God's Imitator

Qin Cheng nodded in agreement: "I agree with Uncle Zheng’s opinion. I think we can use the two conditions of ’Wealth’ and ’Occupation’ to rule out potential candidates for the Imitator.

"He is definitely not a poor person, nor someone with relatively low social status, and certainly not someone with low cognitive ability.

"That’s the baseline.

"But it’s hard to judge where exactly his real wealth, social status, and profession lie above this baseline."

Huang Shengjie furrowed his brow: "So, you need to get the personnel list from Lawyer Lin’s original community to continue deducing?

"But Lawyer Lin never mentioned the situations of other members in his community. I’m wondering if this could therefore rule out such a possibility?

"Meaning, the Imitator can only be among ’participants of the same community who have played the game’ and ’players from other communities’, but not among ’same community players who haven’t participated in the game’.

Qin Cheng was momentarily speechless, looking somewhat helplessly at Huang Shengjie: "You’re supposed to study the game, not Lawyer Lin.

"You always have these sudden leaps of thought at these strange moments.

"If your deduction is wrong, it’s embarrassing to mislead yourself; if your deduction is right, it’s even more embarrassing, as it means you got the answer through some roundabout method, and you won’t gain any improvement."

Huang Shengjie felt a bit embarrassed too: "I just say what comes to mind.

"But I do indeed feel this: The Imitator is either completely unrelated to the people in this game or highly related."

Lu Qi mused: "Wouldn’t that be just the opposite of Sister Yelin’s conclusion?"

It was her turn to speak again, but she clearly didn’t have any great ideas and had already mingled during the speaking time earlier, so she simply said a couple of sentences.

"I think we still have to look at follow-up situations. Since they are masters at manipulating people’s minds, there must be corresponding manifestations within the community or in other games.

"Perhaps this angle can be pursued?"

Finally, it was Yao Yuan on Lu Bingjun’s left.

"The game designed by this Imitator is very brilliant, I genuinely feel admiration. Of course, this is from an absolutely objective and neutral standpoint, evaluating the game itself.

"Unlike many other games where redundant or insufficient aspects are obvious, this game feels like it naturally should be this way.

"However, I have a premonition that the end for this Imitator won’t be too good."

Huang Shengjie was a bit surprised: "Why? An S-Class Imitator is absolutely the strongest in the Walkway, right? Initially, they are among the top players, plus the advantage of the Imitator’s information disparity, it’s hard to imagine how such a person might end up losing."

Yao Yuan was noncommittal: "Just a feeling."

All players had already completed their task of speaking once, just with differences in specific details.

Players like Geng Yuxia, Wen Wan, and Lu Qi were afraid their speaking time wouldn’t be enough, so they deliberately used some repetitive language to exceed the obvious one-minute speaking time.

But some players didn’t care much about this and spoke in the established rhythm.

Since all players had already spoken once, the next period was effectively back to the free speech session.

However, it seemed there was not much desire to speak among the people, and the hall instead fell into a brief silence.

For a moment, there was a noticeable lull.

Lu Bingjun looked at everyone, somewhat helpless: "What’s wrong? Is an S-Class Judgment game this hard? Everyone’s stuck here, unable to proceed?

"Clearly, it’s a recap, but it’s turning into a praise meeting for the S-Class Imitator? Only complimenting this Imitator and the game itself.

"The substantive content is still too little.""

"Yao Yuan, Ye Lin, aren’t you both good at recapping games, and your speeches were so brief."

Ye Lin said: "It might be because the structure of this game is quite clear, and Lawyer Lin explained it very well during the recap, so... there’s not much to discuss."

"Or maybe... this Imitator’s design is perfect enough that there are hardly any obvious flaws.

"So, it seems there is something to discuss, but it all seems immature, insufficient."

Yao Yuan also nodded to express his agreement.

Lu Bingjun contemplated briefly, not insisting: "Hmm, that’s true.

"It might also be because we lack the original community’s player information, making it hard to find a clear breakthrough temporarily.

"However, as we previously discussed, understanding and learning from this game may require a rather long process, and only by coming up with answers ourselves can we achieve the greatest improvement.

"In any case, today we made great progress in our community building.

"We passed the ’Community Speech Rules’ bill and discussed the S-Class Judgment game.

"Everyone performed well, and for the time being, just digest slowly by yourselves.

"Although we are still under the threat of the Imitator, everyone need not be too pessimistic, we must firmly believe: by improving ourselves while standing united, we will surely be the ultimate victors.

"Alright, that’s the end of this discussion, everyone has worked hard, go rest now!"

Yao Yuan stood up, and proceeded to query at the vending machine.

"It automatically deducts, quite intelligent."

It was evident that Yao Yuan’s rather brief speech during the discussion was also intended to test whether the bill could be enforced compulsorily.

After all, the bill did not specify whether the ’speaking for a full minute’ is determined by the community or timed by the player, nor did it clarify whether the ’deduction of 500 minutes of visa time into the community building fund’ is automatic or self-payment.

Now it seems that these rules will be enforced by the community once the bill is passed.

No one else said anything, just dispersed.

...

Today’s group discussion time was not too long, so it was still early.

Zhang Yan returned to his room, changed into workout clothes, and went to the community gym for his daily exercise.

He had this habit before arriving at Community 2, but today he clearly noticed a slight increase in players coming to exercise.

In fact, back in the first phase, many players had realized the importance of physical exercise since various areas had more or less games that required physical fitness.

However, the issue is that maintaining exercise itself is also difficult.

Especially after long periods without games that require physical fitness, the habit of exercising is easily interrupted, and not many players can truly maintain it.

After the ’Prison Factory’, some players picked up the habit of exercising, and after the recap of the ’King’s Judgment’, this habit was further reinforced.

Zhang Yan was quite pleased to see this because they were all players from the same community, and upon entering the game, they would become reliable comrades. In case they encounter games requiring physical fitness, teammates being stronger is certainly better.

However, he had just completed his warm-up when he heard a sweet voice behind him say: "Brother Zhang, do you have time to train with me?"

Zhang Yan was a bit surprised, he looked back and saw Wen Wan also dressed in a simple sports vest and yoga pants, looking at him with some expectation.