God's Imitator

Li Renshu didn’t speak, but her expression was downcast, clearly having realized the ultimate answer to this problem as well.

Qin Yao thought for a moment and said, ”I discussed this issue with Lawyer Lin before. From a personnel perspective, those who would unconditionally support Lawyer Lin are actually only three people: you, me, and Yinzhang.

”Shen Xing and Auntie Zhou are people who just live their lives. As long as they can live well themselves, they won’t be willing to get involved in this kind of thing.

”Yang Hui and Li Jiang were both recruited by Cai Zhiyuan from the ’Tarot Game,’ so they definitely stand on his side.

”Little Dai seems to have always been a die-hard supporter of Cai Zhiyuan. This was probably established as far back as ’Simple Q&A,’ right?

”As for Yuting...”

Yang Yuting took over the conversation, ”Yes, thinking about it now, if it were Cai Zhiyuan sitting here instead of Lawyer Lin, I could only completely obey his orders.

”Because...

”Whether it was ’becoming the opposition’ or that mini-game session before the ’Tarot Game’ started, those were all his arrangements too.

”At first, I didn’t really realize these things. I just felt that these matters were beneficial to me, so I did them.”But now that I think about it...

”All the political influence I’ve gained in the community so far has come from Cai Zhiyuan.

”If he really demanded that I choose sides between him and Renshu, I would ultimately have no other choice.

”From every aspect, this is the case.”

Dai Yifan added, ”Including the vote before about whether Sister Yuting or Brother Cai should be the game core, actually... that was also arranged by Brother Cai.

”I went around soliciting votes privately.”

Wei Yinzhang sighed, ”So, actually before the ’Tarot Game,’ the community’s structure had already been set.

”The apparent leader, the apparent opposition, the centrists, the people who just live their lives, were all actually controlled by Cai Zhiyuan.

”After kicking out Boss Wang in the ’Tarot Game,’ the only thing left to do was find an opportunity to confront Lawyer Lin directly.”

Qin Yao said thoughtfully, ”However, after the ’Tarot Game’ ended, Cai Zhiyuan still initiated the discussion about ’new members of the five-person group.’

”He had us go through great trouble choosing between Yuting and Li Jiang.

”But in reality, this was completely meaningless?”

Lin Sizhi explained, ”This was to divert attention, not to actually discuss the community’s political structure.

”Because every previous discussion about community politics affected changes in the community’s structure, so if they were ordinary players without strong political awareness, they would think that Cai Zhiyuan was still trying to influence community politics through the ’issue of the five-person group’s personnel.’

”But this time was different.

”If one counterattacked in this area, or merely spent more time thinking about it, or let down their guard, it would result in not having time to prepare for the ’Special Game,’ falling into a passive position.”

Qin Yao finally understood, ”Oh! So that’s how it is!”

This personnel discussion was just a misleading tactic. The result of the discussion didn’t actually matter.

The reason Cai Zhiyuan made such a big fuss about this issue was simply because he expected one of these several situations to occur:

First, Lin Sizhi realized that community politics had become very unfavorable to him and tried to work around to reverse the situation.

Second, Lin Sizhi didn’t work around, but spent some time thinking about these issues.

Third, Lin Sizhi neither worked around nor thought about it, but he mistakenly believed that Cai Zhiyuan’s strategic focus was still within the community and wouldn’t launch the ’Special Game’ so urgently.

No matter which situation occurred, Lin Sizhi’s attention would be diverted, either being too late to design the ’Special Game’ or not mentally prepared to deal with the ’Special Game.’

In any case, Cai Zhiyuan would have achieved his purpose.

Wei Yinzhang considered for a moment, ”At the dinner gathering, you both drank quite a bit and neither of you showed any abnormalities.

”But actually... you had both already completed the design of your ’Special Games’ the night before?

”In other words, the moment you saw the Gallery update this rule, both of your fates were already determined?”

Lin Sizhi nodded, ”You could say that.

”The Gallery only leaves opportunities for those who are prepared.

”In other words, if either of us hadn’t been prepared, our match wouldn’t have become what it is now.”

Yang Hui had been silent all along, but now she asked, ”However, there’s one thing I still don’t quite understand.

”From the current situation, you two can be said to be the strongest players among all the players we’ve encountered, leading other players by a huge margin.

”The only two S-rank God’s Imitators, and both of your performances after entering the game have been equally perfect.

”If you two joined forces, I can’t think of anyone who could stop you.

”You’re both in Community 17, you’ve known each other since the first day you entered the New World, and you must share common ground on many issues. Why must you fight to the death?”

Yang Hui had cooperated with Cai Zhiyuan in ’Simple Q&A,’ so she also felt great regret about Cai Zhiyuan’s death.

Although from a moral perspective, Cai Zhiyuan wasn’t an absolutely reliable partner, in the Gallery, how many players were absolutely reliable?

Many people’s moral requirements for partners had been continuously lowering. After all, morality was intangible, while strength was real.

Lin Sizhi looked at the large screen, ”Regarding this point...

”The answer can only be obtained from the ’Special Games’ we designed for each other.”

At this moment, the large screen was still displaying that specific information.

But clearly, Lin Sizhi didn’t want to check it now.

”Retrieve the game rules for ’Simple Roulette’ and ’Hermit’s Judgment.’”

...

On the large screen appeared the detailed rules for these two games.

Li Renshu thought for a moment, ”Cai Zhiyuan is the only person in our community who experienced ’Hermit’s Judgment’ firsthand. Should we purchase his game experience?”

According to common sense, games without firsthand participants were very difficult to review.

Just like the initial ’Redemption Roulette.’

Wei Yinzhang thought for a moment, ”Since Lawyer Lin won, that means he anticipated all of Cai Zhiyuan’s actions. Even without buying it, there shouldn’t be any serious misjudgments.”

Lin Sizhi nodded, ”Let’s buy it.

”Although I can roughly guess all his actions, I can’t grasp the specific details after all.

”Moreover, a player like him deserves sufficient respect in his final moments.”

Lin Sizhi first briefly described the game process as he had guessed it, and then everyone spent visa time to purchase Cai Zhiyuan’s specific game experience.

The two almost completely matched, with only some differences in details.

Of course, this didn’t mean that Lin Sizhi hadn’t considered other possibilities.

It was just that after the result of ’Cai Zhiyuan’s death’ appeared, those possibilities all disappeared, and Lin Sizhi was able to confirm the only possible path.

Wei Yinzhang fell into thought, ”So, if we look at it from God’s perspective after the fact, you indeed left enough escape routes for Cai Zhiyuan in ’Hermit’s Judgment.’”