God's Imitator

The next second, Yang Yuting realized she had returned to the community hall.

Unlike usual, she didn’t immediately hear Fu Chen’s voice counting the number of people.

The players who had been waiting also gathered around. They could tell at a glance that only three of the original four who had entered the game had returned.

Fu Chen was not there.

Zheng Jie’s eyes widened in disbelief, ”Where’s Brother Fu Chen? He couldn’t have...”

Due to the existence of the ’First Player Identity Card,’ even players who remained in the community could immediately see the relevant game rules.

Although they couldn’t see the specific situations within the game, through these rules, they could roughly determine the danger level of the game or make crude deductions.

Clearly, just from the rules alone, this game was also extremely dangerous.

Li Renshu quickly said, ”Everyone, don’t panic. Fu Chen’s situation is rather special. He didn’t die in the game, he just left the New World.”

Zheng Jie was shocked, ”Isn’t that the same thing! At a time like this, let’s not say these lukewarm words to comfort everyone!”Li Renshu picked up the bracelet that had fallen on the ground, ”No, look, this bracelet has no cracks.”

Zheng Jie skeptically took it and found that Fu Chen’s bracelet was indeed still intact, different from the bracelets of previously deceased players.

At the same time, the settlement information for this game also appeared on the big screen.

[Now announcing Community 17’s final visa time acquisition results in the ’Lifting Game.’]

[No. 1 Fu Chen: Departed]

[No. 3 Li Renshu: 139283]

[No. 8 Zhou Guifen: 38922]

[No. 11 Yang Yuting: 121896]

[According to community rules, visa time obtained by players will be contributed to the community’s guarantee fund according to ’progressive tax rates.’ Remaining visa time will be credited to each player’s visa.]

Yang Yuting’s earnings were lower than Li Renshu’s, most likely due to the time deducted from conscience violation penalties during voting.

On the question of whether Fu Yujun was guilty or not, Li Renshu and Yang Yuting had different educational backgrounds and work environments, so their views naturally differed.

Wei Yinzhang keenly caught the change in wording on the big screen, ”’Departed’? Not ’Deported’?

”So there really is a way to leave the New World?

”How can this be?

”The rules of this game clearly didn’t mention anything like this... wait, could it be that the vague rule about the ’super authority player’ has relevant content?”

As a God’s Imitator, Wei Yinzhang was quite sensitive to wording and rules, and she quickly realized this.

But precisely because of this, she was even more surprised.

Because this was information she didn’t have even as a God’s Imitator.

Li Renshu and Yang Yuting had watched the entire process as audience members in the game, so they had more information than other players and weren’t as shocked as the others.

The two of them had already been surprised during the game.

Yang Yuting was more concerned about Zhou Guifen’s actual earnings.

”Auntie Zhou’s earnings are actually positive? I thought it would be negative 50,000. Logically speaking, outer field players have almost no way to obtain earnings, right?”

Li Renshu shook her head, ”Actually, strictly speaking, there is still one earnings rule for outer field players.

”The audience had a special punishment. If they failed to bet on any surviving player, all their visa time would be deducted. If the deduction was less than 50,000, an additional 50,000 would be deducted.

”Chen Ran’s death became the biggest variable, directly affecting all audience members’ betting results.

”The earnings for the three of us are all much higher than expected, probably all because of this reason.

”Those audience members who suffered the special punishment had their deducted visa time divided among all surviving inner and outer field players. Auntie Zhou had already spent 50,000 to exchange for funds in the game, so the visa time she received in the end should have been over 80,000.

”In other words, there were quite a few audience members who suffered the special punishment.

”As for the two of us, although our betting amounts weren’t the highest, we bet the earliest and got everything right, so when dividing the ’losers’’ bets, we should receive quite a high amount.”

Qin Yao listened in confusion, ”I say, why are you two chatting among yourselves? We still know nothing about what happened in the game!”

Li Renshu said somewhat apologetically, ”Sorry, because we were still thinking about some things from the game, we unconsciously started chatting about it.

”In any case, although the death rate in this game was high, the results are actually not bad. Everyone worked hard, so let’s go rest first.

”This afternoon we’ll start a detailed review and explain the specific situation to everyone.”

...

Afternoon.

After the afternoon rest, the players gathered in the hall, ready to begin reviewing this game.

Since they hadn’t been able to recruit new members immediately after the last game ended, and this game also couldn’t directly recruit players from other communities, there were now only 10 players left in the community.

The vacancy of two positions made everyone feel somewhat dejected.

However, after confirming that Fu Chen had ’departed’ rather than been ’deported,’ a glimmer of hope rekindled in everyone’s hearts.

Since entering the New World, all the players they had encountered could only enter but not leave. The vast majority had already resigned themselves to their fate and stopped trying to find a way to leave.

But no one expected that this method would appear before them quite abruptly.

Li Renshu said, ”Yuting performed very well this time. You should narrate the specific process.”

Yang Yuting nodded. When encountering such opportunities to show herself, she never had any hesitation.

As an audience member, Yang Yuting had more comprehensive information than both inner and outer field players, and she quickly recounted the entire game process.

Li Renshu supplemented some details.

Then, everyone naturally began discussing the matter of ’Fu Chen’s departure,’ since this was the most worthy of concern at this moment.

Wang Yongxin summarized, ”So the situation is roughly like this:

”The God’s Imitator who designed the ’Lifting Game’ buried this special rule about the ’super authority player’ in the game. Once this rule is triggered, a certain player can be sent back to the real world.

”However, the trigger conditions for this rule are extremely harsh.

”First, the special authority player must survive to the end in a dangerous elimination-type game.

”Second, this player must voluntarily commit suicide.

”Fu Chen’s departure was the result of many low-probability events stacking up in an extremely special situation. If any one condition hadn’t been met, the result would have been completely different.

”Is that right?”

Yang Yuting nodded, ”Yes, from the current situation, that’s correct.”

Everyone fell into deep thought.

Looking back, this game was quite brutal, with a very high death rate.

Although in the early and middle stages of the game, things had been lukewarm and the punishments encountered by inner field players weren’t too dangerous, in the end, of the total 12 inner and outer field players, including Fu Chen, only 5 survived.

To survive in such a brutal game, strategy was naturally important, but the will to survive was equally important.

Therefore, by conventional reasoning, in the final choice between two options for the ’super authority player,’ the vast majority of players would choose the former.

That is, randomly select one of the surviving inner or outer field players to kill.

It could be the player with the most serious crime, or the player they found most displeasing.

But no matter who they killed, the ’super authority player’ was unlikely to choose their own death in exchange for another player’s departure.