God's Imitator

Lin Sizhi had already left. Han Mengying still sat in the ’Sage’ position for a while.

If measured by actual time in the game, this was very brief, but to Han Mengying it felt very long.

But ultimately, she still accepted the result of this match.

”You’re right. This was just an insignificant match.

”I was overly obsessed with the victory or defeat of this match, which instead put me in a position where I was bound to lose.

”The final result of this game is what matters.”

Han Mengying stood up, left the game room, and returned to her lounge.

She came to the ’Sage’s Door,’ where there were still several invitation messages.

Han Mengying had already made a decision. She found ’↑The Devil’s’ card and clicked to accept the invitation message sent by the other party.

This time, she didn’t painstakingly place specific Wealth Vouchers in the wooden boxes, nor did she formulate any particularly complex strategy.The rules on the notice board were:

[All wooden boxes are filled with Wealth Vouchers.]

[Among them, 11 wooden boxes all contain vouchers of 1000 denomination. The other 11 wooden boxes each contain one voucher of 100 denomination.]

[The ’Thief’ only has one chance. If they choose a wooden box ’containing a voucher of 100 denomination,’ they take all wooden boxes of the same type. Vice versa.]

Such rules actually had no strategy whatsoever, and the difference in returns between both parties could also almost be ignored.

This was because Han Mengying had already found many specific players as allies in the game. A brand new ’camp’ bound by interests had already appeared.

And within this camp, there was no need for battles of wits and courage or earning Wealth Vouchers. They only needed to execute strategies and distribute Wealth Vouchers according to pre-agreed proportions.

The ’Thief’s Door’ opened.

’↑The Devil’ sat down in the ’Thief’ position. ”How did it go?”

Han Mengying was silent for a moment and said truthfully, ”I lost.”

’↑The Devil’ didn’t ask further questions and instead changed the topic. ”Our arrangements have all been completed. Judging from the number of ’blood bags,’ we undoubtedly have the advantage.

”What we need to do next is continue transferring Wealth Vouchers according to the original plan until the game ends.”

Han Mengying also nodded. ”Mm, the setup on our side has also been completed.

”However...

”There’s something I’ve always wanted to ask you.

”What level of player is ’↓Wheel of Fortune’ in your community?”

What Han Mengying asked about was the Reversed ’Wheel of Fortune,’ not Lin Sizhi.

In this game, ’↓Wheel of Fortune’ had once been matched with Shen Xing. As if truly able to see through fate, he accurately guessed the number Shen Xing set in one try.

And throughout the entire game, Shen Xing wasn’t the only person with a similar experience.

’↑The Devil’ was somewhat surprised. ”Hm? Why ask this?

”In our community, he’s one of my capable assistants. His level can probably rank in the top five in our community.

”But to be frank, I don’t think he’s among the very top tier of players in the Gallery.”

The real identity of ’↑The Devil’ was Wang Weidong from Community 15.

And the reason he felt surprised was because the kind of ’ability to see through fate’ that ’↓Wheel of Fortune’ displayed in his match with Shen Xing was actually just a byproduct of his and Han Mengying’s complete strategy.

Logically speaking, Han Mengying should be very clear about this.

Then why ask this question? Wang Weidong didn’t quite understand.

Han Mengying explained, ”Mm, I know. This also matches the information I collected previously.

”In the first stage of the game, I was also matched with him. Although we didn’t really play the game and most of the time was spent discussing group strategies, but...

”I always have a strange feeling.”

Wang Weidong asked, ”What feeling?”

Han Mengying said, ”Hard to say clearly, but... not too good.”

Wang Weidong was silent for a moment and smiled. ”Then you’re definitely worrying unnecessarily. He and I have spent a long time together in the community. I have a full understanding of his capabilities.

”Moreover, our interests are highly bound together.

”Perhaps the similar ’Wheel of Fortune’ mask gave you an illusion?

”He and the Upright ’Wheel of Fortune’ are completely not players at the same level.”

Han Mengying didn’t persist. ”Maybe. Perhaps I have some PTSD.”

Neither spoke for the time being.

Han Mengying instead fell into contemplation, beginning to recall all her plans and setups in this game from the beginning.

Because they were both ’Upright’ players, Han Mengying couldn’t be matched with Wang Weidong in the first stage, but this didn’t matter either, because both Han Mengying and Wang Weidong had sufficiently strong control in their communities.

After finding Reversed players from the same community, they could then contact each other through Reversed players and formulate strategies.

Just as ’↓The Hermit’ said: In this game, the so-called ’camps’ (Upright and Reversed) were simply complete red herrings.

Players could only speak freely in battle rooms, so players from opposing camps were natural allies.

And the earlier one broke through the barrier between Upright and Reversed camps, the earlier one could control the overall situation.

Han Mengying and Wang Weidong were of course among the earliest batch of players to understand this point. To be precise, they had already realized it the first moment they saw the rules.

The two executed similar plans very tacitly, and when Community 4 and Community 15 collided, the two similar plans hit it off immediately. They smoothly established stable cooperation and quickly took control of the situation in the game.

And this plan was actually very simple when described: ’giving Wealth Vouchers.’

...

Perceptive players, after seeing the game rules, could directly realize that in this ’Tarot Game,’ the original game with 22 wooden boxes wasn’t a mandatory option.

Although players like ’↑Wheel of Fortune’ and ’↓The Emperor’ could give complex Sage rules within the rules, making one-on-one match intensity infinitely increase, no matter how much it increased, the Wealth Voucher returns from one match would still be locked at 11 million.

Moreover, ’Thief’ players could directly choose not to play and just casually take 10 wooden boxes according to the first strategy.

Therefore, those relatively weak players could directly adopt the method of He Xiaojun and Huang Ming.

As long as one party was willing to match with the other party and give away Wealth Vouchers for free, then the party receiving free vouchers could easily obtain the theoretical upper limit of returns.

They could even easily crush the returns that strong players obtained from matches through special rules.

If that was the case, the substantial rules of the game had changed.

For individuals, the most important thing in this game was definitely not ’how to rack one’s brains to come up with an original rule to win Wealth Vouchers from the opposing camp,’ but rather ’how to find players willing to give oneself free vouchers.’

The same logic applied to communities. The most important thing was ’how to find enough players willing to separately give free vouchers to all players in this community.’