God's Imitator

Wen Wan returned to her lounge and first tried inputting the number: 0211 on the machine corresponding to Zeng Yiming.

After pressing the ’Confirm’ button, a special light effect appeared on the four numbers, followed by a special ’click’ sound, and they were locked in a green border.

This meant all four numbers were correct.

Wen Wan was stunned, "Completely correct?"

She was originally filled with doubt, considering if Zeng Yiming was playing some special tricks.

For instance, Zeng Yiming might have colluded earlier with Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer), letting Liang Guicheng deliberately state an incorrect ending number, then adding some wrong information while calculating data.

This way, everyone would be led in the wrong direction, possibly unable to guess the correct number until the end.

But Wen Wan realized she was overthinking it, and such a situation did not occur.

There is a 3-minute break time after returning to the lounge each time.

Wen Wan unconsciously looked at another machine.

The machine corresponding to Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer) displayed: Total sold ’XX67’ tons.

By a stroke of luck, Wen Wan reached out and inputted the number: 0367.

The ’click’ sound rang again, and the numbers 0, 6, 7 appeared inside a special green border and got locked.

Meanwhile, number 3 showed a red border, slightly shook, emitted a piercing error sound effect, and was pushed to the top as a wrong answer hint.

"Guessed right... the first number is zero..."

Wen Wan guessed this way based on the existing information.

Liang Guicheng is a fruit farmer, judging by appearance, he isn’t likely a big orchard owner, more like a farmer from an average small to medium-sized orchard.

And the crime a fruit farmer might commit should be selling pesticide-laden fruit.

The unit of the number is tons; assuming it’s a small to medium orchard with typical fruit, the number isn’t likely very large, certainly not over a thousand tons.

Thus, Wen Wan simply tried: if the first number wasn’t 0, then next time trying 1 would be the way.

She didn’t expect to guess the first number right directly.

Next, if she continues eliminating wrong answers, she can guess the specific number for the second place.

Wen Wan took a deep breath and randomly inputted numbers on the machines corresponding to He Qing (Installer) and Zhao Xiuying (Vendor).

There were no clues for these two people’s numbers, only relying on guesses.

Wen Wan inputted the numbers ’2349’ and ’1273’ respectively, all incorrect.

However, these incorrect numbers were still recorded at the top of the screen.

The 3-minute break time ended, Wen Wan left the lounge and returned to the game venue again.

[The crime number of Zeng Yiming (Store Manager) has been guessed correctly by at least 2 sinner players, the crime has been exposed.]

[Zeng Yiming’s crime: During the operation of a sushi shop, failing to clean plates properly, causing severe food safety and hygiene issues, totaling ’2.11 million times’.]

[Judgment result: Not judged.]

[Please Audience vote to complete ’Initial Judgment’.]

The venue became extremely quiet, Zeng Yiming said nothing, silently waiting.

A moment later, the broadcast sounded again.

[Announcing the initial judgment voting results for Zeng Yiming (Store Manager):]

[Guilty: 15 votes]

[Not Guilty: 12 votes]

[The ’Initial Judgment’ crime is established, the sinner will suffer the Instant Death Penalty.]

Hearing this result, Zeng Yiming silently sighed.

Clearly, he initially hoped for the best result: directly judged as not guilty in the initial judgment.

Because Zeng Yiming’s crime isn’t considered very serious, such a degree of food safety issue in reality likely entails a fine or rectification.

Moreover, Zeng Yiming actively admitted guilt and objectively explained the actual difficulties, which could convince some audience to vote ’Not Guilty’.

But unfortunately, the final result still had guilty votes exceeding half.

From an optimistic perspective, Zeng Yiming’s actions surely had an effect, among those 12 ’Not Guilty’ votes, some must be swing votes.

According to this voting pattern, Zeng Yiming only needs a few ’sympathy votes’ in the future to be judged as not guilty in the ’Re-Judgment’.

But from a pessimistic perspective, if even Zeng Yiming, with a lighter crime, can’t be judged not guilty in the ’Initial Judgment’, it indicates the constraint of this mechanism is rather strict.

Then, players with heavier crimes wishing to evade guilt in the ’Initial Judgment’ is even less likely.

Concealing one’s own crime number and evading punishment might become the more worthwhile choice.

The broadcast did not sound again, and Zeng Yiming’s wristband didn’t inject toxins into his wrist, as if nothing happened.

But obviously, the Immunity Coupon has been consumed.

Other players are unclear whether the coupon was used directly or pre-consumed, but these two choices don’t differ much.

Every sinner player displayed varying expressions, but no matter what, Zeng Yiming (Store Manager) is confirmed as ’Director of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’, and they can begin producing medications.

The crowd arrived at the ’Pharmacy Room’ and separately checked the notice boards of several pharmacy rooms.

[Each stage of production has a maximum duration of 2 minutes.]

[1. Soaking: Sinner players need to use both hands to grab medical ingredients and continuously soak them in a highly toxic solution, during which hands will feel intense burning pain and toxins will accumulate.]

[This stage determines the medication ’potency’: the longer the soaking time, the stronger the potency.]

[2. Cleaning: Sinner players need to purchase cleaning solution at their own expense (each time costing 1000 minutes of visa time) to clean ingredients contaminated with toxic substances.]

[This stage determines the medication ’side effects’: the shorter the cleaning time, the stronger the drug’s addiction and side effects.]

[3. Temperature Control: Sinner players need to endure severe cold or intense heat in the room.]

[This stage will determine the processable duration of the next stage ’4. Processing’.]

[4. Processing: Sinner players need to operate in the opposite environment from the ’3. Temperature Control’ stage.]

[This stage will determine the medication’s ’quality rate’: the longer each processing time, the higher the quality rate of the medication, the fewer ’ineffective inferior products’ in the medication.]

[5. Sorting: Sinner players need to remove finished medication from the assembly line and package it, they’ll be electrocuted upon touching the medication.]

[This stage will determine the medication’s ’sale price’: the more medication successfully picked from the same batch, the cheaper each bottle’s sale price.]

[The above stages will jointly determine the possible types of medicines produced: I type, C type, M type, O type, F type.]

[!!! Special attention!!!]

[To initiate any production stage above, sinner players must spend visa time ’insert coins’.]

[Sinner players can choose to insert a ’Real Coin (each costing 2000 minutes of visa time)’ or a ’Fake Coin’ (free).]

[When inserting a ’Fake Coin’, the pharmacy room will appear to operate normally, but in reality, it won’t cause any harm to sinner players, nor produce any corresponding additional effects on the medication.]

[However, the next stage’s sinner players can clearly see the coin insertion status of the previous stage’s sinner players.]

[Once medication production begins, batches of medication are accumulated regardless of players leaving the pharmacy room or intentionally not cooperating, production activity can’t be paused nor can the game’s end be obstructed.]

[When the game ends and returns to the community, all damage inflicted by the pharmacy room on sinner players will be removed.]