing according to game rules. Reward obtained:]

[”In a world with only drivers and cars, drivers need no training, need no driver’s license. They’re all self-taught talents.”]

The players were stunned. This so-called ”reward” didn’t exist in the original rules. Moreover, it was just a statement with no beginning or end.

When all players listened carefully with pricked ears, there was completely no continuation.

But no matter what, the sharing was successfully completed. The next question was how to cast the ’opposition votes.’

If you agreed with the sharer’s viewpoint, you could vote freely. But if you opposed, you had to vote for the sharer.

Obviously, what Wu Xiaomei said were things all outer field players agreed with, so they were all hesitating.

Liu Mingxin considered for a moment and proposed, ”Before everyone votes, can you listen to me say a few simple words?”

She was the youngest-looking among all outer field players, fashionably dressed, and also very poised when speaking.

”If we’re voting freely, I suggest everyone consider that special hidden rule in the game:

”Among the six inner field players, there’s one ’super authority player.’

”Once this person survives to the end, they’ll unlock ’super authority’ and can directly decide the fate of one to two players.

”That means they can directly kill any one of us!

”The rules also said ’including but not limited to life and death.’ We don’t know yet what this ’not limited to’ means. It might be randomly turning us disabled or even some worse things.

”So we need to think carefully about who this player is.

”We don’t have many means to restrict this player, but we can use the ’opposition votes’ in our hands to block the outer field player corresponding to this player, thereby indirectly blocking their funds.

”As long as they can’t successfully complete challenges and can’t survive to the game’s end, naturally they also can’t unlock super authority.

”The method to identify the ’super authority player’ is that deep in their hearts, both sides have no guilt toward each other.

”Everyone can use this point to vote.”

Everyone looked at each other. For a moment, no one responded.