God's Imitator

The group gathered in front of the automatic vending machine.

According to community rules, Lu Bingjun originally had 30% of his earnings forcibly deducted and entered into the community construction fund. At this moment, he donated the remaining 70% entirely.

However, before pressing the donation button, Lu Bingjun paused slightly and said, "It’s a pity the community rules don’t allow donations in the name of the deceased.

"We can only remember in our hearts: this precious Immunity Coupon was exchanged for us by Deng Xiao with his life."

Lu Bingjun pressed the button to complete the donation.

Players who have died won’t appear in the machine’s records, so although it was in Deng Xiao’s name, it couldn’t be recorded accordingly; the money still registered under Lu Bingjun’s name.

Lu Bingjun’s original donation record was around 340,000, and this total earnings are 410,000. Adding the community leader’s donation rule noted as ’130%’, his total donation record abruptly soared to 870,000.

Meanwhile, after the ’Pain Game,’ Ye Lin was automatically deducted 30%, which is about 20,000, bringing her donation record to 240,000.

At this moment, Lu Bingjun took the lead.

With the donation completion, the community fund smoothly surpassed the 900,000 threshold.

Shen Bowen reminded, "There should be new items unlocked, let’s check it out."

Lu Bingjun nodded and opened the product page on the automatic vending machine to search.

[’Immunity Coupon’ cooldown time permanently reduced by 7 days]

[Price: 80,000 minutes of visa time]

Upon seeing this item entry, everyone was momentarily stunned, their expressions somewhat indescribable.

Lu Bingjun was silent for a long time, regretfully sighing, "If only I had donated to the community construction fund to 900,000 earlier..."

Others clearly realized too: they were just a little bit short.

If they managed to donate the community construction fund to this tier earlier and unlocked this entry, they would undoubtedly go all out to buy it.

Moreover, 80,000 minutes of visa time is not an unmanageable amount.

As it stands, the Immunity Coupon would suffice to cool down completely before ’One Word Breaks the Prison’ began.

Lu Bingjun could directly plead guilty and use the Immunity Coupon for himself, and naturally Deng Xiao would survive the game.

But people didn’t know donating the fund to 900,000 would unlock such an item, leading to the Immunity Coupon barely not cooling down completely.

Now this item still has high value; after all, it permanently shortens the cooldown time by 7 days, the longer, the more worthwhile.

But ultimately, they missed its optimal use scenario.

Qin Cheng considered for a moment and consoled, "I think everyone doesn’t need to be too upset.

"This situation itself entails great randomness.

"According to our previous discussion, the Imitator set the special solution ’one person pleads guilty to clear the game’ likely because of special information.

"If we unlocked this item in advance, activated the Immunity Coupon, perhaps the Imitator’s design would turn into ’two people need to plead guilty to clear the game.’

"Ultimately, we know too little about the Imitator and can’t determine what channels he obtains information from.

"Being preoccupied with such concerns might mean falling into the Imitator’s trap: perhaps it’s just a design made on a whim that became a haunt for our entire community."

Lu Bingjun considered for a moment and nodded, "Mm, Qin Cheng is right.

"There’s no need to engage in meaningless internal conflict over this; past is past, it’s irreversible, regret is pointless.

"No matter what, the Imitator is our greatest enemy.

"Should we directly purchase this item?

"Although the Immunity Coupon is about to cool down completely, since we’ll eventually buy it, when doesn’t matter."

The group nodded one after another, "Yeah, let’s buy it."

Lu Bingjun quickly operated, first purchasing the item to shorten the Immunity Coupon’s cooldown and then immediately bought the cooled down Immunity Coupon.

Total spent: 380,000 minutes of visa time.

Yet seeing the Immunity Coupon return to usable status, many players felt more reassured.

Lu Bingjun looked at everyone, "Alright, let’s wrap up this discussion here, everyone’s worked hard."

However, before the group dispersed, Qin Cheng reminded, "Brother Lu, there’s one more thing to confirm.

"That’s the specific mechanism of ’replenishment.’"

On the automatic vending machine, the limited purchase quantity of the two medications remained ’0/10,’ and the screen still only displayed a simple prompt.

[Insufficient purchase limit, please replenish.]

Although Qin Cheng didn’t explicitly say it, slightly smarter players quickly grasped his point.

This time, the only players surviving the game were Lu Bingjun and Lin Sizhi.

It’s unlikely they would replenish.

On one hand, they should disdain doing so temporarily, and on the other, the target is so clear, once replenished, suspicion would be fixed on them; the range is too narrow, almost making it evident.

So, for any reason, they certainly wouldn’t replenish now.

But it also means now’s the best time to clarify the replenishment mechanism.

As Lu Bingjun and Lin Sizhi are unlikely to fully collude and lie now, the information obtained would definitely be accurate.

If delaying and more players gain replenishment qualifications in the next game, the replenishment mechanism asked out then might not be accurate.

Lu Bingjun nodded, "Mm, I’ll check.

"For both medications, I can replenish 10 bottles each, didn’t see a replenishment time limit.

"Lawyer Lin, you take a look too."

Lin Sizhi also approached the automatic vending machine, and after simple operation said, "Same here, I can replenish 10 bottles of each, didn’t see a time limit."

Qin Cheng couldn’t help but frown, "That many?

"The initial medication quantity is 10 bottles each, a total of 20 bottles; now, a total of 40 bottles can be replenished.

"With this quantity, there are two possibilities:

"First is after each game, the total replenishment quota increases by 20 bottles, i.e., initial two medications totaling 20 bottles, post-game default 40 bottles, another post-game default 60 bottles... divided equally among surviving players.

"The second is after each game, each surviving player can replenish 20 bottles, the more surviving players, the more can be replenished."

Huang Shengjie added, "It might also be each game post, the total replenishment quota doubles? Default 20 bottles, first time 40 bottles, second time 80 bottles..."

Qin Cheng slightly shook his head, "You mentioned the worst case, but in that scenario, the values become excessively unbalanced, virtually indistinguishable from having no limits, shouldn’t be the case.

"Yet even estimating conservatively, these medication quantities exceed our controllable limits.

"It seems unlikely to buy out medications at every game’s end."